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20th-6-2025
If you were a teacher what would you do to make students learn?
Teach what applies to real life, not subjects that they are not likely to need in life, if they want to learn algebra they can learn it after they leave school by taking a course on subjects that they wish to know. Parenting is so low these days I would teach what the students need to know to navigate through life such as cooking, carpentry, sewing, gardening, real math as they would have to deal with when getting wages, when dealing with banks, the value of saving, and how to buy, and what to watch out in society, and not to put money before people, and that love and true friends are worth more than any career, job, or the pursuit of money.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
One of the things I have discovered about suffering, is that those who are now suffering in poverty, if they were born in to wealthy families would be as mean as those who are mean to them because they are poor in wealth.
This is probably why many middle-class and wealthy see no wrong in being cruel, they see the world as dog-eat-dog, or “if I don;’t do it to them they will do it to me”, that kind of limited explanation as to why they can be cruel, hoard money, and feel no sorrow for doing so.
The limited vision of the wealthy (the camel and the eye of the needle) has them blinded (like most people) to assuming that they are the worthy, innocent and are just doing what it takes to survive and such, seldom do they actually think that they can actually make a difference by putting money in people’s letterboxes, or starting education with their billions and millions of dollars, or volunteering time to help others progress in life and so forth.
Charles Dickens writing was so clever that the wealthy wives who read his books would plead with their wealthy husbands to donate money to good causes, better laws for schooling, stop the needless hangings for stealing basic survival goods like a loaf of bread – and yes many children were hung for that back in the dark days of England, and thus Dickens was reaching out and helping the poor and needy by helping people learn to have compassion and empathy for the womem, poor, and children.
The husbands of these wealthy wives t4nnded to have a great dislike for Charles Dickens.
The point is that, “where we are mentally at” is where we need to start from, but in this mental spot we can be very deceived by only seeing the good in our selves, instead of facing the real truths about who we are, how good or truly bad we are, and facing why and how we came to be as we currently are, and then how can we change ourselves o that our own life can be something that we smile peacefully at when we are on our death bed.
If we lie to our own self, see ourselves as worthy, wonderful, kind and caring and in reality we are simply selfish and greedy, we will not be of any use to others, ourselves or God.
Remember the Talents being buried and how they were of no use to the Boss?
You have talents, worth, imagination, and great value, but none of this will come to the surface if you are in your comfort zone, pampered, well fed, and cosy – because when all seems wonderful people lose their desire to strive, to change, to help others.
For you to really be someone of great value you need to be someone who takes risks, helps the poor and needy, and you and them will be better off for it, and free people from their mental slavery and captivity.
No work for me tonight 🙂
On a visit to Moscow in 1881, Count Leo Tolstoy was horrified at the destitution he encountered. He’d seen poverty before, had witnessed beggars and country dwellers barely eking out a living from the land, burdened by taxes and rents. But he wasn’t prepared for the magnitude and raggedness of the city’s poor, nor for the extent of their persecution by the police. He was horrified to realize that the beggars in the streets had to ask for alms with caution lest they be arrested. On the advice of a friend, he went to the Khitrov Market, a center of poverty and homelessness. What he saw there permanently changed his outlook on life and society. Following the crowds of tattered men and women, he entered the free night-lodging house and spoke to those seeking shelter. Afterwards, he returned to his servants and opulent town house and sat down to a five-course meal.
The disjunction between these two worlds, that of the rich and that of the poor, disgusted him. He grew irritated at the thought of well-kept horses, decadent table spreads, and the lavish entertainment of theaters.
“I could not help seeing, in contrast to all this,” he wrote in What Is to Be Done? (1886), “those hungry, shivering, and degraded inhabitants of the night-lodging-house. I could never free myself from the thought that these conditions were inseparable—that the one proceeded from the other.”
At first, Tolstoy attempted to alleviate the suffering of the poor through charity. He took up collections and joined the census in order to find the needy on whom to bestow the alms of the rich. Yet he found money to be insufficient. Not only were many not in direct, desperate need of it, simply handing out bills only exasperated the system of exploitation and warped values that generated poverty.
“It is not enough to feed a man, dress him, and teach him Greek,” he wrote. A whole shift in values was necessary, one in which all learned “how to take less from others and give them more in return.”
Thus, Tolstoy began to question the very foundations of Russian society, a path of inquiry that led him ultimately to criticize the very basis of civilization as commonly understood. Combining such reflections with a radical, though idiosyncratic, Christianity, he articulated a new politics with prophetic fervor, a belief system best described as Christian anarchism.
Tolstoy’s criticisms of injustice and vision of an equitable society retain their relevance and power. Few have cared so deeply for the poor or taken the quest to both know and live out truth more seriously.
https://daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mcae&utm_campaign=jstordaily-06192025
Recently I was getting sore eyes basically everywhere, but I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, so I dimmed the screen last week and now I am fine. I think that the unnatural constant glare of the screen was causing me to have sore eyes, once dimmed the glare dropped and I feel much better.
One may think, “Ew, all he wants is sex”, but consider when he is in tears, alone, crying because something has gone wrong or someone close to him has died, the moment she, his love, puts her hand on his shoulder her loving energy, feelings and care, immediately spiritually emotionally and physically make him feel better, and he is so happy that he is not alone, that he has someone, that he loves her and she loves him, and they are one.
When we are devastated and in need of help, love, compassion and to feel wanted, appreciated, and that we are not alone, a simple hug, touch, gentle hand on our shoulder is the touch that we hunger for so much.
I tried the lawnmower and the grass is still very wet, so I only mowed a small amount of lawn, but the height adjuster and wheel axle that I welded held up fine.
Remember, the original axle failure was that the manufacturers weld failed.
What I am Trying to do!
What I try to do with the Bible, human history and the real lives of the Prophets, is to reason what really happened, and what were the real reasons for the Prophets, what their true lives were like, and what good they did with the backing of God, whilst also learning more about Satan, what satanic is, and God, and what Holiness is.
For instance, I thing that Holy means, being Good, Decent, Moral, Honest and such, but the Established church systems, as they also did with the Prophet Jesus, made Holiness unreachable.
By making Jesus a god, they made him unreachable and a goal that was impossible for all people to reach.
By keeping Mary as a weak whore, they made her Born Again life unreachable, as they refuse to admit she married Jesus, or they sort of made her a god like int he Catholic church etc.
If the Established church makes Jesus and Mary, and Holiness unreachable for the common folk, then the religions congregations remain addicts, weak minded, narcissistic, foolish, and so on, thus weak enough to keep going to the established church and pay regular tithes or donations to the church – thus paying for the sermons and all the so-called “free” religious events.
If you remain weak, addicted, unstable, you remain in the congregation, you remain religiously deluded, part of society, and lost and distant from God.
The work of the Prophet is to help people become mentally, physically, and humanly strong willed, decent good honest human beings, full of courage and vision, love and compassion, thus these people had no time or desire to be in any established religion – because they were not weak and easily led.
If we can Figure out who God was, and God’s Beliefs, and Character, we can then realise who we were meant to be, how we were meant to live, and that we are each one of us a slave to no one.
Knowing this about God, we can then note that obviously all Prophets had to be the best version of God on Earth so as to be the Speaker for God on Earth to the Masses of Lost people.
What I am trying to pass on to people is that there is a different way, and the religious of the planet at this time have no idea what it is, and that we all need God’s help, but first we must realize what “satanic” is, and thus learn what true loving holiness is, and that all the Prophets characters, including Jesus, is reachable for us all, as we can all live the loving blessed lives that we were born to have.
We must all realise that evil exists, and that evil is one half of human nature, thus those who are with Satan are people who died and preferred to hate than love, and they are Spiritually God’s greatest enemies and your greatest enemy. The evil spirits whisper in your ear with evil thoughts, and they support you when you do evil, especially when you attack God’s people and advisors.
Thus if you do anything evil or mean, then all the ideas and successes that you had being this way was fully totally supported and “helped by Satan and his devils”.
You must know this, so you can be sure that what evil and bad that you do is Not of God, but is of the character of evil – thus you are siding, protecting and actually ‘being evil yourself‘.
And, that when the Prophet appears, that he (He is always a he), has become because the world is about to either become Saved or Destroyed to some degree, because the human race has once again, as it always does, has lost the plot and cannot save itself from its own Evil-ways, thus humans need God to save them via the Prophet.
Satan, wanted the world to believe that Jesus was the last Messiah, Prophet, Christ etc, so that when the next Prophet came the people would hunt him down, destroy him, hate him, thus Satan has defeated his greatest human enemy by doing nothing, the fools that were supposed to listen to the Prophet killed him instead.
Satan wanted the world to wait for Jesus the god, who never existed, because Jesus the god is the Antichrist – the fake Christ, the fake Jesus, and not of God but of Satan.
God’s warning to the people of the planet that they desperately need His help is the appearance of the Prophet.
But as long as the world is waiting for someone who is never going to come, as the Jews rejected Jesus because they were waiting for a Messiah that they assumed would take on a certain godly being that Jesus the poor suffering man was clearly not, so they proudly hated and denounced Jesus.
The Prophet is recognized by his Discernment, abilities, spiritual gifts, and God’s protection as well as the Prophets ability to be able to understand, explain, to the people what is really going on.
The training of the likes of Noah was to improve his Spirituality and Future Vision, as well as to grow in Maturity and to share his knowledge and wisdom. Those who followed Noah, did it because they believed in God and Noah’s teachings, thus when Noah realised that a disaster was coming, he taught it to the people, and those who had spiritual-ears were able to hear/sense/spiritually-feel, what was coming as well, and thus they departed from their families, society, and came to Noah because that is where they knew God would keep them safe.
The Faithful take the Narrow-Path, they Suffer and Grow Spiritually and have the same discernment that Noah had when they went to him – they were Not Biological family of Noah but Spiritual Family – they were Spiritually-in-tune with Noah and God. They saw “the way” just as Noah did.
They also knew that all that they left behind would be destroyed, killed, because of the foolish people’s lack of wisdom and belief, but that was their choice, for we must all choose our own futures. Just as Jesus taught that families would be pulled apart, it meant the same thing, that when we follow God in Truth and commitment, we must depart from the foolish who don’t believe in the Living God.
All the prophets in the end, become people with Vision, of which they pass on to the people, but as is always in troubled immature times, very few will understand or listen, and even fewer will follow the Prophet to the Promised land – the Meek who will inherit the Earth would obviously be those who followed the Prophet of their times.
To know the True Prophet, is to see wisdom, spiritual common sense, and someone who actually answers the questions that you have in your own mind that no one else can answer.
It seems to me that it works in two ways.
The Prophet can reach the world and change the world if the titled, wealthy, and leaders understand and actually want Peace and Healthy better world, and after hearing the common sense, logic of peace and understanding they all combine their efforts of change, repentance and thus the result is a return to God, love, empathy and compassion for us all.
If, for some reason, the Prophet cannot reach the world and save the world, then like Noah, the Prophet is able to only save a few, and the woman he marries was a bad woman (in the above and this case), and she becomes Spiritually Born Again, and in either case she becomes a light to the women of the greater world or to the few who survive the disaster.
In these modern times God would set up a system like the Internet, social media and so forth and wot not, and that would be the soapbox, speaking platform for which the Prophet would reach the world.
But should something go wrong due to satanic intervention and the Prophet was unable to reach the world as God had planned then it would seem that the world would be doomed.
The Bible seems to show both versions, like in the life of Noah, and with Jonah who goes to the people explains that they are doing wrong and the entire group of people repent and all is well again as they all, as one, change.
Why Does Trump Give Iran this 2 Week Grace Period?
Its to allow the leaders in Iran to think for a while about a real war with America, the devastation, the consequences, the death toll, and once the US won, the leader who is currently in control would either be dead or would be hated by the people because he was not able to come up with a peaceful solution, and he and his close aides would be murdered by his own people.
There are reports that the public and important people are not to use cell phones/Internet to stop other countries targeting people in Iran, but I wonder if it that classic Hitler technique here if the people only hear the lies of the government then they will not here/know/learn of what the US is about to do to them, like drop a nuclear bomb.
If the people got scared they would turn on their leaders, and the war would be won without the US doing anything. leaders know that, so they delude, fool, and make promises that they cannot keep to keep the people trusting them.
The war with japan showed since the Second World War that the USA will use those weapons of mass destruction to shut down a war – in the case of japan the pride was so foolishly high that the US had to drop two of such bombs before the Japanese leaders finally gave in.
The leaders in Iran and other countries don’t want the people to know that they are about to get mass-wasted because the leaders refused to play-ball with the USA or the world.
Are we on the brink of disaster? The news seems to be getting increasingly negative. But when we look at the mentality of the leaders (Imagine the leader of Pompeii before it was totally destroyed laughing at God and Satan, and at other world/Roman leaders of that time), the Religious Leaders, the fanatical leaders, and the Immature leaders, at any time an Ego could decide in an Immature Insecure mind that he or she could step up the game by wasting a country to show their immense firepower and then others retaliating.
I remember something vaguely about Helen Clark saying some very stupid comment about New Zealand fighting off attackers, and it was a total joke, she replaced our entire aging jet fighter air force with some helicopters and told the world that they could defeat any submarine attacking New Zealand and she was quickly shut down by the air force etc who were horrified at her foolish remarks.
And I wondered at that time would some country use New Zealand as a place to show off their nuclear power by simply wasting the North Island.
It could be argued that all wars of all nations all through history were started by a nutter (Hitler and his cronies), the deluded (Romans actually believed that they were gods), Narcissists (Their foolish ego’s tell them that they are the greatest and thus will never lose and their Flying Monkeys agree), the Frightened and Insecure (leaders who their public demand defence and protection and in fear they attack those who are not a threat to give them confidence before they move on), and basically people who are not Mature/sane/competent, because the mature sane and competent would try to come up with ways to reason – and yes if the reasoning gets no where and war is the only way to rid one of a serious threat and problem then eve the mature must go to war (Like the world against Germany in the First and Second World Wars).
According to Google AI:
- Direct effects: Nuclear explosions cause immediate devastation through blast waves, intense heat, and initial radiation. A single high-yield warhead could cause severe damage over a large area.
- Radioactive fallout: Following an explosion, radioactive particles can contaminate land, water, and air, leading to long-term health risks and rendering areas uninhabitable.
- Nuclear winter: The use of even a limited number of nuclear weapons could disrupt the global climate, causing a significant drop in temperatures and impacting agricultural production and marine fisheries. This “nuclear winter” could lead to widespread famine and starvation globally.
- Indirect effects: A nuclear war would cause the collapse of global trade, supply chains, and communication systems. New Zealand, like many nations, relies heavily on imports for its economy and crucial supplies like refined liquid fuel
- Geographical distance: New Zealand’s relative isolation in the Southern Hemisphere could potentially buffer it from the immediate effects of a Northern Hemisphere nuclear war.
- Food production: As a food exporter, New Zealand has the capacity to feed its population, but this depends on factors like diesel availability for farming and transport, which would be disrupted.
- Resilience: New Zealand is recognized for its existing disaster resilience policies, which could help in anticipating and responding to the shocks of a nuclear war.
- Economic disruption: The collapse of global trade and supply chains would be devastating for New Zealand’s economy, which relies on imports for many essential goods.
- Social instability: A breakdown in essential services like waste treatment and healthcare, combined with food scarcity and potential influxes of refugees, could lead to social unrest.
- Long-term recovery: Rebuilding a modern society would be incredibly difficult without access to vital imported resources and technology.
I used the Google AI because it searches the entire web of information and comes up with a view tht may not be perfect, but often is very good and informative. Alwys do additional research after using any artificial intelligence.
What I though was interesting, is that if in the future somehow via the Internet possibly, that such as Google AI was accidently able to search Government classified records and information and then posting it for the public to see.
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