The Freebird🇺🇸

Freedom lover and Chief of the Nest. #2ndamendment #knowledge is power. #Christian

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

Passion of The Christ🇻🇦🩸

“Mel Gibson warned actor Jim Caviezel that playing the character of Christ was going to be very difficult and that if he accepted, he most likely would be marginalized by Hollywood.

Caviezel asked for a day to think about it and his response to Mel who was funding and directing the movie was: "I think we have to make it, even if it is difficult." And something else, my initials are J.C., and I am 33 years old. "I didn't realize that until now."
Mel responded with “You're really scaring me you know.”

During filming, Jim Caviezel who plays the part of Jesus lost 45 pounds, he was struck by lightning, he was accidentally struck twice during the scourging scene leaving a deep 14-inch scar, he dislocated his shoulder when the cross was dropped into the hole with him on the cross. He then suffered pneumonia and hypothermia from being nearly naked with only a loin cloth on the cross for endless hours. The crucifixion scene alone took 5 weeks of the 2 months of shooting.

His body was so stressed and exhausted from playing the role that he had to undergo two open heart surgeries after the filming production.

Jim explained, “I didn’t want people to see me. I just want them to see Jesus. Conversions will happen through that.”

Almost like a clairvoyant prediction many amazing things happened.

Pedro Sarubbi, who played Barabbas, felt that it was not Caviezel who was looking at him, but Jesus Christ himself, as he played that role he said of Caviezel, “His eyes had no hatred or resentment towards me, only mercy and love."

Luca Lionello, the artist who played Judas, was an avowed atheist before shooting began. He eventually converted, and baptized his children.

One of the main technicians working on the film was a Muslim converted to Christianity.

Some producers said they saw actors dressed in white they didn’t recognize during one of the filming sessions, and when they reviewed the recordings they realized they couldn’t see them in that footage.

The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing US religious as well as the highest R-rated film of all time, with $370.8 million! Worldwide, it grossed $611 million.

More importantly, it has reached 100’s of millions of people around the world.

Mel Gibson paid $30 million out of his own pocket for the production of the film because no studio would take on the project.

Today Jim Caviezel simply and boldly proclaims his faith in Christ, and the miracle it was for him to represent Christ as an actor and a greater believer of Christ because of this experience.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” - John 3:16 ✝️

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Go to church.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

“It is finished.”

Christ’s last words are a reminder that he made the ultimate sacrifice and died for our sins on the Cross so that we could have eternal life with God. Today we remember and honor that sacrifice.

Have a Blessed Good Friday ✝️

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

1964, the last year silver was in our coins. Quarters and dimes pre-1965 were 90% silver, 10% copper.

1964 Median Family Income: $6,600.
Price of silver was $1.29 per oz. So the median family income was 5,116 oz of silver per year.

At $100 per oz, that is $511,600 per year.

Even if you go back to 2024 silver prices, the average was $25 per oz, which would have been $127,900 for 5,116 oz of silver. Actual median family income for 2024 was $83,000.

If you wonder why a family needs two incomes to survive now, it is because the govt removed silver from the coins and removed the US dollar from the gold standard (1971).

Those decisions enabled Congress to start running up massive debts and enabled the Fed to start manipulating interest rates and the currency to finance it all.

This is history repeating itself. As the Romans reduced the silver content of their money supply, their empire declined.

[The Freebird🇺🇸 @VigilantStay]

@DrinkAriZona Use cane sugar instead of poison high fructose corn syrup and then this will be true

[DG🎭 @DanielGilr44222]

Listen To What Mel Gibson Says.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Funny but sad

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Alex Jones's inspirational rant

[Gabe Pluguez @Gabepluguez]

Most Americans eat 50-80g protein daily. That's just the minimum to not die.

If you want to lose fat, build muscle, and actually live well:

0.7g per pound of bodyweight if you're heavier.
1g per pound if you're leaner.

Your goal is not just to not die.

[Hitchslap @Hitchslap1]

We may be there already.

[Dear God @TheRich_Gospel]

Thankyou, God.

[The Freebird🇺🇸 @VigilantStay]

@MAGAVoice @DMashak Amen 🙏

[Organic Live Food @OrganicLiveFood]

Government and corporations can't profit from self sufficient people 👇

Be A Rebel, Grow Your Own Food.

Grandma survived the great depression because her food supply was local and she knew how to do stuff, it only took two generations to wipe out those skillsets

[The Freebird🇺🇸 @VigilantStay]

Smoking, obesity and Chesterton’s fence - American Thinker https://t.co/VgErSGIndn

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Late in the afternoon of August 19, 1745, at Glenfinnan, in the western Scottish Highlands, William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine stood before about 900 cheering Highlanders and drove a pole into the ground, atop of which flew a flag with a with square on a red background. Once the flag was hoisted, Charles Edward Stuart stepped forward and read a proclamation, declaring his father James to be King of England and Scotland. The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 (or just “the ‘45” as it would be popularly remembered) was on.

James was the exiled son of King James II of England and VII of Scotland, who had been deposed by the Glorious Revolution, which put Protestant William of Orange on the throne. Jacobites (so called because of their loyalty to James, Jacobus in Latin) insisted that the Stuarts remained the rightful, God-ordained heirs to the crown. After a failed Jacobite uprising in 1715, James had retreated to Rome, where he lived under papal protection surrounded by a “court in exile.” There his son Charles was born in December 1720. Twenty-four and a half years later, with French assistance, Charles and a handful of followers landed on the rugged coast of the Scottish Highlands, intent on reclaiming the throne for his father.

The ceremony on August 19 was called “raising the royal standard,” evoking an ancient practice—the raising of the king’s personal banner in times of public emergency as a call summoning all able-bodied males to come with their arms and rally to the flag. Because Charles didn’t actually have a bona fide royal standard on him, some of the ladies of Clan MacDonald on Loch Shiel had hastily created one for him. It was under that flag that “Bonnie Prince Charlie” read his father’s proclamation (translated from English into Scots Gaelic as he read, for the benefit of his audience). By the end of the day some 1,200 Highlanders had answered the call and with them Charles marched on Edinburgh.

Charles and his army swept across Scotland, gathering strength, then crossed into England, eventually coming to within 130 miles of London. But the people of England did not rise in favor of the Jacobites, as Charles had hoped, and the French assistance he had counted on never materialized. With the forces of George II growing ever stronger and preparing to attack, Charles and his army (over his objections) retreated back into Scotland. There they were soundly defeated at the Battle of Culloden, permanently ending the Jacobite threat.

Charles escaped to the continent and lived out the rest of life dissolutely, dying in Rome in 1788 at age 67.

Charles Stuart raised the royal standard at Glenfinnan, commencing the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.

© A Daily Dose of History

#archaeohistories

[Hamilton 🇺🇸 @Watchman_motto]

Listen to my words. I’ve been an HVAC mechanic for a long time. What I’m seeing now VS even ten years ago is a crime. Parts are trash, equipment is too.

It was bad during Covid, everything was shut down, it was understandable. But it’s worse now.

I get a new part, I cross my fingers that it’s going to work.

75% of the calls I get are on equipment 5yrs old or less.

Engineers have stuffed so much superfluous electronics and sensitive parts into these units, supposedly for efficiency, that constantly fail.

We’re now mandated to use a new refrigerant, meaning the old equipment is not available any more, and the cost per pound for the new stuff is more than double.

If you have one of these old girls at your house, you better hope and pray your compressor stays ok because this is a tank and will run forever. There are 4 parts in this unit. A fan, a capacitor, a contactor, and a compressor. I can get any of these parts (minus the compressor) off any shelf in town. In fact, I carry replacement parts for this unit on my truck.

The new unit? Idk how long it might take to get your specific motor or circuit board, or whatever.

This is largely due to offshoring and regulation.

The parts and equipment are made by corporations, where every person from the janitor to the chairman of the board is an employee drawing a check. The CEO only cares if this quarter’s sales are good. If the company goes under, who cares, he moves on to another CEO job somewhere else.

And the regulations? The theory is that we can and should make things more energy efficient. Great, except that the steps it takes to make something energy efficient also make it fragile. Now you can expect to see a service guy every year or two.

Just one of the many symptoms of a broken system. A degenerate age. A dying civilization.

I’m doing my best on my side of things, but something must be done. It’s a fucking shame that we can’t make anything of quality any more. Greed and corruption on every level.