Just a quick one, more  L8r. May the Lord do the blessing where he shines on you thing today. I'm not being irreverent I don't have much time.I want to leave earlier get a better parking. RAIN! Shalom Y'all! Hands Arthur pray,ditto silly Mexican co-peons, good guys fun language don't matter heart reads who is good . I like Rrrrrramon. Bye!!!!

NPCs, or "Non Player Characters," are primarily computer-controlled humans (or some sentient being) in role-playing games that help the player further along in their quest by providing basic world information or actual side quests. Since they have no agency of their own, as compared to PCs (player characters, as in, human-controlled characters), NPCs are limited in what they can say and do. They are basically dummies to enhance in immersion into the game's universe.

The alt-right* commandeered and remixed the NPC concept into a meme that targets newer-style globalist and extreme left political types (this video is a good explanation; language warning there). In doing so, alt-right folks point out how repetitive and "programmed" the new American left sound and act. An alt-right meme is nothing new; business as usual, but the NPC meme has "legs" because the many left-globalist folks are incredibly upset about it. Naturally, if a tease produces a reaction, more teasing will follow. A simple Google News search indicates the amount of negative coverage the meme has been receiving.

While the alt-right vs. globalist fight has the two sides enjoying distinct advantages, the globalists have, for starters, the mainstream media on their side, so they can refer to "official opinions" of journalists as social currency. While this tips the war in their favor, in reality it exemplifies the very thing the NPC criticizes: that globalists are merely Borg-like parrots only able to repeat mainstream media programming downloaded into their brains.

While the alt-right certainly can be labelled as NPC as well, they are largely a self-deprecating folk. Alt-righters grew up on the Internet and know how to not take themselves too seriously, with their self-described "weaponized autism" and chronic irreverence for sacred cows. Insults will be met with "LOL" or some form of scatological retort. That tactic just won't work against them.

We teach here that taking yourself too seriously is not a personality fault, but a moral error, another form of idolatry in which the self is placed higher than God. The only thing God requires us to take seriously is the mission He gives us. Indeed, it's the only thing we really have control over, not because we're really smart or clever enough to how to work the system, but because He tailors the mission just for us. In many ways, our mission should fit like a glove—others should be able to see our distinct personality embedded in our field work. The alt-right is correct in thinking that the left takes itself too seriously, but they also show good sense when they don't take themselves seriously, at the same time. 

* Standard disclaimer: We at Radix Fidem are not alt-right, since our political views do not fit well into Western categories so easily. We propose that small-scale, covenantal tribal living as seen in the Ancient Near East (ANE) is the best way to take exploit our fallen human condition. To those unfamiliar, that sort of idea appears theocratic, anarchist, or authoritarian. Maybe so, but the real essence defies all of those. English is simply not well-equipped to explain it properly without getting into the technical weeds. So it goes. However, that doesn't mean we can't find meaning in current political movements, especially those that are highly critical of Western systems in the first place. It's always a shifting window: today's rebels will be tomorrow's state authority. Currently in the U.S., the alt-right is one of the most accurate and effective critics of the system as it is, therefore we feel no moral apprehension in looking at their ideas an mining them for God's preferred way of organizing society. Granted, there's plenty of dross among the nuggets of gold, but it's up to our sense of God's moral law to discern between the two.

Hi y'all

This past weekend, my daughter's husband brought the last straw for the camel's back.  The family had gone to GA and while there, her husband ransacked her purse and took all/most of her pain meds.   He is an alcoholic and Rx pain med addict.  He has even driven drunk with the children.  This is nothing new, but for her, it was the last straw.

This weekend, unless miracles take place, he is moving out.   They married in 2000 and have their son who will be 7 next month.  They took custody of my other two granddaughters in 2012.  They are 9 and 13.  

Her husband has been through rehab before but he just can't / won't stop.  I am so very sad.  Since I myself have been through this when my girls and I left their dad back in '91,  I am very aware of the challenges, heartbreak and emotional upheaval that she and the children will be faced with.

Please pray for both parents that Father will bless them with strength, courage, wisdom, compassion and everything they will need to get through this.  The children will need His love and support to help them understand and persevere.   

Thanks!

Good Mornin', Good Mornin' brothers and sisters, may our Lord grant you'ns a most BLESSED DAY!!!!!  May He shower heaps of His LOVE and AWESOME STUFF on each of you this day. This forum and your support, prayers and blessings enrich my existence immeasurably, everyday. I'm so grateful that our Father has brought us together. Words fall flat when I try to express the sheer magnitude of the super-dooper positive, faith strengthening I receive here. ALL GLORY TO THE KING of KINGS!!!!
Shalom and KOKO. Ahmen.
I think I'll do this every morning.

I made through last week ok, doing my stretches whenever needed. Arthritis spurs on vertebrae click and pop, middle of my back, hands and worsetest* in my neck. Tennis elbow, tendonitis and bursitis in left shoulder. The right gets sore but, nothing like before surgery. I traction my neck after work. Working on natural non-NSAID inflammation relief, ginger root good. Thanks LORD! I AM A MAN MOST BLESSED. Keep praying.
Shalom, Y'all & K.O.K.O.

Our retired pastor and friend, Gordon Noble, wife Jane had a heart attack yesterday and is in hospital Frye Regional medical center in Hickory, NC. She is a sweet wonderful person. We have no details other than those mentioned at this time. Pray please,......thank you.

Spotted a big one on my day off yesterday. Photos, I think, tend to demagnify things, because this doesn't look nearly as big as it did in person.

EDIT: Dunno why it's sideways. Here's the direct link with the proper orientation.

EDIT EDIT : I couldn't stands it no more, so I embedded the right image.

Head on over to the options page on your user profile. There's a new dropdown labelled "Automatic Subscriptions," under the "Messaging and Notifications" section. You'll be able to subscribe to all new posts, or all new posts and their replies, etc. It makes subscribing to things a lot easier.

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Gene Swift is a man I've known for 18 years through our church, on Friday he had a massive heart attack, the kind that usually kills even when responded to immediately. By God's grace, he survived but, is still seriously sick. 
  Gene is the kind of man who puts his faith into action. The kids and I volunteer to help with his pet charity Santa's Toy Box, I don't know whether that is a official nationwide Optimist Club charity or if it's peculiar to Boone, NC. I have never asked and don't need to know. We just help try to make Christmas happy for poor kids by letting their parents pick out gifts, gratis. Anyway, Gene plays a large role in acquiring donations and organizing the giveaway. Sure there are the unscrupulous who take freebies. I don't care. There are always those who really need it. Two years ago, just after carrying two bags of toys out to a new SUV for a female who clearly was not needy, I was on the verge of quitting. My daughter little Miss Megan said not yet and I shall be forever grateful because of what happened next. For our next person was a young man still dirty from work and he was amazed that people could be so generous. He was so thankful to be able to have Christmas for his young  children that he effused joy and gratitude. I know lowlifes and this guy was for real, he wasn't a grifter. I had to repent.
This is but, one example of the character of Gene Swift who, along with his wife Sallie are also raising their granddaughter Emma, a sweet, sweet child. Their daughter, Stacy, is a mess, drugs and a shit heel man, she needs prayer too.
   I know he was spared to reveal the Glory of the Lord. 
Please join me in prayer for this situation. I get a sense of the powerful hand of the Lord at work.
PS. I believe he's having surgery today.
PPS. Today is Megan's sixteenth birthday, I thank you Father for blessing me with an amazing kid. Amen.

Sunday morning, the Lord graced me with a vision. At this point I need to make clear how this works, for me at least. If you're still holding on to Westernism and you imagine Biblical visions to be literal, like maybe watching a movie, they're not. A vision is tailored to the recipient and is a revealing of God's truth to his child. If you are a parent of more than one child you'll know that each kid is different and are taught life lessons in a way geared to their personalities. For me it always begin with a brief shift in visual reality, an attention getter saying Prepare your heart. After that follows whatever He decides, it is a powerful sensation in the heart that flows into something the brain can understand. It is always right and just what I need. This covenant family that is spread out with only a handful today online will grow tomorrow into groups of people together in the real world from within and without. It is God's will and no power on Earth can stop it, our enthusiasm, our sheer Joy in the Lord will draw those whom He has chosen. We trail blazers may face genuine persecution, we may even lose our lives because the world always reacts in fear to what it cannot understand. I have sworn before the Father to defend to my last breath our Faith. As long as I am physically able, I will ride as far as I must to ensure no one here shall face the fire alone.
Shalom, brothers and sisters. Love too.
Keep on keeping on (KOKO)