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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Racism is not always skin tone related......

Humanity will confuse itself it tries to tie all racism and injustice in the world to skin tone or other features alone....to explain such injustice on planet earth.

Let alone the facts written in the scripture would reveal this element.

What about Saul vs. David/Jonathan of the bible? same heritage....but they were tied by in-law conditions.....still at each other's throats. Cain and Able?????? come now all you who are listening. SAME MOTHER......but heart conditions differed.

Levant conditions? Egyptians (Passover continues to this day), Syrians, Persians (can anyone explain queen Esther please???), Greeks (Hanukkah has a purpose behind it and JEsus celebrated the Feast of Dedication not capitalized in KJV), somethings Turkish?.......well...even though similar features....they denied helping each other out like the Good Samaritan (aka. the Samaritan people exist to this day)

So need to think deeper than we realize when trying to fully resolve issues at hand.


Yes, don't get me wrong, racism DOES exist. But its not always in ways people can see with their eyes....its with the heart. His blood was shed for all......saul.....before he became paul.....persecuted....... his own.....until he saw the perfection of his sacrifice.

Listen carefully......an example that MONEY is a part of the problem.





Can anyone spell Taylor Swift among school children? Ok....now ask the children to spell Wiiwiisinna Iwodi Moshe Zibidee........hmmmmm I wonder why they didn't do the math appropriately???? Close to the Mississippi River (spell the origins of that word)



Here is a weak link in the chain. Now, does anyone notice how Martin Luther King Jr...... was a man..... of his own household! That means that feminism is a form of denying the reality to the presence of the "head of the house" to establish justice in the land. Just a thought. In fact, the highest death rate among those of african heritage (based on what happens in the womb) comes through abortion practices..... Yes, the article linked above in this paragraph, addresses middle east culture as having a better foothold in the problems of feminism.... I do support woman's rights (in cases like rape, trafficking etc)...but not the extreme stuff like whoredumb.

By the way does anyone else remember the story in the bible where Jesus' parents had to flee king Herod (also Jewish) to Egypt (guess that Jesus' parent's tone was the same as that of modern day Egyptian)......ok....so its not all skin tone issue at hand.

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Part 2: How to hold a Garage Sale during covid 19 (auction/moving/foreclosures)

Here is part 1

Here are other ideas

Links on the side indicating "social safety" or social issues could hold information about Covid-era related themes and topics.

Note: I have worked as a medical person.  My spouse works on the front line, though not in a busy heavily traumatized area.  So awareness of cleanliness has been in our professional day to day life.

This process should be easier and more local than e-bay sales.

*Put all items to sell in a plastic see-through bag or cover large items with shower curtain.  Put a piece of tape on the bag.  The tape represents a possible price range.  Orange = under 1$, Blue = between 1-5$, Green = between 5-10$, Purple = between 10$-20$, Red = between 20$-40$, Yellow = around 50$, Black = Above 75$, Pink = Above 100$, Silver = Any given price

*Put a number on each given bag.  Put a little description on the bag as needed (mold stain 1', hair dryer works, size small etc.)

*Ensure the customer's safety by stating that items were thoroughly washed, were not touched for seven days and/or any other safe decontamination process.

*Set aside a basket filled with scrap paper, or number/item listed papers.  Set aside a box filled with crayons/pens/pencils/chalk (which the customer may keep.....basically clean new untouched writing items.....even if break apart a set of color pencils)

*Customer comes to the auction one at a time.  They fill out customer auction contact (phone, email, name, identification required).  Ask ALL customers if they would like to participate in "buying the rest" of the items (items not paid for in given time frame/items not sold/other issues).  They may participate in 10% of items, 25% of items, 50% of items, 100% of items.  "The rest of the items" may start at 1.00 a piece (plus 1.00 per 10-50 under 1.00 items)....  each customer is given a AUCTION NUMBER CARD for records.  Keep a record of their location and ensure that their information will be dis guarded when all customers have paid and/or people purchasing the "rest of the items" comes to pick up remaining items.  Ensure that the customer understands the RULES for the silent auction:

Customer receives paper and/or sees display of rules (example):
--Your given auction number is __________
--List items on the list/scratch paper along with price you would like to pay
--highest bidder is listed as well as their number on the list sheet behind the display
--Daily/weekly mailing will come regarding the current prices and conditions at hand (just a plain text document, excel and/or text would be given)....can opt out if want no major contact.
--Customers must pay within 24  hours (other time frame) after auction ends.  If payment is not given people participating in, "The rest of items" will make purchase within 2 days (a little bit longer time frame) after the end of the auction.
--All contact information will be dis guarded after sales are final 3 days after auction ends. No contact information will be stored (signature required in front of buyer and seller regarding privacy rights).
--payment must come in correct change (no giving a 20$ bill and getting back 2.76$...17.24$ must be made in exact change) given in an envelope or written local check.
--Customers understand that although they could not "touch" or get close to the item before purchase, they will only have to take the item "as is" (including the touch of certain fabrics).
--Trade potential with some purchases and/or at the end of the sale. (This is due to lack of employment for some individuals during Covid 19).  Trading can only occur after most items are removed as items may end up donated.
--No one under the influence, under age 16, showing covid symptoms (including temp and mild respiratory changes) within 40 days, heavily around covid persons, travel to high risk area and/or high risk potential may participate in auction (exceptions and adjustments can be made if explain)
--Stay safe by wearing a mask during each visit, wearing gloves, social distance, boost personal health and washing hands (seller and buyer signs agreement that all is safe)
-NOTE: YOU ARE PURCHASING FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK IN HEALTHCARE and CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH (if this applies to your given situation)
--any other personal note (maybe a quote? maybe a bible verse? maybe a thought question?...)

*Set a time frame to hold the "silent auction"....2 hours? one afternoon? one day? 6am-6pm each day for two weeks except weekend activity? one month for 2 hours each day?  The choice is yours and you won't have to pay e-bay to set it up and take various pictures.....just personal notebook records.

*Customer goes to each item and lists the number and the price they would like to pay.  After all items are selected, slip of paper is given under a "bank teller style" purchase area.  The "sales person" determines what the latest high price happens to be.  The listed numbers and optional descriptions are given as well as the latest price change.  The price change is listed along side the

*It is certainly possible to list these things on ebay or craigslist and any other listing site or local business website.  The choice is yours.....it is just pretty basic to do things from a basic notebook, email, excel and display system.  Don't make things too complicated, just keep things safe.

*It is possible to have a "demonstration hour" if selling a lot of items that should work.....a butter whip machine, a baby walker, a lawn mower etc.  What about "books" and what is inside....surely a person cannot look through the pages, **set aside an area display table where someone flips through books for the customer while customer watches**?  What about inside Jewelry boxes?  What about inside dressers (make sure those drawers work)? Perhaps there can be a way for customers to properly ask to see the item through a display tent (put potential display or touch items in separate area)?

*ALL PURCHASES AND INTERACTIONS should take place in a safe manner.....behind the "bank teller style" tent??? With a full PPE gown n' mask?

*continue to provide extra safety measures like small businesses.  Wash table, extra masks, mini spray bottles with solution, lysol sponge for each item touched....seller regularly spray disinfects areas....things of that sort.

I know this all looks complicated, but really just monitor touch surface areas and keep the social distance measures and things should be fine.

Common Educational mishaps:

Common Educational mishaps:

1. LGBT persons deserve more rights than the general population: No not realistic. Nero was a real man with no self control and clearly opposed to "brotherly love" (compassion for people of same gender....especially people who followed the clearly male.......ahem for lack of a better word....Jewish friend YESHUA...not from Tel Aviv). A proper biblical historian will remind people that Ruth was a descendant of the Moabites who was descendat of Lot.  For those who say never say never, then when we go into THY ER and enter THY ICU (as in "I see you" says the Almighty) we can make a few guesses behind that infidelity, infertility and improper psychological distresses my friend.....higher rates of suicide aren't always from outsiders.....insiders matter too.  Can anyone else smell the "mandatory abuse" reporter scenarios goin on?

2. Minority or persecuted heritage groups never commit acts of crime against others: No not realistic.  Even though Jewish people and/or other non-white groups were the target in WW2, they can have issues such as racism towards others, terror issues, domestic issues just as the rest of the population

3. Math isn't going to benefit anyone in the future: What?  Even biblical interpretations say to use "just balances."  It isn't right to sell a loaf of bread without proper accounting practices.

4. All technology is going to benefit the good of humanity: Ok, when man himself invented water, he needed to pay for the copy right laws, the property right laws, the certification license, the health insurance premium, the legal expenses, the "light bill" etc etc.  Um.  Water is not a thing to mess with, its a human right folks and the proper chemistry hasn't changed in 2000 years.....hey even Jesus turned water into DRINKABLE wine.

5. There is no need to preserve the environment: Jesus will return in 1 year they say.  I'm going to sit this one out when they say that eagles can raise their young a live to adulthood on one month's salary.

6. xyz extremes in education will fix the ethical problems in humanity: Do you mean boarding schools or do you mean early child hood development at the age of 1 month old.  Whom ever came up with the idea that "latch key" children sent to a playground with lots of criminal intent, must have missed a calculation or two.

7. Ivy League education means you will never get a divorce: Call me when you actually read the bible.  King David knew something about infidelity.  When did that one special feminist named Jezabel ever get a proper hold on how to treat Elijah?  I don't know, but outward appearances are not always inward appearances as a famous elitist once quoted.....all men are created equal and eventually succumb to the powers of the grave.

8. The ground you stand on will never give away: Do you mean earth quakes or do you mean Alzheimers and dementia.  You can live in a mansion one day and be sending in calls to have the foundation checked the next.  Beware of "always" and "never" statements.  Even family life itself is never a guarantee....it takes work to keep an extended family in contact with each other....not just running away from the lawyers in the family to fix every detail in wording.

9. Islamophobia isn't real vs. Muslims are always right: Ok. When you have FINALLY given ear to the time and energy it takes to teach a person how to read and visualized a planet where EVERYONE, I mean EVERYONE is disgusted with pedophiles....you will finally see the big pictures at hand and the blood shed that exists to this day.

10. You cannot get a Highschool or IVY LEAGUE diploma at the age of 105: Ask Moses what he thinks about this.  Until thought of others actually occurs, people will not wake up to the reality that famous historians are often quite old.

I could go into more....such as Ray Comfort's 180' movie and how so and so from such and such womb will never amount to anything GREAT....when it is all about the king of kings.....and his heritage background (talk about being an ancestor of prostitutes and LGBT activists).....anyone else notice how the down syndrome child that was developing in the womb actually had a mind and heart to rescue and preserve the life of the elderly 101 year old grandma????.....after all, she only needed someone to give her a regular glass of water and some one to talk to.  I went into the wilderness one day and noticed all the dandelions.....wild-edible foods they are....and there happens to be multitude of herbal remedies my midwife know it all you.....a descendant of EVE from the garden of Eden.

Ok.  Can anyone spell "educational institution"?  Good now we know where the funding goes my friend.  A 2000$ a year education was quite a good price pre-WW2..... lest one ignores the beating heart at the local venue of aged-persons.  Beware, lest you find your self in the same brigade walking down the road waving flags in support of this or that character under the sun (aka. nothing new under the sun).

Thursday, May 7, 2020

White Liberal Christians.....do not LOVE the JEws and muslims???

Jesus is the ultimate example of love.

We who are followers of Jesus.....EXPOSE the DARKNESS...

David Wood exposes the darkness of Muhammed.... (and other media issues at hand....)

all without harassing the "basic traditions" that have neutral elements (head scarf, woman at home, fasting as it is practiced, middle eastern heritage etc.)

Jews have a problem sometimes.  Jesus (yeshua in hebrew) himself knew this.  LUST.




What is a "white liberal"?  Meaning the foundational heritage is "white" and the elements of faith come from "White People" (Russian? German? Protestant, Catholic etc.)  Jewish people have "white tones" but are considered Ashkinazi in general respect.  In actuality, many Protestants and Catholics would not actually agree with their "liberal tone" if they heard the words of the founders......on a youtube channel today.....(except in the cases of misinterpretations of various conditions of history....which led to ww2 etc)

Basically, White Liberal Christians will cater to Linda Sarsour......all the while ignoring actual victims of sex-trafficking in Muslim countries.....and among Jewish people.  




information keeps people aware....



People who grew up around folks with heritage from "the Levant" even if not known as a child, would know that social events take place in extended family homes.  Hence the bible has *laws* about sexuality for various reasons.  

Yes, Palestinian Christians exist.  Arab Christians exist.  Other people from ancient times have a sort of Christian faith among Muslims, Coptic Christian, Greek Orthodox etc.  Pay attention to the social figures at hand.



Anyway.  People who are fearful of TRUTH....don't admire the way, the truth and the life.


A way to put it is that they are "intellectual" about things of God but cater to the darkness simply by giving people who are actually "working" with things of God a stamp of "phobia".....while Christ himself worked with things of the Father....at all times and in all places.

Love is patient, Love is kind......

Not boastful.....

Let not the left hand know what the right hand is doing.......

Listen before its too late....

Secular song...but has a point....Hosea (betrayal)



Side note: this is perspective of things like this from an actual orthodox Jew (practicing).  Its kind of a similar notion that "all men and religious values" are bad....as is common in left leaning circles.


  

more perspective.....

just live despite errors.... in understanding cultures...





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stuck in the middle.....

just being real..... Queen Esther....was beautiful....and the story takes place in Iran.

Re read the book of ISAIAH...... red is written within the black and white words.....



hmmmm.... the script..... commonly associated with all talk ....no action.




and consideration for all things medical





Sunday, May 3, 2020

Church groups, faith groups.....need to promote JESUS.....not NERO....

A way that a fellowship group or church should address sexuality issues in a confused and ungodly world.  Perhaps a person can apply this to their life and beliefs in various ways.  Avoid certain faith groups?  Become a missionary towards certain groups?  Become involved with healing people who were deceived by these things?

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Nero is an example of a man who completely rejected self control in the first century.  Many (not just Christians....and people in his own family) were damaged by his lust for power.

Statement regarding sexuality in this fellowship group (bible verses and stories can be referenced as necessary):

We believe that marriage ceremony practice only involves a male and a female.  No more no less.

We believe that some who come to faith in Christ may come from mixed relationship conditions.  Divorce and remarriage.  Polygyny polyamoury.  Out of wed-lock conditions and so forth.  In some cases, remain as you are.  In other cases, it is better to remain unmarried than to encourage sin-filled life styles.

We believe that a person does not need a govt' based certification to ensure proper scripture marriage.  Governments have been known to forbid marriage (especially biblical foundation marriage....historical issues?).

We believe that govt' based certification does not ensure proper scripture interpretation of marriage.

We believe that any who have fallen away from the faith can renew their vows and return to their "first spouse."

We believe that faith is not entirely based off of marriage and relationship status.  Widows, Orphans, single persons, general companions, brothers, sisters, close kin and any other form of relationship.  It is based on a person's willingness to fulfill God's word through Christ the redeemer.

We believe that some cases of one male and one female marriage may not be permitted due to other circumstances.  Sin-related conditions or health and safety being the higher value.

We believe that in some circumstances, however or in what ever era may be necessary to dissolve a marriage due to the safety of the believer.  Issues may be: severe domestic violence, racism, major health issue, terrorism, cult-like mentality, unrepentant infidelity or any other condition where one partner does not protect the life of the other partner.

We believe that in no way should a person be rejected from the promise of redemption even under unfortunate circumstances of upbringing.  (Ruth was a moabite, the Ethiopian eunuch was shown the gospel etc.)

We believe that LOVE itself does NOT just apply within the frame of marriage.  It is a spirit conviction that leads people to the promise.  People can be married to an unbelieving spouse.  People can have sisterly love and brotherly love (companions).  People can care about family conditions.  People can have love for a group of people under a certain condition.  JESUS alone with his promise is the water that will lead people to the truth of eternal life (addressing the woman at the well).

We believe that the example and stories found in the bible regarding sexuality (relationship and companionship) are for today and apply to reality in how we should handle the vulnerable as well as the victim and the criminal.  Any story like Joseph and Potiphar, Lot and his daughters (Ruth was a Moabite), The woman caught in Adultery, The woman at the well with five husbands, Jacob and his many wives, David and Bathsheba, Jesus addressing lust, John the Baptist addressing Herod's divorce and remarriage, Hosea etc etc.  All the stories are for instruction in righteousness.

We believe that some people are not fit or designed for a covenant marriage.  Intersex people do exist.  Former abused people exist.  Former LGBT persons who encountered disease, deformations or other disorders do exist.  Sometimes covenant marriage will not work for them.  Redemption is for everyone as the bible says "such were some of you."

Any and all things not addressed in this post should be addressed through conviction in the Holy Spirit, love for JESUS, through the promise of redemption and through the word alone.


Please do note that SEXUALITY is NOT the foundation of the church.  The church does NOT battle against flesh and blood but against principalities.  It is a practice based on the human condition since the time of Adam.  NEW ADAM is redeemed...while OLD ADAM doesn't care about the principles of redemption.  Read the full scripture.  There ARE other things......GIVING of Money....HEALING the Sick etc.

Just because we are not "like them" doesn't mean that stuff isn't around...... so to speak.  Historical events can apply as well...to biblical and current events.


When things are just too much.... hope is still there....








there IS darkness in this world....



He is the light....



Songs of Love and Hope