Thought Catalog : Ow, my $hit!: When I was a kid, I was always excited to learn new #vocabulary. ( #Laughter )

By January Nelson January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

When I was in first grade, my #teacher taught me that “shin” was another word for leg.

Later that day, I was walking with my mom, when I tripped and hit my leg on the ground really hard. I yelled out “OW, MY SHIN” although my mom heard “OW, MY SHIT.”

She started yelling about how that was a bad word and we didn’t say that word, and she was going to wash my mouth out with soap.

I was a crying, bawling mess of a #child, to the point I was doing that weird cry, stutter, hiccup noise.

She paused in berating me and said “Who taught you that word?!”

Of course, I told the truth and said “M-m-my teacher t-t-t-taught me that word!” and she started ranting about how she was going to call the school and get that teacher yelled at.

I tried to explain, “T-te-teacher said that shin meant leg I’m SO SORRY ILL N-N-NE-ne-never say it again.”

My #mom got quiet and realized her mistake. “…What did you say?”

Of course I started crying harder and I said “NO it’s just a test you’re going to wash my mouth out with soap again.”

When I finally calmed down enough to say it again, my mom #apologized and to this day I always say “shin” loudly just to see her face blush.

Thought Catalog : Oh—s3m3n: When I was in high #school, I was pretty quiet around #people who weren’t my #friends. ( #Laughter )

By January Nelson January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

The high school’s wrestling coach also taught geometry, and he was my #teacher. This resulted in a lot of #wrestlers skipping class and barging into our classroom to hang out and not get in trouble. One day, seven #wrestlers come in yelling about new #wrestling uniforms, and how excited they were. When they go over and pull out the #uniforms, the whole class is kind of side eyeing them. Even without what I mention next, the suits look funny. I mean, it’s tight royal blue #Spandex with a #suspender style top. #Absolutely funny already. But the #wrestlers grab the uniforms and rush out of the room to go change in the bathroom, and come back to show them off. Which, is also hysterical because Spandex hides NOTHING; you could see all of their junk.

Anyway, we live in a town called Ocean City. It’s commonly abbreviated as “OC”. On the back of the Spandex uniform, it says Ocean City Men in large letters. Except… they used the #abbreviation. On the back, it says OC MEN. Which isn’t awful, but then I sound it out in my head. OC MEN. Oh—semen. I almost spit out the water I was drinking.

I looked around frantically, trying to find out who I can tell, because I didn’t have any #friends to tell in this class. I turn to the girl next to me, and I had no idea who she was and had never talked to her before. I told her what I found and we both cracked up.

The whole time she saw me as the quiet teacher’s pet who was shy as hell. The first words out of my mouth were “It says oh semen.”

We’ve been best friends for 7 years now.

Beyond The Words : #Muslim #Girl Died for 16 Minutes, Met #Jesus in Hell—What Came Next Will Shock You ( #CHRISTIAN NDE ) – #YouTube

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#NearDeathExperience #NDE #HellNDE

Leila Karim was 17 years old, a devoted Muslim girl in hijab who had memorized most of the #Quran and made four trips to #Mecca.

One afternoon, while reading the Quran in her bedroom, she was struck by a sudden, violent #headache.

A hidden blood vessel in her brain had burst.

Her heart stopped for 16 minutes.

And she woke up in hell.

This is her full near-death #experience #testimony.

In the darkest place she has ever been, Leila heard thousands of people weeping, felt a thirst worse than any Ramadan fast, and saw faces she never expected to see there.

Some of them were the most #religious people she had ever seen.

Then #Jesus came down into the darkness. And what He told her there changed everything.

In the heart of #Jerusalem: the last remnant of the #Russian Empire

After years of division, #Russia has succeeded in recovering a large portion of the properties lost following the 1917 #Revolution.

Only one small holding still eludes #VladimirPutin himself.

Thought Catalog : The day my #teacher stole my #headphones. ( #Laughter )

By January Nelson January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

During my sophomore year of high #school, we were doing silent #work and my history teacher said that we could listen to music but if it was too loud he would “break our headphones.” so I’m doing my work quietly with my music on low, and this obnoxious kid sitting next to me had his music really loud. I could hear it over my music but ignored it. My teacher thought it was me. So he comes up to me & ripped my BRAND NEW #Apple headphones, looking ruthless. He suddenly realized it was the guy next to me and he was completely #embarrassed. He came in the next day with a new pair and an apology note taped to them. He couldn’t look me in the eye for the rest of the year.
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#Persecution – International #Christian Concern : The current conflict, born out of fighting between the Sudanese military and the RSF, has led to one the largest humanitarian crises in the world since igniting in 2023.

2/19/2025
#Sudan

Both parties in the conflict have been credibly #accused of mass atrocities against #civilians, including #attacks on #churches and against #religious #leaders.

However, the RSF has garnered particular #scrutiny for its attacks on #civilians, which parallel those committed by an earlier iteration of the group during the Darfur Genocide.

Just last month, the United States declared that the RSF was again engaged in a genocide.

“The R.S.F. and allied #militias have systematically #murdered #men and #boys — even #infants — on an ethnic basis,” then Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a #statement, “and #deliberately targeted #women and #girls from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence.”

Thought Catalog : I drew a peni$ with a glue stick on the #whiteboard. ( #Laughter )

By January Nelson January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

My whole class once got #detention because I drew a penis with a glue stick on the whiteboard and when the #teacher went to wipe off the board all the fluff came off and stuck to the glue. I never got in trouble for it because my whole class found it too funny to tell the teacher it was me.

Thought Catalog : Drama at my drama class – One time my #drama class’s #teacher had gone home sick so we were just put in a classroom with a movie to entertain us for the period when an alarm went off. ( #Laughter )

By January Nelson January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

None of us were sure if it was the fire alarm or the #lockdown alarm, so we all head out into the hall to check and no one’s out there, so we head back in and climb under our desks as is lockdown procedure.

Cut to an hour or so later when a teacher bursts in and nearly dies of relief because the #school was on fire and we were the only #students not #accounted for and half the faculty and fire department had been searching for us for ages.

Literally, the whole school had filled with smoke while we’d kept super safe under our wooden desks.
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#BibleWisdom : The #Rapture Is Coming – Are You Ready?

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Dec 31, 2025 Bible Wisdom

💡 The Rapture Is Coming — Are You Ready?

The #Bible promises a moment when everything will change in an instant—a moment when #Jesus gathers His #people and the world is left #stunned. This event, known as the Rapture, will happen suddenly, without #warning, and it will divide #humanity forever.

The real question is not when it will happen.
The real question is are you ready when it does?

In this video, we explore what #Scripture truly teaches about the Rapture, the signs Jesus said would appear beforehand, and the #spiritual readiness every #believer must consider. This message is not meant to create fear, but urgency, hope, and clarity.