he said that if you've ever met (and been messed over by) a son (or daughter) of belial, you likely have an understanding of the Lord's judgement against these people. Belial's kids aren't the garden-variety jerks who wheel entire cartloads to the ten-items-or-less counter. While run-of-the-mill liars, drunks and homosexuals still have space to repent (for now...not smart to put off), belial's kids are a whole different breed. Belial's kids eat, drink and breathe on new and old ways to cause trouble - get two long-time friends to fall out, bigtime, for no better reason than to get a few chuckles.
Belial's kids may act all nicey-nicey, but everything, EVERYTHING they say or do has an agenda - the same sort of people who'd steal grampa's money, chuck him in a 3rd rate nursing home, and not miss a beat. These people have long since sinned away their day of grace - Bible describes them as brute beasts made to be taken out and slaughtered. In other words, belial's kids may go on for decades living large, but in fifty years - probably less - they'll face ... ugh! And that's for ever and ever.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
What do i know about abuse? Not alot. But enough to know that, years ago, had figured
the bullies were right in targeting certain class mates - for no better reason than the targets didn't have on the right clothes / know the names of the right groups and TV stars. Newsflash to any millennial out there: materialism was alive and well back in the early 70s.
i was one of those "uncool" kids, thinking that something was seriously wrong with me, for no better reason than not being able (though i tried) to get a grip on the latest (and ever-changing) small chit-chat. Hey, back then, i had no clue that such is really a waste of time. Meanwhile, at the same time, was the social-darwinist environment...will blog about that later, but really need to pray to the Lord on that before keying the details.
Kids can be cruel. And although, i've long moved on, and long ago, have forgiven, i haven't forgotten. The recent panic-buying is just another reminder that there are people who plain do not give a rip about the well-being of others. (Even unsaved people are politely expressing outrage, by posting pictures and gut-laughing captions.)
No, and i will not forget anytime soon. i am a widow. Living alone, on limited funds, and fiercely independent. In short, i don't trust no freaking body. Don't feel comfortable spending the money for a backhoe, i'm shoveling that 10-tons of hard dirt into a wheelbarrow and spreading it with a rake.
Will take awhile, and daylight is burning. Signing off for now.
i was one of those "uncool" kids, thinking that something was seriously wrong with me, for no better reason than not being able (though i tried) to get a grip on the latest (and ever-changing) small chit-chat. Hey, back then, i had no clue that such is really a waste of time. Meanwhile, at the same time, was the social-darwinist environment...will blog about that later, but really need to pray to the Lord on that before keying the details.
Kids can be cruel. And although, i've long moved on, and long ago, have forgiven, i haven't forgotten. The recent panic-buying is just another reminder that there are people who plain do not give a rip about the well-being of others. (Even unsaved people are politely expressing outrage, by posting pictures and gut-laughing captions.)
No, and i will not forget anytime soon. i am a widow. Living alone, on limited funds, and fiercely independent. In short, i don't trust no freaking body. Don't feel comfortable spending the money for a backhoe, i'm shoveling that 10-tons of hard dirt into a wheelbarrow and spreading it with a rake.
Will take awhile, and daylight is burning. Signing off for now.
Here in the west, i don't have to worry about guys in trenchcoats grabbing my purse
and hauling me off to prison, for no other reason but some Scriptures scrawled on a small tablet and a few Christian websites on my phone. From what i understand, if i lived in china or in one of several muslim nations, that would be enough to get me fired from my job, if not put in jail.
Here in the west, persecution of christians doesn't happen. Ugh, i'm not so sure of that. From reading various other websites, i cannot help but to strongly suspect that the devil's agenda for going after the for-real saints is not the same method in all countries. Here in the west, the devil cannot use the government.
Oh, but the devil is sure trying, and making some headway ... millions of people are afraid of what a few weirdos think - who somehow have the time to garner media attention...while the rest of us are out WORKING to support our (for-real) FAMILIES. Uh, newsflash: there's a big difference between "spouse" (of the opposite gender) and somebody's "flavor-of-the-month." The former is "family," the latter is not.
Another twisted avenue that old snake is taking is one that most people are unawares - and, evidently, prefer to remain unawares. Spousal abuse. Not really new. Back in the 1600s John Bunyan wrote a story that he could have written just last Tuesday. It's title is: The Life and Death of Mr. Bad Man." BadMan was a real rotter, ripped off his father, two of his bosses, and eventually murdered his wife - that is, after stealing, then blowing, her money.
Thing is, however, in the story, the wife's - even unsaved - neighbors knew what she was going through, and they covered for her when she snuck off to church, to hear a sermon and to join in singing from the psaltery.
What is new, i cannot help to suspect - and the Bible backs this up with phrases like "will wax worse" and "hearts growing cold" and "become lovers of tbemselves" - is that men (and women too) are becoming more skilled at telling lies, and getting away with it for years, if not decades.
Oh, wait a sec, there's another Bible phrase. "Dull of hearing." Uh, might that also be the devil's dumbing-down agenda? Romans 1, which the pervs hate with a purple passion, covers a whole lot more territory than just sexual weirdness. Becoming fools.
In short, my question is: is abuse on the rise, because family, friends, church, community are too blazing (and willingly) STUPID to know what's going on?
Here in the west, persecution of christians doesn't happen. Ugh, i'm not so sure of that. From reading various other websites, i cannot help but to strongly suspect that the devil's agenda for going after the for-real saints is not the same method in all countries. Here in the west, the devil cannot use the government.
Oh, but the devil is sure trying, and making some headway ... millions of people are afraid of what a few weirdos think - who somehow have the time to garner media attention...while the rest of us are out WORKING to support our (for-real) FAMILIES. Uh, newsflash: there's a big difference between "spouse" (of the opposite gender) and somebody's "flavor-of-the-month." The former is "family," the latter is not.
Another twisted avenue that old snake is taking is one that most people are unawares - and, evidently, prefer to remain unawares. Spousal abuse. Not really new. Back in the 1600s John Bunyan wrote a story that he could have written just last Tuesday. It's title is: The Life and Death of Mr. Bad Man." BadMan was a real rotter, ripped off his father, two of his bosses, and eventually murdered his wife - that is, after stealing, then blowing, her money.
Thing is, however, in the story, the wife's - even unsaved - neighbors knew what she was going through, and they covered for her when she snuck off to church, to hear a sermon and to join in singing from the psaltery.
What is new, i cannot help to suspect - and the Bible backs this up with phrases like "will wax worse" and "hearts growing cold" and "become lovers of tbemselves" - is that men (and women too) are becoming more skilled at telling lies, and getting away with it for years, if not decades.
Oh, wait a sec, there's another Bible phrase. "Dull of hearing." Uh, might that also be the devil's dumbing-down agenda? Romans 1, which the pervs hate with a purple passion, covers a whole lot more territory than just sexual weirdness. Becoming fools.
In short, my question is: is abuse on the rise, because family, friends, church, community are too blazing (and willingly) STUPID to know what's going on?
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Threw those "Ms." labels out. Still wear my wedding ring, and won't take it off anytime soon.
The difficult thing about being a widow, boils down to nothing but pride. i don't want to be lumped in with the "Ms." crowd. 1040 forms do just that. NO, I'M NOT SINGLE, Ugh! There's a connotation there. Stats (supposedly) say that four out of five divorces are filed by women. Laying aside all the peewee quips, if the actual stats are even half that, i do not believe that most soon-to-be ex-husbands are all - nor even most - vicious/drunken/slackers. In other words, i do believe there are women out there who are just plain no good - and over these past few days, they've evidently been hogging up paper-goods at various big-box stores.
Saw the photos. Uhm, anyone who hogs up merchandise is a worthless piece of drek. These people weren't merely loading their SUVs with 3 packs to stock their mc-mansions; they were filling the entire cart - and then some. Guess this old widow needs to get out more...was shocked to learn of the gouging going on from parked vehicles. So glad, people on the internet are taking pictures, and typing various captions.
i'm tired. Been shoveling dirt.
Saw the photos. Uhm, anyone who hogs up merchandise is a worthless piece of drek. These people weren't merely loading their SUVs with 3 packs to stock their mc-mansions; they were filling the entire cart - and then some. Guess this old widow needs to get out more...was shocked to learn of the gouging going on from parked vehicles. So glad, people on the internet are taking pictures, and typing various captions.
i'm tired. Been shoveling dirt.
On another lecturey, likes-to-snark-at-working-gals website, yeah the authors had some good-pointers...
i'll check out her homemade cleaning products section - but i'm cautious about mixing chemicals. Sure i buy just regular ammonia and pour some into a bucket for over there, and clean this over here with plain old (not real expensive) rubbing alcohol. But for the most part... i'm a firm believer in BLTC (better living through chemistry). My work-wages enable me to run over to the grocery store and buy cleaning products that won't explode 3 days later, because the mid-morning sunlight happened to shine on the bottle. Store-bought products are easy to use - yeah, i know they're over-priced...and if i wanted to, i could grump and growl. In short, wax really covetous.
Yes, if i was keeping at home full time, i could trim on household costs, but not enough. Of course, she was going on about 2nd-hand clothing...much of which is recycled, recycled coke-bottle, that hold tight both the last and present wearer's perspiration. No wonder those stores smell odd!
The REALITY for most couples (and widows) is, in order for mom to be able to provide separate bath-water for each child - and allow each child to actually take a bath every day...mom will likely have to get out there and get. a. j-o-b, job. Seriously, on that certain lectury-as-all-getout post, the woman's kids oftentimes used the same bathwater....ew! That's just gross.
Her post just came off as real control-freak, and, unfortunately, not any different than too many found over at churchian-central. No wonder people, who might otherwise come to Christ, WON'T come to salvation from sin, because they equate Christian living as nothing - NOTHING but a buncha (outward) rules - and alota control-freaking going on.
Yes, if i was keeping at home full time, i could trim on household costs, but not enough. Of course, she was going on about 2nd-hand clothing...much of which is recycled, recycled coke-bottle, that hold tight both the last and present wearer's perspiration. No wonder those stores smell odd!
The REALITY for most couples (and widows) is, in order for mom to be able to provide separate bath-water for each child - and allow each child to actually take a bath every day...mom will likely have to get out there and get. a. j-o-b, job. Seriously, on that certain lectury-as-all-getout post, the woman's kids oftentimes used the same bathwater....ew! That's just gross.
Her post just came off as real control-freak, and, unfortunately, not any different than too many found over at churchian-central. No wonder people, who might otherwise come to Christ, WON'T come to salvation from sin, because they equate Christian living as nothing - NOTHING but a buncha (outward) rules - and alota control-freaking going on.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
i'm not snarky-churchian's judge. Uh, she may have bu-ku rolls of paper-products,
that her hard-working, non-boozing, non-toking husband had provided, long before con-vir. Oh yeah, the gal has a smugness about her, bigtime! But i'm not mrs.thinks-she's-all-that's judge - and frankly, i'd rather think she is born again. Newsflash: saints aren't perfect, the Lord's children do bratty things. Some are prone to act like richie-rich kids, while others continually strive against their guttersnipe days.
Okay, that said.
What torks me off are people who are busy telling other people how to navigate through situations they, themselves never had to endure. Like the wife who hasn't had the funds to see a freaking dentist!!! Oh, while peewee buys hImself another bottle of hooch or whatever. Sort of shiola happens all the time. Oh, but we women are supposed to just happy-clappy stay home and be cheery-chirpy dependent. Bull!
Time to get off this thing. i got a man's job outside, waiting for me to gedder-done. Such is life in the real world.
Okay, that said.
What torks me off are people who are busy telling other people how to navigate through situations they, themselves never had to endure. Like the wife who hasn't had the funds to see a freaking dentist!!! Oh, while peewee buys hImself another bottle of hooch or whatever. Sort of shiola happens all the time. Oh, but we women are supposed to just happy-clappy stay home and be cheery-chirpy dependent. Bull!
Time to get off this thing. i got a man's job outside, waiting for me to gedder-done. Such is life in the real world.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
An actress from the Philippines said something about hording, and it resonated.
She simply said that poor people can't afford to stock up, even alittle; and when there's an emergency, there's nothing on the shelves for poor people.
Had i known a week ago, there'd be a blizzard descending within the paper goods section, i'd of bought A pack of toilet paper. Yes, still have some, it's just that i only have the funds to only keep so much of anything on hand. And because i don't live in a mansion, there's only so much room around here.
Also wanted to get A pack of bottled water. There was NONE of that either. Yeah, i should have bought that last week - but balked...because bottled water is so darn heavy. So, will just fill up the mason jars with water from the house and drink that while doing yard work. Better anyway.
At the store, it was only the Lord's grace that i didn't buy that last carton of my favorite orange juice, but instead chose a carton among the remaining others. The Lord's grace in other forms have been at work. During normal times, when seeing a product, and wanting two of them, but there's only three on the shelf, that still small voice, "don't be hoggy."
i think the Lord's grace prompts people, even years prior to becoming saved - uh, Bible says somewhere "from the foundation of the world." i think that His grace also takes the form of having parents, grandparents and other adults who admonish against being a selfish widdle snoflake.
All's i know is, if i was a lost person, i'd be so effing angry right now - this last year and a half has really ... inhaled. And now they're fixing to close work for two weeks. Hey! i was saving that leave, and now will likely have to use it.
No! 'Am not going to wax all happy-clappy, slinging Scriptures AT you, when someone moves your cheese. Churchians may get all spiritchhuull. Yeah, well have at it! Meanwhile, real christians are real people, with real issues.
Had i known a week ago, there'd be a blizzard descending within the paper goods section, i'd of bought A pack of toilet paper. Yes, still have some, it's just that i only have the funds to only keep so much of anything on hand. And because i don't live in a mansion, there's only so much room around here.
Also wanted to get A pack of bottled water. There was NONE of that either. Yeah, i should have bought that last week - but balked...because bottled water is so darn heavy. So, will just fill up the mason jars with water from the house and drink that while doing yard work. Better anyway.
At the store, it was only the Lord's grace that i didn't buy that last carton of my favorite orange juice, but instead chose a carton among the remaining others. The Lord's grace in other forms have been at work. During normal times, when seeing a product, and wanting two of them, but there's only three on the shelf, that still small voice, "don't be hoggy."
i think the Lord's grace prompts people, even years prior to becoming saved - uh, Bible says somewhere "from the foundation of the world." i think that His grace also takes the form of having parents, grandparents and other adults who admonish against being a selfish widdle snoflake.
All's i know is, if i was a lost person, i'd be so effing angry right now - this last year and a half has really ... inhaled. And now they're fixing to close work for two weeks. Hey! i was saving that leave, and now will likely have to use it.
No! 'Am not going to wax all happy-clappy, slinging Scriptures AT you, when someone moves your cheese. Churchians may get all spiritchhuull. Yeah, well have at it! Meanwhile, real christians are real people, with real issues.
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