God is not a genie that only exists to serve our every wish. It's the other way around. We exist to serve his purposes. But when we do have that attitude, He gives us the desire of our hearts.
No matter what, It's not ever going to be all fun and games. Jesus himself had a rough time on this earth. But He was willing to endure it because He knew it was worth it.
All things work together for good. Even the things that seem bad at the time. The silver lining is always there.
Would the world be a better place if nobody ever got sick or died? There wouldn't be room for anything but people. There'd be no food. There'd be no nature.
People have to die to make way for the next generation. It's not evil. It's an inevitable part of the natural life cycle. Just as natural as birth.
If we don't die by one cause, we'll die from another. It's always going to involve some degree of pain for both the person who dies and others. But pain is a part of life too and teaches us a lot of things.
It all works together for good.
I know something about this subject. It touches me personally. I'm dying myself. Pretty soon if I'm not mistaken.
I have a degenerative condition that was misdiagnosed for years until it reached a point that no treatment could possibly help. (that's not my opinion, it's official). And it's getting worse slowly but surely.
But I'm not about to blame God or complain about it. He knows our situations and needs better than we do ourselves. I'm content to leave it all in His hands.
Content or not, that's where all of our fates lie.
But it's by such experiences that we learn what the really important values are.
I remember as a young teen, my only criteria for girls was their physical beauty. It didn't matter if they were vain, or selfish or whatever, if they were pretty, I was "in love".
That's the good side of losing our biological mating bond. We become more discriminating and more aware of what values we're looking for.
No, I like the natural kind. But sadly we don't live in nature. It's a very synthetic world and living in it causes a lot of adaptations that interfere with our "natural" nature.
Like it says in Woodstock "we've got to get ourselves back to the garden". But it's hard to find.
Biologically, we are designed to find a mate at a relatively young age, bond for life, and raise a family. The hardware of our psyche is designed with that in mind.
But nowadays, the pressures of society tend to break that bond and we find ourselves looking for mates again at a time when we are no longer hardwired for bonding.
The first time, the mating bond is automatic and biologically based, like the bonding that occurs between a mother and baby at birth.
It's not based on common interests, or practicality, or "compatibility". In fact it can be totally irrational. It's magic.
However, subsequent attempts to bond are increasingly less magic. After a few failures the biological bonding function gives up and shuts down altogether.
Thereafter, the magic is gone, and mating becomes totally a question of personal preference, practical concerns and "compatibility".
The opposite magnets no longer cling to each other automatically. It takes glue.
I don't know if this site is really about "the future" and finding mates.
Sometimes that happens, and it's great when it does, but I think most people (including myself) are mostly here for friendly companionship at the pressent.
Me and a friend were body-surfing at a beautiful secluded Indonesian beach. There was nobody else anywhere in sight. We were swimming in cutoff jeans and T-shirts.
Out of nowhere, 2 gorgeous Australian girls appeared coming down the beach with a big bottle of wine, a sack full of food and two blankets.
They walked right up to us, spread their blankets, and one of them said: (transliteration here) "Awright mites, awf with yer duds".
It sound like a tall tale, but that's just how it happened.
I had the same feeling. It's not normal for a caretaker to be armed while doing her job. Having a gun in her own home I can understand, but carrying a gun while cleaning somebody else's house is wierd. As you suggest I feel like the caretaker herself may be from a criminal milieu.
In the best of all possible worlds, handguns wouldn't even exist. But they do. And it is the most dangerous elements of society that will have them first. So having a handgun for defense can be necessary in dangerous areas. The very fact that some people have guns in their homes has a disuasive affect on criminality. In Texas when carrying a gun became legal, agressions went way down. In the old west many people carried guns and crime was low. It is not the guns that increase criminality.
Even in the case of the housekeeper, it is paranoia of the housekeeper that is the problem. And that paranoia probably stems from high crime in the area such as drug gangs.
The fact that the housekeeper had a gun on her while working testifies that she considered the threat of violent intruders to be very real.
I admit it's a problem, but I don't think disarming law-abiding citizens and leaving them at the total mercy of vicious criminals is the answer.
The only real solution will have to involve a radical change in society and its values. Until then some sort of disuasive parity is about the best we can expect.
Like the old saying goes. God made men. Smith & Wesson made them equal.
When a nation that is broke creates and lends money to troubled companies in order to "stimulate" the economy, what really happens is that the money supply is increased and a little bit of value gets shaved off of everybody's savings and sent to the very criminals whose greed put the economy in such a mess in the first place.
I went back at 37 to get an AA degree. Then again at 40 to transform it into a BA. Then again at 42 to add a second major concentration. Then again at 43 to add a 3rd major concentration. Then again at 45 to get a French BTS business degree and do French language studies.
I don't think it's ever too late until alzheimer's sets in. Then it's too late.
However, even members of the cult go for years without ever being allowed to even see the machine in operation, and outsiders aren't allowed anywhere near it.
Certainly no independent investigator has ever been allowed to critically eximine the machine.
The excuse given for not revealing the technology to the world is that the world is not ready for unlimited free energy.
And for some strange reason, the cult still buys electricity from the power company like everybody else.
Some independent cult-busters tried going to the cult with questions. They were totally stonewalled.
secretly filmed interview (bad sound so listen carefully)
In the room with me right now are my 6 guitars, my bass, my piano, my 3 amps, my 10 harmonicas and all my PA and recording equipment. I've played real instruments all my life.
But on the computer I have Finalé software for writing midi playable sheet music.
There's no comparison for quality. Real instruments win hands down.
But a real music file takes up a lot of space in a computer file whereas a midi file is really small in comparison. That's really the only advantage of midi music, it takes less space.
RayfromUSA Forum Posts (6,611)
RE: Legends of the World
I believe Einstein was a fraud.Never heard of Abdul Qadir.
To hell with future weapons.
The ones we've got already are bad enough.