Hester (Esther), meaning star and hidden. Sounds like she won a beauty contest.
And Yinon is one of the names of the Messiah (= 116). Just thought I'd point that out. ;)
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Posted on 04/17/2021 11:03:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Why did her great grand-daughter decide to make her death about race?
Imagine the outrage, if a white person claimed their grandparent, “not only represented the advancement of their family but of the White American race and culture in our country.”
RIP
Often when I read articles about the oldest American, it seems a fair amount have been black. It seems counterintuitive, given average life expectancy for various racial groups in the US.
In another article another relative provided insight-“if not for America pulling off 116 years among and competing with Tigers, Cheetahs, Lions, and Hyenas...in Africa? Ain’t Happening.”
These people rarely know their own age.
I don’t think my IRA and SS can take me another 43 years. Maybe if I hit 105 I could do a GoFundMe. OMG getting up to use the bathroom 4 times a night would expand exponentially. I see a life on the throne. King of my 6’x 8’ domain.
It is kind of interesting that not one living person in America was born in the 19th Century. The first two presidents in my life, and all four of my grandparents, were born before 1900.
It is also interesting that 120 years appears to be the ceiling on human life span.
Frankly, I look at age 80 as being the ceiling on a completely healthy life span.
Almost no one gets smarter or healthier after age 80.
Moses lived to 120 in perfect health and then was taken away. I believe that is the cap as proscribed by the creator. Very skeptical of those who claim to be older than that.
At 111 years old, Ford was able to recite the 23rd Psalm from the Bible.
I’d bet she as well as many of these older black people have/had total and absolute faith in Psalm 91 too (Joe, thats Palms for you) and that is their secret. Especially relevant in the time of covid.
shortened:
“1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.a
2 I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely He will deliver you
from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly plague.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
7 Though a thousand may fall at your side,
and ten thousand at your right hand,
no harm will come near you.
8 You will only see it with your eyes
and witness the punishment of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling—
my refuge, the Most High—
10 no evil will befall you,
no plague will approach your tent.
11 For He will command His angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
14 “Because he loves Me, I will deliver him;
because he knows My name, I will protect him.
15 When he calls out to Me,
I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him My salvation.”
Here you go:
Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
After high school, i worked for a summer in a factory with several older black women. We didn’t have too much to say to each other but they worked hard and did their job and had a certain “soul” about them that made you feel good.
Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
The second oldest person in the world is very worried today.......
Back around 1999 while on a pheasant hunting trip to NW Kansas, I had an opportunity to chat with a 94 year old lady who lived her entire life in that teeny little town.
Most notable of her experiences was what life was like for her during the dust bowl years.....
If the top medical expert in the universe says 120 years, the issue is settled!
Covid takes another life
Tears!
Utterly pathetic. The woman lived over 115 years only to see her family reduced to a bunch of simpering cowards.
Hester (Esther), meaning star and hidden. Sounds like she won a beauty contest.
And Yinon is one of the names of the Messiah (= 116). Just thought I'd point that out. ;)
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‘The first two presidents in my life, and all four of my grandparents, were born before 1900.’
the first two presidents of my life were Truman (1884) and Eisenhower (1890); my father’s parents were born in the 1880’s, and my mother, seven years my father’s junior, were born in 1905 and 1906...
‘I believe that is the cap as proscribed by the creator.’
unlikely; very few live to that age, and we find it remarkable if they get close...also, interesting that the creator would cap his prized creation, mankind, to an average of less than a hundred, but allow the red sea urchin to easily eclipse 150 years, and often making it to 200...
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