And there was burning and looting in protest... oh, wait, that was Custer. There were peaceful protests and scalping by the.....

DEFUND THE MILITARY!!!!!!!!!!

Um, defund the military? That's about as smart as defunding the police. You're gonna enjoy no military when Islamic terrorists begin to take over countries and head for the US. 🙄

Sydney and I are a lot alike, sarcastic, satirical, mocking, jesting and a little bit smart a.......... well, you get the idea- all in good fun

Ahhhhhh, gotcha. I guess I'm learning on here. I do very little social media....so I'm pretty wet behind the ears. I'm catching on. Hard tho to tell when someone is being ironic or serious. Guess you have to get to know certain ppl on here. I'm getting hacked on another meme for saying a fetus is human.... 😳😳😳😳

You've met the people who have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. You do well if you limit your social media activity. Facebook billionaire creators won't let their children use social media because they know it has been designed to trigger dopamine, etc. hits in the brain that leads to addiction looking for the next like or upvote. Recent research suggests limiting social media activity to no more than 20 minutes is effective in avoiding addiction and still being "connected"

Wow. I didn't know all that about social media or FB creators. I did know tho that social media can be dangerous. As I've mentioned my parents don't put a lot of limitations on me....they are lax....kinda free spirit types. My pastor, close friends & grandparents have helped me stay pretty clean. I use to have FB and Instagram, but had a psycho ex who smeared my name on FB and so between that and getting bored on there, I ditched them. Most my Christian friends agree it was a good move. I like YouTube, searching on web engines for my interests, and things like img where I can get creative. I'm sorta techy. I don't mind some friendly debate, but not a fan of constant bickering. I can get that at home. LOL

LOL! Tech is awesome and definitely opens up so much information, but like everything good, we are always confronted by an enemy who hates all that is good. A lot of ministries use the internet to great effect, in fact when we were forced from our churches for the most significant celebration in the Christian calendar, hundreds of thousands of people came to Christ online. In Iran during their coronavirus shutdown, there were literally millions of illegal downloads of the Bible and Bible studies.
Are you familiar with Jan Markel? Her website is OliveTreeViews.org, does a weekly radio show that ties the events of the day with Scripture and prophecy.

Yeah, our pastor did YouTube sermons during covid. Ugh, I'm so over the pandemic. No, I've not heard of her. Will look into that this wk & get back to you. Always looking for godly preaching & teaching to keep me on the right path. Neat that I actually met someone nice and saved on here (you). 😉 I believe when you strive to follow a good path God can direct towards like minded people. Of course believe me, the devil has thrown his snares. I'm getting better with my discernment however.

Btw, is spreading the gospel in Iran illegal? I knew Vietnam and some Muslim countries were against it bc I've talked with missionaries about this before. I'm fascinated by missionaries but truth be told idk that I'd ever have what it takes to be one outside the US.

Punishable by death. The same thing happened (is happening in China and North Korea). The gospel is being spread like wildfire all over the world in an intensity that has never been matched. We risk sharing our faith so we don't get shunned or mocked. There are millions around the world who are risking their lives for their faith.
I've done some domestic missionary work (a few weeks) and kind of the same way as you as far as the hardcore missionary work goes. The fact is we have missionaries coming here from Africa to save our lost. Plenty to do here.
There's a book called "Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II" by a lady who was a missionary that was captured by the Japanese and spent the war interred in a prison camp. It might be available on Kindle if you do that, I like turning pages, but you should definitely read it, it's eye opening.

I will look that up!! Thanks! I'm in awe of what ppl do to spread the gospel. I do know if God calls you to it, he will give you the grace and courage to do it.

I did not know this. Of course there's a lot historically I still probably don't know! 😂 I use to hate history but I really woke up my junior and senior yr and paid close attention. Especially when my grandparents told me the nation was headed down the drain. I began to study our founding fathers and was moved by all our nation was founded on. I'm still learning but my mind has opened and I have a bigger desire to fight for America. Guess I'm not a lost cause after all. LOL

I stopped reading novels decades ago and got into history because it was real. Knowing the real history inoculates you against the revisionist history that is being sold.

I agree with that.

Btw - sevenheart - you will have to enlighten me about the facts behind this meme. Thx.

Custer was like a lot of people of the times, he had political aspirations and was a social climber. He was accepted at West Point which led to commission as an officer at the beginning of the Civil War (he graduated at the bottom of his class). Even though he was a highly regarded brigadier general for the Union in the Civil War, (at age 25!) demonstrating courage, valor and boldness on the battlefield many times, as a Democrat he favored slavery.
While he was able to gain a lot of recognition during the war between the states, like other career soldiers he lost his rank and was then a Captain, and before he died he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Deciding he needed to round out his resume to enhance his political ambitions, though he was well connected in the Democrat machine, he needed a higher public profile, so he took a commission to fight in the "Indian Wars".
Believing that if he were the man credited with ending the "Indian Problem" that was disrupting emigrant wagon trains moving west, he felt like his nomination as Democrat candidate for President later in 1876 would be assured. He took his aggressive approach to battle against a much better tactician, Crazy Horse and got massacred (in part for some massacres he had committed against Plains Indians- in fact he was planning for a massacre on the Sioux encampment on the Little Bighorn). A lot of histories say that Sitting Bull was the warrior who defeated him, but Sitting Bull was actually more of a spiritual and civic leader.
There are a lot of good histories out there, some presenting Mrs. Custer's views trying to preserve her husband's legacy and keep from slipping into poverty, but the best ones are the ones that address both Crazy Horse and Custer.

Fascinating. I def need to read more about him and dig even deeper into such historical events. On a side note my g-pa wants us to take a trip to crazy horse in SD in the fall. He wants to also see Mt Rushmore. Will be a fun trip. Thanks for taking the time to share this. I take it you are not a teen like me.... you def seem like an adult who has had their nose in the books. Thx for taking the time to share.

I'm about the same age as your G-pa, but I'm immature for my age. I was a lot like you when I was 17.

LOL Being immature keeps ya young my gma says. She's a nut....fun but in a good way, not crazy.... so I get what you mean. Now my parents are nutty in a different, worldly way. It's sad. That's cool about you being like me. Sometimes I feel like I'm too different for my age, but then I look at a few of my closest Christian friends and my pastor who is 30....and I see there are others like me. I want to have fun, but am desperately trying to break free of my parents ways and have good, clean fun. I'm Dean btw.

My grandparents are in their mid 70s but not showing signs of slowing. PTL They are health nuts and exercise daily. I wanna be like them. Gotta kick the Dr P habit first lol 😂🤯

Brian. I grew up in the 60's, watched Ronald Reagan give Barry Goldwater's nomination speech at the 64 convention and became a Republican at age 6. The speech is available online- Called "A Time For Choosing." still applies today. Came home from kindergarten and saw all the news that JFK had been killed, came home a few days later, turned on the tv and watched Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald live on tv. Had a paper route and read the paper every day from the front page and just got to the sports section when I finished folding the papers and putting rubber bands on them so I could pedal my bike around at 4 am and hit people's screen doors with them from the street. Like the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun- all this stuff was going on then too, so this is like a bad re-run (only then we had the excitement of the Moon Race).
I grew up in the Methodist Church, there was a major revival in the late 60-70's and was taught a lot then about the prophecy regarding Christ's second coming and have spent the last 40 some years watching everything unfold exactly like we are told in scripture.
I got lured into the fringes of what was "cool" back then, and regret every misstep I took (pretty tame compared to others I knew) so I want to encourage you- seek that which is good, pure and Godly and hold tightly to those things. You'll have more than enough time to make mistakes, we all do, but you'll limit the damage. Does that make sense? And definitely loose the "sugar" habit, at every decade mark I put on 10 pounds that never go away (I was a distance runner in High School and College). I have my weight in control now, but it was hard to stop eating and drinking all the sugary stuff I loved when I burned off 10,000 calories more than I took in a day.

Wow, you formed your solid opinions early. That's great! Would love to have been that way. I'm a late bloomer in that regard but I'm hungry for knowledge and now that I know the truth I'm clinging fiercely to it and am ready to defend it respectfully. Question: you spoke of the 60s and nothing new under the sun. My grandparents and their friends sit and talk about the good, old days.... they say how the 50s were so wonderful. I've always had the impression that from the 50s back to the 1900s times were simpler and better bc law enforcement was stricter and morals were better. Of course, again, sin always was around in men's hearts, but bc morals were preached & taught more and laws were really qenforced, no homosexuality, don't steal, don't divorce, go to church, etc... life was simpler. Do you agree? Of course a lot of things got worse by gpa said when the bible was removed from schools. I'm really scared with the direction things are moving.... this rioting junk is making most blacks want Biden. His black remarks are no longer thought of bc he's attending Floyd's funerals. If Trump doesn't get elected I believe our free nation may be gone very soon. All this is by design I believe, but man... I'm not ready for this.

On a lighter note.... I'm skinny and pretty physical but realize a lot of soft drinks will catch up with me someday. I'm gonna try to wean off them and drink tea more and water. My gma harps on me to eat my greens and avoid processed foods. I'm learning in that area of life too. Did I mention they are anti vax folks and eat only organic? They are seriously my parents polar opposites. I respect them so much.

Skinny, LOL. I can relate to that. A lot more to talk about but I need to try to squeeze in a couple hours of sleep before I go back to work tonight. We'll catch up tomorrow I hope.

Nice visiting. Yeah, I need to hit the sheets too.... gonna start helping at my mom's office in addition to working at a ranch part time for a man at church. Need to get rested up! Gonna stay busy this summer. I just graduated.

In a lot of ways things were better, where I grew up we rode our bikes anywhere in town and spent hours away from home exploring the woods, playing baseball and just being happy kids without our parents being panicked about what we were doing. Murder rates were higher in a lot of places, there was a more prominent mob influence in a lot of areas, when you had a bully in school it didn't mean they said bad things about you on facebook- they waited for you after school and tried to beat you up, nearly everyone knew how to fight. My Dad was a college professor and track coach, so I had a little different perspective on things. He recruited athletes from all over, coached 4 national champions, it didn't matter to him what color a kid was, if he was motivated and wanted to earn his way through college with athletics, my Dad got them scholarships. My bedroom was next to my folks, so my nightly routine was listening to them discuss their day and plans for the next and it always ended with a kiss. More than once my Dad would return from a track meet and was furious with the other coach. They traveled in Checker buses and would pull into a restaurant to have their meals and so often the restaurants refused to serve the black athletes (sometimes they wouldn't serve the hispanics either). My Dad would want to leave and find another place where the team could eat together, but the other coach didn't care and would take the white guys in for steak dinners and leave the other guys in the parking lot. Sometimes my Dad could get food out the back door, other times he would have to find a grocery store to throw together sandwiches. It made my Dad furious every time, but he couldn't change the racism. Long story for another time, but he was chairman of a social censure committee which was made of students and teachers to deal with punishment for cheating on tests and petty stuff. A black kid pulled a knife on a white kid and the college administration was afraid of riots, so instead of treating it like a criminal matter it was they kicked it off on the committee. It became a huge deal and after the hearing they found the black kid guilty and recommended expulsion. When they left the hearing there were Black Panthers threatening to fire bomb our house, kill my Mom, kill my sister, and other threats. My Dad was so shook up when he told my Mom and he strategically placed every gun he had around the house (he had been in the ROTC during his college years- Korean War era). It wa

It was scary times. The whole image of peace and love and sticking daisies in gun barrels was pretty much a myth, there were riots all around the world, which of course I read about every day with my paper route. Lots of drug overdoses, cars weren't as safe- lost some friends in accidents. Assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King (which really bothered my Dad). Black Power protests at the 68 Mexico City Olympics where Juan Carlos and another guy put on black gloves and raised their black power fists on the medal stand during the national anthem and that made my Dad furious too. The next day George Foreman won the Olympic Gold in boxing and proudly waved the American flag in response to their protests, my Dad cried. The political unrest was identical to today, the tactics and the beliefs are relatively unchanged- the more violent the happier the protesters got.
We had square dancing every thursday in our music classes where we lined up boy/girl in the classroom before we marched to the music room. I was by the door and every week lined up beside my 5th grade crush, and every week I somehow ended up at the back of the line beside the only black girl in our school (her Dad was a talented surgeon who had been hired at the local hospital). I never thought anything of it, I held her hand and dosie doed, but all of the other boys in the class, my friends would put out their hands, and just as she was about to grab their hand they would pull their hands back. I hated them. I hated the teacher who knew exactly what was going on and said nothing about it. The rest of the day I was shunned because they had this idiot game that I had N-word germs. Every week. It sucked for me, it had to be hell for her. I was just a stupid 5th grader, I didn't know what to do, but I couldn't ever treat her as someone less so I took the shunning every week and learned which friends were real jerks. She probably thinks about those days and hates me too.

Wow, horrible things happening at times very much paralleling our current time. I enjoyed hearing about your family and that's wonderful that you and your dad tried to be kind during such oppressive times to the black students. The late 60s definitely were a rough time in history. My gpa always says a lot of dads weren't spending enough time at home with kids, moms went to work, and kids began to hate parents, rules, God and family by the late 60s. Idk if it's true, but the same rings true in many time periods. History does always repeat if we don't change for the better.

I sent an email. Been having trouble with my internet the last wk...not sure why. But hopefully it went through. ttyl