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I found myself in line the other day with a "nurse educator" and absolutely unprompted she started talking about how great the vaccine is. Went to lunch with a friend and all she could talk about was Covid Covid Covid....and I live in a pretty conservative town.

I am exhausted by humanity, I really am. I've reached the point where I can't stand being around anyone and am thinking about becoming a hermit (I'm retired so this is an actual option).

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I saw a handwritten essay by some grade-schooler on FB yesterday. Thinking of joining her! "When I turn 100 years old I will be tired of everything and everyone. So I will tell everyone I'm going to Canada but accuatally go to the Bahamas I'll live in a tiny hut with my tiny dog. I will order fish tacos when I'm hungry and live my best life with no crap."

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Go Betsy, I'd love to join, but then we won't be hermits, it will be a party starting.

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I could be a "party hermit" with like-minded party hermits...

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I'm game 😃

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I’m in

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That’s a sad reflection on life today

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Not just today. About 40 years ago I went to the Bible study of an older gentleman who said he would love to just live out his life under a rock but he said he knew that wasn't what we are called to do. I couldn't really understand his desire but now that I'm his age then I get it! Like him, I know that's not what I'm called to do. Stay strong and carry the light!

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I'm not quite sure about NOT living the quiet life--remember that old hymn of the Christian faith, "Brighten the CORNER Where You Are".....a CORNER is pretty small--but because it IS small--your "light" even though old and feeble, will SHINE BRIGHTLY!!

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I think Joseph means that the fact that a *child* is already cynical enough to declare that she'll be "tired of everyone and everything" is a sad reflection on life today, Dr Linda. I agree with him.

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I don't needlepoint, but if i did, I'd certainly craft a pillow that said "Live Your Best Life with No Crap"

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T-shirt! And you forgot "Live Your Best Life with No Crap and Fish Tacos".

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Feb 21·edited Feb 24

LOLOLOL EPIC - I would definitely wear that shirt here in Florida.....not sure I could get all that on a pillow LOL -Good to see you SadieJay :)

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Or, another saying that seems to have been discarded: Live and Let Live. Does anyone else remember that one?

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Was that a Bond movie?

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Live and let die. Come on, it’s a spy film. Sir Roger Moore is awesome! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wYQZHNwIUq8

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My vote for best Bond theme song!

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I like that she will "order fish tacos". Hermit, plus a server and cook.

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Jeff, I am so glad to read this morning that you, too, see revival beginning! I have said for at least four years now that we are on the cusp of a third great awakening in this country. I now believe it will be worldwide! This is how awakenings/ revivals begin: a few brave souls speaking out, standing their ground for truth against all odds. (eg. Alabama Supreme Court). First it is just a trickle, but I am sure the flood is coming! Our church too saw a significant increase in contributions last year! Just this month more truth has been spoken about our government publicly than in years. I believe the floodgates are about to burst! The truth about what has been happening will drive people into God ‘s arms, realizing our great need to embrace the power and authority He has given us over evil! I encourage everyone to have faith and pray for our country.

Now faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see. Hebrews 11:1

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and you can include the world waking up the ridiculous climate scare which is a complete hoax as are most things coming from leftists - as it turns out more CO2 is actually good for the planet and its inhabitants,

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Look no further than God Behind Bars to see what is happening in maximum security prisons throughout the US and beyond. Prisoners are coming to faith, asking to be baptized and living their new found faith as prisoners for the Lord! They've escaped the chains of sin that held them fast. They now serve the Lord by leading others there to the salvation that comes through Jesus! It's a new dawning! All for the glory of God!

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Back in the time of The Jesus Revolution, my dad was involved in Prison Ministries or Fellowship...with Chuck Colson. He would see hardened criminals weep as he led them to the Lord. It was a great time to be a child of God and come to Him at age 5...♥ Proclaiming in all His glory that another Jesus Revolution is present and at work right under our feet NOW.

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Amen!! I just see such incredible things happening in our prisons that we hear nothing about on MSM... Loved Chuck Colson! He brought so much Jesus to prisoners! Thankful that there are so many coming to Jesus!

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Remember Chuck Colson's and his wonderful and effective prison ministry? He was one of the "Watergate defendants" who was on staff for Nixon and he served his prison time and found faith in the Lord Jesus Christ while incarcerated. He vowed to spend the rest of his life sharing the TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL with prisoners who were incarcerate all over the planet. I wonder if his ministry is still "alive and well", since Chuck entered the "eternal world" many years ago! I'll have to check on that!

GOOD NEWS!!! Chuck Colson's ministry is STILL INTACT even though he passed on in 2012--I'm donating to it right now! https://www.prisonfellowship.org/about/chuck-colson/

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Yes, it is a thriving ministry! He was a brillant speaker for the Lord! He said going to jail was the very best thing that ever happened to him, because it was there that he met Jesus and found his true purpose in life. Bringing the hopeless in prison the good news of the gospel! He wrote some extremely great books, too!

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I too am seeing pockets of revival. Those seeking Truth.

But at the same time, I do believe that we are in the Great Apostasy. The ‘falling away will be great……but those who seek Him with their whole heart WILL find HIM.

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I can see where we maybe in the Great Aposty. One very recent example is the "HE gets us" campaign. this is from their official website. I can't say I've gone over the whole site, but what I did there was no Scripture cited at all. I would urge anyone to look Ito it yourselves and see what they are about. He Gets Us is a diverse group of Jesus followers with a wide variety of faith journeys and lived experiences. Our work represents the input from Christians who believe that Jesus is the son of God as well as many others who, though not Christians, share a deep admiration for the man that Jesus was, and we are deeply inspired and curious to explore his story. We look at the biography of Jesus through a modern lens to find new relevance in often overlooked moments and themes from his life. If you’d like to join us, you’re invited. Below you’ll find several resources to explore the story of Jesus for yourself.

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"through a modern lens" = the great historical fallacy

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They are beyond woke.

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The Bee satirized that recently.

https://babylonbee.com/video/satan-he-gets-us

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You made me think of the scriptures that talk about the false messiah. Matthew 24:4-5 - "Jesus told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many." He also speaks about the path of destruction being very wide and the gate to heaven being very narrow. The "He Gets Us" campaign is leading people down the wide path but not through the narrow gate. They are a part of the "Everyone Gets A Trophy" mentality.

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IMO the prophesied Great Apostasy began back in the early centuries of the Church, but as always history tends to repeat. It would be no surprise to me if events once again start to filter the believers into those who are really serious followers, vs those who prefer to make a christ in their own image.

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I think the real awakening and opening of eyes to the truth will come immediately after the rapture.

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She’s just hitting up the taco shack on the beach, she’s not necessarily talking to someone. I say this still hermitism, lol.

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Haha. Everyone has their own boundaries! At least she didn't say fish tacos and a Kalik... which all the other hermits who escape to the Bahamas would be including.

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C&C commenters are forever expanding my vocabulary. Kalik! Yes! Gotta try it.

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Best enjoyed in the heat. Otherwise - meh. Glad we can be of service.

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Yeah she didn’t think the whole thing through 🤣😆

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Hermit lite. Plus eventually she will grow tired of camping among the sand flies. Reality is not as lovely as imagination. Darn.

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Raptor, did you ever read Fatu Hiva by Thor Heyerdahl? He and his wife try to live naturally on a Pacific island, and they do, resulting in widespread chronic fungal skin infections, etc., which eventually drive them to go back home to civilization.

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No, but I laughed reading your description. Life on a deserted island is only awesome if you have a stellar air conditioned bungalow, unlimited delicious food magically prepared for you (and dishes that magically disappear), a nice, fueled up boat to putter around in and serious pest control. For the hermit plus one: a terrifically, sweet, happy, fun and like minded person to enjoy it with. Otherwise - meh. I know from experience that these things are requirements. Ima look for that book. Commiseration.

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That’s why she would need her own luxury hotel room, natch.

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Yep, she has time to refine her hermit lifestyle requirements.

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🤣😆

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lol, sand fleas brought me right back to beach life, lol thanks raptor.

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PTSD I presume. In the Bahamas you can be on your boat going at a nice clip and the white monster flies will be able to attack STILL! Escape only possible completely submerged. I don't know why they don't have them in the Keys. But they make up for it with the noseeums. After they stopped spraying with the big yellow DC3 nature retook us.

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Lol love that!! 🤣😁

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If you’re talking fish tacos, and beachy Bahamas setting, there would have to be margaritas as well (“that frozen concoction that helps me hang on”). Or at least some cold cervesas. Add in a liquor distributor please

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Where can I buy a ticket to this place? And, the more the merrier!

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I think it’s called Margaritaville. See you there!

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Who would the fish tacos be ordered from by a hermit?

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Amazon……😁

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is a river in South America.

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lol

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If enough people took up hermitage, I'm sure an enterprising capitalist would start a "we deliver your fish tacos without ever speaking to you or looking at you funny" company.

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What serves as the official registrar for hermits?

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Sounds great! I would like to co-hermit ? Or create like-minded hermit-pods. Next to fish-taco beach shack. :)

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Wise beyond her years!

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I'm very handy with a fishing line.

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LOVE this "letter from the little one" - I'll help her find that cozy hut and even take care of her tiny dog when she wants to visit friends--LOL!!

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Isn't it sad that a grade schooler is anticipating being tired of life and wanting to escape? I can't imagine thinking that when I was a kid. I was excited about life. I feel so sad about today's young people.

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Effing A

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😝😝😝

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I am exhausted too :(

My neighborhood has a growing influx of Asian people- Chinese and Indian. The elderly are all walking outside with masks on, hoods and sunglasses. They look like zombies. I cannot relate or talk to them (most don’t speak English). My liberal “friends” all still watch cnn and take their boosters. I am retired too and spend time at home with my immediate family and on occasion see my like minded tribe who I met online in a health group that refused the jabs. I only have two extended family members that are unjabbed. I hate walking into the shoppes around here as many employees are masked and gender neutral:/

So I volunteer on occasion for the animal rescue, exercise and read books and can’t wait for the weather to turn warm so I can garden and grow tea leaves. Humanity needs an overhaul, it’s so disheartening:(

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"My neighborhood has a growing influx of Asian people- Chinese and Indian. The elderly are all walking outside with masks on, hoods and sunglasses."

Sounds like my former Detroit suburb in Michigan. There's no point attempting to reason or talking with people. It's a deeply ingrained belief system at this point. It's like every episode of the Twilight Zone.

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Also have my masked older immigrant neighbors shuffle past my house like zombies. Been wondering what would happen if I put a Trump 2024 sign in my yard. I live in Wokesville (Berkeley) and you have to understand that when I’ve put up my US flag 🇺🇸 on national holidays like July 4th or Memorial Day even that has felt like a hostile act.

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Ours is flying always. 🇺🇸

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Ours too.

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We don’t call it Beserkely for nothin’…😩😰🤗

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Are you talking about Berkley, MI?

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Berkeley CA aka Berserkeley.

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I am pretty sure she’s in Berkeley, CA (Bay Area/ultra-liberal) and I misspelled Berserkley…sorry

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My flag is the Appeal to Heaven …. Sadly must people don’t know what it is…

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I have a First Navy Jack I fly as an alternate to the US flag…the red & white stripes with the snake? Flown on all our ships during “The War on Terror” that I sadly now view as “We Are The Terror Now”…kinda sad how this Daughter of the American Revolution cannot repeat the organization’s Opening Ritual without adding sotto voce denials about supporting my gubmint. 💔🇺🇸💔 Now, I’d rather fly the flag flown at the Battle of Gonzales: the cannon with the phrase “COME & TAKE IT”.

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I live in Berkeley too. I still see perfectly healthy-looking young and middle-aged adults wearing masks outdoors. At least I'm not seeing as many BLM and "In this house" signs as a few years ago.

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Maybe we should befuddle them by displaying a Trump 2024 sign + a BLM + a “I believe” sign + a pride flag…

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Oh wait I forgot- also the Free Palestine signage

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My neighborhood too. I think having different ethnicities is great, but it’s disheartening when you’re out walking and pass them on the sidewalk and they don’t meet your eyes, much less smile or say hello.

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It’s funny, the ones I see here that are Indian or East Asian are very friendly and always say hello and smile when I greet them during a walk or run.

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Some are very friendly, especially my Nigerian neighbors. Other much less so.

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I’m from Michigan and still have family there. Michigan is lost and I wonder if it’ll ever return to its former glory. I loved growing up there but am so glad I’ve lived in the south for the past 30 years.

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I spent most of my life there. We moved south to get our sons away from the madness-infected schools. I grew up in the Tri-County area and, although objectively it always was and will be a mix between great and a sh*thole, I also had good times. Michigan is still very close to my heart but I see it as a lost cause. The MI GOP is worthless and it is now a one-party state and all that goes with it.

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I live in a Detroit suburb… and it’s just like that … minus the masks…🤷🏻‍♀️

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I get to hang around horses. It’s been my refuge through these crazy times. 🐴🥰

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Works! I escape to the local conservation district which is incredibly beautiful and uplifting in every season. It is supplying more peace, tranquility and sense of Gods presence than the woke church I was attending. Much more. The 2 goose pairs have returned to the pond as they always have to nest and produce goslings. One year I watched 12 get flying lessons from their parents who encouraged them with honks and such. My eyes are tearing up relating this. I want my ashes scattered there. My family knows that. Bless you all today. You all have saved me from deep despair.

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Thank you Janet! May our Lord richly Bless You today as well!

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I live rurally surrounded by my little farm and the animals. Covid didn’t affect me at all, my life and daily routine stayed the same.

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Same here. And because I've worked from home for 30+ years, the pandemic insanity didn't really impact my routine.

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Yeah, at least animals don’t wear masks and listen to what the mainstream media tells them to do…

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We have cows... and they are quite friendly. They don't argue but just love for you to feed them cake and stratch them around their withers!!!!😂

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Horses rule!

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My horse is in CA but I live in MS now😔. I get to put two kids through college by myself though so work a lot.

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At least your kids aspire to college Many do not these days

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I ruminate with all types of large and small ruminants. They are cheaper and more effective than counseling and medications. Chickens are also great. They make more sense than many of the politicians running our country and are more productive too.

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I think people do get it. The rate for boosters is 24% That means a whole lot of people don’t feel right about getting the vax again, whether they’ve heard people are dying or having adverse reactions, or they've come to understand the vax doesn’t work. Either way, it shows some dot connecting on the part of the vaxed.

Given that our captors wanted us to get boosters 2-4 times a year, I would say we’ve won a temporary battle. Billions of doses of vaccines have been destroyed.

People are petrified they are going to die from the shots they’ve received. And so, they’re not going to entertain conversations about it. They want it off their radar. As for the people who keep getting boosters, just 1/4 of the population, they are unreachable and unable to make contact with reality any longer. Many of them will die, like my sister-in-law, who had six.

I say “many” of them will die, but not all. The vaccines weren’t developed to strike everyone all at once. That would have raised suspicions. Some vaccines were more potent than others. This ‘1 in 800” number (of dead or injured from the vax) has left plausible deniability for our captors. They’re not stupid.

Some deaths are coming years after the last vaccination, so it remains to be seen what kind of damage has been inflicted upon humanity in terms of numbers.

But word is getting out. Don’t doubt that. Pictures of the young and dead are all over Instagram. Joe Rogan talks about the dead on his show. Most people I know are refusing anymore vaccinations.

The vax program is both a success and a failure.

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In the UK people have created ‘Poster Fences’ of the Covid-Injected dead and injured. It is very powerful and is getting the message out. They are demanding answers but I don’t know if they are getting any.

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Answers aren’t as important as awareness.

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Great Reflect - You are absolutely right about the folks who got the initial two jabs, now regret it, and thus are now unwilling to discuss (or even think about) it. Heads in the sand. The sound of silence is everywhere. Personally, I find it shocking that one in four people keep getting boosted. Proves how effective the propaganda and PR have worked. And yes, many deaths are long after the jabs. As with my brother, who died of turbo cancer on 1/31/2023, after getting the two jabs in 2021. Or, should I say, ‘murdered’, not ‘died’. I can’t really describe how fast it progressed.

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I’m not sure if it’s the marketing campaigns that are causing people to continue with the vax or if it’s ideological. My mother-in-law is a dyed in the wool liberal. It’s part of who she is, and how she looks at the world. No matter how her party changes, how much corruption they participate in, how much destruction they render, she cannot look at her party with any truth or awareness or objectivity. Liberals are used to “fighting” for their ideals—-justice, equality, etc. so she believes she is just continuing the fight. She cannot see that her party has been hijacked.

It’s truly sad in a way because her heart is still in the right place. It’s what she can’t, or is unwilling to see, that will kill her, or destroy her country at the very least.

Many Liberals are truly confused right now, but they still believe they are fighting for ideals that are just and critical to democracy. With my mother-in-law, I can tell that she has questioned those ingrained beliefs, but it’s hard for her to get all the way over the line.

Rather than be angry with her and call her brainwashed, I can identify with her confusion and the sadness she feels as the world loses its mind.

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I think it is ideological... My 78 year old mother-in-law is conservative, but is still convinced that vaccines save lives. She swears the polio vaccine was the greatest thing and wouldn’t listen when I tried to tell her it was the DDT they were spraying on everything that was causing polio. She remembers very well not being allowed to go to the pool in the summer as a child for fear of catching it. I think she has seen the problems with the covid shots, but not sure if she has taken any more after the initial two. It wouldn’t necessarily surprise me if she has since she sees several doctors regularly.

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There is nothing positive about living your daily life in fear. I get it. I used to be a hypochondriac of sorts, and had to learn to not entertain thoughts. So I understand the vaccinated who do not want this topic discussed.

My sincere sympathy for the loss of your brother. 🙏

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AngelaK - thank you. I also have improved re: thinking too much about some negative things. And I have realized and better understood why jabbed folks aren’t comfortable discussing Covid stuff. It’s just become difficult to find any subjects to converse about with them. Kind of isolating.

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With my vaxxed friends, we might discuss politics (we are of like political mind), but we just don't go there about the vaccines. The most I might say to a friend, if I hear they are sick in some way, is 'don't get anymore vaccines'.

Some will say 'no more', and others who have been so brainwashed through the years by their doctors, will not listen.

One friend, in her 70s, staunch republican, vaccinated but not covid boosted (I dont think, but who knows since she last said that) is experiencing some kind of cognitive issue where she cannot find words, almost stroke like. She wasn't the most fluent even when I met her 7 years ago, but it has gotten much, much worse recently (so much so that it is very upsetting to her, and she feels something is terribly wrong). She was admitted into a hospital for a day with every test imaginable run on her, and nothing.

I nicely said ' dont get a flu shot' and she responded that she already did in October, not quite understanding my insinuation. I know that she loves her annual jabs. I left it at that because she is suffering and there is no need to upset her more.

I did tell her to get fish oil or cod liver oil because it helps the brain. which like most people she didn't know. I sent her a link from the internet. I also told her that it will help her triglycerides. I hope she gets better, I hope she tries my suggestion, but she is so brainwashed into pharmaceuticals.

I feel that she is injured from not only the covid vaccines but the accumulation of the others she religiously gets.

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Cathleen, I can't imagine the pain of losing a brother lije that. And to think "someone did that TO him". I'm sorry for your loss.

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Thank you, John Bugni. Everyone dies, of course. But to have my brother, who was lean and fit (same size as high school, physically fit, he was always doing construction jobs and the like), who had just turned 68, killed before his time because he was bamboozled into the mRNA shots by evil forces…I admit that it makes me angry, on top of the grief.

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Some of the ppl who are getting it now, never got one before and are going into colleges, internships or career fields that are still requiring it.

Many examples-

I talked to one young lady who knew that it wasn’t a good idea and could have irreversible consequences, never got it. The nursing school couldn’t make her (FL), but to finish out the career she dreamt of the internship required her to get one in 2023😔.

I told her she could fight, I told her to try exemptions, I told her I’d help in any way I could… I think she bet on being one of the ppl that haven’t seen consequences. Russian roulette.

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It’s easy enough to get a jpg of a vax card. And I think at least colleges aren’t al asking for cards or batch nos., just dates. They have no way of checking it. Some states have databases but not everyone ended up in them.

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How is it possible that any employer/institution required the shot in 2023? Who still is?

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The one’s that I know were/are still requiring it are all related to medical internships, residency or the clinical experience portion of the degree.

So, in my example,the school told her when the vx came available she wouldn’t have to get it, but the medical facility can “make her” (2 yrs in) to finish out her degree (the carrot is only inches away… ).

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Haven't YET seen consequences, I fear

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And that number will go down significantly now that corporate media is talking about adverse effects…

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They’re only discussing adverse effects because 1. They had to address it and 2. They created a limited hangout, whereby their “admittance” is only propaganda and is misleading.

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Thanks ... !!! And yes, both a success and a failure. People are catching on.

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To take your mind off them, sing to yourself, to the tune of the famous Brit WWII song "Bless 'em All", well , you can guess what to substitute for" bless".

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This is sad to me. I am Asian not Chinese or Indian but still Asian, and have lived here most of my life. My Dad was American. I was born a US citizen. I don't hate either of my heritages. I don't shuffle around and wear masks outside or inside either. Is it the Asian's ethnic make up your upset with or they wear masks? I only ask because I constantly tell people that I don't see racism around every corner yet I read a message like this and wonder. I thought most on here were like minded. Because of all the crap DEI policies, are we creating more racists??? Makes me wonder.

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Obviously can't speak for the person who posted the remark but I think of it this way-we are losing the ties that bind. My sister is apolitical, rarely even watches the news, and thinks she is a Democrat. Lives in a red rural area with a lot of chicken processing facilities. Says when she goes in town to Wal Mart she feels like she is no longer even in her own country. (immigrants, legal or otherwise take the chicken plant jobs Americans are too lazy or paid off by the government to do).

We grew up in the 70's and 80's - when shared experiences brought people together. We all watched the same Saturday morning cartoons, read the local newspaper, listened to the same radio stations, ate at McDonalds, etc. Shared experiences create bonds. I went to a politically mixed baby shower for a friend's daughter a few weeks ago. I had almost nothing in common with the vast majority of the attendees. We have no common threads any more, OK maybe the Chiefs, (I am in the KC metro) but I really left the NFL reservation during take a knee and know enough to have a conversation, but I don't 'care' like a lot of people do. People were talking about shows, celebs, brands I had no clue about. Ethnically, the group was not very diverse, but it is still kind of the same viewpoint as the person talking about their neighborhood - we just don't have much in common any more outside of our tribe, or my sister being in Walmart and hearing multiple languages being spoken by the people shopping there (which makes striking up a friendly conversation impossible)

I am all for diversity, in the old school definition of being exposed to new ideas, foods, cultural events, schools of thought, is a good thing as long as both parties have an open minded respect for the other. But there is a line somewhere that says too much diversity does sow unease/distrust/misunderstanding, and eliminates those ties that used to bind us together.

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I feel like an outsider when I'm around a bunch of people who don't speak English -- in my own country. I don't like making a phone call and being assaulted by rapid-fire sentences in another language. Although I've seen many changes in my life, this is a change I don't think we can survive if we expect to be a cohesive nation of citizens.

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I agree. I don't feel comfortable either. I only speak English and one other language so just because I am half Asian doesn't mean I understand every Asian language out there.

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I don't disagree with you. I did say immigrants should assimilate into their new country. I am half American and I appreciate both sides of myself. I of course lean toward my American side because I have lived here since I was 3. At this point in time its not a matter of what color someone is if I feel a common thread, its more about my political view and my religious views. If those views coincide, I will feel more connected and comfortable with those people.

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And I think 'we' (as a society) have been burned enough times by people who get offended at the drop of a hat, that in 'mixed' crowds, they just stick to 'safe' topics. Of which there seem to be fewer and fewer of all the time.

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The once upon a time Germany was called Germany because Germans lived there. Ditto for other lands like Greece, Italy, Norway and so on. And if one really was for diversity, one would be for preserving these countries' national cultural heritage.

What is being done with immigration is 'destabilization' for a purpose, not some little innocent game. It is not about 'racism'. It is about the destruction of national identity and the cohesiveness of a people, a culture.

Nope! Not Racism! Divide and Conquer! With a bumper benefit of impoverishment!

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In the same vein, with all the illegal Spanish speaking, browner skinned invaders from south of our border, I worry for all the good Americans of Latino heritage in our country. They are good people, family oriented and Christian following.

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I totally understand.

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Birdie, I hope AJoy responds to you. I would say that I don't think she was generalizing about any ethnic group but rather describing changes in her immediate neighborhood. She was also critical of her former friends who are CNN-watching liberals. Perhaps those she describes as Chinese and Indian are multi-generational Americans like you, but she said they don't speak English, so that seems doubtful at best. Since it's winter, perhaps it's understandable that they wear hoods, and if it's sunny and reflecting off snow then sunglasses, but when you add masks it means none of them, not just their faces, no part of them is visible; no way to make eye contact and see facial expressions like smiles, and since they are apparently non-verbal with her as well, I think it would make for a very odd interpersonal non-reaction. I think her post was about her own isolation, no matter the ethnicity of the others, but not sharing a language is certainly isolating. I can see in my imagination such people walking carefully by (icy conditions), with no way to even see if there are actual people inside the costumes. (How she knows they're Chinese and Indian I'm not sure.)

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Fla Mom, I see what you are saying. It most certainly could have been meant that way for sure. But I do wonder if with all the illegal immigration and DEI stuff and all the other garbage going on, if we are creating fear and hate which results in racism. Its sad to me because I truly felt like we were at a point in time where we didnt see color as much as we saw content of character. Yes not speaking the language is very isolating though. I wish those that moved here would assimilate. You can still have language and culture that you respect but you should definitely become a part of your new country.

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Birdie, I think that if the immigrants were coming in legally, instead of flouting our laws and laughing at us for being so stupid as not to enforce them, that there really wouldn't be the same sort of anti-illegal-immigrant animus. Well, if the quotas got put back to being racially/ethnically blind, at least, since now they are tilted against white people (unless they're 'diverse' for sexual reasons, presumably). "We" aren't "creating fear and hate which results in racism;" those pushing illegal immigration and DEI are. For a reason - division and strife.

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Fla Mom, I didn't mean we as in you and I. I more meant we as in a collective (the liberals) that are allowing all this. I totally agree that immigration needs to be done legally. My mom came legally and it was a huge process. She eventually became a US citizen and she is very much proud of America.

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I, like so many others, see character not color (race) for any individual. The biggest problem is our gubbermint, corporations, and media have pushed race as us & them, punishing some - especially targeting anyone of white or European heritage as evil. It makes for a lot of anger & resentment for everyone of any race.

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Current gubbermint - starting with Obama - have fomented a lot of racial divide.

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Trust me I do see it. My children look more Caucasian and Asians are also thrown in with Caucasians when it suites the liberals. Its just sad to me that all this is going on. I understand why people are feeling resentful and anger, its just a sorry state to find the amazing USofA to be in.

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Same I am half and born here (the US), first gen, and my Chinese-born mom is a proud Trump supporter. Several of my friends of Chinese descent or immigrants from the Chinese diaspora are the most redpilled people I know. Asians in SF are now leaning R. They’re tired of the crime and taxation, remember many are businesspeople. I just was in the most Chinese part of Los Angeles and didn’t see a huge amount of masks, they were mostly worn by service people in stores, just like in the mostly white area I live in. In China it has long been normal to wear masks for dust season, allergies, and if you’re sick. The US became authoritarian like the CCP and copied the mask idea. My relatives originally from China don’t wear masks, nor have they ever asked me if I got the vax. So please don’t asuuuuummmeee things.

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Humanity is undergoing an overhaul.

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Only time will tell if the “overhaul” is really just a dumbing down.

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Do we live in the same neighborhood?! I still always say Hi 👋 & talk to my neighbors even if it’s not reciprocated-love that you grow tea leaves! I’m going to look into that 💞

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"and gender neutral:/"

Omg that's so gay

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AJoy, I hope you can find others with whom you can spend time in real life. You sound so isolated, like you're in an almost unfriendly foreign country.

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Ugg. I feel for you. Sounds like Portland.

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💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

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Your comment about being "exhausted by humanity" reminds me of a Peanuts strip in which Charlie Brown comments "I love humanity. It's people I can't stand." How does God put up with so much from us?

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Or the line from the movie Barfly: when the character is asked, if he hates people, he says “No, but I seem to feel better when they are not around.”

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I wonder that myself all the time. His creation has gotten off track. Especially when I see this AI stuff...I just think "well, we're really asking for it now".

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Oh man I just watch a video of tiny drones the size of dragonflies being used to kill people supposedly just bad guys 🙄. What could possibly go wrong! The link will not copy. Imagine that!

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I frequently remind myself that nothing surprises God. He knew in the beginning all this would happen. He will somehow use it for the good of those who love Him.

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I've had the same kind of reaction and thought of Butters in South Park who, upon hearing some ridiculous rhetoric, says "My head hurts."

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I had a guy come and pick up firewood i was giving away...he was a snowbird from Michigan...all he could talk about was how he got covid and how the vax saved him from getting much worse. Having an engineering background it was like nails on a chalkboard..".how could this possibly be measured?" I asked....

He said he didn't know, but he knew it saved him...

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Yes his faith in the jabs saved him… 🙄 This is how you know it’s a cult 😕

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Cults require uniforms. Guess what the masks are?

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DenverDad - exactly. One of the several reasons I’ll never again wear one.

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Makes sense!!!! Good one DD

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It's so sad to hear the illogical nonsense coming from these people. And yes, it's like nails on a chalkboard. I have to watch my eyes rolling back into my head. 😆 But sometimes I am pleasantly surprised by strangers that I meet that do actually get it. They understand all of the propaganda and lies that have been put out there.

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I usually meet those people in the South - the ones that get it, I mean.

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I think people do get it. The rate for boosters is 24% That means a whole lot of people don’t feel right about getting the vax again, whether they’ve heard people are dying or having adverse reactions, or they've come to understand the vax doesn’t work. Either way, it shows some dot connecting on the part of the vaxed.

Given that our captors wanted us to get boosters 2-4 times a year, I would say we’ve won a temporary battle. Billions of doses of vaccines have been destroyed.

People are petrified they are going to die from the shots they’ve received. And so, they’re not going to entertain conversations about it. They want it off their radar. As for the people who keep getting boosters, just 1/4 of the population, they are unreachable and unable to make contact with reality any longer. Many of them will die, like my sister-in-law, who had six.

I say “many” of them will die, but not all. The vaccines weren’t developed to strike everyone all at once. That would have raised suspicions. Some vaccines were more potent than others. This ‘1 in 800” number (of dead or injured from the vax) has left plausible deniability for our captors. They’re not stupid.

Some deaths are coming years after the last vaccination, so it remains to be seen what kind of damage has been inflicted upon humanity in terms of numbers.

But word is getting out. Don’t doubt that. Pictures of the young and dead are all over Instagram. Joe Rogan talks about the dead on his show. Most people I know are refusing anymore vaccinations.

The vax program is both a success and a failure.

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A different form of "sola fide"

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Yes. A different form entirely, with an entirely different definition of “faith.”

Except God never asks us to believe without evidence. Although we cannot definitively prove his existence, he gives us plenty of evidence in the natural world around us, and of course in the written record of his interactions with mankind (the Bible).

All the evidence we have is consistent with the existence of a Divine Being. A Divine Mind.

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Have you ever looked at what the majority of the Founding Fathers believed? What Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine as well as George Washington used to get through life with? They believed that our creator gave us reason, not religion. Check this out. I bet you’re one of “them” just like I am. We just didn’t realize it until we were hit in the face with the realization. http://deism.com

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Everyone is expected to believe in a god without evidence.

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Not if you're a Christian. "If Christ is not raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith." -- The Bible.

The told people which tomb Jesus had been in, and expected at least some of them to check up on it. They named witnesses.

Or take the Old Testament - how many times did God give signs to people to prove to them they should listen?

Obviously you can't personally go check these things today, but you CAN investigate the historical accuracy of the accounts. And you can investigate claims of verified miracles. Or you can, well, just ignore it all and declare that there's "no evidence" without having looked.

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Lot's poor wife was turned into a pillar of salt, for not listening to god.

Is that a just punishment?

And, who looked back to confirm she was turned into a pillar of salt?

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We believe in many things without evidence.

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We do.

However, there should be evidence for those who choose to take the time to evaluate it.

Believing without evidence that is known to me does not mean that the evidence does not exist. It simply means I have chosen to not yet look.

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With only a subjective, humanist source for "truth," they place their faith in whatever lie appeals to their flesh the most. "Scientism" is just another form of Babylonian mystery school. Their priests are MDs and PhDs. Their vestments are lab coats.

Their gnosis, their "sophia," is that they "believe Science (TM.)" Gnosticism is just another counterfeit, a counterfeit of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit leads believers into all Truth. Transhumanism is just another Babylonian mystery school. This time, it's clothed in "science" to prevent its disciples from forming a supernatural world view, further insulating them from belief in their Creator.

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"sola pharmacia"

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LOL

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I have relatives like that.

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my unjabbed wife got covid last month. We know because she took the test. A couple days later so did I. I did not test but had similar symptoms. Thankfully we are alive and kicking, and able to enjoy C&C. Maybe President Trump was right when he said that covid was like flu? But for at least half the people in this country he does not know much, unlike Brandon and Mr science himself roachi Fauci, the cult leaders

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Peter GL, speaking of Brandon, I happened upon bull riding while flipping channels ( I believe it was the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo) and one of the bulls was named “Let’s Go Brandon.” Made me smile 😃.

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My sister has it now, and I'm taking care of her. No vaxes for either of us. With me as her watcher, I'd say she drew the short straw. I don't cook much, so I've been ordering pizza deliveries. She got hydroxychloroquine and doxycycline from a doctor who knows what's what.

I may have had it last week, but it's gone now. I'm a vitamin/minerals/herbs afficionado, so I continued with that regime and slept a lot. So maybe I'm a good person to watch her after all, as I can keep saying, "But at least we aren't dead from government bioweapons." It's oddly comforting.

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Good for you! We too load up on vitamins and went through it fairly easily without hydroxychloroquine

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Brainwashing.

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💯💯💯

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No arguing with crazy!

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So he recovered (in his mind) because he was jabbed? 🙄

That propaganda mantra for the vaccines and boosters really stuck!

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Next time he comes by for a load of free firewood, tell him you’ve got a special easy-starting batch prepared for him; presoaked in gasoline. These folks will eventually sort themselves out. Just sayin’...

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Firestarter for sure! You remind me that we had a tenant once, who wasn't content with the fire in the woodstove--so he poured some gasoline on it, and wasn't aware of the vapor trail of gas........his chest.

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A VERY smart friend of mine said the same. . . To which I promptly pointed out to him the impossibility of designing a study that would prove or disprove that notion, unless it were performed under Mengele-ian conditions. Don't know if he "got" it, but it allowed me to refine my argument.

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I live in Michifornia. Unfortunately so much of MI has become a liberal, thoughtless, hell hole.

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You speak for me. In fact, I am positive you speak for millions of us. Every aspect of our lives has been compromised if not actually destroyed. Crime, inflation, healthcare, the schools...try to buy an appliance that will work well and for longer than a year. Worst, of all, are the sheep, like that nurse educator, who are not able to THINK. Can they not connect the dots? Or don't they realize what the corruption and incompetence that IS our government means for not only their futures, but their kids' and grandchildren's futures? I don't need to go on. You all know what I am talking about. We are all living with the same thing. And yes, someone will say we should pray, and of course...but we still need a win at the grocery store and a doctor who is not a stooge for Big Pharma.

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Yes!! Every word of what you're saying. Add to that the absurd price of housing...I walk around my neighborhood and scoff that homes now are 1.2+ and think to myself, how are these people ever going to pay it off? American dream no more. They are turning people into permanent renters and they'll drown in debt. I guess that's the point, but it's still hard to watch. Yeah, I am as frustrated as you by all of these things and even more annoyed that still so many don't see it. I'll see a post of a moron laughing about the NY verdict against Trump and just get SO infuriated. They're just too ignorant to understand that verdict just wrecked business borrowing and potentially even refi's for homes.

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Like my friend (immigrated here 50 years ago) said the other day, ' this country has become like a garbage can'. Maybe something lost in her translation, lol, but I got the picture.

This is not a great country anymore in any way that we nostalgically remember it.

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I get that but the powers that be would love nothing more than for us all to isolate ourselves and give up the fight.

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Exactly, it's why we just have to align with others that also see it. It'll keep us from going crazy or getting too lonely.

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AMEN! Sometimes even the alternative media helps their efforts in this regard

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You’ve got to find “your people” if your friend the educator is talking nonsense, then maybe she’s not someone you’d like to be around. Sounds like there could be hope with others in your town.

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Totally agree Gigi. There are peripheral associations where you have these people around, but you don't invest yourself in them. Then there are people who share your values. Those are usually people you can find a lot of common ground with and build a real relationship with. Never have the two camps been so clearly defined and easily sussed and cultivatable. They yearn for that too. Let the dopey delusionals settle among the other dregs.

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That’s the real “basket of deplorables”. The dopey delusional dems…

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Substack needs a "like for infinity" for comments like this!

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NY POST just had a piece "How America’s medical system has become totally woke" https://nypost.com/2024/02/17/opinion/americas-medical-system-has-become-totally-woke/

AND NOW FOR SOME MEMES:

HEALTHCAREsteria: Best Healthcare Memes (Woke & Broken!)

A doctor’s visit summed up, Twitter doctors, how to become a doctor these days, the American healthcare system in one meme, American "medical experts" and more health care memes!

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/best-healthcare-memes-woke-and-broken

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THANK YOU for that excellent link! Great and frankly, terrifying memes and details about our woke medical complex! Excellent value you just provided.

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She mentioned "nurse educator" - not sure what that is or whether she was jokingly referring to her as that! Teachers insist on being called educators now too...

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CS, yes, it's a warning label - 'educator' either means 'indoctrinator' or 'I'm really ignorant.'

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I think that's a great article - got to start breaking through to people somehow. Even if written by a lefty. What I would disagree with him on though, is that the vax saved any lives. I really don't think it saved a single one.

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I want to be a hermit right now, I'm with you. Enough of these brainwashed fools. I can't believe there are those who choose to stay in mental prison. Sad.

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BUT being a hermit puts you in another prison. I say get out there, speak your truth and find your people! We are not supposed to be a solitary race, we are supposed to be with others.

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If you are an introvert, being with others is exhausting, especially today! Being an introvert does not prevent me from speaking up about TRUTH, which is not MY truth.

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Thank you! Introverts are wonderful, thoughtful, inciteful people. People who don't jabber all the time have more time and space to actually THINK!

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I do hope you meant 'insightful'?

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Oh! I'm so embarrassed. I'm usually better than that. Eek.

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Thank you for clarifying truth. It’s THE truth, not my truth, your truth, their truth…..

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"My truth" seems like an oxymoron. If it's yours alone, it's likelly not truth.

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But being a hermit does. If you have no contact with other people, who do you speak up about truth to?

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Dogs are good listeners. They will even tilt their heads once in a while. In the end, though, they're trying to figure out if it's dinner time yet.

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😆

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You are so right about the 'exhausting' element.

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Hermits and recluses have done great works

Here are a few

St. Anthony the Great, Thomas Merton, St Paul,

Julian of Norwich

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M VARR, Paul a recluse? He went on all those missionary journeys and kept up all that correspondence with so many. I'm an introvert, and doing all that he did would be a emotional strain on me.

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St. Paul the Hermit

an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. Born in Lower The baid, Egypt, he was left an orphan at about the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of the Church under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the age of twenty two he went to the desert to circumvent a planned effort by his brother in law to report him to authorities as a Christian and thereby gain control of his property. Desert Fathers, early Christian hermits whose practice of asceticism in the Egyptian desert, beginning in the 3rd century, formed the basis of Christian monasticism. Following the example of Jesus’ life of poverty, service, and self-denial, these early monks devoted themselves to vows of austerity, prayer, and work. Believers who chose to go into the desert as hermits were said to be answering the call of Christ: “Jesus said to him, ‘If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ ” (Matthew 19:21).

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Yes so many great Christian ascetic s and monastics have written brilliant spiritual works or inspired us, especially in the first centuries of the early Church...both men and women.

St. Mary of Egypt (6th century) was a prostitute who repented and went into the desert to seek God.

Up until this day, there are ascetic monastics who have sought out living alone in prayer and communion with God on Mt. Athos in Greece. They live in caves!

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Confused me when you only called him St. Paul, which is what many call the Paul of the Bible.

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And no email!

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Agree Gigi. Introverts need to be around other people too - in limited doses. We are not meant to be solitary.

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Yes! Don’t hang in there. Get out of there! (Quote from another ‘stack)

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I too have experiences like this! My girlfriend's family has in it an epidemiologist PhD who used to work for the Gates Foundation don'tcha know. And since she's gone further with her education than anyone else, the extended family assumes she must be right about the vaccines which she continuously promotes. At a recent family gathering, everyone was talking about how even though they had all been vaccinated to varying degrees, they had all also been stricken with the virus afterward. (Strange!) Only one person there had never been vaccinated and never gotten the virus. Guess who?

I was thinking in the shower just this morning that with all of the lunacy still in evidence, many people wearing masks in stores for instance, that perhaps hermitism (with my girlfriend) was something to aspire to. I guess I'm not alone.

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I think when people are presented with evidence (*you* are the evidence in this case), their brains simply shut down. They convince themselves that you are the anomaly. You surely are an outlier. There cannot possibly be dozens (hundreds, thousands) who have had a similar experience, because the ‘experts’ would have told them about people like you. Rather than consider, even for a moment, that they have been lied to by powerful people with an agenda, they simply decide that you are ‘lucky’ to have survived your ignorance. It’s exhausting.

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yup, I am with you. Continuously stunned by the people continuing to run their mouths about the miracles of the vax and they just keep getting sick! I always give them a weird look and say "huh...that's so odd that you keep getting sick. We haven't been sick at all. Weird!" and just leave it at that. Are they ever going to realize their immune system was destroyed before it takes them out completely?

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There was pic on FB last week of woman swimming in the ocean we with her mask on.

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That's really dangerous--was she doing backstroke, such that her face was never wet? 1nd thought--no swimming stroke would allow a dry face.

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Ugh 🙄

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Just marry her first, please!

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At this time in my life, I avoid most people. I have plenty to keep me busy and entertained. The debacle at St Patrick's pretty much did it for me.

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As a hermit you will not be able to “feed the hungry, cloth the naked and be salt and light “

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Yes, Dale, we needed that! Those of us who are followers of Christ have a mission that we cannot deny. I need to find the Christians who see that exposing the current evil is part of that mission. Sharing the gospel is always first, but I can't separate the two actions.

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Cornerstone chapel in leesburg VA. Huge online congregation. Pastor is bold and speaks out when current events are not aligned with the Bible.

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Yes, I regularly listen to him. His teaching library is helpful, I can find messages based on the passage I will be teaching my sixth grade girls. His message in June (I think) about the transing of America made me cry; I have been so hungry to hear a pastor talk about this!

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Yes! A great sermon!

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I love Gary Hamrick! Download Cornerstone Chapel app and they have all the sermons catalogued. I listen often.

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Love Pastor Hamrick! This world needs more bold pastors like him and Jack Hibbs who aren't afraid to address what's happening in the world.

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I especially love to listen to pastor Jack Hibbs, and to a slightly lesser degree to pastor Allen Jackson of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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Is it part of the mission? Unless a person has set something up as their God, then I am not seeing it. Maybe you can help me with that. I am open to hearing it.

Also, you needn't find other Christians in order to proclaim Christ.

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Raptor, your second point is absolutely right, but it's better not to be a lone ranger. Your first point is addressed by Eric Metaxas' book, Letter to the American Church. Do you think Christians are meant to focus totally on God and ignore what is being done to His creation? Most conservative churches speak out on abortion, as they should, but I also consider what is happening to us now to be a pro-life issue. Killing and disabling people with toxic shots. Grooming and sexualizing our children. Taking away parental rights. And so much more. I suppose it could be argued that those who are stuck in covid land have made safety their god. Two applicable quotes:

"They are in their churches singing more and more loudly to drown out the cries of those in the boxcars heading to their gruesome deaths. Sing with us, they say, and don't worry about all of those other issues out there. They don't concern us. Our job is to focus on God, and to pretend that we can do so without fighting for those He loves, whose lives and futures are being destroyed." Eric Metaxas

Ephesians 5:11 - Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

I actually think that the awful condition of the world today has opened the eyes of some people to spiritual warfare and made them more likely to consider the gospel. Take care.

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I was listening to a wonderful Catholic Bishop on Youtube today talking about the 7 deadly sins..(so funny how he was a boomer and said that if you forget what they are, just look at the weaknesses of each member of the 7 Gilligan's Island castaways).

Anyway, at one point he said the biggest issue that priests hear today is with porn addiction. The average age that a child sees porn is 11!!

This is something I never hear from pulpits of churches. It was so good to hear it. It affects the soul n a way we cannot imagine. It has to be said.

It is a demonic multi billion dollar industry.

Our society is sick on so many levels..spiritually sick. Our churches need to step up to the plate and address the sicknesses boldly, and not fear the anger, ridicule and scorn of congregants and others.

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It's a huge problem throughout the church and outside, of course! I shudder to see how many teens are handed a smart phone which gives them access to truly horrible things.

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You make good points and I appreciate your replying. I agree it is better to go among your mission field with a partner. I also wholeheartedly agree with Eph 5:11. I think it is our duty to expose evil. I do think it is effective to expose people's personal need for Christ and if that can be done biblically while those individuals are in the midst of undertaking those evil things and my exposition will further God's job for me here, then yes.

The Eric Metaxas quote is talking about ignoring the dark and encouraging fellow believers to only sending up praises. I certainly don't advocate for that. But I think it is hard with talk Christ with our fingers at full wag. You fight evil, you ask the Holy Spirit to find opportunity, the words etc to spread the Gospel. It is hard to say "oh, you are one of those COVID shot people... hey how about stop worshiping science and start worshiping Christ. I mean, you could do that and I would really be interested in how it went, but IMO it isn't optimal. I could be wrong. I won't discount my own wrong headedness - a real thing. Haha.

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Respectfully, I think you missed the point of what I am trying to do. I am trying to help people understand what has been done to us since 2020 and help them prepare for what is coming next. It's so much more than vaccines. (Actually, long before 2020, but I was not aware) I'm not going to accuse anyone of worshiping anything, but direct them to the One they should worship. Maybe you'd like this short interview with Bishop Strickland, who's currently facing persecution. I'm not Catholic, but I admire him! https://rumble.com/v4e1py6-bishop-joseph-strickland-letter-to-the-american-church.html

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This! 🎯

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That’s propaganda speak :(

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Exactly. Hermitage residences cannot fulfill the Great Commission. Engagement with the "other", unpleasant and difficult as it may be, is required.

"For how will they believe if they have not heard?"

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Dale, yes! This is what comes to my mind every time I feel like giving up on humanity:

1 John 4:20

“If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that the one who loves God should also love his brother.”

And it is becoming harder and harder

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Well, consider the group-hermits: monks (Gr: monachos, single, solitary [Liddell and Scott]) . Who certainly have followed that ordinance.

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Because you will be the hungry, naked, and pretty salty.

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Please don't become a hermit! The world needs you.

Come live nextdoor to me, and we'll force THEM to become hermits! 🤗

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🎯🎯🎯👍👍👍

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Better than to hide yourself away is to speak up in love to these misguided individuals. They are sharing with you and it’s only right to share your views . I think 🤔 it’s time we Do Something!!!! We must stand up for what we believe like Paxton , Alabama Supreme Court and All those that have put their lives on the line to expose these EVILS 😈. God is with us WHO can be against us . ✝️🙏🏻♥️

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No, they hate you for speaking truth, and they will NEVER consider your words. Wasting your time and asking for a fight. Find people who think like you and live in peace.

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Galatians 6:9-10 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

We have to remember that the results are not up to us; only God can change hearts. I often think of a young woman who was in college with me. I don't think she ever spoke to me, but she was known to be a follower of Christ and I assume I heard her talking to others. (That was a long time ago!) I consider her to have had a part in leading me to Christ. We never know how we might affect others.

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In my circle of friends and family, I only know one other Christian who has the strength, courage and conviction to speak up. The vast majority either lack discernment to see the truth, or they put kindness ahead of truth. I have an aunt who told me she no longer wanted to talk to me if I didn’t stop. I have a friend who believes helping people can often get in the way of God and our only purpose is to share the Gospel.

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Good grief, the “helping people gets in the way of God” elicits all manner of adverse nervous system reactions from me. That’s how I was mostly raised. And it’s horse apples, as you well know.

Jesus came not only for life later but life now. “This is eternal life, that they may know you.” “I came that they may have abundant life.”

The good news is good news not just for my body after it dies but for my whole entire Self, now.

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Just learned about an acquaintance’s case of Myocarditis last week. Told me he has a brand-new implant that can summon an ambulance if he has an “episode” and he’s incapacitated. I told him I’m hearing an alarming number of people in my circle who are having the same issues along with cases of Multiple Myeloma, Bone-Prostate-Skin Cancers, Neuropathy, Stroke etc. Then I told him the “one” thing they all have in common — multiple mRNA Gene-Therapy-Jabs. He immediacy got up — walked away — stating he’s “on his way to the Democrat-Club meeting.” That’s all anyone needs to know — !!!!

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I've been seeing a lot of that, too. It's pretty scary, but you cannot get them to admit it's the shots. They will say it's the virus before they say it's the shots. After all, they were promised that it is safe and effective. The only reason my aunt admitted her myocarditis was from the booster was because her cardiologist told her the truth.

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Indeed — what a breath of fresh air the Doctor was honest about it. I have a ‘heart-surgeon-friend” who’s wife got Neuropathy after mRNA-Jabbing multiple times. You’d think he could buy a vowel (get a clue) as to WHY she randomly contracted Neuropathy out of thin air with ZERO “pre-symptoms” presenting themselves prior to the Jabs.

The cognitive dissonance is DEAFENING…!!!

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Yes, the cognitive dissonance is deafening! I'm thankful her doctor was honest. Another sad reality is that all of this has crept into the veterinary practices. We took the dog for dental cleaning this morning and they required a flu shot! And then said he would need a booster. We had to do the initial shot but he will not be getting a booster. Once again, vaccines are a cash cow. We will be looking for a new vet after this.

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Robin, we took in one of our dogs (Standard Poodles🐩🐩) for a dental cleaning. She is 10 years old and has seizures so we certainly did not want any vaccinations given to her stressing her system. The assistant with the clipboard listing what was to be done had entered in ‘their routine vaccinations’ after my hubby said NO MORE VACCINES. My hubby told him to mark them out and the guy said “I can’t do that.” My hubby said “Well I can!” And took the clipboard from him and marked them out and put his signature next to each shot he scratched out.

Surprisingly no one argued with him and they went ahead with her dental cleaning without the added jabs. Try putting your foot down, it’s YOUR dog after all. Or try finding another vet …which is hard since like the human medical field they all band together to force their policies on your own bodies against your wishes.

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Thanks for sharing how you stood up to them. It crazy but I'm more comfortable standing up against doctors because I know that I know what I'm saying. I just need to be confident and stand firm.

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Like when they gave my dog bortadella shot upon giving her for an emergency boarding situation? Fine and dandy, except that it takes days to kick in!

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At this point there is nothing he can do about it but hopefully he won't encourage others to be like himself.

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Please don’t become a hermit! Get involved somehow locally! Humanity needs you!

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Yes, they want us to stay quiet, so they can walk all over us. I admire what the European farmers have done.

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I agree with Alabama. 13 years ago, my husband and I were evaluating fertility treatments after I was dx with POF … weirdly after receiving a “mandatory” EUA vaccine during pregnancy with child #1 … i now find the dx even more “baffling” than before. Anywho, we got to the point of signing the consent to treat, etc, forms with a doctor who specialized in the most challenging fertility cases … we were all set to go until I got to page 12 which was where we had to decide what to do with “excess embryos”. A horrifying description, but, nonetheless perhaps medically accurate. And the choices were implantation, destruction, donation, or the Hans Solo, (as I called it), perpetual freezing. All four were a hard stop for me bc 1) I wasn’t going to implant them all, because, after all, we only wanted 1 more child, 2) it was a horrifying thought to me to destroy them because they were still my children, 3) donation was a hard no because these were my children, who were wanted, and 4) just no to perpetual freezing.

At that point, I made my peace, and simply thanked God for my one perfect child. One child was clearly God’s plan for me.

I know that IVF is right for some people, and has brought many loved children into the world, but, for me, for the aforementioned reasons, it was not a morally sound solution for me. I’m glad that Alabama has it’s head on straight.

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I agree. And as a very close friend of mine did IVF and has 2 babies from it this very much is a huge heartache for her. This is the reason why I am convicted it is wrong if you cannot ensure a chance at life for all.

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I always wondered why these embryos cannot be adopted through surrogacy...I know, I know, oh the ethical webs we have weaved when trying to conceive.

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That would be amazing! So many people want a baby or want to carry one in their womb. I would love to!

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Really should not be allowed. So many potential problems. Sperm donors should not be allowed either. Chance to meet your “sister” or “brother” and unwittingly become romantically involved. Infertility is very sad. Adoption

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Thank you for bringing this to everyone’s attention and I’m sorry to hear about you dx and your former struggle. I would like to point to this great organization called Them Before Us , see https://thembeforeus.com/ivf-harms-to-children/. There are first hand accounts of children born from IVF pregnancies and they are sad stories. This organization also points out the harm of divorce and much more. Please check them out.

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Tough choice, glad you found peace with God and yourself ❤️

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I found your response very thoughtful and honest. Thank you for being willing to share your experience with this issue. As I continued to read some of other responses, a thought coalesced into my own head…the IVF process, especially in the details you spoke of, feels and sounds disturbingly like the commodification of children. A subset, in a way, of human trafficking. This whole discussion made me think harder on the subject than I ever had before, due to the new-to-me information. It’s left me disturbed and unsettled, which isn’t a bad thing necessarily.

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It’s the selling of false promises and false hope. I had also come to realize, at the Easter Vigil of all places, that IVF, for me, was a false promise. That my “baffling” infertility was so extreme that IVF would never be successful. That my hormones were already screwed up, and the solution to it wasn’t to screw them up even more. Perhaps the secular industry doesn’t realize it, but the destruction of embryos (and fetuses) is child sacrifice in the name of pride.

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I know of someone who did IVF and insisted that the lab only make 2 embryos and implant both, and if they miscarried they would decide then if they would come back (and pay more) to try again.

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We decided to adopt 2 children. Now 26 and 23. We thank God everyday for the most gracious gifts we received.

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Still looking for the Trump multiplier.

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Maybe Jeff is looking for a good option. Go Fund Me is not a good option.

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GiveSendGo.

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I don’t trust them! They would steal the money. They’ve done it before.

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Like the Canadian Truckers!

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I was kind of surprised that there was a GoFundMe for Trump. That seems insanely likely to be shut down for "good reasons". :(

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He is worth billions. Only an idiot would send $.

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He might be worth billions but it’s not liquid money.

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For real, middle class and poor people lost trillions during Trump's reign. Do you remember his announcement on March 16, 2020? They are completely stupid to give him any money.

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I’m middle class and I made money during the Trump years… then lost a ton of money during the first 2 yrs of Biden… and haven’t made it back.

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As far as I know, our lawyer-in-chief only works with GiveSendGo. For 3 reasons that I can think of.

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Or good timing

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Yes, multiply Trump

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It would be interesting to see if it blows up the internet once “we the awake” share it with our respective networks.

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So a billionaire needs financial help from the masses?

How many C&C'ers, myself included, took a stand against the jabs and lost their jobs/income because of it?

Seems like a far more deserving multiplier - and there are countless others that would fit the bill here.

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I agree. I can see him laughing because he has people sending him money he didn’t even ask for. SMH. It’s a NO for me.

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It would be a signal to Trump that he’s going to be on the hot seat for how he responds to the criminality forced onto, we the people he claims to so dearly love, if/when he takes the reins.

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I’m not convinced he needs help either.

I’m open to learning why Jeff (& others) may think he is though…

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i think his zionist puppet handlers can fund him just fine

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Read something earlier that does allege Trump is part of the same global Kazarian mafia, being used as opposition distraction. It’s interesting that his SIL and daughter are “Jewish”. Don’t cancel me; just wondering…

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Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Has he been recently saved? Who knows his heart? Does it matter if he’s a zi*mist or freemas*n or both or neither? His record showed more support for life and liberty than anyone since Reagan, who at least was anti-communist.

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Yep, I will judge him by his fruit. If he continues to do good I will applaud him if he turns to evil work I will recoil and condemn him

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If he does get elected, my hope is that many won't go back to sleep thinking he will save us.

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Yes. How many realize no man can save us??

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No matter what they tell you, if they put on the little hat to go publicly 'pray' in front of that old Roman garrison...You know where their allegiance lies.

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I feel like this is why trump is selling the shoes and the coins. It’s harder for his enemies to steal the money when goods have been exchanged.

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It’s also a way to get past the media blackout in positive Trump coverage.

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If you feel strongly about multiplying Pres. Trump, send money to his campaign with the donation ending in 2. Also add a note you read Coffee and Covid so they will know why you contributed. I like the multipliers to go to the "little guy.'

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I looked at both go fund me and give send go. There were many Trump options. It would be some work to get them all. I’m sure Jeff is doing his due diligence.

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Me too! So many comments that day and crickets ever since. Hmmmm, Jeff know something he ain't sharing???

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Please, let’s not turn on Jeff like a back stabbing Judas. Maybe you didn’t intend to sound like that, but you do.

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Trump multiplier would need to be cash only. Otherwise, we’re all getting rounded up and jailed for funding “criminal” activity.

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I don't care anymore about jail, threats or whatever. Because they have already taken from us anything that counts, all except our sacred belief. So let me do the multiplier and let them just try to screw with me.

Resistance to evil is conservation of the soul.

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Why does trump need more money?

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I believe it’s more a statement than the actual money.

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If you're agin it, I'm fer it.

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Why does a billionaire Covid vaccine creator need your money?

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You can count as well as I..almost 1 billion for that woman. 850 million for the judge or was it 850 billion for the judge? This is so sick. I am trying not to throw up. And this is supposed to be America.

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Why do many folks these days need more “COMMON-SENSE?”

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Exactly....I find the support for this potential initiative questionable at best...

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The first image I had was Donald Trump standing next to and hawking a 1924 Dodge Brothers pickup truck chock full of gold tennis shoes….explaining to Mr. Douglas why his farm needs them. Mr. Haney lives on…..

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He’s a billionaire. He doesn’t need money.

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Billionaires don’t store their wealth in cash to pay off $500M specious fines. He said he is the only thing standing between the baddies and us. Many believe him. Seems like there is ample evidence of TPTB hating normies. Thus the enemy of our enemy is our friend logic (the same logic that identifies Ukraine as not our friend, since all the corrupt politicians can’t wait to send our borrowed funds to them).

This would be to support his stand against our enemies.

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More important than the money is our collective voice. We make a statement with our action and this is important.

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Correct. We have no voice anymore. We need a large collective voice. It’s about making a statement. It isn’t about money.

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So supporting the grift. Got it

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He can leverage his wealth and mansions to fund it.

It’s not a big deal for him.

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"Billionaires don't store their wealth in cash..."

No they don't - they have assets to leverage - figured folks around here would know that given that is the very crux of the discussion here in the first place.

But go ahead and keep funding the Kabuki Theatre....

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For whatever reason a person has for their position it doesn’t matter what others think about it. Concern yourself with your own choice to give money or to withhold it instead of trying to convince other to take your position, especially in a condescending manner.

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He is no longer a billionaire. Hey I thought we were on the same page

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Oh no, a multi millionaire.

That’s like Robert deniro saying he’d be lucky to make 8 million one year.

So would I.

Trump has plenty of people to fleece money from. He doesn’t need anymore

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Ukraine.

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Trump isn’t Ukraine nor is he fighting a war.!

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Same.

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Do you remember what day it was that Jeff suggested a Trump multiplier?

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the Expose has a couple of reports today that stipulate the virus was circulating way earlier, and that UK docs and pharmacists were instructed to euthanize patients with covid. the dirty truth is coming out, and hopeful messages like yours are sipping through as well. The sun is shining bright and the blue sky still has no chemtrails. Hope! GA legislation is about the vote that uninjected people can get transplants. Let us hope this gets national following.

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Congressional Testimony: Medical Records Show DoD Soldier Immunized with Moderna Against COVID19 in 2014: https://bitchute.com/video/HMHAOs0Kl1Pc [3:11mins]

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yes, Spartacus reported early on, that the antidote was developed somewhere 2010

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An antidote is not a vaccine.

An antidote is the COVID “cocktail,”which includes vitamins, ivr, hcq, certain supplements, vitamins and certain OTC medicines. There is not one item which in itself is an antidote. The cocktail antidote should be given within 5 days of onset, not upon hospitalization. It is pretty inexpensive.

One state in India gave out a cov packet to everyone who tested positive. It essentially erased cov from their state.

They wouldn’t say what was in it for quite a while bc of the global backlash against ivm.

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you might want to check out Spartacus' post

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We have blue skies too. Perhaps DARPA and NASA have realized that if there are no people paying taxes (because we are poisoned by the toxins in chemtrails), they will have no budgets and jobs. And, even worse, they would be stuck with the narcissistic, psychopathic elite. Not an encouraging vision of the future for those two agencies.

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Or maybe because people are starting to notice the chemtrails/whatever and are speaking out. It's gone from conspiracy theory to being recognized as valid. I wish I had money. I'd make a billboard that shows two photos: clear, blue sky with fluffy clouds from before the chemtrail days and a photo of the skies now with a caption that says "Which skies do you remember when you were young?"

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Btw, I've been taking photos of the same places on good vs bad days -- as evidence.

It's worth doing this as they are apparently adding chemtrails to old movies to gin up fake evidence of chemtrails in the past.

The social media factcheckers clearly need to go after them for fabricating and spreading misinformation. Make themselves truly useful to us taxpayers who are paying for the salaries of everyone involved in the spraying and lying and factchecking.

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Some states are trying to outlaw chemtrails in their airspaces as well. You can see any efforts in your state and support them here (power in numbers) -- https://zerogeoengineering.com/usa-states/

Billboards across the country are a great idea!

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Chemtrails are more frequent toward the end and beginning of the month. I was told it was something about Military pilots working to get their paid flight time in. I can't believe I have friends and family to stubborn to learn the difference in Chemtrails and Contrails. One a retired Pilot and the other a retired flight attendant. It is terrible to be stuck inside the box with a lid on it!

https://youtu.be/rf78rEAJvhY?si=yaUP72_xgUrJ16fI

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They're also using hired outfits as well, from what I understand. Companies are making money off spraying their fellow citizens!

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I wish they had thought of that sooner!

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I pray you are right!

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Isn’t it sad that the GA legislators have to vote on this ?!

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I have long suspected that I 'acquired' the bug in April, '19. Just waiting for more info-releases to justify my suspicion. Last March, Redacted did a show on the DOD involvement; Natalie held up to viewers a document of proof of involvement back in Feb. '19. I took a screen shot of that screen--but my wayward computer did not save the screenshot as it had been misbehaving--and I didn't realize this at the time. Couldn't take time to go back through hours and hours and hours of Redacted shows. However--lesson learned--after taking any screen shot, check in folder to see that effort was successful.

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The father of Funny Willis knew about it early 19…. Is in the court record. I would like to ask him how he knew and who told him.

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yes I saw that, too. and yes, it is sad that a vote has to be cast over health care or not. but this is what the world has come to.

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I think my son and I had the chinese bug in March of 2019. It hit hard and fast, high fever and unable to get out of bed for a week. I lived in a tourist town at the time. Never have caught it since and very unjabbed!

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I strongly suspect that we had Covid in January of 2020, in Washington State. We were in Sea-Tac Intl Airport the day that “ Covid 0”🙄🤥🤣 patient was there. Three days after my hubby was so sick on a mandatory work trip, that i called his hotel front desk for a wellness check after no communication for 16hrs from him, in spite of my multiple attempts to get ahold of him. He was found barley aware in his hotel room, and refused to go to the hospital thankfully. I used Amazon same day delivery and a courier to get some treatment to him out of state. He flew home two days later, but was sick for a week after that. In our 20 years of marriage, i’ve never seen him sicker, not even when he had the delta variant in Oct 2020 ( only lost taste/smell, no other symptoms). I brought the Jan 2020 illness home to the kids and we were all extremely sick as well.

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Check out Bill Rice Jr Newsletter here at Substack: if y’all haven’t already seen his efforts to document “early spread”, take a look. Several months ago he posted specifically to encourage people to respond with their stories in the comments section. I first read his interest in the topic in an article he published in UncoverDC back in 2020 or 2021. Darn I wish I could tag him in this post.

I believe he is aiming to collect overwhelming anecdotal evidence that cannot be ignored.

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Thank you, FH and, yes, I must have more "early spread" articles at my newsletter than anyone else.

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I believe we had it very early on too. So sick from what we thought was ‘a cold’ that we even went to the Doctor., who was baffled. This was well before we started hearing the rumours coming out of China and Italy. Will probably never know.

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Get an antibody test. I’d you have antibodies then you had it.

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Go GA! It’s criminal that it’s still being denied

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Oddly enough I had what appeared to be chemtrails in my beautiful blue morning sky now a hazy gray!

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After returning to the major university where I worked after the 2019 Christmas break, I overheard four colleagues chatting about how they had just recovered from the strangest and worst flu ever.

Two friends also got hit by something in December 2019.

I believe it was COVID.

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Why is government voting on such a thing???

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because most of them are criminals. they don't care about people and get paid by big harma. what do they care about us people? same for docs. what do they care, as long as it rains in their pockets?

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The sign of revival that I've been seeing for awhile is that even secular folks are discerning enough to see that we are facing a level of evil that cannot be explained apart from the supernatural. I pray for the day when my Christian friends who are still undiscerning will be able to recognize what these secular folks see. That will be REAL revival!

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I see that too Anne. What's interesting is that people who had never given any outward indication they are religious are now openly speaking of the hard left being demonic. And not as an metaphor, but as actually being driven by demonic forces.

In addition, many of the secular writers and commenters I've read over the years, are now openly discussing their Christianity. Most of them had never even mentioned it previously but are now framing their discussion within the context of it. Something has clearly changed.

Last off, my church (a big multi-ethnic Calvary Chapel in So Cal) is absolutely packed after seeing significant attendance declines in the wake of Covid. We are fully back and then some, people are hungry for the straight-forward teaching of God's Word and know the current culture is a sewer. They are looking for truth in a world of lies.

I see signs of revival everywhere, and frankly it's the only thing that will save this country.

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Another example of God making good from something bad in our world ❤️

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I think things are literally becoming black and white. All the grey people have to pick a side.

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I have to include myself as one of those who is turning toward Christ because of what I have seen on Earth.

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That validates my feeling that people may be more open to hearing about Christ because of the insanity all around them. Thanks for the encouragement to keep telling others the Truth, Oscar!

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Are you talking about Calvary Chapel Chino Hills? I listen often to Jack Hibbs. There's actually a couple at my church who were members there until they moved here (NC) to be near family.

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Not Chino Hills though I've been there and it's great. I don't want to say which one as I try to keep anonymity on here. There are lots of big CC's in So Cal as Chuck Smith started in in Orange County. Nearly all of them are fantastic as they are led by men schooled under Pastor Chuck. Expository teaching, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, even when the text makes people in the pews (or the pastor himself) squirm a bit. Far too many churches teach topically IMO, where pastors only teach on stuff they like or make people feel good.

I've attended CC on and off for thirty years and have not found a better church. I've come to disagree with much of dispensational theology, but all of my pastors have taught it as a biblical interpretation (where good people can disagree) as opposed to an core essential of Christianity.

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My "come to Jesus moment(s)" seem to be perpetual😁,,,,and no sign of ending the cycle even at 58😄.

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I don’t see it as the hard left being demonic but as the demonic using all different ways to fool all different people- right now very successfully on the “far left”. I personally didn’t used to believe in evil. Just good people who were traumatized etc. I think there are quite a few people like me who have had to come to terms with the level of anti-human forces we are dealing with. My relationship to God keeps deepening as a result.

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If Jack Hibbs is your Pastor, you are blessed! I attend Calvary Chapel Santa Maria (CA) and a couple I know follows Pastor Hibbs. We all saw his opening prayer to a Congressional session the other day and whhhooooeeey, it was FIRE!!!🔥 So I am trying to slip him into my YT Spiritual Lineup…

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Our Episcopalian church is also packed and growing like crazy. Kids and families everywhere. It’s amazing! That and the unadulterated blue skies for the last two days give me hope!

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I think the real crux of the problem with many well meaning Christians is when they take the scripture speaking of following gov authorities and whatever they say blindly. They just obeyed gov from their eyes. No questioning. No discernment.

There is an older man in my neighborhood like this.

I will be honest in saying I am very conflicted about this. At this point in my faith I understand that we are only to resist and question that which explicitly goes against the Word of God. For example, gov trying to prevent churches from assembling.

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I'm not Catholic, but I admire Bishop Strickland, who has been persecuted for standing against the trans movement and the current heresy in the church. My maiden name is Strickland, so I am claiming him as a relative! This is a short interview with him and Eric Metaxas. https://rumble.com/v4e1py6-bishop-joseph-strickland-letter-to-the-american-church.html

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Another aspect of this, to me, is that my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. It's wrong to force me to put something in it which I feel is harmful. The cells of aborted babies are used in many vaccines. I want people to be aware that there is an agenda behind all this, and that they have been lied to and denied informed consent. Not to mention that many have been killed and disabled. To me, it's a pro-life issue.

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Injured in 2001, applied for disability in 2003. Don’t remember what 3 boosters.

Doctors blamed depression!! Haha!

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Absolutely! This was the crux of my religious “exemption”.

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There is nothing in scripture that says we should put a government edict over obedience to God.

Furthermore, we don't have a king. An unconstitutional law is void from inception. I have no responsibility to obey a non-law.

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No responsibility to obey a non-law :)

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It's Romans 13. The civil magistrate is to be a terror to evil doers. And just what defines evil doing? Evil doing is violation of God's Law, like the Ten Commandments, which used to be featured on the walls of American courthouses.

Evil is to be punished by the civil sword by civil magistrate,s and not just judges. Legislators, for example, are magistrates and they are not to pass laws rewarding evil, like transfer of wealth legislation which is theft no matter for how a good the cause is.

Infiltrated and toppled Christianity has distorted, and to a large extent, abolished Christian Law.

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Dr. Tony Evans has a book out called, "Kingdom Politics." I think he does an excellent job of explaining

How, and when we submit to civil leadership, but at what point we must disobey.

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Have you watched Glen Beck's interview with Pastor Josh MacPherson?

https://youtu.be/VWymdaAc0d4

He sued his state (WA) government over the lockdowns.

It is a great interview.

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Covid vaccines were harmful and many lies involved in pushing them. Resisting lies and trying to help other people injure themselves is a good and Godly mission.

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No sign of revival here. But I live in the pagan wasteland called Chicago.

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Actually came across someone noting that "study" in a Discord channel. There were still the usual wordsmithing attempts like "well, the jabs have changed - maybe the current ones aren't so bad", but completely missing the whole point that the original ones _were_ that bad. I have to hand it to the editors for the "small risk" wording. That makes people thing it's not so bad. I pointed out that the H1N1 jabs were pulled after far fewer adverse reactions and nobody was mandated to take those on threat of losing jobs or being jailed. It got kind of quiet after that and hoping some of those people will take a harder look at what we did in the name of "safety".

I'm appreciating Paxton's work right now. If we can just get the RINOs out of the Texas House, we might actually make some progress. That means Phelan and his ilk need to go. I'm not really holding my breath, but primaries are here for the next couple of weeks. Maybe there will be some changes.

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In 1976 the Swine Flu vaccines were pulled with less than 50 deaths.

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Feb 21Liked by Jeff Childers

Well, we all know from trusted media sources that the C19 shots haven't resulted in any deaths. Anything that looks remotely connected is a coincidence - no relation at all, nope. Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen..... :/

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Those words, “trusted media sources” will be eliminated from the word salad soon.

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No doubt a figment of our imagination fueled by crazy conspiracy theorists. /s

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Pages like this one, full of extremism and extremist views.

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Coffee fueled extremism! 😱😛

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Guilty as charged. Being an "extremist" protects my family.

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And the Covid vaccines haven’t been pulled after tens of thousands of deaths

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They want us dead.

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I say that all the time…They are trying to kill us!

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Yes, they do indeed want us dead. A recent Curtis Bowers’ podcast played a clip from a member of the Club of Rome who said their hope is “to reduce the population” in a slow, peaceful way, from 7 billion down to 1 billion. Incredible that they can so blithely speak of needing to kill 6 billion people so that the elites can enjoy all liberty and consumption of the earth that they desire.

Here’s the clip. Start at about minute 35:00….

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faith-family-freedom-with-curtis-bowers/id1498447868?i=1000644824296

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peacefully reduce the population...what a load of utter crap. Can you imagine the ego, the pathetic level of human hubris you would have to have to think such a ludicrous thought? These people are as completely bat-shit crazy as Hitler ever was. They shouldn't be spouting off to us from podiums in davos, they should be sitting in padded rooms.

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Thank you for posting the link.

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Thank YOU for your interest.

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More like millions of deaths!

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Tens of thousands or millions of deaths trump never should have authorized operation warp speed

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I feel for the people with permanent injuries from this shots! Justin comes to mind.

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Starting to know more people personally that are likely jab injured. 😪

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Bingo.

Trump should be ashamed of himself.

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Yeah it's all Trump's fault. Do they let you post from kindergarten?

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Just close all the bridges in Tx. for international commerce and you will see how quickly you fix the problem.

Put some pain in Lopez Obrador in Mexico and make him stop letting this people to cross the whole country to get to a specific point in the border. How in the world do we think that this is just happenstance.

Soros it’s laughing at all of us.

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I believe it is higher and more nefarious than Soros. Realms which we know nothing about just as we know nothing about so many things.

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Yes Jaci. I have always gotten the impression that Schwab and Soros are playing a role, that they are acting out a scenario. I don’t think either one is the originator of the evil they espouse. Who are the Dark Ones behind them? It’s almost as if the Antichrist is already here among us, waiting for his moment to be revealed.

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1John 2:18

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

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We are praying for changes here in TEXAS! But we all must do our part to be educated regarding the candidates and issues. The Texas Scorecard gives a good daily summary of what is going on in our state. Very informative.

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Who do we trust anymore? With so many attack ads on various candidates (which we know can distort truth in many cases) Texas Scorecard helped me to decide my choices before I voted (early voting) today.

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I did like all the propositions on the Texas ballot regarding illegal alien issues. ✔️

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I was almost mandated to take the H1N1 jab in NY. Back then we were still just calling them shots. https://law.stanford.edu/2009/10/22/update-on-new-york-mandatory-h1n1-vaccinations/ I went to Albany to protest...not too many people showed up. Even though there were lawsuits against the mandatory vaccines for nurses and healthcare workers it was the limited supply that actually ended the mandate; New York was just not prepared thank God! Now, that’s not to say that they did not want to push forward with that mandate, they did, and they would have if their supplies were up to par. What they did instead was push for mandatory annual flu vaccination, or wear a mask during flu season.

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If you read my previous comment, H1N1 was the vax my GYN required for all of her pregnant patients, and if we didn’t, then She wouldn’t see us as patients anymore … so some people were threatened with a different type of firing. Knowing what I know now, I believe that it did cause the POF. There was, and never has been, any other medical reason to believe otherwise.

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Feb 21Liked by Jeff Childers

The question is not whether to prove that vaccines, drugs and mRNA injections are harmful. It should be to prove that they are S & E especially in the longer term. That is the gigantic question that for the most part has never been honestly answered about most drugs.

Drugs, which includes most vitamins and minerals, and now many manufactured foods that have more chemicals in them than real food, are manufactured chemical substances. The body does not like additional chemicals sloshing around inside it's sacred grounds.

Sadly, most people still blindly trust the medical system and the FDA. Good luck with that continued ignorance.

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My sister blindly trusted the medical system and the FDA right up until her death last week. Out of luck and out of life.

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I’m sorry for your loss. May your sister rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon her.

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Oh gosh, that’s terrible. I’m sorry you lost your sister.

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I’m so sorry for the loss of your sister 😢

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I’m so sorry for your loss. 💐🌷🌼

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I'm sorry for your loss. May you find peace.

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💔💔💔 yes, I’m starting to watch one friend or family member after another suddenly come up with cancer or a heart attack out of the blue, and like a puff of smoke, they are gone. 💔💔💔

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I'm very sorry

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OMG I’m so sorry for your loss!

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I am so sorry for your loss. ❤️🙏

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So sorry!

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I am so sorry for your loss. It really sucks to lose anyone, even those who are blinded by ignorance. Peace to you.

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Sorry 💌

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💔

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So very sorry for your loss.

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I am still ruminating on the podcast I listened to yesterday on the topic of birth control pills. EXACT SAME playbook as the CV vaxxx. Every rock we pick up reveals a whole corrupt, nefarious, deeply disturbing mess underneath.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/121-history-untold-harms-of-hormonal-birth-control-w/id1573253801?i=1000644612029

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Be wary & avoid most vitamins. This substack does a good job researching vitamins. Calls the manufacturers “little Pfizer’s”. https://open.substack.com/pub/chemtrails/p/poison-vitamins-united-nations-food?r=nl3ud&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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Every thing we put in and in our bodies, is our responsibility to research.

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Great point.

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Revival? Here is a good example: my 14 year old was handed a Gideon Bible on the way in to BERKELEY high last week. He was reading it in his physics class. His teacher got all huffy and said Christians are bad people. My 14 year old looked her in the eye and said, I’m a Christian and so is my family. It shut her up! That’s a 4th generation Berkeleyan that used to belong to the church of Dan, where I was the founding member. My wife, a devout atheist until 2 years ago, just boarded a plane for a women’s Christian conference in Ft. Worth this weekend. Nearly every person I know out here that was persecuted during the mandate era is finding a path back to faith. Keep up the persecution and we will be planting a church soon!

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Dan, thank you for sharing this story; it brought tears to my eyes. Please tell your son that he made a lot of people proud of him in that brave action he took, and tell your wife she has many people praying for and with her.

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💞

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Thank you, Dan, for sharing this incredible story of a family changed by God!

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The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - rather than their true enemies back home in their capitals. —Edward Abbey

Stumbled upon this yesterday and it may help some of you, apparently Borax is very good at helping with many ailments, and was banned in many countries for that reason: https://bitchute.com/video/HKQzRu3MIeh8 [50 seconds]

Health Issues That Benefit from Borax: Arthritis, Trigger Finger and Trigger Thumb, Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, Bone Spurs, Calcium Deposits, Lupus, Autoimmune Disease, Hormone Imbalances, Fungus, Candida, Ringworm, Tinea, Versicolor, Insomnia, Rough Skin, Impotence. More information here: https://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/borax.html

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I've been looking into borax for awhile too. I finally pulled trigger yesterday and ordered some. Natural Health Library online is good resource.

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Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is another substance with a wide range of healing properties.

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Absolutely! And also apple cider vinegar with the mother in it. I was using Braggs, but Patricia Bragg died in 2023 and the company is now owned by some untrustworthies.

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Yes, talk about giving money to people who don't need it--Katy Perry is one of those untrustworthies.

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A way to detox your body of metals once a week.

Hot bath

1 cup borax

1 cup REAL baking soda - not arm and hammer

1 cup Himalayan salt

1 cup epson salt

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I'm going to check out Borax. My paperclip resistance movement is growing so fast that I need all the help I can get to stay active! What fun! (Except when it's time to clean house, like today)

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Anne - did you see that Andrew Brigden wears a paper clip on his lapel?

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Yes! Dr. Ryan Cole as well.

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I didn’t know that about Dr. Cole!

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I was inspired to begin wearing a clip after seeing him on American Thought Leaders. Jan Jekeliek asked him why he wore it, although I'm sure he had already determined that and wanted to give him a chance to explain to the viewers.

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I had the sincere pleasure of meeting Dr. Cole. 🥰

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What is the paperclip resistance movement?

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Here ya go, Joanne! https://asclifton1971.substack.com/p/the-great-paperclip-resistance If you look elsewhere on my Substack, you will find the photo images I had printed to hand out. I'm also trying to get together a good flyer with more info. I was particularly pleased that I was able to get the photos printed at Walgreens, which has pushed the vaccine so hard.

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Thank you Anne! I will read more about it.

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I remember TV ads in the '50's for 20 Mule Team Borax. The still sell it.

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Please keep it quiet, or they will soon be banning borax. Just put 1/8 of a teaspoon in a liter of water and sip it throughout the day.

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This is a good resource for natural, herbal remedies. https://deeprootsathome.com/making-an-herbal-tylenol-glycerite-to-add-to-my-stash/

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You had me at Trigger Finger! Was going to call for a shot, but now will do some research, thanks! Funny that CeCe pulled the trigger yesterday! 😂

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Great Abbey quote that I was not aware of.....love that guy.

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That first sentence is answered with one word. Revolution.

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I just started using it yesterday!

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Wow, there's a lot of synchronicity going on in this discussion SMQ, maybe it's destiny.

If you do find that it helps you please spread the good news around to as many people as possible and ask them to do the same.

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There were several articles in 2018 about concerns for kids using borax to make slime and the potential harms. Just curious if this was ever a valid concern.

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Feb 21Liked by Jeff Childers

Taxpayers are paying for their own demise. Billions to Ukraine to "save democracy" and fill the coffers of the MIC and an untold number of politicians. Billions for illegal immigration. Many "NGO's" are getting a piece of that pie. Who knows how much money has been spent on GOF research? Billions to mass censorship projects conducted by "NGO's." And absolutely zero accountability or transparent ledger of where these funds are actually going. Anyone seeing a trend?

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Quoting Scott Ritter?

I’m laughing.

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Shame on you !!

https://youtu.be/YV8KXnzQCq0?si=bQaa1fhmtmtUE7vt

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Scott Ritter is a convicted pediphile who was arrested, charged, and convicted for whipping his junk out and gratifying himself in front of a kid.

He’s a registered sex offender and there’s a reason he’s happy with Russia.

Why are you using him as a paragon of truth?

He also claimed Ukraine was defeated by Russia during the battle of Kyiv

Then turned around and did a double take and claimed Russia never wanted it.

Ffs pick someone other than a child pervert please

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Ritter at one point was lauding Hamas as being better professional soldiers than the IDF. Incredible. He seems to have been bitten by the anti-Semitic bug. Any insight into this?

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Cloud the issue by ignoring what he said huh? Nice try.

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Here's a glimmer of revival -

I work for the federal government, so survived being threatened by mandates and all the covid insanity - by the grace of God. The atmosphere is traditionally hostile to Christians and pro-"worldliness."

Yesterday a coworker shared a family tragedy in our MS Teams chat (not private). Seven out of eight replies openly said they were praying for the situation. There were specific prayers for comfort from the Holy Spirit, for God's mercy and grace. Not just "thoughts and prayers."

This would NEVER have happened three years ago. 🙏

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by the Grace of God and some help from the lawfare from Feds4MedFreedom.org

They have expanded their mission to take on DEI and Religious freedom issues.

Go to fedsforfreedom.org and please consider joining like minded federal employees.

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100% agree!!!

That group was a Godsend!

I supported them then and still do.

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In my local mostly rural region, DEI is being disseminated (as a good thing) through the networking groups for working women, either woman-owned businesses or women in the various small corporate businesses.

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Praise God! ❤

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It is so disheartening to see all the comments about people wanting to isolate themselves and become hermits! I just read about Don Wildmon, who started the American Family Association, an organization that has been defending Christian values and our freedoms for over 40 years! He made 2 statements that I think we should all embrace (and Jeff has embraced!): "God does not require that we be successful. He only requires that we be faithful." and "Your responsibility is to fight the battle. The outcome is not in your hands." Instead of whining and isolating yourself, DO SOMETHING, no matter how small! Join the local Republican party, attend local city council meetings, volunteer at schools and libraries, volunteer to work at voting locations....

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I don’t want to be a hermit I freaking love people. Some people I only want a few minutes with, but most anyone I can find something in common with. In fact, just yesterday a woman a came in for a massage that I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. She said “oh, I’ve had something to tell you for like 2 years. Remember how we talked about ivermectin?” (I didn’t remember, tbh, but I did talk about it with quite a few clients back then.) Anyway, she went on, “it saved my moms life. She got covid pneumonia and was in the hospital, so I asked her doctor if he would try ivermectin and she was home in 48 hours.” It reminded me how important it is to talk to people, to make a gentle, non-pushy comment sometimes and how that can really pay dividends. Made my day.

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Totally. I just did this with a man from my church w stage 4 ca. Shared studies in hopes he will try ivermectin. No judgement if he chooses to pass

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Right? Passing along information is all we can do.

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I ❤️ your mom’s doctor. What a professional practitioner of medicine!

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It wasn’t my mom, it was a clients mom… but yes, excellent. Also, they were in North Dakota so that probably helped.

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Feb 21·edited Feb 21

Yes! Love this!

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I understand your frustration, but I don’t think they’re whining. I think they’re equally as frustrated as you are and probably live in areas where there are few like minded people. I can absolutely relate. I live in a deep blue city in a deep blue county in a deep blue state. And I moved from FL when it was purple! I do have a small circle of like minded friends…but life is busy and I don’t see them as often as I’d like. Subsequently, my husband and I have become “hermity.” It is exhausting going out and seeing people masked up outdoors. There are still “masks recommended” on many businesses! Yesterday, I saw someone masked up while driving ALONE. Whenever we go downtown, we are exposed to “Save Palestine” protests and bombarded with paid petitioners who want us to sign pro-abortion and other equally offensive petitions. It’s demoralizing. We still vote. We still show up to City Council meetings when we can. We canvass for conservative candidates. But it’s exhausting. Curling up on the couch with a cocktail is bliss. I can completely understand how being a hermit would be an attractive (and often self-preserving) alternative.

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Great comment, thank-you!

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I try to see signs of revival, but they remain hidden under layers of bad news.

Jeff could you weigh in on SCOTUS refusal to overturn Trump lawyers suits about the 2020 election which got them heavy fines and disbarment? I need a lawyer’s take on what this is really about.

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Yes- especially the big fines meant to completely bankrupt him. I saw that L. James is looking to take his buildings in lieu of money? Is that the end game? I really don’t understand what is going on or how he gets out of it -bankruptcy? Please break it down.

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You will own nothing. And you will be happy.

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I would like to hear his take on that too!

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Yes. I would love to hear his take too.

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You nailed it again: the jab injuries are too numerous to deny. I think that's why these pieces are coming out in the media. There is simply no way to hide this any more. It's unfortunate (although not unpredictable) that the media only mentions certain effects. And I love "Several of the researchers also reported having relationships or having previously received payments from biopharmaceutical companies...." Well *there's* a surprise!

I view revival not only as a religious thing but also for people who simply choose to stand up against evil and/or refuse to accept evil and speak out about it. I'm guessing not every parent who has ever attended a school board meeting to speak out about porno books and the re-writing of history to make all Caucasians look evil is a religious person. I'm betting some are standing up based on their morals, and that's a revival as well. Being a good and moral person was still in fashion when I was growing up, but it's not now... except for those who are reviving it. Some religious, some not... all in the same boat. 😊

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I believe the reason we are seeing some reports on jab injuries is a CYA operation! No one can be held liable for all the lies, misinformation, and coercion that has taken place!

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Zelensky is blaming his problems on Republicans and substack subscribers. Oh well!

The Biden people are doing their part to help:

"The media has obtained an instruction from Secretary Blinken's office, according to which American diplomats are advised not to use "problematic" words like "mother," "father," "husband," and "wife."

According to the guideline, addressing people as "ladies and gentlemen" is now considered "offensive" by the U.S. government. The State Department suggests replacing these words with "everyone," "people," "you all," "parent," "child," "spouse," and "partner." The State Department also advises against determining a person's gender identity solely based on appearance or name, as gender can regularly change.

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In exchange, Biden's team should stop using that problematic term "President" when speaking about Gropey Dopey Joe.

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Resident is more appropriate.

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Sounds pretty communistic to me. Pretty soon it will be “Comrades”.

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To the US Gov, Gender is like getting dressed in the morning. Hmmm, what should I identify as today? Man, women, neither, both or maybe an animal? Hmmm. Genders change regularly you know.

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Today, I think you should identify as a unicorn, Johnny. Tomorrow, possibly Bigfoot!

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I heard “they” have never stopped looking for Bigfoot. Might be a good gig?!?

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🤣💯

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I will try to avoid using the words that Biden recommends. It might sound a little awkward at times, but that's okay.

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Doctors Are Baffled! I love that name! Maybe I will change mine to Medical Emergency.

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I was watching the Daytona 500 and the Rock said, "Drivers, start your engines!" rather than "Gentlemen" and at the time I thought, well, that's silly, there are no women running the race this year. I wonder if "Drivers" was a nod to this gender insanity.

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Probably. At the Indy 500 when I went a few years ago, they said “Ladies and Gentlemen” (there were a few women in the race) which I think is fine.

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I think so, too.

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Could just be that they do sometimes have woman drivers, and changed it as a matter of policy to cater to either even if sometimes it's only men. (And maybe because "ladies and gentlemen" is more cumbersome than "drivers".)

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Shame if it's come to that. Why ruin tradition?

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Are our NATO trolls, Benjamin double N and Horse Sh*t, still around???

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Yup — Benny with 2-N’s just posted above…

“why does Trump need more money?”

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Bennnn is still here but he shut down his alter ego horseshitbrains.

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Or it was two separate trolls and funding got cut...

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Still here.

Why did a Russian soldier and commentator who has been there since 2014 get a case of the Suddenlies and pass away over night?

How’s the 2 day war going?

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Uhh- Mark Crispin Miller could explain a not-unlikely reason.

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Putin executes his own guys?

Typical..just like how Russians have been committing suicide with grenades for a while now (on drone camera,

Too)

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I go out of my way to use these “banned” terms!

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What happened to "folks"?

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In the upper Midwest the term folks is still used but refers to your parents, such as “Tell your folks I says hi”. (Check out Charlie Berens on YouTube!)

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Folks is like, NPR-speak. The white commentators use it instead of "people" or "persons" or "citizens" or etc., because guess what....it make them sound more BLACK.

It's more of a restorative justice type of word now.

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That went out with Jimmuh Carter.

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Oh, Obama LOVED to call people "folks." It made me crazy.

I'm reading a biography of the Queen Mother and I was struck by how lofty the speeches were during WW2. I even told my husband, "Nobody is talking to 'folks' in these speeches."

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Darn - I forgot about The One's use of that term.

(I've worked at forgetting most of the details, the visual ones in particular, about Obama.)

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Florida Man ... once a 'civilization' gets this far out on the end of a branch, you know that 'a snap' is not too far off.

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I sort of expect that nonsense from behemoth government agencies. I find it difficult to hear alternative health practitioners talk about "people who menstruate" and "pregnant people". 🙄

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Digitalis Impudicus is my salute to them! 🖕

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My adult kids still call me “Mommy.” No amount of PC BS will ever stop that. EVER. This Mommy won’t allow it ;).

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No coverage of Julian Assange?

He's fighting extradition to the US for exposing the truth about the US murderous military complex and embarrassing the CIA on Wikileaks. Having been held on remand in a UK maximum security prison for five years he's now fighting for his life. He's just a journalist who told the truth. And they don't like it.

Do all the Americans here even know who he is?

It is an international scandal! I just hope America's poodle (the UK) finally grows a pair of balls and stops this evil vicious persecution.

Free Julian Assange!!!

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