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A drug poisoning doesn't kill a person, it kills a family--7.20.23. Conscripted into the brotherhood of loss. Tweets are mine. Addiction Medicine Physician

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#RiseandShine breakfast @HopeAcademyRHS thank you Rachelle for your dedication!
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Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul! A professor at the university asked his students the following question: Everything that exists was created by God? One student bravely answered: Yes, created by God. Did God create everything? - a professor asked. "Yes, sir," replied the student. The professor asked : If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil. The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth. Another student raised his hand and said: Can I ask you a question, professor? "Of course," replied the professor. A student got up and asked: Professor, is cold a thing? What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold? Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered: Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat. A student continued: Professor, does darkness exist? — Of course it exists. You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light. In the end, the young man asked the professor: Sir. does evil exist? This time it was uncertain, the professor answered: Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil. To this, the student answered: Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light. The student's name was Albert Einstein.
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This story falsely attributes a fictional classroom debate to Albert Einstein. The anecdote is a debunked urban legend that predates its association with him and contradicts his documented views on religion. snopes.com/fact-check/fal… politifact.com/factchecks/201…
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At 12, I started smoking cigarettes. At 13, I started smoking weed and fornicating. At 14, I started drinking alcohol and self harming. I hated myself & my life. I wanted to die. At age 17, someone shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with me and I became born again. I received the Holy Spirit & He set me free from my sins. Not only that, but He became the Father I never had. He healed my broken heart and gave me a new life in Christ. It’s been 14 years now. I’m still thankful everyday 🥹
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MARCO RUBIO 🔥 I Never looked at America the same way after this speech.
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🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Former Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lon Johnson just announced he will NOT vote for Abdul El Sayed for Senate, and he's urging fellow Democrats to leave the Senate line BLANK Wow! MIKE ROGERS LOVES THIS 🔥 "Our gravest concerns involve El Sayed's associations with figures who have excused or minimized terrorism, his reluctance to unequivocally condemn dangerous rhetoric, and his support of extreme policies." "He has failed that test. As a result, we will not vote for Abdul El Sayed." When the man who used to run the party won't vote for its nominee, that tells you everything! El Sayed won the nomination with less than 50% of the vote, and now he's facing intraparty rebellion!
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🔥🚨 JAW-DROPPING BETRAYAL! 🚨🔥 Hakeem Jeffries was asked POINT-BLANK if a Democrat-controlled House would BRING BACK the illegal aliens Trump already deported to third countries (like Africa): Reporter: “Will the Congress under your leadership bring back the [illegal aliens] deported to third countries?” Jeffries NODS YES repeatedly 👀 and says: “We do.” Then drops this bombshell: “Trump’s mass deportation machine does NOT get a DIME.” Translation? Hand Democrats the gavel in November and they’ll DEFUND ICE, halt deportations, and try to REVERSE the ones already done — flying people BACK into America on YOUR dime while families struggle with groceries, rent, and crime. This is the plan. Out loud. No hiding it. If they take the House, this is what “repair work” looks like to them. VOTE. SHARE THIS. Don’t let them undo the border security Americans demanded. 🇺🇸 #Midterms #DefundICE #AmericaFirst #Jeffries #BorderCrisis
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Great to be in Madison County meeting with voters in Alexandria and talking about the importance of this election and securing Indiana’s elections. Hoosiers deserve elections they can trust, and I’m committed to protecting the integrity of every vote. Let’s finish strong on November 3! 🇺🇸
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If you want to know why America is polarized, it’s the fault of the media. Yesterday, the Free Beacon, a conservative outlet, caught Abdul Sayed in a lie when Abdul denied his family had a connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. The FB showed a tweet by his own sister saying their mother belonged to the MB. The revelation that Abdul lied about his family ties to a radical Islamic terrorist group was ignored by NBC, ABC, CBS’s nightly news shows. The NYT and WP haven’t covered it. This should be a screaming front page story. Instead, the MSM runs cover for Abdul. The American people just want to know the truth about their politicians. Instead, the media are helping Abdul cover up the truth. Abdul has a lot to hide. It’s a tragedy the MSM is part of the team helping him hide it.
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Everybody with common sense should vote Republican in November! If you don't believe me, just listen to this.. No Socialist/Communist!!
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In the early hours of June 3, 2011, Indiana University sophomore Lauren Spierer was out in Bloomington with friends. She was 20 years old. 4 foot 11. About 90 pounds. By every account, she'd been drinking a lot. Around 2:30 a.m. she walked out of Kilroy's Sports Bar with a young man she'd met. She left behind her cell phone. She left behind her shoes. Over the next two hours, she bounced between apartments in the neighborhood around her building. People saw her. People talked to her. At one point, a man in one of those apartments said she told him she wanted to go home. She was last seen around 4:30 a.m., near the corner of College Avenue and 11th Street. She was barefoot. She had no phone. Her apartment was right around the corner. She never got there. Later that morning, her boyfriend texted her and got no answer. By that afternoon she was reported missing. What followed was one of the biggest searches in Indiana history. Volunteers flooded Bloomington. Her parents moved there to lead the hunt. Landfills were dug through. Every person who saw her that night was questioned. Her family eventually sued several of the young men she was with, hoping to force out the truth. A court threw the case out. No evidence. Police now have nearly 1,000 reports in the file. Last year alone they chased down 23 new tips. They insist this is not a cold case. But 15 years later, Lauren Spierer has never been found. She vanished barefoot, within a block of her own front door, in a college town full of people. Somebody saw something.
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Who agrees?
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Beware the political chameleons. If what you see on the campaign trail is inconsistent with candidate's past statements and positions...their campaign is a lie, and they will likely revert to their old positions #Midterm #Vote
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24,000 ducks are now quarantined in the state of Indiana… How do you do that? @hammerandnigel @93wibc #OddNews
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I am really tired.
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A school in Illinois made students exercise before class and accidentally discovered one of the most powerful learning drugs on earth. They made the kids run. The school was Naperville Central High School. Every morning, students would show up before their first class, put on heart rate monitors, and exercise hard enough to push their heart rates into a specific zone. Then they went straight to class. The results caught the attention of a Harvard psychiatrist named John Ratey. Because something strange was happening to these kids. They weren't just getting fitter. They were becoming better students. When Naperville students later took TIMSS, an international test used to compare math and science performance across countries, they scored among the highest in the world. Ratey spent years studying why. And the answer completely changed how I think about exercise. When you exercise, your brain releases a protein called BDNF. Ratey calls it "Miracle-Gro for the brain." It helps brain cells grow, strengthens the connections between them, and makes it easier for your brain to absorb new information. Exercise also increases dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine. The exact chemicals your brain uses for attention, motivation, and learning. Which means those students weren't exercising instead of learning. They were exercising so their brains could learn. I think most of us have this completely backwards. We treat exercise as the thing we do when the important work is finished like: > I'll work out after I study. > After I write. > After I finish this project. > After I get through my inbox. And when life gets busy, exercise is the first thing we remove because it feels like we're buying ourselves another hour. But Ratey's work suggests you're making a terrible trade. You're gaining an hour of time while making the brain that has to use those hours worse at learning. I've started thinking about exercise less like fitness and more like preparation. If I have something difficult to learn, write, or solve, movement shouldn't come after it. It should come before it. You're probably not too busy to exercise. You're too busy to learn slowly.
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BREAKING: President Trump's speech before the United Nations is one for the ages. My favorite passage? “As President of the most extraordinary nation in history, I have no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day. I do not believe in letting problems fester; they only become harder to solve. So, while others have talked, I have acted. While others have spoken of peace, I have made peace. While others have ignored threats, I have confronted them. While others have talked of courage, America has shown it. While others have promised strength, I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world. Working with many nations in this room, we are solving decades of intractable challenges — and we are settling years of unfinished business.” That is why President Trump is special. That is why President Trump deserves our support. That is why the Democrats and their parasitic communist friends must not win in the upcoming mid-term elections... ...not because the Dem/DSA partnership won't act if successful in the election, but rather because they WILL act to destroy America and undermine the principles upon which we declared our independence 250 years ago. Not on Trump's watch. Not on my watch. Get out and vote this November as if your way of life depends upon it...because it does. whitehouse.gov/releases/2026… @realMikeLindell @RealLindellTV
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🚨 NOW: After a day of NON-STOP meetings at the UN, President Trump is BOARDING AF1 back to DC Legacy media CONSTANTLY told us independent media couldn't handle a "pool feed" But guess what? WE JUST DID. This is @RealAmVoice's feed. THANK YOU, RAV, for REFUSING to allow the legacy media to block out the American people from Trump's trip to the UN. This is the start of a media REVOLUTION! 🔥
🚨 EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES: WH TV Pooler @RealAmVoice shows how CHAOTIC it is trailing the President This was JUST NOW in NYC SPRINTING on the helipad with a camera to get to the chopper on time You'll NEVER see this type of content from CNN! 🔥
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