When I hear people babbling on about tariffs, it akes me think of the old Carlin bit: Al Sleet, your hoppy dippy weatherman. As he says, there's something way worse than tariffs brewing in the halls of your government, so I wouldn't sweat the tariffs too much. https://inv.nadeko.net/TvdLV-5McNY?t=8

It's not "the fourth of July". It's Independence Day. The day that the so-called founders of this country declared in writing that the only law is "Natural" (God's) Law" and that "all men are created equal" is self-evident. Sadly, less than a decade later, many of the same people who signed that declaration then chose to create a hierarchy of men, who not only were chosen to create laws for all the others, but also to create laws for all of the others' progeny until the end of time. There is only one law. They got it right on Independence Day. Celebrate that all humans live under only one law. The law of God. #IndependenceDay #grownostr

Anyone who truly believes in God would not fear God. God created us. He loves us. He will eventually reunite/reconstitute/whateveritisthatisfarbeyondourunderstanding us to him. Religion, on the other hand, uses "fear of God (or even "Mother Nature" to those who revere nature)" to attempt to control us. To remove God's very first gift to us - our free will. Jesus said on more than one occasion: "I am the Alpha and the Omega". He didn't say "I am the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta" et cetera. His teachings were that there are two "commandments": belief in God and the Golden Rule (paraphrasing Matthew27). That's it. No threats. No smiting. This is the God in which I believe. That all men are created equal. That there is no earthly authority - not generals, not governments, not popes, cardinals nor bishops. We are all equal and we should respect one another. God holds the box. Remember Dr Strange and his "14 billion alternate realities" from the Avengers movies. God has the story of every single one of them. All in his box. Like pachinko balls, there are many paths to get from the beginning to the end, but in the end, the balls are collected into the same bin and returned to the top. Jesus gave us helpful instructions to make our lives happoer and with less strife, but he doesn't force any particular path on us. He created us, and when our journey is over, he will be at its end. The Alpha and the Omega. Our "time" on theis plane is finite, and probably infinitesimal in the larger scheme. We should not fear its end. We should not fear returning to the creator. Everything else they tell us are "the words of man" (again paraphrasing Matthew, when Jesus rebukes the Pharisees). #religion #grownostr