Another terrific sermon on sidebar, "How to Respond Biblically to Evil"

This one is SO MUCH needed, because - and this has been going on for decades - people are under the impression that Christians are supposed to just let people walk all over them, and be all smiley smiley about it.  Uh-uh!  Because that's called dissimulation - pretending that everything's just fine.  In short, lying. Yeah, we're not to return nasty for nasty, but when Brother Bob knowingly sells you that set of crappy tires, we're not to get all gushy-gushy when we see him at church.  Certainly, be civil, but it's very okay to not invite him to your Christmas party.   Both saved and unsaved, really need to hear this very excellent sermon.

Bible Verses

 

TABLE OF BIBLE VERSES (KING JAMES)

OLD TESTAMENT 

Genesis 01:28

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

Genesis 02:02-03

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 

Genesis 03:18

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shall eat the herb of the field;

Genesis 04:12

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. 

Genesis 04:17

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 04:18

And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. 

Genesis 04:20-21

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

Genesis 04:22

And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Genesis 04:23

And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

Genesis 05:23-24

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 06:12

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Genesis 07:02

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Genesis 07:14

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 09:02

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Exodus 03:05

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 17:12

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Exodus 20:25-26

And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Exodus 21:27

And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

Exodus 34:4

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

 

Leviticus 26:22

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

 

Numbers 13:23

And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

 

Deuteronomy 03:11

For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Deuteronomy 06:09

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Deuteronomy 07:06

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and LORD of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not person, nor taketh reward:

Deuteronomy 14:02

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 17:18

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

Deuteronomy 27:05-06

And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD they God: 

Deuteronomy 32:07

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

 

Joshua 04:03

And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.

 

Nehemiah 09:21

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

 

Job 10:22

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Job 23:15-16

Therefor am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.  For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 

Job 32:9

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Job 38:41

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Job 39:09-10

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?  Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will be harrow the valleys after thee?

 

Psalm 19:01

The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Psalm 19:09

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

Psalm 31:08

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Psalm 37:21

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. 

Psalm 41:06

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Psalm 44:01

We have learned with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. 

Psalm 44:18-19

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 68:04

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

Psalm 76:11

Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 

Psalm 89:07

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. 

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

Psalm 95:01

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. 

Psalm 104:21

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

Psalm 118:05

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me and set me in a large place. 

Psalm 119:89

For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

Psalm 130:03

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Psalm 131:01

LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Psalm 135:05

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

Psalm 147:04

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

 

Proverbs 01:25-26

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Proverbs 03:31

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Proverbs 04:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Proverbs 05:03-06

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:  But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Proverbs 07:21

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the LORAD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death

Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 

Proverbs 18:02

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

Proverbs 19:19

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

Proverbs 24:30-31

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, is was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 

Proverbs 28:01

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. 

Proverbs 28:26

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. 

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. 

Proverbs 31:06

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. 

Proverbs 31:21-22

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 

 

Ecclesiastes 01:09

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 

Ecclesiastes 03:15

That which that been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. 

Ecclesiastes 07:20              (Paul in the New Testament also said this)

For there is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. 

Ecclesiastes 08:11

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is fully set in them to do evil. 

Ecclesiastes 10:07

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

  

Isaiah 03:15

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 

Isaiah 04:01

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. 

Isaiah 05:08                    

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 

Isaiah 13:21

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

Isaiah 28:08

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

Isaiah 42:08

I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Isaiah 43:11

I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

Isaiah 46:01

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. 

Isaiah 52:10

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the end of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 

Isaiah 54:01                       See Galatians 04:27

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 55:02

Wherefor do ye spend money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which satisifieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 

Isaiah 64:06

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 

Isaiah 65:05

Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.  These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. 

Isaiah 66:04

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before min eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

  

Jeremiah 06:16

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.  But they said, We will not walk therein.  

Jeremiah 07:24

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 

Jeremiah 09:05

And they will deceive every one this neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 

Jeremiah 10:23

O LORD I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 

Jeremiah 12:04

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?  the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. 

Jeremiah 49:33

And Hazor shall be a swelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 51:17

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every found is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

 

Daniel 12:02

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

 

Amos 02:14

Therefor the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

Amos 08:04

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail.

Amos 08:11                   

Behold the days come, saith the Lord GOD that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

 

Jonah 04:06

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief.  So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

 

Micah 01:08

Therefor I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Micah 04:05

For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

Habakkuk 01:15                            

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

 

Malachi 01:03

And I hate Esau, and I laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

 

 

NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 07:13-14

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matthew 12:43

When an unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

 

Mark 05:07

And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure they by God, that thou torment me not.

 Mark 09:44, 09:46, 09:48

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Mark 10:06

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

 

Luke 08:31-32

And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.  And there was there an herd of many swine, feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them.  And he suffered them.

 Luke 13:24

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Luke 16:08

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Luke 16:22

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried. 

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receives thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, thou art tormented.

Luke 16:28

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 

 

John 05:29

And shall come forth: that that have done good, unto the resurrection of life: and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 

 

Acts 04:12

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we might be saved.

Acts 17:28

For in him we live, and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

 

Romans 01:19-20

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewe3d it unto them.  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so they are without excuse:

Romans 08:22

For we know t6hat the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Romans 08:25                   

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

 

1 Corinthians 02:14

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

1 Corinthians 06:18

Flee fornication.  Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 

1 Corinthians 07:28

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned.  Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. 

1 Corinthians 11:08-09

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.  Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 

1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.  And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

 

2 Corinthians 04:18

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

2 Corinthians 06:17

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

 

Galatians 04:27                 see Isaiah 54:01

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. 

 

Ephesians 03:05

Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; 

Ephesians 05:15-16

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Ephesians 05:19                               

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

 

Colossians 03:02

Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.

Colossians 03:18

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 

Colossians 03:19

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.  

 

1 Thessalonians 04:11-12

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. 

 

2 Thessalonians 02:09

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,  

2 Thessalonians 02:10-11

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 

 

Titus 02:04

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

 

Hebrews 09:27

And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 

Hebrews 10:25

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 

Hebrews 11:05

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 

Hebrews 11:25

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Hebrews 12:15

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Hebrews 13:04

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

 

James 01:19

Wherefor, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

James 02:10

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

James 02:16-17

And if one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?  Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

 

1 Peter 04:04

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

1 Peter 04:18

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

  

2 Peter 02:04

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 

 

1 John 01:10

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 03:12

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.  And wherefore slew he him?  Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

 

Jude 01:06

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 

Jude 01:14

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Oh, here we go again - twice the number of women are taking mental meds / suffer depression

In other words, women are incompetent, weak-minded.  But what stats not being mentioned - how convenient - are things like: the dui, and other loads upon society.  In other words, who's likely to be pulled over and charged with driving under the influence of either alcohol or illegal drugs?  Also, which of the two sexes is, in way higher percentages, charged with crimes like, threatening a store employee with a knife, or simply mugging some old guy - who's barely getting by on his pension?  Which of the two sexes is designing/running computer scams?  Now, maybe i am wrong, but getting way drunk/high as a kite about every friday; getting arrested for beating the tar out of someone - for basically no reason; holding up a liquor store, deceiving someone out of their savings...these don't sound like the sorts of things done by mentally/emotionally sound people.   

Forgot my paper tablet, so will have to use blog.

And, boy, had Pastor Jason been peeved.  Barb could still recall the details.  Oh, that sermon!  Why, he wasn't even halfways through it, when she felt sheol's foul flames nipping at her feet.  And she'd, being but a maiden, had nothing to do with having erected the poles, nor having pounding the severed heads upon them.  But, it didn't matter.  There she was, at the mourner's bench, pleading - right alongside the two or, was it three, of the returned sentries - pleading for the Most High God's mercy;  not to be cast, and left - forever - in that horrible place - where hot slimey worms, with big fangs, craw and bite.  So scared, out of her wits, the last thing on her mind, was to smirk at Mash's obvious trembling - he'd been the hapless beggar, also on bended knee, beside her.

Barb never cared for Mash, just something irritating about him.  A few years prior, her father had met with Mash's father.  That had been scary enough, but the prospect of ending up as his wife, was nothing compared with ...ugh, sheol.   Barb still felt that twinge of conscience from that day she'd found out that Mash was to wife another.  "Oh, better her," was the phrase in Barb's head, right after Mash and Rachael had exchanged their vowels to one another.  And neither did the "concerned" expression upon the rather reluctant bride's face escape maiden Barb's notice. 

At the time, Barb was still sorting through leftovers to make raiment for her dolly, while Rachael had some years since, stitched a wedding garment upon hers, and lain it among the so far acquired contents of her hope chest.  A lovely garment it was, for Rachael did beautiful stitches.  The two women were different, but over the years had become friends. 

Maybe if Rachael had stood up for herself, from the get-go...but Rachael was Rachael, and it wasn't Barb's business to horn in.  Still, it bothered her how the elders would just look the other way.  Yeah, like several days ago, during the later portion of the community's pot-luck - a monthly function they had.  Well Rachael had been conversing with another friend, and wanted to stay for just a short while longer.  Barb, on her way back from using the outhouse, wasn't in on the details, but she heard the slap - and saw how atleast one of the elders, who was within earshot...neither heard, nor saw, nothing.

Barb didn't, and probably never would, understand it.  Why would Mash have any cause to strike Rachael?  She was so pretty - no, she was gorgeous - always neat, her garments just everso - and gentle in all her ways; unlike Barb, who'd simply run a quick brush through her hair, tie it up, throw on what she'd worked in the day before, and go about her business.  While Barb kept things neat and  in order, Rachael was super neat, about everything - even her work dress; a fresh one, every day; if she'd gotten so much as a small rend, she'd, quicktime change into another.  Same with Rachael's little girl; in fact, the child wasn't even allowed to get dirty.  Barb, remembering her childhood - booger-bear, hide-and-seek, lord-of-he-hill, felt a bit sorry for the child.

Scripture where the worm dieth not.

Still adding to the story, later on will upload. But for now

 this medieval music is so beautiful :)   Cannot get enough of it.  Per a comment, in one of the you-tube sites, goes sort of like this:  "Who'd of thought, back then, we'd be listening to their music, on hand-held devices."  And no, am not going to join up with any skankoid costume group, anytime soon.  Dresses i wear everyday are just f-i-n-e with me.  Some a bit threadbare, but hey, the distressed look is okay - even though, it's not entirely a political statement.  Fashion?  That's too much like conformity.

On a related topic, Preacher, last Sunday, was saying how the Lord's people aren't supposed to get mixed up in worldly issues.  That's a difficult one.  i so HATE, with a passion, this androg push; it's so soul killing.  Every morning, look out the bus window, and the ... oh, what's that word Daniel Amneus used in his "Garbage Generation: The Consequences of the Two Parent Family And The Need to Stabilize It By 
Strengthening Its Weakest Link, The Father's Role" Primrose Press, 1991  

Oh, whatever, ya know, the feeling of having no purpose, no future, of having only the next cheap vanity to look forward - which, way more than not, is a d-u-d, DUD!  It's etched into people's faces, and to compound things - besides the awful UGLY clothing people are shambling about in...with winter coming on, the excuses-for-fabric, will have some teeth chattering, and noses blowing, and people fearing the covid. Phu-leeze :\    To compound things, aside of the consumer debt interest rates.  Prices for common things (food, clothing, shelter) are going to go up.

Some people at work said about a coming raise, and they're all happy.  Thing is, there's a reason.  Costs are going to go up.  Scary.  Scary, because for most people, living within their means, means living like a hillbilly.  Means not having movie subscriptions, vacations, ordering plastic foods and having the toxins delivered by an underpaid uber driver - who hopes to get atleast some tip.  Well yeah, dude has to eat too.  Means buying less legalized gambling tickets - ya know, the same outfit who claims to "benefit senior citizens."  Well guess what, have seen a few "senior citizens" who became poor, buying - on credit cards - those stupid tickets.  Means getting less pin-holes and (usually black ink) injected into ones flesh - i understand, the color ink costs way more; some guy at the grocery store told me, you have to go back and get those images retouched - cha-ching :\

Anyway, want to get back to the story.

Meanwhile, here in 2023 A.D. just read a post, which may answer the red-pills'

 whining question - why do women not "put out" so much, not long after the (shut up) ring?  Per the posts, there's quite an obsession with non-repro s3x - the sort that's more centered around the man and less around the woman - as if a gal's satisfaction doesn't really count for much.  Never mind the dehumanizing aspect, that's so much a part of non-repro s3x - especially for the "female."  

Yeah, per red-pill posts, you'll see alot of "man" and "female" in the same sentence.  Why?  Because these guys don't like women - simply because women don't think and act like men.  Well, no sheet sherlock!  We were created - not evolved from whatever pond muck - to have different abilities and thought processes.  And seriously have to ask, where along the lgbtq line are red-pills?  The stuff these peevesgo on about.

Not a popular thing - in a child bashing (if not killing) society - but s3x is repro-centered - which is why most forms of birth control, more or less, put a damper on the moment.  Ya know, the old story, where the guy grabs his rain coat, and the stupid wrapper ...  Some guys insist that getting snipped doesn't make any difference.  Really?  Meanwhile, so much hemotionalism going on.  Could it be, that sort of voluntary surgery does, sooner or later, adversely affect the mind?

Then again, maybe it's just this old fossil.  Back when my late husband and i were dating, he TOLD me early on, and flat out, there was NO WAY he was going to get a snip-job.  Well shoot, i didn't even hint that question, let alone ask.   

John's out-of-the blue reaction was music to my ears.  He was tall, dark, handsome, strong, AND virile.  Oh yeah, big difference. :)

Bustop near the trainstation had been redesigned - bet that came to 20 or 30k.

Thing is, there was nothing wrong with it, to begin with.  Before the money was blown, the shelter seated about twenty people upon roomy high-backed benches; they were ergonomic, before that word became fashionable.  

So there he was, just got off the train, but the bus won't be coming for close to another hour.  Sure, he thought of passing some time at a coffee bar...good luck with that; ever since people had decided they'd rather stay in their jimmy-jams, monday through friday...  Even question whether stuff is really getting done, uhm, that could set off some knashing of teeth, but i digress.  Our somewhat travel weary sojourner isn't from the area, and certainly does not want to miss bus #390.  

But surprise, surprise.  The long backed benches have been replaced with, maybe fifteen, dinky backless little squares to perch upon.  Yeah, heaven forbid, a person, in a barely familiar city, could relax a bit on a REAL bench, while waiting for the bus.  And by the way, doesn't Scripture speak of not oppressing the sojourner - ya know, the middle-aged dude with back trouble?

Oh, i wouldn't be surprised, if that purple-haired loudmouth had seen her mother - or maybe, a beloved aunt - get pushed around.

The gal had wanted NOTHING to do with anything feminine; twenty years later, still wanting to mock and scoff, at the very idea, of even so much as donning a sundress - let alone, something a little more semi-formal, for a wedding, or an off-site office reception.  Having had put in several hours of coursework - for a real curriculum, that will lead to real money - the later-twenties gal donned her sneaks and went for a brief run.  

She passed a house that, although the yard was kept neat - low hanging branches trimmed - the place obviously needed work; probably more than what the owner could afford.  But whomever lived there, was atleast trying.  A length of PVC pipe, serving as a makeshift downspout - held in place by ... she wasn't really sure, because whatever was securing it, was obscured by a flower bed.  Anyway, the arrangement set off a trigger.  Where she came from, there were no flower beds.  Just junk scattered here and there in a yard of crabgrass, thorns, broken glass and mud.  She had to have been around six or seven, when, one evening, around sunset, her mom said something to her about rain, while trying to jimmy-rig together two short lengths of crinkled spouting - which were really two short to do much good; the set up went barely two feet from the house, when four is suitable.  

"DONT EFF WITH THAT!"  Came that all too familiar bark from the house; where from inside, emitted from a dingy window, a hazy blue light, accompanied by a game show tune - or had it been a news program?  Whatever...same difference.  Additionally, from inside one of the torn screens, came that vile smell; she even recalled - from atleast one of the quarrels, $65 - about what a quarter of an ounce had been selling for.  Whatever the amount, it was going for presently, like then, it resulted in basements getting wet and dank, because  ... well, because rain happens.  

Already having gone about two miles, the clouds in the east were darkening; she'd be finishing up in the downpour.  But that wasn't a problem.  In fact, there was something about rain, and wind ... she liked running in the weather, even coming in all wet and chill.  Perhaps, a reaction to her earlier years, hearing that same old blasphemous bark about rain in the forecast.   She'd never been religious, but dragging God into things that weren't his fault?   "But the farmers like..." the innocent little observation had gotten her a swollen lip.   

About a half mile outside of her property, the rain came in sheets; her gym pants and sweatshirt took on a modest lake's worth.  Ahead, a section of road had turned into a creek.  She ran to, and jumped into the deepest part, stirring up leaves, gravel - and litter...which probably was clogging up the drain pipe, which the township had out in a few years ago - shortly after she'd bought her house.  Wow, must be a whole foot!  Down the road a bit, another creek.

She was six or seven again.  But this time, she'd come in out of the rain to a neat, peaceful house.   Well, then again, not completely peaceful :)  There was a bit of barking that went on - from Pepper, her dog.

"I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard, of the man void of understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down."

Proverbs 24:30-31

Floyd could feel the cold creeping up through the metal floor to between the two boards beneath his boots, as he spooned a scoop

of chili from the crockpot - that sat on the stove - into a ceramic bowl; the man didn't do plastic.  Neither did he do the stove; didn't quite trust the wiring in that corner of the place - nor did he trust the light switch in the bathroom.  It sometimes threw sparks - so he had run an extension from the bedroom to a small lamp which sat upon the counter "space" beside the bathroom sink.  Floyd wasn't complaining.  The tin can - with the stove-front sag in the floor -  was close to where he worked, and for $600 a month, he managed to have atleast a $20 or three left over from previous paychecks.  

Being within two or three miles from the grocery store, sometimes he walked to and from work, but with november coming on, he'd be putting gas in his car more often.  On paper, the store wasn't much for fringe benefits, but working there kept him in things like oranges, plums, taters - though a tad past their prime - day-or-two old bread, dented cans of carrots and green beans.  In short, he ate healthy - for a fraction.  Unlike, the several weeks of take-outs in his car.  

He placed the bowl upon a plate and took it over to the linoleum table - it looked like a relic from an early 1980s yard sale, but no complaints.  The place, dingy as it was, was better, by far, than living in other people's space, under their petty-ars'd rules - wasn't like he was sloppy, loud, or generally obnoxious.  Reaching into the drawer, he pulled out a spoon for the soup, and one for the applesauce.  From a napkin holder, sitting on the counter, he grabbed a faded green cloth napkin, and laid it on his lap.

This is how floyd had been raised; his daddy, being a long distance trucker, family meals were special.  And yeah, his mom grew up in england.  He put down his phone and took a taste.  Neither was it a boast, on his part, concerning the chili; it was THAT good - and so was his vegetable beef stew.  Had the oven been trustworthy, he'd a baked some bread - but such would have to wait for better lodging.  Scrolling through his email, he came across a link to a video on how to fix a ...

"MY HOUSE, MY RULES!"

Oh brother, who th' ... was she kidding!  The place, just like every other in the court,  belonged to the landlord.  From within the neighboring tin, two voices quarreled, waxing shrill.  Poor people... floyd raised his eyebrows, ignoring the stompings and cursings.  Dave Ramsey was so right, when he said something about state of mind.   A car door slammed shut, followed by a somewhat choking roar of a car engine - one that sounded of wanting two quarts of oil; the dufus, would be the first to throw a fit - blaming anyone from the newsboy to the illuminati - when the car decided to quit.  

Uh, bruh!  Floyd needed to get over to wally-world for a set of real curtains; the ones hanging on the window, next to the table, weren't getting it.  What was it with obese women and shorts?  At this time of year?  The woman, flipped the departed vehicle another hand signal, bellowed out a phrase or two, then stormed back the walkway to "her house."  In all fairness, however - along with her need to lose a few tons, she needed, even more, to gain a few brain cells, and throw the bum out.

Strange, how red-pills remain silent about the basic facts of wine making. In short, anyone with half a brain

knows, a young vine, only minimally tended, isn't likely to produce quality grapes.  Then there's the vat, bottling and storage processes.  Was reading somewhere, that, in the old days, it was common for wine - even from tended vines and decent soil, to not turn out as carefully planned.  Just a bit too much air getting through, can turn the aging liquid from sweet and mild to vinegary and ... well, bitter.   Fortunately, these days, with the better technology, about anyone, with a half decent job, can afford a bottle of wine that won't make their patio-party friends want to cry  for mercy.  Anyway, the lady who was podcasting concerning 40ish men, mentioned that not all wines age well.

She described the usual occurrence.  We'll call him floyd.  He wasn't into college - can't really blame him for not wanting saddled with $80-some-k, before he's even old enough to buy cigarettes.  Anyway, floyd is late-20s-something, works out at the gym, has a cool job, where the hot chicks are looking his way.  He's even met reasonably famous models - had a fling here and there.  Unfortunately, floyd likes the booze, the drugs, the late hours; it's beginning to show, but not a problem ... for now.

Some twelve years later:

Floyd's on the phone; been calling for the past hour or so ... as if the man has nothing better to do.  Twice, he got a response, got put on hold - maybe, this time, the call won't drop.  For some reason, the website isn't taking his unemployment data.  Everything's [bleeping] internet, wave a th' future, my ... floyd mutters, while the automated voice makes another round, about how "your call is important...please hold..." blada, blada.

As an aside, can't - for two milliseconds - blame him for being frustrated, and getting madder by the minute... anything a caller needs - be it an auto part, a medical appointment, a general question concerning a subscription... bruh!   Tell me, the entire process isn't intentional.  But i digress, back to floyd.

His issue matters.  The funds hadn't yet been deposited into his account.   He's down to $130 and change, his tank 3/4ths empty.  And he hasn't had anything to eat since breakfast - if a slice of two-day old pizza qualifies.  Most of what little he owns, is in the back - some of which, he moved to the trunk ... hopefully, it won't rain too hard (he hasn't been able to find where the leak is).  Last night he slept in his car - well, part of the night.  He had to move on from the park-and-ride lot - probably some overfed 50-something "karen," from her spacious patio, within the nearby subdivision, had called the cops.  

Floyd was staying with a buddy, but being no idiot, the welcome is wearing thin.   Was supposed to be two or three weeks, but that was almost three months ago.  Anyway, the arrangement was, from the start, his buddy wants no one else hanging around - not even the girl he's been seeing - when he's got his kids.  

So, what became of the "cool job?"  Well, it ended.  And here's the deal: floyd wasn't one to show up late, drunk or both.  Sure he partied - who doesn't, in the show-biz/nightlife industry!   In short, the job loss was through no fault of his own.   Well, wait.  He did do something to end up getting terminated, and rather suddenly.  Horror of horrors, he was no longer 27-something, and so, was replaced; it was like, within a few days after, floyd had never existed.

Making his way, he entertained the idea of schmoozing up to a woman - after all, summer was drawing to a close; the days noticeably shorter, already a chill in the morning.  At 41-ish, floyd still had it, he'd have no problem finding a gal, and one who wasn't fat - okay, hang him up by his ear, for preferring slender women.  Problem is: fat or not, women with good jobs, stable housing, their own stuff are ... so [blasphemy] bossy.  Floyd bit his lip - while never having been a religious man...still, there was something not at all good with taking God's name in vain.

He passed a road sign.  Shaefield's is hiring; they're a good outfit to get into - health insurance, 401k plan ...  But you need a CDL.  Nuf said.  

Get a companion? (Eck!) Doesn't sound workable. A 40-ish woman was advising

game-over men - that is, guys who are no longer able to be players - that there are decent women out there; women of means.  Women - who in the 90s - were taking their schoolwork seriously, went to college, found good jobs, bought houses, invested in 401ks and such ...  Yeah, how about that: the "wall" is gender blind, but anyway...  These successful women are single, and some would like to meet decent men; men who are interested in going places and doing things.

Needful to say, these smart women are cautious.  They have friends and acquaintances, and so, have heard the stories: guy moves into his girlfriend's 3k square feet, lounges about (half stoned)  dishes in the sink, food wrappers on the coffee table...; gf comes in from a double shift, and he's at her to cook him a sammich.

All and all, what the lady described as a desirable companion was, basically, what the late Professor Daniel Amneus - author of "Garbage Generation" (the pdf is somewhere on the net) - described as a "housemale."

The intent of this post, is not to bash this live-in companion.  Like anyone, man or woman, when you get older, things change; man or woman, if you don't "cope" with the glaring fact, you're no longer all-star quarterback or head cheerleader/supermodel, well, down the drain ya go.  Anyway, was thinking about this poster companion, who's 30k job - not bashing that either - could barely afford him a small, rather dingy apartment, let alone a spacious four bedroom house, with a pool/hot tub, in a drama-free neighborhood.

Was thinking about him; namely, his future.  While statistically, women outlive men, what happens if she gets into a fatal car accident?  Can only hope, that his "coping" skills included stashing some of his 30k wages into savings.  Why?  Well, namely, you can about bet, that lovely house - which the deceased woman had bought, budgeted and paid for, with her money - will go to her (adult) child/ren.  Even if they were married, (and not just fornicating) he will likely have to pack his stuff, and move on.  But married or not, hopefully, the woman had thought enough of him to leave him with atleast some funds.  

But will things work out with the couple, given the not quite natural circumstances...?  The can-do woman probably did do a visit to her $300 an hour attorney... and they probably discussed her prenup draft, over top-shelf coffee and pastries.  Anyway, concerning take-charge women, what a certain preacher said, would surely set jaws a gnashing ... truth hurts ...  He had said, when women are living contrary to God's design, we "become emotionally unstable."  The preacher, in his sermon, however, did not mention men's mental state.  

Preecher didn't have to - for more info concerning men's behavior (in these twisted times) just go to any news sight.  Yep, you guessed it: it wasn't some (size) XX "karen" who robbed the bakery, and took a tire iron to the pie case.  (Why do robbers do that, when they know dern well the money's in the register?)

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give non occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully." I Timothy 5:14

Oh yeah, hear the prudies tell - the sort of people who'd likely raise

pharisaical eyebrows at the couple living in their van; would likely just walk on by, thinking, well! they have money for cigarettes.  Then go back, without a further thought, to their football-field sized homes - with amenities coming out the ying-yang. Yeah, sort of people who kvetch about their precious tax dollars funding welfare, and other government programs designed to help people on hard times.  In short, bleeping cheapskates - the sort who are dern glad that roeVwade is off the table, while at the same time, won't come up with even a $20 for the local pregnancy center's donation bottle.

The homeless couple with the cigarettes?  Hey prudies, you try being homeless; it's bleeping stressful, AND expensive, living in your vehicle.  So clean-living awesome you, might, after three days, have half a mind to  take up smoking. 

And yeah, i get it : it's wise to be real careful who you invite in your home.  More often than not, even with relatives, three weeks somehow becomes three months - lights left on, unwashed dishes left in the sink, stuff laying everywhere...greets you when coming home from work.  House cleaning around stuff that's not yours, thrice the work.  Oh, and that blasting, blaring TeeVee - ugh!  Your, formerly peacefully minimalistic living space, is now chaotic enough without that (wall)space hoggie thing - which seems to have your "guest/s" mesmerized...which is precisely why you don't own a television.  You've noticed the visual noise has been bothering you at work, stirring up Resentment - all's you want, is to do your job without being bugged, by hardships you didn't create.  Oh, and what the heck is this???  You go to pick up a food wrapper, but the corner of the package clings to the endtable.

"Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker : and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished."  Proverbs 17:5

Was reading somewhere, if the average woman's s3x-drive is about a four, a man's is

about an eleven or twelve.  Have heard more than two or three for-real Christian men say, it's a struggle to not look at, or think about, young attractive women - and that if women had a clue what men were really thinking, the pretty ladies would hotfoot it over to the nearest hardware store, for a good length of tarp.  Not the exact words, but close enough. While for-real Christian men (and women) strive to put the breaks on their baser natures (s3x/videos, junk food...stupid choices in general), where's this leave non-christians?

Anyway, maybe that desire, that won't - for more than two minutes - leave men alone, raises up the unclean spirit of Resentment towards women - especially, women with "body counts" higher than four or five.  Oh my!  The real disgust is the lack of compassion.  Most "304s" were raised - or not - by selfish parent/s, and likely are stuck, and have no idea, whatsoever, to get themselves unstuck.  

Sure, there are double standards - gals can emote about this, that, and the other, while guys are expected to just cowboy up, hold it in, and get on with the business of life/leadership.  Ask any supervisor...  But these red-pillers don't want to lead.  Hear them tell... they sound like a gaggle of premenopausal "whamen" from the data entry pool - who's social life is about on par with their 401k balance.   Really pathetic.

"And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear ?"  I Peter 4:18

The front burner of katie's stove isn't predictable, it sometimes doesn't know the difference between low heat and high. So, she quit using that burner;

the stove's only large burner.  The oven also heats less than even.   Katie put the word out for a used stove, because a new one isn't happening - her monthly lot rent is ... IN$ANE!!!!  Six of one, and a half dozen of the other.  Cooking dinner is cheaper than takeout.  But is it?  Especially with the high temps - it will be in the 90s all week; the a/c doesn't run for free.

Katie finds herself questioning if having gotten off welfare is really worth the hassle.  When she was home with her child, their living space was neater; her child was free to either play outside, or come in and do something else.  Now, with working, her four - going on five - year old, is stuck in all year around, in structure, among strangers; that's  a bit young, for full-time worldly drama. The change in her child's demeanor hasn't gone unnoticed - not that it takes a kiddie head-shrink degree to diagnose the cause.  

Truth be told, katie has also noticed a change in her "coping" skills.  Gonna happen, when you're running in three different directions, at the same time.  And her boss wasn't happy with katie having to leave work, because day care called - yep, her child sneezed...oh my, the bubonic plague be upon us ;/  But seriously, katie has cause for concern - after all, she has no way of knowing what sort of homes the other children are raised in.  She couldn't help but to notice the animal hair all over the shirt of ... do the kid's parents know how to use the washer?  Perhaps, it's inoperable/under a pile of ... junk.  By the way, katie is well aware, there is one or two better day-care facilities in the area, but they might as well be 60 miles in the other direction; both are out of reach; the one was $1,200, the other wasn't far behind.  Too far ...  But even so, those 500k houses may look neat on the outside...

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,  hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also."  Matthew 23:25-26

It's like five minutes after roeVwade was taken off the table, the one-sided moralists ... can ya spell

"Pharisees" - all jumped on their keyboards, attacking the character of single moms.  Okay, so katie messed up ... it's a human thing.   Funny, not funny, thing is, katie could have gotten an airbus ticket to another state.  But she didn't, instead she had her baby, and is raising the little one.  And she has to deal with consequences - namely, financial hardship, and forgetabout social life.   Baby-daddy, of course, has moved on, but not fast enough; domestic relations is on his tail.  Predictably, he's presently hemoting all over one or more of his favorite red-pill sites - but it wasn't like katie had put a gun to his head.

So, if katie is ... oh horrors, unmarriagable, what are baby-daddy's future marital prospects?  Should he get a free pass, because boys will be boys?  

But ladies, if you want to scowl katie, have at it - while shoving that (bortish) diamond ring in the faces of single moms.  Thing is, who's to say your king-prize won't get another call - two or three years - down the road, to take another dna test.   Baby-moms, signing up for welfare may or may not have to name the father; but welfare doesn't pay much; so it only makes sense to get off welfare, and get a job.  But welfare to work is neither easy, nor quick; starting off at $14 an hour...  Yep, and the pre-covid rent had gone up; she'd scheduled an appointment with domestic relations - which probably took some time - even with everyone working on-site - to get the paperwork through.  

So ya think yer better than ditched "304" katie, being the Wife of her baby-dady...and he's going to do better by awesome low body-count you??    Uhm, he tried bailing on his own flesh and blood.  Hon, hope you have a well paying job, because if your husband gets behind on his CS, that obligation doesn't go away; left unpaid, it collects interest due.   Could impact marital assets.  Maybe the 5k premium prenup, you had baby-daddy sign will serve as a wall.  Maybe, then again, maybe not - might want to call your attorney.

Sounds like a case of waiting for the other shoe to drop.   All's i know is: yaay science :)

Scoffers gonna scoff - bet they're a world of joy to supervise.

The remark was the predictable "...sky spaghetti" or whatever.  Anyway, the remark was rather out of turn; the guy's video wasn't about creation vs evolution - was more about property taxes, home maintenance and generally dealing with things as they are.  But yesterday, listened to a sermon, and the preacher clarified some things.  First off, the "so called science" lovers go on about evidence, but it's all in vain; when you present evidence, that's all around - the four elements of dna have to line up, and curl around, just everso; if just two or three, out of a hundred, don't line up properly...problems.  Anyway, dear Christian (who happens to major/work in biology) just go talk to the wall... and save yourself scoffers' tantrums.  And you too, sir, who takes care of the telescope; yeah, yeah, your studies have shown, time and time again, the whole layout of stars and planets, shows - even in secular articles (especially, when digging through what the footnotes actually report) that star systems have to be just everso... 

In short, take a tip from that difficult person in your life; you know the one you need avoid, because, no matter how cooperative, kind you are to that person, nothing you do or say, is ever satisfactory.  Some people are just a pain in the neck, because they choose to create drama - then, turn around, and blame you.  That's how unbelief works.  The preacher said, it starts out as simply intellectual discussion, then gets emotional, then regresses further to insults; and finally actual harm - be that in the form of one's reputation or physical self.  Like difficult people do, they suck out all the oxygen, then suck you in; next thing you know, you're waxing Nabal.  Any wonder the Bible tells believers to steer clear ...?

"Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail; and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance : but the man was churlish and evil in his doings ; and he was of the house of Caleb."  I Samuel 25:3

"He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness : from such withdraw thyself."  I Timothy 6:4-5

Considering some profiling activity going on ... the big elephant in the living room,

he might be red-pill.  But regardless, the man had put in 30 years at the warehouse, only to discover, he had NO pension.  Evidently, some stock market activity had gone down - something about, when an entity gets into financial trouble, the top-tier stock holders get rewarded for bad business decisions,  and everyone else gets ... nuts and bolts, up the ...   By the way, saw a program, some years back, concerning wall street's early days; there was some old money who wanted no parts of it, likened it to gambling.

Anyway, the man went off, ranting and yelling.  Well i guess so!  And i guess, he was in his early 60s, maybe late 50s.  Per the profiling activity, on several other videos, probably, not in the best of health.  And per the profiling, likely had played (key word) daddy-rich, didn't save... Now he's stuck; social security isn't - that was only meant as a supplement.   And if there's unpaid child support ... yep, a BIG reason, why keeping the body-count low is gender-inclusive.

But regardless of his off-the-clock life, when he signed on, all those decades ago, he thought the job came with a pension.  Oh, perhaps, he failed to read the fIIIne print...ya know, sleep with one eye open ... every night, for the past thirty bleeping years.  Some boomer came off with the typical social darwinistic "fine print" shiola.  Oh, are we surprised :/

Hear the boomers bray, on their retIrement videos, of their 2 millionish portfolios, and their 50k-ish money market accounts. Have ro wonder,

what the percentage is of these fortunate people who had received an inheritance 10 or 15 years ago (from parents who remained committed to their wedding vowels).  Even 100k can grow, if put away (instead of blown on fake-rich vacas).  Any wonder, young people (so hampered with student debt) hate boomers; can't really blame the young folks - many of whose parents will leave them nothing, because the vacas/divorces rob both genders (basic arithmetic).  An inheritance, put away to grow interest, is a good leg-up, for later in life, when health issues may not allow one to keep working.  

All's i know, are several people, with lots of money; they had parents, who actually thought enough of their children, to forgo silly vanities, in favor of laying up funds for their children/'s children.  One widow had 70 acres of land, of which her five children inherited; that's 14 acres per kid.  Land values around here?  Probably about a half million per kid.  Another received, from his father, acres of some ranch out west.  Still another, is the son of a doctor - his widowed mother had thousands, just laying around her (long paid up) house.  That little snippet of info had been announced, by one of the heirs-to-be, right in the face of a wastrel 's widow, who had, maybe 2k - if that - to her name.  Definitely, a what-th'-hey-just-happened! moment.

Shift fixing to start.  Wanna grow some money.  Bye :)

"A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children : and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just."  Proverbs 13:22

Guy was complaining that his wife needs to lose the weight. Could it be

stress pounds at work.  At work, because of the usual.  The rain storm last week left the basement wet, and smelly.  Yeah, the house could stand some decent spouting, put in by professionals.  But we know the name of that tune - good jobs, done by reputable contractors, charge good money; and guess who isn't willing to part with bass-boat money!  By the way, ole "two-ton" Tess is all for the spouting AND the tree work - another thing - high winds - that gets her on high alert.  Ya know, it's not like Tess doesn't contribute time/money into the marital home.   But it's like, whenever she requests her husband to approve for maintenance to be done, she's "nagging."   

Very needful to say, her requests for common sense things has gone ignored for ... too long; so yeah, sometimes the home-maintenance situation - one which for-REAL patriarchs wouldn't neglect, period! - runs her clean out of patience.  By the way, that musty smell coming up the stairs, doesn't exactly put her in a romantic mindset, and neither does that corner length of siding - that's, maybe, three windstorms from buckling and flapping, or sailing across the road.

Oh, and it any holier-than-thous care to chime in about wively submission, kindly shut the heck up, and instead, try a little compassion, for Tess and what she deals with about every other day - while you sit, just everso, in your baseball-diamond-sized kitchen.  

Another space-validating Scripture :)

"Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth."  Isaiah 5:8

Oh wait, here's another.

"I called upon the LORD in distress : the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place."  Psalm 118:5

Lecturing other women about their wanting "me time" ... oh the nerve :/

Thing is, "me time" is likely to happen, when you're fortunate enough to live in a (probably paid for) spacious home, and the wife of a man who knows how to fix things / has a solid job history.  When you've plenty of cupboard space, your kitchen is a breeze to work in and keep tidy - stuff won't tumble out, because the pooch just happened to pad on by, on his (or her) way to his food and water, placed just everso, in a wide corner in the adjoining utility room.  There, upon, one of several shelves / cupboards sits pooch's food, just everso, in a sealed plastic container.  Alongside, are other doggie things - extra bowls, a few old bath/kitchen towels, pet shampoo, some medicine, maybe a new toy or two to replace the old ones.

Time doing laundry is cut into easy-peasy pieces, when there's a long table to sort and fold the family's clothing and linens; and there's plenty of space for the laundry cart on wheels.  And yeppers, kiddos, plenty of space for the detergents, soaps, bleach, softener, brushes.  

Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, this well married housewife is presently cutting a watermelon - a big one (good luck with that in a cramp-ars'd apartment or trailer). Plenty of empty, lovely, counterspace.  Oh, and did i mention, if it weren't for the rainstorm happening outside, she'd be cutting it out on the old wooden table that sits beside... yep, another long, wide, stays-clean :) cabinet, on the breezy patio.  

Everything spacious, handy, and lovely.  Small wonder, she's most her housekeeping and gardening chores done, by around 11am.   At the risk of that fine lady  (seriously) coming over here and kicking my butt, i'm going to let out her secret to success.  She gets up around 5:30 am.  By the way, if any red-pills happen to be slithering about, the remainder of her WORK day is spent either sewing (maybe a shirt, maybe a petticoat) or recycling some old curtains or towels for use elsewhere in the house or shed.  When you've a family, (and not just yer awesome self) things get used up. Yep, red-pills, ya think the couple was able to own all that lovely acreage through years of careless spending?  She also knits, things like baby blankets, throws, scarves, hats.  

And yeah, on some afternoons, she'll pass an hour or two practicing on the piano or studying Scripture.  During other afternoons, she's busy rearranging this, going through that, or some other thing, before staring yet another lovely homemade dinner.  At around fourish, it's up the steps for a relaxing bath, followed by putting on a nice dress - her husband arrives home around 5:30ish.

Oh, almost forgot to mention, that big branch that came down during last week's storm?  Well, not much harm done - thankfully, but the lady of the manor had to step through a bramble mess to get into the back entrance way of their little greenhouse ... for about a week.  Yep, her husband's busy season; he told her to call Fit-N-TrimTrees - the mess was gone, as if the storm had raged elsewhere.

"Me time?"  She has that.  As anyone should.  Uhm... for plain old sanity's sake.  Sadly however, i cannot help but to notice, within the Christian community, that women are,  right and left, getting scowled and guilted (oh, that's a big shock) for wanting some time here and there to .... well, to breath, maybe even think ... imagine  that :/

"And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy : thou hast set my feet in a large room."  Psalm 31:8

Oh brother, some red-pill toadies, at it again :/

There's a story going around that whenever a gal sleeps with a dude, his dna remains in her body, and parts of it merge with the child/ren she'll have some three years down the road - that is, after she's grown a brain, and shows mr.no-count the door.  But, of course, the 7 million working age guys, (about 9 or 10%) who aren't working, and don't want to work... that wasn't part of the discussion.  Imagine that.

Well, guess what else didn't enter the discussion.  If it is true, that a gal (who's religiously on the pill) still ends up with his dna ruIning around her body...uh, what if the guy's sexual history also includes one or more other guys?  Would he then also be carrying around some dna that he wasn't born with?   Then, some three years later, what about his precious la-la-lleegacy?

These red-pills were going on about women's bad smells.  Oh pa-leeze, cities are loaded with prostitutes, who entertain 3,4,5 men on a daily basis; if these ladies didn't smell nice, they (or their pimps) wouldn't be able to charge a $1,000 per hour.  

Another reality that wasn't discussed is, the tight clothing, made of woven hefty-bag "fabric."  Synthetics hold in body odor - and fa-breeze is making lots of $$$.  As an aside, just more plastic bottles to end up, somewhere out in the pacific, floating upon that texas-sized trash island.  Natural fabrics allow the wearer's body to breath - washing them, all you need is some detergent.

Anyway, can't help but to notice that as soon as roeVwade was taken off the table, blatant hatred of women skyrocketed.  Also can't help but to believe, this legislation has NOTHING to do with saving unborn children.  

As if in slow motion, the vase tipped over, and rolled down the curved stair case. Abram had, quick, let go his wooden sword and

tried to catch the antique, but too late; it lay in pieces upon the carpet - having come perilously close to a fine table (one that had belonged to his father's great aunt Stephanie).  Upon that mahogany furnishing sat a crystal vase of roses.   The noise didn't go unnoticed.  Between his mother, his step-mother, and ten or so servants - one way or another, his father would hear about it.  It didn't matter where the vase had come from - whether it was precious art, or just something someone bought at wally's-world-a-trade.  What mattered was: the boy had been told enough times not to run in the house.  The last time, was in one of the corridors, the clatter of plates and cups had awakened his teething half-sister, Sarai.  All that mattered was, when Terah, his father, came in from the shop - which was located in the mansion's south wing - Abram's seat would know it.

A few hours later, our young mighty man - who, this evening, wasn't interested in sitting down to read a scroll - was battling a three-eyed reptilian giant in one of upstairs corridors, and just when he was about to dispatch the smelly monstrosity to the pit, his nanny's voice called for him to get ready for bed.  Abram wasn't the least bit sleepy; he was anxious for the following day.  His cousins, and a few of their cousins, were coming to visit for several days.  Abram lay awake, anticipating the dragons and other mutations that would howl and die at swords' edge.  

So ends another day in paradise.

About 400 miles south west from Haran, an urban beauty parted the curtains and glanced up and down the rather littered street.   It was as if the neighborhood grew dirtier and dingier with each passing week.  What was wrong with people?  Just drinking, drugging, and not much else ... besides snarling, and snapping, over ... over nothing really.   

When she was a child - which wasn't long ago - the neighbors would get together, and do things.  People greeted one another, went for strolls, met at cutie's cafe - which closed a few years back, because of one too many t-rash tantrums.   Saturday mornings were fun; the neighbors would pick up around the streets, then sit around for a bit, sharing  coffee and donuts; the boys would play kickball, the girls jumped rope.

Neighbors.  She barely knew more than two or three.  Many of the women had neither the time, nor money, to buy a few cookies or pastries and stop around for a brief friendly visit.  For many, it was working all day dreary, only to somehow figure out a way to turn a few measley coppers into almost  enough food for two or three little hungry mouths.  Other neighbors she didn't want to know.  The guy two units from her was ... weird.  Shifty eyed.  Well, alot of that going on these dsys.

"Dear," her mother called from the kitchen, "breakfast is ready."  It was just the two of them; her father, a foreman, had fallen from a construction scaffold; in short, he, for want of workers, had been doing the work of two men.  The dining room curtains ruffled in the summer morning breeze - it was going to be another scorcher, but such is july.  Outside, women rushed to their jobs as maids, nannies, shop girls, while more than a few men gathered in corners, alleyways to .... well, loaf.  And more than a few, quite fashionably.  She had caught a glimpse of a certain purse, and the matching sandals; they must have come from ... didn't matter, wasn't happening, not on her old leather pocketbook.

And you didn't want to look too close - ew!  Things that, from what her mom's generation said, guys didn't do in alleys - back then, they had enough class to atleast rent a room.   Back then, men wanted children; they took their sons hunting, fishing, taught them how to defend themselves, their sisters.  Back then, men's preference was chasing women.  Nowadays... she chucked to herself at the words, "back then" and "nowadays."  Old people's expressions.  But the old people were right.   Anyone with half a brain...

"So Dear," her mother softly laid her teacup upon its saucer, "how things go?"

"Mom," the young beauty smoothed a tress behind her ear.  "Things are gone."  In other words, another dud; one with an entitlement streak the size of scythia - all for a pulled pork sandwich and a side of fries.  While he offered plenty of beer, she only drank one - and watched it closely.  Too many accounts she'd heard about, of young women waking up the next morning in a crappy room, and then having to take that morning constitution with a sore behind.  What was with that?  Don't guys eff gals the normal way anymore? 

 

The two women cleared away and washed up the breakfast things.  A few moments later, going their separate ways, to their jobs, along that crowding sodom city street.