This parish is what the volunteer who wrote this post is working with. They are connected to responders and have the necessary connections and manpower to make things happen and get funds to others who can. https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief

1. Please pray!
2. The parish that this volunteer is working through has a donation page for this (and they are all hands on deck with this effort, working with local authorities and off-duty law enforcement): https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief

His team is a well-organized Russian Orthodox parish in Tennessee. The answer I received to my question was this donation link: https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief

Asking where he recommends donating. I'll update this comment when I get an answer. (Edit: he provided this link: https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief )

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Lord, have mercy!

Thanks. The volunteer was extremely tired and may have misspoken. I removed that claim from the quote in the comment.

I’m overseas but I will pass this on to the person who wrote this report and took the photo. Thanks.

Western North Carolina is destroyed. Hell on earth. I spent last night chainsawing fallen logs on a mountain so people could get in. Before that we were hunting for survivors in (town) and delivering water to the fire department. Got a family out today. Most roads are washed out, almost every bridge is gone, entire towns have been wiped out. Whole towns haven't been contacted yet. Complete lack of support by state of TN and feds.

Wish the national guardsmen were useful. They're sitting around waiting for orders while we actually do things.

We are receiving huge donations and going out with a bigger crew tomorrow.

Other than chainsawing blocked roads, we’re getting water, food, gas, and oxygen in.

Packing nonperishables for people. Lots of pop tarts for calories.

We're getting equipment tomorrow. Going to try to build some bridges that are at least usable by foot. Going overland to get insulin and water purification to people who are unreachable by road.

—reports from a volunteer I know

There are many reasons to believe that there will indeed be a Great Awakening in the coming years and that antichrist will have to start over before doing his thing.

My friend, I fully agree that Islam is a false religion. I would sooner die than confess its false teachings. I’m an Orthodox Christian who confesses one God in the three Persons of the Holy Trinity and confesses Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man.

My point is that my brothers in Christ who worship in Arabic use the word Allah to refer to God, because that is the word for God in Arabic!

We know that the God of the Bible is Allah when we’re speaking in Arabic, because that’s how you say God in Arabic! The god confessed by Muslims is false, but just as in English, the presence of false religions that refer to “God” doesn’t mean that right-believing Christians are forbidden to use the word “God” to refer to the true God!

Orthodox Christians around the world sing the Trisagion Hymn before the reading of the Epistle and Gospel during the Divine Liturgy (the Sunday morning worship service). It is Trinitarian. I myself have been the chanter singing this in these three languages, as is done in Arabic speaking Orthodox churches in the US. We’re saying the EXACT same thing in all three.

Arabic: ‎قدوسٌ الله ، ‎قدوسٌ القوي ، ‎قدوسٌ الذي لا يموت إرحمنا Quduson Allah, Quduson il-qawi, Quduson alladi, La ya mut irhamna.

English: Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.

Greek: Ἅγιος ὁ Θεός, Ἅγιος ἰσχυρός, Ἅγιος ἀθάνατος, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς Agios O Theos, Agios Iskhiros, Agios Athanatos, eleison imas.

Yes as someone with spiritual ties to Arab Christians, I ask people to please anchor the claims like “Allah is not the Christian God” to the practice of actual Arabic-speaking Christians. There’s a lot of junky information out there that doesn’t even start from a knowledgeable foundation. You can look up Bible verses you know, listen to them in Arabic, see them transliterated, and save yourself embarrassment and save others from misinformation.

There are friends and enemies of humankind in all three Abrahamic religions. Yes there are important doctrinal differences (!). But that’s a very different issue than whether people have love for their fellow man.

In the comments of this Telegram post you can see a video of RC monastics who interacted with Hezbollah and were very favorably impressed, had no problems with them. I’m aware of other faith communities that feel similarly. https://t.me/c/1701699479/425283

Consistent with Zhirnovsky, a Russian legislator who made numerous bombastic statements and predictions that have come true, among which that there will not be 2024 elections in America. One article discussing this in English (this has been widely discussed and is well known among people who follow Russia): https://pravda-en.com/usa/2024/01/01/246121.html

Well 100 IQ is defined as the average of the population, so it automatically adjusts to whatever they do to us generally.

A web search gave me this:

"Normal" IQ is between 85 and 115. Borderline intellectual funcion is between 70 and 85. Mild MR is between 55 and 69. Moderate MR is between 40 and 54 Severe MR is between 25 and 39. Profound MR is less than 25.

It’s extremely heavily promoted. Did you know that the carrot was not originally orange and was bred to be just a few centuries ago? I’m not talking about only vitamin supplements, I’m talking about the substance itself. And it goes further. Have you ever seen red-tomato based food being promoted? What is lycopene and what does it do in the body? This rabbit hole is deeper than some.

It’s not yet well known that “vitamin A” is toxic.

But in terms of optics—what are people more willing to see him prosecuted for today? Then once his reputation becomes a more accurate reflection of who he is, people will be able to accept more.

I noticed something strange in this one last night. As he was leaving the stage he was conducting the last few lines of the music like a conductor. That’s what one of the guys who gets offed in the movie was doing to this music in his living room! What does this role reversal tell us? Is he just mocking the would-be assassins?

RSBN switched away from the song, but clearly it played to the end at the event. You can see Trump CONDUCTING THE CLIMACTIC END OF THE PIECE LIKE A MAESTRO CONDUCTOR at 8:51:34 in the video!

So you are well aware that if you exercise your 2nd amendment rights together with likeminded people against an enemy who has the favor of someone in the media, you'll be branded a militant organization, yes? And very likely domestic terrorists? If someone responds to your group's defense efforts by interdicting products you purchase to cause them to explode parts of your body off, forcing your "early retirement" from "terrorism", should society consider that a "win win"? A tragic consequence of unconventional warfare in which both sides engage?

The rumor in Russia is that people who have upgraded here are getting numerous bugs making their devices unusable. From a fairly reputable Telegram channel:

iOS 18 Not Working in Russia

Those who have updated to iOS 18 in Russia are reporting:

• Application errors;
• No vibration;
• No response to the reboot button;
• Disconnection from the server.

The owners of devices with removable batteries and displays are the most unlucky - their devices quickly overheat and stop working.

I check GAW fairly regularly but being out of the country I sometimes miss the non-“night shift” posts. And missed this one. Just another thing to consider when interpreting the results.

What has led you to conclude that someone with a Hezbollah pager is a terrorist? Regardless of whom you support, are you in support of an indiscriminate attack that kills innocent civilians? The first fatality was a 10-year-old girl. Is that win-win for you?

And what is your position on the second amendment in the USA? If you support it I have further questions about your characterization of Hezbollah.