Hope

I'm doubtful. We're created to live on earth. Likely the transformation to heavenly life for the 144k involved some serious reprogramming. I don't think it would be necessary for simply a visit. I imagine I'd be ready for home at some point like I am at every journey I take 🤓

This. What a wild experience! 🤪🥰

I made a comment once years ago about how much my mind/heart will need to be re-arranged in the New World. Gardening, farm work, looking after animals, etc... those sorts of jobs have never been very interesting to me. If that's what I have to do, so be it. But I'd much rather work on the administrative/ paperwork/ organization end of life. Make sure people and supplies are what and where they need to be, arrange the travel, shipping, and other details. People will be needed for those jobs, too - and I'm very good at it! 😉

Thriller album!

I believe what's most important is to consider what we have to offer a mate. They not just for us; we're for them. Will we - our personality, spirituality, maturity, circumstances - be beneficial to someone else? Especially for a brother - are you ready to head a household and be responsible for all who live with you? If we can unselfishly say, "yes", that's when we should go looking for a mate. It's much beyond what our bodies can tell us.. 🤨

I agree that the imagery is not worth sharing. However, they do seem to illustrate the speedy and barely imaginable descent into madness and destruction this system is headed. Who could even think of these things ten years ago? Not favoring anyone... but I cannot recall this level of gleeful public (at least) degradation, cruelty, and ignorance depicted in words or pictures by any other president or his administration; and I can remember back to Nixon. Yes - they are all bad, absolutely. The madness displayed every. single. day. of the current administration is one for the books, however. 😕 These are very good points and definitely something for us all to constantly keep in mind. It *is* the news of the day and some do pay attention to the news. I know it's challenging for me because I like to be informed... and this circus of world politics lately is dangerously entertaining. It's like watching a car wreck. I am so grateful to know where all this is heading and I do pray and work hard to keep my eyes off the newsfeeds. It's tough sometimes - because I can barely believe what I'm seeing. But, I have no doubt that among other things, Satan is delighting in making this system die embarrassed and humiliated. Future generations will hardly be able to believe the inanity we will tell them about these Last Days..

It is worse. The president himself posted that meme... no one is mocking him in this instance but he himself. 😕

Truly nauseating..

I am so grateful I work from home. I barely go anywhere- I haven't filled my tank since the beginning of March ☺️ My current job ends June 30. I am praying for another remote role. Driving is barely worth the effort anymore 😔

Here in the Portland area, premium - the fuel my son's car needs- is over $5/gallon. Even worse, he must drive from Hillsboro to Hood River every day for work, 84 miles each way. It's over $300/week to run his car. It's horrible 😞

@Kiana Williamson Shawn may be thinking of this process from "Wrath of Khan" (awesome movie - go see it!). I know for me, this was the first time I heard about "terraforming". It's not a real thing now... but it does capture the imagination 😉

i am so glad my son is too old to draft. prayers that Jehovah continue to grant our brothers wisdom and mercy in this horrible system we live in..

So apparently the new dime design for 250th US anniversary has the eagle, which traditionally had arrows in one claw and an olive branch in the other, has dropped the olive branch and is now just holding arrows. Hm.. https://www.newsweek.com/us-mint-unveils-new-dime-design-detail-missing-11672570

Either person can be the "ball and chain" if they are ill-suited, don't carry their own weight, or prove to be a burden rather than a partner.

This is not a new video, is it?

Interesting thread. I thought this tablet issue was just my tablet acting up. Very annoying- I hope it's fixed soon.

I would watch an entire movie of these books - especially the last one. But man.... I don't know if my heart could take the stress! I was on the edge of my seat just reading it! 😮❤️

Immortality is actually repulsive without eternal youth. Unless aging would stop long before the human body starts breaking down, I would never want to live forever... 😕

Smoking is not a healthy or Christian activity. I'd have a quiet word with anyone I knew of who attended such an establishment...

I do. I put my heart into everything that I use to help me preach the good news.

I had a great discussion with a friend today (just got off the phone with her! ❤️ ) about an extremely personal, distressing, and grotesque learning I discovered last night. 😕 She is one of only maybe two people I could bring this up with and I'm grateful for her advice, commiseration, and counsel. I have known her for over 45 years and she knows me inside and out. I was very honest and frank However - I DID bring it up first on Copilot last night. The response was very helpful. I couldn't call my friend at midnight. And this topic is not something that I'll bring up with her again - it's not necessary. But... if I want to go over it again, I'll do so on Copilot. That's what I mean about its value when I'm needing to vent some more. The sort of conversations that I might have with a husband from the secret person of my heart in the wee hours is what AI is good for... for me. As mentioned earlier, I always pray beforehand and after, and always ask for scriptural encouragement. YMVV

I'm using Copilot from Microsoft (I work at Microsoft, so my personal and the 365 are free). I like it very much; I've got it trained to my voice and it's pretty good. I've used Grok to do photo animations - that's fun I find that ChatGPT *is* the most robust, but I'm not paying for nuthin'... 😉

I do specifically ask it to be as impartial as possible and NOT just tell me what I want to hear. I usually hear some uncomfortable but reasonable truths..

I don't have any information that will cause me any more trouble than I already have. I don't have any money to steal, my credit is terrible and my life is boring. I fear nothing.

Why would a dialect be an imperfection? It's just a way languages change over time due to migration, new developments/ tech, discovering new things that need words for them. Anyway- I love all the different languages, cultures, art, music (which styles often reflects the language it comes from) etc. The more things are different from me, the better I like them. We speak the Pure Language now- that's good enough for unity, imo. Actual spoken languages can stay unique. ☺️ We don't know how things will play out in reality so I guess we'll see.