#its been 24 hours now but yesh

[dare-g]

The Kodo show was amazing 🖤🥁🖤🥁🖤

[melodielgrace]

70 horrible questions ... Fuck it

01: Do you have a good relationship with your parents? With my dad, but i wish my mother was dead tbh, there is no existing relationship with her 02: Who did you last say “I love you” to? probably my dog sasha 03: Do you regret anything? i mean yeah 04: Are you insecure? i mEAN YEAH 05: What is your relationship status? single and idk how i feel about it :/ 06: How do you want to die? DEATH 07: What did you last eat? 2 seconds ago 08: Played any sports? boooo sports 09: Do you bite your nails? yesh 10: When was your last physical fight? like never? 11: Do you like someone? uhhhhh 12: Have you ever stayed up 48 hours? probably 13: Do you hate anyone at the moment? always. 14: Do you miss someone? pretty much all the time yeah 15: Have any pets? yeah, two staffy dogs-Raff and Sasha-two budgies-like 1000 chooks, and two goats-Tippy and King 16: How exactly are you feeling at the moment? kinda gross, like sick :( 17: Ever made out in the bathroom? no 18: Are you scared of spiders? FUCK YEAH SPIDERS ARE EVIL 19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? like in my life or just like going to the 1920′s? bc yes to both 20: Where was the last place you snogged someone? N/A 21: What are your plans for this weekend? sleeping 22: Do you want to have kids? How many? nah, i wont have my own children but i’d probably foster/adopt 23: Do you have piercings? How many? 5, about to get no.6! 2 lobes each side, and right nostril, getting left one done this friday!!! :)))) 24: What is/are/were your best subject(s)? Drama, English 25: Do you miss anyone from your past? thats a dumb question of course i do 26: What are you craving right now? chocolate i guess 27: Have you ever broken someone’s heart? probably not 28: Have you ever been cheated on? nope 29: Have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? hopefully 30: What’s irritating you right now? ME 31: Does somebody love you? gosh damn i hope so 32: What is your favourite color? pink 33: Do you have trust issues? fucken ay 34: Who/what was your last dream about? my cousin hit me with a FRYING PAN??? 35: Who was the last person you cried in front of? hmm idk i think its actually been a while since i cried...im overdue lmao 36: Do you give out second chances too easily? yep, even though i dont trust people 37: Is it easier to forgive or forget? I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS PHRASE i dont do either, i hold a grudge til i explode 38: Is this year the best year of your life? nah 39: How old were you when you had your first kiss? N/A 40: Have you ever walked outside completely naked? no wtf 51: Favourite food? all of the food 52: Do you believe everything happens for a reason? maybe 53: What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? tried to write 54: Is cheating ever okay? no, thats why its called cheating 55: Are you mean? hope so 56: How many people have you fist fought? like maybe 2 idk im not a lover or a fighter im a crier 57: Do you believe in true love? nah 58: Favourite weather? warmmmm 59: Do you like the snow? dunno, never had it 60: Do you wanna get married? nope 61: Is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby? *yeah* 62: What makes you happy? food, usually 63: Would you change your name? I ALREADY DID BITCHESSSSSS :D 64: Would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed? N/A 65: Your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? probably nothing lol 66: Do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around? nope 67: Who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to? my dad? 68: Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? probably my friend R who wONT GIVE ME HER TUMBLR URL 69: Do you believe in soulmates? idk 70: Is there anyone you would die for? yeah probably my siblings <3

[morganbelarus]

Patel held undisclosed meetings in Israel

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The International Development Secretary held undisclosed meetings in Israel without telling the Foreign Office while accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative lobbyist, the BBC has learned.

Priti Patel met the leader of one of Israel's main political parties and made visits to several organisations where official departmental business was reportedly discussed.

According to one source, at least one of the meetings was held at the suggestion of the Israeli ambassador to London.

In contrast, British diplomats in Israel were not informed about Ms Patel's plans.

Ministers are by convention supposed to tell the Foreign Office when they are conducting official business overseas.

The meetings took place over two days in August while Ms Patel was on holiday in Israel.

'Freelance foreign policy'

No civil servants were present but Ms Patel was accompanied by Lord Polak, honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), an influential lobbying organisation that has access to wealthy party donors.

Some ministers and MPs accused Ms Patel of trying to win favour with wealthy pro-Israeli Conservative donors who could fund a potential future leadership campaign.

Others accused her of conducting her own "freelance foreign policy" on Israel. Ms Patel is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of CFI.

Ministers also said there was a potential risk that the meetings could have broken the ministerial code of conduct which states that "ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise".

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Image caption Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been in London this week

One minister said: "This is outrageous. She is a Cabinet minister. She just cannot do this. This is about donors and influence."

One former minister said: "What does it say to the rest of the Middle East if a senior Cabinet minister in charge of Britain's huge aid budget disappears for 48 hours from a family holiday in Israel and is under the wing of a pro-Israeli lobbyist?"

The revelations risk embarrassing the government while the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is in London to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, when Britain first gave its support for a national home for the Jewish people.

A senior Downing Street source denied Ms Patel had done anything wrong. And a source at the Department for International Development said it was a private holiday paid for by the Secretary of State herself.

'Blindsided'

Foreign Office sources in London - and diplomatic sources in the region - confirmed that Ms Patel had not given them any warning of her visit.

One minister said: "Yes, we did not know about the trip. We were unsighted on it." Another source said the British consulate in Jerusalem was "blindsided" and felt "slightly bruised".

A third Foreign Office source said: "We didn't know and would have expected to know, given the meetings she had."

Ms Patel took time out from her family holiday on 24 August to meet Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party, a former finance minister in Mr Netanyahu's coalition government.

Mr Lapid tweeted a picture of the meeting, saying it was "great to meet Priti Patel" whom he described as "a true friend of Israel." Mr Lapid's spokesman confirmed that he had met Ms Patel but refused to say what they discussed.

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Ms Patel was accompanied by the Tory peer, Lord Polak. He is now honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel but for more than 25 years, he was the director of the lobby group. And in that role he had a huge influence on Conservative thinking on the Middle East, including writing speeches for Tory party leaders.

Lord Polak told the BBC that he just happened to be on holiday at the same time as Ms Patel. "We met up for one or two things," he said. "It was the summer holidays. I just joined her for a couple of days, some drinks, some dinner, that kind of thing."

That included the meeting with Mr Lapid: "He is just an old friend of mine, a personal friend. He is more a journalist than a politician. We just had coffee with him. It wasn't anything formal. It is all very innocent."

'Fruitful partnership'

Conservative Friends of Israel regularly pays for MPs and peers to visit Israel. But Lord Polak said that Ms Patel paid for the holiday herself and the trip had nothing to do with CFI.

The peer said he organised for Ms Patel to visit Israeli firms and charities creating technologies that could be interesting to a Secretary of State for Development.

Ms Patel visited Beit Issie Shapiro (BIS), a leading Israeli disability charity and campaign group, where she reportedly discussed the possibility of her department forming a long-term partnership with the organisation.

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Jean Judes, executive director of BIS, published a picture on Facebook of Ms Patel visiting her organisation.

Mrs Judes wrote: "As the director of the DFID - UK Department for International Development, Ms Patel expressed interest in a long-term relationship with Beit Issie Shapiro, harnessing Israeli innovation to advance assistive technology for the benefit of people with disabilities in underdeveloped countries.

"We look forward to a strong, fruitful partnership with the DFID to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities worldwide."

'We reached out'

Mrs Judes told the BBC that the Israeli embassy in London had been involved in setting up the visit: "We reached out.

"We met with the Israeli ambassador in London and he said this is something we should bring to the attention of Priti Patel." The Israeli embassy in London declined to respond to questions.

Lord Polak said Ms Patel also visited Innovation: Africa, an Israeli not-for-profit organisation developing new solar and water technologies for remote African communities.

The fear among some Tory MPs is that Ms Patel also used the trip to discuss reducing her department's support for Palestinian groups.

Palestinian funding

The UK currently sends about £68m a year to support the Palestinian territories, most of it from DFID's budget. Some of the money is given directly to the Palestinian Authority, the rest through the local UN agency or individual groups.

Critics claim that instead of just supporting Palestinian refugees and institutions, the money has also been used to pay salaries to Palestinians jailed for terrorism-related offences.

Ms Patel has long been a critic of this funding. She tightened up the guidelines on Palestinian spending last year, focusing more on health and education, but one Foreign Office source said that she had recently tried to go further, presenting a paper to the prime minister and the foreign secretary for yet more restrictions on the funding.

"But they were not particularly impressed by her arguments," said one Foreign Office source. Another said: "She has been trying this for some time. She has been pushing to get her hands on the PA aid budget and we have been pushing back."

Others suggested Ms Patel was getting close to CFI in preparation for a future leadership contest. One Whitehall source said: "I have always understood it to be part of her leadership ambitions, if she has got people from CFI who are prepared to put money into her."

The BBC sent Ms Patel's office a list of questions concerning the visit to Israel which it declined to answer.

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[dfroza]

A set of posts

shared by John Parsons that illuminates our deepest need of being accepted, loved.

(A treasure of the heart)

Just as we are to ask God for daily bread (לֶחֶם חֻקֵּנוּ), so we are to ask for daily deliverance: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us (חַלְּצֵנוּ) from evil" (Matt 6:13). Note that the term translated “evil” in many translations ("deliver us from evil") is a substantive rather than an adjective: τοῦ πονηροῦ, the evil one... “Give us this day our daily deliverance from the evil one....” Our daily bread and our daily deliverance are connected with our decision to "choose life" (בַּחַרְתָּ בַּחַיִּים) -- and to always choose life -- even in moments we find difficult, distressing, and even when we might wish that we were no longer living... Choosing life means refusing to escape reality by evading the significance of our choices; it means finding the will to regard life as worthy; it implies that we will eat our bread in trust that the Lord is at work even in the darkest of hours (Passover occurred at midnight)... Choosing life means refusing to eat the fruit of death and to seek Yeshua, the Tree of Life. We live one day at a time; we only have today. We are given daily bread for this hour of our need. Today is the day of your deliverance - if you are willing to walk in it. Therefore, the Spirit of the Living God cries out, “Choose life and live!” [H4C]

10.29.19 • Facebook

Sometimes we may experience painful loneliness -- a desperate feeling that love is for other people, that we are unlovable, unwanted, unseen... We struggle between the extremes, at once lamenting our very existence while hungering for connection. We feel abandoned, hopeless, and shrouded in gloom: "darkness, my one companion left..." (Psalm 88:18). We then may attempt to suppress or avoid the pain through obsessions of various kinds, but doing so will only temporarily hide the truth of our inner emptiness and sadness. Deep down we are profoundly afraid that we will never feel comforted, that love is not possible for us, and therefore we are trapped, bound to sorrow, made captive to a relentless inner grieving of heart. "Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear, your fear of not being welcome in this life, and your death fear, your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived" (Nouwen). It takes courage to face ourselves, but it is only when we go "through the wound" that we discover who we really are -- and how our loneliness teaches us our desperate need for God's love. Only when we accept our loneliness and understand it as an invitation to turn away from the world and its illusions will we be able to seek God alone, in our solitude, and there find healing for our broken hearts (Psalm 147:3). It is in the seclusion of the desert when we discover yesh ohev davek me'ach, "there is a Beloved one who sticks closer than a brother" (Prov. 18:24). In the desert, in the waste places of the hurting soul, in the mourning over your life, you learn that you are never really alone, that you are not forgotten, that God sees you and wants you to feel accepted, chosen, esteemed, beloved, wanted... In the desert your Beloved one speaks and says to you: "Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away" (Song 2:10). [H4C]

10.28.19 • Facebook

accompanied by another from Today that speaks of breaking the curse of death that now exists in this temporal world:

The name "Noah" (Noach) comes from the shoresh (root) nacham (נָחַם), meaning to comfort. Other Hebrew words that use this root include nichum (compassion), nuach (rest), and menuchah (rest from work). Noach’s very name foreshadowed the coming of Yeshua. His father Lamech (meaning “powerful one”) regarded Noach as a deliverer who would comfort us from the ravages of the curse (Gen. 3). In like manner it was prophesied that Yeshua would give us everlasting rest: "His rest shall be glorious" (Isa. 11:10), and He offers rest to the weary (Matt. 11:28, Heb. 4:9). His sacrifice on the Cross at Moriah undoes the kelalah (curse) over the children of Adam. Indeed, His life, sacrifice, and resurrection was like a "magic spell" that "spoke backwards" the sin of the "First Adam" - and by means of His deliverance the power of the curse was forever broken (Gal. 3:13, John 3:14, 2 Tim.1:10; Heb. 2:14; Heb. 9:27-28; 1 John 3:8, Rev. 22:3). By means of His Spirit we are given an everlasting comfort (John 14:16). [Hebrew for Christians (H4C)]

10.30.19 • Facebook

[voidofmymind]

all nitch

1.Do you want a romantic partner?yes2.When did your last hug take place?this afternoon3.Are you a jealous person?sometimes yeah4.Are you tired right now?physically: noemotionally: yesmentally: beyond so5.Do you chew on your straws?sometimes6.Have you ever been called a tease?once7.Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?buddy u don’t know pain until you’re awake for almost twice that8.Do you cry easily?i cry a lot more than people realize9.What should you be doing right now?my AP Essay10.Are you a heavy sleeper?yes11.Do you think you can last in a relationship for 6 months?totally12.Are you mad at someone right now?yeah, kinda. idk anymore???13.Do you believe in love?yesssssss14.What makes you laugh no matter what?memories15.Who was the last person you talked to?@sankouu16.Do you get butterflies around the person you like?i would but hes an actual meme so we just fucking dab it out17.Will you get married?i hope one day i will18.When was the last time you smiled?the car ride home from school19.Does anyone like you?i know one person does romantically, but i don’t think my current crush even knows that i like him more than platonicly 20.Do you secretly like someone?i guess21.Who was the first person you talked to today?@sankouu22.Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?@sankouu23.What are you NOT looking forward to?Finals, New semester, Tech week, dealing with dating stuff24.What ARE you looking forward to?Ashland Trip, Seattle Pride, Working the summer as a farmhand25.Has someone of another gender ever told you they loved you, and meant it?i think he did26.Suppose you see your ex kissing another person what would you do?not give a fuck. they’re an ex for a reason27.Do you plan on moving out within the next year?oh god no28.Are you a forgiving person?depends on what or who i need to forgive29.How many TRUE friends do you have?great question30.Do you fall for people easily?not anymore31.Have you ever fallen for your ex’s best friend?no32.What’s the last thing you put in your mouth?my tablet pen33.Who was the last person you drove with?my friend liz34.How late did you stay up last night and why?i mean its 10:30 at night and i just woke up35.If you could move somewhere else, would you?yes36.Who was the last person you took a picture of?myself37.Can you live a day without TV?yes38.When was the last time you were extremely disappointed?im always dissapointed in myself39.Three names you go by...Sam, Void, Bean40.Are you currently in a relationship?um41.What is your all-time favorite romance movie?The Princess Bride42.Do you believe that everyone has a soul-mate?in one way or another now. i dont think its always human/romantic though43.What’s your current problem?what isnt my problem rn is a better question44.Have you ever had your heart broken?yesh45.Your thoughts of long distance relationships?hey if u can make it work then go for it46.How many kids do you want to have?none47.Have you ever found it hard to tell someone you like them? yep