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 This is the uncomfortable truth.  If you already are saved, it should encourage you to witness (people don't just cease to exist, but spend eternity in Hell).  If you aren't saved, you should repent and trust Jesus.  If you don't know, I'd be happy to talk with you.

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 How many of you have had a child stay up too late because they were doing math (not math homework)?

My 19 year old son said he stayed up late doing math because he was calculating probabilities for the card game he is designing. 
 It is called "Last Student Standing".  There are dorms, students, classes, locations, and events.  You build a deck .  You get some number of cards in your hand (based on your dorm).  The goal is to graduate.  You are using different students to take your classes for you.  If your GPA drops below a 3.5 you are kicked out of the honors floor.  If you get too many points (for being bad), you are kicked out of school.  You want to graduate.  You play students on buildings and try to get students to classes.  Different students cost different amounts and have different skills.  It is pretty cool.  He has put a huge amount of work into it.  He is even going to get some cards professionally printed. 
 He is play testing with friends and family.  He has been for almost 6 months. 
 We keep talking about Kamala.
Its evident Big Mike isn't it.
What about Jill? 
 I actually thought that would be the easiest way to get Joe to step down.  Clearly Jill wants power otherwise she wouldn't put her husband through what she has put him through.  Of course that makes her dangerous, but I could see the Dems replacing Joe with Jill 
 Or more succintly, those that REFUSE to learn.

#wisdom

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 One of the best things about homeschooling my kids was I relearned what was interesting or important; I unlearned some of the lies that I had learned; and I learned new things that the government schools never taught me. 
 That is the best response of them all. 
 It really is scary that parents will purposely bring their kids to demonic events like that.  It is child abuse. 

I was trying to figure out why parents would do something like that.  I finally came to the conclusion that many parents put being woke and fitting in above what is best for their kids.  Also, they just don't think through anything. 
 I sometimes feel like that when talking to my son.  His brain processes commands exactly like a computer.  You had better say what you really mean or you could get something totally unintended. 
 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.  (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

Key phrase being "Avoid such men as these." 
 Sadly, I think there are more of these than faithful pastors who correctly share the word of God. 
 Holy moly, the Peso will explode in value. 😳

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 Can you imagine how the US economy would boom if the US quit printing money and reduced spending within their budget?  We should be able to cut taxes and start slowly paying down the debt as well, but even if we didn't, just quitting money expansion and not running up more debt would be huge! 
 I appreciate how nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69... 
 Corracle has an unobtrusive request for funds and a zap split function.  Both make sense. 
 Sats on sale? 

Don't mind if I do. 

Just a little stacky poo. 
 It's always convenient being on Nostr because someone always lets me know if BTC drops, so I can buy without having to actively keep an eye on prices. 
 Even they hedged their bets with statements like " it is possible to eat a low-quality diet even when choosing mostly minimally processed foods,"  In other words, if you compare the absolutely best processed foods to the absolutely worst unprocessed foods it is possible that they are almost the same in health benefit.  That, of course, doesn't mean that a normal unprocessed diet compared to a normal highly processed diet are similar for health.  Also, because they compared "nutrition" and not "health", that doesn't mean the worst unprocessed is equivalent to the best highly processed.  It doesn't sound like they were looking at any of the harmful effects of the toxic ingredients in the processed food.  They just counted things like vitamins and minerals.  That would mean they ignore the benefits of phytonutrients and equate natural vitamins with chemical vitamins and naturally chelated minerals with sterile chemical minerals that are not easily absorbed.

Since most people aren't logical thinkers, it is possible for these people to write something that is at least mostly factually true while being 100% misleading. 
 If you dye your hair, you're ashamed of your gay hair

Reject hair dye, and have some Gay Hair Pr... 
 I'm content with my few gray hairs, but I'll never dye my hair partially because it is too much work.  Most people start when they have a few gray hairs.  It isn't too bad.  As they gray more and more it becomes more and more obvious they have a dye job.  They have to have regular touch ups.  If they finally decide to go gray they look awful for 6 months to a couple of years depending on how fast/slow their hair grows and how long they want it.  That is way too much work.  I haven't even gotten a professional hair cut in more than a decade.  There is no way I'm going to a salon to get my hair dyed. 
 Stop calling it the fractional reserve system.  

Call it what it is.

The Fractional Slavery Sys... 
 It is a debt/theft system.  All money is created as debt so there is not enough money to pay back the principle and interest.  That means the banks slowly syphon off all the wealth until the system collapses.  It is amazing how evil the monetary system is. 
 What if we memorized IP addresses like phone numbers... 
 I have a terrible time memorizing any kind of numbers.  I want tech to help me store any digital addresses (phone#s, IP#s, npubs, etc.).  My brain can't handle it. 
 I've found this to be true.

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 although i am quite sure i am in early stages (and beating it back) of developing type 2 diabetes... 
 That all sounds good.  You also might want to avoid, or at least limit foods with oxalate, like spinach (and other greens) and some nuts.  I forget what else is high oxalate.  You can find it with a quick web search.

I've also recently read about some specific gut bacteria that help your body process oxalates so they aren't a problem.  I don't have more information than that, but it could be worth researching. 
 You need a new phone and laptop and faster Internet every couple of years because they can't be b... 
 I always thought Microsoft's business plan was to bloat their operating system and Office so you needed a new computer that came with ...  ...  ...  new MS OS and MS Office.  They forced you to buy new software by making their old software slower and slower, so you had to buy better hardware that came with more of their bloated software.

I don't use MS office any more.  I use Libre Office.  I'd love to get away from MS Windows, but my work software only runs on it. 
 It is ironic that the liberal indoctrination centers aren't even pleasing the left anymore. 
 I was inspired by the wilds of Wyoming.  There aren't many better places to enjoy Jesus's creation.

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 Truth

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 I hope her parents either made a lot of money playing professional basketball or know how to sew well because I can't imagine trying to find clothes for someone like her. 
 It’s not about protecting you from disease. It’s about removing non-obedient people from gove... 
 The US military did the same thing and I believe it was a loyalty test to throw out anyone who wouldn't blindly follow orders. 
 What man doesn't want to accelerate? 
 I just spent the past three days ATVing in Wyoming.  I would ride in the back; stop and take a picture; and zoom (accelerate) to catch up.  If I tapped the breaks then the gas, I could get the tail end sliding around the corners.  What a thrill! 
 The existence of a human life doesn't depend on the location of the baby or on the desires of the parents.  The moment unique, human DNA is present in a cell is the moment that human life begins.  That is science and that is what God confirms.

It amazes me how often people think feelings change reality.  Truth is truth even if nobody believes it. 
 They have to all act shocked, so it isn't obvious to the blind followers that they have been misled yet again. 
 When you are driving 35-40 mph into a 25-30 mph headwind on an ATV on a rough dirt track, it really feels like you are flying.
#Wyoming  #ATV  #wilderness  #outdoors  #excitement  #photos  

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 Three great days enjoying God's creation in Wyoming.  Two long ATV rides on Thursday. A long hike and a long ATV ride on Friday.  One long ATV ride on Saturday before having to clean up and go home.  Sadly, end of month accounting was calling. 
 The reason Joe hasn't been removed for incompetence is that nobody wants President Harris. 
 There are not many places where you can see the less traveled, narrow way better than in Wyoming.

#jesus  #Jesus  #God  #creation  #Christian  #christianity  #NarrowWay
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 I can barely understand Biden. It is a shame 

#clownshow 
 Are you referring to his raspy, quiet, unenunciated voice or his total inability to finish a thought or even a sentence? 
 So how can we make the presdential debate funny 
 The argument about golf handicaps was pretty entertaining.  Supposedly only one microphone was supposed to be turned on at a time, but they let both speak during that argument because it was the only entertaining moment in the debate. 
 i made myself have a timeout from nostr for a couple hours today

i probably need to make myself ... 
 I think it is good to take a social media (including Nostr) fast every so often. 
 Smashing a spider is about the same.  I know they can eat the flies, but I really don't like spiders. 
 Overall, tariffs would be bad because they would increase the cost of almost everything and cause a trade war.  In the long run, there could be a benefit, because it might make it worthwhile to produce more here instead of buying everything abroad.  This would make us less dependent on all of the enemies we are making.  Right now, if a war starts with China, they can cut us off from high tech microchips and drugs or the components needed to make drugs, especially antibiotics.  We would be seriously hurting. 
 Yet another reason to not do high tariffs. 
 Everyone, everywhere is coughing.

Is that only around here? 
The doctors don't even want us to c... 
 I think it works with just about anything spicy. 

When I was scheduled to give my first big presentation at my first engineering job (not counting an internship), I came down with a fever.  I ran home, heated a bowl of gumbo, drenched it with Louisiana hot sauce, sweated out the fever, and went back to work fever free and able to give a great presentation.

Gumbo became my goto for sickness and especially fevers.  Sometimes when I don't have the good stuff, I just drown a bowl of canned chicken noodle soup in hot sauce and that will work almost as well. 
 I hope you all feel better soon. 
 There are a few trend setters, and never ending amounts of trend followers 
 and some who just do their own thing. 
 Do you think you're in some Julia Roberts Movie from the 90's? 
 I can't remember the name of the movie with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, but I had a friend watch that movie with me.  After walking out, she said she wished she was the Julia Roberts character.  I asked her if she wanted to be a hooker?    I don't think she liked the question, but it did wake her up out of her fantasy land. 
 Especially when you have a kid who wants to change clothes every couple of hours.  He is now in charge of doing laundry.  Problem solved. 
 " ... for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth ..." (Genesis 8:21)

"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders."  (Matthew 15:19)

"You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me."  (Jeremiah 16:12)

Amen!

#Jesus  #WordofGod  #Christian  #Bible  #biblestr 
 If you are loved by the world, you are probably doing something wrong, although there can be some appreciation for the loving attitude of a Christian and the way a devoted Christian stands firm in their faith during hardship and persecution. 
 I just hope they didn't free him so they can more easily Epstein him.  If that is the plan, I do think they will wait till after the election to make sure their guy is still in charge, so they won't be punished for their evil actions. 
 In the spirit of understanding i am going to start asking yall for your truth and definitions
So ... 
 The Bible
Sermons
Podcasts
My husband
My son
Getting enough sleep. 
 I just saw this headline that Trump wants to eliminate the income tax.  I think the income tax and property tax are the two most evil taxes of all, so this was interesting to me (not that I trust Trump to follow through or think he is likely to get it through Congress).  

I have wanted to eliminate the income tax (and all other taxes) and replace it with only a sales tax so we are no longer nickel and dimed to death and so we can see, with every purchase, how much we are really paying.  Unfortunately that isn't Trump's plan.  He wants super high tariffs.  He actually thinks tariffs would be paid by China and not the American people who buy their products.  He wants a 25% tariff on imports.  That will just mean the price of everything will go up 25%.  No Thanks!  (although it still is probably better than the income tax because it keeps the government out of our personal business).  

He should also realize the moment we implement high tariffs on imports, other nations are going to implement high tariffs on our exports.

https://libertyonenews.com/trump-drops-bombshell-proposal-suggests-eliminating-income-tax-during-dc-republicans-meeting/

#grownostr  #economics  #taxes 
 I love that idea and would totally support it, but I try to be practical on what might (even if on the off chance) be doable.  Most people aren't ready for that and the politicians definitely aren't because they wouldn't have power anymore.