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The 40 Days from Resurrection to Ascension
https://www.holywave.org/blog-master/2020/4/1/keeping-a-digital-rule-of-life-in-quarantine-hb6h2
Oh thank you, can’t wait to read this one this evening. ❤️
YW fren!
Here's some more with scriptures...
https://www.lcbcchurch.com/articles/what-happened-to-jesus-after-he-rose-from-the-dead-what-did-he-do#:~:text=When%20he%20rose%20from%20the,he%20appeared%20to%20many%20people.
Oh thank you so much ❤️
YW Suzy! 😺
There is one court decision that needs to be reversed, but so few talk about it.
Dodge vs. Ford Motor Company.
In 1919, Ford wanted to use its profits to raise employee wages and employ more people.
Dodge sued, claiming a corporation's one and only responsibility is to increase shareholder value.
The clueless Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Dodge won, and this has been the basis of all US corporate law since.
Fuck product quality. Fuck the employees. Fuck the customers. Increase shareholder value.
Sound like BlackRock to you?
Few things in my education made me as fuming mad as that case.
Look into the old Dodge logo and you will have your answer
https://images.app.goo.gl/x9zR21Xu7MHoSnzu5
Well there it is in plain sight. All the things we didn’t know.
😂😂😂
Hey fren I have to get with you about some shirts. Are you still doing them?
Hello friend. Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner. I’m still in Hawaii. When I get back to Arizona, yes I will be doing the shirts. So if it’s something you’re interested in, we can definitely talk about it. I will DM you 👍
Wow...right in your face!
Yes, so even as far back as when corporations were starting this so-called five day work week, a certain group of people wanted to hold us down. Ford was actually lobbying for better conditions but nope… Dodge couldn’t have that. They probably had an endless supply of money and lawyers to fight against Ford for wanting to do good things. Sound familiar?
Oh yes it all too familiar...thanks fren!
But of course it does.
Who controls the hedge funds and most of Wall Street?
I think there's more to it than that. If you bought 10% of a company early on based on their promise of paying dividends, and then the company randomly decides to go full Amazon and forego profits for the next 10 years and not pay the dividends they promised, wouldn't you be upset? That's the Dodge side of things in this case
No one's saying they should be in the red.
You can provide a great service and wonderful products while being content with being in the black, or at worst breaking even.
But thanks to this case, publicly-traded companies are forced to maximize profit and stock price over ALL else, product quality be damned.
There's a reason Elon took Twitter PRIVATE.
Yep good for him.
So the debate is, who should a company be more generous to: Stockholders or their Employees?
I need more details on the case. It seems kind of simplified.
https://case.law/caselaw/?reporter=mich&volume=204&case=0459-01
So the day Pope died, Paul Atkins is finally sworn in as Head of SEC. What does that mean? And the 25th Smiley face in the sky..I feel like everything is tied in together and this week is gonna be HUGE.
I am thinking we need Powell to be replaced as well
J P said he won't bail out the market.
This is, in my humble opinion, exactly what the plan seeks to achieve.
J P actually a white hat? Always possible. Actually considering how much the MSM is making a big deal about whether he can fire him or not, this is quite possible. Typical Trump diversion!
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
Richard Bach,
Monday Poem...Anacaona Rocio Milagro - Hangman Poem: One Player Puzzle
https://poets.org/poem-a-day
Harp in a Giant Redwood Tree - Sarah Bhalla
https://youtu.be/kZIEQUdSqLQ?si=wAKBCsC4tuZBNaJA
If The Thing Be Pressed: Two Weeks In April, 1865
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/04/if-the-thing-be-pressed-two-weeks-in-april-1865.html#more-277882
Why I am a Patriot: Vietnam, the Draft, Mennonites, and Project Apollo
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/04/why-i-am-a-patriot-vietnam-the-draft-mennonites-and-project-apollo.html
Worst Of Babylon Bee
Dalai Lama Quietly Cancels Scheduled Meeting With JD Vance
https://babylonbee.com/news/dalai-lama-quietly-cancels-scheduled-meeting-with-jd-vance
Catholic Church To Consider Electing Pope Who's A Catholic This Time
https://babylonbee.com/news/catholic-church-to-consider-electing-pope-whos-a-catholic-this-time
To Overrule The Supreme Court, Trump Establishes New Ultra Supreme Mega Court
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-overrule-the-supreme-court-trump-establishes-new-ultra-supreme-mega-court
People Who Bypassed Legal Process In Migrating To USA Demand Legal Process Before Being Kicked Out
https://babylonbee.com/news/people-who-bypassed-legal-process-in-migrating-to-usa-demand-due-process-before-being-kicked-out
Health Tip: To Beat Those Spring Allergies, Try Diving Headfirst Into A Volcano
https://babylonbee.com/news/health-tip-to-beat-those-spring-allergies-try-diving-headfirst-into-a-volcano
Been a while since I stopped by here, life's been quite busy though so I figured I'd pop in.
Did a bunch of charity work over the past few months or so (I kinda realized that working 40hrs a week across 4 days as opposed to 50/5 doesn't actually affect me that much, so I've been using that extra day to help out other places). One of the local salvation army centres has needed help for the longest time so I've been doing 8hrs every monday there. They're even using my suggestion of including recipies in the food bags so the people there can make their meals a bit more creative.
Oh, and I went on my first date in over a year this past sunday. Went okay-ish, definitely not my type, but it was nice to get out of the house and out of my comfort zone.
Nice to see you back IamM. Spring time is a good time for a new Romance.
Yeah, I have a buddy who I've known for 15 years (tldr: did a lot of sports bets back in the day, helped him buy his first house, basically family). He's been worried about me with all the chaos that happened this year and got me a 1yr subscription to a few of those dating apps. Met a cheerful lady on a christian one, even if she spent 90% of it talking. There's an old phrase "don't tell me your life story", I'm pretty sure she did twice.
Is it just me or are the Big Tech companies making all the phones too big to be used with one hand on purpose to piss us off and hinder convenient phonefagging? I don't ever want another phone that I need to dual-wield
Dear Lord, the cancerous AIDS
There are some small phone options
I finally got a new iphone and it's friggin YUGE 😭 the thing is basically a tablet. I can barely put it in my pocket with the case now on it! I didn't see any small ones available at the store. I might see if I can return this thing and get a small one online
There are smaller iphones. Usually 2 diff sizes per major release.
C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (April 21st)
"Who is even at the right hand of God." — Romans 8:34
He who was once despised and rejected of men, now occupies the honourable position of a beloved and honoured Son. The right hand of God is the place of majesty and favour. Our Lord Jesus is His people's representative. When He died for them they had rest; He rose again for them, they had liberty; when He sat down at His Father's right hand, they had favour, and honour, and dignity. The raising and elevation of Christ is the elevation, the acceptance, and enshrinement, the glorifying of all His people, for He is their head and representative. This sitting at the right hand of God, then, is to be viewed as the acceptance of the person of the Surety, the reception of the Representative, and therefore, the acceptance of our souls. O saint, see in this thy sure freedom from condemnation. "Who is he that condemneth?" Who shall condemn the men who are in Jesus at the right hand of God?
The right hand is the place of power. Christ at the right hand of God hath all power in heaven and in earth. Who shall fight against the people who have such power vested in their Captain? O my soul, what can destroy thee if Omnipotence be thy helper? If the aegis of the Almighty cover thee, what sword can smite thee? Rest thou secure. If Jesus is thine all-prevailing King, and hath trodden thine enemies beneath His feet; if sin, death, and hell are all vanquished by Him, and thou art represented in Him, by no possibility canst thou be destroyed.
"Jesu's tremendous name
Puts all our foes to flight:
Jesus, the meek, the angry Lamb,
A Lion is in fight.
"By all hell's host withstood;
We all hell's host o'erthrow;
And conquering them, through Jesus' blood
We still to conquer go."
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A YouTube channel,recently discovered called Middle Nation. Well worth watching the videos posted. Gives you a 40,000 POV like you've never seen before. Please share your thoughts and comments.
Anyone else find it suspicious that Francis died at 88 and Klaus stepped down « as he enters his 88th year? »
88 = Heil Hitler
And 88 mph is the speed required to time travel in the movie Back to the Future. Seems to tie in with Future proves past, enjoy the movie, Q stuff..