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"Facebook wants Back to Jerusalem to pay money for advertising, which we refuse to do. We don’t pay for Google ads or SEO optimizing. We do not have a marketing company or dedicated marketing personnel working for us. In terms of marketing, we do everything wrong and yet there are still so many people visiting our website every day." from BTJ article.
Help Me! Why is this happening?
• 1 in 6 has had Covid (possibly more, 40% asymptomatic)
• 60% are fully vaccinated in USA
• Covid vaccine has an effectiveness that is non-zero.
• Natural immunity has been found to be more effective than the vaccine
• vaccinated can still be infected
• vaccinated can still transmit
• vaccine may have side effects
So why are vaccines being mandated?
Logically it does not make sense to me.
@Sliggett the same questions I ask! It doesn't make sense from a medical point of view. This is about other things! It's scary that she has moved from Russia to the US and gets PTSD because she recognizes the same spirit as in the Soviet Union.
@faith20 Ok! I understand it's not easy just to move to another country. I don't know if you have children or adult children... It's always more difficult to move with children, even if it's possible. And the fact is, that we never know what will happen in the future in the more liberal countries when it comes to covid passports. Praying for God's leading for you!
@faith20 What's going on in the world is terrible! People lose their jobs around the world! As you say, it's a very hard test! Let's encourage one another, to cling to our faith in Jesus Christ. I pray the Lord will bless you and keep you, and sustain you! Have you lived in Italy all of your life?
I haven't walked in your shoes, since I still have my teacher job. I can just imaging how it must be feeling. Even if I don't know how you feel, I want to share these verses that came to my mind: Luke 12: "Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,[a] yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them."
In Italy the situation is really unbearable. Without a vaccination passport you can no longer work. As I have already written to you since the first of September I am at home without work. It's sad but it's happening right under our eyes. I have been a believer for twenty years and I can assure you that it is a very hard test. I am also thinking of expatriation but I don't even know where to go. They took our jobs away! Pray again for my wife and me. Let's pray together for Italy. Remember that what is happening now here could happen anywhere because Italy has been chosen as the world leader for the organization of vaccinations. Thanks again. I love you in Jesus Christ.
"These studies demonstrate what was and is already known: natural immunity for a SARS-type virus is robust, long-lasting, and broadly effective even in the case of mutations, generally more so than vaccines. In fact, a major contribution of 20th-century science has been to expand upon and further elucidate this principle that has been known since the ancient world. Every expert presumably knew this long before the current debates. The effort to pretend otherwise is a scientific scandal of the highest order, especially because the continued neglect of the topic is affecting the rights and freedoms of billions of people.”
"The search identified 45 relevant scientific papers and letters. The review showed that children have so far accounted for 1%‐5% of diagnosed COVID‐19 cases, they often have milder disease than adults and deaths have been extremely rare."
I don't want to induce fear by sharing this. But since MSM don't share about the high risk with mRNA and that the risk of hospitalization is several times higher due to the mRNA shot compared to hospitalization because of the virus in young people, I want to share this. The risk is higher in boys. I pray for all of the children in the world, for protection and health, whether they are vaccinated or not! We are all losers in the hands of the rulers of this world. I feel so sorry for the young people that have to choose between the shot or losing opportunities when it comes to schools and education. 🙏 💔
@MaryMamuzich thank you! The sun will set at 6 PM.
@MaryMamuzich that early?! It's soon 5 PM here, meaning 9 hours time difference! I thought it was 7 hours between Montana and Finland. Have a nice day!
@OneofTen thank God both of you are doing better!
This is apartheid, but I'm glad that it's not as strict as in Australia, Canada, France, Israel etc. But I wish we would have chosen the same path as the other Nordic countries.
"While it remains to be seen how widespread use of the pass will be, the types of establishments which could request the pass include: sports venues, gyms, swimming pools, theatres, museums and similar cultural spaces as well as bars, restaurants and nightclubs."
@OneofTen how are you doing now?
Andy B 2 Minute Video, Autumn, Death and Life, S4, E20
After seeing some beautiful images of Autumn, or Fall – depending on what part of the world you live in – Andy B got thinking about cycles of life.
Because in life, just like those leaves, what can seem the end, can also just be the beginning of something else, and new.
As Christians of transformation makes sense when we first come to faith. But as we progress along our journeys, we can become far too comfortable with things that have simply past their Use By Date. Or we cling on to who we were, rather than letting go of the past in order to become who God is desiring us to become.
Sometimes what seems to be the end, is simply just the beginning. And sometimes, what we want to begin, can’t start until we let go of something and let it fade away or die off.
Andy B
You can Watch, Listen, or Read this post on our website --> https://www.berrybunch.family/andy-b-2-minute-video-autumn-death-and-life-s4-e20/
@tanjaostman this one was inspired by those fall images you shared recently!
@Berrybunchfamily great message! Yes, it's an important principle of the Bible to let go of old things (even if it might hurt) in order for the new to enter.
@Olamide thanks for that encouraging message! 👍 (In addition the length was perfect... there is so much information out there so people won't listen if it's too long, or not immediately. A podcast is another thing.)
I live in a country where the trust in authorities, politicians and journalists is extremely high. And it makes sense, because it’s the third least corrupt country in the world together with a few other. It’s easy for the leaders here to fool its people. There is only ONE narrative when it comes to c-19 in Finland. If you just ask a valid question you are left out in the cold. There are no questions asked in media regarding risks with vaccines, their efficiency etc. only “take it!” Our journalists don’t do ask inconvenient questions, only repeat what our authorities say. Every single article (both newspapers and scientific papers) that I have saved in my computer, I have found after taking time to search. It’s a detective work. Our media should share summaries of varying research results , but they don’t. What I’m missing out is facts on mutations of c-viruses. Is Delta even a mutation? Are the mutations less harmful? I’m not after conspiracy theories and guesses, but serious sources.
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.