Merry Christmas Everyone

“Jesus healed a lot of people, of physical and psychological illnesses, by using scientifically valid methods. Such as, the faith [placebo] effect; the healing touch; therapeutic massage; simple remedies like poultices; prayer and fasting. And, Jesus wanted everyone, not just Christians, to use his healing methods.”

For a Christmas Present you can Download or Read Online, my free Ebook; "How Jesus Healed People And How You Can Too A Scientific Explanation"; from: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

You can also save time and money on giving Christmas Presents, by giving people things, like books you do not want to keep or read again, that are still in new condition.

The Message Of Jesus

“The Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were in effect up to the time of John the Baptist.”
Luke 16:16.

Jesus Brought A New Covenant - A Covenant Of Love And Kindness

Replacing the punitive, Old Testament Black-Letter Law Of Moses, which was impossible to keep - with the Spirit of the Law.

Which is love your Creator, love other people, and love yourself.

Jesus abolished that Old Testament false idol-of-fear.

Jesus abolished animal sacrifice, stoning women to death, circumcision, ...

And, replaced them all with kindness.

A true Deity-of-Love.

A New Testament of Love.

Unfortunately, many Christians, are still stuck in that Old Testament of Fear.

Calling themselves god-fearing.

And, not God-Loving.

Or, Goddess-Loving.

Memorised Man-Made Rules

God said, “these people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorised.”
Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 15:9 and Mark 7:7.

For god-fearing Christians it is as if Jesus never came.

Stuck with their memorised man-made rules.

God-fearing Christians are just like Allah-fearing Muslims, whose Islamic religion is nothing but a bogeyman-idol-of-fear, man-made rules and man-made traditions, which they have simply memorised.

Rather than being God-loving Christians and so being saved, from their bogeyman-idol-of-fear, by Jesus.

The Holy Spirit - The Female Goddess Of The Christian Trinity

In Genesis Chapter 1, the Elohim, a group of Goddesses and Gods, created the earth, plants, animals, women and men, in six days.

In Genesis, Chapter 1:27, there is equality of women and men.

Women are created in the image of a Goddess or Goddesses.

Men in the image of a God or Gods.

In misogynist Bibles the plural Elohim is mistranslated as the singular God.

But, even their mistranslation shows their Creator is female as well a male, "So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female."

The correct translation of Elohim is the plural, the Goddesses and Gods, not the singular, God.

"So the Goddesses and Gods created human beings, making them to be like themselves. They created them female and male."

Trinitarian Christians could translate the plural Elohim as the Trinity.

"So the Trinity created human beings, making them to be like themselves. They created them female and male."

Then there is a Goddess in the Trinity.

Implying that the Trinity is the family-friendly mother, father, son.

Goddess, Holy Spirit, the mother.

God, the Father.

Jesus, the Son.

Rather than their all male Trinity, in which two male homosexual gods wanted a son and used Mary as a surrogate.

Something, that ironically, god-fearing Christians would abhor in a human family.

Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female

You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9OF6s3CzRD4ZyBGgfzpoakcSVKZbEF/view

My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My Free Ebook, to Download or Read Online, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:
https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”, from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view

A Vegetarian Or Vegan Thanksgiving

Tempeh Instead Of Turkey.

Vegetable Oil Instead Of Animal Fat.

"What I want from you is plain and clear: I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices."
Hosea 6:5-6.

Jesus

Jesus, referred to Hosea, and said, "It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices."
Matthew 9:13 and 12:7.

Animal Sacrifice Has Never Been A Part Of Christianity

At The Last Supper, Jesus replaced Animal Sacrifice with Bread and Wine and said, "Do this in memory of me."
Luke 22:19.

"Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins. Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right-hand side of God."
Hebrews 10:11-12.

A Vegetarian Or Vegan Thanksgiving

Vegetarians and Vegans do not have to eat only pumpkin, corn, and potatoes.

You can have a Thanksgiving based on bread or pancakes, wine or grape juice, and kindness.

Combined with nuts, fruits, and herbs, of Biblical times.

Nuts – almonds, carob, chestnuts, pistachios, and pine nuts.

Fruits – apricots, cherries, dates, figs, grapes, juniper berries, mulberries, and olives.

Herbs – caraway, chives, mint, oregano, parsley, rosemary, and thyme.

As well as chocolate, made from cacao, and many other native American foods, like pecans, cashews, Brazil nuts, and peanuts.

Drink bergamot, [monarda didyma], tea as the patriots did after the Boston Tea Party.

NOTE: If eating dried fruit, eat sun-dried and not sulphur-dried fruit.

And, since the sugar, in dried fruit, has become concentrated and sticky, remember to to clean your teeth afterwards.

The Thanksgiving Turkey

Slices of Tempeh can easily replace the Turkey.

Jesus would never have seen a Turkey.

Turkeys come from America – not the Middle East.

Jesus Does Not Want People To Be Full-Time Vegans

"What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?"

Luke 11:11-12. Also Matthew 7:9-10.

I used to be a Vegan.

I am now a Cow’s milk-drinking Vegetarian.

One can celebrate, without animal sacrifice, as Jesus asked us to do.

But, Jesus does not want people to be full-time Vegans.

And, especially, not to try to raise their babies and children as Vegans.

I Would Never Try To Raise A Baby Or Child As A Vegan

Ill-health, due to Vegan Diets, is a major reason why most Vegans become ExVegans.

And, Vegan diets for pregnant women, can lead to still-births and miscarriages.

Some babies, have become brain-damaged and died, from Vegan diets, because babies are naturally milk-drinking Vegetarians.

Even when I was a Vegan, I would never have tried to raise a baby, or a child, as a Vegan.

Most adult Vegans cannot maintain their bodies on Vegan diets.

How can a baby, or a child, build their body, on a Vegan diet?

And, even if the victim-blaming “you did not do it right” Vegans were right.

If they could not “do it right” for themselves.

How could they have “done it right” for their growing babies and children?

Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female

You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9OF6s3CzRD4ZyBGgfzpoakcSVKZbEF/view

My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My Free Ebook, to Download or Read Online, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:
https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”, from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view

Goddess Charity

"You have received without paying; so give without being paid."
Matthew 10:8

I have started a Goddess Charity at:
https:/Goddess.Charity

Where you can find links to information on saving money on:

Food;
Clothes;
Housing;
Car-Camping;
Computer Software

and, other necessities.

Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female

You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9OF6s3CzRD4ZyBGgfzpoakcSVKZbEF/view

My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My Free Ebook, to Download or Read Online, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:
https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”, from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view

Housework For Men - A Clean House Is Not Always A Sign Of A Wasted Life

Housework For Men

A Clean House Is Not Always A Sign Of A Wasted Life

For more information, on Housework For Men, please Download my PDF, from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bR5U7FXq4_t4x9-AyNjyhF-fTvFPJMnL/view

Why Men Need To Do Housework

You are between girlfriends.

You are a confirmed bachelor.

You live alone.

You share with other men.

Your wife is a modern woman.

Your wife is threatening to leave you because you won’t help her with the housework.

Your wife has already left you because you wouldn’t help her with the housework.

Your wife died.

Your wife is threatening to die because you won’t help her with the housework.

Do You Enjoy Housework?

Enjoying Housekeeping.

Housework does not have to be mind numbing and boring.

Housework can be creative and fun.

A living work of art.

It is a matter of perception.

I even enjoy weeding the garden when I am eating the edible weeds.

You can listen to the radio while doing housework.

If you are a student you can listen to recordings of lectures or books.

Cooking

Keep it simple or eat it raw.

For healthy fast foods and TV dinners; when travelling or camping; or, when you just do not feel like cooking.

Have some raw fruit and nuts, Cow’s milk or yoghurt, and other foods that require no preparation, and little or no cleaning up afterwards.

If cooking, turning off the heat, and letting the heat in the pot finish off the cooking, reduces the chance of burning the food in the pot.

Simplifying Complicated Recipes

In any recipe there are the basic, essential ingredients – flour and water in the case of bread, pancakes and pasta – and then the added flavourings.

You do not have to use the same ones that are in the recipe book – just use what you like or what you have.

Pasta: pour a thick pancake mixture over the vegetables you are cooking in simmering water.

Marmalade: After juicing oranges spread the raw pulp as marmalade jam.

Buckwheat Cabbage Burgers: stir buckwheat flour into cabbage juice.

Scrambled Tofu Eggs: scramble tofu, turmeric, and vegetable oil.

Tofu Chicken: use slices of firm tofu.

Coconut Fish: stir wholemeal flour and desiccated coconut into water.

Cleaning With With Water Only

Many cleaners have been tested on animals or contain animal ingredients.

Most cleaning of yourself, clothes, dishes, glass windows, tile floors, and your car, can be done with water only.

Dishes can often be wiped clean with a damp paper towel.

Washing With Sodium Bicarbonate [NaHCO₃]

Sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO₃, cleans most things, like old carpet stains, that water alone might not.

Sodium bicarbonate is also a very good underarm deodorant.

And, if you are not on a low salt diet, mouthwash for bad breath.

Washing And Ironing

Clothes, made from natural fibres usually do not need to be washed as often as clothes made from synthetics.

Most new stains can be absorbed, do not rub, with a dry or damp, paper towel; or, removed by soaking in room-temperature water only.

I never iron.

Ironing can be eliminated by wearing 100% Sheep’s wool clothes, such as sweaters.

And, 100% cotton clothes, such as jeans.

I buy simple, durable, comfortable, quality clothes, that wash and dry easily, and do not need ironing.

Deodorising

Keeping bags of scented, vegetable oil soap in your house and car can scent your house, car and clothes.

Sodium bicarbonate is a very good underarm deodorant.

Have at least 3 pairs of shoes and rotate them so you are not wearing the same shoes every day. I also wear black shoes with black soles.

Natural fibre clothes, such as Sheep's wool and cotton, need less washing that synthetics.

Shopping

I enjoy shopping.

Shopping can be a real treasure-hunt.

Do not impulse buy.

Nothing is a bargain, if you do not like it, need it, and will not use it.

Anything, you buy and no longer want, such as books, still in new condition, can be given away as Christmas and other presents.

Gardening – Indoors

Indoor plants can beautify, oxygenate, clean your air of toxins, and dry a damp house.

Succulents, ‘cacti without prickles’, such as Aloe Vera, other Aloes and Hawothias, are rat-proof, and grow easily indoors on sunny windowsills, or where direct sunlight comes into your house.

And, succulents can look after themselves, for a month or more, when you are on holidays.

Gardening – Outdoors

Grow pretty plants; you can eat; and, once established, look after themselves.

Such as Aloe Vera, Curry Plant, Mints, Pineapple Sage, Rosemary, Lavender, Raspberries, Almonds and Apricot trees.

Free Range Pets

Instead of Birds in cages, put Bird baths, and nectar producing plants like Pineapple Sage, outside your windows, and watch the Birds through your windows.

Instead of Fish in aquariums, have a Fish screen saver on your computer.

Possums Instead Of Cats

A Cat that killed 2 Birds, or other animals, per week for 10 years, would kill 1000 Birds or other animals.

Be kind to animals.

If you want independent pets then make friends with your Possums instead.

Goddess Christianity PDFs

Goddess Christianity – The Holy Spirit Is Female

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_tRlY7uBAFbc-XAGH7z-kK7ShqVzYwol/view

How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

Housework For Men

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bR5U7FXq4_t4x9-AyNjyhF-fTvFPJMnL/view

Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Milk, Wool, And Eggs

No-Kill, Calves Naturally Weaned, Free-Range, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Poultry, Treated As Pets

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YZ00dAl7aYT3o8FxcZMRe0ifMnswCX3t/view

Veganic Gardening

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19rj1BAiUtMgGLSDdopRR21s8qbHOX-6Y/view

Living Well Below The Poverty Line – Saving Money Without Reducing Quality

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14KUVSbTCPEhz_c-kmpBM12ZYvDmPkV1a/view

FOSS – Free Open-Source Computer Software

I never buy computer software.

I use FOSS, Free Open Source Software, for everything.

Including, anti-malware security, word processing, writing and publishing my ebooks and PDFs, doing emails, blogs, spreadsheets, editing photos, internet ...

I use the Ubuntu Operating System, which is free from: https://ubuntu.com 

Ubuntu comes with all the free software, you might ever need, already installed.

Such as Free Security, LibreOffice, Firefox Web Browser, ...

I just add GIMP Graphics and Foliate Ebook Reader.

After Installing.

Click on Software Updater, every time you connect to the internet.

And, Software Updater can update everything, including your security and operating system, as well as programs that came with Ubuntu.

Avoiding Problems With Ubuntu.

1: Download the latest LTS Desktop version, from https://ubuntu.com, currently Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, even if you have a notebook computer.

2: Disable Windows Fast Startup

3: Do an OEM Install. Do not do a Dual Boot.

4: Click on Software Updater, every time you connect to the internet, as soon as you connect to the internet.

5: Always have at least 1 GB of free space on your hard disc.

6: Only install extra software from the official Ubuntu repositories.

And, only after Clicking on Software Updater, to Update everything in the official Ubuntu repositories.

To install extra software, I use any 1 of the following 3 ways.

By,

a) clicking on the Ubuntu Software Icon, and searching for what I want;

b) pressing Control+Alt+t to open a Terminal; then typing, sudo snap install Name-Of-Program, in the command line;

c) pressing Control+Alt+t to open a Terminal; then typing sudo apt install Name-Of-Program, in the command line;

For example, to install both GIMP Graphics and Foliate Ebook Reader, you do not have to go to their websites.

Just press Control+Alt+t to, open a Terminal, and then type: sudo apt install GIMP; sudo snap install foliate

Internet and Telephone

I use prepaid.

More expensive but no bill-shock.

Disclaimer

Everything I write is my personal opinion.

My personal opinion is not to be taken as professional advice.

Or, as a substitute for professional advice.

People seeking professional advice should do so from appropriate professional people.

Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female

You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9OF6s3CzRD4ZyBGgfzpoakcSVKZbEF/view

My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My Free Ebook, to Download or Read Online, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:

https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view

A Note For People With Credit Cards

Every dollar, you spend on interest; is 1 less dollar, you can spend on what you want.

Credit Cards often come with extremely high interest rates.

And, retailers often charge you an extra fee when you use a Credit Card.

I Do Not Have Any Credit Cards

You could save a lot of money, on interest and fees, by paying off and replacing your Credit Cards with Debit Cards.

You might keep one low-fee Credit Card, to use only for a short-term emergency, and pay off as quickly as possible.

I Have Debit Cards

Retailers, at least in Australia, have no right to charge you extra on a Debit Card.

If someone tries to charge you extra with your Debit Card.

Tell them, your card is a Debit Card.

If they still want to charge you an extra fee on your Debit Card, do not buy from them, go somewhere else.

Internet Security

For security on the internet, I have a separate Debit Card, to pay for things, such as URLs, on the internet.

I only keep a few hundred dollars, on this Debit Card, in case it gets hacked.

Disclaimer

Everything I write is my personal opinion.

My personal opinion is not to be taken as professional advice.

Or, as a substitute for professional advice.

People seeking professional advice should do so from appropriate professional people.

Saving Money Without Reducing Quality: Food, Clothes, Shoes, Housing, And Other Necessities

https://goddess-christianity.blogspot.com/2023/06/saving-money-without-reducing-quality.html

Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female

You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9OF6s3CzRD4ZyBGgfzpoakcSVKZbEF/view

My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My Free Ebook, to Download or Read Online, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:

https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view

 

A Natural Death

Death

[I wrote this about 40 years ago. With some editing now.]

I have not died yet so I cannot speak from personal experience.

However, I have seen others die.

And, there was one time when I thought that I might die.

Towards the end of a run I noticed that my heart was beating loudly and irregularly.

I only had another 100 metres to go to the finish so I continued on.

[I was young then – now, I would stop immediately.]

When I pulled up I noticed that my heart had stopped beating.

I was very relaxed and laid down on a park bench that was near me.

That was when I stopped breathing!

I wondered if I was going to die but I was so relaxed that it did not seem to matter.

[I was so relaxed, with no heart beat, with no breathing, so totally relaxed, that I thought, if this is death, death does not seem so bad.]

Then I thought that maybe I should do something, so I pushed gently with my fingers of both hands into my solar plexus, towards my heart, to try to start my heart and get myself breathing again.

15 seconds after I had laid down of the bench my heart gave one beat, 5 seconds after that a second beat and then my heart continued to beat slowly and strongly.

A couple of minutes after that I got up and walked home.

That was in about 1970 and it has never happened again.

Natural Death

I have seen my own dog die, peacefully, naturally, of old age, on my bed with me.

[Only, a few hours earlier, she had invited me to go for a walk with her. We did not go far, less than half a mile, when she wanted us to go home again.]

I have also seen the dreadful, prolonged, deaths, in modern hospitals.

I may not want to live 100% naturally – but I am 100% sure that I want to die naturally.

Death And Grieving

[I wrote this in about 2009.]

Death

Natural death need not be painful.

Especially, if you die in the arms of a loved one.

In a natural death, your body runs out of energy over about three days.

Even on the final day, you might go for a walk, and talk, and enjoy pleasant company.

Then lie down and go to sleep.

Cough.

Stretch out relaxed.

Your spirit leaves its material shell.

Grieving

Grieving might be tearful but it need not be painful.

All your loved ones, human and other species, are still with you in spirit.

Pain and Suffering

Simple Ways To Self-Manage And Avoid The Normal Pains Of Life

Vegan Pain

Almost all my pain stopped when I added low-fat (1.2%) Cow’s Milk, and Cow’s Milk Yoghurt, to my Vegan Diet.

And, women who drink 4 servings or more per day of skim or low-fat milk, are 46% less likely to get PMS. (RR 0.54)

“Whole milk intake was associated with a modest increase in risk, while women who frequently consumed skim or low-fat milk had a significantly lower risk of developing PMS; the RR for women consuming 4 servings or more per day of skim or low-fat milk compared with those reporting 1 serving or less per week was 0.54.”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/486599

You can download my Pain Is No Reason To Suffer PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13X_z0fk_0Inmx-N_1rxcolklSH7dtITX/view

And, my free Pain Is No Reason To Suffer Ebook from:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/675923

Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female

You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9OF6s3CzRD4ZyBGgfzpoakcSVKZbEF/view

My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My free ebook, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:

https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view

 

How Jesus Prayed

Jesus went off alone to pray.

Matthew14:23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

Not making a big public show of praying.

Matthew 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Jesus had sensible conversations with his father.

Not mindless repetitions and chanting.

Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

When his disciples asked Jesus for a more formal pray, Jesus gave his disciples the Our Father.

Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

6:10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.

6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

You will be judged as you judge other people.

Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Similarly, Luke 11:1-4

Luke 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female

You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9OF6s3CzRD4ZyBGgfzpoakcSVKZbEF/view

My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My Free Ebook, to Download or Read Online, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:

https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view

Car-Camping When Holidaying Or Homeless

I have lived, out of my station wagon, for a total of more than 3 years.

Including, 1 year continuously.

I lived well.

If You Are Homeless

If You Cannot Afford A House.

A good reliable car, like a station wagon, that can store everything you need; that you can sleep in comfortably, fully stretched out, not cramped up; can cost about 5% of the price of a house.

If You Cannot Afford A Car

You could share a house.

Or, consider, going back to living with your parents.

Also read my, “Saving Money Without Reducing Quality: Food, Clothes, Shoes, Housing, And Other Necessities”, at:

https://goddess-christianity.blogspot.com/2023/06/saving-money-without-reducing-quality.html

If you are not homeless, car-camping while on holidays, could be fun, as well as valuable experience, for if you ever do become homeless.

How I Lived Out Of My Car

1: A Car To Sleep In Comfortably

I bought a station wagon, so I could sleep comfortably, fully stretched out, not cramped up.

2: Travel Light – Only Take What You Need – So You Do Not Look Like You Are Living Out Of Your Car

The minimum I kept in my station wagon was:

Plenty of food and water.

Clothes and shoes.

Sun shade or cap.

Large cotton towels.

Paper towels.

Sodium bicarbonate.

Scented, vegetable oil soap.

Buckets and plastic bags.

A small, water filter jug.

Mosquito repellent.

Aloe Vera leaves for sunburn.

All this fitted in about half of the back seat and floor of my station wagon.

I also took pens and paper; a mobile phone, a notebook computer with a car cigarette-lighter outlet charger [be careful not to flatten your car battery]; a debit card for withdrawing money from banks; and, a spare full tyre, oil, and coolant.

My car was insured.

I was a member of a state motorists’ organisation that has reciprocal rights in other states.

3: Security

I kept a mobile flip-phone in my pocket.

Did not park, in isolated places.

Slept with one key in the ignition and another in my pocket.

Always parked, so I had at least two ways of driving out.

One without backing or turning.

Since I slept in my car, I have everything in my car and do not need to pack.

Even if you only have to leave, without packing, once in a lifetime it is still worth being prepared.

If anyone looks, or behaves, strangely move on to a safe place.

During long trips, in isolated places, you can fill up your car at a 24 hour petrol station.

And, then stay overnight in the car park.

4: Deodorising

Keeping bags of scented, vegetable oil soaps, in your car, can deodorise your car.

Sodium bicarbonate is a very good under-arm deodorant.

And, mouthwash for bad breath, unless you are on a low sodium salt diet.

Sodium bicarbonate can also deodorise clothes and shoes.

5: Buckets And Plastic Bags

Buckets can be used to wash clothes in and to store things.

Buckets can be used to store fruit, and anything else, that might leak onto the car seat or floor.

Plastic bags can be used to store clothes, papers and other things.

And, to store rubbish until you get home or to a major town.

6: Sleeping

Sleep in your car and you are safely out of the wind and the rain.

You have no need to unpack and repack your car.

And, in an emergency, you can drive off as if you were just leaving anyway.

Take some clothes you can sleep in.

Such as cotton jeans and cotton or wool T-shirts and sweaters.

Warm cotton or wool socks.

And, some large cotton towels that can double as sheets, blankets, and pillows.

7: Where To Stay

If you live in a cold climate, consider moving to a warmer climate, at least for the winter.

Being, in another state, can also make you look more like a tourist than homeless.

Free places are getting rarer but they still exist.

Check local regulations as to what is car-camping and what is car-parking.

In parts of Australia, if you are sleeping in your car; and, have everything inside your car; and, do not have anything outside your car; then, you could be legally parking and not illegally camping.

Surf beaches.

State and national parks.

Some are free.

In Australia, almost anywhere along the Murray River.

Festivals can be good places to stay for a few days to a week or more.

The price of the ticket can be cheaper than staying at a caravan park.

Highway rest stops, if staying one night.

Do not park in places which can flood; or, where a gum tree is aiming to fall or drop a branch.

8: Entertainment

Many towns have tourist information centres.

And, check the notices along highways and in shop windows, as well as the internet, for festivals, and other attractions.

9: A Healthy Diet

For a healthy diet, I include:

1: Fresh, raw fruit;

2: Fresh, raw vegetables, including some green, leafy vegetables;

3: Nuts and peanuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, rolled oats, potatoes, lentils, mung beans;

4: Low-fat Cow’s milk, low-fat cheese, low-fat yoghurt, [very few people can be healthy, long-term, Vegans];

5: Seaweed, for trace elements in a natural food form.

Asian and Indian Groceries are some of the cheapest places to buy these foods.

10: Food And Drink – No Need To Cook

Food

My diet is based on raw fruit; nuts and peanuts; some vegetables; and, low-fat Cow’s milk.

Raw fruit; nuts and peanuts; some vegetables; do not need any cooking or other preparation; and, there is little or no cleaning up afterwards.

Similarly, with Cow’s milk, cheese, yoghurt; rolled oats; bottled fruit juice and drinking water.

Storing Food

Even in hot cars, in hot weather, food and drink, can be stored by placing them on the back seat floor, of your car, and covering them with towels and clothes.

Nuts, peanuts, rolled oats, can keep fresh in air-tight containers.

Fruit and vegetables can be kept in buckets, so they do not leak and mess up your car.

Cow’s milk can be kept cool for a few days.

Yoghurt and cheese keep longer than Cow’s milk.

Water

Bottled fruit juice can be used instead of drinking water.

Drinking water can be stored in empty fruit juice bottles.

Some water in country areas needs to be sterilised by boiling.

And, perhaps filtered.

11: Clothes and Shoes

Simple, durable, comfortable, practical clothes, that wash and dry easily.

Cotton T-shirts, sweaters, jeans, shorts, sun shade, or cap.

A warm, water-proof coat.

One set of easy-care more dress-up clothes, such as a cotton dress; or even just a jacket that can be worn with and dress-up anything else.

Water-proof shoes.

Practical and easier to keep clean.

Washing Clothes

You can use sodium bicarbonate or vegetable oil soap in a bucket of water.

Then rinse in a second bucket of water.

Drying Clothes

If the forecast temperature is less than 20°C clothes might not dry.

So wash them on another day.

On hot days, clothes dry quickly if spread out on the bonnet of a hot car.

On very hot days you can wear them to dry them and cool yourself.

Otherwise, just spread them over non-toxic shrubs or trees, in the sunshine, to dry.

Deodorising Shoes

To prevent smelly shoes, have three pairs and rotate them.

To deodorise shoes, dust with sodium bicarbonate.

Sunshine can also be a good deodoriser.

With running shoes, you can walk, in seawater, for 15 minutes with them on.

12: Washing Yourself

In hot weather, go for a swim.

In cold weather, sometimes you can just wash under your arms.

Or, wash and dry, from the waist up.

Put on a clean top.

Then wash and dry, below the waist.

I used to dry myself with a few paper towels.

Paper towels can also be used as handkerchiefs.

Since 2007, I have kept my body clean by fasting, and so only need to wash my hands and feet.

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And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:

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Saving Money Without Reducing Quality: Food, Clothes, Shoes, Housing, And Other Necessities

NOTE: I Am Giving My Personal Opinion.
Nothing, I Write, Is To Be Taken As Financial Advice.
Or, As A Substitute For Financial Advice.

Saving money does not mean being a cheapskate and always buying the cheapest.

Think of the quality and the overall lifetime cost of the product.
Better quality clothes and shoes, you pay twice as much for, can last 4 times as long; and, you are wearing better clothes and shoes.

With both rising interest rates, and rising inflation, more and more people are feeling financial stress.
It certainly did not help, when people were told in 2022, that interest rates would not rise until 2024, and any inflation would only be temporary.

More debt = higher interest rates.
I do not think that Governments can borrow 1 trillion dollars, in an economy the size of Australia’s, and not cause a rise in interest rates.
Fortunately, the more astute, used that money to invest or to pay off their personal debt.

More money, fewer goods = inflation.
I do not think that Governments can use a lot of that money, to pay a lot of productive people to stay home and not produce anything, and not cause inflation.

So, now, the politicians have caused your problems, what can you do?

Increase Income Or Reduce Expenditure?

Income is taxed.
Money saved is tax-free.
$100 saved could be equivalent to a $200 increase in income.

What Are Your Necessities?

Food

Good food is very important for your health.
And.
Keeping healthy is a very important part of saving money; and, so lowering your cost of living.
So.
Do not skimp on food.

For a healthy diet, I include:

1: fresh raw fruit;
2: fresh, raw or lightly cooked in water, vegetables, including some green vegetables;
3: fresh, raw nuts or peanuts;
4: some animal-products, such as low-fat Cow’s milk.

I buy quality, at a reasonable price.

Asian Grocery Shops, can be much cheaper.
For fruit, vegetables, nuts, peanuts, other seeds, seaweed, herbs and spices.

Indian Grocery Shops, can be much cheaper.
For Cow’s milk yoghurt in 5 kg containers, nuts, peanuts, other seeds, wholemeal flour in 5kg and 10 kg bags, herbs and spices.

Markets, can be much cheaper.
Especially, during the last hour before closing time.
For fruit, vegetables, nuts, peanuts, other seeds, herbs, spices.
Even cheaper in 10 kg and 20 kg boxes and bags.

Supermarkets.
Look for Specials and Home Brands.

Instead Of Takeaway Food

Quicker and healthier to have some raw fruit or vegetables; with some nuts, peanuts, Cow’s milk or yoghurt.

Clothes

Buy quality clothes that are comfortable; durable; you will enjoy wearing; and, will not go out of fashion.

I like natural fibres.
Such as Sheep’s wool, cotton, bamboo.
As well as, viscose, rayon, and some others, that are made from the cellulose in wood-chips.

Any time, on entering a shop.
First, look at the discount section.

Also, buy Winter clothes at Summer Sales.
Summer clothes at Winter Sales.

End of season sales.
End of financial year sales.

Shoes

Similar to clothes.
Buy quality shoes that are comfortable; durable; you will enjoy wearing; and, will not go out of fashion.

Shoes, you pay twice as much for, can last 4 times as long.
And, you are wearing better quality shoes.

I like black shoes with black soles as they do not show the dirt.

On entering a shop.
First, look at the discount section.

Presents

Anything you bought, and find you do not want, can be kept in new condition, in the original packaging, and used as presents.

Books

You can Download my Free Ebooks from:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LactoVegan

Transport

Exercise.
Walking, running.

Public Transport.
Live near safe, reliable, fast, frequent, public transport, like a train station.

Internet and Telephone

I use prepaid.
More expensive but no bill-shock.

Computer Software

I use FOSS, [Free Open Source Software], for everything.
Including Word Processing, writing ebooks and PDFs, doing spreadsheets, editing photos, internet ...

I use the Ubuntu Operating System, which is free from: https://ubuntu.com

Ubuntu comes with all the free software, you might ever need, already installed.
Such as Free Security, LibreOffice, Firefox Web Browser, ...

I just add GIMP Graphics and Foliate Ebook Reader.

All you need to do is, click on Software Updater, every time you connect to the internet.
And, Software Updater will update everything, including your security. operating system, and programs.

Instead Of Gambling

Casinos and Betting Agencies set the odds so they win and you lose.

Sometimes, you can win at gambling.
But, overall, you will lose more than you win.

If you are addicted.
Install a computer program and lose your money to yourself.
FOSS, free open source, of course.

Cards.
Play 500 or Bridge, for the skill.
Instead of Poker, for the gambling.

Instead Of Smoking, Alcohol, Other Drugs

Do you really need them?
Best not to start.

If you are addicted.
Change your world-view from that of an addict to that of a non-addict.
There are other ways to get high, happy, or to distract yourself.

Instead Of Gym

Make some weights to use at home.

Do some balance exercises, such as standing on one foot, while putting on and taking off, your shoes and socks.
And, some flexibility exercises.

A Place To Live

Go home to your parents.
Share a house or apartment.

Become a housekeeper, but do not let anyone exploit you.
Value your time versus what you are getting.

For example:
Housework, $30 per hour.
Share house, $250 per week.

Make a deal.
Like sharing a house.
But, for example, you keep the house clean and tidy, the garden neat and tidy, in return for a free room.

Householder, gets 6 hours housework and gardening, for $20 per week for your extra water and electricity.
You, save $250 per week, on sharing a house, for 6 hours of your time.
But, be very careful, who you get.

A Note For People With Credit Cards

Every dollar, you spend on interest; is 1 less dollar, you can spend on what you want.

I Do Not Have Any Credit Cards

I have Debit Cards.
For security on the internet, I have a separate Debit Card, to pay for things, such as URLs, on the internet. I only keep a few hundred dollars, on this Debit Card, in case it gets hacked.

A Note For Homeowners With Extreme Mortgage Stress

This is my personal opinion.
My personal opinion is not to be taken as financial advice.
Or, as a substitute for financial advice.

You could go home to your parents; share a house; or, move to a State Forest.
And, get a tenant for your house.

This way, you could get extra income from the rent.
And, your interest on your home-loan, as well as maintenance and repairs, could become tax-deductible.

You will probably need to officially change your residential address, on your driver’s license, for the Tax Office to give you a tax-deduction.

And, tell your money-lender, who might now classify your home-loan as an investment-loan.

As well as, tell your insurance company.

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You can download my, "Goddess Christianity - The Holy Spirit Is Female", PDF from:
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My, “How Jesus Healed People – And How You Can Too – A Scientific Explanation”, PDF from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EOwdUgAZuyGQi6ZfiZlYL-BxA9xfOtz2/view

My Free Ebook, to Download or Read Online, “How Jesus Healed People A Scientific Explanation”, from:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503785

And, my Vegetarian Information Center PDFs from:
https://VegetarianInformation.com

Including, “Humane, Sustainable, Healthy Commercial Cow’s Milk, Sheep’s Wool, And Hen’s Eggs; From Free-Range, Cattle, Sheep, And Poultry, Treated As Pets”.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQRjqK7Df5f9NGRQA81M_W5w_hQXJvDP/view