Joe Caverly

Fanshawe College graduate, tax-paying husband and father, who questions how taxpayer dollars are being spent.
#StTOnt #LdnOnt

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. - Psalm 143:10 https://t.co/VTWfMpLeTe

[CTV News Toronto @CTVToronto]

Toronto police officer charged with sexual assault of female youth https://t.co/QBsAppldIS

[CP24 @CP24]

#BREAKING: SIU charges Toronto police officer accused of committing sexual offences against female youth https://t.co/DUHDwO9wmn

[cheddarbiscuit @kittypotomous]

@Kica333 People are the hardest part of having relationships

[Kristen @Kica333]

Reason why I never want to go anywhere:

1. People

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

82 years ago today Scotty from Star Trek was shot 6 times during D-Day while fighting for Canada during WWII. On June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver, later of Sarnia, landed at Juno Beach while serving in the Canadian Army. He was wounded six times later that day by friendly fire and later became best known as Scotty on Star Trek. 🇨🇦

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“Whatever your crime has been, the Lord says, 'Return, for I have mercy upon you.'”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

If red meat causes heart disease…

Why did heart disease explode after we replaced butter with industrial oils, started eating all day, and filled supermarkets with ultra processed food?

[Billy Graham @BillyGraham]

"If we could live every day as though it may be the very last one before the final judgment, what a difference it would make here on earth!" —Billy Graham

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

"If you do not pray except when you feel like praying, you will not pray much, nor pray when you most need it."

— Charles Spurgeon

[LosinghopeinCanada @losinghopein]

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The aspirin in your medicine cabinet got its start in a tree like this one. People chewed willow bark for pain and fever for more than 3,500 years before anyone worked out why it helped.

The bark is loaded with a natural painkiller. An Egyptian medical scroll from around 1500 BC lists willow as a remedy for aches. The ancient Greeks reached for it too.

The path to the modern pill runs through England. In 1763, a man named Edward Stone wrote to the Royal Society, Britain's leading science academy, describing five years of treating feverish villagers with dried willow bark. Chemists later pulled the active ingredient out of the bark and named it salicin, after salix, the Latin word for willow. Your body breaks salicin down into a stronger painkiller, but that one is harsh on the stomach. So in 1897 a chemist at the German company Bayer tweaked the molecule into a gentler, steadier version. It went on sale in 1899 as aspirin.

It caught on. The world now makes around 40,000 tons of aspirin a year, more than 100 billion tablets, enough for about a dozen for every person on Earth. People take it for headaches, fevers, sore muscles, and to lower the odds of a heart attack, and they have swallowed something like a trillion tablets in the last hundred years.

But the willow never made any of this for us. That painkiller is the tree's own alarm system. When bugs or disease attack a willow, it pumps the chemical through its tissues to switch on its defenses and warn the rest of the tree that trouble is on the way. We took a tree's panic signal and pressed it into a pill.

The name is wrong, by the way. A Swedish scientist, Carl Linnaeus, called it Salix babylonica, willow of Babylon, because he figured it came from the ancient Middle East. It comes from northern China and traveled west along old trade routes. Most of the weeping willows you see in parks aren't the original tree at all. They're hybrids. They grow fast, live only about 40 to 75 years, and send out shallow roots that hunt for water. That is why you so often see them leaning over a pond, and why they are famous for wrecking the pipes underneath.

So sure, they might be the most beautiful trees in existence. They are also the reason the world's most common medicine exists.

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@losinghopein And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart

Closer To The Heart - Rush

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@fordnation https://t.co/bpajJoIqc3

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

In 1979, the mullahs tortured the Shah's favourite horse to death.

The horse, Azar, was paraded in the streets. They broke his legs, cut his tongue out, and then shot him in the head in front of a large crowd.

Iran is occupied by demons from hell.

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@mapleblooded Many people are not surviving.

They are existing.
https://t.co/FHQvZ4V9e0

[LosinghopeinCanada @losinghopein]

People might be very tired listening to me complain about disability poverty.

Just think how tired we are living it every single day.

Pretty disappointing that some people are without a shred of empathy, compassion and kindness. Demand better for us and I'll shut up. 😡

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@fordnation https://t.co/sGtSajbvP9

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

I need to be real with you.

Too many people are walking around with borrowed convictions.

Not their faith. Not their beliefs. Not their relationship with God.

Just recycled opinions they inherited from their parents, culture, pastor, friends, or favorite creator.

That was me.

I defended Islam for years, not because I had tested it, but because I inherited it. I was terrified that if I questioned it, I would lose my community, my identity, and the people I loved.

So I never asked the hard questions. I just kept repeating the answers.

Until one day I stopped and asked myself:

Do I actually believe this?

Or am I just afraid of what happens if I don't?

That question changed my life. Because truth doesn't fear investigation. Truth survives scrutiny.

Inherited beliefs that have never been tested usually don't.

So I went back to the Quran. Then, back to the Torah. Then, back to the New Testament.

And I started reading like my eternity depended on it.

Here's what I've learned:

A faith that is inherited but never examined will eventually collapse under pressure.

When tragedy hits, when suffering comes, when life falls apart, borrowed convictions won't carry you.

You need roots. You need truth. You need a faith that has survived your hardest questions.

Jesus didn't die so you could borrow someone else's belief.

He died so you could know Him for yourself.

So stop outsourcing your convictions. Open the Book. Test what you believe.

Wrestle with God. Real conviction isn't forged by scrolling.

It's forged in the moments when you're willing to ask, "God, if You're real, show me the truth no matter what it costs." That's where faith becomes your own.

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@elonmusk would you please repost for this elderly Texas widow?

She is working hard to earn money to pay her bills.
https://t.co/tuMUa0l38S

[kathy gagliardi @gotchasgirl]

I want to thank God for the blessing of a sale I got yesterday, but I need more sales to pay my bills, so please keep me in your prayers ,I need God to bless and send me more work

[kathy gagliardi @gotchasgirl]

I want to thank God for the blessing of a sale I got yesterday, but I need more sales to pay my bills, so please keep me in your prayers ,I need God to bless and send me more work

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@TomTSEC https://t.co/bAYzTWPPW6

[Elizabeth @blind_kindness]

Changing the name of the GST/HST credit to the Canadian Grocery and Essentials Allowance is a clear sign this Liberal Govt has no intention of fixing food insecurity or basic needs affordability in Canada. Instead making Canadians more reliant on Govt and the poverty they inflict. “Allowance” is an authorized limit. Their limit. In Carney’s own words “We are focused on what we can control” Help is always welcome but help is not a great feat by Govt until it invokes the change necessary to prevent the need for further help.

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@losinghopein @MarkJCarney https://t.co/bAYzTWPPW6

[Elizabeth @blind_kindness]

Changing the name of the GST/HST credit to the Canadian Grocery and Essentials Allowance is a clear sign this Liberal Govt has no intention of fixing food insecurity or basic needs affordability in Canada. Instead making Canadians more reliant on Govt and the poverty they inflict. “Allowance” is an authorized limit. Their limit. In Carney’s own words “We are focused on what we can control” Help is always welcome but help is not a great feat by Govt until it invokes the change necessary to prevent the need for further help.

[Joe Caverly @JoeC4281]

@losinghopein https://t.co/bAYzTWPPW6

[Elizabeth @blind_kindness]

Changing the name of the GST/HST credit to the Canadian Grocery and Essentials Allowance is a clear sign this Liberal Govt has no intention of fixing food insecurity or basic needs affordability in Canada. Instead making Canadians more reliant on Govt and the poverty they inflict. “Allowance” is an authorized limit. Their limit. In Carney’s own words “We are focused on what we can control” Help is always welcome but help is not a great feat by Govt until it invokes the change necessary to prevent the need for further help.