Christ-follower, intermittent avid reader, Brock Purdy enthusiast

Hope you guys don't mind the pose is a lil zesty this time
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Do you mind being flirted with a little?
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Have you ever seen a blow-forward, self-cocking, auto-ejecting revolver shotgun before? No? Meet the Becker Automatic Shotgun.
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I get it
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Blonde White Women
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Wait, most catholics believe in evolution?
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Everyone’s a peater til they have a bowl of beanie weenies
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Nice try I’m not gonna dox myself
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if you like penis coladas… and getting shot in the brain
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There's an old saying in Japan, "better to have two nukes in your city than two migrants." i just made that up. but i think it could catch on.
BREAKING‼️ An anti-immgiration protest has erupted in Akihabara, Japan🇯🇵
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Do H1B’s identify with this?
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Lord help me
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Having my own little Oktoberfest at the family put put course bar and yelling slurs at the rays guardians game and scaring the families around me
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When a woman has big boobs it's like omg thank you so much for having those
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Feel the weight of who you could've been but fell short of becoming, and then feel the pull of who God's asking you to be right now
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RT @linnssins: someone reads your tweets and thinks you are crazy btw
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Should I crack open a second tallboy
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a doctor told roosevelt his heart was so weak he should live a quiet, seated life or he'd die young he ignored it completely, and turned every single tragedy in his life into fuel instead. as a kid he was sickly and asthmatic, so weak his father sat him down and told him; you have the mind but not the body, and the mind cannot do what it should without the body. roosevelt took that and never let go of it. he built himself in the gym like a man possessed; boxing, lifting, wrestling - forging a weak frame into something that could endure anything. at harvard he boxed competitively. in one match, the bell rang to end the round and roosevelt dropped his hands but his opponent landed a full blow straight to his face. the crowd erupted - "foul, foul, foul" blood running down his face, roosevelt raised his hand to silence them and said his opponent simply hadn't heard the bell. then he walked over and shook the guy's hand. that was the whole man in one moment - toughness and honor fused together, no self-pity even with blood on his face. he graduated with honors and found a wife then came the night that should have broken him. on february 14th, 1884, in the same house, on the same day - his wife died days after giving birth, and his mother died of typhoid. within 24 hours, he lost the only two women he had ever loved. he wrote a single line in his diary that day; the light has gone out of my life. then he drew a large X on the page and said almost nothing about it ever again. strong men would have collapsed into grief. roosevelt did the opposite - he fled west to the dakota badlands and spent two years as a rancher on the raw american frontier. he herded cattle, hunted, chased down outlaws, got into fistfights, and rebuilt himself in the hardest place in america. and this became the pattern for his life; when sorrow or defeat hit, he ran toward physical and mental hardship, never away from it. he had a line for exactly this - black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough. you don't outrun grief by resting. you outrun it by moving faster than it can follow. he came back and tore through everything - police commissioner, assistant secretary of the navy, then raising his own volunteer cavalry and charging up san juan hill in the spanish-american war. he moved on to governor of new york. then vice president. then, when mckinley was assassinated, president at 42 - the youngest in american history. he busted monopolies, built the panama canal, protected 230 million acres of wilderness, and won the nobel peace prize. but this wasn't even the start of his adventure. this motherfucker had the ego of a god, was hungrier than ever and had built balls of tungsten so after leaving office he ran again in 1912 under his own bull moose party - and lost to woodrow wilson. during that campaign he was shot in the chest on his way to give a speech. the bullet lodged in his ribs after passing through his folded fifty-page speech and his steel glasses case. he refused to go to the hospital and gave the entire 90-minute speech with a bullet in his chest, opening with the legendary: it takes more than that to kill a bull moose. but the loss to wilson still gutted him. this was not a man that was used to losing. so what did a crushed 55-year-old ex-president do with his sorrow? he went to the amazon to explore an uncharted river so dangerous it was literally called the river of doubt. no one had ever mapped it. no white man had ever run its length. the expedition was a nightmare - rapids destroyed their canoes, men drowned, fever tore through the camp and eventually infection set into roosevelt's leg. at one point, delirious and dying, he begged the team to leave him behind so he wouldn't slow them down. they refused, and he survived - but he came back having lost a quarter of his body weight, and he was never the same again. they put his name on that river. it's still called rio roosevelt today. he died quietly in his sleep five years later, at 60. his son said it best; death had to take him sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight. the lesson here is about what he did with his pain. this motherfucker did not go to therapy. every great man gets knocked down - loss, grief, defeat, humiliation, failure. most people sit in it. roosevelt WEAPONIZED it, turning every blow into the fuel for the next arena. black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough. so the real question is - when life knocks you down, how fucking fast are you willing to ride?
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God gives you space to repent of those secret sins but if in your pride you insist on persisting in them the hammer comes down suddenly, violently and unexpectedly.
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The fact that sluts have the best personalities is the biggest tragedy in the history of mankind.
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