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Zeno of Citium c.335–c.263 bc Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism, stated:

“The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.”

(Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers ‘Zeno’ ch. 7)

If we would only heed this simple observation. Teaching the book of Job has demonstrated to me that we are often waiting for someone to finish talking so we can jump in with our big ideas or advice. Job’s so-called friends cannot wait to tell him why he is suffe…

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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but EVERY FUCKING RETAILER needs to show the tariffs next to the price -- not just Amazon.

Walmart, Target (where I do not shop), ALL OF THEM. It's a fucking tax, why shouldn't we see it?

I want to know exactly how much trump's tariffs are jacking my prices up. DON'T YOU?

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I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.

I want to be the one who stays composed, who sees the good even when things don’t go as planned. The kind of person who breathes through the little chaos and still finds beauty in how the day unfolds.

I want to be soft. I want to be steady.

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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾‍♀️.

Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!

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Educate yourself.

When a question about a certain topic pops up, google it. Watch movies and documentaries. When something sparks your interest, read about it.

Read, read, read.

Study, learn, and stimulate your brain.

Don't just rely on the school system; educate your beautiful mind.

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When might city council wards be redrawn to reflect growth? How much did local drug take-back efforts collect this past weekend? And Jerome residents are invited to Station 210 to see it up close.
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Tell me again why we’re letting a 78 year old, legit smelly, odorous, frail, loser old man who bankrupted a CASINO bankrupt the country?

Congress? Any answers?

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Jasmine Crockett to Pam Bondi:

So much respect for Jasmine Crockett.

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to avoid burn out at work use the 30-30 rule: after 30 minutes of work. quit your job. disappear into the mountains for 30 years.

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Same script used by Bolsheviks in Russia and Ukraine during the Red Terror. Altogether 60 million mostly Christians were killed to usher in a glorious but failed utopia.

What people do not understand is Bolsheviks are Marxist and Zionists and those folks are exactly who are running the US. Everything in the US is Zionist controlled from media down to finance to government. Interesting enough in Russia during the Red Terror, anti-semitism was punishable by death. Notice what is happening now - an…

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You sound like a Nazi. I was born a Jew, what is your excuse? And don't give me the idiotic excuse that you are referring to "zionists" and not Jews. 99% of Jews view Israel as there legitamite homeland. That has been view held by Jews long before the twentieth century.

You don't think there are any Christian Marxists or Media magnates? Have you ever heard of the Thompson family of Canada that owns Reuters? Who do you think the globalists are? Yes that's right second and third generations of Naz…

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I don't care what you were born as. How am I a Nazi? What did I say to make you think I am a Nazi? Is pointing out the simple fact that most Bolsheviks were Zionists and Marxists make me a Nazi? How is Israel a legitimate homeland? By what basis?

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The ignorance you spew is not surprising. Empirically, the claim that "most Bolsheviks were Zionists" does not hold up to historical scrutiny for several reasons:

Membership and Ideological Alignment: The Bolshevik Party, which led the Russian Revolution in 1917, consisted of a diverse group of revolutionaries from various ethnic and national backgrounds, including Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Jews, and others. While Jews were indeed represented within the Bolshevik Party and played …

You never answered my question. Why am I a Nazi? Instead you cut/paste some long-winded cookie-cutter answer about how I am an ignorant fool. My best answer to you is by a man that was imprisoned for most of his life in the Soviet Gulag...he would know more than you or I about what happened in Russia.

“We cannot state that all Jews are Bolsheviks. But without Jews, there would never have been Bolshevism. For a Jew, nothing is more insulting than the truth. The blood maddened Jewish terrorists have murdered sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.”

— Alexander Solschenizyn

If I am ignorant, you are a hypocrite.

In all that you wrote, you never mentioned, not even once, the current genocide against the Palestinians being perpetrated by Zionists. The death toll is horrendous and hospitals are being targeted. Food is not allowed in at some check points. The land purchased was not swampland and desert wasteland. There were Palestinians living there and farming the land and they were systematically burned out of their homes and killed and herded up to live elsewhere.

So, all the protestations about how what I wrote is all lies, is unraveled by what is happening right now. AND the US is giving weapons and money to the Zionists! We are complicit in this genocide that Zionists in the US are pushing. So yes I am worried about this weapon of food scarcity being turned against the US at some later date.

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