Sunday, February 26
The Age of Miracles
All around me ever since I was a small boy, I remember hearing people say that God is working miracle everday...
They point to a person who survived a plane crash, train crash, or car crash.
They point to people against all odds surviving a medical procedure, or survived being in the desert or out at sea.
I have hears all sorts of Hollywood actors and Professional Athletes thank God for giving them their powers and abilities... as if they had nothing to do with it at all.
Are these miracles or simply coincidencs... and, the first comment you hear when that is spoken is "I don't believe in coincidences." Of course, that doesn't mean they don't happen.
But what is a miracle?
According to our online dictionary, a miracle is...
a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.
Based upon that definition, you must decide if it is a coincidence or the work of a divine being...
For me, my miracles, if there are any, would not be individual in nature, but collective, in that they would target a group of people or perhaps an entire world... These might include:
- An end to all global wars
- An end to all disease and suffering
- An end to infant mortality
- An end to all power and greed
- An end to killing
- A world where all people live in harmony
These are miracles... but, I doubt any of these miracles will ever happen, especially since our DIVINE ENTITY does not appear to want them to happen...
Saturday, February 25
CONVERSATIONS...
I remember growing up where my parents would sit around the kitchen table at dinner and talk about what was going on in their world. They would not wait until their 3 children had eaten and asked to be excused but start the conversation as soon as everyone was seated and the food was served.
It was during these conversations that I learned my parents were racists with my father being more determined than my mother. These discussions also provided me with the knowledge that my parents cared about those who did not live as well as we did... and, that my dad, did everything in his mental power to find ways not to pay his full share of income taxes.
During my first and second marriages, there was no political talk that was accepted around the kitchen table. In fact, no one was really concerned about politics or what was going on in the world as long as they could continue doing what they wanted to do. Part of that feeling was directed at the belief nothing could be done about what the government wanted to do... so, why waste time talking about it?
To some degree, both these wives were correct because whether the country is managed by the Democrats or the Republicans, the country moves in a direction that DOES NOT FAVOR THE MIDDLE CLASS... I am not sure when that first happened but it is clearly the case now. I don't understand why... but, what I seeing is that the government is being manipulated by the BILLIONAIRES and I am not sure of their agenda other than they don't want a majority of Americans to be like them...
ITS ALL ABOUT POWER AND CONTROL...
Advice From the Frog
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine...
Advice From The Frog
Behold... I give you life... and if, I am displeased ... I and I alone can take that life away from you... it really doesn't sound like our heavenly father really cares about us since he holds such little regard for our lives. I love you only if you love me back and if you don't love me back then I don't really care about your life or well-being... we live solely for the purpose of glorifying him... and, he only lives in our mind as a belief... not as a real entity... so, if that is what we now believe what possibly could be my advice, relative to that belief.
Is your belief valid?
Do you have all the facts?
Why is so much hidden from you?
Why do you have to wait for death to know the truth?
The facts in the Bible do not correspond or correlate to the scientific facts that have been discovered... so, maybe the Bible is just a metaphor for our truth and not truthful in and of itself.
Or, maybe the stories in the Bible, written by man's recollections and memories, are truthful up to a point and pertain to extraterrestrials who have presented themselves as God. Extraterrestrials makes more sense, especially since we have so many structures all over the world that could only have been constructed by superior life forms.
And then when the extraterrestrials left, no one remembered all the technology... does that really seem likely? Humans did not remember... Or perhaps, Humans never knew and simply did as they were told?
We still don't have the technology to construct the Pyramids of Giza... thousands of year later... so, how did those Egyptians build the pyramids given they had no machines or accurate cutting devices?
If you are looking for answers, look towards extraterrestrials... this is my advice...
The Republican Party is Not The Solution
What I can say is that it was after President Jimmy Carter. But, by the time that Donald Trump became President, it was clear that the Democrats controlled political power outside of Congress. And, when Biden became President they began flexing their financial powers to the extent that they have put this county into a financial crisis that has yet to fully reveal itself.
The Republicans have learned TO BITCH TO THE CAMERAS... but as far as any actions as concerned, they are POWERLESS and IMPOTENT... no matter now many hearings they hold now that they control the House.
HEARINGS DON'T DO SHIT EXCEPT SHOW THEY ARE POWERLESS WHEN IT COMES TO ACTIONS...
Electric Vehicles are in our future but right now they are premature given our other problems such as:
- The National Debt
- Our failing Infrastructure
- Our Weak Military
- Our failing education system
- The censorship of opposing views
- Our divided country
- The growth of our enemies
- The claim of white supremacy
- The race to outer space
- The growth of AI/Robots
And, what is sad to criminal is that the Republicans cannot do a frigging thing to stop the Democrats from moving forward.
ONE PARTY RULE IS LIKE A DICTATORSHIP OR COMMUNISM...
Future of Internet
On October 29, 1969, a message was sent from a rather nondescript room at UCLA in Southern California to a Stanford Research Institute computer console in Menlo Park, California. It read simply “Lo,” though it was supposed to say “Login.” The system crashed before completing the task. This was the world’s first message sent via an interconnected computer network known as ARPANET. On this unassuming fall day, the modern internet as we now know it was conceived.
In the five decades since, the internet has transformed human existence. From how we wage war to how we make each other laugh, it's unfathomable how much the internet has shaped life in that short amount of time.
But what will the future of the internet look like in 50 years? How will we solve the challenges that we are currently facing around privacy and data protection? Should we be hopeful—or fearful—for our changing digital world?
We asked these questions to a variety of experts, researchers, scientists, engineers, and futurists. The answers we got back were fascinating, clarifying, and somewhat scary.
In 2019, the Pew Research Center released its own data about the future of digital life after canvassing 530 experts. Lee Rainie, director of internet and tech research at Pew, was one of the co-authors of the study. He says that the answers were eye-opening in terms of how our digital presence will come to further define our existence. “[In their responses], they talked about what the definition of a human being, literally, will be once this technology is available for our bodies and brains.”
According to our experts, that will come sooner rather than later. Within only the next quarter century, the way we search or use the internet will be considered “archaically clunky,” writes Judith Donath, who is a researcher for the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and author of the 2014 book The Social Machine. Rather, our digital presence will not be separate from the physical world, but ingrained in it.
“Gone will be keyboards, the mouse, and screens,” continues Donath.
Toby Negrin, Wikimedia Foundation’s Chief Product Officer, compared the internet to electricity as it becomes an “omnipresent utility, something we expect to always be available and around us... intertwined in our daily lives.”
The world in front of us will be a mix of reality and the virtual and, at times, it will be impossible to decipher which one is which. Mike Liebhold—a senior researcher at the Institute of the Future and at Apple's Advanced Technology Lab in the 1980s—writes that, in the near future, everyone will wear augmented reality glasses and use them to interact with their environment. “Information will be displayed, floating in the air ... the web will appear in the real world, not just on glass screens.” READ MORE...
Friday, February 24
Russia in Drills with China and South Africa
Russia is set to begin conducting naval drills with China and South Africa on Friday in a trilateral display of international cooperation – and show off a powerful weapon.
The Admiral Gorshkov, a Russian frigate, arrived in Capetown, South Africa, this week ahead of the joint drills that will take place in South Africa's Indian Ocean.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: BELARUS WILL JOIN FIGHT IF EVEN 'ONE SOLDIER' ATTACKS TERRITORY, PRESIDENT SAYS
The Admiral Gorshkov is expected to test-fire a Zircon hypersonic missile – the first launch of its kind in an international exercise, state media outlet Tass reports. The Zircon hypersonic missile can penetrate any missile defenses to strike targets at sea and on land, Russia says.
The exercises are set to run for 10 days and will coincide through Feb. 24, the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.
South Africa's decision to participate in the drills has sparked controversy, with the opposition party claiming it demonstrates approval of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. READ MORE...
15 Years of Magnolia Trees and their Blossoms
I planted them intentionally less than 10 feet apart because I wanted to them grow together and form a wall of sorts as they grew. The wall would block neighbors from the right looking us in and around our pool... but, more importantly, the idea was for these trees to bloom and form a wall of white flowers that my wife could look at because she has a passion for Magnolias.
Each of these trees also represented the 9 years we had been married, so there was a little symbolism there as well...
Our Magnolias are 15 years old and the wall has been formed and the flowers do bloom as expected. However, there are not as many blossoms as I had hoped for and while the trees grew tall they did not grow as wide as anticipated... but you cannot make nature always do your bidding.
What white blossoms we do have smell wonderful and my wife does enjoy looking at them... so the idea generally worked.
Anyway, it will always remind me of what I tried to do and why I tried to do it and for me that is all that matters.
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