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One thing that Christians avoid like poison is to contemplate why the Bible dont include the apocriphal books. Well, this cherrypicking have origins on the several Concils. Is amazing to see one book where we find stories of young Jesus being a mischevous boy, even killing another boy with his magic powers. What Books Are in the Apocrypha? A Summary of Each Book https://share.google/rh7JuQcC5wfdTXsvK I am reading a collection of 3 books with these books, just for fun and curiosoty. Anyone here already took a look on this material? Imagine how evengelists would make of this part of the Book of Tobit Quote: “Tobias said to Raphael, ‘Brother Azariah, I’ve heard that she has already been given to seven men and that they died in the bridal chamber. They dropped dead the very night they tried to have sex with her. I’ve heard people saying that a demon kills them. Now I’m also afraid, because the demon loves her and doesn’t harm her but kills anyone who desires to approach her….’ Raphael said to him, ‘Don’t you remember your father’s instructions, that you should take a wife from among your father’s relatives? Now listen to me, my brother: Don’t worry about this demon. Take her, for I know that tonight she will be given to you as your wife. When you enter into the bridal chamber, take some of the fish’s liver and heart and lay them over the warm incense coals. This will let off an odor, and the demon will smell it, flee, and never stalk her again.’” (Tobit 6:14-18, CEB) -This shit sound and smell more like Shamanism- A crosspolination of this bookish topic is that we dont know how much Politics,Power Dynamics, Corruption etc.. was involved in what today is Christianity. Well, by observing the fruits we can see the roots. so maybe as this video say, the concils or maybe at least in this specific concil was not the cherrypicking of books the main theme.
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@Asia P when I shared about how will you match this practice with your cyclical nature as a woman was this I was trying to say https://www.instagram.com/reel/De2Nm3-NYbN/?dlrf=YnhzZGt3eXV6dTFx This praticioner have deep understanding of Chinese Medicine and its relation with Woman Cycles. We need to remember that we are not robots. We are nature, and nature have a way of being that the systems we created dont sustain. Is weird we are natural cyclic beings but at same time we created systems that goes against the benefit of our own wellbeing. Also check the work of https://www.instagram.com/dr.joey.liu?srtk=MTJrampqY3FhcGY5MQ==
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Remember to have fun and share humiliation memes. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfBz9a6k-oq/?dlrf=MWdxcGc1d2NqdjZzMA== -
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Rumors they say https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfQAmmiztSc/?obrf=bXlwdGYyNHMyZG5w -
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Well, this one give some clues -
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So all this Spending make sense https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeuvZpiPXmV/?xtok=NW1yMnFiMWp1dHJ2 -
I dont find the video about the bananas but he makes a good point in showing China is not what Westerns think of it.
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What tier this girl would fit? Is she Green? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfPzOHLqZNE/?dlrf=NHp4NnVtMHg1b3Vx Sounds pretty System Thinking for me even if her aim is activism. She for sure is doing much more than me for the cause she choose. -
@Majed mispelled are with ate. Read again
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Israel Origins If this stuff if true and confirmed there a lot to rethink about History -
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The text below may seen out of context but is a good point since what I intuit the original point of this thread is that by being around tier 1 people we are somehow of even actually hurting out own progress. I know this pain viceraly. So this text below is a sort of call to action for those who say they wish to do more and wellz sometimes we need to look deep in our reality if we are Really into what we say we want. Here is go: I wonder how many people will spend the next five years complaining about their financial circumstances while doing absolutely fuck all to change them. And before someone gets their nickers in a twist, I'm not talking about people who are genuinely struggling to keep their heads above water. (But also I've seen some pretty incredible things happen with those on struggle street) I'm talking about people who have opportunities available to them, who could make some changes, develop new skills or become more financially capable, but continue to do very little with any of it. Because something I find fascinating is how many people say they want financial freedom until you start talking about what acquiring it might actually require from them. Everyone loves the idea of having more money, more choices, more flexibility and greater control over how they spend their time. Of course they fucking do. Who wouldn't? But ask someone what they're actually prepared to learn, practise, prioritise or become reasonably uncomfortable doing to create those circumstances, and suddenly it's a very different conversation. And I think some people need to get considerably more honest about the difference between wanting a different financial future and being willing to participate in creating one. Because you can want something desperately. You can think about it every day, talk about how much you want it, feel emotional about the fact that you don't have it and spend years imagining what your life would look like if you did. But none of that tells me very much about your commitment. Your willingness to acquire the skills, make the decisions and follow through on the things that might actually improve your financial position tells me considerably more. And I think we've got a lot of people confusing the intensity of their desire with the level of their commitment. They'll spend hours researching holidays they can't afford, houses they'd love to own and lifestyles they'd love to live. They'll watch people who have built those circumstances and wonder what it would be like. They'll tell themselves that one day they'll have more money, more freedom and more opportunities. But ask them what they've done in the last twelve months to improve their financial literacy, develop a valuable skill, understand their finances or increase their earning capacity, and there's often very little to talk about. Which makes me wonder how badly some people actually want the things they keep telling themselves they want. And while we're here, can we have a slightly uncomfortable conversation about capacity? Because I reckon some people have become very comfortable telling themselves they don't have the capacity to learn something new without ever properly examining what they're currently doing with the capacity they have. Now, I'm someone who talks about capacity all the fucking time. I understand that people have children, jobs, businesses, relationships, health challenges and a whole host of other responsibilities competing for their time and attention. I also understand that having two hours available in your calendar doesn't automatically mean you've got the physical, mental or emotional capacity to use those two hours productively. But I also think the language of capacity can become a very convenient explanation for decisions we don't particularly want to examine. Are you genuinely at capacity, or have you become very comfortable telling yourself that you are? Because those are two very different conversations. And I'm going to say something that might piss a few people off. Nothing new. In the years I've spent teaching people to trade, I've watched single mothers become successful traders while navigating circumstances that would make plenty of people wonder how they manage to get through an ordinary Tuesday. Women raising children completely on their own. Women dealing with fucking horrendous co-parenting situations. Women working, managing households, navigating financial pressure and carrying responsibilities they can't simply put down because they'd like a few hours to themselves. And yet, they've found ways to learn. My Co-Founder is a classic example of this. They've studied when the kids have gone to bed. They've made use of small pockets of time. They've accepted that their education might take longer than someone else's. They've made compromises, rearranged priorities and continued showing up to learn even when their circumstances were far from ideal. Now, I know we're not supposed to compare people's circumstances. But I'm going to compare. Because I think there's something worth examining when you see someone with incredibly limited time and resources find a way to develop a skill, while someone with considerably more freedom and support continues telling themselves they couldn't possibly fit it in. And no, that doesn't mean everyone has the same capacity or that everyone should be expected to achieve the same outcomes. But perhaps we could learn something from the resourcefulness of people who have managed to do things under circumstances that were far from convenient. Because I wonder how many people have decided they don't have the capacity to learn something when what they actually mean is that they don't have any unallocated capacity. Their routines are established. Their evenings are spoken for. Their weekends have a familiar rhythm. And developing a new skill would require them to make decisions about what stays, what goes and what they're prepared to do less of. So, serious question. How much of your capacity is genuinely unavailable, and how much of it are you simply unwilling to reallocate? Have you ever actually audited where your time goes? Have you considered what you could learn if you dedicated even two hours a week to something for the next twelve months? Or have you decided that because you can't dedicate ten hours a week to learning something, there's absolutely no point dedicating two? I just find this interesting because people seem to think they need relatively ideal circumstances before they can start developing themselves. They want uninterrupted study sessions, the perfect routine, plenty of spare time and the mental clarity to absorb everything without getting frustrated. And when those things aren't available, they postpone. Until next month. Until the kids are older. Until work settles down. Until things are less stressful. And listen, sometimes postponing is absolutely the right decision. But sometimes I wonder whether people have simply become very good at finding reasons why now couldn't possibly work. Because if you're waiting for a season of life where absolutely nothing is competing for your time, you could be waiting a very fucking long time. There's always going to be a reason why now isn't a good time. Your children will always need you. Work may always be demanding. Money is going to be tight until you do something different. Your health needs attention. You're going through something difficult in your personal life. You can spend your entire life waiting for a period where your circumstances are finally convenient enough to pursue the things you say you want. And every time you get close to that period, something else will happen. You and your reasons, ARE NOT UNIQUE TO YOU. People have taken your cards, and built something incredible. At what point do you stop expecting life to make room for your ambitions and start taking some responsibility for making room yourself? Just because you've got a good reason for delaying something doesn't automatically mean delaying it is your only reasonable choice. Sometimes you've got to work with the circumstances you've got. Sometimes that means learning at a slower pace. Sometimes that means sacrificing something you enjoy. Sometimes that means accepting that your education is going to look very different from someone who has considerably more time available. And sometimes it means acknowledging that you could have started twelve months ago, but you didn't particularly want to deal with everything that starting would require. Which is fine. You're allowed to make that decision. But at least be fucking honest about it. Because I think there's a point where repeatedly saying it's not a good time becomes a way of avoiding the much more confronting question. What would actually have to happen in your life for you to finally decide that it IS a good time? And if you can't answer that, perhaps you need to consider whether you're waiting for something that doesn't exist. Have you considered that what you're calling a capacity problem might actually be an unwillingness to tolerate the discomfort of learning something new? Because learning to trade, like developing most valuable skills, will challenge you. You're going to be a beginner. You're going to misunderstand things, get frustrated, question yourself and have to revisit lessons you've already completed. You're going to have to practise things repeatedly before they make sense. And even when you do understand something, you're going to have to develop the discipline to apply it. I wonder how many opportunities people have walked away from because they were unwilling to experience the temporary discomfort of being inexperienced. At some point, you've got to decide how much longer you're prepared to remain interested in changing your life without actually participating in changing it.
