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Call for help to construct a Latrine and Kitchen for our children.

Billy John Waiswa — Thu, 09 May 2019 08:35:31 +0000

Health, Hygiene and Sanitation are a very important factor in the up bringing of our children. They need a clean environment.
This is a humble appeal to all the good citizens of the world to help us construct a Latrine and Kitchen at our Children's Home. This project is so important for the well being of our children. We greatly need your help.
Here is a link to the Project proposal.
https://spiritualfamily.net/file/view/19931/latrine-and-kitchen-construction

A HUGE THANK YOU to our great friend Charlotte Coolchick

Paul Kemp Administrator — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 02:07:38 +0000

A HUGE THANK YOU to our great friend Charlotte Coolchick

A HUGE THANK YOU to our great friend Charlotte Coolchick who again donated funds for the livelihood of the Lord's Mercy Foundation, this time purchasing 3 goats for future self-sustainability! Ronald has built the pen and the children just love them all! We love you so much Charlotte and cannot thank you enough for your big heart

Wandira Tony says hello

Mugerwa Isaac Shamiru — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 19:04:08 +0000

Tonny Wandira

Wandira Tony says hello, he is in primary four at New Sarana nursery and primary school.

He is sponsored by sister Monica from Canada. Thanks for the love.

Love Is . . . .

raglanlad — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:44:04 +0000

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Love is.......... (topic #5)

Love Is . . . .

“ I love, I am in love, I’m falling in love”. These are common expressions describing the warmth that flows over us when we are touched by the presences of love. Our need for it is enormous and essential, both for physical and mental health, whether we are loving our surroundings, giving love to another, receiving, or loving self. The experience invades our mind beyond any self control and those moments are a delight.

When love flows between two people, the energy that we call love, builds upon itself, taking us into unfamiliar territory. Sometimes that love for another is one sided and yet it is gratifying, but singular. Having love of self allows us to approach everyday challenges with grace, knowing that nothing external can match the feeling of love.

We use the word love lightly, to describe our favourite likes, to say good bye to family members and even intimately when it is absent in the moment. However love is the energy that supports all life and without it no-thing exists.

So I wonder what you think Love is:

Is it always present, as is air
Does it come from the universe or even deeper
What in us, turns on the value that allows love to flow
When feeling love toward another, are we loving the qualities in them or loving the reflection of our own beauty
Does love of self connect us with the love in all living things?

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Rewards of Sensuality: (topic #4)

raglanlad — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 20:40:40 +0000

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Rewards of Sensuality: (topic #4)

Humanity shares the need for shelter, food, procreation and emotional exchange. These needs become individualized through our personal journey, that when shared, offers opportunities for exploration into our differences.

Sensuality is an exchange of emotion through many forms; intertwined fingers, a hug, prolonged eye contact, a sincere smile, being truly heard, a dance, a massage, or feeling the warmth of another's body.

In all cases the experience involves energy flowing between two individuals as their unique frequencies intertwine exciting the other. As much as we need emotional exchange through sensuality, society has constructed obstacles, so I ask?

- is sensuality an expression of love
- can sensuality promote connectedness?
- can public display of sensuality promote acceptance
- does acknowledging one's fear of touch free us emotionally
- how to share your need for contact with other human?

The Future

Paul Kemp Administrator — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 23:37:55 +0000

The Future - Religion

The Future - Society

^195:10.1 Christianity has indeed done a great service for this world, but what is now most needed is Jesus. The world needs to see Jesus living again on earth in the experience of spirit-born mortals who effectively reveal the Master to all men. It is futile to talk about a revival of primitive Christianity; you must go forward from where you find yourselves. Modern culture must become spiritually baptized with a new revelation of Jesus' life and illuminated with a new understanding of his gospel of eternal salvation. And when Jesus becomes thus lifted up, he will draw all men to himself. Jesus' disciples should be more than conquerors, even overflowing sources of inspiration and enhanced living to all men. Religion is only an exalted humanism until it is made divine by the discovery of the reality of the presence of God in personal experience.

^195:10.2 The beauty and sublimity, the humanity and divinity, the simplicity and uniqueness, of Jesus' life on earth present such a striking and appealing picture of man-saving and God-revealing that the theologians and philosophers of all time should be effectively restrained from daring to form creeds or create theological systems of spiritual bondage out of such a transcendental bestowal of God in the form of man. In Jesus the universe produced a mortal man in whom the spirit of love triumphed over the material handicaps of time and overcame the fact of physical origin.

^195:10.3 Ever bear in mind -- God and men need each other. They are mutually necessary to the full and final attainment of eternal personality experience in the divine destiny of universe finality.

^195:10.4 "The kingdom of God is within you" was probably the greatest pronouncement Jesus ever made, next to the declaration that his Father is a living and loving spirit.

^195:10.5 In winning souls for the Master, it is not the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion that betokens the Jesusonian reaching forth to grasp his brother in love and sweep him on under spiritual guidance toward the higher and divine goal of mortal existence. Christianity even now willingly goes the first mile, but mankind languishes and stumbles along in moral darkness because there are so few genuine second-milers -- so few professed followers of Jesus who really live and love as he taught his disciples to live and love and serve.

^195:10.6 The call to the adventure of building a new and transformed human society by means of the spiritual rebirth of Jesus' brotherhood of the kingdom should thrill all who believe in him as men have not been stirred since the days when they walked about on earth as his companions in the flesh.

^195:10.7 No social system or political regime which denies the reality of God can contribute in any constructive and lasting manner to the advancement of human civilization. But Christianity, as it is subdivided and secularized today, presents the greatest single obstacle to its further advancement; especially is this true concerning the Orient.

^195:10.8 Ecclesiasticism is at once and forever incompatible with that living faith, growing spirit, and firsthand experience of the faith-comrades of Jesus in the brotherhood of man in the spiritual association of the kingdom of heaven. The praiseworthy desire to preserve traditions of past achievement often leads to the defense of outgrown systems of worship. The well-meant desire to foster ancient thought systems effectually prevents the sponsoring of new and adequate means and methods designed to satisfy the spiritual longings of the expanding and advancing minds of modern men. Likewise, the Christian churches of the twentieth century stand as great, but wholly unconscious, obstacles to the immediate advance of the real gospel -- the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

^195:10.9 Many earnest persons who would gladly yield loyalty to the Christ of the gospel find it very difficult enthusiastically to support a church which exhibits so little of the spirit of his life and teachings, and which they have been erroneously taught he founded. Jesus did not found the so-called Christian church, but he has, in every manner consistent with his nature, fostered it as the best existent exponent of his lifework on earth.

^195:10.10 If the Christian church would only dare to espouse the Master's program, thousands of apparently indifferent youths would rush forward to enlist in such a spiritual undertaking, and they would not hesitate to go all the way through with this great adventure.

^195:10.11 Christianity is seriously confronted with the doom embodied in one of its own slogans: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." The non-Christian world will hardly capitulate to a sect-divided Christendom. The living Jesus is the only hope of a possible unification of Christianity. The true church -- the Jesus brotherhood -- is invisible, spiritual, and is characterized by unity, not necessarily by uniformity. Uniformity is the earmark of the physical world of mechanistic nature. Spiritual unity is the fruit of faith union with the living Jesus. The visible church should refuse longer to handicap the progress of the invisible and spiritual brotherhood of the kingdom of God. And this brotherhood is destined to become a living organism in contrast to an institutionalized social organization. It may well utilize such social organizations, but it must not be supplanted by them.

^195:10.12 But the Christianity of even the twentieth century must not be despised. It is the product of the combined moral genius of the God-knowing men of many races during many ages, and it has truly been one of the greatest powers for good on earth, and therefore no man should lightly regard it, notwithstanding its inherent and acquired defects. Christianity still contrives to move the minds of reflective men with mighty moral emotions.

^195:10.13 But there is no excuse for the involvement of the church in commerce and politics; such unholy alliances are a flagrant betrayal of the Master. And the genuine lovers of truth will be slow to forget that this powerful institutionalized church has often dared to smother newborn faith and persecute truth bearers who chanced to appear in unorthodox raiment.

^195:10.14 It is all too true that such a church would not have survived unless there had been men in the world who preferred such a style of worship. Many spiritually indolent souls crave an ancient and authoritative religion of ritual and sacred traditions. Human evolution and spiritual progress are hardly sufficient to enable all men to dispense with religious authority. And the invisible brotherhood of the kingdom may well include these family groups of various social and temperamental classes if they are only willing to become truly spirit-led sons of God. But in this brotherhood of Jesus there is no place for sectarian rivalry, group bitterness, nor assertions of moral superiority and spiritual infallibility.

^195:10.15 These various groupings of Christians may serve to accommodate numerous different types of would-be believers among the various peoples of Western civilization, but such division of Christendom presents a grave weakness when it attempts to carry the gospel of Jesus to Oriental peoples. These races do not yet understand that there is a religion of Jesus separate, and somewhat apart, from Christianity, which has more and more become a religion about Jesus.

^195:10.16 The great hope of Urantia lies in the possibility of a new revelation of Jesus with a new and enlarged presentation of his saving message which would spiritually unite in loving service the numerous families of his present-day professed followers.

^195:10.17 Even secular education could help in this great spiritual renaissance if it would pay more attention to the work of teaching youth how to engage in life planning and character progression. The purpose of all education should be to foster and further the supreme purpose of life, the development of a majestic and well-balanced personality. There is great need for the teaching of moral discipline in the place of so much self-gratification. Upon such a foundation religion may contribute its spiritual incentive to the enlargement and enrichment of mortal life, even to the security and enhancement of life eternal.

^195:10.18 Christianity is an extemporized religion, and therefore must it operate in low gear. High-gear spiritual performances must await the new revelation and the more general acceptance of the real religion of Jesus. But Christianity is a mighty religion, seeing that the commonplace disciples of a crucified carpenter set in motion those teachings which conquered the Roman world in three hundred years and then went on to triumph over the barbarians who overthrew Rome. This same Christianity conquered -- absorbed and exalted -- the whole stream of Hebrew theology and Greek philosophy. And then, when this Christian religion became comatose for more than a thousand years as a result of an overdose of mysteries and paganism, it resurrected itself and virtually reconquered the whole Western world. Christianity contains enough of Jesus' teachings to immortalize it.

^195:10.19 If Christianity could only grasp more of Jesus' teachings, it could do so much more in helping modern man to solve his new and increasingly complex problems.

^195:10.20 Christianity suffers under a great handicap because it has become identified in the minds of all the world as a part of the social system, the industrial life, and the moral standards of Western civilization; and thus has Christianity unwittingly seemed to sponsor a society which staggers under the guilt of tolerating science without idealism, politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without restraint, knowledge without character, power without conscience, and industry without morality.

^195:10.21 The hope of modern Christianity is that it should cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization while it humbly bows itself before the cross it so valiantly extols, there to learn anew from Jesus of Nazareth the greatest truths mortal man can ever hear -- the living gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.

The Future Gets Closer

Auto repair shops will go away.

A gasoline engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has 20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are only repaired by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor. Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots. Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a Jiffy-auto wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!

Gas stations will go away. Parking meters will be replaced by meters that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started. You can find them at select Dunkin' Donuts locations.

Most (the smart) major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that only build electric cars.

Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop. So say goodbye to OPEC!

Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it back to the grid The grid stores it and dispenses it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

A baby of today will only see personal cars in museums.

The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever happening?

What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years and, most people don't see it coming.

Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film again? With today’s smartphones, who even has a camera these days?

Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels but followed Moore 's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world!

Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.

Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world.

This year, a computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.

Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, its 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won't want to own a car anymore as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it you will only pay for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving. The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

This will change our cities because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking spaces into parks.

1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles; with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles. That will save a million lives plus worldwide each year.

Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. Traditional car companies will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustions engines in their vehicles starting this year with the 2019 models, using all-electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid models.

Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla and so they should be. Look at all the companies offering all-electric vehicles. That was unheard of only a few years ago.

Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move farther away to live in a more beautiful or affordable neighborhood.

Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity. Cities will have much cleaner air as well.

Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting ramped up.

Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy.

Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. There are dozens of phone apps out there right now for health purposes.

WELCOME TO TOMORROW – it actually arrived a few years ago.

THE SUPREMACY OF RELIGION

^196:3.1 Personal, spiritual religious experience is an efficient solvent for most mortal difficulties; it is an effective sorter, evaluator, and adjuster of all human problems. Religion does not remove or destroy human troubles, but it does dissolve, absorb, illuminate, and transcend them. True religion unifies the personality for effective adjustment to all mortal requirements. Religious faith -- the positive leading of the indwelling divine presence -- unfailingly enables the God-knowing man to bridge that gulf existing between the intellectual logic which recognizes the Universal First Cause as It and those positive affirmations of the soul which aver this First Cause is He, the heavenly Father of Jesus' gospel, the personal God of human salvation.

^196:3.2 There are just three elements in universal reality: fact, idea, and relation. The religious consciousness identifies these realities as science, philosophy, and truth. Philosophy would be inclined to view these activities as reason, wisdom, and faith -- physical reality, intellectual reality, and spiritual reality. We are in the habit of designating these realities as thing, meaning, and value.

^196:3.3 The progressive comprehension of reality is the equivalent of approaching God. The finding of God, the consciousness of identity with reality, is the equivalent of the experiencing of self-completion -- self-entirety, self-totality. The experiencing of total reality is the full realization of God, the finality of the God-knowing experience.

^196:3.4 The full summation of human life is the knowledge that man is educated by fact, ennobled by wisdom, and saved -- justified -- by religious faith.

^196:3.5 Physical certainty consists in the logic of science; moral certainty, in the wisdom of philosophy; spiritual certainty, in the truth of genuine religious experience.

^196:3.6 The mind of man can attain high levels of spiritual insight and corresponding spheres of divinity of values because it is not wholly material. There is a spirit nucleus in the mind of man -- the Adjuster of the divine presence. There are three separate evidences of this spirit indwelling of the human mind:

^196:3.7 1. Humanitarian fellowship -- love. The purely animal mind may be gregarious for self-protection, but only the spirit-indwelt intellect is unselfishly altruistic and unconditionally loving.

^196:3.8 2. Interpretation of the universe -- wisdom. Only the spirit-indwelt mind can comprehend that the universe is friendly to the individual.

^196:3.9 3. Spiritual evaluation of life -- worship. Only the spirit-indwelt man can realize the divine presence and seek to attain a fuller experience in and with this foretaste of divinity.

^196:3.10 The human mind does not create real values; human experience does not yield universe insight. Concerning insight, the recognition of moral values and the discernment of spiritual meanings, all that the human mind can do is to discover, recognize, interpret, and choose.

^196:3.11 The moral values of the universe become intellectual possessions by the exercise of the three basic judgments, or choices, of the mortal mind:

1. Self-judgment -- moral choice.

2. Social-judgment -- ethical choice.

3. God-judgment -- religious choice.

^196:3.12 Thus it appears that all human progress is effected by a technique of conjoint revelational evolution.

^196:3.13 Unless a divine lover lived in man, he could not unselfishly and spiritually love. Unless an interpreter lived in the mind, man could not truly realize the unity of the universe. Unless an evaluator dwelt with man, he could not possibly appraise moral values and recognize spiritual meanings. And this lover hails from the very source of infinite love; this interpreter is a part of Universal Unity; this evaluator is the child of the Center and Source of all absolute values of divine and eternal reality.

^196:3.14 Moral evaluation with a religious meaning -- spiritual insight -- connotes the individual's choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and eternity. Human survival is in great measure dependent on consecrating the human will to the choosing of those values selected by this spirit-value sorter -- the indwelling interpreter and unifier. Personal religious experience consists in two phases: discovery in the human mind and revelation by the indwelling divine spirit. Through oversophistication or as a result of the irreligious conduct of professed religionists, a man, or even a generation of men, may elect to suspend their efforts to discover the God who indwells them; they may fail to progress in and attain the divine revelation. But such attitudes of spiritual nonprogression cannot long persist because of the presence and influence of the indwelling Thought Adjusters.

^196:3.15 This profound experience of the reality of the divine indwelling forever transcends the crude materialistic technique of the physical sciences. You cannot put spiritual joy under a microscope; you cannot weigh love in a balance; you cannot measure moral values; neither can you estimate the quality of spiritual worship.

^196:3.16 The Hebrews had a religion of moral sublimity; the Greeks evolved a religion of beauty; Paul and his conferees founded a religion of faith, hope, and charity. Jesus revealed and exemplified a religion of love: security in the Father's love, with joy and satisfaction consequent upon sharing this love in the service of the human brotherhood.

^196:3.17 Every time man makes a reflective moral choice, he immediately experiences a new divine invasion of his soul. Moral choosing constitutes religion as the motive of inner response to outer conditions. But such a real religion is not a purely subjective experience. It signifies the whole of the subjectivity of the individual engaged in a meaningful and intelligent response to total objectivity -- the universe and its Maker.

^196:3.18 The exquisite and transcendent experience of loving and being loved is not just a psychic illusion because it is so purely subjective. The one truly divine and objective reality that is associated with mortal beings, the Thought Adjuster, functions to human observation apparently as an exclusively subjective phenomenon. Man's contact with the highest objective reality, God, is only through the purely subjective experience of knowing him, of worshiping him, of realizing sonship with him.

^196:3.19 True religious worship is not a futile monologue of self-deception. Worship is a personal communion with that which is divinely real, with that which is the very source of reality. Man aspires by worship to be better and thereby eventually attains the best.

^196:3.20 The idealization and attempted service of truth, beauty, and goodness is not a substitute for genuine religious experience -- spiritual reality. Psychology and idealism are not the equivalent of religious reality. The projections of the human intellect may indeed originate false gods -- gods in man's image -- but the true God-consciousness does not have such an origin. The God-consciousness is resident in the indwelling spirit. Many of the religious systems of man come from the formulations of the human intellect, but the God-consciousness is not necessarily a part of these grotesque systems of religious slavery.

^196:3.21 God is not the mere invention of man's idealism; he is the very source of all such superanimal insights and values. God is not a hypothesis formulated to unify the human concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness; he is the personality of love from whom all of these universe manifestations are derived. The truth, beauty, and goodness of man's world are unified by the increasing spirituality of the experience of mortals ascending toward Paradise realities. The unity of truth, beauty, and goodness can only be realized in the spiritual experience of the God-knowing personality.

^196:3.22 Morality is the essential pre-existent soil of personal God-consciousness, the personal realization of the Adjuster's inner presence, but such morality is not the source of religious experience and the resultant spiritual insight. The moral nature is superanimal but subspiritual. Morality is equivalent to the recognition of duty, the realization of the existence of right and wrong. The moral zone intervenes between the animal and the human types of mind as morontia functions between the material and the spiritual spheres of personality attainment.

^196:3.23 The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics; but the bestowed spirit, the indwelling Adjuster, reveals to the evolving human mind the lawgiver, the Father-source of all that is true, beautiful, and good; and such an illuminated man has a religion and is spiritually equipped to begin the long and adventurous search for God.

^196:3.24 Morality is not necessarily spiritual; it may be wholly and purely human, albeit real religion enhances all moral values, makes them more meaningful. Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values. Religion provides for the enhancement, glorification, and assured survival of everything morality recognizes and approves.

^196:3.25 Religion stands above science, art, philosophy, ethics, and morals, but not independent of them. They are all indissolubly interrelated in human experience, personal and social. Religion is man's supreme experience in the mortal nature, but finite language makes it forever impossible for theology ever adequately to depict real religious experience.

^196:3.26 Religious insight possesses the power of turning defeat into higher desires and new determinations. Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent. But love, divested of truth, beauty, and goodness, is only a sentiment, a philosophic distortion, a psychic illusion, a spiritual deception. Love must always be redefined on successive levels of morontia and spirit progression.

^196:3.27 Art results from man's attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia level. Science is man's effort to solve the apparent riddles of the material universe. Philosophy is man's attempt at the unification of human experience. Religion is man's supreme gesture, his magnificent reach for final reality, his determination to find God and to be like him.

^196:3.28 In the realm of religious experience, spiritual possibility is potential reality. Man's forward spiritual urge is not a psychic illusion. All of man's universe romancing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth.

^196:3.29 Some men's lives are too great and noble to descend to the low level of being merely successful. The animal must adapt itself to the environment, but the religious man transcends his environment and in this way escapes the limitations of the present material world through this insight of divine love. This concept of love generates in the soul of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness.

^196:3.30 Be not discouraged; human evolution is still in progress, and the revelation of God to the world, in and through Jesus, shall not fail.

^196:3.31 The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man's greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spirit-consciousness -- contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness, an experience mightily confirmative of the pre-existent truth of the religious experience of knowing God. Such spirit-consciousness is the equivalent of the knowledge of the actuality of sonship with God. Otherwise, the assurance of sonship is the experience of faith.

^196:3.32 And God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. Only the spirit content of any value is imperishable. Even that which is true, beautiful, and good may not perish in human experience. If man does not choose to survive, then does the surviving Adjuster conserve those realities born of love and nurtured in service. And all these things are a part of the Universal Father. The Father is living love, and this life of the Father is in his Sons. And the spirit of the Father is in his Son's sons -- mortal men. When all is said and done, the Father idea is still the highest human concept of God.

SMART THIEVES ! ! !

Ronald Fournier — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 04:34:20 +0000

SMART THIEVES ! ! !

1. LONG - TERM PARKING

Some people left their car in the long-term parking at San Jose while away, and someone broke into the car. Using the information on the car's registration in the glove compartment, they drove the car to the people's home in Pebble Beach and robbed it. So I guess if we are going to leave the car in long-term parking, we should NOT leave the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door opener. This gives us something to think about with all our new electronic technology.

2. GPS:

Someone had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the greenwhich was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard. When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they
knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents. Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home address in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.

3. CELL PHONES:

I never thought of this! This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her cell phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet, etc., was stolen. Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says, "I received your text asking about our Pin number and I've replied a little while ago." When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.

Moral lesson:
a. Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc.
b. And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
c. Also, when you're being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back toconfirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet "family and friends" who text you.

4. PURSE IN THE GROCERY CART SCAM:
A lady went grocery-shopping at a local mall and left her purse sitting in the children's seat of the cart while she reached something off a shelf/ Wait till you read the WHOLE story! Her wallet was stolen, and she reported it to the store personnel. After returning home, she received a phone call from the Mall Security
to say that they had her wallet and that although there was no money in it, it did still hold her personal papers. She immediately went to pick up her wallet, only to be told by Mall Security that they had not called her. By the time she returned home again, her house had been broken into and burglarized. The thieves knew that by calling and saying they were Mall Security, they could lure her out of her house long enough for them to burglarize it.

*PLEASE PASS THIS ON
Even if this does not pertain to you, please let your family and friends know so they don't get caught in a scam. Here is the LINK https://spiritualfamily.net/discussion/view/17310/smart-thieves

Topic 2 of 52- Bonded by Friendship

raglanlad — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:55:09 +0000

The GROUNDED MASTERS’ network

Bonded by Friendship:

Celebrating Sustainability of the Human Spirit
Bonded by Friendship:
A long lasting friendship can provide greater inner satisfaction than any amount of possessions. Yet a heart felt connection can suddenly lose it's spark and turn cold for no apparent reason. One may ask themselves "‘what is wrong with my friend, why am I being avoided", while the other asks themselves, "what did I do, why don’t they tell me what is wrong"?

The ease of communication that once was, can slowly diminish being replaced by uncertainty and distrust. Efforts to reconnect can be awkward causing efforts to be abandoned without either party engaging in an in-depth sharing from the heart. Telling a loved friend what annoys you is more difficult than hearing it from them. Identifying why you feel less connected with a friend is also difficult to identify.

Friendships are built upon a shared energy dance and as one person's outlook on life changes, so does the dance.
So I ask:

- is the lack of emotional honesty part of our culture
- need we be so strong as to silently tolerate minor dislikes
- could you handle criticism if given in love
- is emotional honesty the key to long lasting friendship
- why is it difficult to identify and address uncertainties about a close friend?

Mysteries of Dance

raglanlad — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:32:28 +0000

Mysteries of Dance

The GROUNDED MASTERS’ network

Mysteries of Dance

To dance is to embrace movement with grace. The layers of stiffness, self consciousness, and unwelcome thoughts evaporate as movements open doors to lightness of being, physical abandonment and a deep inner presence.
In each case an inner shift occurs moving my consciousness from a dense state of mind toward a less dense state. Whether solo dancing in a group, or pounding the tavern floor with friends, or swaying my hips while alone in the kitchen dicing onions, I’m left with a memorable degree of satisfaction.

In this age of mindfulness to ones actions and emotions, I think it is reasonable to ponder the mystery of transitioning from self absorption to degrees of freedom.
So what are the mysteries of Dance for you?

- Is our society so structured that denser states of mind are considered normal
- Have we moved from a time when our ancestors were guided by a lighter state
- Are we moved to dance by an inner need to be free of normal dense states
- Can dance hold us in the present
- In our daily life, does a lightness of being move us into universal rhythms

PS - I will be posting similar topics every week. If ever you wish to be removed from the mailing list please email me at raglanlad@gmailcom Similarly new participants are welcome to contact me.
Hugh

Please read 28th amendment Please Read, and forward. This will only take 1 minute to read!

Paul Kemp Administrator — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:05:09 +0000

Please read 28th amendment Please Read, and forward. This will only take 1 minute to read!

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Please read 28th amendment Please Read, and forward. This will only take 1 minute to read!

28th Amendment, 35 States and Counting. It will take you less than a minute to read this. If you agree, please pass it on. It's an idea whose time has come to deal with this self-serving situation:

OUR PRESENT SITUATION !

Children of Congress members do not have to pay back their college student loans.
Staffers of Congress family members are also exempt from having to pay back student loans.
Members of Congress can retire at full pay after only one term.
Members of Congress have exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed, under which ordinary citizens must live. For example, they are exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment.
And as the latest example, they have exempted themselves from Healthcare Reform, in all of its aspects.

We must not tolerate an elite class of such people, elected as public servants and then putting themselves above the law.

I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent, or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon their states.It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

IF???

Each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days most people in The United States of America will have the message.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the Citizens of the United States ..."

You are one of my 20.

6:26

PM President Trump is asking everyone to forward this email to a minimum of 20 people, and to ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in the United States will have the message. This is an idea that should be passed around, regardless of political party.

The TRUMP Rules:

Congressional Reform Act of 2017

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. And, no more perks go with them.
2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as ALL Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people (i.e. NO MORE INSIDER TRADING!!!).
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts by and for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor and privledge NOT a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work … not get all kinds of freebies.

NO WONDER THEY’RE FIGHTING EVERYTHING HE TRIES! Pass it on!!!! Let's help TRUMP drain the swamp!! Just hold your finger down then hit forward and send it to everyone you know. Let’s help trump get the country straightened out.

Fact Check from ThoughtCo

Analysis

While the idea of a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution may indeed be one "whose time has come," and there's some historical truth to the claim that Congress has sometimes exempted itself from laws that apply to the rest of us, the argument outlined above is largely based on inaccurate and outdated information.

Ever since the passage of the Congressional Accountability Act in 1995 Congress has been answerable to the same civil rights and equal employment regulations that pertain to private businesses. Further alleged disparities, such as those having to do with Congressional retirement provisions and health care coverage, are misrepresented above as well. We'll consider the issues one by one.

Congressional Retirement and Social Security

It's false that members of Congress can retire after only one term with full pay, and false that they don't pay into Social Security. Members elected after 1983 participate in the Federal Employees Retirement System. Members elected before 1983 participate in the older Civil Service Retirement Program. In both cases, they contribute to the plans at a slightly higher rate than ordinary federal employees. How much members of Congress receive upon retirement depends on their age, length of government service, and the configuration of their plan. All members of Congress pay into Social Security.

Congressional Immunity from Prosecution for Sexual Harassment

Once upon a time, members of Congress were exempt from many of the employment and civil rights regulations under which private businesses operate, but no longer, thanks to the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. Section 201 includes prohibitions against discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, as well as sexual and other harassment in the workplace.

Congressional Health Care Coverage

It's false that Congress exempted itself from the provisions of the various health care reform bills introduced in the House and Senate in 2009. According to an analysis by FactCheck.org: "Members of Congress are subject to the legislation’s mandate to have insurance, and the plans available to them must meet the same minimum benefit standards that other insurance plans will have to meet."

(Update: Per a new regulation proposed in August 2013, the federal government would continue to subsidize the premiums of members of Congress and their staffers after they switch to health insurance plans purchased via the ACA exchange.)

Variations on the same theme:

• Congressional Reform Act of 2011, 2012, and 2013

• Congressional Reform Act of 2009

Sources and Further Reading:

Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, Office of Compliance (U.S. government)
Congress Exempt from Health Bill? FactCheck.org, 20 January 2010

Hugh Donald Perry Network Index

raglanlad — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:58:18 +0000

Hugh Donald Perry Network Index

Index Page Discussions

Presently I am testing various aspects of this site to learn how best to create an online discussion group. My intent is to begin in the new year with 52 topics annually all geared to drawing out comments pertaining to understanding how to best to function in this world of ours.

These Topics will Appear on this Index Page.

TOPICS

The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Power of Tech Giants

i Witness NEWS — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:11:28 +0000

The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Power of Tech Giants

Watch Now

12/05/2018 Ryan McMaken

The Creepy Line, a new documentary by director M.A. Taylor, is now streaming at Amazon Prime. It provides an interesting and revealing look at how Google and Facebook influence their users' view of the world, and how the users we often presume to be the customers of these companies aren't really the customers. The users are, in fact, the product being sold to third parties.

The Creepy Line takes its title from a description of Google once uttered by Google executive Eric Schmidt who said Google's mission was to “get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”

In truth, though, by pioneering the "surveillance business model," Google has arguably been stepping over "the creepy line" for years. Not that this has been much of a problem for the company. Few users seem motivated to stop using Google products.

It is perhaps in its basic explanations of how this surveillance model works that The Creepy Line is most interesting: the filmmakers explain in simple terms how a small number of companies have come to compile extensive data profiles of many hundreds of millions of human beings, and how that user data is the realproduct being sold by the companies that compile it.

The Surveillance Model

There's a lot of money to be made by helping advertisers target specific potential customers. This can be done if a company can find cheap and easy ways to collect information on the consumers advertisers wish to target. Successful tech giants can offer this data — and huge amounts of it.

In order to offer advertisers data on potential customers, though, a company first has to collect it. And in order to collect it, the company must offer some sort of bait for the users to seize upon, thus leaving behind their personal data. Over the past 20 years, Google and Facebook have perfected the art of convincing users to trade online services for their personal data. And the companies' capabilities have expanded with time.

For example, in the early days, if internet users didn't use the Google search engine to access a website, Google didn't know about it. Users had to use Google's site in order to be tracked. This limited the information Google could collect. Eventually, though, Google — inspired in part by Apple — figured out it could track its users more fully by developing its own internet browser, and then developing its own computing devices.

So, while one could, once upon a time, avoid Google surveillance by going directly to a website, data on everything you do on your Android phone or Chromebook is harvested, analyzed, and processed by Google.

Facebook, of course, has attempted similar levels of surveillance by using Facebook apps on smartphones to monitor most of what its users do with their phones. But whether or not one uses Facebook on a smart phone, the company collects data on every user's friends, his posts, his comments, and his instant messages.

This information is then used to sell highly specific targeted ads to advertisers.

You Are Not the Customer

The Creepy Line thus helps to explain one of the most important and economically significant aspects of the surveillance model in business: Google and Facebook users are not the customers. The real customers are the advertisers who use Facebook and Google for targeted advertising. The users are just the ones who give Google and Facebook something to sell.

Certainly, the users are an essential part of the equation, just as they are essential to other forms of media, such as broadcast television and radio. In all of these cases, though, the viewers/users are part of the process that produces the final product. They don't consume the final product. In broadcast television and radio, for example, the television shows and radio broadcasts are only there to keep the viewer around long enough to see the commercials. If the programming is successful, then the "ratings" are high and the content providers can charge more for advertising. In other words, NBC does not exist to create television programming. It exists to make money through ad sales. The TV shows themselves are only something NBC uses to increase ad sales. TV networks would run a blank screen for 22 minutes every half hour if they thought it would bring in more viewers for advertisements.

Similarly, with social media and search engines, the search results and news feeds are there to make users available to advertisers. From the point of view of the companies, the users aren't consuming the product. The users are helping create the product.

It's true that users get something in return for their personal data. They receive the benefits (in terms of convenience) of using Google and Facebook services. But this doesn't make the user a customer. It makes the user a supplier, just as a lumber yard is a supplier that makes it possible for a carpenter to sell this wares.

The film illustrates how, when it comes to companies that run on the surveillance model, our old notions of consumer sovereignty, producer sovereignty, and entrepreneur-client relationships don't apply the way we think they do. The users aren't the customers, and the profitability of Google and Facebook doesn't fundamentally rest on what the users do. What really matters is that Google and Facebook can continue to extract data from enough people so as to sell a product to advertisers. Surely, this will require Facebook and Google to keep up the appearance of wishing to "serve" the people who hand over their personal data. But in a world of such immense amounts of data, many users are expendable. And this is why companies like Google and Facebook have few scruples about banishing even popular users like Alex Jones or other controversial pundits and content creators. Those people aren't the customers. What really matters is the ad revenue

Controlling How We View the World

In order to keep users coming back to Facebook and Google, of course, these companies have to offer users something. In many cases, the services traded for personal data take the form of search results and the news feeds that many users have come to rely on.

This then brings us to another way Google and Facebook insinuate their company policies and views into our daily lives. By creating the software behind search results and new feeds, the owners and employees of these companies decide what information users consume.

This in itself is not especially surprising. After all, publishers throughout history have controlled what information is presented. Book authors, newspaper editors, and television producers control what information the viewers and readers are allowed to see.

There's nothing fundamentally different here, except perhaps in the fact that users of Google and Facebook have been especially naïve about the degree of power these tech giants have over the flow of information through their platforms.

After all, have not newspapers always cherry-picked what articles they run? Not even the "letters to the editor" feature has ever been an open forum. The editors choose which letters the readers see.

What The Creepy Line does, though, is remind us of how truly easy it is to manipulate users by framing and selecting the information they see.

As the film notes — and as most marketing consultants will tell you — fewer than 10 percent of search engine users will ever get beyond the first page of search results. This means that Google has tremendous power in deciding what information is seen by the overwhelming majority of people performing web searches.

Certainly, there are those hardy souls who do real research by really digging into the information. They refine their searches, look deeply into the search results, and attempt to confirm the data they do find.

But this is only a tiny percentage of the population.

Moreover, surveys show that a majority of US adults use social media sites (predominantly Facebook) as a source of news. Many use Facebook as their primary source for news.

How many of these users cross-reference other sources of news? If the past is any indicator: very few.

After all, historically, most people have been content to consume whatever the newspapers tell them is the news. They consume whatever is on the evening news — whatever's convenient. They believe whatever Walter Cronkite tells them.

But this has always been an unfortunate reality of the media landscape — even before social media or Google. Most people will believe the news that can be consumed with the least effort. The novelty of Google and Facebook is that they have taken convenience to a whole new level.

Manipulating Ideology, Rigging Elections?

This power to control information, of course, could potentially extend to rigging elections by controlling what voters see about candidates.

Given that they theoretically have to power to do it, do Facebook and Google do this on purpose?

That has yet to be proven, although The Creepy Line presents this as more or less established fact.

And that's where most criticisms of the documentary come in. The fact that the director, M.A. Taylor, also made the anti-Clinton documentary Clinton Cash suggests to some reviewers that the documentary primarily exists to push a narrative in which tech giants are manipulating the public to support Democratic candidates.

This aspect of the documentary, however, dominates only the last third of the film — and I would suggest this is the weakest part of the film. It's likely that the filmmakers felt the film needed to make a very explicit and forceful political point to be seen as relevant or compelling. In some ways, though, this last section of the film gives the appearance that the filmmakers were trying too hard to "bring it home."

Besides, even if Google and Facebook do manipulate their news feeds and search results on purpose, this doesn't make them fundamentally different from the people who control what we see on CNN or Fox News.

Far more dangerous is the fact that the consumers of news haven't learned anything from decades of witnessing obvious bias in the legacy news media. In spite of the fact that the World Wide Web offers an immense variety of sources of news, research, and opinion, most users of media are content to let others be the last word in selecting the news they consume.

Although The Creepy Line has attempted to portray Google and Facebook as achieving a new level of nefariousness in this regard, the critical ingredient in the manipulation of voters remains the voters. It appears the voters are content to let themselves be manipulated. They could seek out news sources other than CNN or Google News or their Facebook news feed. Many simply choose not to.

Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for Mises Wire and The Austrian, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.

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Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster

Facebook's first president, Sean Parker, has been sharply critical of the social network, accusing it of exploiting human "vulnerability."
"God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains," he said.
His comments are part of a wave of tech figures expressing disillusionment and concern about the products they helped build.

Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, has a disturbing warning about the social network: "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."

Speaking to the news website Axios, the entrepreneur and executive talked openly about what he perceives as the dangers of social media and how it exploits human "vulnerability."

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them ... was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?'" said Parker, who joined Facebook in 2004, when it was less than a year old. READ MORE.....

Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

Sean Parker, the founder of Napster and former president of Facebook, said the thought process behind building the social media giant was: "How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?" Parker was interviewed by Axios' Mike Allen Wednesday:

"That means that we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever ... It's a social validation feedback loop ... You're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology ... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway." READMORE ....

Call for Help!

Billy John Waiswa — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 06:24:11 +0000

Hello friends and family, this is a humble appeal to you the good citizens of the world. We are going through a hard time at the Children's Home with two children sick and food crisis. I would like to request for your support to get through this situation. Godspeed.
https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/12353/youth-in-act-uganda

Asking for your prayers & assistance

Mugerwa Isaac Shamiru — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:06:27 +0000

Samaritan Foundation Orphanage is a registered Uganda NGO/CBS (Non Government Organization / Community Based Services ) serving the real needs of the orphaned children of Jinja, Uganda (See our Profile) (See our Children)

We are seeking the help and kindness of our greater world community to secure the real needs and necessities of living for the children under our care.

Please share our information to help us obtain our objectives.

https://www.safouganda.org/

Asking for your prayers & assistance

Pray for Samaritan foundation orphanage food supply. Today we managed to feed the kids on paws, maize, unripe sweet bananas and avocado.

The maize we have been milling is done so we need maize floor as food and red beans plus firewood. This is worth $380 as food prices and other things have a bit raised high since its a planting season and these prices will lower in the harvesting season.

Jesus' Birthday

NAKIBINGE DERRICK — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 05:04:19 +0000

Saving Orphans Today Uganda

Celebrating Jesus' Birthday

THANK YOU FOR JOINING OUR WEBSITE GROUP together we can make the world a better place for children.

JESUS BIRTHDAY

ISAIAH 9:6"FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN: AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER: AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELLOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

PROVERBS 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Friends and well-wishers hello! I am sorry for the disturbance caused but I had wanted to let you know that the Christmas party and dinner will take place on this Sunday, 24th.

I kindly request you to help us make the Christmas in Jinja and celebrate our dear Lord and savior a Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST. Help to make it happen to please these children, the earlier the better. The reason as to why we do this is that just before and during Christmas day, everything becomes expensive in terms of cost prices. If we do shopping earlier, it helps us according to our proposed budget of $424.00 USD. Your contribution to this matter makes a great change to the faces of these orphans, please consider helping,

Proverbs 22:9 "He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives his bread to the poor".

Thank you, God bless you

The reason as to why the budget is somehow high in Uganda on JESUS' birthday. Every person especially the children put on new clothes with new shoes. Without fail.
Below are the items we need:-

Clothing
Shoes
Outings I.e swimming
Christmas gifts to each child
Feeding, we change meals on that day.
We cook meat, chicken, Irish potatoes, banana, milk among others as a way of showing these children God's love
Transport and the miscellaneous.

So, brothers and sisters, I am requesting for your help, Please.
So, my dear brothers and sisters, I am requesting for your help please together we can make the world a better place for the children. Our efforts once joined we can turn into an earthquake to Change a child's life. So please my dear please support me.

Here is the information you may need for the transfer of money either MoneyGram or Western Union

NAME :NAKIBINGE DERRICK
COUNTRY :Uganda
Tel:+256705880176

If you are unable to make a gift yourself, sharing this post increases its potentials for success by 35 to 45%

BELOW IS OUR BUDGET AND OUR LAST YEAR'S PICTURES FOR CHRISTMAS

THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING

Andera Sylivia — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 18:17:42 +0000

THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING

The Lord is the beginning of each and everything and blessed are those who believe and trust in him in his Father's Kingdom they belong today. Let us work together in the supporting of and sharing this campaign and it's goals of helping and caring for these children. Everything can make a difference with any material support or donations. This will open a way forward. God bless you and greetings from Uganda at Hope Home Children Center Bugiri.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F42WRuY-ulQ&feature=youtu.be

He called me and staff to come up with Samaritan Foundation Orphanage

Mugerwa Isaac Shamiru — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:38:57 +0000

He called me and staff to come up with Samaritan Foundation Orphanage

Helping is a call from God and before his voice declares you to support any needy you can't start up with it.
He called me and staff to come up with Samaritan foundation orphanage years back, we pray the voice that called us reaches you out there and calls you to pay some attention towards Samaritan foundation orphanage and open up your heart to start giving us a hand.
You can send clothes, blankets, shoes, toys, soccer balls, reading books, stickers, letters, crayons and any other humanitarian items.
You can support by donating to us through western union financially and we shall have the use of those funds in different directions of the orphanage necessities required or needed.
Be blessed as you bless others from the bottom of your heart. We love you.

Voices of the Prophets on Quora

Paul Kemp Administrator — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 04:52:40 +0000

Voices of the Prophets on Quora

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The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Power of Tech Giants

Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

Call for Help!

Asking for your prayers & assistance

Jesus' Birthday

THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING

He called me and staff to come up with Samaritan Foundation Orphanage

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