Actually, I don't. I used to, but kept getting headaches with it, so no more coffee for me! I'll have to settle for sharing Bible verses in the morning to wake up!
You could also just try to get up a bit earlier than you used to. If you want to be awake by 5 AM, then get up at 4AM instead of 4:30 or whatever. Which means going to bed a bit earlier.
Just greatful and content with your day ahead should get you out of bed early, but christians can't get out of bed because they can't wait to die.
Honestly, it's not such a bad thing to think that the next life far surpasses all that we enjoy about this life! I don't go around wanting to die but I do look forward to it. Why wouldn't I? I will be meeting the One who is this kind of King: How many kings step down from their thrones? How many lords have abandoned their homes? How many greats have become the least for me? And how many gods have poured out their hearts To romance a world that is torn all apart? How many fathers gave up their sons for me? Only one did that for me Oh, all for me, oh All for me, all for you.... I really love this song, because it makes me think of my King--who I love more than anything!
Good thread alright, something which we can rip into shreds! Maybe read some common sense for once instead of hocus pocus wishful thinking fiction. Here, let me give you an example.... Last couple of days in the news some priests were kidnapped in Nigeria. The Vatican put out a bulletin. (Guy looks like a walking fuckin skeleton, but never mind, besides the point) https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2022-07/nigeria-priest-kidnap-edo-kaduna-violence.html Scroll down the page.... At the bottom of the page of the Vatican bulletin, they're begging for contributions as per usual, just like Trump, never let a disaster opportunity get away on you without some grifting, wanting money. Ok, now, lets go to the bible a moment: The loaves and fishes story.... "18 “Bring them here to me,” he said.19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children." OK, got that, now to another present day reality scene...... "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates pledged to transfer an additional $20 billion of his personal wealth to his philanthropic foundation, in an effort to support causes such as reducing child deaths, managing climate change and preventing future pandemics. The funds mean the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, named after the billionaire and his ex-wife, will disburse $9 billion annually by 2026, up from about $6 billion today." And some more..... "Since 2006, 91-year-old Warren Buffett has donated more than half of his Berkshire shares, with the donations worth about $45.5 billion at the time they were made. Despite the donations, Buffett still owns approximately 16% of Berkshire and controls about one-third of its voting power......" Common themes: (1) The bible claims miracles and giving. (2) Non Christians are giving. (3) But today's Christian church is like Trump, all fukking noise and mouth, claiming it's blessed but always got it's hand out, continuously sucking off the tit of gummint for tax exemptions and always sucking money out of parishioners for donations. "Oh how fucking marvelous my God is, my King, so rich and powerful, yet somehow I'm always living in the fucking poor house because this miraculous church 'The Bride of Christ' always wants our money". Instead of the wonderful Church donating like Gates, Buffett, Bezos, it is always claiming poverty, sounds like something is wrong here.
I'm going to have to be careful not to read or respond to other's posts until after I'm done trading for the day..... Posting this at 5:19 am CT
Reading the Bible cover to cover is a great way to help people become atheist. Some of the most debauched activities and awful atrocities along with tirades of absurdly insane stories ever told are all in there. Christian believers don't read them or learn how to ignore them, or find a whole raft of equally banal reasons to excuse them all, to focus on the nicer bits. Religion should be a personally held thing in this day and age. You should resist waving your religious dick around like this imo student. It'll prolly just end with you requesting the thread be closed on one of your crazy religious posts anyway, like you've done a couple times before. By all means debate why you believe what you believe, but this kinda shit is just For every "inspiring" bit of Bible you proselytize, there are 3 passages that say bullshit. Simply - start a better good day than this way man! chill bro, beliefes is fallible , Kittenz is not what you believed! It's not a dead kittenz. https://www.awesomeinventions.com/chava-and-chata-munchkin-kittens-sleeps-like-a-human/
In this day and age, bs artists and con artists are all the rage. Simpletons will believe anything, they are taken to the cleaners regularly, bank accounts emptied. The more astute, sit back, don't engage with bs artists by going along with stories. Imo, the early church were bs artists, this whole "bible is from God" is a con. Church = emotional entertainment centres where the heirachy feed like parasites on the gullible and taxpayers (gummint cronies feed the church heirachy. Gummints in turn use the church to garner votes where politicians use their 'christianity con' for sympathy votes from gullible church idiots.