Comments by Will Simmons | Eastern NC Now

Daniel was the only prophet ever mentioned by Jesus when he spoke about the future.

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4

-Noah built an ark (first ship)
-For thousands of years this was the way to travel the world, by boat.
-200 years ago we got the steam engine and the Industrial Revolution.
-in the past 100 years we have planes, trains, rockets.

Now 4 billion people fly annually. (Many shall run to and fro)

Now we have internet and worldwide telecommunications (knowledge shall be increased)

Commented: Monday, July 14th, 2025 @ 10:21 pm By: Will Simmons

A coin does have a heads and a tails

Commented: Sunday, July 13th, 2025 @ 7:28 pm By: Will Simmons

Buzz I don’t mean to be harsh or rash but your speech illustrates the crux of the issue. If your faith is in Our Lord Jesus Christ then hallelujah, amen. We are indeed brothers, children of the Lord.

And as children growing in the way, we are nurtured on milk when we are young, but meat as we mature.

“To love thine enemy as thyself” is an example of milk.

A like example of meat would be:

“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.”

I do agree that there is an attack on Christianity, it has been under attack since the beginning because it is not of this world.

You said “All people should be free to worship who and how they please.”

Do you truly agree with your own statement? There are pagan worshippers of witchcraft that believe and perform human sacrifices, should they be free to do that?

I’ll let the Bible answer that;

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”

You made the statement:
“Because of Trump, you can express yourself and be a soldier for Christ without the fear of reprisal.”

Reprisal from who? The government? Society? Islamic terrorists? Fact is, one who follows Jesus the world or should I say “reality” is against. We worship the Lord that men hung on a cross. The servant is not greater than the master.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. The problem now is the cult like phenomenon of people associating Trump;Christ;God;Merica. It’s borderline if not outright blasphemous to make any such association because the man does not have a clue what the Bible says. He might can quote something out of it as anyone can but what does it say, he ain’t got the first notion.

Also nothing against CS Lewis was a fine fella. Little long winded but who’s talking.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 6:52 pm By: Will Simmons

Reducing costs and saving money is a good thing but it can also be a bad thing if costs are cut where they are actually needed.

Destroying things the people need in order to “save” money, but at the same time wasting more money than was saved on things the people do not need.

This is how we end up with huge government incomes and expenditures, bloated bureaucracies, and a body of government that does not protect or benefit the people whatsoever.

The students coming out of schools have limited knowledge and even worse critical thinking skills. This is directly cause by unstructured learning environments and the institution of high technology in the classroom. If we have devices that do all our thinking then we shall not be able to think for ourselves. The truth is self evident, and is the enemy of the reasoning of men.

Commented: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 @ 9:11 am By: Will Simmons

Yeah the tax revaluation is insane. There’s an empty quarter acre lot with a cardboard box on it valued at 1.4 million.

Commented: Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 @ 7:40 pm By: Will Simmons

CT: And so it seems that may be what opened the bag of worms.

Commented: Friday, February 14th, 2025 @ 5:48 pm By: Will Simmons

I have to sympathize with Bobs point of view on this issue with The Elon Musk. It is a fairly strange situation. I understand Elon is brilliant and the whole government efficiency things sounds great, but let’s just imagine the optics if the script was flipped, and we had Kamala with Zuckerberg or Gates at her side. I wouldn’t be comfortable with that arrangement myself.

That is the danger of government in it tends to sway left to right. Progressively, the swaying becomes more and more extreme until it eventually topples.

Commented: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 @ 11:21 pm By: Will Simmons

Washingtonian I’m sure you’re probably right. I’m not too studied up on water treatment engineering, give me a few weeks to look into it and I could figure it out, but it just seems like a water treatment plant should treat the water effectively. If it’s not, we should know why.

And a sewage treatment plant dumping into the river just doesn’t sound good whether the water was treated or not, I’m sure it was probably an emergency due to flooding but still.

Commented: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 @ 10:22 pm By: Will Simmons

Mr. Alligood seems like a top-notch county manager. He’s on top of things. 👍

I can imagine what Hood said is true about people not paying the sewer bill. Forget to pay lights or water it’ll get shut off to remind you haha but kinda hard to shut off the drain for nonpayment. Would have to be something that was included in the property tax.

We should investigate how to get these water treatment plants up to par at the very least. The one in Belhaven obtained a permit from NCDEQ to dump into the creek last year, leading to a “no swim” advisory.

I know someone who lab tested the tap water in Belhaven; they said “don’t drink it”. I wonder what all the restaurants use?

Commented: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 @ 9:56 pm By: Will Simmons

I didn’t say that Bob, if you’ll notice the quotations, I was referencing 1 Timothy.

Also, I have never said I loved Trump. As far as your whole example with this Paula, I can’t comment because I’m not familiar with or whatever is going on with that.

I can comment and say however that I do not believe Mr. T to be a Christian.

Commented: Monday, February 10th, 2025 @ 6:21 pm By: Will Simmons

One can find the deed for this property online thanks to our digital register of deeds.

us5.courthousecomputersystems.com

Somewhere, someone, was aware of this issue awhile back. This deed was written back in 1968, but was finally put into effect and uploaded back in July. Effectively redrawing the GIS, splitting the property.

It’s just incompetence all the way around. Big Frank told you himself he decided to stay out of it.

He would rather let a hired cabbage patch kid superintendent steer the ship, than provide the oversight he was elected to provide.

The county commissioners have the power of the purse. Yet they decided to stay out of a land acquisition, handing the wallet and bargaining power to a spending junkie.

As far as the land swap aspect of this situation that could have occurred without a monetary cost for the property, the process of contacting all of the heirs of Kugler Field to sign an amendment, was too much of a undertaking, even for Cheese. Simply easier to spend half a million, than to get 20 signatures.

Commented: Sunday, February 9th, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By: Will Simmons

Pay no attention to women who preach. As it was written:

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”

Commented: Saturday, February 8th, 2025 @ 12:45 am By: Will Simmons

What a shame that other than the few, the majority of our county leaders have demonstrated their breathtaking ignorance in all affairs.

They plan a multimillion dollar construction as if it were a playground kickball game.

Who exactly stands to benefit from the $500,000 in this government to government transaction? Of course not the citizen I know. Lot of money going this way and the other. Who is in charge of keeping track of it all? Hopefully not our appraiser, his figures are a little questionable.

Like I said before, these buzzards have come to pick us clean.

Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 9:01 pm By: Will Simmons

The buzzards spotted this crowd from 10 miles out

I tried to warn you.

Someone needs to pull rank and put the brakes on this blooper before they engineer the taxpayer slam under the table.

Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 7:52 pm By: Will Simmons

So Cheese is adding real estate appraisal to the resume now lol

How is the value of a piece of land determined by what the buyer has in their bank account?

“How much does it cost?”
“How much you got?”

There is no way 4 acres is worth 500,000 unless gold can be mined on site

Wasn’t the president recently charged for crimes involving the overvaluing of real estate?

Seems there is precedent now for this exact situation.

Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 7:10 pm By: Will Simmons

“And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”

Commented: Saturday, December 21st, 2024 @ 8:32 pm By: Will Simmons

BCCitizen- Good point. Inmates are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and still possess all their individual rights, including the right to remain silent. By no means am I advocating for starvation.

It has been said “the fastest way to a man’s heart, is through his stomach.”

If a man eats better on the inside than he did on the outside, subconsciously he will believe, “this isn’t such a bad place to be”. I have many friends who have at one point or another been incarcerated, we all make mistakes. I would rather though see a bland base diet, that contains all food groups to keep a person healthy, but not exactly what one would call “gourmet”. This acts as a subconscious deterrent, persuading the mind to follow the law for the good of everyone including those in jail.

Commented: Saturday, December 21st, 2024 @ 5:27 pm By: Will Simmons