By showing me that my new medicine is working really well, vraylar. 2 Corinthians 1 verse 3 and 4 says how we can comfort others however God comforts us personally so if you're reading this and you're on vraylar I bet it's working great!

Bill Gates is planning to microchip the world through a COVID-19 vaccine. The 5G networks scattered around the world are causing people to catch coronavirus. COVID-19 was spread by Maine lobsters shipped to China.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given birth to some outrageous conspiracy theories packed with misinformation like the ones above, and new research from UCLA sheds light on how these false narratives developed.

One of the researchers on the project was University of California, Berkeley professor Timothy Tangherlini, who teaches a class on the application of social network analysis methods to the study of Old Norse sagas.

"The narrative structures are of course the same – as humans growing up in cultural groups, we've become incredibly adept at telling stories that help explain how the world works, and why it looks the way it does," Tangherlini told USA TODAY.

Turns out, the missing link between different modern conspiracy theories often lies in the one-and-only Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and founder of Microsoft.

Why Bill Gates is the 'perfect villain'​

Continued below.

If you were really a member of the global élite, you'd know this already: the world is ruled by a powerful, secretive few. Many of the rest of us peons have heard that in 2004 both candidates for the White House were members of Yale University's secretive Skull and Bones society, many of whose members have risen to powerful positions. But Skull and Bones is small potatoes compared with the mysterious cabals that occupy virtually every seat of power, from the corridors of government to the boardrooms of Wall Street.

Take the Illuminati, a sect said to have originated in 18th century Germany and which is allegedly responsible for the pyramid-and-eye symbol adorning the $1 bill: they intend to foment world wars to strengthen the argument for the creation of a worldwide government (which would, of course, be Satanic in nature). Or consider the Freemasons, who tout their group as the "oldest and largest worldwide fraternity" and boast alumni like George Washington. Some think that despite donating heaps of cash to charity, they're secretly plotting your undoing at Masonic temples across the world. Or maybe, some theorize, the guys pulling the strings aren't concealed in shadow at all. They might be the intelligentsia on the Council on Foreign Relations, a cadre of policy wonks who allegedly count their aims as publishing an erudite bimonthly journal and establishing a unified world government — not necessarily in that order.

Read "It's All a Plot."

The protesters stop traffic, blocking off ambulances and other vital services that can cost lives, besides threatening Jews with genocide.

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I posted about my mom's health before, but recently it's become even more worrying, physically and mentally. Please keep her in your prayers, thank you.

Pray that Christians take a More Compassionate & Gracious approach (like XXXchurch | Find Freedom from Pornography Addiction Christian ministry ) to fighting inappropriate public sex-related activities, festivals & celebrations:

The fate of Korea's 'first and biggest' sex festival

Are there any Christian Fallout fans out there?

I had made a post on reddit, I was ranting about aging. Anyways, this is what I got in return, won't show whole original post.

Sins which Spoil Christian Brotherhood and Civil Neighbourhood. (From John Bunyan's "Christian Behavior" 1674)​

Now then, before I go any farther, I will here take an occasion to touch a little upon those sins that are so rife in many professors in this day: and they are, covetousness, pride, and uncleanness. I would speak a word to them in this place, the rather because they are they which spoil both Christian brotherhood, and civil neighbourhood, in too great a measure.

First, of Covetousness.​

1. Covetousness: it is all one with desire; he that desires, covets, whether the thing he desires be evil or good. Wherefore that which is called coveting in Exodus 20:17 is called desire in Deuteronomy 5:21. As the apostle also saith, “I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet” (Rom 7:7). That is, I had not known lust to be a sin, unless the law had forbid it. Wherefore, though lawful desires are good (1Co 12:31), and to be commended, yet covetousness, as commonly understood, is to be fled from, and abhorred, as of the devil.

2. Covetousness, or evil desire: it is the first mover, and giveth to every sin its call, as I may say, both to move and act. As was said before, the apostle had not known sin, except the law had said, Thou shalt not desire or covet; for where there is no desire to sin, there appears no sin.

3. Therefore covetousness carrieth in it every sin—we speak of sins against the second table—even as a serpent carrieth her young ones in her belly. This the Scripture affirms, where it saith, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s” (Exo 20:17). Covetousness will meddle with anything.

Now, there are in my mind at present these eight notes of covetousness, which hinder good works, and a Christian conversation among men, wherever they are harboured.

(1.) When men to whom God hath given a comfortable livelihood are yet not content therewith. This is against the apostle where he saith, “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Heb 13:5).

(2.) It is covetousness in the seller that puts him to say of his traffic, it is better than it is, that he may heighten the price of it; and covetousness in the buyer that prompts him to say worse of a thing than he thinks in his conscience it is, and that for an abatement of a reasonable price. This is that which the apostle forbids under the name of defraud (1Co 6:8), and that which Solomon condemns (Pro 20:14).

(3.) It is through covetousness that men think much of that which goeth beside their own mouth, though possibly it goeth to those that have more need than themselves, and also that better deserve it than they.

(4.) It argueth covetousness when men will deprive themselves and those under them of the privileges of the gospel for more of this world, and is condemned by Christ (Luk 14:18-20).

(5.) It argueth covetousness when men that have it can go by, or hear of the poor, and shut up their bowels and compassions from them (1Joh 3:17).

(6.) Also when men are convinced it is their duty to communicate to such and such that have need, yet they defer it; and if not quite forget it, yet linger away the time as being loth to distribute to the necessities of those in want. This is forbidden by the Holy Ghost: “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it” (Pro 3:27). Now, it is due from thee to the poor by the commandment of God if they want and thou hast it. “Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee” (Pro 3: 28).

(7.) It argueth a greedy mind also when, after men have cast in their minds what to give, they then from that will be pinching and clipping, and taking away; whereas the Holy Ghost saith, “Every man according as he purposeth in his
heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver” (2Co 9:7).

(8.) And lastly, it argueth a filthy greedy heart also when a man, after he hath done any good, then in his heart to repent and secretly wish that he had not so done, or at least, that he had not done so much: this is to be weary of well-doing; (I speak now of communicating,) and carrieth in it two evils. First, it spoileth the work done. And, secondly, it, if entertained, spoileth the heart for doing any more so. “The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful,” for “the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand” (Isa 32:5, 8).

Now then, to dissuade all from this poisonous sin, observe that above all sins in the New Testament, this is called idolatry (Eph 5:5; Col 3:5). And therefore God’s people should be so far from being taken with it that they should be much afraid of the naming of it one among another, lest it should, as adulterous thoughts, infect the heart by the talking of it (Eph 5:3).

Question​

But why is covetousness called idolatry?

Answer​

1. Because it engageth the very heart of man in it to mind earthly things. It gets our love, which should be set on God, and sets it upon poor empty creatures. It puts our affections out of heaven, where they should be, and sets them on earth, where they should not be (Eze 33:31; Phi 3:18-19; Col 3:1-3). Thus it changeth the object on which the heart should be set and setteth it on that on which it should not. It makes a man forsake God, “the fountain of living waters,” and causeth him to hew to himself “cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water” (Jer 2:13).

For, 2. it rejecteth the care, government, and providence of God towards us, and causeth us to make of our care and industry a god to whom, instead of God, we fly continually, both for the keeping what we have and for getting more. This was Israel’s idolatry of old, and the original of all her idolatrous practices. “For their mother hath played the harlot,” that is, committed idolatry: “she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that gave me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink” (Hos 2:5).

3. It disalloweth of God’s way of disposing His creatures, and would have them ordered and disposed of otherwise than His heavenly wisdom seemeth meet; and hence ariseth all discontents about God’s dealing with us. Covetousness never yet said, It is the Lord; let him do what he pleaseth; but is ever objecting, like a god, against everything that goeth against it. And it is that which, like a god, draweth away the heart and soul from the true God and His Son Jesus Christ. “He went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions” (Mat 19:22). Now then, that which engageth the heart, that rejecteth the providence of God, and that is for ordering and disposing of things contrary to God, and for breaking with God upon these terms, is idolatry; and all these do covetousness. “The wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth” (Psa 10:3). Now the way to remedy this disease is to learn the lesson which Paul had got by heart, to wit, “In whatsoever state” you are, “therewith to be content” (Phi 4:11).

Second, of Pride.​

I come in the second place to speak a word of pride, and loftiness of heart and life.

1. Pride, in general, it is that which causeth a man to think of man and his things above what is written (1Cor 4:6).

2. It hath its seat in the heart among these enormities: fornications, adulteries, lasciviousness, murders, deceit, and so forth (Mar 7:21-23), and showeth itself in these following particulars:

(1.) When you slight this or that person, though gracious—that is, look over them and shun them for their poverty in this world—and choose rather to have converse with others that possibly are less gracious because of their greatness in this world. This the Apostle James writes against (Jam 2:1-3), under the name of partiality; for indeed the fruits of a puffed-up heart is to deal in this manner with Christians (1Co 4:6-7). Now this branch of pride floweth from ignorance of the vanity of the creature and of the worth of a gracious heart. Wherefore get more of the knowledge of these two, and this sprig will be nipped in the head, and you will learn to condescend to men of low degree (Rom 12:16).

(2.) It argues pride of heart when men will not deny themselves in things that they may for the good and profit of their neighbours. And it argueth now that pride has got so much up into self-love and self-pleasing that they little care who they grieve or offend, so they may have their way (Oba 12-15).

(3.) It argueth pride of heart when sober reproofs for sin and unbeseeming carriages will not down with thee, but that rather thou snuffest, and givest way to thy spirit to be peevish, and to retain prejudice against those that thus reprove thee. Saith the prophet, “Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken”; that is, hear the reproofs of God for your sins, and break them off by repentance—“But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride” (Jer 13:15, 17). So also in Hosea: “They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not know the LORD. And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face” (Hos 5:4-5). This argueth great senselessness of God, and a heart greatly out of frame.

(4.) It argueth pride also, when a reproof or admonition will not down as well from the poorest saint as from the greatest doctor; and it argueth a glory in men (1Co 3:21), and that they would that their faith should stand in their wisdom and not in the “power of God,” that is, of naked truth (1Co 2:5).

(5.) It argueth pride of heart when a man that hath this or that in his heart to do in reference to God, but yet will slight a sober asking counsel and direction of God in this matter: “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God,” saith David (Psa 10:4).

(6.) It argueth pride of heart when persons are tickled with thoughts of their own praise, that secretly lust after it, that think of themselves and others above what is written; which those do who do not acknowledge that man in his best
estate is altogether vanity (Psa 39:5). But such kind of people have forgot the exhortation, “Be not highminded, but fear” (Rom 11:20). And also, that there is a knowledge that puffeth up, and edifieth neither themselves nor others (1Co 8:1-2). Wherefore, to such the apostle saith, Be not “desirous of vain glory,” “but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves” (Gal 5:26; Phi 2:3).

Pride also there is in outward carriage, behaviour, and gesture, which is odious for Christians to be tainted with; and this pride is discovered by mincing words, a made carriage, and an affecting the toys and baubles that Satan and every lightheaded fool bringeth into the world. As God speaketh of the daughters of Zion, they “walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes…mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet” (Isa 3:16). A very unhandsome carriage for a people that profess godliness, and that use to come before God to confess their sins, and to bemoan themselves for what they have done. How can a sense of thy own baseness, of the vileness of thy heart, and of the holiness of God, stand with such a carriage? Dost thou see the vileness of thy heart, the fruit of sin? And art thou afflicted with that disagreement that is between God and thy heart, that layest the reins on the neck of thy lusts, and lettest them run whither they will? Be not deceived; pride ariseth from ignorance of these things (1Ti 6:3-4). A sense of my vileness, of what I have deserved, and of what continually in my heart opposeth God, cannot stand with a foolish, light, and wanton carriage: thou wilt then see there are other things to mind than to imitate the butterfly. Alas, all these kind of things are but a painting the devil, and a setting a carnal gloss upon a castle of his. Thou art but making gay the spider: is thy heart ever the sounder for thy fine gait, thy mincing words, and thy lofty looks? Nay, doth not this argue that thy heart is a rotten, cankered, and besotted heart? Oh! That God would but let thee see a little of thy own inside as thou hast others to behold thy outside. Thou painted sepulchre, thou whited wall, will these things be found virtues in the day of God? Or, is this the way that thou takest to mortify sin? “An high look, and a proud heart, the plowing of the wicked, is sin” (Pro 21:4). Pride is the ringleader of the seven abominations that the wise man nameth (Pro 6:16-17), and is that above all that causeth to fall into the condemnation of the devil (1Ti 3:6).

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Yet now Iran may have jumped the shark by attacking the Israeli homeland for the first time. It is learning that it has almost no sympathetic allies.

Does even the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon really want to take revenge against Israel on behalf of Persian Iran, only to see its Shiite neighborhoods in Lebanon reduced to rubble?

Do all the pro-Hamas protesters on American campuses and in the streets really want to show Americans that they celebrate Iranian attacks and a potential Iranian war against the United States?
Does Iran really believe 99% of any future Israel barrage against Iranian targets would fail to hit targets in the fashion that its own recent launches failed?
Does Iran really believe that its sheer incompetence in attacking Israel warrants it a pardon—as if it should be excused for trying, but not succeeding, to kill thousands of Jews?
In sum, by unleashing a terrorist war in the Middle East and targeting the Israeli homeland, Iran may wake up soon and learn that Israel, or America, or both, might retaliate for a half-century of its terrorist aggression—and mostly to the indifference or even the delight of most of the world.

An ex-school cop is on the run after allegedly gunning down his ex-wife and his 17-year-old girlfriend in Washington state – on the same day he was due to face court on child rape charges.

Police are frantically hunting for Elias Huizar, 39 – who they say is “armed” and “likely to commit more crimes” – after he was accused of carrying out the double slaying on Monday and then fleeing, possibly to Mexico, with his 1-year-old son, the Washington State Patrol said.

His relationship with the teen girl is one of the two child rape charges he was due in court for on Monday, the Tri-City Herald reported.

Huizar was arrested Feb. 3 after his girlfriend reported him to cops for allegedly raping her unconscious 16-year-old friend after a night of drinking at his home.

Meanwhile, the alleged slaying of his ex-wife unfolded just days after she filed to change the custody arrangements of the two kids they share, ages 5 and 9, according to court documents obtained by the local outlet.

I've recently decided that enough is enough and decided to get weight loss surgery. At my latest weigh in a few weeks ago I weighed almost 440 pounds and I'm not that tall of a person. I am huge and I'm sick of needing a cane everywhere I go and not being able to walk very far and I've pretty much exhausted all other options at this point. The only thing I haven't tried are the weight loss injections but my insurance won't pay for them and they're over $1,000 a month so that's an option that I cannot use anymore. My insurance will however, cover weight loss surgery and I've decided on getting the Lap Band surgery. I've been to the consultation already and I know there is a chance that I not make it alive through the surgery but I am turning 38 in a month and I'm not an morbidly obese 24 year old anymore. I don't want to die when I'm in my 40's I'd like to make it at least until my mid 60's or maybe even 70s/80s if I can push it.

So that being said I am getting the surgery in a few months, normally I would post for prayers a few days or weeks before surgery (And I probably will make another topic closer to my surgery) but my surgery may get bumped up anyway and I was looking for support and prayers on this. Has anyone ever gotten weight loss surgery before and it been successful? I really don't want to go under the knife unless I 1. Have to and 2. Have God to guide me through this so that I can be a success. I've always told myself that my goal is 250-300 lbs but if I get weight loss surgery I can maybe get down to 180 pounds and get a majority of my health risks taken care of. Instead of rolling the dice every year and seeing what medical condition I have this time. The last time it was life threatening blood clots I can't even imagine what would come next. I just... don't want to think about it. Going under the knife is a good idea...

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Americans overwhelmingly supported Ukraine—as they did with Israel after Oct. 7. No wonder: Ukraine was surprise-attacked by Russia, and Israel was by Hamas.
It seemed an easy binary of good versus evil: Both the attacked Ukraine and Israel are pro-Western. Both their attackers, anti-Western Russia and Hamas, are not.
Now everything is bifurcating. And the politics of the wars in America reflect incoherence.
Both Ukraine and Israel are portrayed in the media as supposedly bogging down in their counteroffensives.
More pro-Israel Republicans are troubled by Ukraine’s strategy, or lack thereof, in an increasing World War I Somme-like stalemate.
Yet more pro-Ukrainian Democrats are turning away from Israel as it dismantles Gaza in the messy, bloody slog against Hamas. The Left claims either Israel cannot or should not defeat Hamas, or at least at the present cost.

So the Left pushes Israel to a cease-fire with Hamas.
It blasts Israeli “disproportionate” responses.
It demands that Israel avoid collateral damage.
It pressures it to form a wartime bipartisan government.
It lobbies to cut it off from American resupply.
It is terrified that Israel will expand the war by responding to aggression from Hezbollah and Iran.
Yet on Ukraine, the Left oddly pivots to the very opposite agenda.
It believes Ukraine should not be forced to make peace with Russian “fascists.” It must become disproportionate to “win” the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deserves a pass, despite canceling elections while suspending political parties.
America must step up its resupply to Kyiv with more and far deadlier weapons.
Ukraine has a perfect right to hit targets inside Russia.
Russian threats to widen the war should be considered empty and thus ignored. America should hate Russia far more than Hamas.

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Pray The Holy Spirit ferociously protects all Jews Against all forms & shapes of antisemitism that is manifesting on campuses of Universities in Western nations:

Mass arrests made as US campus protests over Gaza spread

“You’re not entitled to make threats against people, and that’s why the president of Columbia needs to resign immediately,” Lawler said on “The Hill.” “She has failed in her obligation — her primary responsibility to ensure the safety and the well-being of students on that campus.”

Biden should order federal troops in for the safety of Jewish students.

So, @essentialsaltes posted a few months ago how the Voyager 1 probe had a computer issue. Now, that issue has been fixed. Seems that the old probe just wants to keep on trucking. And yes, the 22 hours 30 minutes it takes for a signal to reach Voyager 1 are converted into days (0.94 days) for your convenience: Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe


Short summary of the open-access article by The Guardian (<20% in length, for fair usage reasons):

In an article published on April 23, 2024, by The Guardian's Oliver Holmes, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the most distant human-made object in space, has started communicating properly again with NASA after engineers worked for months to remotely fix a problem with one of its onboard computers. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 was initially designed for a five-year mission to study Jupiter and Saturn but has continued operating for over four decades. It became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space in 2012 and is currently traveling at 37,800 mph (60,821 km/h).

The recent problem was related to a faulty computer chip, and the team had to move corrupted code elsewhere, a challenging process considering the old technology used by Voyager 1. Despite this issue, the spacecraft has continued operating normally and has made numerous scientific discoveries throughout its journey, including detailed recordings of Saturn, the discovery of Jupiter's rings, and the identification of active volcanism on one of Jupiter's moons. With limited solar power due to their distance from the sun, Voyager 1 and its sister probe, Voyager 2, rely on the natural radioactive decay of Pu to generate electricity. In about 40K years, both probes will approach relatively close to two stars: Voyager 1 to a star in Ursa Minor and Voyager 2 to Ross 248 in Andromeda.

Edited 4/26/24: I meant to say 40,000 years, not 4,000 years

Hello all from close and far away.

I'm brand new to this community but not the faith. I have been a Jesus follower and believer for many years and like to focus on prayer and taking the opportunity to talk to God daily, sometimes hourly.

I have created an online prayer community that I share with the world at www.iprayedforyou.com. There is no debate, no forum, no real discussion. Just asking for prayer and praying for others. I do hope you will come visit the site, say a prayer or two and ask for prayer. Prayer changes lives!

I'm looking forward to getting to know everybody here, learning and exchanging ideas.

Be Blessed!
Chris

Since she has, she clearly needs to go — and that can only be the start of rooting out the antisemitic radicalism infesting the school.
Note that the “protesters” have only grown worse these last few days: They’re now openly pro-Hamas, and telling campus Jews that they’ll be next.

We cannot allow another 1930s Germany here in America.

I have reason to believe the silence in heaven that comes after the Lamb opens the seventh seal is the Time of Jacob’s Distress, as mentioned in the Olivet Discourse.

“When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” - Revelation 8:1, NASB1995

“And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able.” - 1 Enoch 5:108

The twelve hours in Enoch’s parable equates the the seventy years of exile between Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus the Great. If twelve hours equals seventy years, then silence in heaven for about half an hour equates to about three years.

This could possibly point to the tribulation (1290 days). Several times in Enoch’s parable, the Lord remained silent while the sheep were slaughtered by wild beasts.

“And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them and they did not save them out of the hand of the beasts.” - 1 Enoch 5:111

So much is packed into that one tiny verse, “There was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” This is the time of Jacob’s trouble. This is the time that two-thirds of Judah and Jerusalem are killed and the remaining third is refined. Daniel 12:1 refers to this as the time Michael stands still and no longer holds back the lawless one that Paul mentioned in 2 Thessalonians, the false messiah.

Buechler said protesters had called for violence, expressed support for terrorism, and claimed they were members of Hamas, according to the Jerusalem Post. He also said protesters had expressed desires for future acts of violence to mirror the Oct. 7 attacks from Hamas against Israel.




Democratic Party leaders need to step forward and actively and forcefully start condemning attacks against any race or religion.

Time for some historic martyrs- I was reading John Calvin's letters last night and came across them- if Calvin had never wrote his letters to them perhaps we'd never know about them.

The 5 young men had just finished studying in Geneva- and were still willing to return to France which had a king very hostile to Protestants.

They were no doubt warned and spent the last few days in Geneva- possibly with Calvin.

Just as he touchingly signed his letters I'm sure he said to them on leaving "Adieu Adieu my brothers"

When the martyrs went to France they were transferred from dungeon to dungeon for 12 months (no doubt having their blessed memories of Geneva keeping them company) before having their execution ordered.

No doubt when John Calvin entered heaven himself he saw the martyrs and got to say "Bonjour Bonjour my brothers"