My double rainbows

#grownostr #rainbow

I've done great on my planting garlic, but I always seem to harvest late, so I've mostly used my old garlic to plant new plants rather than using my garlic much.

There is stuff like this all over the globe with both stories and artwork depicting dinosaurs. There is only one reasonable explanation for these, and that is that people and dinosaurs lived together. The dragon legends that exist on every continent, except Antartica, are stories of dinosaurs before the term dinosaur was coined.

Maybe you know. I got some comfrey roots last fall. I've been growing them in a pot all winter. They've gotten quite large. How warm does the weather need to be to transplant them to my garden? How frost tolerant are the leaves?

I'll definitely check out Greg Judy, but I personally really like books and they are handier when you need to reference a particular piece of information.

I'm in the process of writing a short book/booklet on why a person needs God/Jesus. I'm sharing the first 2 chanpters (intro and first real chapter) for your reading pleasure. I would love any feedback I can get. I am pasting into NOSTR notes, but I'll try to attach a pdf which will be easier to read.

#grownostr #needgod #god #jesus #christian #christianity #atheism #agnostic #faith #creation

II. What is special about Jesus/God?

Questions about God/Jesus:

So you’ve probably heard Christians say that Jesus is God, and that He is holy, perfect, and all powerful. Maybe you’ve heard he is a big killjoy who tells you lots of fun things you aren’t allowed to do. You’ve probably heard that God is love, but you see all the heartache in the world and wonder how an all-powerful, loving God could possibly allow all of that evil and heartache. You may have even thought that surely all of the hurt in the world proves that there can’t be an all-powerful, loving God.

Are gods just one and the same?

The God of the Bible is not just another name for the god worshiped by other religions. Not all gods, worshiped by man, are the same. Many religions have a god who is kind of like a super hero. He or she has emotions and actions like a normal person, but has extra powers. This purported god is stronger and more powerful than a man. They may have special powers. They may live forever, but still they are just exaggerated people.

One example is the Greek and Roman Gods. They still have the same petty arguments that normal people have. They fight each other. They are selfish. They use people as little more than their pets. Why should we trust or worship a god or gods like that? Why should anyone worship a god that has so many faults and is so understandable?

There are also gods like Allah of the Muslim faith. Allah is a harsh god who requires everyone to live life exactly as he says. This includes destroying anyone who doesn’t worship faithfully. His followers are rewarded for doing things like suicide bombing unbelievers. He treats women as possessions. If you read the Koran, the author doesn’t seem to know whether to respect Jews or annihilate the Jews. In the beginning the Koran sounds almost like a Jewish sect, but by the end it is full of hate, destruction, and sexual abuse of women (rape of unbelievers, marriage to children, multiple wives, etc.) The self contradictions are almost schizophrenic.

If there truly is an all powerful creator God, wouldn’t we expect that God to be so much beyond man that man cannot comprehend Him? Wouldn’t we expect a God who is consistent in who He is and what he expects of his followers? Wouldn’t we hope that He was loving and wanted what was best for us? All of this and more is true about the God of the bible.

CREATOR GOD:

The first thing we should know about God is that he is the creator of everything. The Bible starts with the verse “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. “ (Genesis 1:1) God spoke the very universe into existence. He created time and space, matter and energy, things seen and unseen. “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. “ (Colossians 1:16)

He didn’t work hard to create everything that exists. It wasn’t hard for him to create all of the complications of life or a perfect planet designed to support life or the vast expanse and beauty of the universe. God spoke everything into existence in 6 days. If you read Genesis 1 you will see him repeatedly speaking things into existence. In fact it seems so easy for him that Genesis 1:14-16 says on the 4th day that “Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.” Creation was so easy for God that making all of the stars in the universe is stated almost as an aside, “He made the stars also”.

The wisdom, creativity, and power of the creator God is beyond anything we mortal men can comprehend. He is not a little god. He is an incomprehensibly awesome God.

He didn’t just speak the universe, and everything in it, into existence. He is “upholding all things by the word of his power” (Hebrews 1:3a). The Bible also says, (Eccl 3:14) “I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it”. These verses basically state the most well proven law in all of science, the 1st law of thermodynamics which states that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. They can only change forms. This is because God created all of the energy and matter in the universe and upholds it with His word. Nothing created can destroy what God has created. He is all powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.

He also isn’t limited by time or space. 2 Peter 3:8 states, “But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.” and Jeremiah 1:5 states “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Basically, because God is outside time, he knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen throughout all of time. Because we are limited by time and space, it is hard to comprehend how someone could act outside of time, but what kind of God would deserves our trust and worship more than an incomprehensibly all powerful God who knows everything?

GOD OF LOVE:

The God of the Bible is a God that is not only all powerful, but He is also a God of Love.

God made an Earth that is perfect for life. He gave us the Sun, Moon, and stars to give us light by day and by night, to give us beauty to look at, to help us tell time, to give us warmth and to help things grow. He gave Abraham and Sarah a new home and a son in their old age. He protected the Israelites from starvation by putting Joseph 2nd in charge in Egypt. He led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt. He gave them laws to help them know what was best. Most of all, He sent His son to Earth to live a perfect life, die a horrific death on the cross for our sins, and rise again to life ascending to heaven.

When most people think of the sacrifices of Jesus, they think of Him being falsely accused, being beaten nearly to death, and dying an agonizing death on the cross. All of these were the ultimate sacrifice. It is more than any man or woman could ever comprehend willingly doing for another. Even if we wanted to do so for another, would any of us go through all of the way without tapping out? I don’t think so.

For God, the sacrifice was so much more. As humans the mental and physical torment Jesus experienced is as great a torment as we can comprehend. Jesus did more. Jesus is an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God. He is not limited by time or space or anything else other than his moral nature. Coming to Earth and living as a man is way more of a sacrifice than if one of us came down to Earth as a one celled bacteria. The limitations He put on Himself were unfathomable cruel. This takes claustrophobia to a whole new level. He gave up so much of what He was to come to Earth and live among us. “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. “ (John 15:13) Jesus sacrificed everything for us because He knew we could not pay the price ourselves. Jesus is love personified.

TRINITY: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit

Another incomprehensible thing about God is that He is a trinity: three in one. He is one God, but three persons – God the Father, God the son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit.

Our finite minds can’t comprehend how someone can be three persons, but only one God, but that is what God is.

There are a number of analogies that help us understand the trinity, but none of them fully explain what the trinity is. We can not fully understand the trinity until the time we spend in eternity with Him, and although we will understand more in the afterlife, we may never fully understand.

One analogy of the trinity is the different roles of a person. I am a wife, a mother, and a business owner. I act differently acting in my different roles, but I also have certain traits that are universal because I am me. As a Wife I am encouraging, loving, submissive, romantic, and supportive. As a Mom I am also encouraging and loving, but I guide, teach, act as an example, and punish. As a business owner I encourage, train, discipline, and help my employees. You’ll notice there are commonalities between my roles, but I also act differently in my different roles. The trinity is kind of like that, but they are more one and more three than my example. Although I sometimes talk to myself, I can’t really interact socially with myself like the trinity can with the different parts of the trinity. I am more one. I can’t truly be 3 persons.

The Trinity is also somewhat like the 3 states of water, ice, (liquid) water, and water vapor. They are all water. They are all H2O, but if you look at ice, water, and water vapor, they all have different traits and don’t look or act the same.

I’ve also heard the example of three blind men that discover an elephant. One puts his hands on a leg and describes it as tall, strong, and built like a tree. Another blind man puts his hands on an ear. He feels something that is thin and wide and feels something like a large leaf. The third blind man puts his hand on the trunk. He feels something long, flexible, and shaped like a hose or a snake. Each part seems so different, but they are all parts of the elephant.

The last example I’ve heard came from a Southern Baptist pastor who has a food analogy for almost any Biblical principle. He always said that the trinity is as simple as cherry pie. If you have a cherry pie and cut it into three slices. Looking at it, it is clearly 3 different pieces of pie, but inside the cherry filling runs through the whole pie and is one cherry pie. There is no separation between the pieces. He would state, “the trinity is as simple as cherry pie.”

None of these analogies fully explain how the trinity works, but they give us some idea of what it means to be three-in-one or a trinity. If someone was making up a god to manipulate people, they would not make up something so confusing and incomprehensible about their god. On the other hand, a god who is the author of everything that exists is likely to have personal traits that are hard for His creation to comprehend.

The trinity also is important in who God is. A loving God that is all alone would need his creation because he would be lonely and have no one to love. A trinitarian God has company and someone to love in the other two persons of the trinity. This God doesn’t NEED his creation even if He wants and loves his creation.

HOLY GOD:

God is a holy God.

“Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy” (Leviticus 19:2).

What is holy? The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition states that holy is “exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness.”

God’s holiness is partly due to his absolute goodness. He never does anything wrong or mean or hurtful, but he does punish those who do wrong, mean, and hurtful things. He is so perfect that sinful man cannot stand to be in his presence. When God spoke to the Israelites on Mount Sinai it was necessary to keep everyone and everything off the mountain because they would be destroyed by his holiness. The people, in sight of the mountain, had to purify themselves and get right with God. The very presence of God was so awesome that the people stayed at a distance and even asked for Moses to talk to God and relay messages because being in God’s holy presence was more than they could stand (just as a guilty man avoids the light).

When Moses had been in the presence of God, his face would glow with such brightness that it terrified the people and he had to wear a veil.

When Moses asked to see God’s glory (an amazing request considering all he had already seen) God responded “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.” 20But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!” 21Then the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock; 22and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. 23Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.” (Exodus 33:19-23) God’s glory was so awesome that Moses couldn’t look at God’s face or he would die.

In Isaiah chapter 6, Isaiah is brought into the presence of God to have prophecy shared with him.

1In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3And one called out to another and said,

“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts,

The whole earth is full of His glory.”

4And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. 5Then I said,

“Woe is me, for I am ruined!

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I live among a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

6Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.” (Isaiah 6:1-7)

Notice how Isaiah is distraught at being in God’s presence. Being in God’s presence helps him to see how sinful and unworthy he truly is. Nothing but God’s grace can save him from his sinful nature.

We truly cannot comprehend the God of the Bible. He is greater and more holy and more worthy of worship than we can ever comprehend, but those of us who have trusted Him as savior are joyed to spend all of eternity trying.

As a holy God, the God of the Bible cannot stand to be around sin/evil. In the days of Noah God said in Genesis 6:5 “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” The God of the bible could not abide the evil of the world and chose to destroy that evil by destroying every living thing on the Earth. Being a loving and merciful God, though, He saved Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives and saved at least a pair of every animal kind on the Earth.

“The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all” (Psalm 103:19)

Judgment and the Wrath of God:

Most people don’t like to think about the wrath of God. It is much more comfortable to think about a warm and fuzzy loving God. Somehow wrath seems below God because with people wrath is frequently associated with a loss of self-control or wounded pride or a bad temper or selfishness. This couldn’t be farther from the truth regarding the wrath of God.

As we previously read, God is a holy God. He hates evil. He can’t abide theft, lies, impurity, hate, envy, disrespect, etc. A holy God would not be holy if He ignored evil. A holy God can only be holy if He judges objective moral evil. He is a righteous judge, unlike most judges here on Earth. He perfectly judges evil. Because He is all knowing, He knows the whole truth and every bit of the truth. He even knows every thought we have or ever will have. Because He is holy, He gives just the right sentence to the guilty. Unfortunately, this does not bode well for the sinner and we all have sinned. God’s wrath is the perfect administration of justice.

“2 A jealous and avenging God is the Lord;

The Lord is avenging and wrathful.

The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries,

And He reserves wrath for His enemies.

3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,

And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.

In whirlwind and storm is His way,

And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;

He dries up all the rivers.

Bashan and Carmel wither;

The blossoms of Lebanon wither.

5Mountains quake because of Him

And the hills dissolve;

Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence,

The world and all the inhabitants in it.

6Who can stand before His indignation?

Who can endure the burning of His anger?

His wrath is poured out like fire

And the rocks are broken up by Him.

7The Lord is good,

A stronghold in the day of trouble,

And He knows those who take refuge in Him.

8But with an overflowing flood

He will make a complete end of its site,

And will pursue His enemies into darkness

(Nahum 1:2-8)

We do not want to be on the judgment end of our holy God’s wrath. We desperately need to be under his grace.

Right and Wrong are defined by the creator God:

As creator, God has the right to define right and wrong, what we should and should not do, and what we are and should be. “Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them” (Acts 4:24).

We were made with a purpose, primarily to serve and worship Him. Some may say, “why do we have to do what He wants”, but as the creator, He has the right to say what his creation must do.

“18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. 19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? 22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. “ (Romans 9:18-23)

The creator has a full right to require whatever He desires from His creation. When we fulfill our purpose we find joy and peace because we are doing what we are created to do. When we live other than according to God’s purpose, we feel anxious; we search for something to fill that hole in our soul; we feel loss; and we get caught up in lots of things that are not good for us in our search for pleasure and for meaning in our life. When we fail to live according to our purpose, we are also opposing the all powerful, holy God and He isn’t happy. We become the object of his judgment.

Below are a few more verses on God’s sovereignty. It may be hard for us to submit, but that is what we must do as created beings of our Lord and creator.

“Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all” (1 Chronicles 29:11).

“Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them” (Acts 4:24).

“God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness” (Hebrews 12:10)

“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts’” (Isaiah 55:8-9)

I'm looking into potentially getting sheep to raise on my small acreage (4.5 acres fenced, but probably ~3 acres available to sheep. Can anyone recommend a book on sheep raising that would help me know what to do to raise sheep and also help me know what I am getting myself into and what infrastructure I need to have in place before getting the sheep?

#grownostr #sheep #livestock #katahdin #hairsheep

We've been watching the Chosen as a family.

Bitcoin is not anti-Christian, but I do think a CBDC will be how buying and selling will be controlled during the time predicted in Revelation. CBDC explains how this could happen. I never could understand how buying and selling could be controlled until talk of CBDC came into being.

These little guys are going to be hard to kill. They are so cute and so curious. I want to hold and pet them, but know that will just make it harder to kill them.

This isn't even a good picture of them.

We (Wyoming) got hit by a squall like that yesterday. I thought we were getting hit by a tornado the wind got and was moaning so bad and then the bottom dropped out and it rained like it doesn't normally rain in Wyoming. I was about to leave for work, but delayed leaving till the storm passed. I did not want to be out in that mess.

When we used to have chickens, I had my husband do the deed, but then I did most of the rest of the butchering. I was counting on him doing the deed on our bunnies (we had our first litter 3-4 weeks ago), but they are so stinking cute, he is having issues with it. I might have to do the deed myself.

Instead of picking out a cute, friendly breed, I should have stuck with the plain white, not so cute New Zealands or Californians. I am looking to get another doe of one or the other of these breeds for breeding meat mutts.

This article from the Bob Livingston Alerts is a very interesting theory about the current debt limit fight and the push to implement CBDCs. I can't say it is fact, but it makes sense and is definitely a possibility. Judge for yourself.

In 2021 I published an article in which I outlined the deliberately engineered trap the Federal Reserve has created for the American economy. Specifically, I confronted the issue of strangled liquidity through increasing debt costs vs continued money printing and inflation.

It is an issue that Jerome Powell warned about in 2012, years before he became Fed Chairman; the consequences of creating a stimulus-dependent system and then cutting off the life support. As soon as he was installed as the head of the central bank, he implemented interest rate hikes and balance sheet cuts anyway while pretending as if all would be well.

The result? We just saw the beginning of the end with the latest banking crisis involving companies like SVB and Credit Suisse. It's not just U.S. finances, but banks around the world that rely on liquidity injections from the Fed to stay afloat. They addicted the system to cheap easy debt and now they are taking away the drugs. In other words, no one can honestly argue that the central bankers are ignorant or unaware of the threat. They know better than anyone what is about to happen, and they do not care.

But why does the establishment want a crisis now, instead of five years ago, or five years in the future?

Thankfully, much of the public is becoming aware of the various programs to introduce CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), but what they may not understand is the manner in which such massive economic changes usually happen. Generally speaking, in order to institute a new economic system, the banks have to take down the old system.

The last time we saw this happen was during and just after the Great Depression and WWII. The deflationary crash and the war conjured the proper amount of global chaos, and before the dust settled the allied nations instituted the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 making the dollar the de facto world reserve currency while locking the price of gold. Then they established the globalist International Monetary Fund the same year and the United Nations in 1945. The world was centralized dramatically in the span of a little over a decade.

I believe we are fast approaching another engineered singularity, a controlled demolition of existing systems to make way for a cashless society and global governance. I believe this because it's all the globalists can talk about these days; it's not as if they are trying to hide it anymore. The BIS and IMF are actively fielding one-world digital currency mechanisms right now; structures that would combine all national CBDCs under one umbrella. In the meantime, globalist think tanks like the WEF (World Economic Forum) are ranting excessively about the coming era of AI-controlled trade and a "4th Industrial Revolution" in which you will "own nothing, have no privacy" and will be forced to adapt to a cashless socialist "sharing economy."

All they need is a scapegoat to complete their crisis formula. War seems to work well in distracting the masses from the true culprits behind any financial calamity, and numerous institutions are hard at work to convince the public that countries like Russia are to blame for ongoing stagflation problems. Of course, the stagflation crisis started well before the war in Ukraine and many Americans are not buying the spin.

China, a dedicated partner to the globalist project, has shown consistent fealty to the IMF and is a key player in the move toward a one-world currency system. Because they are the largest importer/exporter on the planet and have considerable leverage over the U.S. dollar, they have the ability to strike the final blow as the dollar's world reserve status goes into decline. A heightened conflict with China would be a perfect rationale for the dumping of the Greenback, making way for the IMF's new global currency, called the UMU (Universal Monetary Unit).

However, foreign conflagrations will not be enough for the establishment to keep the American public from scrutinizing their actions. They need a domestic enemy, a frightening threat that lives right next door. That is to say, they need to find a way to blame conservatives and liberty activists for the impending crash that they caused.

Keep in mind that the Biden administration and the leftist media have been aggressively pumping out propaganda asserting that all our fiscal problems including our national debt are somehow rooted in conservative policies. This is nonsense.

At bottom, the majority of our economic threats can be traced directly back to the Federal Reserve as well as the larger international banks, and these institutions enact policy regardless of the political party that is in control of the government. But, if we're going to talk about the group that has most helped the central bankers set the current crisis in motion, the political left wins the prize.

It was Barack Obama and Joe Biden that doubled the U.S. national debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the span of eight years. Trump didn't help matters and did not institute spending cuts at the level he should have, but the bulk of his debt contributions occurred because of the COVID response. I have long criticized Trump for flooding his cabinet with a host of globalists and representatives from the banking cabal, but the accusations that Trump was somehow the guiding hand in the current financial crisis are simply untrue.

It was the Biden White House that pressed for COVID lockdown policies to stay in place for years when they should have been ended as soon as it became clear the COVID virus was a non-threat to 99.8 percent of the population. Biden made it impossible for the country to continue functioning without trillions in COVID stimulus, and it was those measures that finally broke the camel's back. Prices skyrocketed under Biden, not Trump.

The majority of our national debt problems were piled up during the reign of Democrats, and they continue to demand trillions more in spending without conditions.

In the past, the debt ceiling debate has been a predictable farce. Republicans demand cuts, they haggle with the Democrats who want a blank check, nothing is ever really resolved, and the debt ceiling gets raised yet again with no noticeable reductions in spending. The government keeps stealing from the American public at an exponential rate while also triggering more inflation.

Leftists argue that since a mountain of debt has already been accrued, they need to create new debt to pay off the old debt. And, if anyone ever takes legitimate steps to stop them, that group will be responsible for the implosion of the country through debt default. In other words, their argument is a circular con game: "We must keep spending more to fix the problems created by spending too much."

Making budget cuts is portrayed as an act of terrorism by the corporate media. Saving taxpayer money is evil, and conservatives who entertain the notion are also evil.

It would be fair to admonish Democrats for the frailty of their all-or-nothing philosophy; after all, budget cuts can easily be made while also paying for the national debt, right? But here's the thing, the national debt is not the biggest issue. Rather, it is the system's addiction to liquidity, as I noted earlier.

The Federal Reserve is taking away the punch bowl and this is setting the stage for a collapse. Government spending helps to obscure the greater crisis for a time, but what if the conservative effort to cut spending is exploited as a means to lay the collapse on their lap? The narrative is already being staged for this, which makes me wonder if this time a deal will not be magically struck in the eleventh hour. Maybe this time, the debt ceiling is never raised...

It's really a rather simple tactic. All the Democrats have to do is not allow any cuts and continue to demand more spending without conditions. Then, when the contingent of Republicans in Congress that actually cares about fiscal responsibility refuses to back down, the White House, the media and the majority of leftists initiate a propaganda wave, an artificial outcry suggesting that "radical" conservatives are destroying the economy.

Let's put it another way. The story will not be that leftists destroyed the economy because they refused to spend responsibly. No, the story will be that conservatives destroyed the economy because they "held America hostage with debt."

Or maybe not. Maybe this time is like all the other times and Republicans will cave in yet again and the ceiling is raised by another couple of trillion dollars. The talking points I'm seeing in the media and on social media, though, suggest to me that something very strange is about to happen in the debt fight. If it does go down the way I suspect, then it will be vitally important to disrupt the narrative. The economy is crashing for a lot of reasons and none of them have anything to do with the government spending less.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon SmithSee

#grownostr #CBDC #debtlimit

We have been having truly schizophrenic weather. We get snow and then shorts weather the next day. We get a high of 35 F and then a high of 70 F. I can't leave the house without checking the weather because every day is completely different. Today was a high in the upper 50s, but we had a storm go through with 50+ mph winds, hard rain (we normally only get 10-15" a year), and some small hail. Next week looks like the warm weather is finally here with all days predicted to be 68 F or greater up to 79 F.

I've tried to get liver into my life. I've tried Epic liver & beef bites and tried supplements from Heart & Soil. I generally liked both, but it seemed to amp me up and interfere with my sleep. I had to stop using both. I don't know why liver interferes with my sleep.

It is a miracle the US still has any allies with the way they treat them. Maybe they don't have any true allies. Most of them are bought, not earned. The moment the money quits flowing, these allies will be gone.

My son has always liked to read. When he was little, I would find him in some of the most unusual positions reading. When we were homeschooling, he would lie on the back of the couch, upside down on the seat, and other strange positions, but he learned liked nobody I've ever seen, so I let him do what worked.

I was trying to find the picture of my son sitting upside down, with a mesh bag over his head reading.

I'm using Iris on my laptop. I've been meaning to try out snort on my laptop and amethyst on my phone (I've never put social media on my phone before), but have been busy and haven't made it a priority. Iris works pretty well. When I try to follow someone it usually doesn't show that the follow worked until I manually refresh the page, but then I see that I am following. That is my main complaint.

Beautiful. It is a lot different than my views, although mine are beautiful, but different way. This was 3 weeks ago.

And nobody learns how to think in government schools. That is why homeschooling is so critical. Parents care about the kids and want them able to think for themselves. Teachers find it easier if all of the kids are compliant, so even the ones who think they are teaching kids to think, tend to act in such a way as to silence the independent thinkers teaching all of the kids to be silent, listen, and blindly follow.

As an employer I find it so frustrating. Very few people can problem solve. It is easy to find people if all they have to do if follow the formula you give them. If they actually have to think for themselves, problem solve, and figure things out for themselves, most seem to be incapable. I don't believe they are inherently that stupid. I think they are taught to be that way.

#homeschool