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Suffering, no one likes to suffer, I am referrig to suffering that is not our fault, if it os your own fault (for example u commit a crime and go to jail, spending all ur money on drugs etc), well u have urself to blame. We have many examples of innocent suffering in the bible like Job, Paul etc. We have examples in our own life and observing others. Thing is, I have studied suffering, know all the answers like for example free will, sin of Adam and Eve, Satan and demons, God's thoughts and ways are not ours etc. But thing is, still not really satisfied and in peace with the answers. Suffering aint fun at all. Somehow trying to find a way to be really at peace when there is suffering. I am kinda disagreeing with God on the suffering stuff, it seems I am trying to not loose respect for God, trying not to think that God is not good, kinda having to force myself somehow, disappointed in God sometimes.
How can we handle suffering like a pro, how to crack this code ?

Br,

In dedication to my Mom, who like this sweet woman, Jesus stayed with all the way home...

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“Antisemitic acts have been increasing across our country for years. We worry we’re no longer welcome in this land,” he said. But after two generations “of the most peace and prosperity our people have known anywhere, we worry that this swastika, sprayed on a banner, means we’re doomed to go back to a world of swastikas again.”
It's wonderful to see those with different belief come together to stand up against the hate that has emerged in our country.

"Significantly, Merchan’s daughter has a financial or economic interest in her father’s case. She and her clients raised some $93 million in campaign donations by citing the Trump prosecution in their solicitation mailings, according to reporting by The New York Post.
On this basis alone, Judge Merchan was obligated to recuse himself because a member of his family —which is identified a child under strict ethical guidelines— has a private, vested interest in the outcome of the case. Yet, he refuses to step aside despite the glaring conflict of interest. Meaning, the fix is in."

We cannot continue to allow liberal justices to make a mockery of our Constitution. They need to be replaced.

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Short story...4 different polls all have Trump leading.

Biden continues to decline.

I'd call this a powderkeg.

Thoughts?

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Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, narrowly escaped a massive cyber attack over Easter weekend, all thanks to one volunteer.
The backdoor had been inserted into a recent release of a Linux compression format called XZ Utils, a tool that is little-known outside the Linux world but is used in nearly every Linux distribution to compresses large files, making them easier to transfer. If it had spread more widely, an untold number of systems could have been left compromised for years.

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For the Dr Becky fan club her summation of the story.

Im currently battling with Bitterness im grateful for everything God has blessed me with but there’s something I lack and it’s bothering me. People especially a ill-minded family member often lets me know im lacking in this department and often makes me even more bitter about it. How to deal with bitterness as a Christian and overcome it ?

I just picked up this mini laptop off of Amazon, it is 8-inches across and will fit in your pocket, love this, I am going to load it with dual-boot between Windows 11 and Kali Linux and I am going to use it for penetration testing. It is pretty powerful, 3.4 GHz CPU and 12 GB of RAM. It has a solid feel to it, weights about 1 pound. The display also swivels around so it will double as a tablet PC.

Just sayin', being on that remote island in Alaska for five years can do things to a man.

I hope no one tries to carjack him there in Chicago. There must be at least one car in Chicago that no one will try to steal and this might be it.

I think this is the type of car we are all supposed to be driving within five years if you listen to Biden and some of the European lefties. I hope it has a heater in it. Could be difficult finding snow tires for it too but he seems to be moving to a plan.

What’s that lean, green, pedal-powered machine on Chicago streets? And who’s inside it?​

It’s a velomobile, and the man behind the wheel is Greek Orthodox monk Father Ephraim, who moved to the Northwest Side after five years at a religious commune in remote Alaska. And who wouldn’t want to navigate Chicago streets in a vehicle not much taller than a fire hydrant?​

By Stefano Esposito

Hello! I am a guy who is interested in fitness, getting money, self improvement basically. I do it for both myself and others, I would like to bot be poor yet still be abke to provide for mt family, along w be and look strong but also defend others. I have put tegulations to make sure god is number one and making sure the habits are still not thw priority but I still am striving for personal glory considering I like doing it to be strong or have a stable financial situation. How about grooming my hair and making sure I look good?

Am I sinning, or being worldly or am i not sinning and just overthibking it?

I wrote this 21 years ago, and my belief now, is based on the final verse of scripture at the end of this. There are several passages that appear to indicate Jesus could come imminently at any time: what I find scripture doesn't say is that He will come BEFORE the actual tribulation starts, or if we would even know for sure we had entered into it. I also do not believe the Book of Revelation is in strait chronological order, but rather that it is written as Daniel, which expands upon previous visions in later chapters, giving us more detail about the same thing.
"Revelation isn’t meant to be read merely as a chronology of fantastic events. It should be seen as one set of events repeated seven times, each with increasing intensity. Revelation is apocalyptic—a genre defined by images, symbols, and references to the Old Testament and John’s ancient world." An Easier Way to Read Revelation

Biden to Netanyahu: Israel Needs to Address ‘Civilian Harm’ in Gaza

• Seven food aid workers killed in Israeli airstrikes
• World Central Kitchen’s founder says strikes were deliberate
• Israel denies this, called attack 'grave mistake'

U.S. President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that U.S. policy regarding Israel will be determined by whether it implements concrete steps to address “civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” in Gaza.

Thursday marked the two’s first phone call following Israeli airstrikes that killed seven food aid workers in Gaza, which Biden called “unacceptable.”

For the U.S., steps Israel should take are a dramatic increase in getting additional aid crossings opened up and a reduction in violence on civilians and aid workers, National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said in a press briefing.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, reiterated his thanks to the United States while talking to Biden.

While calling Netanyahu, Biden said an “immediate cease-fire” is needed, and urged him to empower negotiators to come up with a deal that would allow one in exchange for Hamas’ release of the hostages it took during its Oct. 7 assault on Israel.

Blinken told reporters some details of the call at a press conference in Brussels, where he said, “This week’s horrific attack on the World Central Kitchen was not the first such incident.”
“It must be the last,” he said.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart on Wednesday night.

During Monday’s strike, NewsNation partner The Hill reports, three vehicles were targeted in three separate strikes — even after the group coordinated its movements with Israel’s military, according to a WCK press release.

Those who died included three British citizens, Polish and Australian nationals, a Canadian-American dual national and a Palestinian.

Around 200 humanitarian aid workers have already been killed during this conflict — but these seven deaths are causing international outrage.

Biden released a statement following the strike criticizing Israel’s government for not doing enough to protect those trying to deliver aid to civilians.

José Andrés, the chef who founded World Central Kitchen, said the strikes were deliberate. He is now calling for an independent investigation outside of the one Israel has said it will conduct.

The IDF, meanwhile, claims the attack was a “grave mistake,” with Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi saying, “It shouldn’t have happened.”

However, Andrés says: “This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops we dropped the bomb in the wrong place.'”

Food aid workers in Gaza were targeted “systematically, car by car,” he told Reuters in an interview Wednesday.

So far, the White House says they still plan to support Israel with weapons, despite growing calls for that to come to an end, as well as for a broader cease-fire.

More than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed as Israel has conducted its ground offensive and bombardment of Gaza, with more than 75,600 wounded, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza.

Among those, women and children make up two-thirds of the dead. Much of the population in northern Gaza is on the brink of starvation, the United Nations says. A top UN court concluded in January there’s a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza, which Israel denies.

One of Biden’s closest allies in the Senate, Delaware’s Chris Coons, urged Thursday for the U.S. to put conditions on military aid to Israel if it decides to go into the city of Rafah, where many are sheltering in Gaza after being displaced, without plans to protect civilians or provide aid.

After the call, though, some Republican lawmakers criticized Biden. Rep. Brian Mast, of Michigan, said the president is trying to “boost his poll numbers.”

However, a couple of Democrats took to X to say that they wanted to see more humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians, such as Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina.


“Far too many innocent civilians have lost their lives in this conflict,” Clyburn wrote.


I agree with the UN rights experts, Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, and should be held accountable for war crimes.

Senate Republicans are poised to sink a $78 billion tax-cut package, gambling that they’ll win the majority in November and can push then for bigger breaks for business.

They also don’t want to hand President Joe Biden an election-year victory on the legislation, which includes both child and business tax breaks, lawmakers and aides have said.

The package, the top business lobbying objective this year, easily passed the Republican-controlled House in January on a bipartisan 357 to 70 vote. It also has support of the White House.

The measure would restore expired tax breaks allowing businesses to more quickly recoup costs of domestic research and development, interest on business loans, and investment in new equipment. Working parents would receive more generous child tax credits, and be eligible for the first time to claim multiple children. Read more from Erik Wasson and Samantha Handler.

Asking for prayers for my family and I. We are really struggling right now. Financially is the main thing. I’m currently laying in bed, trying to figure out how I can make some extra income for food and gas besides other bills and expenses right now. I’m just so tired of stress.

Pray that No earthquakes ever occur in the North East of USA ever gain:

I started feeling strangely the day before yesterday. It’s gotten worse so I went to the walk in med clinic to get tested. So far, the tests were negative but I was warned that with me going in so early the results could change. I was put on some antibiotics for now. Turn a couple of meds down because of side effects. I’m concerned about my mother and husband getting this. Please pray the tests remain negative and my mother who is elderly does not catch whatever this is. My fear was Covid as it felt similar to when I had it before.

Thank you!

We hear a lot about Christian marriages being different, but what is it that makes a marriage "Christian"?

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.Michel de Montaigne1

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Marriage has gotten quite a bad reputation over the years. The butt of a seemingly infinite number of jokes, matrimony is a source of endless social commentary, gender politics, and governmental debate.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.Ambrose Bierce2

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In the United States, marriage has fallen upon particularly hard times. Fewer and fewer people are choosing to marry.4 In fact, less than half of current US households are made up of married couples.5 The percentage of Americans who have never married is growing6 while the number of couples living together without marrying is increasing exponentially.7Meanwhile, more and more children are born to single mothers.8

One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.Oscar Wilde3

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To top it all off, America still has the highest divorce rate among Western nations and the highest incidence of single-parent families of any industrialized nation.9 There’s no denying that the landscape of the American family has changed radically over the past fifty years.

MARRIAGE AND CULTURE​

These statistics raise questions about the value and meaning of marriage in contemporary American culture. Given changes in reproductive technology, shifts in cultural attitudes about sexual morality, and the apparent failure of marriage as an ideal relationship, has marriage become irrelevant?

Though it might seem so, sociologists Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Ueker recently reported that the American youth are as interested in marriage as at any time—more than 95 percent intend to marry someday.10
But from romance novels to reality TV to movies, unrealistic expectations and false understandings about love, marriage, and romance are easily perpetuated. As a result, both those seeking out a marriage partner and those trying to stay in a marriage relationship struggle with misunderstandings of the definition of that relationship itself.
Can the Christian faith make a difference in this understanding and the quest for a meaningful marriage?

MARRIAGE AND FAITH​

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I accidentally rear ended a vehicle but no damage but the person will decide whether to report it or not. Kindly pray Lorissa doesn't report it Amen

Hello everyone. I'm new here and pretty new to the Faith, (Slowly working through the Bible) so I am looking forward to having some interesting conversations. I am an American living in Germany (non military) and have been non religious until about a year and a half ago. I was going through some tough emotional times and I just decided to pray out of desperation. For some reason it gave me comfort and I continued. As time went by, I started to feel this overwhelming light start to fill me, like something I have never experienced. Somehow a huge hole in my heart was being filled with a new kind of light and love. I still struggle with a lot of things but this is a new kind of experience, that I cant explain. I am sure many of you can relate?

The reason for my username and userpic is a story you might find interesting.

Last year, I was visiting my parents in Las Vegas. I was out jogging and not really praying or talking with God, it was more planning, in a way, about what I was going to pray about that evening. I have an autistic brother, so I think helping him was the topic I was considering for that evening

Anyway, this particular neighborhood where they live tends to have sidewalks that are pretty clean because obviously, nobody goes outside there. Too hot... This particular sidewalk was spotless and well taken care of, no garbage, weeds, etc. So, I was jogging and my thought process was along the lines of almost a selfish sort of wishing, planning, (not really sure) about how I wished that God would just give me a sign so I knew I was on the right path with my faith. I've always been non religious, so I still question a lot of things.

That day I was running back and forth down about a long 5 block length so, I had definitely run that path about 10 minutes previously. Right after my thought about wanting a sign, I took about 10 more steps and I kid you not, there was this small wooden cross right in the middle of the sidewalk. The same one in my userpic. I am positive that nobody walked on that particular path the whole time I was jogging back and forth and I am positive I would have seen it before because I covered that space about 4 times already that morning.

So, I guess I got my sign.

Any similar experiences? Looking forward to talking with you all.

I have a 12 year-old cat who has been very healthy with one exception. Some years ago she was having the symptoms of urinary tract infection, which is the number one cause of death in cats. I prayed to know what to do. The previous cat that I took to the vet came back with an infection, which I’m sure came from there so I was not keen on going to a vet.

I was told to give her some iron, inaudibly, and when I reality checked online, I saw that urinary tract infection in cats was associated with low iron. So she has been fine for years after getting more iron.

But she has different symptoms now, like diarrhea. And when I have prayed, so far, I have not gotten an answer as to what to do. She does not seem to be suffering. But she is not eating very well.

Please help me to pray to know what to do, to take her to the vet or whatever. I am giving her antibiotics and probiotics and echinacea and goldenseal currently.

When I was in my late teens/early 20's my mother was diagnosed with a possible allergy to wasps/bees. Some time later a wasp nest cropped up under a windowsill in the yard and I was surprised at how well it was hidden. Our dogs were nosing at it and were being ignored. So, I decided to show my mum, I took her into the yard and pointed it out. I did remember her allergy, but didn't really think there was a risk due to the dogs being safe.
She was surprised and in hindsight maybe scared, reminding me of her allergy. I just shrugged it off back then as she wasn't stung and I hadn't felt that there was much danger, they weren't aggressive and the allergy wasn't certain.
I'm not good with people and it's only years after that I really started thinking on just how badly it could have gone. She never really brought it up afterwards.

Similarly, I worked for my parents, and was tasked with disposing of some liquid nitrogen. My dad used to chuck the last little bit on the floor in front of us as a joke sometimes, and I once thought I'd emulate him and aimed in front of my mum's feet. My dad immediately scolded me, my mum was thankfully protected by her long pants though her hems got a little iced. I could have burned her and I feel so horrible years later.

It's been so long that I can't even remember if I apologised properly. I just feel like a terrible human being. I'm sorry that this is a bit of a vent. I honestly plan to call her tomorrow to talk about this. I sometimes get OCD (anxiety?) symptoms which are probably why this hit me so strongly. I feel like I should be in jail, even though nothing happened. Though that's probably the OCD talking.

Please pray for me. I feel like my mind is jumping from one thing to another to be guilty about and I'm struggling to keep up.

Sheriff’s officials claimed following the shooting that it was unclear whether Savannah was shot by deputies or her father, and they said deputies didn’t realize it was her when she got out of the car. For nearly two years, they refused to release footage of the shooting.

But on Friday, the department disclosed nearly a dozen video files to the independent journalist Joey Scott, who filed records requests 18 months prior. The clips – which were shared with the Guardian and include helicopter footage – show deputies shooting at Savannah as she followed their instructions to move toward them. The videos also suggest deputies shot her after two officers remarked that it was the girl who exited. The footage, and the sheriff’s narration of the video, further make clear she was killed by deputies, not her father.

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