Standing Strong Magazine
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Elderly
I don't know if you guys already do and if you do I commend it. Talk to the elderly! Your nana or grandad its a good way of getting in touch with your family better. a lot of elderly people like to talk heaps it just takes a bit to break the ice as the elderly don't get much time with the young ones.
You may be surprised! The elderly have so much to tell us. you think your life was hard try growing up in the old days it was even rougher. the elderly were rebels too they too did naughty things like go to parties and have fun.
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try asking them, how life was for them? Where they grew up? lots of questions the more stories you get out of them the more intriguing the conversation will be. there is lots to tell as most elderly have lived full and exciting lives.
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Share your experiences with them! they may relate to you somehow. I used to share stories with my nana all the time about going out on the weekend and chilling with mates. she used to share how she used to go down to the docks and meet the sailors coming in off the boats.
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spend time with them! watch tv with them and listen to music with them. you may learn about their favourite soap opera or who their favourite singer was back in the days. I suggest looking up that stuff on Wikipedia or listening to it on Spotify if you can find it! may I suggest youtube?
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the more we interact with the elderly the more we begin to discover how life can be for us youthful ones. Most elderly have travelled the world or used to go camping around the country things like that we can take up so that our lives can be more fulfilling.
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I know it is hard trying to relate to the 'Old Folk' but in the end, it can be quite beneficial as we begin to uncover a wonderous and fulfilling lifestyle. you learn about all the things you can fill your life with not yet discovered.
In the end, you have made a new friend one which you can trust with all your heart. now that wasn't hard now, was it?
NET SAVVY
I would like to talk about the internet not only that the dangers of the internet. I work with facebook and a lot of the time I see young kids adding random people to their pages this rings alarm bells in my head.
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Children adding randoms can be a danger to you and your family. I added some random once before you know it, he got right through the whole family. Back then Facebook was relatively new. These people could have a dark history and try to hurt you.
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Another thing with adding randoms is the fact that they may be facebook hackers and you will most probably end up losing your account, not only that but your identity too. Losing your identity can show up in an unpaid bill or anything later in life.
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My solution to most of these is by picking people you know or rather have become to know. Don't give away personal details and try using two-factor authentication when setting up the security on your account.
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Don't tell people your credit card details and hide your address and other details away from your page. As people can use these details to get to you personally. watchdog for the wee ones is a good idea. Also, take a friend or parent to meet up with internet friends.
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I know guys it is pretty hard being unpopular but its safer if you know who they are then again you may have to ask them personal questions before adding to see if it is, in fact, your friend or relative.
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In following these steps it will ensure that you are a lot safer both on the internet and in the community as well. Be wary children as there are a lot of nasty people out there in this world, let us ensure nothing bad happens to any of you.
Designer Label
have you ever tried making up your own clothing label I have I called it game girl It never got off the ground though but one day I will try again just with a new idea!
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What do you like I like music I like video games things like that now you need a name game girl seemed proper I was thinking one day what would a gamer girl wear, a sloppy top with, of course, my game girl logo on it! then I went into putting my logo on things like bags and accessories, phone cases, tablet cases, handbags, and shopping bags then different styles of T-shirts and tops, even kids clothing I went overboard.
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That's the thing you take something small and you blow it up into something big. Like this magazine it started off as a friend pitching me an idea that I should make a youth page on the internet. I didn't stop there though, I thought why not add mum and dad, that's more interesting.
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Game girl just aims at people who play video games that s why I gave up on it you want something that aims at a bigger audience, in reality, it took me about a year to get my audience on my gamer channel up to 1000 followers it took Standing Strong just one month. God then was way more popular than gaming, that's weird aye?
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Then again God has been in most of our lives since the beginning. A good wholesome Christian label is what I would aim at. I will think one up. Halo! Try and make that a brand when I think halo I think angels. Now for the fun part making the design called halo, yours could be different maybe you have already taken off.
So we take the words to make them Elegant add a halo to the top of the L then there you have it this is how to make your own fashion the hard part is making the mountain, I suggest aiming at teens first if you want I will advertise it on my webpage for you for free. Have Fun!
Graphic Content
In this day and age, we begin to discover new technologies, computers are one of the technologies that have gone a long way within the last four years with better graphics and higher processing functions.
This allowing for better development in both movies and computer gaming quality allowing for a better look in both movies and gaming plus allowing for higher definition providing a more realistic view with computer-generated images.
With all this realism going on in movies and gaming a lot of violence in both movies and games is becoming more realistic causing our children to be subjected to something close to real killing when it comes to gaming or just watching a program on NetFlix.
Now, what is all this jargon about really well, first of all, I'm trying to explain in nerd talk the fact that movies and violent games are getting real with images now being very defined with graphic images of death or murder especially now that we have better technologies in which to produce these materials.
A bit less nerd you think? Killing looks more real in today's video games and movies are more violent and full of graphic murder!
"Eeek!" says most of us Christians. Why all this murder in our movies? Why all the killing in games? It depends on what sells most in the movie and gaming industry. The world is full of crazy people who love murder and want to replicate killing all day. If you don't think this is a bit crazy you to are a fool for the hype!
I viewed a room full of gamers just bent on killing all night just to have a Friday on the LAN Games. Watched a movie once, it was full of Computer graphic Images of death I have seen the making and they were quite proud of the realism in most of the death scenes. I watched a televangelist talking about Grand Theft Auto and how some guys started getting real and performing things he had done in his game out in the public, sadly this guy started out a Christian.
So it shows aye stuffs too real! Me I play War Thunder, in movie mode. This mode is the highest level of graphics you reach in your game settings, plus it is in high definition. So it is really graphic and to top it off with more realism I have 5.1 surround sound so I'm fully immersed in battles whether it be tanks, planes, boats, or helicopters. Its Real right down to the artillery fire.
Playing at this level will not only make me deaf. But may also render me down into a mad man inflicted with PTSD. So why do I need such realism amidst battle simulations? Basically, I think man is going too far with their technology and needs to just head out in the real world again. I mean what's it all about seeing death everywhere in the world. In my world, we are at peace especially here in the pacific and I only need to go outside to see there is no war out there. I think most Christians know, we should just keep it real.
Live Streaming
It has been the craze now for a few years, Youtube, Twitch, and now Facebook. I'm talking about live streaming and its a crazy mixed up world. People from all over the world sharing what they do in life live on the internet.
Kind of like real well 'yes it is' and then again not as professional. Young and old people share their lives with us on the internet through their webcams, things such as gaming, arts and crafts, music, dance performance, etc. this all filmed from the safety of there own homes.
Now your thinking that's a bit crazy the young ones are thinking yeah that's cool. I am one of those guys who streams live on the internet mostly, I just stream my gameplay plus I have a couple of websites one which I write game reviews and tech stuff. It's pretty cool you get people from all over the world watching and talking with you while you play your favourite games on the stream,
I invite some to play with me and it builds a community around, well, your favourite hobby. most people stream long hours I just stream off and on during the game and kind of mix it up with a different game each time I go on. This I believe keeps the stream fresh and exciting!
In the end, the viewers will wander off to another stream and you have to then build another audience however you still get the ones that stick it out with you. People can be quite nasty when writing comments I have moderators that make sure they don't stick around for long as they can make feel bad and at times I have been depressed about comments also losing an audience.
So streaming is not for the faint-hearted but if you want to give it a go! There are all kinds of tutorials on how to get your stream started and make sure you have good specs on your computer and then 'hey presto' your a star.
Suicide
Suicide one of the hardest ones to swallow. I have lost four in the past two years to suicide one just a couple of days ago, it's a very serious matter especially for you young folks. I want you to know that it's not the way out and you have an option, a better option and that's to live to fight another day.
We have all had hard lives I grew up the south side of the tracks I know very well how life can treat you if it's not in your face it's inside your head. Day to day I struggle with voices putting me down and ridiculing me constantly. It doesn't mean that I should find a way out but usually try to find a way through the struggle, one thing God taught me is that forgiveness can go a long way.
It is true learning to forgive the voices in my head and just chill has made it easier to deal with this constant struggle. My mate Kris I don't know what his struggles were only the fact that it was that hard on him that the man had to kill himself. I already miss the guy and it has only been like 3 days now.
Suicide is the hardest pill to swallow it brings lots of people down these people may not think we care for them but it can put a lot of the community you live in down in the dumps just talking about it makes me sad. If you ever have thoughts of suicide open up you need to know that there are people that care about you in this world no matter how mean or ugly you may feel.
It's not just you in this world of ours, there are many of us, and we all think the world of you, there may be a select few that dislike you but that's no reason to go hang yourself. Suffering four suicides by family and friends has really brought me down in the past few years they are the hardest to deal with it's like your friends or family have just bailed on you and left you for dead against the many who are out to get you.
Not only that it gets you worrying about the rest of your family or friends, which ones next you get to thinking. Don't do it, speak. that's why God gave you a voice so that you might speak with us if life is getting you down, don't be afraid to deal with it with your family or friends. I have met many that have contemplated suicide only to snap out of it, many were, in fact, drug addicts but it's not only them biting the bullet it's your friends and family too.
Just let it be known you are not a burden it will only bring us down if you do leap off that cliff, seeking out advise or help from the loved ones is the better alternative it only takes up our time you killing yourself takes a little bit of our soul with you when you decide to slash your wrists .
Know who your friends are, I know for some, it is hard to determine who your friends are especially when you think you're talking to them in your head. I for one say you need to talk to real people even the ones in your head are out to get you. Seek God and his wisdom perhaps a pastor I have been in the mental health for 18 years now and not once have they helped when it has come to suicide they just put you in the ward for a few days them release you back into the harsh world.
To me, that's just a quick solution it's better to find someone or something who can bring you right through your harsh time I'm not saying its easy I still have a hard time trying to find out whos on my side or whom to trust in this world, but it is better than throwing your life away because your stuck in a rut even if it has been for years.
Go to God seek out his wisdom I don't want you to die not a lot of us do people like you make my world worth living in. Think about this. I am only one voice trying to help you. You need to find more like me.
Walking With God
Growing up as a Christian teen is hard with all the pressures of being cool and just trying to get into a crowd of kids that will accept you. I grew up as a child going to church every Sunday to worship and praise God then as I got older and started high school I started slipping away from God to fit in at school this lead to taking drugs. excessive drinking and stealing.
As I progressed further into my adult years it all caught up with me and i started walking the walk helping out where needed things like that behaving like a Christian helping out family and friends but not really going to church only occasionally when i was requested i suggest church it powers you up cleanses your soul.
When you walk with God even if your on the wrong path or your heading south it is like God is right there with you especially when your in the dungeon suffering from depression and what not, you kind of feel something, some one maybe, i call it God pulling you up by the back of your collar and setting you down the path again.
Sometimes you feel like you have no energy to move on and then like a new flood of energy you are re energised. This Is God! he does that for you! Walking with God is hard especially in modern society where we have scientists trying to prove there is no God making Christianity look well like a fairy tail. I tell you this now, science can only answer so much before it too becomes a fairy tale "theory" and a lot of it is.
I walk off and on sometimes taking breaks in between but me myself I believe I was put here to do Gods bidding. I Walk the walk like you! We may have crossed paths even! Doing this webpage is me walking again then maybe a pit of church then i might provide my services to someone later on. I suggest you continue the walk to if anything
it gives us purpose in life. Just Believe!
Hug's Not Drugs
In todays age we see it everywhere we go whether it be a concert or at school we will always see drugs in our community. Drugs can be very attractive especially when your at high school and your trying to fit in with the 'in crowd' I took drugs as a teen trying to be cool most people try drugs and don't like it.
Drugs are weird they phase you out and make you see things that aren't there doing this all the time makes you a bit air headed and doing enough of it can have you seeing things all day that don't exist which leads to you being admitted to the ward or a mental institution for life. When i look back i think was it worth doing drugs most people do you spend half your life hiding in a drug den high all day and you never get to do the things you wanted to do in life i have a nephew who was heading that way too his mum soon snapped out of it and threatened him with rehab.
If you see people like this talk to them perhaps you can help them find the way i usually try to talk my mates out of it saying things like 'your too old for it now' and 'its way easier without that shit'. I see drugs as the enemy he slips into your mind and screws you up on occasions you start thinking negative about life and it drags you down making you think drugs are the only way to good feeling.
Like i always say to people on drugs 'what goes up will eventually go down' the higher you are my friends the lower you go some people actually committing suicide because of that low feeling after a high. If you don't take drugs don't bother I've been there as Kurt Cobain says in one of his songs "nothing at the top, but a bucket and a mop, and an illustrated book about birds" there is nothing there at all its a waste of time.
God Is By Far More Fulfilling
Modern Jesus
What if? What if Jesus lived in the now in our modern society. What would he be like? Would he teach Christianity through powerpoint? Man, there are so many people claiming to be Jesus how hard is it to know which one he is? Is he already here? We are supposed to know of his coming well that is if you're already a Christian.
A modern age Jesus is very exciting I'm wondering if he will he drive a car? All this just come crashing in at once. I believe Jesus will fit into this world when he comes, of course, I don't think he's the same, Jesus.
This time he's coming down from heaven so I believe he's going to be a very different person to the Jesus we know, not only that his coming will herald the rapture. By then humanity is already doomed. Sorry to wreck your buzz there a bit.
Would you welcome him? I hope so if Jesus comes make sure you do welcome him he comes to take his followers to heaven.
Now I like the guy this is the sort of guy who has my back when all turns to custard.