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Welcome to The Wiccan Christian. I’m sure many people wonder, “What exactly does that mean?” The truth is, I’m not sure there’s an official definition. If there is, I suppose that’s what I am. Hi, my name is Cindy. I created this blog to be something like a diary—a place to share my thoughts, favorite quotes, Bible verses, spiritual reflections, and the little things I’ve learned along the way. Some of these ideas are my own. Others have come from people whose words stayed with me long after I heard them. Together, they’ve helped shape the person I am today. I won’t promise that this blog will be perfectly organized because, quite honestly, I’m not an organized person. What I can promise is honesty. My hope is that by sharing my experiences, someone else might feel understood. Maybe you’ll see a piece of your own story in mine. I believe that sharing our stories takes away fear, replaces judgment with understanding, and reminds us that none of us are truly alone. I’ve lived through some incredibly beautiful moments, and I’ve also experienced some of life’s deepest wounds. Those experiences have left scars that may never completely disappear, but they have also shaped my strength, my faith, and my compassion for others. I don’t define myself by what I’ve been through. I define myself by the fact that I’m still here, still growing, still learning, and still believing there is hope. I’m a survivor. Thank you for stopping by. I hope you’ll stay awhile, and I hope something you read here brings you comfort, encouragement, or simply reminds you that someone else understands. Welcome.

YouTube. No, I Don’t Feel Bad About It. Should I?

What app eats up most of your screen time — and do you even feel bad about it?

I have to admit I am addicted to YouTube. It started back when I lived in Osceola. I guess I got lonely and started keeping it on just for the noise. After a very short while I was jamming to the new country songs on YouTube. I remember doing a live video on facebook while the song, “Up Down” played in the background.

There were a lot of other things about that place that felt very different.

Like, deer would come right in my back yard, so close to me that I could almost touch them.

I built a lot of alters back there. And kept them up until it was time to take them down.

I made my own circle as there was an unused ….. it looked like a concrete patio. That’s where I etched my own circle with spray paint.

The duplex/triplex was next to the creek. I used to walk down to that place often, and just listen. I can hear God speaking in the rush of the water.

Some times the creek ram slow. That tells me to slow myself down too.

I almost had a huge tree in the back yard crash down on me during a very severe storm. I was outside on the porch, watching the sky. I heard this tremendous creek and turned around as the tree was splitting apart and coming down. It was dark. I couldn’t actually see the tree. I just heard this loud crackling sound and when I turned around it was coming down. I ran in the house so fast. Because I could hear something going on, but because it was dark I couldn’t see what exactly was making all those noises? Well, I figured it out quite quickly that it be best I just put my butt back in the house.

A also saw a bear that night, on my way home. It was storming like crazy. I had to have my wipers on high. As I was almost home by a few miles, this bear crosses my path on the road. I didn’t stop and watch, as something was just telling me, “Go home!”.

For some reason that night is memorable to me. The great storms caught my attention for sure. I used to love storm chasing. I still do. I just don’t like to go alone. And I want the person with an interest in that kind of stuff to want to go with. Not feel forced.

There were some very pleasant things about the town of Osceola. And some not so much. I suppose like every other town.

Not really. Osceola residents are very friendly and courteous. I imagine because they’re so used to travelers/tourists.

I tried living in Osceola again, three years later, and I couldn’t do it. I was having terrible anxiety over there. I was constantly on guard that something was going to happen to me again. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat. After two months I waved my white flag and said, “Having deer in my back yard isn’t as important as my comfort”. So I moved out three months into a year lease.

I went back home and stayed in a sober house for a while. I felt I needed the extra support. Fortunately for me, they had an available room in the town I wanted to live in. It was close to my immediate family. I think I was at the sober house three months. Then my daughter and son in law invited me into their home.

Not sure how this tangent relates…..

Oh, YouTube. I’ve done my own personal videos on YouTube. Of course, I took them all down when I got clean and level headed. But you can find anything to watch on YouTube. Just plug a word or two in the search bar and away you go, into the rabbit hole of YouTube.

It’s addicting. It’s usually what I have on all day/night long. I’ve done a lot of research using YouTube. I’m not saying it’s perfect. The only perfect AU person that I see around here is ChatGPT. And after reading a few things I’m not so sure about her anymore either.

Let’s see. ..🤔 The last thing I watched on YouTube is this mediation station that I’ve had on 24/7.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDNdfzZTTDLVc&playnext=1&si=i-w_EXXF42vxurSS

Check it out if you’re looking for great relaxation.

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5 responses to “YouTube. No, I Don’t Feel Bad About It. Should I?”

  1. moshe kerr Avatar
    moshe kerr

    The PM of Israel speaks @the UN today. UN General Assembly resolutions are non-binding political declarations driven by block-voting dynamics, not impartial judicial rulings. The attempt to treat the 1949 Armistice Lines (the “Green Line”) as sacrosanct international borders ignores both the text of the agreements and foundational principles of international law.

    Its exceptionally easy to tell the bias of News Organizations whose Headlines read “Internationally Isolated”. The media’s reliance on headlines like “internationally isolated” highlights a fundamental misunderstanding—or deliberate blurring—of how international law actually works. It conflates political block voting in the United Nations General Assembly with binding legal authority, substituting diplomatic posturing for established legal doctrine. The block voting of the UN does not determine Israeli strategic interests. Post October 7th, 2023 … the UN blood libel vote which declared the PM a ‘war criminal’, amounts to the charge of ‘baby killers’ ‘Jews poisoned the wells’ mob slanders wherein disgraced European countries all across Europe condemn Jews based upon church interest lies.

    The 1949 Armistice Agreements: The armistice agreements signed between Israel and its neighbors (Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon) explicitly stated that the ceasefire lines existed purely as military lines, not permanent political or territorial boundaries. The Israeli-Jordanian agreement specifically noted that the lines were drawn without prejudice to future territorial settlements. In international law, newly independent states inherit the administrative boundaries of the preceding sovereign entity (in this case, the British Mandate) upon independence, unless agreed otherwise. Because no sovereign state existed in the West Bank or Gaza prior to 1948, the 1949 lines never possessed international border status.

    The French version of 242 deliberately included “the” as its definitive article before “territories”. French imperialism which broke pre-war its alliance with Israel and imposed a weapons embargo against the Jewish state invalidates post war French hostile “neutrality”; in May 1967, de Gaulle explicitly warned Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban against striking first. When Israel did launch its preemptive strike, de Gaulle used it to execute a full strategic rupture the diplomatic arm of France’s newly minted “Arab Policy” (politique arabe); which every bit duplicates Chamberlains ‘White Paper’ betrayal. In November 1967—the exact month Resolution 242 was drafted—de Gaulle held a press conference infamously describing the Jewish people as “an elite people, self-sure and domineering” (“un peuple d’élite, sûr de lui-même et dominateur”), signaling an official end to the Franco-Israeli special relationship.

    At the Security Council in November 1967, French Ambassador Armand Bérard actively aligned France with Soviet and Arab diplomatic positions demanding an unconditional, 100% Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 lines. By insisting on the definite phrasing “des territoires occupés” in the French text, France created a legal hook that its diplomats and former colonies could cite to back Arab demands, while claiming to maintain a “neutral, rules-based” stance. France’s hostile shift only highlights how diplomatic texts are routinely weaponized for regional influence.

    UN SC Resolution 2334 duplicates the Chamberlain White Paper disgrace. Post the June War of 1967 UN declarations pretend that ’48 Arab-Israel cease fire lines separated Israeli lands from Palestinian lands. This blood libel compares to the ICC lie that it has jurisdiction to try the Israeli PM, despite Israel’s rejection of both the Rome Agreement and the ICC attempts to ignore the terms of the Oslo Accords which established PA autonomy in Samaria in Area A and some portions of Area B; and completely ignores the Hamas election victory following Arafat’s 2nd Intifada disaster – which resulted in the death of Arafat forced to flee to France to treat a dying man. Under international law, the Oslo PA entity cannot grant a court powers it does not possess itself. The Oslo Accords (specifically Oslo II, Article IX), the Palestinian Authority – given territorial and administrative authority over Areas A and B, but explicitly excluded from criminal jurisdiction over Israeli citizens.

    Simply restated: Israel, like Russia and the US not a state party to the Rome Statute. For the ICC to bypass national sovereignty, it requires either a UN Security Council referral or valid delegation of territorial jurisdiction from a sovereign state—neither of which applies here. Sudan (Omar al-Bashir): While the ICC issued arrest warrants for al-Bashir (including genocide counts), but he was not transferred to the ICC and the case did not result in an ICC conviction. The ICC record does not show ICC genocide convictions for leaders from countries that “rejected” the treaty (as in: the ICC tried the leader to conviction). The 1994 Rwanda genocide never tried before an ICC because Rwanda too never signed the Rome Treaty. The ICC has no war crimes conviction of a leader of any country that rejects the Rome treaty.

    The 1939 White Paper invalidated the British mandate of 1922. Post War the lie of White Paper lie, that London would establish a Arab Palestinian state with a Jewish minority populations, ceased to exist the moment the British returned the Palestine protectorate back to the UN. The League of Nations itself never condemned the separation of Trans-Jordan at the Jordan river; but all UN member nations, except disgraced Britain and Two-State Pakistan, condemned in 1950 Jordan’s illegal annexation of Samaria. When PM David Ben Gurion named the new nation – Israel, Jewish self-determination categorically rejected the post Bar Kochba Roman attempt to erase the memory of Judea from off the map. Post the Nakba defeat of both Allah and all Arab Armies repeated attempts to complete the Nazi European Shoah in the Middle East, the nation of Israel cast the Roman imperialism of “Palestine-Syria” upon the dung heaps of history. UN slander attempts post ’67 to limit the international borders of Israel to the ’48 cease-fire lines and declare the West Bank and Gaza Palestinian territory – no different from the Chamberlain White Paper – both fall outside the authority of the 1922 Palestine Mandate.

    The British Mandate history matters. As does the evolution of international instruments post the destruction of the Roman empire. Post ’67 UN framing treats the defunct League mandate following Chamberlain ‘White Paper’ lines, and subsequent territorial claims in a ways that conveniently supports a Calvinist predetermined theology rather than anything remotely approaching legal analysis. Israel’s post Shoah founding – grounded in Jewish self-determination, and post-1948 political and security developments—along with repeated regional rejection of negotiated resolutions—such as the famous 3-NOS—have shaped the conflict in ways UN rhetoric propaganda totally ignores. But actions have their consequences. The attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in atomic bombs dropped on Japanese cities. Likewise the attack on Oct 7th, 2023 Israeli self determination seeks to force a mass population transfer and establish the yichus tribal territory of Reuven. A complete rejection of Arafat’s ‘Greater Israel’ propaganda.

    Arab rejection of UN GA 181 and defeat in to genocide wars to throw the Jews into the Sea, terminated dhimmi Arab refugee rights to self-determination within the post ’67 cease-fire lines. Nasser’s pre-war promise to complete the Nazi genocide in Europe separates the ’48 Independence War from the Six Day War. Furthermore, the PLO Charter of 1964 limits “occupied Palestinian territory” only to 1948 Israel. The failure of any Arab state to repatriate their Arab dhimmi Arab refugees populations, by giving those refugee populations citizenship coupled with the UNWRA abomination which made Arab refugee status transferable to later born generations — definitively proves the UN block voting attempts to slander Israel on par with UN GA 3379!

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  2. Priti Avatar
    Priti

    I also have a YouTube channel 😀

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    1. Cyngsoul70 Avatar
      Cyngsoul70

      You should share the address so I can subscribe 😁

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      1. Priti Avatar
        Priti

        https://youtube.com/@pritilatanandi2010?si=lUZmeuVymVFWKXm9

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  3. Ajinkya Rane Avatar
    Ajinkya Rane

    it really is engaging.

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