I like to remind myself every year that February is always my hardest month. Though its not that cold here (portland or), I just find it rough. I hope the new rulings go our way. Public sentiment changes sides grain by grain until it overwhelms the scale.
I have several Bibles my mother reads mine every night. It has been a few weeks since I was directly going through verses, except my daughter asked me about the origin of the number 666 being Satanic so I read some verses in Revelation 13 around there regarding the Mark of the Beast. LOL I needed a new Las Vegas based phone number, which they randomly assigned to me as 702-666-3847. I just rolled my eyes like you people just like messing with me.
I have been feeling a desire to review Buddhist tenets lately. I have been trying to parse the idea of an all loving, all forgiving, all knowing creator with the vindictive psychopath version of God featured in the Old Testament, who clearly has chosen and not chosen people and clear winners and losers. This seems like the work of man...
Amy, if you had a better understanding of what is happening in the Old Testament, you would never say He is a vindictive psycho. Please. He is not the "sky bully" you are making him out to be. I am re-discovering author Gary Wayne.
His second book has just recently been released:
The Genesis 6 Conspiracy Part II: How understanding prehistory and giants helps define end-time prophecy.
This book might be of interest to you.
Here's the website; MUCH of the book is also here.
I will check it out SAMO. I’ve been pondering the New and the Old Testament quite a bit in the past several days. I balance out lively debates which contrasted a loving benevolent creator of all life against one with many proscriptions for being among a chosen set who are favored. Ultimately I think we need to make peace with death and its place in life…
As a funny and sad side note I have been listening to a Christian radio station exclusively while out on deliveries lately. Perhaps this is because January is a depressing time of year, or perhaps it is other reasons, but I’ve noted the alarming number of people who have called in to the station mentioning the anniversary of the death of their spouse or a major medical event with a loved one in the past 2-3 years. One mentioned her husband’s inexplicable stroke at 28 years old two years ago and how she felt he was saved by prayer. That’s beautiful but I couldn’t help but wonder if he was jabbed..
I saw that you already knew and wrote from your own perspective.
Sometimes, when we've been in a struggle so onerous and appearing so defeating, we tend to lose hope. I don't blame you, Amy. I'm not telling you how to feel.
I see the nullification of the Covid injection requirement as extremely positive news. I don't have your expertise in dealing with the Thai immigration process. I don't know what kind of obstacles they may or did create.
Situations in our lives often have their own current which can become a whitewater torrent. However, nothing created the torrent except the volume of water and width of the river. We might intuit that River Gods punished us, but indeed, they didn't. We assumed the challenge.
Bureaucracy everywhere is an insatiable animal. I worked for years in administration at UC Berkeley. I was damned good. Why? Because I learned very rapidly how to get action and achieve results using the bureaucratic system.
One way I achieved success over others involved knowing the person. E.g., I had to fulfill certain requirements for postdoctoral candidates from foreign countries to execute H1-B visas (these were highly technical fields in solid state physics with few truly qualified candidates). I would establish great relationships with the person to whom I submitted the application materials through the University. In many cases, they'd end conversations with "Oh, by the way, we no longer need Form XXXX but now require Codicil XYZ. Don't forget your candidates passport copy."
When I filed the papers, they were meticulously done. I'm excellent with detail. Nothing was ever remiss or returned after my first 1-2 early attempts.
So, impersonal, onerous systems can be abridged and serve us well. Maybe take some time off to reclaim whatever you need to tackle this issue again. I can't help but feel that you'll be enormously successful beyond your wildest dreams on this upcoming attempt.
Thank you for the updates. Lovely to see you and your girls spending time together. Praying that your and Ka's situation sorts out. Somehow things will sort out, in time.
I LOL's at your memes and photos. They are so very apt! :)
There are good things happening, bad things happening, and holding patterns. We can't tell yet how things will go, but there sure is a hell of a shake-up happening now. A much needed shakeup. Where the pieces will finally land is anyone's guess.
Despite the difficulty for many I do have to agree that the children of illegal immigrants, born in the USA, should not automatically be granted citizenship. That is passed with a 30-day notice. No other country does that. Here in the Philippines (and surely you as well) I have to jump through many hoops every year just to stay legal.
Philippines follows the USA in many things... there is much angst here over US moves... not least the fact that many illegal migrants will be returned....
My oldest turns sweet 16 today. She wants to study medicine. She cannot be vaccinated. I am trying to divert her to allied fields - she is considering biomedical engineering, and pray we can find a way!
I will write about PH news when I have a chance to breathe after the next few days.
For now, I have a presentation tomorrow on Pandemic Health outcomes to a big group of church leaders... which is critically important. For some of the attendees, it might be their first time to see that something is wrong! I must be top of my game!
Good luck with your presentation! My older daughter is not a Thai citizen due to obstacles following her birth in Thailand. I am aware that many countries do not do birthright citizenship. The USA I think should absolutely keep the system as it is. I suppose I default to the miracle of life and therefore cringe at the degrading of the sacrifice of motherhood via terms and ideas such as “elfare queens” or “anchor babies.”
I also wonder when executive orders by presidents became so much more important than Congressional or legislative action. It’s become a spectacle unto itself…like a king of old.
I like to remind myself every year that February is always my hardest month. Though its not that cold here (portland or), I just find it rough. I hope the new rulings go our way. Public sentiment changes sides grain by grain until it overwhelms the scale.
Hi, I hope things get better for you. Would you consider obtaining a Bible and reading it?
I have several Bibles my mother reads mine every night. It has been a few weeks since I was directly going through verses, except my daughter asked me about the origin of the number 666 being Satanic so I read some verses in Revelation 13 around there regarding the Mark of the Beast. LOL I needed a new Las Vegas based phone number, which they randomly assigned to me as 702-666-3847. I just rolled my eyes like you people just like messing with me.
I have been feeling a desire to review Buddhist tenets lately. I have been trying to parse the idea of an all loving, all forgiving, all knowing creator with the vindictive psychopath version of God featured in the Old Testament, who clearly has chosen and not chosen people and clear winners and losers. This seems like the work of man...
Amy, if you had a better understanding of what is happening in the Old Testament, you would never say He is a vindictive psycho. Please. He is not the "sky bully" you are making him out to be. I am re-discovering author Gary Wayne.
His second book has just recently been released:
The Genesis 6 Conspiracy Part II: How understanding prehistory and giants helps define end-time prophecy.
This book might be of interest to you.
Here's the website; MUCH of the book is also here.
https://genesis6conspiracy.com/
I will check it out SAMO. I’ve been pondering the New and the Old Testament quite a bit in the past several days. I balance out lively debates which contrasted a loving benevolent creator of all life against one with many proscriptions for being among a chosen set who are favored. Ultimately I think we need to make peace with death and its place in life…
As a funny and sad side note I have been listening to a Christian radio station exclusively while out on deliveries lately. Perhaps this is because January is a depressing time of year, or perhaps it is other reasons, but I’ve noted the alarming number of people who have called in to the station mentioning the anniversary of the death of their spouse or a major medical event with a loved one in the past 2-3 years. One mentioned her husband’s inexplicable stroke at 28 years old two years ago and how she felt he was saved by prayer. That’s beautiful but I couldn’t help but wonder if he was jabbed..
Might have been jabbed (that was my first thought), but nevertheless "saved by prayer." God is good. And merciful.
Viva la revolucion! Of the heart 💙
And thanks for the pizza ride tip 🍕🤣 🍕
~~ j ~~
I came swiftly to your site, Amy, when I read ZeroHedge earlier. They reposted The Epoch's article. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-government-drops-covid-19-vaccination-requirement-for-legal-immigrants-5797493
I saw that you already knew and wrote from your own perspective.
Sometimes, when we've been in a struggle so onerous and appearing so defeating, we tend to lose hope. I don't blame you, Amy. I'm not telling you how to feel.
I see the nullification of the Covid injection requirement as extremely positive news. I don't have your expertise in dealing with the Thai immigration process. I don't know what kind of obstacles they may or did create.
Situations in our lives often have their own current which can become a whitewater torrent. However, nothing created the torrent except the volume of water and width of the river. We might intuit that River Gods punished us, but indeed, they didn't. We assumed the challenge.
Bureaucracy everywhere is an insatiable animal. I worked for years in administration at UC Berkeley. I was damned good. Why? Because I learned very rapidly how to get action and achieve results using the bureaucratic system.
One way I achieved success over others involved knowing the person. E.g., I had to fulfill certain requirements for postdoctoral candidates from foreign countries to execute H1-B visas (these were highly technical fields in solid state physics with few truly qualified candidates). I would establish great relationships with the person to whom I submitted the application materials through the University. In many cases, they'd end conversations with "Oh, by the way, we no longer need Form XXXX but now require Codicil XYZ. Don't forget your candidates passport copy."
When I filed the papers, they were meticulously done. I'm excellent with detail. Nothing was ever remiss or returned after my first 1-2 early attempts.
So, impersonal, onerous systems can be abridged and serve us well. Maybe take some time off to reclaim whatever you need to tackle this issue again. I can't help but feel that you'll be enormously successful beyond your wildest dreams on this upcoming attempt.
Thank you for the updates. Lovely to see you and your girls spending time together. Praying that your and Ka's situation sorts out. Somehow things will sort out, in time.
I LOL's at your memes and photos. They are so very apt! :)
There are good things happening, bad things happening, and holding patterns. We can't tell yet how things will go, but there sure is a hell of a shake-up happening now. A much needed shakeup. Where the pieces will finally land is anyone's guess.
Despite the difficulty for many I do have to agree that the children of illegal immigrants, born in the USA, should not automatically be granted citizenship. That is passed with a 30-day notice. No other country does that. Here in the Philippines (and surely you as well) I have to jump through many hoops every year just to stay legal.
Philippines follows the USA in many things... there is much angst here over US moves... not least the fact that many illegal migrants will be returned....
My oldest turns sweet 16 today. She wants to study medicine. She cannot be vaccinated. I am trying to divert her to allied fields - she is considering biomedical engineering, and pray we can find a way!
I will write about PH news when I have a chance to breathe after the next few days.
For now, I have a presentation tomorrow on Pandemic Health outcomes to a big group of church leaders... which is critically important. For some of the attendees, it might be their first time to see that something is wrong! I must be top of my game!
Good luck with your presentation! My older daughter is not a Thai citizen due to obstacles following her birth in Thailand. I am aware that many countries do not do birthright citizenship. The USA I think should absolutely keep the system as it is. I suppose I default to the miracle of life and therefore cringe at the degrading of the sacrifice of motherhood via terms and ideas such as “elfare queens” or “anchor babies.”
I also wonder when executive orders by presidents became so much more important than Congressional or legislative action. It’s become a spectacle unto itself…like a king of old.
Thinking of you and Ka when I heard this. Hoping and praying good things come your way. 🦋
Have you looked into getting proof of vaccinations?