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Romans 8:37-39; 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Psalm 118
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@cuntynerd@LaNativePatriot Exactly! They're strengthening the walls of the digital prison they already have us in. I know I can't do much about it, but I'm sure not going to help if I can avoid it!
@LionSunCyrus@Robiiin_Hoodx The US regime dropped a bomb on a school full of children my daughter's age, and about 170 of them died in it. The same regime dropped a second bomb on the school to kill any survivors and anyone trying to rescue them. Yet, silence. Shame on all of us.
USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.
I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.
Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.
In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.
This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.
The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.
So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.
The owner asked if everything was okay.
"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."
He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"
I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.
I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.
So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.
And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.
Reborn.
A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.
The Bible says *the love* of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Sometimes that distinction needs to be made, but in this case the result is the same. If someone is making $100k a year, they would need to work for 4,000 years just to make it to $400 million. Not even half a billion. Puts things in perspective.
How the MSM would report on Tiananmen Square if it happened today.
Authorities Conduct Mostly Peaceful Bullet Deployment to Restore Social Harmony in Tiananmen Square
In a mostly peaceful operation, security forces used a limited number of bullets and tanks to gently encourage unauthorized gatherings to disperse.
While a few protesters were tragically enriched with lead, officials stress the response was proportionate and community oriented.
“This wasn’t violence, “It was vibrant kinetic dialogue, and we praise the restraint shown by the tanks.
Fact-checkers have labeled phrases like “Tiananmen Massacre” as dangerous misinformation,
@shalomninja@janefkndoe I saw him in concert several times in the 90s when I was a dirty hippie and he sounded even worse live, if you can even imagine that.
The test for a true prophet is in the Old Testament.
"And if you say in your heart, ‘How will we recognize the word which the Lord has not spoken?’ When the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the thing does not happen or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you are not to be afraid of him." ~ Deuteronomy 18:21-22