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I don’t know who I am without being in a mental hospital
2023.06.06 04:17 incurable_boredom I don’t know who I am without being in a mental hospital
I had a rough childhood. I experienced Bullying, Verbal abuse, Parents Divorce, Etc. I have always struggled with anxiety (and possibly autism) since I could remember. This all contributed to me starting to develop depression around 3rd grade. In the middle of fifth grade I started self-harming for the first time. I developed Anorexia in 6th, which was also quarantine. At the 3rd-to-last day of 6th grade my parents saw my self-harm scars during my volleyball game. They took me to a hospital to get them checked out and on May 29 2021 I was admitted to a mental hospital. Thankfully, It was only a 72-hour-hold. But this started a chain reaction that will effect me forever.
After I returned home from the hold I immediately started self-harming again. I also started to become actively Suicidal. I distanced myself away from my family and stayed in my room all day playing video games. On September 19 2021 I decided I had had enough. So I took about 45 Pills from the medicine cabinet and went to bed. I woke up in excruciating pain and was throwing up water. My dad heard me and asked what was wrong. I ended up fainting from the pain and waking up a few seconds later. My dad was very concerned and for some reason I had told him what I did. He immediately drove me to the same hospital as before. I stayed overnight to receive treatment. Later that day I was sent to another mental hospital. This one I would stay in for 19 days. Meaning I would miss my dads birthday. This was also the first time I managed to self-harm in a hospital setting. Soon after I was released I started to refuse to take my medication. My dad took me back to the same mental hospital but they didn’t have any more beds open. He then drove me to a different mental hospital and I was admitted on November 4th 2021. This hospital was different from the last two.
I would end up staying for 27 days. Meaning I missed Thanksgiving. They also decided to have me enroll in a partial hospitalization program. I was only in this program for two days before being readmitted at the same hospital. I would be there for 25 days, Missing Christmas. This was also the first time I got restrained and forcibly medicated. It was utterly and completely traumatizing as a 12 year old. After this they forced me to go into my first residential treatment. I would only end up being their for 8 days, also spending New years 2021-2022 there. The reason it was so short was because I tried to end my life in the bathroom there. They moved me to a new mental hospital. This is where I would have my first physical fight. I would be there for 17 days. I was supposed to go back to the residential but it ended up having no more beds. So I went home, making this the longest time I was away from home. The weird thing is, I miss it so much.
On February 23 2022, I decided to try again to end my life. I didn’t work(obviously). I woke up in a different hospital with 9 stitches where I had tried to end my life. This was the same hospital as my 3rd and 4th hospitalization. I thankfully was only there for 14 days. They then sent me to a troubled teen program, called Midwest Center. This was a residential but I ended up only being here for 19 days because I was doing very good mentally. Then I returned home on March 25 2022 and everything was going good.
That was until the 1-year mark of me trying to overdose came. I decided I wanted to finish what I stated a year ago. When nobody was home I took a rope and went to the forrest in my back yard and tried to end my life but the rope broke. I feel a good 10 feet and was just generally spooked. I decided to call 911. Then came and brought me to a mental hospital and I was admitted on September 18 2022. I was there for 31 days and returned home, Missing my dads birthday, again. Things were good over the holiday season. It felt different though. Because this was the first year, I would actually be spending it at home instead of in the mental hospital.
Then again, on February 6, 2023 my school called the police on me because they were very worried about my safety. they took me to the same hospital as I previously was at. I was there for 40 long days. That was my most recent hospitalization.
it’s been almost 3 months. I have been doing pretty good up until the last few days. I just miss the hospitals for some reason. Even though I hated them. I don’t know why I want to go back, but I just miss the comfort, safety, and support of the staff I got there. I don’t get any of that where I live. I don’t know what to do anymore with myself. Should I go back to the hospital or continue recovery. I just felt so safe there, but I don’t want to go back into that lifestyle, plus my dad will be disappointed in me. Help
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After I returned home from the hold I immediately started self-harming again. I also started to become actively Suicidal. I distanced myself away from my family and stayed in my room all day playing video games. On September 19 2021 I decided I had had enough. So I took about 45 Pills from the medicine cabinet and went to bed. I woke up in excruciating pain and was throwing up water. My dad heard me and asked what was wrong. I ended up fainting from the pain and waking up a few seconds later. My dad was very concerned and for some reason I had told him what I did. He immediately drove me to the same hospital as before. I stayed overnight to receive treatment. Later that day I was sent to another mental hospital. This one I would stay in for 19 days. Meaning I would miss my dads birthday. This was also the first time I managed to self-harm in a hospital setting. Soon after I was released I started to refuse to take my medication. My dad took me back to the same mental hospital but they didn’t have any more beds open. He then drove me to a different mental hospital and I was admitted on November 4th 2021. This hospital was different from the last two.
I would end up staying for 27 days. Meaning I missed Thanksgiving. They also decided to have me enroll in a partial hospitalization program. I was only in this program for two days before being readmitted at the same hospital. I would be there for 25 days, Missing Christmas. This was also the first time I got restrained and forcibly medicated. It was utterly and completely traumatizing as a 12 year old. After this they forced me to go into my first residential treatment. I would only end up being their for 8 days, also spending New years 2021-2022 there. The reason it was so short was because I tried to end my life in the bathroom there. They moved me to a new mental hospital. This is where I would have my first physical fight. I would be there for 17 days. I was supposed to go back to the residential but it ended up having no more beds. So I went home, making this the longest time I was away from home. The weird thing is, I miss it so much.
On February 23 2022, I decided to try again to end my life. I didn’t work(obviously). I woke up in a different hospital with 9 stitches where I had tried to end my life. This was the same hospital as my 3rd and 4th hospitalization. I thankfully was only there for 14 days. They then sent me to a troubled teen program, called Midwest Center. This was a residential but I ended up only being here for 19 days because I was doing very good mentally. Then I returned home on March 25 2022 and everything was going good.
That was until the 1-year mark of me trying to overdose came. I decided I wanted to finish what I stated a year ago. When nobody was home I took a rope and went to the forrest in my back yard and tried to end my life but the rope broke. I feel a good 10 feet and was just generally spooked. I decided to call 911. Then came and brought me to a mental hospital and I was admitted on September 18 2022. I was there for 31 days and returned home, Missing my dads birthday, again. Things were good over the holiday season. It felt different though. Because this was the first year, I would actually be spending it at home instead of in the mental hospital.
Then again, on February 6, 2023 my school called the police on me because they were very worried about my safety. they took me to the same hospital as I previously was at. I was there for 40 long days. That was my most recent hospitalization.
it’s been almost 3 months. I have been doing pretty good up until the last few days. I just miss the hospitals for some reason. Even though I hated them. I don’t know why I want to go back, but I just miss the comfort, safety, and support of the staff I got there. I don’t get any of that where I live. I don’t know what to do anymore with myself. Should I go back to the hospital or continue recovery. I just felt so safe there, but I don’t want to go back into that lifestyle, plus my dad will be disappointed in me. Help
2023.06.06 03:35 stinkerz412 I feel like I lost my mom, I have to let her go
I'm not even sure where to begin, I'm deeply hurt by my mom's actions and words. She's spiraled into someone I cannot even recognize and I feel like I've lost her-even though she's still alive. I'm sorry for this being such a long rant. Our situation has not been the best in the last 3-4 years. We've been financially struggling, yet every time we're close to getting caught up, my mom decides to take a trip or impulsively spends her money. I won't lie, my family isn't the most financially literate, but they're all hard workers.
To start, in 2020, when lockdown happened, my mother reconnected with one of her old friends in another country. Eventually, she broke the news to my little sister, (we'll call her B) and I that she was in a new relationship, (V). This was a shocker for both of us, but we were happy for her because her previous relationship was rather toxic for my mother and was consistently on and off for years. The first time she left B and I, was later in 2020 when COVID was still at peak, we were both 13 and 16. At first it was supposed to be two weeks, then she extended her stay to a month, then to two months.
When my mom had left, my grandma was in charge of B and I. My grandma blocked my mother the moment she landed, she was convinced my mother was lying to her because grandma was getting notifications that the account password was trying to be changed in 3 places within the country my mother was going to. At this point, things were already tense, because B was already feeling like mom was invalidating her and still treating her like a child, even though she was turning into a teen. My mom made excuses to her staying longer by saying how there were storms and that, "she couldn't know him in just 2 weeks".
Mom and Grandma have never had a very stable relationship. They've both done hurt to each other that I hope they can get therapy. One thing my mom said to grandma is "Oh you're so hard to deal with even your husband finds you impossible". My grandpa hasn't talked to my mom since and can't stand the way she talks to grandma. Plus, mom has a tendency to lie, or as she puts it "keep people out her business", will say something completely off about the situation or leave out extremely important details. My mom would have me log in to some of her accounts while she was away and would have me submit a form almost every week for her relief or something of the sorts. Turns out, she was using it for her trip and asked me for her certificates and important papers to send to her friend who was going to send it to my mother. My mother was planning on marrying the guy without saying anything to B and I.
She even told my dad we needed groceries and would have him send 200 a week. I spoke to my dad and told him we don't go every week and that mom was out the country. Obviously, dad wasn't aware and was rightfully upset with her. He was sending money for B and I, while my mom was out probably using it for her trip. B and I had no idea he was sending money to her. Mom was outraged and told me she wasn't lying and just with holding information. My dad confronted mom over the phone, telling her how she should've told him. How concerned he was for our safety, which is valid. My mom calls me back and claimed my grandma was brainwashing me and how I was ruining her friendship with dad. She told me to call my dad and tell him we were okay. She told me how she deserved a vacation and to not get frustrated with her.
Like I mentioned before, my mom refused to treat my sister like a teenager, refused to let her watch age appropriate shows and just treated her like she was 6. My grandma, B, and I, all like watching crime. Mom hated when B would watch and told her, "I don't want you to be what OP is and I don't want you to be lost like her and how she is". I was 5 months into therapy around this time, I wanted to get help and get better. I cried when I saw the messages. Not even two weeks later mom came back. B and I didn't greet her, to which she said, "You girls are so ungrateful", slammed her door and didn't talk to us.
I love my mom, I wanted to have a good relationship with her and took it upon myself to do damage control. We "cleared" things up through our talk. Except she talked to where it would be in her favor and play her as the victim. Things were good for the next two months until she decided to go back again. This time she would be marrying V, her new man. Before my mom left, she was adamant on refusing to tell my dad she was leaving. She practically threatened B and I to not. My dad was upset we didn't tell him she went out the country again, and me being a dumb 16 year old, told him I didn't think it was my responsibility to inform him.
By the time mom came back, it was almost a week before B's birthday. Mom broke the news that she was pregnant. Neither of us were happy. B and I cried and mom wasn't happy with our reactions. She was upset for a couple of days and I turned around and offered my support to her. B was heart broken since she's always been the baby in the family. Mom having another was the straw that broke the camel's back. Their relationship was just torn from that moment. She did go with her out of the country just for vacation. As my sister puts it, it wasn't a great experience and mom was upset with her for not speaking much.
Mom was also slowly getting disowned by the family by the time she came back. When she was due in late 2021, I offered to stay in the hospital with her, but because I wasn't 18 and COVID was still an issue, they wouldn't allow me. My grandma instead stayed with her and eventually left after the baby was born. Rather than picking up my mom from the hospital, she offered to drop the seat and told my mom she could UBER home. I don't agree with how grandma handled it, my mom did just have a baby.
All was well, baby was fine. School was okay, I did struggle a bit because of other factors. However, by the time I had graduated, I decided to take a gap year. I didn't know what I wanted to major in. If I did go, I didn't want to drop out, continuously change majors, or worry about how it would get paid. At the time, my family was still struggling financially. I picked up hours at my job, and mom stayed with her friend who was also her boss. Her boss was not paying her at the time because she was in the process of a divorce after her husband put her business in jeopardy.
I became financially responsible in the meantime and had to pick up some of the bills, with the very little I received from my pay. Mom would get paid time to time, but it was so inconsistent that I was the one who was head of household. Sometime she would pay me back and other times, she refused to and would apply the amount to a bill she believed I needed to pay. She financed a new car that was well beyond what we could pay, same for the insurance for me. We split the car note and I split the insurance with my dad. Every month I was paying 450, including half the insurance, for a car I do not use a quarter of the time. Only time I would have it frequently was when mom was out on a trip to see her husband, since I don't have a car of my own.
Mom eventually invited her boss and kid to come live with us, told her to not pay the first months rent and let her stay until earlier this year. Her boss was late on payments and overall it was an uncomfortable experience living there because I felt like they were leeching off of us. The bills were doubled or tripled and I was expected to pay some of them. Before they moved in, I expressed to my mom how I didn't think it was a good idea since she was already behind paying her and was inconsistent with her payments and owed her so much. Mom refused to listen and just let it happen. B was uncomfortable and ended up staying with our grandma more often and rarely came over.
Around this time, mom became very pushy about me babysitting. She would ask when I was off and if I could watch baby. Not ask, more of demand. Sometimes I would offer, but it became a problem to which I barely had time to myself. One incident happened near the holidays. It was around Black Friday time, the car was in the shop because I accidently hit a deer that ran in front of me. We were using a rental at the time. I told my mom a week before that I needed the day I had off, because I would be working 5 days, only have one day off, and then work 6 days in a row. Mom didn't listen and the day before, asked me to babysit because the babysitter couldn't. I told her no and she guilt tripped me and told me she would be home at 3. She left at 11, came back at 3ish with hand tattoos. Showed me them and then left. I was in disbelief that my mom would do that. It was a punch to the face, she knew we were already struggling, and she knew I needed that day off. My grandma was the one who picked her up from the rental. Mom wasn't home until 6. Mom left for thanksgiving with her aunt. She came back and left again for a month for Christmas with baby to go out of the country to see her husband.
Before she came back, her boss packed her stuff and left without a word to my mom. By the time she came back, it was tense, she was let go and had to look for a new job. I was fed up with the constant babysitting and had either my grandma take me to work or my boyfriend, K. I rarely offered and mom would ask but I would rarely say yes or made an excuse. More as of recently, it's come to the point where I feel as though I'm living with a roommate and not my mom. B isn't at home and I don't blame her. Luckily I've reconnected with my family after being isolated and taking my mom's side for a few months. My family is supporting me and I'm going back to school next semester.
I made plans one weekend with K and my mom called me the next morning and asked me to watch baby. I offered to buy the things she needed and said "No, I have things to return". I offered to return them, she refused. She said "These are things I need to buy on my own". I asked her why she couldn't take baby, her only excuse was that baby and her had a long day yesterday and that, "it would be tedious and time consuming getting baby ready". I told her, "Yes, that's YOUR child." Mom sarcastically said, "Wow, you're right. Thanks for reminding me like I didn't know," and hung up.
My mom has a tendency to give silent treatment. Why? I don't know. I had gotten off of work late one night, mom picked me up and I asked if we could stop by somewhere that was still open. After receiving my food, we're pulling out, there's a car coming by and I told her to not go. She's on her phone texting, stops, and says "I know, I've been driving for years. When have you seen me turn and drive?" Without thinking, I respond, "When have I not." She blows up at me saying how she's tired of my stupid annoying comments and refuses to talk to me the rest of the way home. I tell her "goodnight, I love you," when we get home. I say it 5-6 times before she responds back saying goodnight.
The next day, she was silent with me when I came home. While I'm leaving with some of my stuff since I was staying the night at K's, I say "bye mom. I'm leaving, I love you." She only responds with a bye in a serious tone. I cried in K's car, even the next night when I stopped by for a few more things, she was cold. I decided to test to see if she was purposely refusing to say it back. When I told her bye and I love you, she just said bye. I repeated it one more time and it was the same response. She later texted me saying "I love you, don't ever doubt it." I didn't respond. She said it the next few days, but remained cold with me. Just recently, she texted me while at work and asked me about the move situation. I hadn't responded just yet and she sends a long paragraph about how I owe her the respect of answering her important messages and that I should find the time to. By the time I see the message, I tell her I'm at work, that she knows I do not look at my messages and that I have B's and I's situation under control.
Last night, as I was leaving to stay at K's again, I ask mom if she had already taken the day off for orientation. She's quiet and in a monotone voice replies, "yes, why?" I tell her my aunt offered to go since she's experienced school and would like to help. Plus, mom was already tense and I do not want to be stressed when we go. She goes off about how I'm an adult and I make my own decisions and how I should do whatever my heart desires. I stare at her for a second. I really wanted mom to go with me, but with the way things are, I decided it was best not to. I finally tell her that I think my aunt should go with me. When I tell her I'm leaving and to have a goodnight and that I love her. She only responds with a goodnight. I'm sobbing when I close the door and in my boyfriend's car. On our way to his house, mom calls, says my cats and I need to be out before the beginning of next month, and tells me she will be looking into handing over custody of B to me. I try not to cry while I say, okay, I love you. She hangs up without a word.
I'm extremely heartbroken and overwhelmed. I'm so mentally and physically drained from work and mom. I feel like I've given her all my support, all my time and money only to receive very little back. I miss my mom. I miss when we would talk and not just for 5 minutes a day. I miss when B, her and I would hang out, not just her on her phone calling her husband 24/7. I miss when mom didn't drag me into her issues and expect me to put her fires out with dad and the family. I miss making jokes with my mom and having conversations without her turning our talks against me. I miss mom.
The thing is, my mom's made her decisions and expected B and I to be okay with it. She's basically given up on B and just doesn't text her unless she needs something or to borrow money. I know B and I will be okay eventually, but I'm so distraught over the idea of cutting off mom. I know it's for the best, and hopefully she realizes her mistakes.
Mom has never been a bad mom. She's been a good mom. She's worked hard to provide for B and I. To make sure we lived comfortably. I know my mom has a lot of baggage and trauma I hope she can get help for. I love my mom and I want her to get the help she needs, but she's made it extremely apparent, she does not want it. I've tried my best to stick by her side, but I needed her to stick by mine too. I really do love my mom, but this is not my mom. I'm stuck on how mom used to be that I refuse to realize that this is how she is. I love mom, but I know that I have to let her go and be better than how she is now. Not just for me, but for B too.
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To start, in 2020, when lockdown happened, my mother reconnected with one of her old friends in another country. Eventually, she broke the news to my little sister, (we'll call her B) and I that she was in a new relationship, (V). This was a shocker for both of us, but we were happy for her because her previous relationship was rather toxic for my mother and was consistently on and off for years. The first time she left B and I, was later in 2020 when COVID was still at peak, we were both 13 and 16. At first it was supposed to be two weeks, then she extended her stay to a month, then to two months.
When my mom had left, my grandma was in charge of B and I. My grandma blocked my mother the moment she landed, she was convinced my mother was lying to her because grandma was getting notifications that the account password was trying to be changed in 3 places within the country my mother was going to. At this point, things were already tense, because B was already feeling like mom was invalidating her and still treating her like a child, even though she was turning into a teen. My mom made excuses to her staying longer by saying how there were storms and that, "she couldn't know him in just 2 weeks".
Mom and Grandma have never had a very stable relationship. They've both done hurt to each other that I hope they can get therapy. One thing my mom said to grandma is "Oh you're so hard to deal with even your husband finds you impossible". My grandpa hasn't talked to my mom since and can't stand the way she talks to grandma. Plus, mom has a tendency to lie, or as she puts it "keep people out her business", will say something completely off about the situation or leave out extremely important details. My mom would have me log in to some of her accounts while she was away and would have me submit a form almost every week for her relief or something of the sorts. Turns out, she was using it for her trip and asked me for her certificates and important papers to send to her friend who was going to send it to my mother. My mother was planning on marrying the guy without saying anything to B and I.
She even told my dad we needed groceries and would have him send 200 a week. I spoke to my dad and told him we don't go every week and that mom was out the country. Obviously, dad wasn't aware and was rightfully upset with her. He was sending money for B and I, while my mom was out probably using it for her trip. B and I had no idea he was sending money to her. Mom was outraged and told me she wasn't lying and just with holding information. My dad confronted mom over the phone, telling her how she should've told him. How concerned he was for our safety, which is valid. My mom calls me back and claimed my grandma was brainwashing me and how I was ruining her friendship with dad. She told me to call my dad and tell him we were okay. She told me how she deserved a vacation and to not get frustrated with her.
Like I mentioned before, my mom refused to treat my sister like a teenager, refused to let her watch age appropriate shows and just treated her like she was 6. My grandma, B, and I, all like watching crime. Mom hated when B would watch and told her, "I don't want you to be what OP is and I don't want you to be lost like her and how she is". I was 5 months into therapy around this time, I wanted to get help and get better. I cried when I saw the messages. Not even two weeks later mom came back. B and I didn't greet her, to which she said, "You girls are so ungrateful", slammed her door and didn't talk to us.
I love my mom, I wanted to have a good relationship with her and took it upon myself to do damage control. We "cleared" things up through our talk. Except she talked to where it would be in her favor and play her as the victim. Things were good for the next two months until she decided to go back again. This time she would be marrying V, her new man. Before my mom left, she was adamant on refusing to tell my dad she was leaving. She practically threatened B and I to not. My dad was upset we didn't tell him she went out the country again, and me being a dumb 16 year old, told him I didn't think it was my responsibility to inform him.
By the time mom came back, it was almost a week before B's birthday. Mom broke the news that she was pregnant. Neither of us were happy. B and I cried and mom wasn't happy with our reactions. She was upset for a couple of days and I turned around and offered my support to her. B was heart broken since she's always been the baby in the family. Mom having another was the straw that broke the camel's back. Their relationship was just torn from that moment. She did go with her out of the country just for vacation. As my sister puts it, it wasn't a great experience and mom was upset with her for not speaking much.
Mom was also slowly getting disowned by the family by the time she came back. When she was due in late 2021, I offered to stay in the hospital with her, but because I wasn't 18 and COVID was still an issue, they wouldn't allow me. My grandma instead stayed with her and eventually left after the baby was born. Rather than picking up my mom from the hospital, she offered to drop the seat and told my mom she could UBER home. I don't agree with how grandma handled it, my mom did just have a baby.
All was well, baby was fine. School was okay, I did struggle a bit because of other factors. However, by the time I had graduated, I decided to take a gap year. I didn't know what I wanted to major in. If I did go, I didn't want to drop out, continuously change majors, or worry about how it would get paid. At the time, my family was still struggling financially. I picked up hours at my job, and mom stayed with her friend who was also her boss. Her boss was not paying her at the time because she was in the process of a divorce after her husband put her business in jeopardy.
I became financially responsible in the meantime and had to pick up some of the bills, with the very little I received from my pay. Mom would get paid time to time, but it was so inconsistent that I was the one who was head of household. Sometime she would pay me back and other times, she refused to and would apply the amount to a bill she believed I needed to pay. She financed a new car that was well beyond what we could pay, same for the insurance for me. We split the car note and I split the insurance with my dad. Every month I was paying 450, including half the insurance, for a car I do not use a quarter of the time. Only time I would have it frequently was when mom was out on a trip to see her husband, since I don't have a car of my own.
Mom eventually invited her boss and kid to come live with us, told her to not pay the first months rent and let her stay until earlier this year. Her boss was late on payments and overall it was an uncomfortable experience living there because I felt like they were leeching off of us. The bills were doubled or tripled and I was expected to pay some of them. Before they moved in, I expressed to my mom how I didn't think it was a good idea since she was already behind paying her and was inconsistent with her payments and owed her so much. Mom refused to listen and just let it happen. B was uncomfortable and ended up staying with our grandma more often and rarely came over.
Around this time, mom became very pushy about me babysitting. She would ask when I was off and if I could watch baby. Not ask, more of demand. Sometimes I would offer, but it became a problem to which I barely had time to myself. One incident happened near the holidays. It was around Black Friday time, the car was in the shop because I accidently hit a deer that ran in front of me. We were using a rental at the time. I told my mom a week before that I needed the day I had off, because I would be working 5 days, only have one day off, and then work 6 days in a row. Mom didn't listen and the day before, asked me to babysit because the babysitter couldn't. I told her no and she guilt tripped me and told me she would be home at 3. She left at 11, came back at 3ish with hand tattoos. Showed me them and then left. I was in disbelief that my mom would do that. It was a punch to the face, she knew we were already struggling, and she knew I needed that day off. My grandma was the one who picked her up from the rental. Mom wasn't home until 6. Mom left for thanksgiving with her aunt. She came back and left again for a month for Christmas with baby to go out of the country to see her husband.
Before she came back, her boss packed her stuff and left without a word to my mom. By the time she came back, it was tense, she was let go and had to look for a new job. I was fed up with the constant babysitting and had either my grandma take me to work or my boyfriend, K. I rarely offered and mom would ask but I would rarely say yes or made an excuse. More as of recently, it's come to the point where I feel as though I'm living with a roommate and not my mom. B isn't at home and I don't blame her. Luckily I've reconnected with my family after being isolated and taking my mom's side for a few months. My family is supporting me and I'm going back to school next semester.
I made plans one weekend with K and my mom called me the next morning and asked me to watch baby. I offered to buy the things she needed and said "No, I have things to return". I offered to return them, she refused. She said "These are things I need to buy on my own". I asked her why she couldn't take baby, her only excuse was that baby and her had a long day yesterday and that, "it would be tedious and time consuming getting baby ready". I told her, "Yes, that's YOUR child." Mom sarcastically said, "Wow, you're right. Thanks for reminding me like I didn't know," and hung up.
My mom has a tendency to give silent treatment. Why? I don't know. I had gotten off of work late one night, mom picked me up and I asked if we could stop by somewhere that was still open. After receiving my food, we're pulling out, there's a car coming by and I told her to not go. She's on her phone texting, stops, and says "I know, I've been driving for years. When have you seen me turn and drive?" Without thinking, I respond, "When have I not." She blows up at me saying how she's tired of my stupid annoying comments and refuses to talk to me the rest of the way home. I tell her "goodnight, I love you," when we get home. I say it 5-6 times before she responds back saying goodnight.
The next day, she was silent with me when I came home. While I'm leaving with some of my stuff since I was staying the night at K's, I say "bye mom. I'm leaving, I love you." She only responds with a bye in a serious tone. I cried in K's car, even the next night when I stopped by for a few more things, she was cold. I decided to test to see if she was purposely refusing to say it back. When I told her bye and I love you, she just said bye. I repeated it one more time and it was the same response. She later texted me saying "I love you, don't ever doubt it." I didn't respond. She said it the next few days, but remained cold with me. Just recently, she texted me while at work and asked me about the move situation. I hadn't responded just yet and she sends a long paragraph about how I owe her the respect of answering her important messages and that I should find the time to. By the time I see the message, I tell her I'm at work, that she knows I do not look at my messages and that I have B's and I's situation under control.
Last night, as I was leaving to stay at K's again, I ask mom if she had already taken the day off for orientation. She's quiet and in a monotone voice replies, "yes, why?" I tell her my aunt offered to go since she's experienced school and would like to help. Plus, mom was already tense and I do not want to be stressed when we go. She goes off about how I'm an adult and I make my own decisions and how I should do whatever my heart desires. I stare at her for a second. I really wanted mom to go with me, but with the way things are, I decided it was best not to. I finally tell her that I think my aunt should go with me. When I tell her I'm leaving and to have a goodnight and that I love her. She only responds with a goodnight. I'm sobbing when I close the door and in my boyfriend's car. On our way to his house, mom calls, says my cats and I need to be out before the beginning of next month, and tells me she will be looking into handing over custody of B to me. I try not to cry while I say, okay, I love you. She hangs up without a word.
I'm extremely heartbroken and overwhelmed. I'm so mentally and physically drained from work and mom. I feel like I've given her all my support, all my time and money only to receive very little back. I miss my mom. I miss when we would talk and not just for 5 minutes a day. I miss when B, her and I would hang out, not just her on her phone calling her husband 24/7. I miss when mom didn't drag me into her issues and expect me to put her fires out with dad and the family. I miss making jokes with my mom and having conversations without her turning our talks against me. I miss mom.
The thing is, my mom's made her decisions and expected B and I to be okay with it. She's basically given up on B and just doesn't text her unless she needs something or to borrow money. I know B and I will be okay eventually, but I'm so distraught over the idea of cutting off mom. I know it's for the best, and hopefully she realizes her mistakes.
Mom has never been a bad mom. She's been a good mom. She's worked hard to provide for B and I. To make sure we lived comfortably. I know my mom has a lot of baggage and trauma I hope she can get help for. I love my mom and I want her to get the help she needs, but she's made it extremely apparent, she does not want it. I've tried my best to stick by her side, but I needed her to stick by mine too. I really do love my mom, but this is not my mom. I'm stuck on how mom used to be that I refuse to realize that this is how she is. I love mom, but I know that I have to let her go and be better than how she is now. Not just for me, but for B too.
2023.06.06 03:14 bippityboppityboo_69 Yet Another Job Hunter Experience Post
Since these seem popular... I've been at a new position for around a month and this was my experience looking for a new position.
Some background, I'm a frontend/fullstack dev with 7 YoE, was hired as a Sr Frontend Engineer.
In general I only applied to big tech-ish type places, so I went through lots of hiring freezes. The process wasn't too bad, though the openings were pretty slim. This took place from like August 2022 to like Feb 2023 with a break from Thanksgiving to New Years. The market looks a lot stronger now then it was then though, I've been seeing a lot more recruiter reach outs over the last couple months
My Breakdown: https://i.imgur.com/Ql9HCLb.png
Overall, all the interviews were pretty similar, Recruiter screen -> tech screen -> 5-6 round onsite.
I ended up applying to most places manually, including most of my onsites, so I wouldn't always listen to people saying that's a waste of time.
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Final offer ended up being around 360k TC
submitted by bippityboppityboo_69 to cscareerquestions [link] [comments]
Some background, I'm a frontend/fullstack dev with 7 YoE, was hired as a Sr Frontend Engineer.
In general I only applied to big tech-ish type places, so I went through lots of hiring freezes. The process wasn't too bad, though the openings were pretty slim. This took place from like August 2022 to like Feb 2023 with a break from Thanksgiving to New Years. The market looks a lot stronger now then it was then though, I've been seeing a lot more recruiter reach outs over the last couple months
My Breakdown: https://i.imgur.com/Ql9HCLb.png
Overall, all the interviews were pretty similar, Recruiter screen -> tech screen -> 5-6 round onsite.
I ended up applying to most places manually, including most of my onsites, so I wouldn't always listen to people saying that's a waste of time.
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Final offer ended up being around 360k TC
2023.06.06 02:18 ConicalMonocle I have lost my mother and everyone. Please read and offer advice.
This is very long but I appreciate any advice. I am feeling a lot of things right now. I am a strong person but even I don't quite know what to do right now and that is how I find myself posting on reddit.
I'm 34, male and I am depressed, extremely bitter, frustrated, angry, lonely, ashamed, anxious. My mother passed January 27th from metastatic cancer diagnosed November 18 2022. I took care of my Mom mostly on my own while she was in hospice at home though she was in the hospital much of the time following thanksgiving because of her unstable behavior and thinking. Her mother, my grandmother passed November 21 2021 who I also spent time taking care of since she had lung cancer but contracted covid in the hospital and I was in the room holding her hand just my mother and I when she passed gasping for breath. My stepmother who I was close with passed away in September 2021 after suddenly developing a cerebral hemorrhage brain bleed. My brother 42 suddenly died from a cerebral aneurysm on the night of November 21 2020 while he was sitting around a fire pit with friends. My father passed from pulmonary fibrosis on his birthday October 16 in 2017 after about a year of trying to get him a lung transplant and driving back and forth to mass general. I watched him sit up in a hospice bed and touch his thumb and index finger together around his leg. My step father died from metastatic cancer in 2012. He and my mother now share an urn.
I left my girlfriend, for all intents and purposes wife, of 9 years in 2019 after I'd tried unsuccessfully for several years to help her to stop drinking and using drugs. She was not always that way but slowly became that way after she experienced the traumatic loss of he brother who died in a terrible car accident in 2014 and her mother who passed from untreated diabetes in 2016. Her other brother was a drug addict and pulled her down with him. I spent several years helping her to get to work, therapy, and cosigned for a car after she crashed hers and then ultimately crashed the one I cosigned for. Two years later she has moved to another state and is married with a kid. I believe I did the right thing.
I do what I have to do to maintain my life. I do not drink to excess or use drugs with the exception of a little weed mainly on weekends or before bed. I have good hygiene. I could sleep more but don't struggle to sleep once I have made up my mind to do it. I take time out to do things I find enjoyable. I maintain physical activity.
I am pushing forward with my life and I am posting on reddit of all places because I have no one else (read very few people) to talk to about what I am feeling. The people I do have to talk to do not offer great advice. They have not experienced what I have and/or are not the type to offer great advice ever no matter the context. I have sought therapy and continue to do so but I have a busy schedule and no one who accepts insurance seems to be able to accommodate 5:30pm or later on week days or any time Saturday and Sunday. I have very good benefits and am open to telehealth but its either they don't accept insurance or they don't have availability. I am working with my employer EAP and still am having trouble. I am persevering because it is what I always do.
I am buying my first house and relocating closer to where I work, a new job I am pleased with. I was hired about a year and a half ago and I am very pleased so far with it and how I've been treated when I was out of work taking care of my Mom. Right now I drive an hour and 15 minutes each way daily. I am able to work from home a couple days per week but my job is such that I need to be physically present some of the time.
I have very little family left. What family I do have is closer to the area where I work and am moving. Unfortunately they are also not the greatest support and tend to use. I help them but I have limits and some of them also are alcoholics and I've been there done that with my ex. I can't fix that and I can't let it impact my life.
I have no friends left for various reasons. I grew apart from many of them and lost others to drugs. Others have moved far away. I never had many friends to begin with. I was always the type for smaller groups and intimate gatherings. I do not feel close to anyone anymore.
I have an on and off again "girlfriend" who I remind all the time I am not feeling serious about our relationship. I am totally hanging onto that solely because I have no one else. She is nice and I try not to let myself think I am doing her wrong because I am quite honest about my feelings and often. That does not stop me from feeling some mix of guilt and fear at the thought of either staying or going. I am in no condition to date anyone else right now. Sometimes I think I will after I move but not right now.
I am terrified and am surviving because I stay laser focused on what I need to do. That doesn't mean I am stressed all the time. On the contrary I stay fairly relaxed but I accomplish this by stuffing down all my negative emotions and compartmentalizing my feelings rather than processing them. I feel like I do not have time to process my emotions or anyone who can help me to do it constructively. As I said I am continuing to look for a therapist. Sometimes I can't help but think about some of these things. I've never had a panic attack that I know of. I have heard all kinds of descriptions about how they feel. I will start randomly crying in the car while I'm driving. Sometimes recently when I am faced with a big decision like the move I am trying to coordinate or if I am forced to recall certain memories like while I am writing this post I feel numb all over and like I am outside myself and dizzy. I feel this way when I remember what happened just a few months ago. I think I am only doing as well as I am because I have worked so hard to forget what happened. I have been quite vague about it but she didn't just pass from cancer. The metastasis presented symptoms similar to brain cancer and she was not the person who raised me during that time.
My mother chose cremation. I intend to bury the urn this year and am working on purchasing a plot. Everything feels like a long story. My mother was never very clear about her burial wishes other than to be cremated and to be placed in the other half of the double urn with my step father. I tried to talk to her about it but she wouldn't talk about it except for on her terms. I think we both thought she had more time. When it became clear that was not the case I couldn't get a meaningful answer from her. I have picked out a cemetery which is appropriate for a number of reasons. If only it were that simple.
My step father who passed in 2012 is also in the urn don't forget. I have not seen or heard from a single member of his family since he passed. There was a court battle over assets and his daughter was involved. She is estranged but won some assets. I was younger then and while I do not particularly care for her I do not have any kind of a grudge toward her. I am worried about contacting her because I just want peace right now more than anything and I am afraid she will take even that from me. Needless to say now I am going to bury the urn and I want very much to just bury my mother and step father because this is hurting me so badly. I believe on the one hand I should contact her to let her know of my intent because this is her father after all. I do not have any sure way of contacting her and I don't know where she lives. I have googled her and can kind of guess maybe how I could contact her. She only ever showed up very infrequently to see her father in the first place when he was living. She was always the type to overtly value material possession and used her father for money and gifts. As I understand it he was not around much after he left her mother and so that is the type of relationship they had, as unhealthy as it was, and that is how she became the person she is since she never had a relationship to value and only material gifts. This is why I would prefer to have a private service and bury them both without contacting her. Aside from feeling some obligation to contact her about her father's ashes I am also concerned about ramifications down the road if she were to find out I buried her father's ashes without telling her. I do not recall but I believe when he passed she was given some of his ashes or at least the chance to have some whether she took it or not.
Thank you for reading my incredibly long story. There is so much more and I could write a book except even this much was a struggle. I deeply appreciate anyone who puts an ounce of thought into a serious response to this post. I think there are few things I need more right now.
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I'm 34, male and I am depressed, extremely bitter, frustrated, angry, lonely, ashamed, anxious. My mother passed January 27th from metastatic cancer diagnosed November 18 2022. I took care of my Mom mostly on my own while she was in hospice at home though she was in the hospital much of the time following thanksgiving because of her unstable behavior and thinking. Her mother, my grandmother passed November 21 2021 who I also spent time taking care of since she had lung cancer but contracted covid in the hospital and I was in the room holding her hand just my mother and I when she passed gasping for breath. My stepmother who I was close with passed away in September 2021 after suddenly developing a cerebral hemorrhage brain bleed. My brother 42 suddenly died from a cerebral aneurysm on the night of November 21 2020 while he was sitting around a fire pit with friends. My father passed from pulmonary fibrosis on his birthday October 16 in 2017 after about a year of trying to get him a lung transplant and driving back and forth to mass general. I watched him sit up in a hospice bed and touch his thumb and index finger together around his leg. My step father died from metastatic cancer in 2012. He and my mother now share an urn.
I left my girlfriend, for all intents and purposes wife, of 9 years in 2019 after I'd tried unsuccessfully for several years to help her to stop drinking and using drugs. She was not always that way but slowly became that way after she experienced the traumatic loss of he brother who died in a terrible car accident in 2014 and her mother who passed from untreated diabetes in 2016. Her other brother was a drug addict and pulled her down with him. I spent several years helping her to get to work, therapy, and cosigned for a car after she crashed hers and then ultimately crashed the one I cosigned for. Two years later she has moved to another state and is married with a kid. I believe I did the right thing.
I do what I have to do to maintain my life. I do not drink to excess or use drugs with the exception of a little weed mainly on weekends or before bed. I have good hygiene. I could sleep more but don't struggle to sleep once I have made up my mind to do it. I take time out to do things I find enjoyable. I maintain physical activity.
I am pushing forward with my life and I am posting on reddit of all places because I have no one else (read very few people) to talk to about what I am feeling. The people I do have to talk to do not offer great advice. They have not experienced what I have and/or are not the type to offer great advice ever no matter the context. I have sought therapy and continue to do so but I have a busy schedule and no one who accepts insurance seems to be able to accommodate 5:30pm or later on week days or any time Saturday and Sunday. I have very good benefits and am open to telehealth but its either they don't accept insurance or they don't have availability. I am working with my employer EAP and still am having trouble. I am persevering because it is what I always do.
I am buying my first house and relocating closer to where I work, a new job I am pleased with. I was hired about a year and a half ago and I am very pleased so far with it and how I've been treated when I was out of work taking care of my Mom. Right now I drive an hour and 15 minutes each way daily. I am able to work from home a couple days per week but my job is such that I need to be physically present some of the time.
I have very little family left. What family I do have is closer to the area where I work and am moving. Unfortunately they are also not the greatest support and tend to use. I help them but I have limits and some of them also are alcoholics and I've been there done that with my ex. I can't fix that and I can't let it impact my life.
I have no friends left for various reasons. I grew apart from many of them and lost others to drugs. Others have moved far away. I never had many friends to begin with. I was always the type for smaller groups and intimate gatherings. I do not feel close to anyone anymore.
I have an on and off again "girlfriend" who I remind all the time I am not feeling serious about our relationship. I am totally hanging onto that solely because I have no one else. She is nice and I try not to let myself think I am doing her wrong because I am quite honest about my feelings and often. That does not stop me from feeling some mix of guilt and fear at the thought of either staying or going. I am in no condition to date anyone else right now. Sometimes I think I will after I move but not right now.
I am terrified and am surviving because I stay laser focused on what I need to do. That doesn't mean I am stressed all the time. On the contrary I stay fairly relaxed but I accomplish this by stuffing down all my negative emotions and compartmentalizing my feelings rather than processing them. I feel like I do not have time to process my emotions or anyone who can help me to do it constructively. As I said I am continuing to look for a therapist. Sometimes I can't help but think about some of these things. I've never had a panic attack that I know of. I have heard all kinds of descriptions about how they feel. I will start randomly crying in the car while I'm driving. Sometimes recently when I am faced with a big decision like the move I am trying to coordinate or if I am forced to recall certain memories like while I am writing this post I feel numb all over and like I am outside myself and dizzy. I feel this way when I remember what happened just a few months ago. I think I am only doing as well as I am because I have worked so hard to forget what happened. I have been quite vague about it but she didn't just pass from cancer. The metastasis presented symptoms similar to brain cancer and she was not the person who raised me during that time.
My mother chose cremation. I intend to bury the urn this year and am working on purchasing a plot. Everything feels like a long story. My mother was never very clear about her burial wishes other than to be cremated and to be placed in the other half of the double urn with my step father. I tried to talk to her about it but she wouldn't talk about it except for on her terms. I think we both thought she had more time. When it became clear that was not the case I couldn't get a meaningful answer from her. I have picked out a cemetery which is appropriate for a number of reasons. If only it were that simple.
My step father who passed in 2012 is also in the urn don't forget. I have not seen or heard from a single member of his family since he passed. There was a court battle over assets and his daughter was involved. She is estranged but won some assets. I was younger then and while I do not particularly care for her I do not have any kind of a grudge toward her. I am worried about contacting her because I just want peace right now more than anything and I am afraid she will take even that from me. Needless to say now I am going to bury the urn and I want very much to just bury my mother and step father because this is hurting me so badly. I believe on the one hand I should contact her to let her know of my intent because this is her father after all. I do not have any sure way of contacting her and I don't know where she lives. I have googled her and can kind of guess maybe how I could contact her. She only ever showed up very infrequently to see her father in the first place when he was living. She was always the type to overtly value material possession and used her father for money and gifts. As I understand it he was not around much after he left her mother and so that is the type of relationship they had, as unhealthy as it was, and that is how she became the person she is since she never had a relationship to value and only material gifts. This is why I would prefer to have a private service and bury them both without contacting her. Aside from feeling some obligation to contact her about her father's ashes I am also concerned about ramifications down the road if she were to find out I buried her father's ashes without telling her. I do not recall but I believe when he passed she was given some of his ashes or at least the chance to have some whether she took it or not.
Thank you for reading my incredibly long story. There is so much more and I could write a book except even this much was a struggle. I deeply appreciate anyone who puts an ounce of thought into a serious response to this post. I think there are few things I need more right now.
2023.06.06 01:53 DepartureHonest7948 The Uncompromising Blissful Extravagance of His Presence!
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The Uncompromising Blissful Extravagance of His Presence! Inbox
By CMM.World CMMTheology.org - November 10, 2022
Dear Mighty One,
I see the Lord's eye upon us we discover by revelation the 'new thing' He is doing in our lives and of those of us who, beyond the present darkness, gaze into His eyes. The 'tuning fork' of Yahweh is orchestrating the sons and daughters of our living God in growing holy remnant unity to withstand as we stand with Him fearlessly in the boldness of the faith of God in this hour. Egypt is behind us, and the covenantal promises and prophetic words we have received (1 Tim. 1:18) empower us by His Holy Spirit to advance in warfare, humbly growing in the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

Yesterday as I encouraged some friends, I said, 'stay in the blissful extravagance of His presence.' Today I saw in Psalm 34 His eyes are upon us in vs. 8 & 9 and v:15 about the 'uncompromisingly righteous.' We are to be holy as He is holy. That leaves no room for any more compromise or seeking to please man or the traditions of men, being free of the fear of man, the religious spirit, and any demonic activity. We are seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Lord, help us understand by revelation to walk in all the authority we have been given by Jesus Christ.
Psalm 34:8-9 'O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him. O fear the Lord, you His saints [revere and worship Him]! For there is no want to those who truly revere and worship Him with godly fear.'
v. 15 'The eyes of the Lord are toward the [uncompromisingly] righteous and His ears are open to their cry.'
Chuck Pierce shared this amazing word from Penny Jackson that is right on for this season: https://christsmandate.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-pierce-shares-powerful-word-from.html
May YOUR November be full of Thanksgiving and Praise for you and yours as YOU enjoy The Uncompromising Blissful Extravagance of His Presence!
Thank you for praying for CMM and all your fellow CMM Global Family worldwide. Pray for all the missionaries, schools, and students in CMM College of Theology in the US, Ecuador, Canada, Cuba, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Thailand.
Pray for the new wells and the living water and safe water recently drilled or soon to be drilled in Tanzania, India, Malawi, and Pakistan.
Pray for our upcoming Christmas gift campaigns to bless children and youth in many nations. Many of them are precious, beautiful children (orphans). As the Lord leads, pray about giving any amount to bless dear CMM children this Christmas. https://cmmworld.kindful.com/
Pray for each other, dear friends. We all know we each need prayers going up to Heaven for all those on the front lines. We each are on the front lines!
Please pray for me as I speak tomorrow online to a crusade with 8,000 expected to attend in Pakistan. In December, I will speak at conferences in Liberia and Kenya with fellow CMM Ordained ministers Robert Bimba (Liberia), Tom Omukhobero, and Daniel and Christine Oyoko (Kenya).
We are working on plans and trips for 2023. If you would like to have some of our awesome CMM family speakers for a conference in your area or would like to join or lead a missions trip, we would love to hook you up with dear friends in many nations.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Louis Blom of Judea Harvest as Associate Director of Missions at CMM. This strategic alliance multiplies the efforts and impact in building the Kingdom of our God, for His glory. https://youtu.be/HXfP8tCySRc

Many blessings and shalom from us all here at the home office and around the world.
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CMM is a 501c3 founded in 1978. We also handle donor relations for approximately 500 missionaries globally, ordained ministers, as we enjoy the Lord in fellowship, offering Christian accredited degrees globally, church planting, healing, counseling, orphanages, and prayer centers, creative arts, prophetic, humanitarian aid and disaster relief, medical, stopping human trafficking, leadership training and creative incubators for entrepreneurs, disaster relief, and connecting destinies.
Call 704-225-3927 or email [email protected] to learn more or to have one of our many CMM amointed, itinerant ministers speak at your church or group, in person or online.
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The Uncompromising Blissful Extravagance of His Presence! Inbox
By CMM.World CMMTheology.org - November 10, 2022
Dear Mighty One,
I see the Lord's eye upon us we discover by revelation the 'new thing' He is doing in our lives and of those of us who, beyond the present darkness, gaze into His eyes. The 'tuning fork' of Yahweh is orchestrating the sons and daughters of our living God in growing holy remnant unity to withstand as we stand with Him fearlessly in the boldness of the faith of God in this hour. Egypt is behind us, and the covenantal promises and prophetic words we have received (1 Tim. 1:18) empower us by His Holy Spirit to advance in warfare, humbly growing in the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

Yesterday as I encouraged some friends, I said, 'stay in the blissful extravagance of His presence.' Today I saw in Psalm 34 His eyes are upon us in vs. 8 & 9 and v:15 about the 'uncompromisingly righteous.' We are to be holy as He is holy. That leaves no room for any more compromise or seeking to please man or the traditions of men, being free of the fear of man, the religious spirit, and any demonic activity. We are seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Lord, help us understand by revelation to walk in all the authority we have been given by Jesus Christ.
Psalm 34:8-9 'O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him. O fear the Lord, you His saints [revere and worship Him]! For there is no want to those who truly revere and worship Him with godly fear.'
v. 15 'The eyes of the Lord are toward the [uncompromisingly] righteous and His ears are open to their cry.'
Chuck Pierce shared this amazing word from Penny Jackson that is right on for this season: https://christsmandate.blogspot.com/2022/11/chuck-pierce-shares-powerful-word-from.html
May YOUR November be full of Thanksgiving and Praise for you and yours as YOU enjoy The Uncompromising Blissful Extravagance of His Presence!
Thank you for praying for CMM and all your fellow CMM Global Family worldwide. Pray for all the missionaries, schools, and students in CMM College of Theology in the US, Ecuador, Canada, Cuba, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Thailand.
Pray for the new wells and the living water and safe water recently drilled or soon to be drilled in Tanzania, India, Malawi, and Pakistan.
Pray for our upcoming Christmas gift campaigns to bless children and youth in many nations. Many of them are precious, beautiful children (orphans). As the Lord leads, pray about giving any amount to bless dear CMM children this Christmas. https://cmmworld.kindful.com/
Pray for each other, dear friends. We all know we each need prayers going up to Heaven for all those on the front lines. We each are on the front lines!
Please pray for me as I speak tomorrow online to a crusade with 8,000 expected to attend in Pakistan. In December, I will speak at conferences in Liberia and Kenya with fellow CMM Ordained ministers Robert Bimba (Liberia), Tom Omukhobero, and Daniel and Christine Oyoko (Kenya).
We are working on plans and trips for 2023. If you would like to have some of our awesome CMM family speakers for a conference in your area or would like to join or lead a missions trip, we would love to hook you up with dear friends in many nations.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Louis Blom of Judea Harvest as Associate Director of Missions at CMM. This strategic alliance multiplies the efforts and impact in building the Kingdom of our God, for His glory. https://youtu.be/HXfP8tCySRc

Many blessings and shalom from us all here at the home office and around the world.
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2023.06.05 23:52 UmAsIf Tartarus Hath No Fury like a Daughter of Aphrodite
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As her family's car dropped her off late in the evening. In the back seat and truck, Chanel had brought 8 carrying cases filled with live rats. Her staff brought them to the boarder, and with her Charmspeak the satyrs carried them quietly to the back of the Hermes cabin.
Well under her spell, the goat-boys opened the cabin window, just a little. The one that lead into the Hermes' cabin main living area. With some help, Chanel lifted the cases one by one. They were very heavy, but with the aid of the Satrys, it wasn't too bad.
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With a smile of satisfactory, Chanel left the cages and started to make her way back to the Aphrodite cabin. If she happened to hear screams from the Hermes' cabin. Well, it was a lovely night for some music.
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2023.06.05 18:25 Professional_Disk131 Cutting-Edge AI for Mining Explorations: Windfall Geotek (TSXV: WIN, OTC: WINKF)
 | Windfall Geotek (TSXV: WIN, OTC: WINKF) uses AI for mining explorations. Doing this has several advantages, as it notably reduces costs and increases efficiency, and ultimately raises the company exploration success rate. Windfall also improved its financial statements by reducing expenses and augmenting its revenue. submitted by Professional_Disk131 to SmallCap_MiningStocks [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/nphsxyjm684b1.png?width=258&format=png&auto=webp&s=4806f59b89619d2f53308b795b5a09f4409c109e WIN is not a mining company. It is a cutting-edge AI mining service that identifies drill targets, saving time and money and vastly reducing exploratory drilling. It was established in 2005. https://preview.redd.it/ayqzum2r684b1.png?width=1677&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2099e956ad27f79e3e5813f38df7fd20b18d0d3 Windfall Geotek’s AI technology analyzes geological data from various target sources to generate the highest probable drill targets. Its technology works for all metals. The company takes geological data from multiple sources, including drill holes and rock samples, publicly available sources, and others, to build models that can accurately predict where a particular metal or group of metals is likely to be found. WIN’s value proposition? Instead of mining companies and engineers ‘guessing’ where to drill, Windfall’s AI technology uses machine learning to process large quantities of data to predict zones with the desired mineralization. The benefits are apparent, and the Company has put it in a very strong financial position.
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2023.06.05 17:57 bikingfencer Galatians, chapter 3 - equality in Jesus (https://esv.literalword.com/?q=Galatians+3)
GALATIANS Chapter Three
Who seized [אחז, ’eeHayZ] [את, ’ehTh] your eyes after that was made known to you in plain [בפרוש, BePhayROoSh] that YayShOo`ah ["Savior", Jesus] the Anointed was crucified?
-6. … ’ahBRahHahM [“Father Exalted”, Abraham] believed [האמין, Heh’ehMeeYN] in Gods, and it was thought [ונחשבה, VeNehHSheBaH] to him righteousness.
-9. From here [מכאן, MeeKah’N], that the seizers in belief are blessed [מבורכים, MeBORahKheeYM] together with ’ahBRahHahM the believer.
“Cursed [ארור, ’ahROoR] are all who that do not realize [את, ’ehTh (indicator of direct object; no English equivalent)] all the words the written in Account the Instruction, to do them.”
-16. And behold, the promises were said [λεγει legei, “says”] to ’ahBRahHahM and to his seed [ולזרעו, OoLeZahR`O, σπερμα sperma], not said “to your seeds”, like upon multitudes, rather “to your seed”, like upon an individual [יחיד, YahHeeYD], and he is the Anointed.
She was added [נוספה, NOÇPhaH] because of the trespasses [הערבות, Hah`ahBahROTh],
until that [כי, KeeY] would come the seed that to him was intended [מכונת, MeKhooVehNehTh] the promise.
The Instruction was delivered [נמסרה, NeeMÇeRaH] in mediation [באמצעות, Be’ehMTsah`OoTh] [of] angels in hands of an intermediary [מתוך, MeThahVayKh].
The intermediary is not of one,
and Gods, he is one.
there is no slave, even no son free [בן חורין, BehN HOReeYN];
no male, even no female,
because [משום, MeeShOoM] that all of you are one in Anointed YayShOo`ah.
END NOTES
iv Deuteronomy (the curses, from chapters 27 and 28)
Chapter 27
...
-15. Cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten image (an abomination to YHVH), the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. …
-16. Cursed is he who despises his father or his mother…
-17. Cursed is he who shifts his neighbor’s border...
-18. Cursed is he who misleads the blind to go astray in the way...
-19. Cursed is he who perverts the justice due to the stranger, orphaned, and widowed...
-20. Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife...
-21. Cursed is he who lies with any manner of beast …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law …
-24. Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret ….
-25. Cursed is he who takes a bribe to strike an innocent person …
-26. Cursed is he who does not fulfill the words of this law to do them …
Chapter 28
...
-15. … if you do not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to ensure the performance of all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today … all these curses will come upon you, and overtake you.
-16. You are cursed in the city, and you are cursed in the field.
-17. Your basket and your kneading-trough are cursed.
-18. The fruit of your belly is cursed, as is the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
-19. You are cursed coming and you are cursed going.
-20. YHVH will send cursing, discomfort, and rebuke upon you and upon all that you put your hand to do, until your destruction and ...your quick death, ‘because of your evil transgressions of forsaking Me’.
-21. YHVH will make pestilence stick to you, until He has consumed you from off the land which you came to inherit.
-22. YHVH will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and these will persist until you perish.
-23. And the heaven that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
-24. YHVH will turn the rain of your land into powder and dust; it will descend upon you from the skies until you are destroyed.
-25. YHVH will cause you to be stricken before your enemies; you will sally forth against them from one direction and flee away from them in seven … and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the land.
-26. And your carcasses will be food for every bird of the skies and beast of the land, and no one will scare them away.
-27. YHVH will strike you with Egyptian boils, and with hemorrhoids, and with scabs, and with incurable itching.
-28. YHVH will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
-29. And you will grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness, and you will not make your way ... and you will always be only oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
-30. You will engage a wife and another man will lie with her; you will build a house and you will not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard and not consume of it.
-31. Your ox will be sacrificed right before your eyes and you will not eat of it; you will be robbed of your donkey right in front of you and it will not returned to you; your flock will be given to your enemies; and you will have no one to save you.
-32. Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and you eyes will fail from looking for them all day; and you will be powerless …
-33. A people you did not know will consume the fruit of your land and labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
-34. And you will be crazed from the sights which your eyes will see.
-35. YHVH will strike you with an incurable sore boil in the knees and in the legs, from the sole of your foot to your forehead.
-36. YHVH will lead you and the king you set over yourself into a nation neither you nor your fathers knew; and you will worship other gods there – wood and rock.
-37. And you will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples into whom YHVH will drive you.
-38. Much seed will you carry out to the field and little you will gather; for the locust shall consume it.
-39. You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink nor gather; for the worm will eat them.
-40. You will have olives within all your borders, but you will not anoint with oil; for your olives will drop off.
-41. Sons and daughters will be born to you and will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
-42. All your trees and fruit of your land will be inherited by the locust.
-43. The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will descend lower and lower;
-44. he will lend to you, you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you will be the tail.
-45. And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you until your destruction, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
-46. And they will be on you as a sign and as an example, and on your seed for ever,
-47. because you did not serve YHVH your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things.
-48. And you will serve your enemies, whom YHVH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of everything; and he will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
-49. YHVH will send a nation against you from afar, from the end of the land, like a vulture swoops down, a nation whose tongue you have never heard,
-50. a nation of fierce aspect which will neither respect the elderly nor show mercy to the young.
-51. And he will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed, so that there will not remain corn, wine, or oil, the increase of your oxen, or the young of your flock, until he has caused you to perish.
-52. And he will besiege you in all your gates until the razing of your high and fortified walls in which you trusted throughout all your land … which YHVH your God gave you.
-53. And you will eat the fruit of your belly, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom YHVH your Gods gave you, in the siege and in the blockade by which your enemies starve you.
-54. The man who is tender among you and very delicate will [cast] the evil eye against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children, those remaining,
-55. so that he will not give any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him during the siege and in the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within all your gates.
-56. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, will [cast] the evil eye against the husband of her bosom and against her son and against her daughter;
-57. and against her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and against her children whom she bears, for she will eat them secretly from want of everything during the siege and the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within your gates
-58. if you do not observe the performance of all the words of the law that are written in this book, that you might fear this honored and awful Name, YHVH, your Gods.
-59. And YHVH will make your plagues awful, and the plagues of your seed, great, chronic, and sore …
-60. And He will return to you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were in dread, and they will cleave to you.
-61. Also YHVH will raise upon you every sickness and every plague that is not written in this book of the law until your destruction.
-62. And you will be left a small minority, having been as the stars of the skies for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods.
-63. And it shall come to pass, that, just as YHVH rejoiced over your improvement and multiplication, so YHVH will rejoice over your perishing and destruction, and your plucking from off the land to which you had come to inherit.
-64. And YHVH will scatter you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth to the end of the earth, and there you will serve other gods, which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers: wood and stone.
-65. And in those nations you will not assimilate, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; and YHVH will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and languishing of soul.
-66. And your life will hang before you, and you will be afraid night and day, and you will have no faith in your life.
-67. In the morning you will say: 'Would it were evening!' and in the evening your will say: 'Would it were morning!' from the fear that your heart will fear, and from the sights your eyes will see.
-68. And YHVH will return you to Egypt in ships [instead of] by the way which I said you would never see again, and you will sell yourselves to your enemies for slaves and maids, and none will buy.
-69. These are the words of the covenant which YHVH commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. An Amateur's Journey Through the Bible
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-1. O [הוי, HOY] GahLahTeeM [Galatians] foolish [כסילים, KeÇeeYLeeYM]!Instruction as opposed to [לעומת, Le`OoMahTh] belief
[verses 1-14]
Who seized [אחז, ’eeHayZ] [את, ’ehTh] your eyes after that was made known to you in plain [בפרוש, BePhayROoSh] that YayShOo`ah ["Savior", Jesus] the Anointed was crucified?
“The missionaries of the cross of Christ had to compete with pagan priests who paraded the images and symbols of their savior-gods in spectacular processions. There was the cult of Cybele, ‘the Great Mother,’ whose consort Attis died by self-mutilation with the decline of each year’s vegetation. During his ‘passion week’ a pine tree swathed as a corpse was carried through the streets, and three days later his devotees joyfully celebrated his ‘resurrection’ as the guarantee of their own immortality. Another savior-god of Asia Minor was Sandan-Hercules. His symbol was a funeral pyre on which, according to the myth, he had immolated himself after performing the labors that were imposed on him. Still another was Mithra, the sun-god, who was portrayed in the act of slaying a bull, which represented the chaotic element in the universe, and which in dying was believed to give new life to the world....
In competition with these sensuous and often obscene observances, Paul’s portrayal of the crucified Jesus suffered a disadvantage.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 496-497)
-6. … ’ahBRahHahM [“Father Exalted”, Abraham] believed [האמין, Heh’ehMeeYN] in Gods, and it was thought [ונחשבה, VeNehHSheBaH] to him righteousness.
Yes, but Abraham, in addition to believing God, also accepted God’s ordinance of circumcision.-7. Therefore [ובכן, OoBKhayN] know that [כי, KeeY] sons of the faith are they, sons of ’ahBRahHahM.
“Both sides could quote scripture, and each could explain the other’s ‘proof’ in the light of his own position. The Jews believed that the Torah existed from the beginning of creation; and that, although it had not yet been written in Abraham’s day, Abraham had obeyed it, being perfect in all his works and pleasing to God in righteousness all his days (Jubilees 23:10; II Baruch 57:2). To prove that Christians could not be saved without being circumcised and assuming the yoke of the Torah, the Judaizers quoted Gen. [Genesis] 17:14.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 502)
[Genesis 17:14 - “And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My covenant.”iv ]
“The church began in the synagogue, the main difference being the Christian affirmation of the messiahship of Jesus. But as Greek-speaking Jews and Gentiles came in, this difference in the interpretation of prophecy was widened by laxness in observing the law of Moses. The synagogue expelled the Christians, leaving them without the legal protection which Judaism enjoyed under Romans law. … Not only freedom from the law of Moses but the question of Christian rights under Roman law was involved when Paul declared that the men of faith in Christ were the true sons of Abraham.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 503)...
-9. From here [מכאן, MeeKah’N], that the seizers in belief are blessed [מבורכים, MeBORahKheeYM] together with ’ahBRahHahM the believer.
“Although faithful (KJV [King James Version]) means lit. [literally], ‘full of faith,’ its primary meaning today is ‘fidelity,’ ‘reliability,’ so that it does not express clearly Paul’s main point, which is Abraham’s response in believing God … Like the sun and the rain, God’s blessing on such a man knows no restrictions of race or nation.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 504)-10. The reliers [הנשענים, HahNeeSh`ahNeeYM] upon realizing commandments [of] the Instruction are given under a curse [קללה, QLahLaH], that see, is written:
“Cursed [ארור, ’ahROoR] are all who that do not realize [את, ’ehTh (indicator of direct object; no English equivalent)] all the words the written in Account the Instruction, to do them.”
“The range of the curse of which Paul is speaking appears in Deut. [Deuteronomy] 27-30iv … It is described in terms of the hideous torments which history inflicted upon the Hebrew people. The one word ‘fear’ tells the story – fear of famine, disease, and death; fear of war, torture, and slavery; fear of past, present, and future. All these were punishments on earth, and death ended them. But by the time of Paul they had been projected into the hereafter, where the law’s curse would pursue the soul through an eternity of torment in a hell which was conceived in the fiery imagery of Greek and Persian mythology. The dramatist of the dialogue of Ebal and Gerizim had left open one window of hope – repentance and return to God; but as for the future life, eschatology and apocalyptic had blacked out even this....
… rabbis reasoned that since the Scripture was God’s word, the curse which it pronounced upon the disobedient was God’s curse. He replied that the law was not God’s way of salvation, but only a codicil which angels added through Moses the intermediary (vs. [verse] 19). That was a complete break with the synagogue.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 505)
“It is worthy of remark, that no printed copy of the Hebrew Bible preserves the word כל col, ALL, in Deut. xxvii.26 which answers to the apostle’s word πασι [pasi], all here.” (Clarke, 1831, vol. II p. 382) ...
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The Instruction and the promise
[verses 15-20]
-16. And behold, the promises were said [λεγει legei, “says”] to ’ahBRahHahM and to his seed [ולזרעו, OoLeZahR`O, σπερμα sperma], not said “to your seeds”, like upon multitudes, rather “to your seed”, like upon an individual [יחיד, YahHeeYD], and he is the Anointed.
“This kind of ‘proof’ from scripture by reading ‘spiritual’ meanings into details of grammar and discovering ideas that were not within the purview of its writers was being employed more and more.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 513) ...-19. If thus, for sake of [לשם, LeShehM] what was the Instruction?
She was added [נוספה, NOÇPhaH] because of the trespasses [הערבות, Hah`ahBahROTh],
until that [כי, KeeY] would come the seed that to him was intended [מכונת, MeKhooVehNehTh] the promise.
The Instruction was delivered [נמסרה, NeeMÇeRaH] in mediation [באמצעות, Be’ehMTsah`OoTh] [of] angels in hands of an intermediary [מתוך, MeThahVayKh].
The intermediary is not of one,
and Gods, he is one.
“Thus viewed, the purpose of the angels’ expedient was not to prevent sin – a thing which the weakness of human nature made law powerless to do – but to convince men that they were so bad that nothing could save them except God’s mercy through Christ. ...-28. There is no [אין, ’aYN] YeHOo-DeeY, even [אף, ’ahPh] no [לא, Lo’] nation;
This was a clean break from the Jewish conception which held that the law was the gift of God’s lovingkindness to overcome the evil impulse and prevent sin by guidance and discipline in good works. The orthodox maintained that Abraham’s faith was one of these law-works. The belief that angels were present at the giving of the law was widespread ... The presence of the angels, said the rabbis, was the measure of the law’s great glory. Paul said it was a fading glory from the very beginning ... Moreover, it was twice removed from God’s own immediate action, because it was ordained, or ‘enacted,’ ‘through the agency of’ angels, and even they did not communicate directly with the people, but gave the law ‘in the hand of a representative,’ i.e. [in other words], Moses.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 515) ...
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Slaves as opposed to sons
[verses 21 to end of chapter] ...
there is no slave, even no son free [בן חורין, BehN HOReeYN];
no male, even no female,
because [משום, MeeShOoM] that all of you are one in Anointed YayShOo`ah.
“Paul’s concept of equality and unity in Christ was an incipient revolution, the consequences of which are only now beginning to be worked out. Wherever his gospel is preached, men become uncomfortable with the age-old equation, ‘foreigner equals inferior’; with the incongruity of man’s ancient thanksgiving that he had ‘not been born a woman’; and with the violation of democracy and brotherhood involved in Aristotle’s definition of a slave as ‘an animated implement’.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 519 & 520)...
“Such unity in Christ does not imply political equality in church or society.” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC pp. 787)
END NOTES
iv Deuteronomy (the curses, from chapters 27 and 28)
Chapter 27
...
-15. Cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten image (an abomination to YHVH), the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. …
-16. Cursed is he who despises his father or his mother…
-17. Cursed is he who shifts his neighbor’s border...
-18. Cursed is he who misleads the blind to go astray in the way...
-19. Cursed is he who perverts the justice due to the stranger, orphaned, and widowed...
-20. Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife...
-21. Cursed is he who lies with any manner of beast …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law …
-24. Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret ….
-25. Cursed is he who takes a bribe to strike an innocent person …
-26. Cursed is he who does not fulfill the words of this law to do them …
Chapter 28
...
-15. … if you do not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to ensure the performance of all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today … all these curses will come upon you, and overtake you.
-16. You are cursed in the city, and you are cursed in the field.
-17. Your basket and your kneading-trough are cursed.
-18. The fruit of your belly is cursed, as is the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
-19. You are cursed coming and you are cursed going.
-20. YHVH will send cursing, discomfort, and rebuke upon you and upon all that you put your hand to do, until your destruction and ...your quick death, ‘because of your evil transgressions of forsaking Me’.
-21. YHVH will make pestilence stick to you, until He has consumed you from off the land which you came to inherit.
-22. YHVH will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and these will persist until you perish.
-23. And the heaven that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
-24. YHVH will turn the rain of your land into powder and dust; it will descend upon you from the skies until you are destroyed.
-25. YHVH will cause you to be stricken before your enemies; you will sally forth against them from one direction and flee away from them in seven … and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the land.
-26. And your carcasses will be food for every bird of the skies and beast of the land, and no one will scare them away.
-27. YHVH will strike you with Egyptian boils, and with hemorrhoids, and with scabs, and with incurable itching.
-28. YHVH will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
-29. And you will grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness, and you will not make your way ... and you will always be only oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
-30. You will engage a wife and another man will lie with her; you will build a house and you will not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard and not consume of it.
-31. Your ox will be sacrificed right before your eyes and you will not eat of it; you will be robbed of your donkey right in front of you and it will not returned to you; your flock will be given to your enemies; and you will have no one to save you.
-32. Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and you eyes will fail from looking for them all day; and you will be powerless …
-33. A people you did not know will consume the fruit of your land and labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
-34. And you will be crazed from the sights which your eyes will see.
-35. YHVH will strike you with an incurable sore boil in the knees and in the legs, from the sole of your foot to your forehead.
-36. YHVH will lead you and the king you set over yourself into a nation neither you nor your fathers knew; and you will worship other gods there – wood and rock.
-37. And you will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples into whom YHVH will drive you.
-38. Much seed will you carry out to the field and little you will gather; for the locust shall consume it.
-39. You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink nor gather; for the worm will eat them.
-40. You will have olives within all your borders, but you will not anoint with oil; for your olives will drop off.
-41. Sons and daughters will be born to you and will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
-42. All your trees and fruit of your land will be inherited by the locust.
-43. The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will descend lower and lower;
-44. he will lend to you, you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you will be the tail.
-45. And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you until your destruction, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
-46. And they will be on you as a sign and as an example, and on your seed for ever,
-47. because you did not serve YHVH your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things.
-48. And you will serve your enemies, whom YHVH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of everything; and he will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
-49. YHVH will send a nation against you from afar, from the end of the land, like a vulture swoops down, a nation whose tongue you have never heard,
-50. a nation of fierce aspect which will neither respect the elderly nor show mercy to the young.
-51. And he will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed, so that there will not remain corn, wine, or oil, the increase of your oxen, or the young of your flock, until he has caused you to perish.
-52. And he will besiege you in all your gates until the razing of your high and fortified walls in which you trusted throughout all your land … which YHVH your God gave you.
-53. And you will eat the fruit of your belly, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom YHVH your Gods gave you, in the siege and in the blockade by which your enemies starve you.
-54. The man who is tender among you and very delicate will [cast] the evil eye against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children, those remaining,
-55. so that he will not give any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him during the siege and in the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within all your gates.
-56. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, will [cast] the evil eye against the husband of her bosom and against her son and against her daughter;
-57. and against her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and against her children whom she bears, for she will eat them secretly from want of everything during the siege and the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within your gates
-58. if you do not observe the performance of all the words of the law that are written in this book, that you might fear this honored and awful Name, YHVH, your Gods.
-59. And YHVH will make your plagues awful, and the plagues of your seed, great, chronic, and sore …
-60. And He will return to you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were in dread, and they will cleave to you.
-61. Also YHVH will raise upon you every sickness and every plague that is not written in this book of the law until your destruction.
-62. And you will be left a small minority, having been as the stars of the skies for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods.
-63. And it shall come to pass, that, just as YHVH rejoiced over your improvement and multiplication, so YHVH will rejoice over your perishing and destruction, and your plucking from off the land to which you had come to inherit.
-64. And YHVH will scatter you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth to the end of the earth, and there you will serve other gods, which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers: wood and stone.
-65. And in those nations you will not assimilate, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; and YHVH will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and languishing of soul.
-66. And your life will hang before you, and you will be afraid night and day, and you will have no faith in your life.
-67. In the morning you will say: 'Would it were evening!' and in the evening your will say: 'Would it were morning!' from the fear that your heart will fear, and from the sights your eyes will see.
-68. And YHVH will return you to Egypt in ships [instead of] by the way which I said you would never see again, and you will sell yourselves to your enemies for slaves and maids, and none will buy.
-69. These are the words of the covenant which YHVH commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. An Amateur's Journey Through the Bible
2023.06.05 17:25 bikingfencer Galatians, chapter 3 - equality in Jesus
GALATIANS Chapter Three
Who seized [אחז, ’eeHayZ] [את, ’ehTh] your eyes after that was made known to you in plain [בפרוש, BePhayROoSh] that YayShOo`ah ["Savior", Jesus] the Anointed was crucified?
-6. … ’ahBRahHahM [“Father Exalted”, Abraham] believed [האמין, Heh’ehMeeYN] in Gods, and it was thought [ונחשבה, VeNehHSheBaH] to him righteousness.
-9. From here [מכאן, MeeKah’N], that the seizers in belief are blessed [מבורכים, MeBORahKheeYM] together with ’ahBRahHahM the believer.
“Cursed [ארור, ’ahROoR] are all who that do not realize [את, ’ehTh (indicator of direct object; no English equivalent)] all the words the written in Account the Instruction, to do them.”
-16. And behold, the promises were said [λεγει legei, “says”] to ’ahBRahHahM and to his seed [ולזרעו, OoLeZahR`O, σπερμα sperma], not said “to your seeds”, like upon multitudes, rather “to your seed”, like upon an individual [יחיד, YahHeeYD], and he is the Anointed.
She was added [נוספה, NOÇPhaH] because of the trespasses [הערבות, Hah`ahBahROTh],
until that [כי, KeeY] would come the seed that to him was intended [מכונת, MeKhooVehNehTh] the promise.
The Instruction was delivered [נמסרה, NeeMÇeRaH] in mediation [באמצעות, Be’ehMTsah`OoTh] [of] angels in hands of an intermediary [מתוך, MeThahVayKh].
The intermediary is not of one,
and Gods, he is one.
there is no slave, even no son free [בן חורין, BehN HOReeYN];
no male, even no female,
because [משום, MeeShOoM] that all of you are one in Anointed YayShOo`ah.
END NOTES
iv Deuteronomy (the curses, from chapters 27 and 28)
Chapter 27
...
-15. Cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten image (an abomination to YHVH), the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. …
-16. Cursed is he who despises his father or his mother…
-17. Cursed is he who shifts his neighbor’s border...
-18. Cursed is he who misleads the blind to go astray in the way...
-19. Cursed is he who perverts the justice due to the stranger, orphaned, and widowed...
-20. Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife...
-21. Cursed is he who lies with any manner of beast …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law …
-24. Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret ….
-25. Cursed is he who takes a bribe to strike an innocent person …
-26. Cursed is he who does not fulfill the words of this law to do them …
Chapter 28
...
-15. … if you do not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to ensure the performance of all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today … all these curses will come upon you, and overtake you.
-16. You are cursed in the city, and you are cursed in the field.
-17. Your basket and your kneading-trough are cursed.
-18. The fruit of your belly is cursed, as is the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
-19. You are cursed coming and you are cursed going.
-20. YHVH will send cursing, discomfort, and rebuke upon you and upon all that you put your hand to do, until your destruction and ...your quick death, ‘because of your evil transgressions of forsaking Me’.
-21. YHVH will make pestilence stick to you, until He has consumed you from off the land which you came to inherit.
-22. YHVH will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and these will persist until you perish.
-23. And the heaven that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
-24. YHVH will turn the rain of your land into powder and dust; it will descend upon you from the skies until you are destroyed.
-25. YHVH will cause you to be stricken before your enemies; you will sally forth against them from one direction and flee away from them in seven … and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the land.
-26. And your carcasses will be food for every bird of the skies and beast of the land, and no one will scare them away.
-27. YHVH will strike you with Egyptian boils, and with hemorrhoids, and with scabs, and with incurable itching.
-28. YHVH will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
-29. And you will grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness, and you will not make your way ... and you will always be only oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
-30. You will engage a wife and another man will lie with her; you will build a house and you will not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard and not consume of it.
-31. Your ox will be sacrificed right before your eyes and you will not eat of it; you will be robbed of your donkey right in front of you and it will not returned to you; your flock will be given to your enemies; and you will have no one to save you.
-32. Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and you eyes will fail from looking for them all day; and you will be powerless …
-33. A people you did not know will consume the fruit of your land and labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
-34. And you will be crazed from the sights which your eyes will see.
-35. YHVH will strike you with an incurable sore boil in the knees and in the legs, from the sole of your foot to your forehead.
-36. YHVH will lead you and the king you set over yourself into a nation neither you nor your fathers knew; and you will worship other gods there – wood and rock.
-37. And you will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples into whom YHVH will drive you.
-38. Much seed will you carry out to the field and little you will gather; for the locust shall consume it.
-39. You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink nor gather; for the worm will eat them.
-40. You will have olives within all your borders, but you will not anoint with oil; for your olives will drop off.
-41. Sons and daughters will be born to you and will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
-42. All your trees and fruit of your land will be inherited by the locust.
-43. The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will descend lower and lower;
-44. he will lend to you, you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you will be the tail.
-45. And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you until your destruction, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
-46. And they will be on you as a sign and as an example, and on your seed for ever,
-47. because you did not serve YHVH your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things.
-48. And you will serve your enemies, whom YHVH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of everything; and he will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
-49. YHVH will send a nation against you from afar, from the end of the land, like a vulture swoops down, a nation whose tongue you have never heard,
-50. a nation of fierce aspect which will neither respect the elderly nor show mercy to the young.
-51. And he will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed, so that there will not remain corn, wine, or oil, the increase of your oxen, or the young of your flock, until he has caused you to perish.
-52. And he will besiege you in all your gates until the razing of your high and fortified walls in which you trusted throughout all your land … which YHVH your God gave you.
-53. And you will eat the fruit of your belly, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom YHVH your Gods gave you, in the siege and in the blockade by which your enemies starve you.
-54. The man who is tender among you and very delicate will [cast] the evil eye against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children, those remaining,
-55. so that he will not give any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him during the siege and in the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within all your gates.
-56. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, will [cast] the evil eye against the husband of her bosom and against her son and against her daughter;
-57. and against her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and against her children whom she bears, for she will eat them secretly from want of everything during the siege and the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within your gates
-58. if you do not observe the performance of all the words of the law that are written in this book, that you might fear this honored and awful Name, YHVH, your Gods.
-59. And YHVH will make your plagues awful, and the plagues of your seed, great, chronic, and sore …
-60. And He will return to you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were in dread, and they will cleave to you.
-61. Also YHVH will raise upon you every sickness and every plague that is not written in this book of the law until your destruction.
-62. And you will be left a small minority, having been as the stars of the skies for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods.
-63. And it shall come to pass, that, just as YHVH rejoiced over your improvement and multiplication, so YHVH will rejoice over your perishing and destruction, and your plucking from off the land to which you had come to inherit.
-64. And YHVH will scatter you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth to the end of the earth, and there you will serve other gods, which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers: wood and stone.
-65. And in those nations you will not assimilate, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; and YHVH will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and languishing of soul.
-66. And your life will hang before you, and you will be afraid night and day, and you will have no faith in your life.
-67. In the morning you will say: 'Would it were evening!' and in the evening your will say: 'Would it were morning!' from the fear that your heart will fear, and from the sights your eyes will see.
-68. And YHVH will return you to Egypt in ships [instead of] by the way which I said you would never see again, and you will sell yourselves to your enemies for slaves and maids, and none will buy.
-69. These are the words of the covenant which YHVH commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. An Amateur's Journey Through the Bible
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-1. O [הוי, HOY] GahLahTeeM [Galatians] foolish [כסילים, KeÇeeYLeeYM]!Instruction as opposed to [לעומת, Le`OoMahTh] belief
[verses 1-14]
Who seized [אחז, ’eeHayZ] [את, ’ehTh] your eyes after that was made known to you in plain [בפרוש, BePhayROoSh] that YayShOo`ah ["Savior", Jesus] the Anointed was crucified?
“The missionaries of the cross of Christ had to compete with pagan priests who paraded the images and symbols of their savior-gods in spectacular processions. There was the cult of Cybele, ‘the Great Mother,’ whose consort Attis died by self-mutilation with the decline of each year’s vegetation. During his ‘passion week’ a pine tree swathed as a corpse was carried through the streets, and three days later his devotees joyfully celebrated his ‘resurrection’ as the guarantee of their own immortality. Another savior-god of Asia Minor was Sandan-Hercules. His symbol was a funeral pyre on which, according to the myth, he had immolated himself after performing the labors that were imposed on him. Still another was Mithra, the sun-god, who was portrayed in the act of slaying a bull, which represented the chaotic element in the universe, and which in dying was believed to give new life to the world....
In competition with these sensuous and often obscene observances, Paul’s portrayal of the crucified Jesus suffered a disadvantage.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 496-497)
-6. … ’ahBRahHahM [“Father Exalted”, Abraham] believed [האמין, Heh’ehMeeYN] in Gods, and it was thought [ונחשבה, VeNehHSheBaH] to him righteousness.
Yes, but Abraham, in addition to believing God, also accepted God’s ordinance of circumcision.-7. Therefore [ובכן, OoBKhayN] know that [כי, KeeY] sons of the faith are they, sons of ’ahBRahHahM.
“Both sides could quote scripture, and each could explain the other’s ‘proof’ in the light of his own position. The Jews believed that the Torah existed from the beginning of creation; and that, although it had not yet been written in Abraham’s day, Abraham had obeyed it, being perfect in all his works and pleasing to God in righteousness all his days (Jubilees 23:10; II Baruch 57:2). To prove that Christians could not be saved without being circumcised and assuming the yoke of the Torah, the Judaizers quoted Gen. [Genesis] 17:14.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 502)
[Genesis 17:14 - “And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My covenant.”iv ]
“The church began in the synagogue, the main difference being the Christian affirmation of the messiahship of Jesus. But as Greek-speaking Jews and Gentiles came in, this difference in the interpretation of prophecy was widened by laxness in observing the law of Moses. The synagogue expelled the Christians, leaving them without the legal protection which Judaism enjoyed under Romans law. … Not only freedom from the law of Moses but the question of Christian rights under Roman law was involved when Paul declared that the men of faith in Christ were the true sons of Abraham.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 503)...
-9. From here [מכאן, MeeKah’N], that the seizers in belief are blessed [מבורכים, MeBORahKheeYM] together with ’ahBRahHahM the believer.
“Although faithful (KJV [King James Version]) means lit. [literally], ‘full of faith,’ its primary meaning today is ‘fidelity,’ ‘reliability,’ so that it does not express clearly Paul’s main point, which is Abraham’s response in believing God … Like the sun and the rain, God’s blessing on such a man knows no restrictions of race or nation.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 504)-10. The reliers [הנשענים, HahNeeSh`ahNeeYM] upon realizing commandments [of] the Instruction are given under a curse [קללה, QLahLaH], that see, is written:
“Cursed [ארור, ’ahROoR] are all who that do not realize [את, ’ehTh (indicator of direct object; no English equivalent)] all the words the written in Account the Instruction, to do them.”
“The range of the curse of which Paul is speaking appears in Deut. [Deuteronomy] 27-30iv … It is described in terms of the hideous torments which history inflicted upon the Hebrew people. The one word ‘fear’ tells the story – fear of famine, disease, and death; fear of war, torture, and slavery; fear of past, present, and future. All these were punishments on earth, and death ended them. But by the time of Paul they had been projected into the hereafter, where the law’s curse would pursue the soul through an eternity of torment in a hell which was conceived in the fiery imagery of Greek and Persian mythology. The dramatist of the dialogue of Ebal and Gerizim had left open one window of hope – repentance and return to God; but as for the future life, eschatology and apocalyptic had blacked out even this....
… rabbis reasoned that since the Scripture was God’s word, the curse which it pronounced upon the disobedient was God’s curse. He replied that the law was not God’s way of salvation, but only a codicil which angels added through Moses the intermediary (vs. [verse] 19). That was a complete break with the synagogue.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 505)
“It is worthy of remark, that no printed copy of the Hebrew Bible preserves the word כל col, ALL, in Deut. xxvii.26 which answers to the apostle’s word πασι [pasi], all here.” (Clarke, 1831, vol. II p. 382) ...
…………………………………………
The Instruction and the promise
[verses 15-20]
-16. And behold, the promises were said [λεγει legei, “says”] to ’ahBRahHahM and to his seed [ולזרעו, OoLeZahR`O, σπερμα sperma], not said “to your seeds”, like upon multitudes, rather “to your seed”, like upon an individual [יחיד, YahHeeYD], and he is the Anointed.
“This kind of ‘proof’ from scripture by reading ‘spiritual’ meanings into details of grammar and discovering ideas that were not within the purview of its writers was being employed more and more.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 513) ...-19. If thus, for sake of [לשם, LeShehM] what was the Instruction?
She was added [נוספה, NOÇPhaH] because of the trespasses [הערבות, Hah`ahBahROTh],
until that [כי, KeeY] would come the seed that to him was intended [מכונת, MeKhooVehNehTh] the promise.
The Instruction was delivered [נמסרה, NeeMÇeRaH] in mediation [באמצעות, Be’ehMTsah`OoTh] [of] angels in hands of an intermediary [מתוך, MeThahVayKh].
The intermediary is not of one,
and Gods, he is one.
“Thus viewed, the purpose of the angels’ expedient was not to prevent sin – a thing which the weakness of human nature made law powerless to do – but to convince men that they were so bad that nothing could save them except God’s mercy through Christ. ...-28. There is no [אין, ’aYN] YeHOo-DeeY, even [אף, ’ahPh] no [לא, Lo’] nation;
This was a clean break from the Jewish conception which held that the law was the gift of God’s lovingkindness to overcome the evil impulse and prevent sin by guidance and discipline in good works. The orthodox maintained that Abraham’s faith was one of these law-works. The belief that angels were present at the giving of the law was widespread ... The presence of the angels, said the rabbis, was the measure of the law’s great glory. Paul said it was a fading glory from the very beginning ... Moreover, it was twice removed from God’s own immediate action, because it was ordained, or ‘enacted,’ ‘through the agency of’ angels, and even they did not communicate directly with the people, but gave the law ‘in the hand of a representative,’ i.e. [in other words], Moses.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 515) ...
…………………………………………
Slaves as opposed to sons
[verses 21 to end of chapter] ...
there is no slave, even no son free [בן חורין, BehN HOReeYN];
no male, even no female,
because [משום, MeeShOoM] that all of you are one in Anointed YayShOo`ah.
“Paul’s concept of equality and unity in Christ was an incipient revolution, the consequences of which are only now beginning to be worked out. Wherever his gospel is preached, men become uncomfortable with the age-old equation, ‘foreigner equals inferior’; with the incongruity of man’s ancient thanksgiving that he had ‘not been born a woman’; and with the violation of democracy and brotherhood involved in Aristotle’s definition of a slave as ‘an animated implement’.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 519 & 520)...
“Such unity in Christ does not imply political equality in church or society.” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC pp. 787)
END NOTES
iv Deuteronomy (the curses, from chapters 27 and 28)
Chapter 27
...
-15. Cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten image (an abomination to YHVH), the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. …
-16. Cursed is he who despises his father or his mother…
-17. Cursed is he who shifts his neighbor’s border...
-18. Cursed is he who misleads the blind to go astray in the way...
-19. Cursed is he who perverts the justice due to the stranger, orphaned, and widowed...
-20. Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife...
-21. Cursed is he who lies with any manner of beast …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother …
-22. Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law …
-24. Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret ….
-25. Cursed is he who takes a bribe to strike an innocent person …
-26. Cursed is he who does not fulfill the words of this law to do them …
Chapter 28
...
-15. … if you do not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to ensure the performance of all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today … all these curses will come upon you, and overtake you.
-16. You are cursed in the city, and you are cursed in the field.
-17. Your basket and your kneading-trough are cursed.
-18. The fruit of your belly is cursed, as is the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
-19. You are cursed coming and you are cursed going.
-20. YHVH will send cursing, discomfort, and rebuke upon you and upon all that you put your hand to do, until your destruction and ...your quick death, ‘because of your evil transgressions of forsaking Me’.
-21. YHVH will make pestilence stick to you, until He has consumed you from off the land which you came to inherit.
-22. YHVH will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and these will persist until you perish.
-23. And the heaven that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
-24. YHVH will turn the rain of your land into powder and dust; it will descend upon you from the skies until you are destroyed.
-25. YHVH will cause you to be stricken before your enemies; you will sally forth against them from one direction and flee away from them in seven … and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the land.
-26. And your carcasses will be food for every bird of the skies and beast of the land, and no one will scare them away.
-27. YHVH will strike you with Egyptian boils, and with hemorrhoids, and with scabs, and with incurable itching.
-28. YHVH will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
-29. And you will grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness, and you will not make your way ... and you will always be only oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
-30. You will engage a wife and another man will lie with her; you will build a house and you will not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard and not consume of it.
-31. Your ox will be sacrificed right before your eyes and you will not eat of it; you will be robbed of your donkey right in front of you and it will not returned to you; your flock will be given to your enemies; and you will have no one to save you.
-32. Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and you eyes will fail from looking for them all day; and you will be powerless …
-33. A people you did not know will consume the fruit of your land and labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
-34. And you will be crazed from the sights which your eyes will see.
-35. YHVH will strike you with an incurable sore boil in the knees and in the legs, from the sole of your foot to your forehead.
-36. YHVH will lead you and the king you set over yourself into a nation neither you nor your fathers knew; and you will worship other gods there – wood and rock.
-37. And you will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples into whom YHVH will drive you.
-38. Much seed will you carry out to the field and little you will gather; for the locust shall consume it.
-39. You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink nor gather; for the worm will eat them.
-40. You will have olives within all your borders, but you will not anoint with oil; for your olives will drop off.
-41. Sons and daughters will be born to you and will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
-42. All your trees and fruit of your land will be inherited by the locust.
-43. The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will descend lower and lower;
-44. he will lend to you, you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you will be the tail.
-45. And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you until your destruction, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
-46. And they will be on you as a sign and as an example, and on your seed for ever,
-47. because you did not serve YHVH your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things.
-48. And you will serve your enemies, whom YHVH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of everything; and he will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
-49. YHVH will send a nation against you from afar, from the end of the land, like a vulture swoops down, a nation whose tongue you have never heard,
-50. a nation of fierce aspect which will neither respect the elderly nor show mercy to the young.
-51. And he will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed, so that there will not remain corn, wine, or oil, the increase of your oxen, or the young of your flock, until he has caused you to perish.
-52. And he will besiege you in all your gates until the razing of your high and fortified walls in which you trusted throughout all your land … which YHVH your God gave you.
-53. And you will eat the fruit of your belly, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom YHVH your Gods gave you, in the siege and in the blockade by which your enemies starve you.
-54. The man who is tender among you and very delicate will [cast] the evil eye against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children, those remaining,
-55. so that he will not give any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him during the siege and in the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within all your gates.
-56. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, will [cast] the evil eye against the husband of her bosom and against her son and against her daughter;
-57. and against her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and against her children whom she bears, for she will eat them secretly from want of everything during the siege and the blockade by which your enemy will starve you within your gates
-58. if you do not observe the performance of all the words of the law that are written in this book, that you might fear this honored and awful Name, YHVH, your Gods.
-59. And YHVH will make your plagues awful, and the plagues of your seed, great, chronic, and sore …
-60. And He will return to you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were in dread, and they will cleave to you.
-61. Also YHVH will raise upon you every sickness and every plague that is not written in this book of the law until your destruction.
-62. And you will be left a small minority, having been as the stars of the skies for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your Gods.
-63. And it shall come to pass, that, just as YHVH rejoiced over your improvement and multiplication, so YHVH will rejoice over your perishing and destruction, and your plucking from off the land to which you had come to inherit.
-64. And YHVH will scatter you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth to the end of the earth, and there you will serve other gods, which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers: wood and stone.
-65. And in those nations you will not assimilate, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; and YHVH will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and languishing of soul.
-66. And your life will hang before you, and you will be afraid night and day, and you will have no faith in your life.
-67. In the morning you will say: 'Would it were evening!' and in the evening your will say: 'Would it were morning!' from the fear that your heart will fear, and from the sights your eyes will see.
-68. And YHVH will return you to Egypt in ships [instead of] by the way which I said you would never see again, and you will sell yourselves to your enemies for slaves and maids, and none will buy.
-69. These are the words of the covenant which YHVH commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. An Amateur's Journey Through the Bible
2023.06.05 07:36 scarlet2248 Wedding Venue in The US: Our Recommendation Part II
Popular wedding venues in the western and central states were featured in Part 1 of US wedding venues. So in part two, we'll focus on wedding venues in the eastern states. Whether it's a luxurious hotel, a rustic barn, or a spacious meadow, all are included. Again, the features of these venues and the approximate prices will be written. Let's explore these beautiful wedding venues!
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Finally, we've rounded up our recommendations for wedding venues in each of the remaining states. Choosing the perfect wedding venue is an important step in creating your dream wedding. It sets the tone for the entire celebration and provides the backdrop for your special day. No matter what style of wedding venue you prefer, there is a venue above that perfectly suits your style and preferences.
Last but not least, don't forget to check out Quictent's wedding tent. we offer quality wedding tents for your outdoor wedding, containing various types and sizes.
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Wisconsin Wedding Venues
The Paine Art Center and Gardens
This is an art museum located at 1410 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh. It is an English-style country estate and has nearly four acres of gardens. It has perennial plants and is a great outdoor ceremony venue. Also, there is a historic mansion, charming carriage house, and greenhouse. The venue can accommodate up to 200 people and costs approximately $3000 to $4000 For 100 Guests.The Lageret
This is a professional event venue located at 515 E Main St, Stoughton. This historic venue offers industrial and rustic charm with exposed brick walls, high ceilings, and wood beams. It has ample space for ceremonies and receptions. The venue offers event coordination, customizable lighting options, a bridal suite, and access to preferred vendors. Accommodations for up to 250 people start at $3,500 for a 12-hour rental.The Enchanted Barn
Located at 1543 6 1/2 Ave, Hillsdale, this barn has an old-world rustic atmosphere around every corner. Featuring several indoor and outdoor venues, one of the most popular ceremony locations is located in Barn's upper-level Hayloft, featuring old wood timbers. Several wedding package options are available here and can accommodate up to 220 people. Off-season all-inclusive wedding packages are $5,000 plus $21 per person.Illinois Wedding Venues
Danada House
This is a historic mansion located at 3S501 Naperville Rd, Wheaton. a short drive from Chicago. The mansion is also surrounded by a forest preserve that allows for nature-filled photos. There are seven ceremony locations in total, and the largest Magnolia Garden can accommodate up to 300 guests. Venue rentals start at $3,500.The Morton Arboretum
This is a public nature garden and outdoor museum located at 4100 IL-53, Lisle. Inside there are not only mature trees and flowers but also a playground for children. Offering beautiful woodland and lakeside views. The large garden has a total of 12 venues to choose from and the largest room can accommodate up to 300 guests. Prices range from $600 to $9,000 depending on the size of the room and the time of year it is held.Salvage One
Located at 1840 W Hubbard St, Chicago, this is a very unique location that serves as a store besides being a wedding venue. It preserves treasured furniture from the past. This old Chicago warehouse offers an enchanting vintage atmosphere. The ceremony and banquet space can accommodate about 200 people and space rentals start at $4,000.Kentucky Wedding Venues
The Barn at Cedar Grove
The address is 1000 Brockman Keltner Rd, Greensburg, which has a rustic barn setting with picturesque scenery. Offering outdoor ceremony space, climate-controlled reception space, bridal suite, groom's quarters, and fire pit. The venue in the barn can accommodate up to 230 people. For fewer guests, the average budget for a wedding here is between $6,000 and $9,000.The Brown Hotel
This 100-year-old hotel is located at 335 W Broadway, Louisville. The hotel has a striking Georgian Revival look and offers elegant ballrooms, luxurious accommodations, and a gorgeous rooftop garden. The hotel also has extensive experience in hosting weddings of different cultures, such as Jewish and Indian weddings. Prices are $18,000 in the off-season and can accommodate up to 300 guests.Talon Winery & Vineyards
This winery has a large outdoor space at 7086 Tates Creek Rd, Lexington. Offers vineyard and winery backdrop, outdoor ceremony space, and rustic barn. The best part is the wine-tasting and vineyard tours. The venue can accommodate up to 250 guests and prices for ceremonies start at $1500.Tennessee Wedding Venues
Butterfly Hollow
Located at 28 Bussell Rd, Gordonsville, our vacation accommodations are perfect for small weddings. Surrounded by scenic walking trails, mountains, and woods. This venue specializes in small weddings of 30 people or less, with a focus on an intimate and cozy experience. Wedding packages range from $1795 to $5000.Dixon Gallery and Gardens
An art gallery on 17 acres of gardens located at 4339 Park Ave, Memphis, offers a romantic and artistic setting for weddings. The gallery offers two indoor reception venues as well as woodlands and gardens, both of which can accommodate up to 200 guests. Prices are approximately $4000 to $5000 For 100 guests.The Bell Tower
The Bell Tower, located at 400 4th Ave S, Nashville, is almost 140 years old. The ballroom features large windows that provide plenty of natural light, creating a charming and historic setting for weddings. There are two floors beside the lobby. Seated dinners for up to 400 people range from $3,500 to $16,000 depending on time and venue.Mississippi Wedding Venues
The Cedars
The site at 4145 Old Canton Rd, Jackson is the oldest residential building in Jackson, with a history of 175 years. The courtyard in front of the house with trees such as cedar, oak, and magnolia provides a natural backdrop for weddings. The venue can accommodate up to 300 people and costs $3,500 for a two-day weekend rental.Dunleith Historic Inn
A National Historic Landmark located at 84 Homochitto St, Natchez, the mansion features Greek Revival columns and original pine floors. The event space has a main floor, courtyard, and South Lawn, which can accommodate up to 700 people. Wedding packages start at $6,500, not including catering.The Gin at Flora Station
The address is 4819 MS-22, Flora. The refurbished cotton gin blends rustic charm with modern amenities. It offers indoor and outdoor spaces, including a covered gazebo and a patio with an old-fashioned truck bar. Rentals for ceremonies and receptions start at $3,500.Alabama Wedding Venues
B&A Warehouse
This building, located at 1531 1st Ave S, Birmingham, is historic from the outside. With its industrial-inspired design and high ceilings along with red brick walls. Three indoor venues can accommodate up to 300 guests, and the cost of a ceremony starts at $4,000.The Sterling Castle
This castle is located at 389 Deseret Dr, Shelby, and has been voted the best wedding venue in Alabama. The fairytale-style castle, elegant ballroom, charming courtyard, and lakeside and drawbridge venues. This beautiful venue can accommodate up to 300 guests and all-inclusive weddings are priced at $10,000+.Huntsville Museum of Art
This is an art museum located at 300 Church St SW, Huntsville. With unique indoor and outdoor spaces, the museum is a contemporary art gallery. Offering outdoor spaces with a rooftop terrace, and five indoor hospitality venues. The starting venue fee for a wedding reception in high season is $1,500.Michigan Wedding Venues
Colony Club Detroit
Located at 2310 Park Ave, Detroit, this Georgian-style, historic venue features stunning architecture and gorgeous interiors. The hotel features a grand ballroom decorated with crystal chandeliers and intricate details. The ballroom can accommodate up to 350 guests and is priced between $12,000 and $15,000.Castle Farms
This historic building, built in 1918, is located at 5052 M-66, Charlevoix. With a total of four site combinations in the summer. It offers several ceremony and reception spaces, including a charming outdoor garden and a majestic stone courtyard. The largest of these, the East Garden and Queen's Courtyard can host up to 300 guests. And the price range is between $6,750 and $9,250.The Inn at Stonecliffe
This is a Victorian village located at 8593 Cudahy Cir, Mackinac Island. away from the hustle and bustle of the area. With beautiful gardens and breathtaking views of Lake Huron and the Mackinaw Bridge. Accommodates up to 300 people and prices range from $4000 to $10,000.Ohio Wedding Venues
Franklin Park Conservatory
This is a horticultural and educational institution located at 1777 E Broad St, Columbus. The most popular venue is the indoor garden with an all-glass ceiling. Besides, there is an industrial-style venue and a 200-year-old barn. The venue has plenty of space and can accommodate up to 500 people, with prices ranging from $7,000 to $11,000 for a wedding of 100 guests.The Columbus Athenaeum
The historic building at 32 N 4th St, Columbus, was built in 1899. With a total of ten venues to choose from, the Grand Ballroom boasts gorgeous details and a stunning atrium. It is decorated with classical Greek art as well as soaring ornate ceilings. It can accommodate up to 230 guests. Prices for receptions start at $3,000.Gervasi Vineyard
An oversized wine estate located at 1700 55th St NE, Canton. Picturesque vineyard setting and sparkling lake views. The open-air venue can accommodate up to 300 people, while the indoor venue can accommodate up to 120 guests. Full-service event planning, vineyard tours, and wine tastings are available. Prices for receptions will start at $1,450.Georgia Wedding Venues
Barnsley Resort
This resort is located at 597 Barnsley Gardens Rd NW, Adairsville. With over 3,000 acres of land, it is a historic southern estate. With lush gardens, luxurious cabins, and grounds that can accommodate up to 250 people. Three wedding packages are available: $275 per person, $320 per person, and $350 per person. And a least of 150 people is required.Summerour Studio
This is a renovated warehouse located at 409 Bishop St NW, Atlanta. The roof is supported by massive bow trusses, which allow for a spacious, open floor plan without columns or supports. Through a wall of windows running the length of the space, there are breathtaking views of Atlantic Station and the downtown skyline. Accommodating up to 425 people, prices start at $4,000.The Biltmore Ballrooms
The ballroom is located at 817 W Peachtree St NW 208, Atlanta, and was established in 1924. The ballroom features a handcrafted plaster relief ceiling, ornate crystal lighting, and a marble floor. Capacity ranges from 50 to 1,500 people and offers eleven caterers. Rental rates range from $3,500 to $5,000, depending on the day of the week.Florida Wedding Venues
The Ancient Spanish Monastery
Located at 16711 W Dixie Hwy, North Miami Beach. This monastery was dismantled piece by piece from northern Spain and shipped to the United States, then rebuilt over 19 months. It offers a chapel and gardens for ceremonies. The garden can accommodate up to 300 guests for $6,500 and includes only the cost of the reception.The Breakers Palm Beach
This is a luxury resort located at 1 S County Rd, Palm Beach. This luxury resort is located in Palm Beach and enjoys magnificent beachfront views, lush gardens, and an exquisite ballroom. It boasts a timeless and elegant ambiance. It can host weddings for a maximum of less than 500 people, and detailed prices need to be communicated with the hotel.The Ringling Museum
The museum is located at 5401 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, with a breathtaking view of Sarasota Bay. This venue offers unique views of art, culture, and the stunning waterfront. It includes many event spaces, including a large courtyard and an elegant ballroom. The largest art gallery courtyard can accommodate up to 125 guests and prices start at $20,000.New York Wedding Venues
Mohonk Mountain House
Located at 1000 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, this historic resort is surrounded by 40,000 acres of pristine forest. Featuring a majestic Victorian castle with panoramic mountain views. Choose from lakeside, garden, and mountain views for your ceremony. Wedding packages range from $275 to $375 per person.The Foundry
The address is 42-38 9th Street, Long Island City, with a history dating back to the 19th century. Offering an industrial chic atmosphere, a garden courtyard and conservatory, a stunning main space, plus rustic interiors. Accommodates up to 180 guests, with receptions starting at $14,000.The Garrison
Estate at 2015 US-9, Garrison, with superb Hudson River views and Catskill Mountain views. The venue offers a modern ballroom, outdoor ceremony space, and golf course. The venue can accommodate up to 200 guests for $12,000.Pennsylvania Wedding Venues
The Curtis Atrium
The historic building at 699 Walnut St, Philadelphia used to be the Curtis Publishing Company. It is now a building with a mix of residential, office, and retail space. It features a stunning atrium, marble columns, and a stunning rotunda. Space rentals start at $8,000.The Cork Factory Hotel
This boutique hotel is located at 480 New Holland Ave 3000, Lancaster, a converted historic cork mill with exposed brick walls. Offering industrial charm and modern amenities. The venue has a ballroom, a terrace, and a 2,300-square-foot warehouse. Space is available for up to 200 guests, and wedding packages start at $7,000.Terrain Gardens at Devon Yard
A stunning garden is located at 138 W Lancaster Ave Suite 130, Devon. The venue is decorated with elements such as reclaimed barn wood floors, raised holiday lights, and skylights to create a unique aesthetic. Of course, there is an essential gardening setting and open-air venue that can accommodate up to 140 guests. Prices for receptions start at $4,525.West Virginia Wedding Venues
Stonewall Resort
The entire resort is nestled beside a tranquil lake at 940 Resort Drive Roanoke, a place of scenic beauty and rustic charm. Wedding venues are available on the lakeside lawn or in the courtyard, with an indoor grand hall and stone-walled ballroom. Spa services, golf courses, and entertainment can also be experienced with wedding packages ranging from $3,500 to $12,000.The Greenbrier
A luxury resort located at 101 W Main St, White Sulphur Springs. With stunning architecture, beautiful gardens, and breathtaking mountain views. The indoor venue has a dramatic chandelier and stage. The outdoor grounds feature expansive lawns and rustic cabins. Packages start at $10,000 and vary depending on the number of guests, season, and customization.Sleepy Hollow Golf Club
The Club at 3780 Sleepy Hollow Dr, Hurricane. It is a private golf club for families. Featuring a scenic golf course, elegant ballroom, outdoor lawn ceremony venue, and picturesque countryside views. Wedding packages start at $3,500.Virginia Wedding Venues
Maymont
Historic Manor River Park at 1700 Hampton St, Richmond. Inside are gardens, botanical gardens, and native wildlife habitats. The scenic setting includes 100-year-old Italian gardens, European-style manor houses, pavilions, expansive lawns, and the Robbins Nature Center. Prices range from $3,500 to $6,100.Inn At Willow Grove
This is a rustic accommodation located at 14079 Plantation Way, Orange. It is unusually peaceful and romantic, surrounded by ancient trees and beautiful gardens. One of the gardens, Boxwood, can accommodate up to 175 guests and offers idyllic views. A versatile barn is also available as a hospitality venue, with rates starting at $7,500.The Tides Inn
Located at 480 King Carter Dr, Irvington, the entire hotel is situated on a beautiful body of water with views of the Chesapeake Bay. It is a waterfront resort. You can also come here to take part in fun activities such as tennis, golf, paddle boarding, biking, and kayaking. Weddings start at $3,100.North Carolina Wedding Venues
The Bradford
Professional wedding venue located at 523 Pea Ridge Rd, New Hill. It resembles a European town building with charming gardens and rustic barns. It can accommodate up to 250 guests for a ceremony in the gardens. Wedding packages will vary depending on the time of year and are priced at $8,000 on Fridays and $9,800 on Saturdays.The Merrimon-Wynne House
The mansion located at 500 N Blount St, Raleigh was built in 1876 and has been well maintained and is now a venue for various events. The building has a main floor full of Southern charm. Inside are original floors and mantelshelves, ornate chandeliers, and a wide porch. The outdoor area is also large enough to host ceremonies in the garden and can accommodate up to 250 guests. Prices for receptions start at $5,000.Fearrington Village
It's an English-style country hotel located at 2000 Fearrington Village Center. Besides the quaint country setting there are dense gardens with water features. The largest venue is the barn, which offers spacious dining and dancing space and can accommodate up to 250 people guests. Prices for ceremonies start at $2500.South Carolina Wedding Venues
Middleton Place
This National Historic Landmark is located at 4300 Ashley River Rd, Charleston. You can experience daily life on an 18th-century plantation and enjoy 65 acres of unobstructed views and private garden rooms. Also, enjoy the oldest landscaped gardens on the property. There are 7 ceremony venues, ranging from small weddings of 50 to 400 guests. Prices start at $5,000.William Aiken House
The 1807 mansion is located at 456 King St, Charleston, a restored mansion that showcases Southern charm and architectural elegance. The yard features a magnolia tree that is over two hundred years old and an elegant terrace. It is also rated as one of South Carolina's premier wedding venues. The cost of a ceremony starts at $3,000.The Cedar Room
Modern industrial event space at 701 E Bay St, Charleston. Featuring exposed brick walls, high ceilings, and large windows overlooking the cityscape. The indoor Cedar Room venue can accommodate up to 500 people for events, and the outdoor yard can seat up to 200. Events on Fridays or Sundays start at $3,500.Vermont Wedding Venues
Inn at Mountain View Farm
The Inn at 3383 Darling Hill Rd, East Burke, has breathtaking mountaintop views. Enjoy mountain biking, cross-country skiing, and visits to animal farms, among many other activities. Venues can range from beautiful fields to cozy campfires. Weekend wedding packages start at $3,500.Hildene - The Lincoln Family Home
The building at 1005 Hildene Rd, Manchester is full of meaning. The Lincolns built Hildene as a summer home at the turn of the 20th century. Here you can look out over the Taconic Mountains to the west and the Green Mountains to the east. The outdoor venue can accommodate up to 200 people and wedding reception prices start at $8,000.📷
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The Henry House
The historic house at 1338 Murphy Rd, North Bennington, built in 1769, is one of the oldest surviving houses in Vermont. Overlooks the authentic red-covered Henry Bridge. The site offers several vendors for you to consider. The large trees outside the house make for the best wedding photos. The venue needs to be contacted for a specific quote.Massachusetts Wedding Venues
The Crane Estate
This is a Tudor Revival mansion located at 290 Argilla Rd, Ipswich. It was the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taylor Crane, Jr. with winding salt marshes, miles of barrier beaches, and a beautiful hilltop mansion. And of course the rolling lawns and gardens. There are three sites to choose from in all, with the beachfront site accommodating 200 to 500 people. Weekend weddings are priced at $6500.Red Lion Inn
The Inn at 30 Main St, Stockbridge has a 250-year history. The entire Inn combines traditional New England hospitality with the amenities of a modern hotel. The largest Hitchcock room capacity is capacity 30-175 people. Venue rentals start at $4,000.Liberty Hotel
A sophisticated hotel located at 215 Charles St, Boston. Located in the heart of downtown, just steps from shopping, dining, Boston Parks, and more. The hotel offers a private secret garden that can accommodate up to 200 people outdoors and an indoor 3000-square-foot ballroom. Wedding venue rates start at $26,000 for up to 100 guests.Connecticut Wedding Venues
The Lace Factory
This historic factory is located at 161 River St, Deep River, and offers a charming and rustic atmosphere for a wedding venue. It has wood floors, high ceilings, and large windows overlooking the river. The Lace Factory offers event planning services, on-site catering, and a variety of rental options for weddings of all sizes. The Factory can accommodate up to 225 people and prices start at $5,000.Eolia Mansion at Harkness State
The address is 275 Great Neck Rd, Waterford. Nestled on the shoreline of Waterford, Connecticut, this elegant mansion offers breathtaking views of Long Island Sound. It has manicured gardens, a stone terrace, and a beautiful ballroom. The price of $5,100 includes exclusive use of the mansion's first floor and south courtyard tent for 5 hours.The Society Room of Hartford
This event venue is located at 31 Pratt St, Hartford, and the historic venue boasts magnificent architecture. It includes a marble staircase, beautifully frescoed ceilings, and crystal chandeliers. It provides a luxurious and timeless setting for weddings. The venue can accommodate up to 300 guests and prices start at 15,000.New Hampshire Wedding Venues
Wentworth By The Sea Country Club
Country Club at 60 Wentworth Rd, Rye. This private club is near the shore and enjoys magnificent waterfront views and a romantic atmosphere. The hotel has manicured grounds and a historic clubhouse. It can accommodate up to 250 guests in this setting. Three options are available: lawn, clubhouse, and tent weddings. Reception prices start at $30,000.The Preserve at Chocorua
This venue, located at 88 Philbrick Neighborhood Rd, Tamworth, is a rustic and secluded wedding venue nestled in the White Mountains. It offers scenic views, a charming barn, and plenty of outdoor space for the ceremony. Outdoor activities such as sleigh rides and hiking are also available. Approximate prices will start at $1000.Bishop Farm
The Farmhouse, located at 33 Bishop Cutoff, Lisbon, is a historic and beautifully landscaped site in the White Mountains. It offers a restored 1876 farmhouse, a barn, and lush greenery. There is also a romantic bistro with a terrace to relax in. Accommodating up to 200 guests, prices start at $15,000.Rhode Island Wedding Venues
The Chanler at Cliff Walk
A luxury hotel located at 117 Memorial Blvd, Newport. The Chanler offers luxurious accommodations and a grand mansion setting with stunning views of the Atlantic Ocean and access to their world-class restaurant. Specializing in weddings for up to 120 guests with access to their world-class restaurant. Site rentals start at $10,000.Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum
Historic mansion on 33 acres located at 101 Ferry Rd, Bristol with breathtaking views of Narragansett Bay. Large tents are available in the outdoor area, followed by sunset views. Accommodating up to 225 guests, weekend wedding rates start at $12,995.The Dorrance
Situated in the heart of Providence, The Dorrance is a restored bank building with a sophisticated atmosphere and elegant decor. The most special feature is the long, luxurious bar, which can accommodate up to 200 guests throughout the venue. Venue rentals start at $7,500.New Jersey Wedding Venues
The Ashford Estate
Located at 637 Province Line Rd, Allentown, this elegant property is nestled in a picturesque setting. Surrounded by hundreds of acres of beautifully preserved farmland, it features sparkling fountains, waterfalls, garden pavilions, expansive views, and of course, luxurious private suites. The wedding venue can accommodate up to 300 guests. Starting at $10,000.Mallard Island Yacht Club
A club surrounded by water at 1450 NJ-72, Manahawkin. six more venues to choose from in the luxurious private island mansion. The center plaza boasts grand arches and ornate ceilings reminiscent of old-world glamour. The ballroom can accommodate up to 250 people, and prices for receptions start at $20,000.Liberty House Restaurant & Events
This waterfront event venue is located at 76 Audrey Zapp Dr, Jersey City. It features unparalleled views of the New York City skyline, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, and the Liberty Landing Pier. The Grand Ballroom features a marble floor and floor-to-ceiling windows. The venue can accommodate up to 300 people and venue rental fees start at $8,000.Delaware Wedding Venues
The Queen Wilmington
This dazzling venue is located at 500 N Market St, Wilmington is downtown. It is a historic music venue that offers a unique and eclectic atmosphere. The venue features a grand ballroom with a stage, state-of-the-art sound system, and elegant décor. The venue can accommodate up to 200 guests and wedding reception prices start from $3,000.The Cordrey Center
The address is 30366 Cordrey Rd, Millsboro, and its restored barn and surrounding gardens provide a rustic and charming setting. The venue offers a range of services, including in-house catering, bar service, and event coordination. It has indoor and outdoor options and can accommodate up to 200 guests. Venue rental rates start at $3,500.The Waterfall Catering and Special Events
With an address at 3416 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, The Waterfall has a modern venue. Centered around a stunning indoor waterfall. The spacious ballroom features contemporary décor and customizable LED lighting systems. The venue can accommodate up to 500 guests. Prices for venue rentals start at $6,000.Maryland Wedding Venues
Belvedere Hotel
Located at 1 East Chase Street and built-in 1902 as a historic landmark in Baltimore, The Belvedere showcases stunning architecture and classic charm. It offers a variety of event spaces, including a rooftop ballroom with panoramic views of the city. Inside, the décor is more vintage and ornate. Accommodating up to 500 guests, venue rentals start at $8,000.Evergreen Museum & Library
This grand Gilded Age mansion is located at 4545 N Charles St, Baltimore. It is full of history with a house museum and research library. With beautiful gardens, this venue offers a mix of elegance and history. It's architectural details and scenic surroundings provide a unique backdrop. As well as a tour of the museum's collection. Accommodates up to 200 guests and starts at $6,000.Chesapeake Bay Beach Club
Located at 500 Marina Club Rd, Stevensville, this venue offers stunning waterfront views and an elegant ballroom. It also has an oceanfront ceremony venue and luxurious accommodations. There are four ballrooms in total, three indoor and one outdoor. Accommodations for up to 300 guests start at $10,000.District of Columbia Wedding Venues
Larz Anderson House
Located at 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, the Anderson House, established in 1905, is a stunning Beaux-Arts mansion that offers a romantic and intimate setting for weddings. The venue features beautiful gardens, a grand staircase, and gorgeous rooms decorated with historic artwork. It can accommodate up to 200 guests and has access to the house's magnificent library. Prices start from $8,000.The Hay-Adams
Located at 800 16th St NW, Washington, across from the White House, the hotel offers magnificent views of the iconic landmark. This venue has many event spaces, including a rooftop terrace from which the White House can be used as a photo backdrop. Wedding venues can accommodate up to 250 guests and prices start at $15,000.National Museum of Women in the Arts
Located at 1250 New York Ave NW, Washington, this unique venue celebrates women artists and offers a distinctive setting for weddings. With its stunning architecture and world-class art collection, it provides an exquisite atmosphere for your special day. The venue offers a variety of event spaces, including an assembly hall and mezzanine level, and can accommodate up to 400 guests. However, the museum is temporarily closed for renovations.Maine Wedding Venues
Hidden Pond
The resort's address is 354 Goose Rocks Rd, Kennebunkport, and is nestled in a secluded wooded area. Featuring elegant indoor and outdoor spaces. Surrounded by 60 acres of birch and balsam fir, it features two outdoor pools and a three-room treetop spa. It ensures an unforgettable wedding experience. Prices start from US$10,000.Hardy Farm
The farm is located at 254 W Fryeburg Rd, Fryeburg. This rustic and chic site features a restored 18th-century farmhouse and a spacious barn with panoramic mountain views. Of course, there are also seasonal gardens and a woodland church. The most special feature is the provision of a cable car to reach the top of the mountain, which is also a popular backdrop for photos. It can accommodate up to 250 guests and prices start from $6,500.Portland Regency Hotel & Spa
The address is 20 Milk St, Portland, and is centrally located, offering a blend of classic elegance and modern amenities. With many event spaces, on-site catering, and a spa, it can accommodate intimate and large weddings. Accommodations range from 10 to 220 guests, with rates starting at $3,500.Conclusion
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." When Harry Met SallyFinally, we've rounded up our recommendations for wedding venues in each of the remaining states. Choosing the perfect wedding venue is an important step in creating your dream wedding. It sets the tone for the entire celebration and provides the backdrop for your special day. No matter what style of wedding venue you prefer, there is a venue above that perfectly suits your style and preferences.
Last but not least, don't forget to check out Quictent's wedding tent. we offer quality wedding tents for your outdoor wedding, containing various types and sizes.
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I'm pro choice, LGBTQ+ friendly, 420 friendly, left-leaning. I have a short fuse for any type of hate. I smoke marijuana a couple times a week, try to lean more on edibles to not smoke as much. Also I only smoke outdoors, I try to be reserved with the smell and all. I have a zero exception rule for cigarettes though (no hate, just not for me)!
I suppose I should touch on what I'm looking for. I show my love through physical affection, words, actions, and food. Communication is #1 with me. I have to be able to have long hours of intellectual conversations with you, while also just having dumb small talk about nothing. :) Education is pretty important to me, but not everything. At least some college preferred. Also, if you have a deep voice, love dogs, and love to cuddle for hours please step to the front of the line!! Haha
I live in SoCal but if it's right, I'll go anywhere.
Anyway, I don't want to really make this a checklist, I'm pretty open minded. Phone calls are a must when first getting to know you (not all conversations). Discord audio is a place I like to start at. :)
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I've got a firey, loud side that loves to laugh and love my close ones hard. At the same time, I require lots of quiet and alone time to recharge, self reflect, work on myself, and achieve goals. I lean more on the introverted side, but when the time calls for it I'll have a good time. I have quiet, silly laughs and also unapologetically loud ones. :)
Also, this is a given considering where this is posted but yeah, I don't want kids ever. Don't hate them, just not for me.
As for hobbies, interests, etc: I'm an artistic soul. I love to write, sing jazz/mariachi, perform theatre (though it's been a while), and at times draw. I also love to make Instagram reels lol they help satisfy my acting craving. I loooove to cook. Superbowl Sundays, Thanksgiving, special events, the kitchen may as well be a restaurant kitchen. I go ham. You name it I'll make it. It's one of my favorite ways to show my love.
I'm pro choice, LGBTQ+ friendly, 420 friendly, left-leaning. I have a short fuse for any type of hate. I smoke marijuana a couple times a week, try to lean more on edibles to not smoke as much. Also I only smoke outdoors, I try to be reserved with the smell and all. I have a zero exception rule for cigarettes though (no hate, just not for me)!
I suppose I should touch on what I'm looking for. I show my love through physical affection, words, actions, and food. Communication is #1 with me. I have to be able to have long hours of intellectual conversations with you, while also just having dumb small talk about nothing. :) Education is pretty important to me, but not everything. At least some college preferred. Also, if you have a deep voice, love dogs, and love to cuddle for hours please step to the front of the line!! Haha
I live in SoCal but if it's right, I'll go anywhere.
Anyway, I don't want to really make this a checklist, I'm pretty open minded. Phone calls are a must when first getting to know you (not all conversations). Discord audio is a place I like to start at. :)
2023.06.05 03:15 Flashy-Ad-throwaway Slight long but so needed. Commments are appreciated I want to know thoughts of any kind be nice. 🙂
Before I tell you the dream there is something I need to preference.
I am 30. I still live with my mom. I have a mild disability so… The only thing I can’t because of it is money, driving and I’m working on it for a job. Anything else I don’t do is just preferences etc. I discovered YouTube in 2009 around when all the school systems came back and being that I’m thirty; a month later after discovering YouTube I started my I think freshman or sophomore year in high school. I graduated at eighteen in June of 2011. Do the math if it helps you reading. All I have done with YouTube is listen to music. Before YouTube my music listening to was car, television, places gone, television shows and movies like anyone in this world. I quit using YouTube and am back to how it was before YouTube and I am fine with it. At this point I’m just glad to get through and enjoy and all that my days still living life and such. I still love music and such. Just now back to limited like before YouTube and I’m fine with that.
I also never really used the internet unless I absolutely need and have to. I have the built in apps already there that is the phone itself (though sounds nonsense why there)… …and a like 2-4 apps my brother downloaded when he bought my phone because not the old way much anymore. No photos. No videos. No social media. Yes my perfred ringtone. The wallpaper is default. But I don’t touch my phone unless I absolutely need and have to. …and it is because I just don’t want to.
I used to have this image in my head time to time as a kid at some point during some of my sleeps at night where I’m in the front door door way; just opened the door; looking out and the feeling looks, seems and sounds is that it is my home; house. Next to me in the door way the same thing is a woman and the looks, seems and sound is Autumn fall; thanksgiving part of autumn fall.
Stereotypical black turtleneck, black leather belt with square silver buckle, regular ol straight legged blue jeans and a shoe that matches and goes with pretty much anything on the girl.
..and for me it is Stereotypical long sleeve flannel black leather belt with square silver buckle, regular ol straight legged blue jeans and a shoe that matches and goes with pretty much anything.
I am a 90’s grungy lesbian. The Sara Gilbert actress during the 1990’s all grungy in that show and the girl of the “what I am is what I am is what you are song” is my example to use as to which lesbian I like.
I haven’t had that image pop up since then as a kid; fourteen is the last time it popped up at random during some sleep as I said.
Ok… Now on to the dream…
At some point in this dream I had; that image popped up. But first things first.
In the dream I was in a front yard of what looks, seems and sounds like my home and it is autumn; fall; thanksgiving part of autumn fall. In the front yard I have one them glassed Starbucks frappochinos sitting next to me with a long enough straw somehow not falling over in the grass sitting. …and I’m sitting Indian style (dare I say and call it the old way)…
I’m facing the house; front door; not the street. …and I’m messing with leaves. A car comes into the driveway what looks, seems and sounds like to my right and looks, seems and sounds like a regular ol four door car. It is a woman in the car because then a woman comes out and walks up to the front door and does a keys go in. When she gets up to the front door to open it.
Her: “Hey the doors locked.”
Me: No. More like the locked jammed itself again.”
Her: “ you know I can’t just park and go in the garage every time especially since we are reorganizing and painting the walls of the it.”
Me: “ Use the back door”
Her: “But I got to make dinner and it’s damn near 3pm”
Me: “That’s early still…”
Her: “ what are you doing? You’re gonna spill that damn thing; yous need more when we go to the grocery tomorrow?”
Me “I will not. …and no there is three other four packs still from that rediculus sale”
I get up grabbing the coffee; taking a sip and go up to her setting the coffee down and look at her; do that hair brush soft slow with my hand and back at her looking and kiss her. …and then once our lips removed from the kiss; I do that jam shoulder into door get it opened and about fall with a slight laugh and we kiss again more and more kissing onto the couch kissing no sex just kissing making out.
Then that old image popped into my head.
Then I woke up. The end.
Not sure what to think. Hmmmmmmm🤨🤨🤨🤨 Thoughts?
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I am 30. I still live with my mom. I have a mild disability so… The only thing I can’t because of it is money, driving and I’m working on it for a job. Anything else I don’t do is just preferences etc. I discovered YouTube in 2009 around when all the school systems came back and being that I’m thirty; a month later after discovering YouTube I started my I think freshman or sophomore year in high school. I graduated at eighteen in June of 2011. Do the math if it helps you reading. All I have done with YouTube is listen to music. Before YouTube my music listening to was car, television, places gone, television shows and movies like anyone in this world. I quit using YouTube and am back to how it was before YouTube and I am fine with it. At this point I’m just glad to get through and enjoy and all that my days still living life and such. I still love music and such. Just now back to limited like before YouTube and I’m fine with that.
I also never really used the internet unless I absolutely need and have to. I have the built in apps already there that is the phone itself (though sounds nonsense why there)… …and a like 2-4 apps my brother downloaded when he bought my phone because not the old way much anymore. No photos. No videos. No social media. Yes my perfred ringtone. The wallpaper is default. But I don’t touch my phone unless I absolutely need and have to. …and it is because I just don’t want to.
I used to have this image in my head time to time as a kid at some point during some of my sleeps at night where I’m in the front door door way; just opened the door; looking out and the feeling looks, seems and sounds is that it is my home; house. Next to me in the door way the same thing is a woman and the looks, seems and sound is Autumn fall; thanksgiving part of autumn fall.
Stereotypical black turtleneck, black leather belt with square silver buckle, regular ol straight legged blue jeans and a shoe that matches and goes with pretty much anything on the girl.
..and for me it is Stereotypical long sleeve flannel black leather belt with square silver buckle, regular ol straight legged blue jeans and a shoe that matches and goes with pretty much anything.
I am a 90’s grungy lesbian. The Sara Gilbert actress during the 1990’s all grungy in that show and the girl of the “what I am is what I am is what you are song” is my example to use as to which lesbian I like.
I haven’t had that image pop up since then as a kid; fourteen is the last time it popped up at random during some sleep as I said.
Ok… Now on to the dream…
At some point in this dream I had; that image popped up. But first things first.
In the dream I was in a front yard of what looks, seems and sounds like my home and it is autumn; fall; thanksgiving part of autumn fall. In the front yard I have one them glassed Starbucks frappochinos sitting next to me with a long enough straw somehow not falling over in the grass sitting. …and I’m sitting Indian style (dare I say and call it the old way)…
I’m facing the house; front door; not the street. …and I’m messing with leaves. A car comes into the driveway what looks, seems and sounds like to my right and looks, seems and sounds like a regular ol four door car. It is a woman in the car because then a woman comes out and walks up to the front door and does a keys go in. When she gets up to the front door to open it.
Her: “Hey the doors locked.”
Me: No. More like the locked jammed itself again.”
Her: “ you know I can’t just park and go in the garage every time especially since we are reorganizing and painting the walls of the it.”
Me: “ Use the back door”
Her: “But I got to make dinner and it’s damn near 3pm”
Me: “That’s early still…”
Her: “ what are you doing? You’re gonna spill that damn thing; yous need more when we go to the grocery tomorrow?”
Me “I will not. …and no there is three other four packs still from that rediculus sale”
I get up grabbing the coffee; taking a sip and go up to her setting the coffee down and look at her; do that hair brush soft slow with my hand and back at her looking and kiss her. …and then once our lips removed from the kiss; I do that jam shoulder into door get it opened and about fall with a slight laugh and we kiss again more and more kissing onto the couch kissing no sex just kissing making out.
Then that old image popped into my head.
Then I woke up. The end.
Not sure what to think. Hmmmmmmm🤨🤨🤨🤨 Thoughts?
2023.06.05 03:04 ofstoriesandsongs (More or less) evidence based timeline
I did a full rewatch of the first three seasons in preparation for season 4, and while I was doing it I decided, for my own amusement, to attempt to track the passing of time throughout the show based on time references, context, weather and wardrobe. I was handwriting these notes in a notepad and I wasn't strictly planning to share them, but I transcribed them a few days ago in a reply to u/joe4645, who suggested that it may be interesting to share them in the sub for everyone. So, here's that.
Methodology: As I said, I paid extra attention to stated time references, weather, trees, wardrobe choices and context as I was watching. However, I did not watch every minute of the show specifically for this reason and it is possible that I missed something. Additions, comments and corrections welcome.
Conclusions: Provided that my math is correct, I've determined that 1x01-4x01 take place over precisely two years to the day, with the rest of season 4 unfolding over approximately two weeks immediately following that period.
Show my math:
Season 1:
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Methodology: As I said, I paid extra attention to stated time references, weather, trees, wardrobe choices and context as I was watching. However, I did not watch every minute of the show specifically for this reason and it is possible that I missed something. Additions, comments and corrections welcome.
Conclusions: Provided that my math is correct, I've determined that 1x01-4x01 take place over precisely two years to the day, with the rest of season 4 unfolding over approximately two weeks immediately following that period.
Show my math:
Season 1:
- Logan has celebrated two birthdays onscreen, and we know from The Munsters that his birthday is ten days from the first Tuesday in November, when the US general election is held. Logan's birthday is in late October, specifically October 22-29. This timestamp is also consistent with the weather shown in both episodes where Logan has celebrated a birthday, cool but not bitter cold, and no snow yet.
- The series starts on Logan's 80th birthday in late October.
- Shiv was on somebody's midterm election campaign in the first several episodes and was beginning to consider candidates to work for in the presidential election, so this is about two years into the Raisin's presidency.
- We had Thanksgiving dinner in I Went to Market, so that's the fourth Thursday in November. The first half of the season took place over a month.
- Trees were naked and everyone was wearing heavy suits and coats outside throughout S1. I assume that the second half of the season took place throughout the winter.
- Shiv got married in the S1 finale in England in winter-ish weather. It was wet and dreary and there was frost and light snow on the ground, but the snow wasn't significant, and her wedding wasn't at all Christmas or holiday themed, nor were there any holiday decorations displayed at the castle, which leads me to believe that the wedding takes place after New Year's. I decided to make an educated guess that this would be February-ish.
- Season 1 spans ~4 months.
- When the family gathers in the Summer Palace in the Hamptons in S2 premiere, the weather looks somewhat better but Roman and Shiv arrived wearing coats and scarves. I think this would be that slump in March where it's not quite winter anymore but also not really spring yet.
- The corporate retreat in Hungary would be not long after that, as the weather seems about the same as it was at the Summer Palace, with no geographical reason to be unseasonably cold. They still had to wear warm coats to go outside in Hunting.
- Safe Room is tracking more firmly towards spring, the sun is out, the corporate clothing is trending lighter, but it's still crisp enough that we got a truly fabulous red coat moment from Gerri, and the attendees at Mo Lester's funeral wore light coats. We are also told that Roman's management training program is six weeks.
- Tern Haven looked like more definitively spring. The weather was nice when they arrived and they wore lighter clothing, but it got chilly after dark. Also, it was implied that Roman stepped out of management training to come here, so it can be no more than six weeks after Safe Room.
- And then the rest of S2 is more difficult to track because it involved a lot of travel to different or undisclosed locations, but it's high summer by the death cruise in Croatia so I assume Argestes-This is Not For Tears took place over May-June-July.
- Season 2 seems to span 4-5 months total.
- S3 picks up there exactly, with Kendall walking away from the same press conference that S2 ended with. Mass In Time of War also takes place immediately after they come back from the cruise, so that's still high summer.
- By the time Ken and Logan go to visit Josh Aaronson in Fuck Nowhere, it's looking more like fall. The weather is starting to turn, the leaves are losing leaves and color, Ken and Logan arrive in light jackets, and this weather blessed us with the hilarious bit where Josh Aaronson gains an additional layer of clothing in each scene. This is like early-mid fall.
- This is about a full year since the series premiere. Logan's 81st birthday would have taken place thereabouts, offscreen.
- Then Logan starts a rumor about the Raisin's declining mental state, the President announces that he will not be seeking reelection, and the family travels to the Republican event in Virginia to "pick the next President". Virginia has a milder climate than New York and wardrobe doesn't say much, but the timing does. It is my understanding that this was rather late in an election cycle for a new candidate to join the race, but I could not find any reason to believe that this event would have taken place any later than Super Tuesday. Super Tuesday is in February or March, so I assume that What It Takes took place earlier than that, but perhaps not significantly earlier. In my notes I decided to guess that it would have taken place in like January-ish, but really it could be at any point between Logan's birthday and February.
- Kendall's birthday weather seems to be vaguely spring. I think I saw that his guests were popping outside, Roman arrived in a sport coat, and Connor's jacket that he refused to take off seemed appropriate for spring.
- And then it is again distinctly stifling high summer for Caroline's wedding in Chiantishire. I think this is about a year after the death cruise, give or take a month
- Since s3 started and ended in summer, it spanned a whole year.
- S4 again opens at Logan's birthday party, which would be his 82nd if my timekeeping is right, so that's again the week of October 22-29, exactly two years after the series premiere. We get two distinct time references in this episode. We are told that the election is in ten days, and that the Gojo sale is 72 hours away.
- When the kids are having their bidding wapissing contest with Logan-via-Tom, Logan's birthday party is still going on in the background. The kids buy PGN on Logan's birthday, the entire season premiere is a single day.
- At Connor's rehearsal dinner, Roman receives a text from Logan which appears to be in response to a happy birthday text from him, so we can assume that Connor's rehearsal is the very next day.
- Before Connor's wedding, Logan sets off to Sweden for a last-minute deal renegotiation, so the deal hadn't been signed yet. According to the 72 hours away from sale marker that we were given, Connor's wedding would be taking place the day after the rehearsal. So far, we're following the Each Episode Is a Day theory.
- The gathering in Logan's apartment also seems to be immediately the next day after his death. We see the kids getting ready in their apartments and none of them look like they've slept. At the end of the episode they're still there, so we have no reason to believe that this episode is more than a day.
- Time warps from this point forward. Kill List took place over at least two days, but Roman made a reference to his dad having died literally three days ago, so it does seem like they flew out directly after the gathering at Logan's. They arrive to Norway at some point in the afternoon, then they have breakfast there the following morning and fly home in the evening. They would have slept there one night, but I think they flew back before their second night there.
- Living+ is also two days, and I'm not sure that they're the next two days after Norway. The opening scene is Shiv flying into LA alone. The plane from Norway would have landed in NYC, they all went home, slept, maybe had a day or two before Living+. And then Kendall's deranged idea to build a Living+ house on the stage is one day and the crew asked him to confirm that he wanted it for tomorrow. That's two days in LA.
- Tailgate Party does seem to take place the next day after the presentation. Roman and Kendall make a reference to it in Living+. This is dead heat to the election, the last 24 hours, as Tom repeatedly says that he hasn't slept and he needs to be fresh for the election night coverage tomorrow.
- The entirety of America Decides clearly takes place over a few hours on election night, exactly ten days after Logan's birthday.
- From the protests brewing on the way to Logan's funeral, we can assume that Church and State is the next morning after election night, and then obviously the whole episode is the day of Logan's funeral.
- I don't think the board vote is immediately after the funeral. At least several days have to have passed. Roman still has stitches and scabs on his face, but they're not super fresh and he doesn't have any other visible bruising. He also said his eyes were a mess when he arrived to Barbados but they're fine by the time Ken and Shiv get to him. NYC and Barbados are also in the same time zone, and it was nighttime when they were making the meal fit for a king. So Ken and Shiv spent the day there with Roman and then they all flew back together the next morning. This episode is two days, but there was a small offcreen gap between them and the funeral.
- All told, I feel like S4 is two weeks in late October and early November. The entire show is two years + two weeks.
2023.06.05 00:42 ukkorey How to not plagerize BryGuy.
Hello, I'm JuggleBuggle.
You might remember that I made a retrospective regarding a Snoopy's history in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. As of now, I still feel as if this video holds up, and a majority of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon retrospectives I've seen are poor quality rush jobs.
The reason for that is because of one specific series.
Oh boy, this sure brings back memories.
BryGuy2000, or BryCrowell, made balloon history videos on characters throughout the Parade's history from 2018-2021, and it arguably is the biggest Macy's Parade history series.
The problem? It doesn't hold up well, especially Season 3 and 4. BryGuy has admitted to rushing the latter two and is very hostile towards criticism of his series. A lot of balloon history videos you'll see on YouTube are BryGuy clones - in that they're basically very young children talking about a balloon's history BryGuy style.
To avoid his style, here are four tips from me:
Keep the NBC telecast clips to just important / notable parts, such as the list opening during Snoopy's 1985 appearance. Showing the full thing for all the appearances will just come off as padding - BryGuy's Bart video, for instance, is 80% telecasts, 20% him talking about the balloon.
Additionally, try and talk about everything that happened to a balloon. It's best to include outside appearances and notable balloon incidents, to tell the whole story.
It's also recommended to cover a character's full history. Splitting it into balloons makes it seem like you're intentionally pumping them out as fast as possible to make views.
And last but importantly, put care into your video. BryGuy screwed this up in Season 3 by rushing the Superman video (even admitting that he was too lazy to show the 1981 appearance of the balloon). I don't care what's said, that's just an example of not caring about your craft.
I doubt people will use these tips, but it's worth having more enjoyable Parade content.
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You might remember that I made a retrospective regarding a Snoopy's history in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. As of now, I still feel as if this video holds up, and a majority of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon retrospectives I've seen are poor quality rush jobs.
The reason for that is because of one specific series.
Oh boy, this sure brings back memories.
BryGuy2000, or BryCrowell, made balloon history videos on characters throughout the Parade's history from 2018-2021, and it arguably is the biggest Macy's Parade history series.
The problem? It doesn't hold up well, especially Season 3 and 4. BryGuy has admitted to rushing the latter two and is very hostile towards criticism of his series. A lot of balloon history videos you'll see on YouTube are BryGuy clones - in that they're basically very young children talking about a balloon's history BryGuy style.
To avoid his style, here are four tips from me:
Keep the NBC telecast clips to just important / notable parts, such as the list opening during Snoopy's 1985 appearance. Showing the full thing for all the appearances will just come off as padding - BryGuy's Bart video, for instance, is 80% telecasts, 20% him talking about the balloon.
Additionally, try and talk about everything that happened to a balloon. It's best to include outside appearances and notable balloon incidents, to tell the whole story.
It's also recommended to cover a character's full history. Splitting it into balloons makes it seem like you're intentionally pumping them out as fast as possible to make views.
And last but importantly, put care into your video. BryGuy screwed this up in Season 3 by rushing the Superman video (even admitting that he was too lazy to show the 1981 appearance of the balloon). I don't care what's said, that's just an example of not caring about your craft.
I doubt people will use these tips, but it's worth having more enjoyable Parade content.
- Juggle.
2023.06.04 23:00 surviving_r-europe Why does Reddit seem to despise Asian countries so much?
As a white German lady, I swear don't mean to sound like one of those Aznidentity weirdos (don't click on that sub unless you want to go down a rabbithole...seriously), but...I can't possibly be the only one who feels this way, right?
Yesterday, I came across yet another 1989 Tiananmen thread and of course, as predicted, the very top comment was about how the commenter supposedly knows many Chinese people who are completely clueless about what happened there. Meanwhile, I've known well over a dozen Chinese people through education or work in my adult life, and while I obviously don't directly bring the topic up, pretty much every single one of them has at least implied they knew what happened.
Then just now, I was in an AskReddit thread about "what does Japan do better than the rest of the world", and just about every single comment was about something negative (Racism, whale hunting, war crime denial, etc.), with some even using it to justify the internment of Japanese diaspora in WW2. I responded to a comment about how while it's true that all of these are warranted criticisms of Japan, western countries should also look in the mirror with these criticisms, considering the U.S. still has holidays dedicated to celebrating genocide (Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, etc.) and the South still has streets, schools, towns, etc. named after fucking Confederate generals. It's only been 15 minutes since I made that comment and it's already at -2. For the record: I don't have any issue with people pointing out these issues, but all too often it's used to drum up American/western jingoism, with some people in that thread even claiming that the U.S. has never denied any of its past atrocities, for fuck's sake!
I feel like every single time an Asian country is mentioned on Reddit, people instantly have to shriek about all the societal negatives, like the shit work culture, high suicide rates, or xenophobia. The only countries I see get mentioned in a remotely positive light are maybe Hong Kong and Taiwan since those are China's biggest adversaries, but even still you'll be lucky not to find some dolt spamming some le funny maymay like "TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN!!" to the tune of hundreds of upvotes.
I get China is the big hegemon threatening U.S. dominance around the world, but when it comes to Japan/Korea, I feel like Reddit has become so hateful of westerners who like Asian pop culture like anime and K-Pop that they've gone full circle and just become racist in a full-on open hateful way rather than the "exotic" fetishistic way.
I seriously just don't think the vast majority of westerners online (both those who like Asian pop culture and those that hate it) can't comprehend that East Asia is, for the most part, full of normal fucking people who are more similar to us than different. It's neither a paradise nor a hellhole.
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Yesterday, I came across yet another 1989 Tiananmen thread and of course, as predicted, the very top comment was about how the commenter supposedly knows many Chinese people who are completely clueless about what happened there. Meanwhile, I've known well over a dozen Chinese people through education or work in my adult life, and while I obviously don't directly bring the topic up, pretty much every single one of them has at least implied they knew what happened.
Then just now, I was in an AskReddit thread about "what does Japan do better than the rest of the world", and just about every single comment was about something negative (Racism, whale hunting, war crime denial, etc.), with some even using it to justify the internment of Japanese diaspora in WW2. I responded to a comment about how while it's true that all of these are warranted criticisms of Japan, western countries should also look in the mirror with these criticisms, considering the U.S. still has holidays dedicated to celebrating genocide (Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, etc.) and the South still has streets, schools, towns, etc. named after fucking Confederate generals. It's only been 15 minutes since I made that comment and it's already at -2. For the record: I don't have any issue with people pointing out these issues, but all too often it's used to drum up American/western jingoism, with some people in that thread even claiming that the U.S. has never denied any of its past atrocities, for fuck's sake!
I feel like every single time an Asian country is mentioned on Reddit, people instantly have to shriek about all the societal negatives, like the shit work culture, high suicide rates, or xenophobia. The only countries I see get mentioned in a remotely positive light are maybe Hong Kong and Taiwan since those are China's biggest adversaries, but even still you'll be lucky not to find some dolt spamming some le funny maymay like "TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN!!" to the tune of hundreds of upvotes.
I get China is the big hegemon threatening U.S. dominance around the world, but when it comes to Japan/Korea, I feel like Reddit has become so hateful of westerners who like Asian pop culture like anime and K-Pop that they've gone full circle and just become racist in a full-on open hateful way rather than the "exotic" fetishistic way.
I seriously just don't think the vast majority of westerners online (both those who like Asian pop culture and those that hate it) can't comprehend that East Asia is, for the most part, full of normal fucking people who are more similar to us than different. It's neither a paradise nor a hellhole.
2023.06.04 22:13 sorry_thankyou_sorry Neighbor couple is harassing me, I keep only responding legally and peacefully, and it is making them even worse.
Hey reddit, let me start out with an apology for any errors I make, I'm dyslexic, this is my first time posting here, and I'm still really anxious and upset about everything going on, in particular as I have diagnosed PTSD and G.A.D. It also is probably appropriate to give a trigger warning for just about anything one could be sensitive too, from assault, to cancer, to death, because my life has had it all lately.... This is the very long winded story of how my neighbor couple, who are a toxic combination of entitled and addicted to some kind of uppers, are trying to make my life a living hell, and, how I am not retaliating and it's somehow making them even more hateful...
Relevant backstory about me/my home situation- I (36F) bought my house all by myself (yah!) in 2016 before everything got super expensive. I am a career musician, but because what I make performing in an indie band and in royalties varies WILDLY from year to year, I also am proud to be the primary child care provider for my niece, and three other long time family friend's children who are now between the ages of 5 and 7 but have come to my home for daycare and even over nights and weekends sometimes since they were infants we're all like a little extended family. I live alone other than my little pets and the children who are often here.
In June 2022 I was misdiagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer (most deadly kind of breast cancer) and spent 6 weeks helping my parents and the kids and my friends get ready to help me... then lose me basically, before it was determined it was NOT inflammatory breast cancer (yah!) I just had Regular old precancerous tissue being made to look even worse than it was because the tissue had also developed an antibodic-resistant infection allll over the tissue under my breast. Ultimately good news except the very next day one of the moms in our little childcare group died instead. Like some kind of nasty joke God was making that wasn't funny and I'm still not over. Then, my insurance company decided to fight me over surgery to have the tissue and infection removed while cycling me through endless rounds of antibiotics and more invasive (but cheaper for my insurance) treatments. I did the best I could to keep up with my home and life and still help with the kids but I was *really really* sick until February of this year (2023) when I finally got my surgery, and I'm still really struggling with the lose of my friend both for myself and her son. I also have no money or savings or anything of a safety net left anymore. I had to access it all while I was sick and paying for my surgery/medical care (so you now know I'm American I suppose).
Now, onto the neighbors...
In August 2022, this couple moved in nextdoor and have been single handedly changing the block vibe from "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood where a few of the parents smoke weed here and there" to "Nightmare on Elm Street featuring Crack" and I am not sure that I have ever seen so up close and personal the inner workings of.... sociopaths? Or whatever the correct name for people who are habitual lairs and take pleasure in causing harm to others (and maybe each other?). They are heavy drinkers, heavy cannabis users (no shade, I got my med card before surgery and with edibles I didn't even need other prescription pain meds!! but anything can be a problem for some people), and most unfortunately they do some kind of pills or something that make them very "up". While the wife is typically too "out of it" to maintain work, the husband works from home as some type of an accountant and seems to keep it together, and make just enough money, to maintain their "lifestyle" which basically means they do a lot of drugs and super weird addict things, but with an aura of entitlement. It's a toxic combination.
The couple, who I will call Sackie (44F) and Jam(41M), originally presented themselves as an older couple with Sackie in particular having many health issues.... and I will admit I first mistook her for being older and originally assumed her manner of speaking (a bit low, mumbled and slurred, without a good awareness to social cues or appropriateness, like trying to talk to me about how her brother molested her but her mom payed off the law to make it go away or how later she started a business with said mom, but her mom started having an affair with Jam's boss and that's how they met... in front of the children and/or in maybe my second conversation with her) for some kind of stroke. It was only after many awkward rambling conversations with Sackie that I realized they were actually not much older at all, and her many health issues (more on this later) were fictional or simply from withdrawals/drug use. I did learn, however, that Jam and Sackie have a long, sorted, unpleasant history, with just about everyone they'd ever met... and somehow, it was always they who were the victims.
Now, I try very hard not to victim blame and I know from personal experience that sometimes good people have strings of unfortunate events in their lives-- but Sackie's recounts of events were often hard to understand, or contradictory to previous stories she had told, sometimes even within the same conversation. So I knew almost right away she wasn't a reliable narrator, but, with our houses being located about 12 feet apart, my original misinterpretation of them as an older couple, and with Sackie intentionally lying about some things to get my sympathy.... I had no idea how bad they both really were or what I was in for...
I first spoke with Sackie more than just saying hi in passing sometime around Thanksgiving (American Thanksgiving) when she knocked on my door to ask if she and Jam could give me an extra out door Christmas ornamental they had. I thought they were just being Christmasy and kind. I didn't have the kids at my house that week and Sackie smelled the cannabis I had been enjoying on my couch (a rarity honestly) and said, "oh is that what I think it is?" Paranoid that she was offended I blurted out, "oh yes I have a cannabis prescription, this is probably TMI but if you notice me home and slagging a lot it is because I am waiting for breast surgery."
Sackie's face lite up, "Thats not TMI, I'm waiting for breast surgery too! I had uterine cancer and now I'm waiting for a double mastectomy. And don't worry I'm a medical user too" Now, I have since learned this to be a lie, but at the time it definitely made me feel sorry for her and I was just relieved I hadn't been "caught" by a neighbor who was offended by cannabis.
However, once Sackie learned I had weed.... well, she wanted to be my best friend. In fact, she almost invented a fantasy friendship with me. Asking for my number in case they needed someone to look in on their pets during the holidays to quickly turned to her calling and texting pages and pages of messages-- about how Jam abused her, and was cheating on her, how she had nobody and was so scared approaching her (fake) upcoming double mastectomy, how he'd made sure her name wasn't on the house when they bought it and he'd locked her out of all their money... and could she please have some weed because she was so sick? Oh she had a seizure because she was so sick could she please have some weed?? It went on and on, always about wanting weed, rides places, confusing pages of texts about how she was watching "dead to me" and how it was so unfair she didn't have a friend like those characters?? Could I be that friend??
It was intense. And I didn't handle it well. I did my best to just respond to her slower and slower apart and just be nice but short and say no that I didn't have or couldn't do XYZ for her.
Her begging and neediness intensified rapidly, sometimes she would come to my door and knock and ask for weed and I would feel obligated to give it to her just to get her away. She was always on something a lot more intense than weed when she'd knock. It was scary and sometimes the kids were here. She started texting me asking if I had "anything stronger" than weed and when I was understandablely like "no I don't do those things" she sent me about four pages about how she just meant "xanxa" because she used to have a standing prescription for xanxa and it helped her so much but she had "quit all her medicine except good ol weed and seeing a chiropractor" and was doing oh so much better now but just needed some but it was okay because she found another friend to give it to her.
This was the first time I expressly told her no and not to ask me about that type of thing and where she started to turn her fantasy friendship into me into a fantasy feud.
Shortly after she sent me another page long text saying, "not to be a bitch but I'm done with our one sided friendship." I responded that I understood, at this point it was Dec 22nd (2022) and I was just trying to spend time with my family. I said something like, "I understand, I have some health problems that make it hard for me to make new friends or even keep up with my current friends, but I will see you around as a neighbor." And hoped to never hear from her again.
Oh, how short that hope was. Several days later I started getting pages of frantic apologies, but also trying to make me feel guilty, and more frantic apologies, and letting me know that Jam is not cheating on her and evil and leaving her with nothing, and they're both such great people and always here if I need anything!!!
It's honestly hard to explain how unstable even her "nice" texts would sound and I'm not sure if we can post screen shots in this sub, but trust me, this woman and her husband are just constant, intense, invasive drama. While she and Jam both made me uncomfortable, almost like watching for when I would first let my dogs out in the morning or when a friend left my house and texting me about it... waiting on their front porch chain smoking for me to come outside then rushing over to talk-block me into conversations about other neighbors they hated, Jam's bosses affair with Sackie's mom, to tell me how sick they were, about how Sackie had to quit multiple jobs because her bosses would always sexually harass her... And stupid me would just try to kinda smile and nod and get out of the conversation.
I was so uncomfortable and somewhat scared of them because of the way they would talk about other people and each other and... its hard to describe but if anyone has even been close with someone using something like meth, you know how crazy their behaviors can be, even if they are being "nice." But until April 2023, they were just a bother, not a danger.
April was when Sackie's fantasy friendship with me turned into a full blown fantasy feud...
In early April, I was supposed to be recovered enough from surgery that I could work again so I to started to watch the children every week again, and apply for music gigs again... but unfortunately got a staph infection in my left breasts wound. I ended up being in a lot of pain and back on antibiotics and pretty out of it on my couch for a few days, though I managed not to be hospitalized again (yah!).
During the few days I was pretty much out of it during the infection, Jam and Sackie decided it would be a good time to get really "uppered" to rip up all the ornamental ivy in our shares breezeway (fine) but also OFF THE SIDE OF MY HOUSE AND OUT AROUND MY FRONT PORCH. They pulled down wires on the side of my house and did this during rainy season meaning they exposed my homes foundation to massive amounts of water no longer protected by plants and top soil.
I was in total shock. They hadn't asked permission, or even mentioned disliking the ivy, and they were clearly on something and STILL trying to rip up things around my front porch.
My kind, 70 year old father was over on April 14th, to help me do some weatheseason appropriate yard work I was struggling to do one my own because of the staph infection and we decided we had to try to say something to them about it, because at this point they were out front talking about what they were going to do AROUND MY FRONT PORCH. But again, wanting to keep peace my dad and I went outside and my dad just politely asked Sackie about what they were doing and, said something along the lines of, "well okay, just please don't do anything else on our side because we are going to take care of that ourselves..." and before he could even finish Sackie suddenly, in her slurred speech, yells "Do you think I'm fucking Stupid??" at my dad.
Now, at this point I can't take it anymore. My father thought he was going to have to change my diapers while I DIED this year. He does not deserve to be yelled at by some methed out neighbor. So I said, "Sackie, don't speak to my father that way, he is just looking out for me."
At which point Sackie LOSES IT and starts hollering to Jam and possibly just herself about how my dad and I are "so rude and trashy" and how they can do whatever they want because, they want things to look nice, etc etc, at which point I was just like, "come one dad let's go inside."
My dad and I worked on some chores in the back yard, then he was like, "I know we didn't do anything wrong, but let's go apologize because you don't want to have neighbor issues."
However, when we went back out front Sackie was literally pacing back and forward in the breezeway ranting to herself about how she had every right to do whatever she wanted with what I can only describe as a look of pure and total unhinged insanity. You know how when actors play their first role on screen after doing stage acting for years and so their movements come across as completely over the top? That's a lot how Sackie looked that day stalking up and down alley talking to herself, like a director had just told her, "act really nuts!" Except Sackie wasn't acting. My dad said, "okay, well, we tried, some people just want to be upset," to me, and we went back to working on my house.
Keep in mind, I was still on heavy duty antiboditics and fighting a staph infection at this time, and was trying to get the house in shape for my kiddo who's mom had passed away to be able to sleep over at my house that night to give his dad a little break. I figured Sackie would bitch about me to Jam and whoever else she could get to listen (like how she would speak about others to me) but eventually get over it and go back to trying to have her fantasy friendship with me, because after all, she was able to nag me into giving her free weed occasionally, and all my dad and I had done was ask her not to do anything else on my property, right? How mad could she be?)
Well, apparently, something I have now learned, is when someone addicted to uppers decides you are their fixation, they are as addicted to causing you hell.
The following day Sackie (and Sam according to her texts) sent me pages and pages of texts, again I'm not sure on the character limits or screen shot policy here, but basically she sent me about 10 text pages about how my dad and I were so rude and disgusting and she and Jam had the right to do anything they wanted as the breezeway is "their's " (again, that is their property on that side but only up until a foot and half or so away from my house, and definitely not around my front porch) and how she and Jam have always been so nice to me and I'm just such a terrible person, and "YOU'RE WELCOME " for how that side of my house will look?
She used a lot more curse words and details than that, many of which were not even truthful and were hard to understand, and kept bringing up a Tupperware container and a cloth canvas bag that she had left some kind of soup she made for my friend (my friend who Sackie also made extremely uncomfortable but would try to be polite to her when she was outside smoking) when my friend had to stay with me for a few weeks after she had to get a hysterectomy and needed help recovering, and saying "and just throw out that Tupperware I gave you, you have no idea the kind of niceness I've constantly given to you!" (remember friends, even this major pushover knows-- kindness done with the expectation of something in return is just manipulation) Like, somehow this unwanted soup she'd left my friend when she was recovering here in March 2023, made it okay for her to do whatever she wanted on my property?
This also feels like an appropriate time to add that it was when my friend was recovering at my house that I learned the extent of Sackie's lies about her health. Remember how I said she'd gained my sympathy by pretending she had breast cancer and was waiting on a double mastectomy? Her story was that she had found out she had uterine cancer after a miscarriage and she'd had to have a full hysterectomy and the cancer had spread and so she needed a double mastectomy now but she was having trouble with her insurance and her husband, that is why she wanted to mold me into her "Dead to Me" friend, right?
Nope. Apparently not. As, she told my friend that, "she knew exactly what she was going through because she had just terrible, terrible, periods and has endometriosis too, just like my friend, but she hasn't been able to get the hysterectomy she needed yet because she didn't have a doctor because she didn't do Western Medicine anymore, all she needed was a chiropractor and weed... oh and the hysterectomy for her terrible endometriosis just like my friend." She also said something that implied her husband was getting her a boob job, for cosmetic reasons, and there had never been cancer at all. I have no idea if the miscarriage was a lie too or not, and it isn't really relevant other than to stress, that Sackie and her husband really have a hard time with the truth.
Anyway, after her round of nasty texts after the ivy incident, I sent her back an extremely polite and short text, saying I was sorry she felt so offended by my dad and I asking her not to do anything else on my property, and I was very happy to respect their wishes for us not to communicate and I wished them well.
The next two weeks or so, until April 29th 2023, Sackie and Jam made me uncomfortable but were manageable. They did things like intentionally stacking hay against my fence, talking loudly to each other about how "trashy" I was, and at one point in time even pretending to do yard work but actually just smashing the side of my house with shovels! They even had someone else over at some point they were intentionally loud explaining too about how disgusting the ivy was and what a favor they were doing "cleaning it up".... but honestly I didn't even really care.
My paralegal friend recommended I start documenting things though, because she said some of the worst people she's seen in court are functional, entitled, drug addicts and I should not assume they would return to reason, and that it would be a good idea if I let the Neighborhood Stabilization Officer know what was going on, start documentation, and draft up a cease and desist to send if they did anything else and man, she was right, so right in fact, we didn't even have time to send the cease and desist.
On April 24th, out of nowhere, she sent me another several pages of unhinged texts, once again talking about how I should thank her for ripping up my ivy, throw away her Tupperware, how I was a terrible person and she and her husband and everyone think I'm on the Spectrum (hey man, autism is highly under diagnosed in women and that isn't the insult they think it is, but I could tell she thought she was calling me the R word), and just nasty absurd abusive things.
I sent her a text simply saying "Do not communicate with me or anyone at my house or threaten me or my pets again."
I found that dumb Tupperware and canvas bag she kept bringing up like it was gold, and put them on a porch along with another letter saying the same as in my text.
Jam responded this time, by smashing the Tupperware and leaving it back on my porch....
Now on April 29th, while I was hosting a sleep over for 3 of the children, and, as bad as this couple had been, I honestly believed they weren't bad enough to cause me trouble when the children were here with me. Looking back, I can't tell you why I gave them that kind of credit. Sackie self published a childrens book in her early 30's, and spoke of volunteering at children's libraries, at least according to her, and I suppose I thought that meant she'd have a respect for kids even if they did not have respect for me.... once again, I was wrong.
Around 5 or 6pm, the kids and I went out onto my front porch to bring our pizza inside at the same time as Sackie was getting out of getting out of her drug dealers car with him, she began screaming profanities at me, saying I was disgusting, threatening the pets, and other things I couldn't really understand fully due to her slurred speech once again but verbally assaulting me but this time, in front of the children was the last straw I had.
I quickly got the kids inside, away from her, and served them the pizza. I told them not to worry about the neighbor, that she was a kind of sick that made people yell when they shouldn't sometimes and they should just ignore her. I made sure they were content talking amongst themselves and eating pizza and strawberries- and went to call the police and finally told them about all the ongoing harassment, threats, begging, drug use, and now screaming and profanities in front of the children and asked for help.
Then I got ahold of one of the other moms who came and picked up all three of the kids, and we just pretended that we decided it was a better idea for them have a sleep over at her friend's house than mine. The kids were fine, but as soon as they left I lost it. Just big gut crying. The months of being nagged for weed, rides, and favors, getting passive aggressive texts about not being Sackie's new insta best friend, feeling like I was being watched constantly, worrying about Sackie saying inappropriate things in front of the children, dealing with Jam's creepy stares and used car sales man persona, the past weeks of their new upper fueled obsession with my property line and being the new fixation of their abuse, trying to be kind to them even as I struggled with my breast disease and Sackie trying to me as an emotional punching bag and free weed. I was finally crying so so so hard, my neighbors on my other side (a lovely couple my age) heard and rushed out and had me come wait inside and were so so so nice to me while I looked insane (did I forget to mention I'd let the kids 'do' my make up, meaning they'd painted my whole face with eye shadow including giving me a sparkly beard?) until the police arrived.
Now I live in a really nice neighborhood, but I am in one of the highest crime cities in America and our politicians and police staff are internationally questioned, so I was actually really impressed that the police came, cared, and, that somehow in my state, I *still* apparently looked less insane than Sackie and Jam.
They responded fairly quickly, and patiently looked over the wild texts from Jackie, my accounts of her and Jam passively terrorizing me, and checked out the side of my yard which they had originally ripped up the ivy and started this whole insane fantasy fight with me over.
They very much believed me and said I should have called them sooner, which surprised me. Sackie refused to come out and speak with the police but Jam came out to speak to the police via using his back door so Sackie could keep hiding.
The police came back and let me know that if Jam was the lesser of my two issues that I needed to becareful because they couldn't do anything on "hear say" but that Sackie had refused to speak with them and Jam reeked of alcohol. They said they told them to leave me alone, and that I had already agreed to do the same, and to just leave me alone, but that if they did anything I needed to call them because of how bad Jam, the lesser of the two, looked.
They left, I thanked them and my kind neighbors and felt like, it must be over right? Because if you do things like send pages of rambling violent, threatening texts, destroy property, and take so many drugs that your speech is slurred 24/7, and the cops come and tell you stop bothering your neighbor, you'd be scared right?
Again, I was mistaken to assume that Sackie and Jam's line of thinking would be at all on the side of logic, even in terms of simple self preservation. As soon as the cops left, Sackie and Jam came into my front yard and began to loudly talk about how disgusting I was to each other again. At this point I have both of their numbers blocked on my phone, but Sackie must has used one of those apps that allows you to text people who have blocked you and messaged me... "Have a great weekend"
So I go ahead and call the police who again, I am both pleased, and surprised, and a little scared by how quickly they return because my city is very high crime and for them to pay any attention to my calls means they must have clocked the neighbors as actual threat.
Sackie and Jam did go inside before the police came back though, and this time they both simply refused to open the door to the police. I imagine they had done many more drugs at this point.
The police said that they couldn't do anything since technically nothing had a record yet, but suggested that I file for a restraining order and provided all of the information I needed to do so. I was still sort of wishy washy about having a legal issue with my neighbors, but after talking it over with a few close girlfriends, one of them messaged me passionately outside of our little group chat about how much this couple, Sackie in particular, was behaving like a lot like her mother, a meth addict with a sense of entitlement who made her neighbors and everyone around hers life hell, obsessing over property lines and turned down begging, until eventually went to prison for 13 years for stabbing my friends dad. He lived thankfully.
But she was right, and my earlier mentioned paralegal friend helped me put together my paper work and evidence for a restraining order which we filed that Monday (April 30th).
They were served their papers on May 4th and thankfully, that *did* scare them into leaving me alone. Jam and Sackie would still intentionally talk badly about me to each other outside when they knew I could hear, and I imagine Sackie was trying to tell anyone who would listen what a bitch I was, but as long as myself and the children were unbothered I felt fine.
The court date came and I made the mistake again of assuming court mediation would be enough. Sackie showed up using a cain and pretending to be feeble, sickly and older, like she had done to me when we first met. Jam still looked creepy but wore a suit. My lawyer, who is also my middle school boyfriends father as an aside, was pretty confident I could get a full restraining if we went to court, but they agreed to restraining order terms as long as it stayed off their record for the purposes of background checks.
The way this works in my city is if they violate the terms it then automatically becomes a full order of protection-- but if they don't it gives them a chance to keep their records clean. It also would save me some money, because even though my lawyer was handling things at friend prices he couldn't do it for free. So I agreed to that. They were to stay away from me, my guests, not contact me on any platform, not harm me or my pets, it all seemed pretty fair and reasonable to me.
But alas, Sackie and Jam are not reasonable people. Literally the moment they got home from court Jam began working on some kind of project in his back yard, cursing about me to himself and clearly back on some kind of upper, he assembled and drilled this... strange tarp thing to my fence ???? Yes, my fence, and yes, this is illegal but I didn't have any luck getting the police to come out this time.
It has continued on this way. Them trying to do everything they can to harass me as much as possible without technically violating the order.
They're still trying to make my life hell, and, I am pretty sure my only option is to wait for them to physically harm me, on camera, for anything to happen.
So yes. That is how I kept trying to give my neighbors the benefit of the doubt, and in exchange, they're making my life hell. As I type this now Jam is out in the front yard, hovering on our property line, watering the grass, breathing heavy, grunting, and giving my ring camera dirty looks.
I don't have a good way to wrap this up, but, it felt good writing it all out to share anonymously. Thankyou reddit.
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Relevant backstory about me/my home situation- I (36F) bought my house all by myself (yah!) in 2016 before everything got super expensive. I am a career musician, but because what I make performing in an indie band and in royalties varies WILDLY from year to year, I also am proud to be the primary child care provider for my niece, and three other long time family friend's children who are now between the ages of 5 and 7 but have come to my home for daycare and even over nights and weekends sometimes since they were infants we're all like a little extended family. I live alone other than my little pets and the children who are often here.
In June 2022 I was misdiagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer (most deadly kind of breast cancer) and spent 6 weeks helping my parents and the kids and my friends get ready to help me... then lose me basically, before it was determined it was NOT inflammatory breast cancer (yah!) I just had Regular old precancerous tissue being made to look even worse than it was because the tissue had also developed an antibodic-resistant infection allll over the tissue under my breast. Ultimately good news except the very next day one of the moms in our little childcare group died instead. Like some kind of nasty joke God was making that wasn't funny and I'm still not over. Then, my insurance company decided to fight me over surgery to have the tissue and infection removed while cycling me through endless rounds of antibiotics and more invasive (but cheaper for my insurance) treatments. I did the best I could to keep up with my home and life and still help with the kids but I was *really really* sick until February of this year (2023) when I finally got my surgery, and I'm still really struggling with the lose of my friend both for myself and her son. I also have no money or savings or anything of a safety net left anymore. I had to access it all while I was sick and paying for my surgery/medical care (so you now know I'm American I suppose).
Now, onto the neighbors...
In August 2022, this couple moved in nextdoor and have been single handedly changing the block vibe from "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood where a few of the parents smoke weed here and there" to "Nightmare on Elm Street featuring Crack" and I am not sure that I have ever seen so up close and personal the inner workings of.... sociopaths? Or whatever the correct name for people who are habitual lairs and take pleasure in causing harm to others (and maybe each other?). They are heavy drinkers, heavy cannabis users (no shade, I got my med card before surgery and with edibles I didn't even need other prescription pain meds!! but anything can be a problem for some people), and most unfortunately they do some kind of pills or something that make them very "up". While the wife is typically too "out of it" to maintain work, the husband works from home as some type of an accountant and seems to keep it together, and make just enough money, to maintain their "lifestyle" which basically means they do a lot of drugs and super weird addict things, but with an aura of entitlement. It's a toxic combination.
The couple, who I will call Sackie (44F) and Jam(41M), originally presented themselves as an older couple with Sackie in particular having many health issues.... and I will admit I first mistook her for being older and originally assumed her manner of speaking (a bit low, mumbled and slurred, without a good awareness to social cues or appropriateness, like trying to talk to me about how her brother molested her but her mom payed off the law to make it go away or how later she started a business with said mom, but her mom started having an affair with Jam's boss and that's how they met... in front of the children and/or in maybe my second conversation with her) for some kind of stroke. It was only after many awkward rambling conversations with Sackie that I realized they were actually not much older at all, and her many health issues (more on this later) were fictional or simply from withdrawals/drug use. I did learn, however, that Jam and Sackie have a long, sorted, unpleasant history, with just about everyone they'd ever met... and somehow, it was always they who were the victims.
Now, I try very hard not to victim blame and I know from personal experience that sometimes good people have strings of unfortunate events in their lives-- but Sackie's recounts of events were often hard to understand, or contradictory to previous stories she had told, sometimes even within the same conversation. So I knew almost right away she wasn't a reliable narrator, but, with our houses being located about 12 feet apart, my original misinterpretation of them as an older couple, and with Sackie intentionally lying about some things to get my sympathy.... I had no idea how bad they both really were or what I was in for...
I first spoke with Sackie more than just saying hi in passing sometime around Thanksgiving (American Thanksgiving) when she knocked on my door to ask if she and Jam could give me an extra out door Christmas ornamental they had. I thought they were just being Christmasy and kind. I didn't have the kids at my house that week and Sackie smelled the cannabis I had been enjoying on my couch (a rarity honestly) and said, "oh is that what I think it is?" Paranoid that she was offended I blurted out, "oh yes I have a cannabis prescription, this is probably TMI but if you notice me home and slagging a lot it is because I am waiting for breast surgery."
Sackie's face lite up, "Thats not TMI, I'm waiting for breast surgery too! I had uterine cancer and now I'm waiting for a double mastectomy. And don't worry I'm a medical user too" Now, I have since learned this to be a lie, but at the time it definitely made me feel sorry for her and I was just relieved I hadn't been "caught" by a neighbor who was offended by cannabis.
However, once Sackie learned I had weed.... well, she wanted to be my best friend. In fact, she almost invented a fantasy friendship with me. Asking for my number in case they needed someone to look in on their pets during the holidays to quickly turned to her calling and texting pages and pages of messages-- about how Jam abused her, and was cheating on her, how she had nobody and was so scared approaching her (fake) upcoming double mastectomy, how he'd made sure her name wasn't on the house when they bought it and he'd locked her out of all their money... and could she please have some weed because she was so sick? Oh she had a seizure because she was so sick could she please have some weed?? It went on and on, always about wanting weed, rides places, confusing pages of texts about how she was watching "dead to me" and how it was so unfair she didn't have a friend like those characters?? Could I be that friend??
It was intense. And I didn't handle it well. I did my best to just respond to her slower and slower apart and just be nice but short and say no that I didn't have or couldn't do XYZ for her.
Her begging and neediness intensified rapidly, sometimes she would come to my door and knock and ask for weed and I would feel obligated to give it to her just to get her away. She was always on something a lot more intense than weed when she'd knock. It was scary and sometimes the kids were here. She started texting me asking if I had "anything stronger" than weed and when I was understandablely like "no I don't do those things" she sent me about four pages about how she just meant "xanxa" because she used to have a standing prescription for xanxa and it helped her so much but she had "quit all her medicine except good ol weed and seeing a chiropractor" and was doing oh so much better now but just needed some but it was okay because she found another friend to give it to her.
This was the first time I expressly told her no and not to ask me about that type of thing and where she started to turn her fantasy friendship into me into a fantasy feud.
Shortly after she sent me another page long text saying, "not to be a bitch but I'm done with our one sided friendship." I responded that I understood, at this point it was Dec 22nd (2022) and I was just trying to spend time with my family. I said something like, "I understand, I have some health problems that make it hard for me to make new friends or even keep up with my current friends, but I will see you around as a neighbor." And hoped to never hear from her again.
Oh, how short that hope was. Several days later I started getting pages of frantic apologies, but also trying to make me feel guilty, and more frantic apologies, and letting me know that Jam is not cheating on her and evil and leaving her with nothing, and they're both such great people and always here if I need anything!!!
It's honestly hard to explain how unstable even her "nice" texts would sound and I'm not sure if we can post screen shots in this sub, but trust me, this woman and her husband are just constant, intense, invasive drama. While she and Jam both made me uncomfortable, almost like watching for when I would first let my dogs out in the morning or when a friend left my house and texting me about it... waiting on their front porch chain smoking for me to come outside then rushing over to talk-block me into conversations about other neighbors they hated, Jam's bosses affair with Sackie's mom, to tell me how sick they were, about how Sackie had to quit multiple jobs because her bosses would always sexually harass her... And stupid me would just try to kinda smile and nod and get out of the conversation.
I was so uncomfortable and somewhat scared of them because of the way they would talk about other people and each other and... its hard to describe but if anyone has even been close with someone using something like meth, you know how crazy their behaviors can be, even if they are being "nice." But until April 2023, they were just a bother, not a danger.
April was when Sackie's fantasy friendship with me turned into a full blown fantasy feud...
In early April, I was supposed to be recovered enough from surgery that I could work again so I to started to watch the children every week again, and apply for music gigs again... but unfortunately got a staph infection in my left breasts wound. I ended up being in a lot of pain and back on antibiotics and pretty out of it on my couch for a few days, though I managed not to be hospitalized again (yah!).
During the few days I was pretty much out of it during the infection, Jam and Sackie decided it would be a good time to get really "uppered" to rip up all the ornamental ivy in our shares breezeway (fine) but also OFF THE SIDE OF MY HOUSE AND OUT AROUND MY FRONT PORCH. They pulled down wires on the side of my house and did this during rainy season meaning they exposed my homes foundation to massive amounts of water no longer protected by plants and top soil.
I was in total shock. They hadn't asked permission, or even mentioned disliking the ivy, and they were clearly on something and STILL trying to rip up things around my front porch.
My kind, 70 year old father was over on April 14th, to help me do some weatheseason appropriate yard work I was struggling to do one my own because of the staph infection and we decided we had to try to say something to them about it, because at this point they were out front talking about what they were going to do AROUND MY FRONT PORCH. But again, wanting to keep peace my dad and I went outside and my dad just politely asked Sackie about what they were doing and, said something along the lines of, "well okay, just please don't do anything else on our side because we are going to take care of that ourselves..." and before he could even finish Sackie suddenly, in her slurred speech, yells "Do you think I'm fucking Stupid??" at my dad.
Now, at this point I can't take it anymore. My father thought he was going to have to change my diapers while I DIED this year. He does not deserve to be yelled at by some methed out neighbor. So I said, "Sackie, don't speak to my father that way, he is just looking out for me."
At which point Sackie LOSES IT and starts hollering to Jam and possibly just herself about how my dad and I are "so rude and trashy" and how they can do whatever they want because, they want things to look nice, etc etc, at which point I was just like, "come one dad let's go inside."
My dad and I worked on some chores in the back yard, then he was like, "I know we didn't do anything wrong, but let's go apologize because you don't want to have neighbor issues."
However, when we went back out front Sackie was literally pacing back and forward in the breezeway ranting to herself about how she had every right to do whatever she wanted with what I can only describe as a look of pure and total unhinged insanity. You know how when actors play their first role on screen after doing stage acting for years and so their movements come across as completely over the top? That's a lot how Sackie looked that day stalking up and down alley talking to herself, like a director had just told her, "act really nuts!" Except Sackie wasn't acting. My dad said, "okay, well, we tried, some people just want to be upset," to me, and we went back to working on my house.
Keep in mind, I was still on heavy duty antiboditics and fighting a staph infection at this time, and was trying to get the house in shape for my kiddo who's mom had passed away to be able to sleep over at my house that night to give his dad a little break. I figured Sackie would bitch about me to Jam and whoever else she could get to listen (like how she would speak about others to me) but eventually get over it and go back to trying to have her fantasy friendship with me, because after all, she was able to nag me into giving her free weed occasionally, and all my dad and I had done was ask her not to do anything else on my property, right? How mad could she be?)
Well, apparently, something I have now learned, is when someone addicted to uppers decides you are their fixation, they are as addicted to causing you hell.
The following day Sackie (and Sam according to her texts) sent me pages and pages of texts, again I'm not sure on the character limits or screen shot policy here, but basically she sent me about 10 text pages about how my dad and I were so rude and disgusting and she and Jam had the right to do anything they wanted as the breezeway is "their's " (again, that is their property on that side but only up until a foot and half or so away from my house, and definitely not around my front porch) and how she and Jam have always been so nice to me and I'm just such a terrible person, and "YOU'RE WELCOME " for how that side of my house will look?
She used a lot more curse words and details than that, many of which were not even truthful and were hard to understand, and kept bringing up a Tupperware container and a cloth canvas bag that she had left some kind of soup she made for my friend (my friend who Sackie also made extremely uncomfortable but would try to be polite to her when she was outside smoking) when my friend had to stay with me for a few weeks after she had to get a hysterectomy and needed help recovering, and saying "and just throw out that Tupperware I gave you, you have no idea the kind of niceness I've constantly given to you!" (remember friends, even this major pushover knows-- kindness done with the expectation of something in return is just manipulation) Like, somehow this unwanted soup she'd left my friend when she was recovering here in March 2023, made it okay for her to do whatever she wanted on my property?
This also feels like an appropriate time to add that it was when my friend was recovering at my house that I learned the extent of Sackie's lies about her health. Remember how I said she'd gained my sympathy by pretending she had breast cancer and was waiting on a double mastectomy? Her story was that she had found out she had uterine cancer after a miscarriage and she'd had to have a full hysterectomy and the cancer had spread and so she needed a double mastectomy now but she was having trouble with her insurance and her husband, that is why she wanted to mold me into her "Dead to Me" friend, right?
Nope. Apparently not. As, she told my friend that, "she knew exactly what she was going through because she had just terrible, terrible, periods and has endometriosis too, just like my friend, but she hasn't been able to get the hysterectomy she needed yet because she didn't have a doctor because she didn't do Western Medicine anymore, all she needed was a chiropractor and weed... oh and the hysterectomy for her terrible endometriosis just like my friend." She also said something that implied her husband was getting her a boob job, for cosmetic reasons, and there had never been cancer at all. I have no idea if the miscarriage was a lie too or not, and it isn't really relevant other than to stress, that Sackie and her husband really have a hard time with the truth.
Anyway, after her round of nasty texts after the ivy incident, I sent her back an extremely polite and short text, saying I was sorry she felt so offended by my dad and I asking her not to do anything else on my property, and I was very happy to respect their wishes for us not to communicate and I wished them well.
The next two weeks or so, until April 29th 2023, Sackie and Jam made me uncomfortable but were manageable. They did things like intentionally stacking hay against my fence, talking loudly to each other about how "trashy" I was, and at one point in time even pretending to do yard work but actually just smashing the side of my house with shovels! They even had someone else over at some point they were intentionally loud explaining too about how disgusting the ivy was and what a favor they were doing "cleaning it up".... but honestly I didn't even really care.
My paralegal friend recommended I start documenting things though, because she said some of the worst people she's seen in court are functional, entitled, drug addicts and I should not assume they would return to reason, and that it would be a good idea if I let the Neighborhood Stabilization Officer know what was going on, start documentation, and draft up a cease and desist to send if they did anything else and man, she was right, so right in fact, we didn't even have time to send the cease and desist.
On April 24th, out of nowhere, she sent me another several pages of unhinged texts, once again talking about how I should thank her for ripping up my ivy, throw away her Tupperware, how I was a terrible person and she and her husband and everyone think I'm on the Spectrum (hey man, autism is highly under diagnosed in women and that isn't the insult they think it is, but I could tell she thought she was calling me the R word), and just nasty absurd abusive things.
I sent her a text simply saying "Do not communicate with me or anyone at my house or threaten me or my pets again."
I found that dumb Tupperware and canvas bag she kept bringing up like it was gold, and put them on a porch along with another letter saying the same as in my text.
Jam responded this time, by smashing the Tupperware and leaving it back on my porch....
Now on April 29th, while I was hosting a sleep over for 3 of the children, and, as bad as this couple had been, I honestly believed they weren't bad enough to cause me trouble when the children were here with me. Looking back, I can't tell you why I gave them that kind of credit. Sackie self published a childrens book in her early 30's, and spoke of volunteering at children's libraries, at least according to her, and I suppose I thought that meant she'd have a respect for kids even if they did not have respect for me.... once again, I was wrong.
Around 5 or 6pm, the kids and I went out onto my front porch to bring our pizza inside at the same time as Sackie was getting out of getting out of her drug dealers car with him, she began screaming profanities at me, saying I was disgusting, threatening the pets, and other things I couldn't really understand fully due to her slurred speech once again but verbally assaulting me but this time, in front of the children was the last straw I had.
I quickly got the kids inside, away from her, and served them the pizza. I told them not to worry about the neighbor, that she was a kind of sick that made people yell when they shouldn't sometimes and they should just ignore her. I made sure they were content talking amongst themselves and eating pizza and strawberries- and went to call the police and finally told them about all the ongoing harassment, threats, begging, drug use, and now screaming and profanities in front of the children and asked for help.
Then I got ahold of one of the other moms who came and picked up all three of the kids, and we just pretended that we decided it was a better idea for them have a sleep over at her friend's house than mine. The kids were fine, but as soon as they left I lost it. Just big gut crying. The months of being nagged for weed, rides, and favors, getting passive aggressive texts about not being Sackie's new insta best friend, feeling like I was being watched constantly, worrying about Sackie saying inappropriate things in front of the children, dealing with Jam's creepy stares and used car sales man persona, the past weeks of their new upper fueled obsession with my property line and being the new fixation of their abuse, trying to be kind to them even as I struggled with my breast disease and Sackie trying to me as an emotional punching bag and free weed. I was finally crying so so so hard, my neighbors on my other side (a lovely couple my age) heard and rushed out and had me come wait inside and were so so so nice to me while I looked insane (did I forget to mention I'd let the kids 'do' my make up, meaning they'd painted my whole face with eye shadow including giving me a sparkly beard?) until the police arrived.
Now I live in a really nice neighborhood, but I am in one of the highest crime cities in America and our politicians and police staff are internationally questioned, so I was actually really impressed that the police came, cared, and, that somehow in my state, I *still* apparently looked less insane than Sackie and Jam.
They responded fairly quickly, and patiently looked over the wild texts from Jackie, my accounts of her and Jam passively terrorizing me, and checked out the side of my yard which they had originally ripped up the ivy and started this whole insane fantasy fight with me over.
They very much believed me and said I should have called them sooner, which surprised me. Sackie refused to come out and speak with the police but Jam came out to speak to the police via using his back door so Sackie could keep hiding.
The police came back and let me know that if Jam was the lesser of my two issues that I needed to becareful because they couldn't do anything on "hear say" but that Sackie had refused to speak with them and Jam reeked of alcohol. They said they told them to leave me alone, and that I had already agreed to do the same, and to just leave me alone, but that if they did anything I needed to call them because of how bad Jam, the lesser of the two, looked.
They left, I thanked them and my kind neighbors and felt like, it must be over right? Because if you do things like send pages of rambling violent, threatening texts, destroy property, and take so many drugs that your speech is slurred 24/7, and the cops come and tell you stop bothering your neighbor, you'd be scared right?
Again, I was mistaken to assume that Sackie and Jam's line of thinking would be at all on the side of logic, even in terms of simple self preservation. As soon as the cops left, Sackie and Jam came into my front yard and began to loudly talk about how disgusting I was to each other again. At this point I have both of their numbers blocked on my phone, but Sackie must has used one of those apps that allows you to text people who have blocked you and messaged me... "Have a great weekend"
So I go ahead and call the police who again, I am both pleased, and surprised, and a little scared by how quickly they return because my city is very high crime and for them to pay any attention to my calls means they must have clocked the neighbors as actual threat.
Sackie and Jam did go inside before the police came back though, and this time they both simply refused to open the door to the police. I imagine they had done many more drugs at this point.
The police said that they couldn't do anything since technically nothing had a record yet, but suggested that I file for a restraining order and provided all of the information I needed to do so. I was still sort of wishy washy about having a legal issue with my neighbors, but after talking it over with a few close girlfriends, one of them messaged me passionately outside of our little group chat about how much this couple, Sackie in particular, was behaving like a lot like her mother, a meth addict with a sense of entitlement who made her neighbors and everyone around hers life hell, obsessing over property lines and turned down begging, until eventually went to prison for 13 years for stabbing my friends dad. He lived thankfully.
But she was right, and my earlier mentioned paralegal friend helped me put together my paper work and evidence for a restraining order which we filed that Monday (April 30th).
They were served their papers on May 4th and thankfully, that *did* scare them into leaving me alone. Jam and Sackie would still intentionally talk badly about me to each other outside when they knew I could hear, and I imagine Sackie was trying to tell anyone who would listen what a bitch I was, but as long as myself and the children were unbothered I felt fine.
The court date came and I made the mistake again of assuming court mediation would be enough. Sackie showed up using a cain and pretending to be feeble, sickly and older, like she had done to me when we first met. Jam still looked creepy but wore a suit. My lawyer, who is also my middle school boyfriends father as an aside, was pretty confident I could get a full restraining if we went to court, but they agreed to restraining order terms as long as it stayed off their record for the purposes of background checks.
The way this works in my city is if they violate the terms it then automatically becomes a full order of protection-- but if they don't it gives them a chance to keep their records clean. It also would save me some money, because even though my lawyer was handling things at friend prices he couldn't do it for free. So I agreed to that. They were to stay away from me, my guests, not contact me on any platform, not harm me or my pets, it all seemed pretty fair and reasonable to me.
But alas, Sackie and Jam are not reasonable people. Literally the moment they got home from court Jam began working on some kind of project in his back yard, cursing about me to himself and clearly back on some kind of upper, he assembled and drilled this... strange tarp thing to my fence ???? Yes, my fence, and yes, this is illegal but I didn't have any luck getting the police to come out this time.
It has continued on this way. Them trying to do everything they can to harass me as much as possible without technically violating the order.
They're still trying to make my life hell, and, I am pretty sure my only option is to wait for them to physically harm me, on camera, for anything to happen.
So yes. That is how I kept trying to give my neighbors the benefit of the doubt, and in exchange, they're making my life hell. As I type this now Jam is out in the front yard, hovering on our property line, watering the grass, breathing heavy, grunting, and giving my ring camera dirty looks.
I don't have a good way to wrap this up, but, it felt good writing it all out to share anonymously. Thankyou reddit.
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2023.06.04 20:31 IndieFlea End of Month Minor League updates - IndieFlea's Mid-Season Prospect Rankings (Final Part)
Hey all, this is the final part of my Mid-Season Prospect Rankings. Part 1 is here.. Part 2 is here.Part 3 is here.
All stats are as of June 3 unless noted otherwise.
Rankings 10-1
As a recap, here are my Top 50 together, which I’ve adjusted again since a few days ago. So don’t call me out for it being different than before already, I’m changing my mind as I go.
Honorable mention - Ryan Garcia (SP, Frisco), Jayce Easley (utility OF, Hickory), Avery Weems (SP/RP, hurt with Tommy John, changed to drop out of Top 50 to squeeze Anderson in), JP Martinez (OF, Round Rock and Frisco), Dylan McLean (SP/RP, Down East), Josh Gessner (SP/RP, Down East), Davis Wendzel (utility IF, Round Rock)
50-41 - Luis Valdez (SP, Down East, newest on list), Echedry Vargas (IF, complex league), Chris Seise (SS, Frisco), Luis Ramirez (SP/RP, Down East), Grant Anderson (RP, Round Rock and the Majors), Abi Ortiz (1B/DH, Hickory), Aidan Curry (SP, Down East), Tucker Mitchell (C/DH, Hickory), Chandler Pollard (OF, complex league), Cody Freeman (C, Hickory)
40-31 - Alex Speas (RP, Frisco), Marcos Torres (OF, complex league), Tommy Specht (OF, Down East), Ian Moller (C, Down East), Jose Corniell (SP, Down East), Winston Santos (SP, Hickory), Trevor Hauver (utility OF, Frisco), Yosy Galan (OF, Down East), Larson Kindreich (SP, Hickory, dropped ranking down due to very recent performance), Alejandro Osuna (OF, Hickory)
30-21 - Sebastian Walcott (SS, complex league), Blaine Crim (corner infielder, Round Rock), Cam Cauley (SS, Down East, raised up ranking due to very recent performance), Chase Lee (RP, Round Rock), Danyer Cueva (IF, Down East), Dane Acker (SP, Hickory), Antoine Kelly (RP, Frisco), Jonathan Ornelas (SS/utility IF, Round Rock), Emiliano Teodo (SP/RP, Hickory), Gleider Figuerero (3B, Down East)
20-11 - Cole Winn (SP, Round Rock), Josh Stephan (SP, Hickory), Zak Kent (SP, Round Rock, injured), Marc Church (RP, Round Rock), Maximo Acosta (SS, Hickory), Cody Bradford (SP, Round Rock and the Majors), Mitch Bratt (SP, Hickory), Yeison Morrobel (OF, Down East), Anthony Gutierrez (OF, Down East), Thomas Saggese (2B/3B, Frisco)
10-1 - Tekoah Roby (SP, Frisco), Kumar Rocker (SP, Tommy John), Aaron Zavala (OF, Frisco), Dustin Harris (corner OF/corner IF, Frisco), Justin Foscue (IF, Round Rock), Luisangel Acuna (SS, Frisco), Brock Porter (SP, Down East), Jack Leiter (SP, Frisco), Owen White (SP, Frisco), Evan Carter (OF, Frisco)
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All stats are as of June 3 unless noted otherwise.
Rankings 10-1
- 10 – Tekoah Roby (prev. 16) - I’m really liking his year so far, despite so-so numbers. Hidden behind the mediocre 5.05 ERA is 50 strikeouts to 12 walks in 46.1 innings, a 3.88 FIP, and a .349 BABIP that’s sure to fall. Looking at his last 4 starts and you see a 2.08 ERA, with a .164 BAA and 19 Ks to 4 walks in 17.1 innings. It looks like he’s made adjustments, but unfortunately left last night’s game in the 2nd with some sort of injury. Let’s pray. Regardless, look at Tepid’s Twitter and he really likes posting videos of Roby and his stuff. The 2020 3rd Rounder turns 22 in September, so if he’s healthy he could be an interesting guy to consider for the rotation late next year or in 2025.
- 9 – Kumar Rocker (prev. 9) - It’s really too bad the 23-year-old Kumar succumbed to needing Tommy John since he was having probably the best start to the season of anyone in the minors except Stephan. Last year’s #3 overall pick just reached the MLB Top 100 with 42 Ks to 7 walks in 28 innings in Hickory. Up until his last start he was also putting up 0s, but it seems his last inning something was bothering his arm, and it forced him to give up all 5 runs of the outing, blowing his ERA up to 3.86. Weirdly Kumar’s given up all 12 of his earned runs in 3 isolated innings, the remainder 25 have been 0s. Unfortunately he’s shelved for a year plus, so expect him to be parked here in the 9 spot for the remainder of the year, or at least until this year’s draft pushes him to 10 when we select our #4 pick. Hopefully he’s still a starter when he returns in 2024, likely with Frisco.
- 8 – Aaron Zavala (prev. 12) - I forgot which podcast said this, but it seems Zavala doesn’t have much trade value due to his spinal tumor issue and his injury risk. That’s fine, we could use a great-hitting corner outfielder. The 2nd rounder from 2021 has done nothing but that in between injury stints. With perhaps the best hit tool in the org, Zavala has put up an .817 OPS in 200 PAs in Frisco over the last two years, although he's had a bit of a slow start this year. Great walk rate, pretty good corner defense, could use a bit of work on power and baserunning, but overall solid all around. Stay healthy, and he has a decent shot at a platoon or 4th outfielder next year or more than that beyond then.
- 7 – Dustin Harris (prev. 7) - Harris is basically at the same level as Zavala, but trade Zavala's defense for Harris's baserunning. He was the second piece in the Mike Minor trade with Oakland in 2020, but Harris quickly vaulted into the org’s Top 10. After a struggle to start this year, Harris has battled back to a .778 OPS for the year, 21 stolen bases, and 17.1% walk rate. His main issue is he plays so-so defense, mainly getting by in corner outfield and first base. If he keeps up the speed and strike zone control he will be a valuable piece in the majors someday, wether with the Rangers in 2024 sometime or with another team if he’s part of a trade package.
- 6 – Justin Foscue (prev. 6) - another guy who is a bonkers hitter but his defense is left a lot be desired. The Rangers first round pick from 2020 has been "moderately" successful climbing the minor league ranks. In Round Rock this year he is absolutely on fire. 7 homers, 25 RBIs, 34 walks in 51 games lead to a .909 OPS. He’s started to play multiple infield positions for what I would assume to be showcasing for trades, or to find him a spot on the major league team for 2024. Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up the starting DH for the Rangers next year.
- 5 – Luisangel Acuna (prev. 4) - I’m not as high on Acuna as others, mainly due to the scouting report noting his inability to hit breaking balls. The brother of the likely NL MVP this year was signed in the 2019 interntaional FA class and has continued to impress going up the ranks, reaching Frisco last year at only age 20. This year he has hit at an .781 OPS in 42 games, walks a good amount (10.4%) and is quick on the basepaths (20 steals with 0 caught stealing). His ability to play the middle infield positions including shortstop will keep him high on this list as long as he keeps hitting (so pitchers, keep throwing him fastballs to smoke). Unfortunately he’s blocked on the major league team by both Semien and Seager, so it’ll take a major injury to give him play. He’s also on the 40-man already, which will only continue to crowd at the end of the year. It seems likely Acuna is the most likely prospect to be traded at this point. Considering he probably has the highest value of the non-untouchables, I think it should be considered.
- 4 – Brock Porter (prev. 8) - I continue to be more and more impressed by this kid the more he pitches. After a rough first outing for Down East, last year’s 4th round pick (who, let’s be real, had the talent to be a first rounder for any other team) responded with 8 starts of near-flawlessness: 29.1 innings, 2 earned runs, 41 strikeouts, .119 BAA. His totals for the year: 30.1 innings, 0.89 ERA, .126 BAA, 42 Ks, 33.9% strikeout rate. The only thing you can dock him for at this point is the 17 walks , but even that’s improving over his last few starts. While he doesn’t need to be rushed since he just turned 20 yesterday, I he has another month like he did May, you’d have to think he’d be moved up to Hickory to get challenged for the remainder of the year. I’d like to put him in the untouchable category if so.
- 3 – Jack Leiter (prev. 3) - I went back and forth between him and White as to who to put at 2 and 3. I gave the edge to the guy who I think would be more likely to impact the major league team this year. Nevertheless, after a rough 2022, Jack continued to struggle in April. Then, something must’ve flipped a switch in his brain in his last April start; the #2 overall pick in the 2021 draft acted like his draft position, started re-attacking the zone, and found success again. His numbers for May: 27 innings, 1.67 ERA, .148 BAA, .515 OPSA, 33 Ks. The walks are still pretty high but miles better than where he was in April. It seems obvious he shouldn’t have started last year in Frisco, but looks like he’s now finally adjusted to the Texas League. Wouldn’t be surprised if he saw the PCL at some point, all to prep him for a crack at next year’s rotation (although he’s definitely not the favorite quite yet.)
- 2 – Owen White (prev. 5) - White has gone through so many injuries over the years, including some of his own doing, punching the ground in frustration after a start. The 2nd rounder from 2018’s draft began his first 40-man option year a bit late, but has done fine in Frisco, with a 4.08 ERA in 10 starts. The concern is that his walks are slightly up and his strikeouts are down significantly. A bit of a rough May has put a damper on his season so far, but it’ll take more than one month of struggles for me to drop him. The Top 100 prospect in MLB turns 24 in August and is already on his first option, so it’s kinda almost go time for Owen. Put up or shut up, that's what Barfight White needs to do.
- 1 – Evan Carter (prev. 2) - would it really be anyone else? The Top 10 prospect in all of baseball lands at #1 on my list after Jung’s graduation, and has continued to impress at only 20 years of age. A scorching April (1.043 OPS in 92 PAs) has gave way to a cooled off May (.614 OPS in 102 PAs). Sounds like he was hit on the hand on a pickoff throw in early May and that might’ve been affecting his game. He’s currently on the development list for what I assume is just rest for his hand. If he can get back to what he was doing in April I could see him moving up to Round Rock very quickly, with a very good shot at being the opening day LF or CF for the major league team next year. It’s possible, but now less likely he gets the call up for our potential playoff run this year, but I wouldn’t hold my breath with how great Leody and Duran are playing this year. Nevertheless, there are still very high hopes for Carter. The 2nd rounder from 2020, who apparently nobody except Ranger scouts had even heard of at the time, has done nothing but prove doubters wrong. Great hit tool, great baserunning, great outfield defense at any position, power…just okay. I can’t wait to see this guy in a Rangers uniform.
As a recap, here are my Top 50 together, which I’ve adjusted again since a few days ago. So don’t call me out for it being different than before already, I’m changing my mind as I go.
Honorable mention - Ryan Garcia (SP, Frisco), Jayce Easley (utility OF, Hickory), Avery Weems (SP/RP, hurt with Tommy John, changed to drop out of Top 50 to squeeze Anderson in), JP Martinez (OF, Round Rock and Frisco), Dylan McLean (SP/RP, Down East), Josh Gessner (SP/RP, Down East), Davis Wendzel (utility IF, Round Rock)
50-41 - Luis Valdez (SP, Down East, newest on list), Echedry Vargas (IF, complex league), Chris Seise (SS, Frisco), Luis Ramirez (SP/RP, Down East), Grant Anderson (RP, Round Rock and the Majors), Abi Ortiz (1B/DH, Hickory), Aidan Curry (SP, Down East), Tucker Mitchell (C/DH, Hickory), Chandler Pollard (OF, complex league), Cody Freeman (C, Hickory)
40-31 - Alex Speas (RP, Frisco), Marcos Torres (OF, complex league), Tommy Specht (OF, Down East), Ian Moller (C, Down East), Jose Corniell (SP, Down East), Winston Santos (SP, Hickory), Trevor Hauver (utility OF, Frisco), Yosy Galan (OF, Down East), Larson Kindreich (SP, Hickory, dropped ranking down due to very recent performance), Alejandro Osuna (OF, Hickory)
30-21 - Sebastian Walcott (SS, complex league), Blaine Crim (corner infielder, Round Rock), Cam Cauley (SS, Down East, raised up ranking due to very recent performance), Chase Lee (RP, Round Rock), Danyer Cueva (IF, Down East), Dane Acker (SP, Hickory), Antoine Kelly (RP, Frisco), Jonathan Ornelas (SS/utility IF, Round Rock), Emiliano Teodo (SP/RP, Hickory), Gleider Figuerero (3B, Down East)
20-11 - Cole Winn (SP, Round Rock), Josh Stephan (SP, Hickory), Zak Kent (SP, Round Rock, injured), Marc Church (RP, Round Rock), Maximo Acosta (SS, Hickory), Cody Bradford (SP, Round Rock and the Majors), Mitch Bratt (SP, Hickory), Yeison Morrobel (OF, Down East), Anthony Gutierrez (OF, Down East), Thomas Saggese (2B/3B, Frisco)
10-1 - Tekoah Roby (SP, Frisco), Kumar Rocker (SP, Tommy John), Aaron Zavala (OF, Frisco), Dustin Harris (corner OF/corner IF, Frisco), Justin Foscue (IF, Round Rock), Luisangel Acuna (SS, Frisco), Brock Porter (SP, Down East), Jack Leiter (SP, Frisco), Owen White (SP, Frisco), Evan Carter (OF, Frisco)
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