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    Individuals interest me, and oddly so does solitude. My creator and savior just astounds me!

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  1. Hi, Can you trust in God enough to do nothing? Really do nothing, but trust in God.
  2. Oh there have always been dangerous places to be. Why in 1957 Gov. Foster Furculo of Massachusetts called up the State militia and put a curfew on our town. I walked into downtown as a kid and there were uniformed armed guardsmen with fixed bayonets standing at the 5 and 10 store entry. Gangs had been terrorizing the community to such an extent the guard had been activated. There really is no hiding away from hard times people today. Every place whether city or rural has people that are hurting, lost, and wandering. All while some celebrate receiving $700,000,000 contracts for 10 years of playing baseball. There is plenty of money to go around- it just doesn't go.
  3. I do think most of us grew up in an environment of tobacco and alcohol usage. I had my own bedside ashtray at age eleven the age my father said I had to stop bumming his cigarettes and buy my own. Alcohol consumption is what got me through the boredom of seventh grade on through primary school years afterward. I have not used tobacco and I do not consume alcohol ever since the day the Holy Spirit turned me about to see Yeshua is my Lord, God, and my personal savior. I just no longer was a smoker of tobacco nor a drinker of alcohol. I do not think of it as a rule of some kind that I cannot do either, but I do see it as a real gift from the Holy Spirit. Ha I just had the thought that if 72 is the full age of man and I am 80 perhaps the extra years are not reward at all but a suffering away from the full time presence before my Lord, a type of purgatory - to be absent from the body being to be present with the Lord. Oh oh did I just introduce purgatory into the topic? Shame on me.
  4. Today's WORLD OF FRANCHISE FOOD IS PRETTY AWFUL, whether drive through walk up or sit down it is almost all prepared at some franchise headquarters in Indiana and trucked around the country in bladders to be reheated and served up. Um um good, NOT! I used to redistribute left over bladders of food to group homes along with massive numbers of bread loafs from a different franchise. Got so I felt ill from the aroma of all that bread while I was confined in that van, and couldn't stand to look at a kettle of any kind of seafood mix or shrimp.
  5. Ah, but that is not a drive THRU! It is evidently what I did experience the Drive Up where some lady would roll up on roller skates take an order and then bring it out on a tray that clipped onto a vehicle window. Then when through eating the same lady would roll up and take the empty tray away. Prior to those days Howard Johnson had a walk up window selling mostly beans, ice Cream, and fried clams. The first drive thru that I experienced was the very early Taco Bell at Costa Mesa California, McD at Anaheim was just a drive up with a window only as I remember the place, I don't recall driving thru it. Sometimes I had the extra 3 cents to have cheese on my burger there. That would have been about 1959-60.
  6. BUT, if all is joy will it be appreciated? Joy is much appreciated in a world of hurts and despair. Practical example: if every swing of a golf club results in a hole in one how long does one enjoy playing the game? Everybody's score is 18. No winners, no losers, no shanking a single ball.
  7. One man's utopia might be another's hell on earth. Part of my income came from knowledge of security needs of others, my talents with locks, security systems. I kinda liked when work involved "all hazards" preparations including hard wiring surveillance cameras electronic door locks and alarms.
  8. But is that reason or justification to ban the work of other individuals? seems to me it is not, and instead it is vital to a strong free and open society to allow even the most boring of "home movies" to be produced and offered for view. Let critics be critics, but not be censors.
  9. Both Rand pul and Robert F. Kennedy have spoken out against a Tik Tok ban. There are videos of their fuller commentary available; but for here are the following excerpts: “TikTok is banned in China,” Paul said. “We’re thinking – or people who want to ban it are thinking – Wow, we’re going to really defeat the Chinese communists, by becoming Chinese authoritarians and banning it in our country? TikTok is banned in China. So, we’re going to emulate the Chinese communists by banning it in our country?” “It makes no sense whatsoever,” - Rand Paul And From Robert Kennedy Jr. this excerpt of a good short video "I want you to remember that every right the government has ever taken away from citizens was removed under the pretense of national security. My father's favorite philosopher, Albert Camus, wrote, "The welfare of the people is always the alibi of tyrants." And it provides further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a clear conscience. Remember that when Congress gives Joe Biden the power to remove an app from your cell phone. Ironically, Joe Biden himself just joined TikTok. People love TikTok, it's the digital public square. If there are security concerns in the tech backend, let's address them there, but let us never reduce Americans' ability to freely exchange ideas. TikTok has become an avenue for young Americans to grow businesses, express themselves, and to join the political discourse."
  10. Hi, I kinda think stress along with an adrenalin response is a good thing, speeds the mind up as well as the body when needed most. I kinda think mellow is not a thing to want to attain as much as is the capacity to outpace the competition, whatever it may be. Run the race as though to win it and don't look back.
  11. Ever watch those whose minds have been "cleared"? They get paraded, actually herded, by their masters as each strives to be abled to get the clear-est reading on the "e meter".
  12. To that end armoring up on the full word of God is vital to good progress, preparing not only for the moment but every moment to come..
  13. Hi, While I agree that being anxious is of no value, I do think that "playing chess" one move at a time is a losing proposition too! To play at the game of life without planning ahead is to lose the game from the get go. Planning also defeats worrying.
  14. And it is underway now at every State and Wdc. Every ballot will have a viable third choice listed by name. You can follow and even participate in the progress toward that end. If you are interested in doing so, "Welcome aboard!"
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