?cid=2154d3d7h78tvsyasyew5w3hytftjj6dzch003x36tys4ujx&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=gWhen I woke up this morning it was 34F. Winter is almost here. It is a good thing I brought my pots of tomatoes and jalapenos inside yesterday.
Those are beautiful.
It doesn't look like the US will quit instigating until Russia attacks NATO, if not the US. Of course, when Russia attacks, to defend itself, they will again be accused of being the aggressor and most Americans will likely believe the lies.
#grownostr
Coming to the USA.
Is there anything government touches that they don't ruin?
Lavrov Calls ‘Unprecedented’ US, NATO Drills Involving Use of Nuclear Weapons on Russia
From Sputnik
UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The joint drills between the United States and its European NATO allies that involve the use of nuclear weapons on the territory of Russia, among other things, has been “unprecedented” since the end of the Cold War, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday.
Sep 23rd 2023 12:14pm EDT
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Is there anything else the US and NATO can do to instigate Russia causing WWIII? It is hard to think of anything they haven't already done.
Good thing I bought extras and have them on the shelf in case of emergency.
I'd add, be careful when you blindly follow the masses because sometimes the people you are following are just as blind and uninformed as you are.
#grownostr #memestr
The old-fashioned cure is better.
FYI, it also works best if your soup is made with homemade bone broth.
#grownostr #memes #memestr
If you've wondered why the media always seems to report the pharmaceutical company's lies, this is why. The pharmaceutical companies don't have so many commercials on the news primarily to convince people to "ask their doctor about ...", but because they are paying the media to not report inconvenient facts. They can't legally pay the media to not report facts, but they can advertise so much that the media would go out of business if the pharmaceutical companies withdrew all of their advertising. That keeps the media in line.
#grownostr #science #truth
This quote, written decades ago, seem to describe today's society and people so well.
"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted."
-- Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World Revisited"
#grownostr #society #truth #normal
You sound like my son. He prefers things like a wrinkled and torn piece of scratch paper to a formal book mark. He has used torn pieces of paper, that I would have thrown away years ago, as a book mark for years and gets upset if something happens to it. I guess he likes bookmarks with character.
Reading. I love reading.
It varies from person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy. I do think eating well helps make it less bad. Luckily I never threw up and never missed work. I did have a few miserable days when the A/C wasn't working where the heat combined with mild morning sickness made me miserable. Stay cool. That helps.
I don't see anyone doing it regularly, but I could see someone wanting the down time to read or work or something instead of paying attention driving. If you can get enough other things done while just sitting on the train, it could be worth it. I agree that most people won't do it, especially a big family. It may be worthwhile when one person is traveling, but it is hard to justify when you have a family of 4 or more.
#Reformed #Christian #grownostr
>Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other. For, in the first place, no man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone. In the second place, those blessings which unceasingly distil to us from heaven, are like streams conducting us to the fountain. Here, again, the infinitude of good which resides in God becomes more apparent from our poverty. In particular, the miserable ruin into which the revolt of the first man has plunged us, compels us to turn our eyes upwards; not only that while hungry and famishing we may thence ask what we want, but being aroused by fear may learn humility. For as there exists in man something like a world of misery, and ever since we were stript of the divine attire our naked shame discloses an immense series of disgraceful properties every man, being stung by the consciousness of his own unhappiness, in this way necessarily obtains at least some knowledge of God. Thus, our feeling of ignorance, vanity, want, weakness, in short, depravity and corruption, reminds us (see Calvin on John 4:10), that in the Lord, and none but He, dwell the true light of wisdom, solid virtue, exuberant goodness. We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself? Who, in fact, does not thus rest, so long as he is unknown to himself; that is, so long as he is contented with his own endowments, and unconscious or unmindful of his misery? Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.
excerpted from John Calvin, [Institutes of the Christian Religion, I.i](https://ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes/institutes.iii.ii.html) - free online at CCEL
I need to finish reading Calvin's institutes. I was mostly through volume 1 and went on vacation. I didn't want to carry a heavy book that was almost finished, so I started another book. I'm now reading another 2 volume >1000 page book(s). When I finish it, I need to get back to the Institutes. There are so many things that I want to read that I sometimes jump from one to another.
I don't know on what platform you are referring or what use you are referring to, but on a windows computer, you can hold the windows, shift, and s keys to get into the snip-it tool and then select anything on your screen to copy into the clipboard and then paste it where ever you wish. I use it frequently when writing up procedures, because I can show what I'm looking at.
Experiencing difficulty can make us appreciate the good times even more.