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This news is a few days old, but nonetheless:
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Thieves Return Relic of Precious Blood of Jesus Stolen From Medieval French Church
Dutch art investigator Arthur Brand received the reliquary after an anonymous email exchange with a person representing the thieves.
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Baby #2 on the way. My wife delivered our son 18 months ago and just found out Friday that he will be having a brother or sister in a little under 8 months, God willing.
Word to the wise, my wife was still breastfeeding our son when she got pregnant. It's possible brothers.
Humbled by this great gift from God.
Praise His name.
Word to the wise, my wife was still breastfeeding our son when she got pregnant. It's possible brothers.
Humbled by this great gift from God.
Praise His name.
There have been two notable events that were positive; 1. Tim Pool's new song reached #2 on the charts and 2. Sam Hyde's magnificent trolling of the boxing world.
I like Tim Pool because he's thoughtful and outspoken against woke. He's got the right ideas too. For a very long time, I've emphasized the importance of culture in this war we're fighting. I'll say it again when we establish a firm foothold in the culture - WE WIN! Tim knows this all too well and he's said the same thing too. Not only that, he acted on it. The song rocketed in the charts; its not really my style, but, I don't really care. What matters is we have red-pilled people making cultural content. Elsewhere, The Daily Wire is doing the same thing. First, it will be a trickle and then a torrent. This fight is cultural, which brings me to Sam Hyde who is a brilliant cultural phenomenon.
Sam Hyde is incredible, he is a man of his time. I regard Sam as our generation's best comedic artist out there. He's blacklisted, but, whereas this might have destroyed others, he persists and now, with his latest stunt, he's become a permanent part of our cultural fabric. The fact that this woke society blacklisted Sam Hyde, who, again, is a far superior comedian versus any of his "conventional" peers, especially the woke ones tells you everything about the fragile state of our culture. A couple of decades ago, he'd likely be in obscurity for good, but, because of the web, he was able to stay alive and his talent will rise, because its good. In contrast to the likes of amy schumer or fat acceptance "comedians" who either talk about their vaginas or lecture people about fat shaming, Sam is a master-level practitioner of his trade. His latest ruse is "Candyman", an old Irish boxer. He's trolling and its brilliant. This takes a page out of Andy Kaufman, but, the novelty is still there. After Candyman's first and triumphant fight he stayed in character and TROLLED! His boxer persona hits every sensitive nerve of the woke, foreigners (by extension immigration), "trans", homosexuality etc. He does this in his own Sam-style. Candyman is "legitimately" gay and trans, which using the left's own devices insulates him from canceling even though he's clearly mocking both "trans" and gay. This is obvious in Candyman's deep Irish brogue, which serves as a clever juxtaposition to his other "identities", thus highlighting the utter absurdity of our contemporary times, especially, homosexuality and "trans" and, of course, the radical left.
These are significant developments. We are fighting. This is a war, but, it's a war unlike any we've ever seen. Producing a successful pop song and masquerading as an ole-Irish boxer may seem trivial, and they are, but, this is exactly how a culture war is fought and won.
I like Tim Pool because he's thoughtful and outspoken against woke. He's got the right ideas too. For a very long time, I've emphasized the importance of culture in this war we're fighting. I'll say it again when we establish a firm foothold in the culture - WE WIN! Tim knows this all too well and he's said the same thing too. Not only that, he acted on it. The song rocketed in the charts; its not really my style, but, I don't really care. What matters is we have red-pilled people making cultural content. Elsewhere, The Daily Wire is doing the same thing. First, it will be a trickle and then a torrent. This fight is cultural, which brings me to Sam Hyde who is a brilliant cultural phenomenon.
Sam Hyde is incredible, he is a man of his time. I regard Sam as our generation's best comedic artist out there. He's blacklisted, but, whereas this might have destroyed others, he persists and now, with his latest stunt, he's become a permanent part of our cultural fabric. The fact that this woke society blacklisted Sam Hyde, who, again, is a far superior comedian versus any of his "conventional" peers, especially the woke ones tells you everything about the fragile state of our culture. A couple of decades ago, he'd likely be in obscurity for good, but, because of the web, he was able to stay alive and his talent will rise, because its good. In contrast to the likes of amy schumer or fat acceptance "comedians" who either talk about their vaginas or lecture people about fat shaming, Sam is a master-level practitioner of his trade. His latest ruse is "Candyman", an old Irish boxer. He's trolling and its brilliant. This takes a page out of Andy Kaufman, but, the novelty is still there. After Candyman's first and triumphant fight he stayed in character and TROLLED! His boxer persona hits every sensitive nerve of the woke, foreigners (by extension immigration), "trans", homosexuality etc. He does this in his own Sam-style. Candyman is "legitimately" gay and trans, which using the left's own devices insulates him from canceling even though he's clearly mocking both "trans" and gay. This is obvious in Candyman's deep Irish brogue, which serves as a clever juxtaposition to his other "identities", thus highlighting the utter absurdity of our contemporary times, especially, homosexuality and "trans" and, of course, the radical left.
These are significant developments. We are fighting. This is a war, but, it's a war unlike any we've ever seen. Producing a successful pop song and masquerading as an ole-Irish boxer may seem trivial, and they are, but, this is exactly how a culture war is fought and won.
I didn't know Candyman was gay and trans. That is hilarious
great optics for my nation of armenia -_-
If you listen to Sam's post-fight commentary it comes out. In one such interview, as he's calling out Piker, he says he's going to stalk him "because I'm gay". In another, he says "I'm going to wear his make-up and dresses", alluding to "trans". If confronted, Sam is just going to say he or Candyman is gay and trans. He knows exactly how to play these woke idiots. Best of all, he knows that he'll have to be taken seriously by the woke, so, he'll get away with the stunt even though its obvious to anyone with a pulse that its all a huge joke. But that the power of comedy and how satire can take down entire ideologies.
Small thing, but I'm about to enjoy a shwarma, and I haven't had one in a long long time 
@Towgunner great post. Do share your favourite Sam Hyde videos and skits in the thread below, especially since most of the vids uploaded in that thread have been removed from YT. I shared a couple here:
^ As the camera pans at 0:45
We're entering some sort of austerity period. This is very true in Europe, but, the rest of the West isn't far behind. Things are going to get worse, but, as bad as it may get, and it could get very bad, there's a sort of cleansing element that will occur as a result. France's Macron recently said, "the age of abundance is over". This is significant because all of the insane and unnatural aspects of radical leftism or wokism etc, are only possible in a society that is overflowing with resources. Or, in a society of abundance. If the age of abundance is over then the age of all this silliness is going to be over too. That's why this is a good thing.
The bad news is that as this unfolds it will sometimes, perhaps many times, appear as though this effect isn't occurring. The left and its aggrieved constituents will go through a period of denial, which may likely last until the very end. They'll double down on failed policies as they always have and with even more vigor because they know their days are numbered. Also, they'll be losing their privileges, which makes for even more madness. They may even likely win many elections, but of course, how can we know for sure those are legitimate?
Austerity looks like this - women aren't going to "be on top" because in austerity we can't afford wide-scale and systematic preferential treatment. Of course, if austerity results in fewer welfare handouts then violence is inevitable, but, that's another subject altogether. Among other things, austerity will demand excellence and competency. So, out of necessity meritocracy will re-emerge and when that happens the natural order will re-exert itself. Again, in the case of the sexes, men outperform women.
As it turns out, free money is a peculiar thing. It was not at all what I and, I suspect, everyone else thought it would be. Free money came in the form of cheap credit, which enslaved us to debt. Plus, free money was distributed in extremely grotesque ways. When we talk about the radical left being a top-down agenda, how does that top-down mechanism actually work? Well, if you take anything and put billions of dollars of marketing/promotional resources behind it...it will, at least, seem to be legitimate. Take "trans" for instance, this was literally created out of thin air and only made possible by free money. The immorality of such a decision is hard to take; all that money could have gone to feed the poor and sick, but, no, sex trumps everything. But, it doesn't matter, that was then this is now and austerity means no more funding for obscure and bizarre social experiments.
We now live in a multipolar world. Because of our reliance on free money, it doesn't take much to fundamentally disrupt our fragile system. That has already happened. Free money is possible only if you have a paradigm where the rest of the world provides free money to you. The way we did this was by exploiting our global reserve currency status, specifically, through schemes like the petro-dollar and until recently outright invasion and war. Going forward there will be less participation in this system as an increasing amount of goods and services are traded in other mediums of exchange. Each increment of goods and services not trading in the dollar represents less free money back to the US. So, as the paradigm shift unfolds and the dollar is used less as a clearing mechanism austerity will grow here. We're just getting started with this process.
The effects will be monumental, and these sorts of changes result in significant cultural changes too.
The bad news is that as this unfolds it will sometimes, perhaps many times, appear as though this effect isn't occurring. The left and its aggrieved constituents will go through a period of denial, which may likely last until the very end. They'll double down on failed policies as they always have and with even more vigor because they know their days are numbered. Also, they'll be losing their privileges, which makes for even more madness. They may even likely win many elections, but of course, how can we know for sure those are legitimate?
Austerity looks like this - women aren't going to "be on top" because in austerity we can't afford wide-scale and systematic preferential treatment. Of course, if austerity results in fewer welfare handouts then violence is inevitable, but, that's another subject altogether. Among other things, austerity will demand excellence and competency. So, out of necessity meritocracy will re-emerge and when that happens the natural order will re-exert itself. Again, in the case of the sexes, men outperform women.
As it turns out, free money is a peculiar thing. It was not at all what I and, I suspect, everyone else thought it would be. Free money came in the form of cheap credit, which enslaved us to debt. Plus, free money was distributed in extremely grotesque ways. When we talk about the radical left being a top-down agenda, how does that top-down mechanism actually work? Well, if you take anything and put billions of dollars of marketing/promotional resources behind it...it will, at least, seem to be legitimate. Take "trans" for instance, this was literally created out of thin air and only made possible by free money. The immorality of such a decision is hard to take; all that money could have gone to feed the poor and sick, but, no, sex trumps everything. But, it doesn't matter, that was then this is now and austerity means no more funding for obscure and bizarre social experiments.
We now live in a multipolar world. Because of our reliance on free money, it doesn't take much to fundamentally disrupt our fragile system. That has already happened. Free money is possible only if you have a paradigm where the rest of the world provides free money to you. The way we did this was by exploiting our global reserve currency status, specifically, through schemes like the petro-dollar and until recently outright invasion and war. Going forward there will be less participation in this system as an increasing amount of goods and services are traded in other mediums of exchange. Each increment of goods and services not trading in the dollar represents less free money back to the US. So, as the paradigm shift unfolds and the dollar is used less as a clearing mechanism austerity will grow here. We're just getting started with this process.
The effects will be monumental, and these sorts of changes result in significant cultural changes too.
Here's some good news; Fall is almost here in the northern hemisphere! I'm in the southeastern US and we're ready for a cool-down.
Today I drove past two houses that had British flags flying out front.
It was such a shock to see someone celebrating something positive that I did a double take.
(The next house had a gay flag but that's par for the course and didn't kill my good mood).
It was such a shock to see someone celebrating something positive that I did a double take.
(The next house had a gay flag but that's par for the course and didn't kill my good mood).
Two weeks ago, my first baby was born -- a son. He's healthy and strong, and my wife had no complications, thank you God.
I've mentioned before, but for first time readers a slight backstory:
I was called to Christ in my mid twenties and was then baptized. After a series of circumstances, I drifted...let demonic forces in. Lived in a hedonistic way. This forum helped fuel that lifestyle when I first joined.
Fast forward, and various consequences of that lifestyle emerged. I repented...prayed for mercy. Got my relationship right with my now wife, who I didn't even meet until I was in my early 30's.
In addition, this forum that used to fuel my sin, then became a guide and fellowship to strengthen and keep my relationship to Christ. It's been wild how it's all worked out really.
I'm 40 now, my wife 39. We hope to have a second child. I'd encourage others, not to become too discouraged and certainly never despair if things haven't happened yet for you. Just keep going, moving forward, repent, pray, be patient...everything. No guarantee and your plans may not be God's. It's something to consider, but not doing the things we need to do will most likely result in a backslide to say the least.
Christ be with you all,
M'bare
2 Timothy 4:1-8
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with the sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. For I am already being lured out like a drinking offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will award to me on that day — and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
I've mentioned before, but for first time readers a slight backstory:
I was called to Christ in my mid twenties and was then baptized. After a series of circumstances, I drifted...let demonic forces in. Lived in a hedonistic way. This forum helped fuel that lifestyle when I first joined.
Fast forward, and various consequences of that lifestyle emerged. I repented...prayed for mercy. Got my relationship right with my now wife, who I didn't even meet until I was in my early 30's.
In addition, this forum that used to fuel my sin, then became a guide and fellowship to strengthen and keep my relationship to Christ. It's been wild how it's all worked out really.
I'm 40 now, my wife 39. We hope to have a second child. I'd encourage others, not to become too discouraged and certainly never despair if things haven't happened yet for you. Just keep going, moving forward, repent, pray, be patient...everything. No guarantee and your plans may not be God's. It's something to consider, but not doing the things we need to do will most likely result in a backslide to say the least.
Christ be with you all,
M'bare
2 Timothy 4:1-8
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with the sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. For I am already being lured out like a drinking offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will award to me on that day — and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
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My 20 year old son has finally found a job after being out of work for nearly 18 months for deciding not to take the vax. Sadly he paid a heavy price not just financially, but more so emotionally as he underwent a bout of heavy depression. It was made all the more tough dealing with it as his older brother and younger sister, along with all his other friends took the shot and were much more free to socialise etc. Anyway, here’s praying that this next phase in his life will bring new blessings, thank you Jesus.
Wasn’t exactly sure where to post this, so I thought this thread would be sort of appropriate? My brother was on life support many years ago, and by Gods grace he pulled through to live for a few more years thereafter. This picture was above his bed at the time, it choked me up then and still does to this day. 