Oh my. But I’m sure there are Christians who won’t find fault with any of this.

I met somebody (Ken) in one date app and since the first time I knew I was not attracted to him as a man since he appeared taller in his profile and was older than in looked in his pictures, without mentioning his intense personality…

I should have listened to the red flags in both of us from the beginning, but I chose to ignore them apparently, like “I miss you” after the first time he took me to dinner.

After some weeks he invited me to a “friendly” Valentines dinner with my mother whom I take care of after her hip replacement surgery. He said he wanted to make it easier for me due to the fact that she is my priority for this time of my life and until she heals better and/or decides to go back to her country.

He felt in love with my mom and we both saw him as a generous soul that God had put in our path. That night due to his smoking I did realize but my nose started to react and I almost fainted of not being able to breath… he took us to his house being so near to that restaurant and took care of me giving me hot tea and some medication for allergies. We grew fond of his friendship inviting him over to our place for a home-made dinner on a later date. He was utterly happy, and my mom and I felt we reciprocated his attentions.

By March he invited me to dinner again and wanted to include my mom as well for me to feel more comfortable. I was already having some dates every 15 days with other people without any good results, so I took his invitations as friendship with a very sociable and nice man who several times cooked for us in his home, introducing us to his adult kids. We both are 53 y.o.

In April I lost my job and didn’t want to tell him, but my mom’s eye surgery was confirmed and I had to take her to the hospital due to the urgency of the procedure. He insisted on paying for it and I totally denied it arguing that the same hospital suggested me to request financial aid due to a hardship. I did so and I received it, but he paid for the rest without me knowing it and I was a bit mad but then had to be thankful assuring him that one way or another I would be able to pay him back whenever I recover from the financial situation.

After my mom’s recovery in a couple of weeks, she suggested inviting him again to have dinner over. There is when he asked me to explore the possibility of a relationship and I was certainly not excited since after coming back from the conference, I sort of rekindled another relationship with a out-of the country prospect, Clark. (I have to say that after losing my job I strongly considered moving back to Europe)

In June I went to Europe for work and Ken insisted on visiting the place and events I went, and I denied it since there was a strong possibility to finally meet Clark to consider our future possibilities. Before leaving Ken asked me if I was ready for an exclusive relationship with someone and I told him no, but I made the mistake of continuing in touch with him just to not make him feel used and left or discarded. I propose him to give us a break until my come back and he refused. I went to Europe met Clark for a brief lunch at near the train station on his was back home from some business meeting a near city and I felt I would love to explore a life with him but had to wait until the end of September to see him again in my country of residence but he started being too distant and almost stop conversations, video calls, etc. in spite of giving me an exact date of arrival here. I texted him and he said he is dealing with too much related to his last daughter about to leave to university and that after that would announce his “girlfriend” mood with me.

In the meantime, Ken stayed in Europe attending the events and I had to eventually introduce him as potential investor/entrepreneur to some of my key contacts in order to make this easier of everyone and not have to explain too much around my people. They accepted him and even invited him to the next events, and he proposed to in fact make some investments in the company, I was speechless.

At this point, my key contact tried to convince me that I should consider giving him a chance since his behavior towards me was more than obvious showing a genuine interest and that I should stop being mean to him, which I never thought I was. I sort of accepted and stayed with him his last days visiting different venues and receptions belonging to my work field. Unfortunately, in one of them he made a jealousy scene, and we fought until his return short after. I had to stay one more week attending to some other events and conferences.

Back in the country he proposed me to have an exclusive relationship which I tried to explore, overlooking his intense character and jealous nature.

By July he proposed us to move to his enormous house so I should stop paying rent and save for a better financial situation as well as to buy my first house as a divorced single daughter to provide a better life for my mom and myself. I agreed at first thinking that we could make it work specially after the almost complete indifference of Clark, who would only text me as a reply but never as own initiative.

Few weeks ago, Ken and I spoke about my move, but I was still very doubtful. At that time to my surprise, I met Tom who I always wanted to meet by 2022 and who just popped up into my life. I didn’t want to have sex with him since I was as an “official situationship” with Ken. I was super confused but felt an incredible connection with Tom as I haven’t felt in a very long time. We texted some more times and all of the sudden a colleague invited me to a conference in another state and Ken insisted on taking me there with my mom. I didn’t want to go and even didn’t want him to join either. I have no idea why and how; he convinced me and then I accepted after he mentioning again his interest in investing on my contact, my siblings, etc. and making everybody’s life better.

I thought I should finally define this crazy situation and accepted to go with him. It was decent time always with his jealousy scenes when I bumped into several male colleagues from abroad and out of state who he considered hitting on my in a disrespectful way.

Back in town from the conference he made me a proposal to for one year cover all my debts, move into his big almost empty house, stop paying rent and focusing on my professional growth without going to work as much as I normally do for the last 20 years and just enjoying a better life until recovering, improving and helping him at home and as his current girlfriend.

I was very grateful for this offer, but I had to stress the fact that I was not romantically interested in him and if he would like to collaborate with me and key contacts in the field he was welcome but I could not promise him to grow in love with him after actually having tried for about 3 months already.

He was crushed and I felt the most evil and deceitful girl in the world. I tried to tell him that I didn’t want to feel as I am selling to someone and he said, “what is wrong with me to take over your life when you know that I love you more than my own life and would take a bullet for you?”

I was appalled and went back home crying. Next day he requested a “goodbye dinner” and for some reason after crying with my mom I ended up saying “Ok, ok we will move, since apparently it’s on me to save your face from your executives at the company, your kids, family and friends after you turning around your house to accommodate my mom and myself”

I felt super guilty and even worse when finding myself very interested in Tom with whom I had zero drama and lot of chemistry and apparently a promising relationship in the future.

I have found another job that seems promising to give me back my previous lifestyle in spite or Ken accusing me of having an employee mentality instead of an executive like him.

In conclusion:

1. I am not sure still if Tom would end up committing to a stable relationship. 2. No idea if Clark will end up coming to see me and what are his real intentions. 3. The fact that I “am playing ping pong with a high executive” as Ken told me, is killing me especially when I know this is taking a toll on his health.

I am so so confused and August is already here…

Video Resurfaces of Walz Declaring ‘One Person’s Socialism Is Another Person’s Neighborliness’​

Ok, so I was going to harvest some road kill. Fine.

But oops my steakhouse dinner went on too long so I'll dump the dead bear in Central Park and make it look like a cyclist killed it.

RFK Jr admits dumping bear carcass in New York's Central Park

As a Christian, all I can say is “Yikes!”

The way theories work is that a single contrary
fact can disprove it.

Many claim to "know" evolution is false. But no Nobel is awarded.

Does anyone have such disproof?
If not, how in good conscience can anyone say its false?

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Ye gods, what is wrong with the world..?


My wife and I have travelled to many places and we always take note of what the Australian Government says in regard to safety. But now we are being warned that going back to where we were brought up is to be considered dangerous.

What is wrong with the world? In what alternative universe could I ever imagine that I'd be warned about going back to, what in some senses, we call home? Or at least, used to be home. Not in Palestine or the Lebanon or Venezuela or Myanmar, but the United Kingdom.

And the fact that Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia, places where they've often been a concern regarding safety, have also issued their own travel alerts for the UK is...depressing.

It has been stated that the Bible is God, which, although not as heretical as it may sound, still raises questions about the depth of this belief among Protestants. For Catholics, such a statement is profoundly incorrect and would never be uttered, as they do not hold the belief that the Bible is God.

In my company, people bring in food often, and so it is likely to be noticed if I am not eating. I have tried fasting recently and people almost found out. I broke a fast prematurely, and the next morning there was a pancake breakfast which I partook of. Later that day, one of my coworkers asked me conversationally if I ate any of the breakfast. If I had prolonged my fast and not ate the breakfast, he would have found out just by asking me.

There are often carry in meal events, or food ordered in from restaurants. There is also a coworker who often buys a meal at Wendy's that I think may have 5 items, and she usually gives me her chicken nuggets because it is too much for her.

I am kind of struggling with what to tell these people if I decide to go on a fast. If there is food offered and they ask me about it, or the lady wants to give me chicken nuggets, I could just say, “This is a day where I am cutting back”. However if my boss orders a special meal that is delivered to the workplace, if I can't eat it, I may explain that I am fasting in order to not be rude, especially if I have been on the fast for a few days, where my digestive system would be overloaded by a normal meal if I don't break the fast properly.

Jesus instructed people not to share with others that they are fasting. However I don't only want to fast for spiritual purposes, but I am interested in the weight loss benefits. I could just explain to coworkers that I skip meals sometimes to lose weight, so that I avoid exalting myself in their eyes spiritually, and it is possible that some days of my fast may not be all that spiritual in nature, but more for the weight loss. I am still interested in the spiritual benefits too, though.

Something that I am uncomfortable with is that in American culture, where there seems to be a lot of misinformation that everyone has to have three meals a day, if people know that I am fasting or skipping meals, they might think that I have an eating disorder, when that is not necessarily true. I look relatively thin, and wearing a loose T-shirt, people can't easily notice the excess belly fat that has accumulated.

If the lady has extra chicken nuggets to give me from her meal at Wendy's, and I am fasting, I could tell her that I can put the nuggets in the freezer and eat them at a later time. Usually if I am not available to eat them, she will put them in the fridge, and the nuggets last for two or three days. However I am thinking of doing a much longer fast possibly where I can still drink juice.

I also want to mention that I have found it easy to give into temptation to break the fast after just about 2 days. If I can get past three days, than it kind of locks myself out from most food because a fast three days or longer is not healthy to break by eating processed food, bread, or meats, but only by eating some fruit or vegetables.

I could also explain to my coworkers the health benefits of fasting, such as the body removing damaged cellular material during a fast. I could also explain that I am trying to follow the example in nature, where an animal may build up fat reserves for migration or hibernation, and then, when they are not eating, their body consumes the fat reserves.

So I was supposed to begin my fast at 10am today however I had eaten an orange at 12am today.

Hello. My name is Decker. I've recently been looking at different paths and found the one for me. I'm not too smart but I can definitely participate in friendly discussion.

In my company, people bring in food often, and so it is likely to be noticed if I am not eating. I have tried fasting recently and people almost found out. I broke a fast prematurely, and the next morning there was a pancake breakfast which I partook of. Later that day, one of my coworkers asked me conversationally if I ate any of the breakfast. If I had prolonged my fast and not ate the breakfast, he would have found out just by asking me.

There are often carry in meal events, or food ordered in from restaurants. There is also a coworker who often buys a meal at Wendy's that I think may have 5 items, and she usually gives me her chicken nuggets because it is too much for her.

I am kind of struggling with what to tell these people if I decide to go on a fast. If there is food offered and they ask me about it, or the lady wants to give me chicken nuggets, I could just say, “This is a day where I am cutting back”. However if my boss orders a special meal that is delivered to the workplace, if I can't eat it, I may explain that I am fasting in order to not be rude, especially if I have been on the fast for a few days, where my digestive system would be overloaded by a normal meal if I don't break the fast properly.

Jesus instructed people not to share with others that they are fasting. However I don't only want to fast for spiritual purposes, but I am interested in the weight loss benefits. I could just explain to coworkers that I skip meals sometimes to lose weight, so that I avoid exalting myself in their eyes spiritually, and it is possible that some days of my fast may not be all that spiritual in nature, but more for the weight loss. I am still interested in the spiritual benefits too, though, to some extent.

Something that I am uncomfortable with is that in American culture, where there seems to be a lot of misinformation that everyone has to have three meals a day, if people know that I am fasting or skipping meals, they might think that I have an eating disorder, when that is not necessarily true. I look relatively thin, and wearing a loose T-shirt, people can't easily notice the excess belly fat that has accumulated.

If the lady has extra chicken nuggets to give me from her meal at Wendy's, and I am fasting, I could tell her that I can put the nuggets in the freezer and eat them at a later time. Usually if I am not available to eat them, she will put them in the fridge, and the nuggets last for two or three days. However I am thinking of doing a much longer fast possibly where I can still drink juice.

I also want to mention that I have found it easy to give into temptation to break the fast after just about 2 days. If I can get past three days, than it kind of locks myself out from most food because a fast three days or longer is not healthy to break by eating processed food, bread, or meats, but only by eating some fruit or vegetables.

I could also explain to my coworkers the health benefits of fasting, such as the body removing damaged cellular material during a fast. I could also explain that I am trying to follow the example in nature, where an animal may build up fat reserves for migration or hibernation, and then, when they are not eating, their body consumes the fat reserves.

Trump wrote in a subsequent all-caps post: “VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024, NOT TO MENTION THE PROBABILITY OF WORLD WAR lll IF THESE VERY STUPID PEOPLE REMAIN IN OFFICE. REMEMBER, TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!”
Indeed. The choice is yours.

Key findings from the report include data that show, between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, Border Patrol at the southwest border encountered aliens on the terrorist watchlist from 36 different countries, including places with an active terrorist presence such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.
It is my guess that they wait until after the election to attack because they don't want to hand Trump the election and then deal with him.

The reparations bill supported by Vice President Kamala Harris would set up an independent commission similar to the one in California that called for sweeping changes to the criminal code in addition to monetary payouts to black Americans.

The Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, which was reintroduced in April 2019 and cosponsored by then-senator Harris, would create a 13-member commission to “study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans.” The commission would then offer their recommendations for “remedies” to Congress.

Current laws that “continue to disproportionately and negatively affect African-Americans as a group, and those that perpetuate the lingering effects, materially and psycho-social,” could be on the chopping block as well, the bill reads. That provision is left vague. Specifics, the bill states, would be hashed out by individuals from “civil society and reparations organizations that have historically championed the cause of reparatory justice.”

Although the bill does not specify which federal laws could be slashed, a reparations task force in California may offer some clues. That task force concluded last year that longtime black residents were entitled to $1.2 million each, as well as recommended sweeping changes to the criminal code.

Among the changes recommended were decriminalizing public urination and letting those arrested for public indecency sue the state for damages. Fathers who are delinquent on their child support would see their debt wiped, and police would no longer be allowed to pull over cars with expired registration, tinted windows, or broken tail lights.

I have been thinking about this recently. How are we to understand it when Jesus says: "Only God (the Father) is good? Well, you might say: "Jesus doesn't actually say 'the Father'", but when we look at that Gospels Jesus always refer to the Father when he says "God".

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.
— Mark 10:17-18

And if so what's the wait for ? God could just snap his mighty fingers and boom all the evil people are erased out of existence I don't know why God simply won't do this.

But presidential candidate Harris enters the race with a significant challenge. As vice president, she cast a critical vote to break a tie in the Senate and allow the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to move forward toward a final vote. Had it not been for her vote, the bill might never have gotten to Biden’s desk for his signature.
Biden and Harris still tout this legislation as one of the centerpieces of their record. But the public isn’t buying it for good reason. Every time people buy gas or groceries, they are reminded that it was this ill-conceived legislation that jump-started runaway inflation.
One month after the ARP was signed into law, inflation increased to 4.2 percent. This came after the U.S. economy had had inflation under 3 percent for 111 consecutive months.

Groceries and rent--think of Kamala. And realize how extremely radical she is and that Joe was just the start.

Convicted felon Trump is so totally for sale.

I am good on calcium; I will be using dry milk powder for that. Vitamin D I can get that from a 30-minute walk in the sun.

Problem is bread goes bad fast, I will be needing a different source for my carbs and dietary fiber. Other problem is that fruits and vegetables also go bad quickly.
What foods will be good replacements for long term prepping?

So far, I found granola bars as a possible alternative to bread, but I haven't found anything really to help with the vitamins and minerals. I would prefer any food items with a long shelf life than a multi-vitamin. What are our options?

If it can at least last 1 month, rather than 1 week. I will prefer that over fresh fruits and vegetables.

*Last year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against Asphalt Paving Systems, Inc. (APS), alleging race-based discrimination and harassment of 12 Black employees and others.

JD Supra reported in 2023 that the EEOC claimed African American employees faced a hostile work environment at the company’s Florida location, including racial slurs and demeaning conditions, such as being denied breaks and restroom access.

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs were called the “N-word” and “boy”

“The allegations in this case are deeply disturbing and illustrate the unfortunate reality that, 60 years after Title VII was enacted, toxic racial discrimination still plagues many workplaces in Florida,” said EEOC Regional Attorney Robert E. Weisberg.

Frank Carillo was charged on Friday in federal court in Virginian with threatening the vice president after posting a series of messages targeting Harris on the social media site GETTR, according to court records.

“Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive I will do it personally if no one else does," read one post cited in court documents. Another said Harris is "going to regret ever trying to become president."

Student, 19, had converted one week prior.​

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in eastern Uganda burned his 19-year-old daughter with a flat iron on July 21 after learning that she had converted to Christianity, sources said.

Naasike Maliyati of Nampologoma, Butaleja District said she attended an evangelistic crusade with a friend in the course of a visit to her grandmother in Lwangoli, Busoba Sub-County, Mbale District, on July 15.

“When they called people to give their lives to Christ, I also went and prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,” Maliyati said. “When I went back home, I told my sister that I had left Islam. She went and told our dad of my conversion to Christianity.”

The following Sunday Maliyati, a student at Noor Islamic Institute in Mbale, attended a church service, and upon returning home found her father, 44-year-old Abdulrahim Kutosi, and uncles angry with her, she said.

“They tied me up, beat me, and finally my dad picked up a hot flat iron and hot water and burned me and shouted loudly that I was an embarrassment to the family,” Maliyati told Morning Star News. “I was burnt for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, as my father furiously continued shouting that I had ashamed the family. He continued saying that even Allah is annoyed with me as the pain continued inside my body.”

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Here’s 14 minutes of critique of Harris from Down Under.