The Big Egg Debate

Interesting video:

 

Is It Really So Bad?

I don't know but sounds scary. 

The Real Reason?

You will have to scroll all the way down to find it though...

Candace Owens

Interesting. 

War Pigs Are At It Again

It appears some people never learn. 

Christians And Divorce

Here is an interesting series of articles on this topic.

To briefly summarise it, there are basically two Christian positions on the issue. Roman Catholic Church and some Protestants believe that marriage creates an unbreakable bond which means that remarriage after a divorce is adultery. The Catholic Church does give annulments for cases where they argue that the true bond was not formed.

The other point of view is that of Eastern Orthodox and many Protestants. It states that while the marital bond ought not to be severed by divorce, it can, in fact, be severed. Thus remarriage doesn't necessarily constitute adultery though the guilty party can be prohibited from remarrying as a punishment. The author argues for the 2nd position, I should say, quite convincingly. 

What are your thoughts on the issue? Remarriage or not?

Former Prince Andrew And Other Things

 UK considers removing Andrew from the succession line. Mandelson was also arrested. Great Britain appears to be the only country where this stuff is taken seriously. Meanwhile in the land of the free...this Tucker - Huckabee interview, OMG! If that doesn't sum up everything what is wrong with this Doomsday Cult aka Dispensationalism...

Friday the 13th And The Valentine's Day

Are you superstitious? I'm usually not, but there were all sorts of strange things happening to me last Friday, including being accidentally locked in a store while its owner went away for several minutes.

And the next day was our wedding anniversary, so congratulations to me and my husband;) And my parents gave us a treadmill as a present. It just arrived today. I'm so excited, can't wait to try it!

About Smartphone Addiction

Someone asked me a question about it. Yes, these darn things are very addictive, I know from personal experience, unfortunately. And the big companies want it this way. In fact, there are several lawsuits running about this very topic right now:

Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube face claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. TikTok and Snap, which were originally named in the lawsuit, settled for undisclosed sums...

Mark Lanier delivered the opening statement for the plaintiffs first, in a lively display where he said the case is as "easy as ABC," which he said stands for "addicting the brains of children." He called Meta and Google "two of the richest corporations in history" that have "engineered addiction in children's brains."

... He emphasized the findings of a study Meta conducted called "Project Myst" in which they surveyed 1,000 teens and their parents about their social media use. The two major findings, Lanier said, were that the company knew children who experienced "adverse events" like trauma and stress were particularly vulnerable for addiction; and that parental supervision and controls made little impact...

He also showed internal Google documents that likened YouTube to a casino, and internal communication between Meta employees in which one person said Instagram is "like a drug" and that employees are "basically pushers."

 You can read the whole article over here. And here is another one on the same topic from CNN. 

So yes, it's not all in your mind. The only advice I can give (and it doesn't work perfectly) is to acquire a laptop (you can buy them quite cheap second-hand, at least where I live), install it in a permanent place (connect the printer and speakers to it so that you don't face temptation to take it everywhere with you) and use it for browsing. Use your phone for phone stuff and may be sending messages/WhatsApp. If it's possible for you, use WiFi at home while on your phone and disconnect it from 4G so that you can't surf the net while outside. You still can use it for emergency situations. I know it's easier said than done though but it might help;)