For what it’s worth:
4 Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have warned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation—
5 That inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him.
6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, pure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.
7 And, again, strong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.
8 And again, tobacco is not for the body, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill.
9 And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly.
10 And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—
11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with prudence and thanksgiving.
12 Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly;
13 And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.
14 All grain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth;
15 And these hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.
16 All grain is good for the food of man; as also the fruit of the vine; that which yieldeth fruit, whether in the ground or above the ground—
17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.
18 And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones;
19 And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures;
20 And shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint.
21 And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.
I agree. Try this:
18 And whoso forbiddeth to abstain from meats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God;
19 For, behold, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which cometh of the earth, is ordained for the use of man for food and for raiment, and that he might have in abundance.
20 But it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another, wherefore the world lieth in sin.
21 And wo be unto man that sheddeth blood or that wasteth flesh and hath no need.
Couldn’t agree more. The world is fast becoming a place that doesn’t allow the mind to think for itself.
We are the resistance.
Yeah…no. I was banned for posting about government.
Just got here. Was banned on X. Second account keeps getting throttled.
Sounds good to me.
Some of my ancestors were born near Prague.
To simply breathe and enjoy family reunited.
Bitcoin isn’t without its own tethers to this financial world from which we need protection.
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Someone shared this brief video on the Trinity with me and I think it's pretty good, and might even be helpful for our Muslim fellow monotheists:
https://youtube.com/shorts/mkwHJhIAhbQ
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These are definitions from the minds of men, not of God. This is, of course, my own personal testimony which I will share below.
“In contrast to the belief that God is an incomprehensible and unknowable mystery is the truth that the nature of God and our relationship to Him is knowable and is the key to everything else in our doctrine. The Bible records Jesus’s great Intercessory Prayer, where He declared that “this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).”
God the Father and his son Jesus Christ are just as separate as you and I are.
The development of the Trinity was a politcal seizure of power and control. Mystifying God and his nature, and in extension our nature and true relationship to him allowed the powers that be to further instill the idea that royalty and the like were men divinely appointed to rule over the inferior masses.
In truth? All men and women are indeed created equal. We are all literal children of our Father in Heaven. This plain and precious truth defies the elite ruling class and their ever present agenda to subjugate all of mankind.
“The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us” (D&C 130:22).
“Any person that had seen the heavens opened knows that there are three personages in the heavens who hold the keys of power, and one presides over all. …
“… These personages … are called God the first, the Creator; God the second, the Redeemer; and God the third, the Witness or Testator.
“[It is] the province of the Father to preside as the Chief or President, Jesus as the Mediator, and the Holy Ghost as the Testator or Witness.”
—Joseph Smith
Questions like “Where did we come from?” “Why are we here?” and “Where are we going?” are answered in what the scriptures call the “plan of salvation,” the “great plan of happiness,” or the “plan of redemption” (Alma 42:5, 8, 11). The gospel of Jesus Christ is central to this plan.
As spirit children of God, in an existence prior to mortality, we desired a destiny of eternal life but had progressed as far as we could without a mortal experience in a physical body.
To provide that opportunity, our Heavenly Father presided over the Creation of this world, where, deprived of our memory of what preceded our mortal birth, we could prove our willingness to keep His commandments and experience and grow through the other challenges of mortal life.
But in the course of that mortal experience, and as a result of the Fall of our first parents, we would suffer spiritual death by being cut off from the presence of God, be soiled by sin, and become subject to physical death. The Father’s plan anticipated and provided ways to overcome all of those barriers.
In concluding his second letter to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul makes this almost offhand reference to the Godhead of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion [or fellowship] of the Holy Ghost, be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:14).
This biblical scripture represents the Godhead and references the all-defining and motivating love of God the Father, the merciful and saving mission of Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost.
It all begins with God the Father. While we know comparatively little about Him, what we know is decisive in understanding His supreme position, our relationship to Him, and His superintending role in the plan of salvation, the Creation, and all else that followed.
As Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote just before his death: “In the ultimate and final sense of the word, there is only one true and living God. He is the Father, the Almighty Elohim, the Supreme Being, the Creator and Ruler of the universe.” He is the God and Father of Jesus Christ, as well as of all of us.
President David O. McKay taught that “the first fundamental truth advocated by Jesus Christ was this, that behind, above and over all there is God the Father, Lord of heaven and earth.”
Jesus spoke often of his Father. His words were never meant to conflate his being with that of his Father’s.
What we know of the nature of God the Father is mostly what we can learn from the ministry and teachings of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. As Elder Jeffrey R. Holland has taught, one of the paramount purposes of Jesus’s ministry was to reveal to mortals “what God our Eternal Father is like, … to reveal and make personal to us the true nature of His Father, our Father in Heaven.” The Bible contains an apostolic witness that Jesus was “the express image” of His Father’s person (Hebrews 1:3), which merely elaborates Jesus’s own teaching that “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9).
God the Father is the Father of our spirits. We are His children. He loves us, and all that He does is for our eternal benefit. He is the author of the plan of salvation, and it is by His power that His plan achieves its purposes for the ultimate glory of His children.
To mortals, the most visible member of the Godhead is Jesus Christ. A great doctrinal statement by the First Presidency in 1909 declares Him to be “the firstborn among all the sons of God—the first begotten in the spirit, and the only begotten in the flesh.” The Son, the greatest of all, was chosen by the Father to carry out the Father’s plan—to exercise the Father’s power to create worlds without number (see Moses 1:33) and to save the children of God from death by His Resurrection and from sin by His Atonement. This supernal sacrifice is truly called “the central act of all human history.”
On those unique and sacred occasions when God the Father personally introduced the Son, He has said, “This is my beloved Son: hear him” (Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35; see also 3 Nephi 11:7; Joseph Smith—History 1:17). Thus, it is Jesus Christ, Jehovah, the Lord God of Israel, who speaks to and through the prophets. So it is that when Jesus appeared to the Nephites after His Resurrection, He introduced Himself as “the God of the whole earth” (3 Nephi 11:14). So it is that Jesus often speaks to the prophets of the Book of Mormon and to the Latter-day Saints as “the Father and the Son,” a title explained in the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve’s inspired doctrinal exposition just 100 years ago.
—Elder Dallin H Oaks
Jesus Christ is the “father of this earth” as he organized it with God the Father’s permission. He is the Son because he is the only literal mortal son of God the Father.
I could say so much more, but this is good to start.
Things for you to consider, friend. God speed!
#jesus
#trinity
No. WE are not normalizing these absurdities. Do NOT give in to this!
A 50-year mortgage isn’t homeownership; it’s indentured servitude with extra steps. You don’t “own” something when the bank can repo it until you’re pushing 90 (or dead). You’re just a high-tech sharecropper making interest payments on land you’ll never truly control in your lifetime. The equity build is so slow it’s practically a rounding error for decades, while inflation and maintenance eat whatever crumbs you scrape together.
That’s why it feels like the polite, smiling version of “You’ll own nothing and be happy.”
Instead of outright seizing property (the blunt WEF-sounding version), they just stretch the debt horizon past a human lifespan so you’re psychologically pacified with the word “owner” on the deed while functionally remaining a permanent renter to the financial system. Same outcome, softer sell.
While you’re chained to payments until you’re 85, the banks are collecting two to three times the home’s original price in interest, risk-free, backed by the full force of government and your future labor. It’s not just profit; it’s guaranteed, taxpayer-insured wealth transfer from working people to the financial class.
On a typical $400k home:
• 30-year loan → ~$650k–$750k total paid
• 50-year loan → $1.1M–$1.3M+ total paid
That extra half-million isn’t going to build more houses. It’s going straight into bank vaults, executive bonuses, and shareholder dividends. And since these loans would likely be packaged into mortgage-backed securities (hello 2008 flashbacks), the risk gets offloaded onto pensions, 401(k)s, and eventually taxpayers again when it blows up.
Meanwhile, the same institutions pushing this are the ones who:
• Lobbied against zoning reform (fewer homes = higher prices = bigger loans = more interest)
• Fund NIMBY groups that block new construction
• Profit when prices crash (they foreclose and resell) and when they rise (bigger mortgages)
It’s a closed-loop extraction machine.
The 50-year mortgage isn’t a bug; it’s the endgame: turning the American Dream into a perpetual subscription service where the house always belongs to BlackRock, JPMorgan, or whoever holds the note, and you’re just the tenant with extra paperwork.
There is NOTHING more precious than family. God speed!
I’m new to all of this. Thank you for the heads up. Was banned on X. Looking for viable alternatives.
You have an interesting story to tell…
Strategic Use…
Politicians and activists often use the Overton window deliberately:
• “Door-opening” strategy: Push a more extreme position to make your real goal look moderate by comparison (the “anchor” effect).
• “Window-moving” strategy: Work for decades to normalize an idea (e.g., think tanks funding research, media appearances, model legislation).
• The “Overton paradox”: Sometimes the window moves so fast that yesterday’s radical idea becomes today’s consensus (or vice versa).
The Overton window (also called the window of discourse) is a concept in political science that describes the range of policies or ideas that are considered politically acceptable or mainstream at a given time in a society.
Origin…
It was named after Joseph Overton, a policy analyst at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who developed the idea in the 1990s. Overton originally used it to explain to donors and policymakers why some libertarian ideas were “unthinkable” and how to make them thinkable over time.
#introductions