Branch Out, Learn New Skills — Be Positive

It often looks like the world the world is going to hell in a hand basket. As the joke goes, if that is so, make hand baskets and sell them. Make a profit. Improve your part of the world yourself.

These indeed are dark times. The thing is though, you need to take care of yourself. While others may assist you — even in amazing ways — after all that is said and done, you have the responsibility to help yourself first. You may branch out and help others, but you have to function competently yourself first.

There is something called “black pill”: Taking a gloomy, rather depressed look at the world and deciding that all hope is lost. There may not be occasion for a lot of optimism, but even being based in reality, there may be cause for cautious optimism. You have to set forth to do it for yourself.

Here’s a message from a long time creator which may give you ideas to improve your life:

Be at peace; be safe; be well.

Black Charity

In the 1970s, the ministers of the Wordwide Church of God were pushing older members to change their wills to give all their money to the WCG rather to pass it on to the next generations of their own families. After all, the WCG was doing the most important work on the face of the earth and anyway, the world wasn’t going to last much longer. You might as well give away your heritage because you won’t have one….

The following story could just as well be told for the Philadelphia Church of God, the Restored Church of God, Living Church of God or any of who knows how many splinters are left:

Bonus: For you servants of false gods, know the damage you have done and know that there is no forgiveness for you: