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Recently, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has printed thousands of flyers it plans to distribute at the U.S.-Mexico border. The flyer has a simple message to illegal border-crossers: Don’t come to New York.
The headline is in all caps: “UPDATES TO ASYLUM-SEEKERS FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK.” The flyer goes on to say that more than 90,000 migrants have come to the city since April of last year. Now, the handout says, “There is no guarantee we will be able to provide shelter and services to new arrivals.” The flyer goes on to warn, “Housing in NYC is very expensive,” as is the cost of “food, transportation and other necessities.”
And then the message: “Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.”
Adams also announced that New York is going to get tough with migrants who are already in the city and are staying in its shelters. “In the coming days, the city will begin providing 60 days’ notice to adult asylum-seekers to find alternative housing paired with intensified casework services to help adult asylum-seekers explore other housing options and take the next step in their journey,” a city statement said. “Each asylum-seeker given notice will have multiple touchpoints with caseworkers over their 60 days to discuss their options and plan their next steps.” The short version of that is: We’re kicking you out. Find somewhere to go.
Adams, a Democrat, has come a long way since 2019, when he was the borough president of Brooklyn and, like some others in his city’s government, wanted to attack then-President Donald Trump’s policy on immigration. “Make no mistake, New York City will ALWAYS stand up to Donald Trump and call out his cynical plots to divide our country,” Adams tweeted on April 16, 2019. “To anyone in the world fleeing hatred and oppression, the ultimate city of immigrants wants you to remember: You’re ALWAYS welcome here.”
As it turned out, ALWAYS did not actually mean always. It didn’t even mean five years. Now, just four years after his everlasting commitment, Adams is telling illegal immigrants to stay away.
“There is no room in New York,” Adams said back in January. “New York cannot take more. We can’t. No city deserves what is happening.” In the case of New York, what is happening is “more than 90,000” migrants since April 2022.
Ninety thousand migrants! What a terrible burden. Now consider this, from the government of El Paso, Texas, a city far smaller and with far fewer resources than New York: “The number of people released to the City of El Paso and local nongovernment organizations (NGOs; i.e., humanitarian agencies) has grown from approximately 250 per day in early August [2022] to as high as over 1,000 per day during the month of September 2022. The number fluctuates daily and is currently averaging 900 per day.”
El Paso’s burden dwarfs anything New York City has experienced. And El Paso is, of course, just one city along the U.S.-Mexico border. Collectively, border communities have had to deal with millions of illegal crossers since the rush began with Joe Biden’s inauguration as president of the United States.
That brings us to Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas. When Abbott first offered illegal border-crossers, whom the Biden administration allowed to stay in the U.S., free transport to New York, some dismissed it as a stunt, or worse. But Abbott’s move forced self-righteous New Yorkers to face the fact that their commitment to being a “sanctuary city” only goes so far. There’s no way, even with all of their resources, New York can offer sanctuary to even a small portion of the migrants illegally crossing into Texas, much less the whole U.S.-Mexico border.
Abbott proved to Adams and other Democrats in sanctuary cities around the country that their rhetoric means nothing when confronted by the true scale of the illegal entry problem. Perhaps it made them feel good to talk about sanctuary and welcoming and unity in opposition to the hated Trump. But it won’t solve the immense problem that President Biden’s policies have created.
These flaming idiots made their “sanctuary” bed, and now the hypocrites are crying themselves to sleep in it.
Tough shit, crybaby Adams! Deal with it.
We should be catapulting these illegal aliens back across the Rio Grande, but since shithead democrats want the illegal vote so badly, we can house them in their sanctuary cities.
(Texas should bus 10,000 to Malibu & Martha’s Vineyard & 1000s more to the doorstep of everyone in the DNC.)
The area around the ROOSEVELT HOTEL, 46th and Madison, is destroyed. The people who work there and pay taxes and own businesses are suffering because of BRANDON BIDEN and Mayor Night Life Adams.
These corrupt, elite liberals desperately need to be made to live like they want us to live. They must be made to feel the pain of their stupid policies. Unless and until they do feel the pain, they will only continue their decivilization policies. Send them more illegal aliens; send them some felons and terrorists that are illegally crossing into our border states. Send more to Martha’s Vineyard, drop them off at Obama’s and Big Mike’s driveway. Listen to the arrogant, corrupt liars squeal.
Couldn’t agree more.
That aside, if given a choice, I’d have catapults & trebuchets lining the border . . . right next to the M60 encampments, flamethrowers & sniper nests.
An invasion is an invasion.
Realistically, the elites will never live the way the rest of the world lives because they are “the elite.” Illegals who were sent to the Cape and Kamala’s neighborhood were quickly swept away by “law enforcement,” or private security, eliminating the need for the elites to squeal. It’s the rest of us who end up squealing — into the void.
“It took centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding Fathers. The system they established was not based on unlimited majority rule, but on its opposite: on individual rights, which were not to be alienated by majority vote or minority plotting. The individual was not left at the mercy of his neighbors or his leaders: the Constitutional system of checks and balances was scientifically devised to protect him from both. This was the great American achievement—and if concern for the actual welfare of other nations were our present leaders’ motive, THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TEACHING THE WORLD. {emphasis added]” – Ayn Rand
Any people of any country who want to be rich and prosperous don’t have to immigrate to America, they can make their own country the envy of the world by embracing America’s Bill of Rights and Laissez-Faire Capitalism. Emulate the America the Founders envisioned, and your country too can become an America.
As it is Americans have been losing and destroying America for over 100 hundred years. Most Americans have no idea how free and prosperous America was a century ago, here’s some fascinating facts I read yesterday at “American Thinker”,
“The U.S. had no income tax until 1913. By 1926, in the Roaring Twenties, unfettered capitalism had brought prices down so low that one person, earning the average wage of only $1.24 per hour, could pay off his home in five years, purchase a vacation home, pay that off, and support a family of five all the way through college. Note that our vacation home boom in resort towns occurred at that time.
So what happened? Why is our goods-to-price standard of living so much lower and still declining each year?
Franklin Roosevelt increased income taxes for the poor in the lowest income bracket from 4 to 24 percent, in the highest bracket to 94 percent (reducing what we could afford to pay), and corporate taxes to 40 percent (increasing the price we must pay).
This is nonviolent socialism at full throttle. We became a hybrid capitalist-socialist nation. Franklin Roosevelt had completed the transformation of the Democrat party into a socialist party, and their occasional moniker is “progressives.” – James T. Moodey
And this pile of Objectivist drivel has what to do with Adams and NYC?
And you tell me I need to take courses in logic and reason? Really?
Where’s that PhD of yours anyway?
Today, achieving a PhD is a mental and moral regression at most universities.
A hall monitor/thought police combo.
They aren’t coming to become “rich and prosperous”. They are coming because they’ve been told that the stupid American gringos will give them places to live, food, cell phones, free medical etc.
And flaming dumbass liberals tripped all over themselves to give illegals free (paid for by us) lodgings, transportation, food, cell phones, medical, and welfare checks.
The Tsarnaev brothers were given welfare the same month they set foot in Boston. (We all know how they spent it.)
Progressives are nothing more than lovers of communism and socialism. My paternal
grandparents came here from Ukraine in 1911. They were left wingers and called
themselves progressives. They loved mother Russia and uncle Joe and were positive
that Russia was a workers paradise. They even thought of returning to Russia after
the Russian revolution. Thank G– they didn’t or I probably would never have been
born.
Liberal virtue signalling defined in one article. Bravo. Seems, too, that you’ve noticed there’s very little “virtue” in it as well. It always makes me feel just a little bit better when it slaps them in the face though.
Maybe he should spend some time looking for the “root cause” of NYC’s immigrant problem. I think I can help him with that. It resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Personally, I consider a 63 year old man who wears an earing not a man to take seriously.
The root cause of open borders is altruism and the philosophy of altruism does not reside at the White House but at the universities.
The White House is simply following the ethics of Jesus of Nazareth and Mother Teresa — you are your brother’s keeper after all.
Actually they’re following Karl Marx ideology.
Sometimes idiotic fools like Socialist Sanders & the “Squad” blurt that out loud.
It was every single Democrat candidate in 2016 that raised their hand in agreement to give illegals free health care during their debate.
FYI: The “social gospel” (altruism, or meeting the material needs of the poor) ran its course decades ago.
Your analysis of Christianity is ignorant and shallow. “Jesus of Nazareth,” aka, the CHRIST, was about a whole lot more than Methodist soup kitchens.
Matthew 26:11 “The poor you have with you always.”
Dear Beez, you’re the one who is being shallow. You are free to interpret the message of Jesus any way you want but the philosophers of Christianity, the theologians, understand what Jesus’ altruism demands.
Social justice altruism came from religion and socialism has to revert back to its religious form in order to last.
“Socialism is really helping religion. The bigger the statism, the more people are accustomed to government rule over everything. The more people are ready for religionists to take over the lead away from the more secular side… the socialists are building the basis for totalitarianism but only the religionists are going to cash in on it and take over….
I believe that the medievals understood much better than the moderns on what basis to build a totalitarian society that would last and not collapse in less than a century. They did it. And the people in the rising religious movements today know that full well. They’re the ones who have millions, upon millions, upon millions, of followers and a real insight into the fact that economics is not the crucial factor in history but philosophy and culture [are the crucial factors that determine the course of history] ….
Religion was the root of all evil from the beginning. It has ruled in disguised forms and still is. And now the disguise has to be stripped off if there is to be a lasting totalitarianism. For a lasting totalitarian state, religion is the only means.” – Leonard Peikoff
Your message doesn’t seem to be getting across, Mr. PhD-less.
Hello THX and Beez – Yes the Christian message is that we need a government that can solve our problems and end this tragedy that we are presently living in, and that government is NOT a human one. It is the Kingdom of God, the heavenly government for whose coming Jesus taught us to pray.
Followers of Christ are taught to be “no part” of the world, to stay out of its divisive politics and its cruel wars.
“They refused to take any active part in the civil administration or the military defence of the empire. . . . it was impossible that the Christians, without renouncing a more sacred duty, could assume the character of soldiers, of magistrates, or of princes.”—History of Christianity (New York, 1891), Edward Gibbon, pp. 162, 163.
Isn’t this the built-in safeguard within Christianity, as it means we can never force our views on others, only hope and pray that they will listen and hear us?
Dear Sue, you are correct, Christianity can be and has been interpreted in a peaceful and even a pacifist way, the Quakers are pacifist (the Quakers were also persecuted as heretics). And Christianity has been interpreted by Christians as sanctioning and even encouraging the initiation of force against infidels and heretics.
The crucial issue is not the content of Christianity but its epistemological method. The metaphysics and epistemology of religion as such. The thrust of religion because it is based on a supernatural metaphysics that can only be accepted on faith is towards physical force, towards theocracy, because there is no other way to convince an unbeliever of religious claims except by force.
Because of this crucial issue of metaphysics and epistemology, peaceful Christianity, eventually gives way to, theocratic Christianity. Christianity is always weaponized for theocracy.
Hi THX – I don;t know if you have ever thought about the fact that Jesus warned that Christianity is a narrow path and few would find it and walk on it. Could you for example ever have a “Christian nation”, given that Christians cannot bear arms or fight in wars?
So we must conclude that you wear an earing, because you are not to be taken seriously.
NYC can’t absorb 90k immigrants? That’s bull.
These immigrants are the most fierce survivors coming from countries where living & working is a black market activity. Traveling long distance under harsh conditions to be here is a triumph of human endurance. Most are surviving in the black market; but the law says Adams has to provide for them & that he can’t do.
It’s all political kabuki.
Yes, we should exploit his embarrassment for our political ends but the immigrants get my respect. The hardworking immigrants are doing fine; the bums are causing Adams a headache but when you offer handouts …
MS13 work hard also – work hard to form criminal networks. Fentanyl is cascading across the open border in record numbers.
Muslim jihadist cells are industrious toward their ends also
All are cashing in on the aiding & abetting, courtesy of Sleazy Grifting Joe.
“where to settle” “next point in your journey” “Touch-points” Why are these criminals who broke US law being coddled? How about a flyer that tells them to go home?
Id say that never in history has an organized funded hostile demanding invading army been treated like this.
How about they go to airport, thence to where came from.
They can read it in flight.
We’re virtuous until we have to pay the cost for being so, Time to change the lyrics to “If you can try to make it here, we’ll send you anywhere.”
But what is really virtue?
Are altruism, selflessness, and self-sacrifice really virtues? Or are they in fact evil and destructive? Are you really your brother’s keeper? Or are you a sovereign, independent, individual whose highest moral purpose is the pursuit and achievement of your own, personal, self-interested happiness?
Is selfishness really evil or is it man’s highest virtue and responsibility?
Is the purpose of morality to teach you to suffer and die and prepare you for the grave, or to enjoy yourself and live here on earth?
Is it really moral to emulate Jesus and Mother Teresa or Elon Musk and Donald Trump? Because let me tell you something neither Musk or Trump are doing what they’re doing as an act of self-sacrifice like Jesus or Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu. They’re pursuing their own selfish interests for selfish gain or selfish profit. Trump is fighting to make America great again because it selfishly matters to his happiness.
“The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve “the common good.” It is true that capitalism does—if that catch-phrase has any meaning—but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification of capitalism lies in the fact that it is [selfish and selfishness is virtue] …
It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing….
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” – Ayn Rand
You attack the word “virtue” very well, and you are correct. Permitting unlimited immigration is not virtuous, but very evil.
But you fail when you bring in examples like Jesus, Mother Teresa, Musk and Trump. All of these people voluntarily lived their lives for their greatest joy. Musk and Trump are consummate capitalists who do not always choose financial gain for personal satisfaction.
Jesus was never altruistic, and I challenge you to give a single example.
Mother Teresa chose to live her life dedicated to the relief of suffering. This choice was hers to make and she no doubt made it for her own joy.
Can you not see that other people might find fulfillment where you do not?
I find your strangely inconsistent thinking simply fascinating Kynarion Hellenis.
I wish I knew you personally and we could discuss the issues face to face to try and resolve the inconsistencies in your thinking.
You remind me of myself when I first encountered the writings of Ayn Rand. Particularly when I first encountered the idea of “If God created the universe, then who created God?” I couldn’t make heads or tails of that question, I couldn’t wrap my mind around it, I wrestled with it for weeks, it seemed like the most absurd question in the world, because to me it seemed absolutely clear, self-evident even, that the universe required a creator.
You know Kynarion, once you really lose your faith on a seriously intellectual level, there’s no going back to the enchantment, peace, and tranquility of your original complete faith. Just like when Helen Keller finally figured out what Annie Sullivan was trying to make Helen understand there was no way for Helen Keller to go back to her original state.
Want to know something Kynarion, I’ve read that the Romani (the Gypsies) hold illiteracy as one of their prized cultural and personal possessions and that the Romani that do learn to read and write in adulthood absolutely regret it. And they long to go back to the Heaven of their illiteracy. Because they say that when they learned how to read and write the world and life lost their magical enchantment.
Are you sure you want to lose your faith for even one moment? Because there’s no going back not if you’re ruthlessly honest with yourself and then you’ll probably hate me just as I hated Ayn Rand for years for taking away the enchantment, peace, and comfort of a wonderful illusion.
I love truth even when it is hard truth and against all I would desire.
I would abandon my faith if it proved to be untrue. I agree with you that truth must make sense, but unlike you, I do not find faith to be unreasonable – because it is faith IN something – not faith in nothing or against or without evidence.
You believe in the reality of the natural world. I believe in that reality also, but believe it was created by what you call “super existence” or the “grace of existence.” I need not borrow from objectivism as you do from Christianity.
It is not mystical or unreasonable. It is not altruistic. It is truth, and sometimes it is very hard.
I used to hate the part of the bible from whence I get my pseudonym. Jesus came first to the Jews and ignored gentiles for the most part. His interaction with the Syro-Phoenician woman seemed so cruel, so heartless, so brutal when I first encountered it. Jesus would not listen to her or help her because she was a gentile. He called her a dog – despicable in those times, especially. But I now see that He did help her and gave her more than she could ask or desire – including the saving health of her daughter.
There is hope for you. You are not lukewarm. See Rev. 3: 15-16. The Apostle Paul HATED Christ and Christians, just as you do.
ANY time my thinking is inconsistent, please point it out.
Has it occurred to you that the inconsistencies in your thinking are too huge to over come.
It is amazing to me how arrogant you are that you feel you have the right to point out everyone’s “faults”.
“You attack the word “virtue” very well, and you are correct.”
Oh, but I’m not attacking virtue at all, I’m attacking altruism and sacrifice.
Man’s capacity for virtue, is in fact, his crowning glory. It is what men have accepted as the definition of virtue that has been their tragedy.
“In spite of all their irrationalities, inconsistencies, hypocrisies and evasions, the majority of men will not act, in major issues, without a sense of being morally right and will not oppose the morality they have accepted. They will break it, they will cheat on it, but they will not oppose it; and when they break it, they take the blame on themselves. The power of morality is the greatest of all intellectual powers—and mankind’s tragedy lies in the fact that the vicious moral code men have accepted [altruism] destroys them by means of the best within them.” – Ayn Rand
You are correct that altruism is not a virtue. Sacrifice can be virtuous, depending upon context.
I should have given you a key verse to defend my statement about Jesus:
Hebrews 12: 2 “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the authora and perfecter of our faith, who for the JOY [emphasis mine] set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
The leftist idea of Morality is that it isn’t a strictly rational thing and we must apply rational principles to society along scientific rational lines in order to improve society.
John Leake
The world is perishing? I would say your world is perishing from an orgy of basic Objectivist stupidity
thx1138: Your’e my man……ayn was and is correct……
Many of my friends wjth whom i worked, came to my retirement !
They darned knew what happened was ME
I sat there crying…..why ????? because,tomorrow i couldn’t come back to work !
I loved working………it was my joy………….sound crazy ?????
sorry for you if you think so !
Eddie
Great article.
Eventually every small town and city in America will resemble NYC because no one really wants to stop it.
The flyers should read : Attention border invaders! You are committing a FEDERAL CRIME – DO NOT ENTER the USA unless INVITED!! We will not supply ANY RESOURCES for you – GO HOME and demand that YOUR COUNTRY provide for you! We are FULL – the BORDER IS CLOSED – GO HOME”!
The flyers would have to first say,
“Attention natural born American citizens whose ancestors came to America generations ago, you have no right to even a penny of your neighbor’s earnings. Stop using government force to steal your neighbor’s earnings to hand them over to you to fund you.
From now on the American government will not provide any of your neighbors’ confiscated earnings to fund you for the very same, moral reason, that the American government will no longer fund illegal aliens with your neighbors’ confiscated earnings either.
Freedom means you must carry your own weight and you have the responsibility to pay for your own costs. If you cannot, you must rely on voluntary charity, not on the stolen earnings of your neighbor. Freedom means your neighbor does not and will not fund you.”
You are correct, THX, but your definition of “freedom” is a bit narrow – economic independence.
Although economic independence is a great good, it is not the happiness of complete freedom. Fabulously wealthy people often find their money insufficient to provide the happiness they expected through economic independence.
Your definition of “freedom” seems closer to what I think of as “license.” Will happiness truly be found if each man is able to do whatever he wants without constraint? No. Man is not made compatible with that idea, but having lots of money certainly gives more opportunity and license to try.
Would you be happy serving Ayn Rand (if she were alive) and existing in her inner circle? Her remaining apostles were happy to do this, and they still make a good living by selling her books and ideas. But, would they be happy to continue to do so in poverty?
Freedom should bring happiness. So it is very important to base our happiness on that which makes us truly free to be happy, in whatever state we find ourselves.
But please understand, I do not say money or economic freedom is unimportant.
I meant political freedom.
“Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state—and nothing else.” – Ayn Rand
Government is, by its very nature, coercive. And it must be. Civilization requires government because of human nature (good and bad).
The character of those in power makes all the difference, because power is a powerful corrupting force for all but the best men. The objectivist may or may not be a man of good character. The USE of reason does not vitiate man’s tendency towards corruption.
Kynarion Hellenis says, “Government is, by its very nature, coercive. And it must be. Civilization requires government because of human nature (good and bad).”
Such a crucial issue cannot be left to imprecision and unclarity, that would be dangerous and deadly. A moral and legitimate government is not coercive, if by coercive we mean the INITIATION of physical force. A proper, moral, and legitimate government leaves people alone, in peace, to pursue their rational values and happiness. It may NEVER initiate COERCION against peaceful citizens who have violated no one else’s rights.
“If physical force is to be barred from social relationships, men need an institution charged with the task of protecting their rights under an objective code of rules.
This is the task of a government—of a proper government—its basic task, its only moral justification and the reason why men do need a government.
A government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of physical force under objective control—i.e., under objectively defined laws….
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man’s deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his.” – Ayn Rand
Government exists to punish the evil doer and to reward its citizens with protection. That is good government. Bad government rewards the evil doer and punishes the good by withdrawing protection and redress. “Initiation of force” is not precise enough to comprehend all the evil needing redress by government.
I think you see me as inconsistent because I do not fit your idea of Christian belief or practice? And this is why you have yet to point out an inconsistency in my reasoning?
Rand might be right about a lot of things, but that does not mean she was right about everything.
Sorry I cannot respond under your last reply, but the “reply” buttons no longer appear.
KYN: I’m sure you’ve read ATLAS SHRUGGED !
SHE WOULD BE GLAD I JOINED HER AND JOHN GAULT AND ALL THE OTHERS IN THE VALLEY ! I wish i was good enough but i sure would enjoy living in “poverty ”
with such wonder folk !
Eddie
Yeah, the illegals will take 5 minutes to read that lecture…..if they can read English at all.
Let the Democrat Jackass be pulled Down and Eaten by their Lake Monster they created
Its not so pleasant to have your cities and towns invaded by other cultures who are lawless and bringing in diseases is it? Well the left should have thought of that when they were only thinking about gaining votes and power by the breach of our borders at the cost of our sovereignty and security.
They already rule over us, and so this tactic ensures our resistance becomes less and less likely. They think to live as kings and queens, behind their 24-hour armed entrance gates, eating beef and enjoying exotic travel, heating and air conditioning. And they will use gas stoves.
RS: They WERE thinking about it and didn’t give a damn !
Eddie
UPDATE: NOW MAYORKAS IS ORCHESTRATING 125K MONTHLY!
Biden also wants to accelerate the inflow of chain migration migrants and dramatically accelerate the inflow of poor refugees to at least 125,000 per year.
Dozens of Migrants Sleep on Sidewalk Outside Packed NYC Hotel-Turned-Shelter
10,000 Illegal Immigrants Apprehended at Tucson Border Sector
On July 29, the Tucson, Arizona, Border Patrol announced it had apprehended 10,000 illegal immigrants in the past week—up by about 1,000 from the week before.
The $83,000 worth of fentanyl pills were found by Nogales Station agents inside an abandoned backpack located underneath the rear seat of a passenger shuttle van during a secondary inspection.
Revelation 21:5 The New Jerusalem. He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” He said to me: “It is done, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink with our cost from the spring of the water of life.
Hebrews 12:2. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary, and lose heart.
(Watch out for false prophets who will try to deceive many and misquote scripture.)
Wudda ya mean I can’t lose weight on an all-you-can-eat diet?