This morning I heard that Amazon is firing thousands of its employees. 14,000 human beings are getting replaced by AI. It's sad to think that our fellow human beings are suddenly having their lives disrupted. Where will they go? What work can they do? How will they pay their bills?

I again wondered how I could deal directly with sellers and avoid the middlemen altogether.

How much does Amazon charge their sellers, anyway? To do business on Amazon, what is the seller's cost? Or on a similar merchant website: eBay?

Ironically, I used AI to get an answer. Here is my summary of the conversation, without all the fluff.

Compare the seller fees on eBay and Amazon for a $30 food item.

Answer: When the seller handles both storage and shipping, the fees for both, rounded off to the nearest whole number is the same: 15%.

Wow, the fees are so high for either service! It's even more than a tithe!

Moses told the people they should tithe their increase to the temple of God, which was 10% of their food (not ever money) but it seems like a reasonable sacrifice to make toward God: 10% of whatever He blesses us with could go toward serving him. Since the tithe was always food, a tithe today could be food given to the poor and to those who feed the poor.

eBay and Amazon charge more than a tithe. How can they justify their fees? They are very profitable businesses, so they obviously charge more than they require to sustain themselves.

Why the tithe analogy? Man must choose his god: either the AI-powered god or the True and Living God. It looks like the price is much higher for choosing the god of this world.... It will cost even more than the monetary fees.... The world will also cost a man his soul.

Sometimes we can share goods and services for free. Sharing and giving, person to person, requires no corporate fees. In the case of food, I personally like the idea of sharing extra food from the garden with others.... Not selling it, but giving it away.

Rape of a child is illegal anywhere in the United States. But we cannot say the same of mutilating the genitals of children.

If a man with a government-issued license in New York performs surgery or prescribes chemicals that mutilates a child's genitals, and the child says they wanted that, that man is not prosecuted by either the state government or the federal government. In fact, he is financially rewarded for such behavior.

But if that same man rapes a child, that is ILLEGAL in any state of the nation.

What is the difference between rape and genital mutilation? Both can cause life-long psychological harm and the latter is guaranteed to leave behind a daily physical reminder of how their body was violated.

Instead of withholding funding to force states to protect children, here are other ideas, if they are indeed serious about protecting children NOW:

• Pass a federal law banning genital-related surgeries on minors.

• Launch investigations into hospitals or clinics suspected of violating children

• Reclassify puberty blockers or hormone therapies as experimental or high-risk for minors. That drug classification could restrict their use under federal drug safety laws.

• If a state is deemed unwilling to protect children, the president could invoke emergency powers. Troops could be sent to enforce federal law that protects minors.

• Revoke licenses for anyone that performed genital mutilation. Those licenses are issued by the government.

• Classify violators as child predators. Add those violators to the public sex offender registry.

I suspect the government shutdown is mostly drama intended to contribute to the Second American Civil War and further weakening of the nation, leading to the collapse of the last great superpower. I do not believe that the federal government actually cares about children.... but I pray God would intervene and protect the children!

If they cared, then why haven't they performed a serious investigation into the pedophiles listed in the Epstein documents?

Why are they holding guns? And I wonder if they wear masks out of shame, because they do not want to be identified. How do we even know if these people are citizens of the United States?

Oct-23-2025



Last night I had a dream about snow. I saw that the top layer of snow on the ground was melting and turning into slush. I knew that at night when the temperatures dipped below freezing, that top layer would solidify into ice, which would cause trouble for anyone trying to move around outside.

Perhaps weather manipulation and the dream of snow are related. However, here it is currently much too warm for snow.

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Edit: Oct-25-2025

For the past two days it's been raining off and on. I suspect that cloud-seeding contributed to the precipitation in Arkansas. I thank the Lord that we have had no storms.... no hail, no strong winds, just precipitation.

I have had dreams about a draft in America for the next world war, so this historical piece is, I believe, soon to be pertinent once again: When a government forces its people to fight in a war....


Source: Youngstown Vindicator • Dec 2 1944 • Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, USA

Part of a large crowd of some 2,000 Montreal students of French language schools parade in protest to conscription. They marched over a three-mile route terminating with a 20-minute silence at Phillips Square. The demonstrators were quiet during the march. Here, they hold signs - one bearing the word "Conscription" and a huge death's head. Signs at center, and right, read: "Does India Have Conscription?" and "Ireland Does Not Have Conscription."

During World War II, Ireland held its stance on neutrality and avoided being drawn into the war.

I was surprised to learn that in the 1940s, Ukraine built concentration camps and imprisoned people there.... even children.


Source: The Telegraph • Apr 7 1994 • Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
http://filsofia.com/share/20251018-Nazi-concentration-camps-in-Ukraine.png

As 150 local residents gathered Wednesday at City Hall to remember the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust, one among them was certain not to forget. "I can't," said Jacob Scharf of Nashua. "I went through that." When he was 11 years old, Scharf was sent to the Bershad concentration camp in Ukraine, where he spent three years in a room with 108 people. By the time he was freed, 100 of them had died, most from starvation. "I wonder so many times how I survived," he reflected.

Russian president "Vladimir Putin", as he declared war against Ukraine, stated it was home to neo-Nazism. In his address February 21, 2022, he said:

It is not surprising that Ukrainian society was faced with the rise of far-right nationalism, which rapidly developed into aggressive Russophobia and neo-Nazism. Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

While I do not support any physical war against our fellow human beings, I do see that there is an historical basis for Putin's claim. Ukraine was under Nazi control during World War II and it would be naive to consider that it was completely eradicated.

Regarding war, the only sure way to overcome evil is with good. Love is the weapon that defeats enemies. The Heavenly Father's kingdom shall be established on earth as it is in heaven.... and His kingdom is that of peace, love, and joy.

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Confirmation (second testimony)

We arrived in Bershad, Ukraine ... tens of thousands of Jewish souls were massacred in the Bershad ghetto during the Holocaust

chabad.org | Backup #1 | Backup #2

His face.... Oh, there's the camera. OK. Have to do my pose and flash the hand sign. Those who know what it means will understand.

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Source: upi.com

I let my imagination wander as I tested AI and what it could do with generating video. These tests remind me and should remind you that you cannot believe anything you see with your physical eyes.

2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV |(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

The test began with a single still image of a man recorded in a commercial back in 2012. He struggled to speak a line, which was like a tongue twister:

Baked in a buttery, flaky crust

Some words came to my mind to use as a prompt to animate the image.

http://John1126.com/share/20251017-Buttery-Flaky-Crust---web.mp4

After I made the video, I suspected he might be dead. I searched online and discovered that Jack Palmer died last year. Source people.com | Archived

I consider that the ideas for this video could be loosely tied to the reality of his life, going through his life experience on Earth, but hopefully finding his way into the clouds.

Hebrews 12:1-2 KJV | Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

They speak with their hands. John Bolton is in the news today with the obvious pose, like Bill Gates has in the past.



Place your fingers on your eyeglasses. OK, hold that pose while we take your picture.

Edit: Oct-17-2025

The next day, I visit ABC news and they show two different images of the same man holding his eyeglasses.





They are broadcasting a message in sign language.

If it sounds crazy, it should! Professional sports were used in 1933 to advertise cigarettes.



This advertisement claimed almost all of the The New York Giants baseball team smoked the Camels brand cigarette. 21 out of 23 of the players jumped on the bandwagon to show that smoking a particular brand of cigarettes is good for you.



Their testimonies implied that smoking cigarettes is healthy for the nervous system. If professional athletes do it, then why not you, too? That's propaganda.



The professional baseball players representing New York in the current generation are again used to promote something as healthy, which many of us have avoided as far worse than a cigarette.





The military was also present at Yankee stadium to give the injections.


Operation Warp Speed

We should not be fooled by the rich and famous people who use their reputation to convince us to do something that is not good for our health.

Jesus said,

Luke 16:15b KJV | ....that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

The world might praise someone for their physical achievements, but to God it is worthless.


Skull with a burning cigarette, by Vincent van Gogh in 1886. What did he know about smoking?




Cancer prevention poster from New Zealand


Maybe some day there will be an official government warning regarding the COVID injections. But I wouldn't hold your breath.

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Sources

smoking advertisement: Atlanta Constitution • Oct 9 1933 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States oldnews.com

COVID injection campaign: yesnetwork.com