An Exercise:
We know what we believe. It’s summed up in the Apostle’s Creed. We should examine our beliefs about worldly concerns to see if we’ve been using facts or press releases to form our opinions. Five years ago, when there wasn’t much of it, natural gas was touted as “the ideal fuel, clean and efficient”. In […]
The Truth About Soccer Represents Every Issue We Face
As we’ve seen in the past few days, the damage done by soccer balls to brains is rarely mentioned. Real hurts to people, like birth control, abortion, euthanasia, and Mohammedan invasions are ignored. At the very same time, tiny, even imaginary, problems like global warming/freezing, rising/falling sea levels, excess amounts of trace chemicals, etc. are […]
We All Have, to Varying Degrees, a Hard Time Telling Press Releases from Reality.
When we consider how something as harmless as eating a few extra grams of sugar or salt every has been turned into a problem that causes many to worry, we see Press Releases at work. Most of our opinions about the things and people around us are formed by press releases. On the other hand, […]
Lots of People Like to See Kids Destroying Their Thinking Ability
If one goes to a school board meeting to complain about children’s brains being damaged by hitting their heads against hard, fast-moving soccer balls, one finds lots of people in favor of the process. The same people who will worry mightily, their contorted faces showing the agony they feel, about the sugar in school lunches, […]
Brain Damage
No one would put their computer, cell phone, new car, or TV under an attic window and repeatedly drop a soccer ball onto any one of them from 30 feet in the air. But, some parents will encourage their children to hit a fast-moving soccer ball with their skull. Obviously, many value their possessions more […]
“If It Weren’t For Soccer, I Coulda Been Somebody.”
Had Thomas Edison’s mother been so status-driven as to encourage him to play soccer, his brain would have lost the edge that allowed him to invent the thousand things that brought light and sound to the world. It’s not a popular subject of discussion, but Americans actually are smarter than those of other nationalities. The […]
Soccer>Brain Damage>Ruined Lives
In Carthage, parents who sought favor by throwing their babies into Moloch’s unholy fire were told to “look happy” afterwards. They did. Today, human sacrifices begin with birth control and abortion. The forces of evil have not yet gained enough power to demand that those who have been born be killed. But, they can get […]
The Republican Nomination
Governor Perry appears to have lost his commanding lead among Republican candidates. Ex-governor Romney is trying to appear to be more conservative than his record. Congresswoman Bachmann is dropping dramatically. Herman Cain is surging. Republican elites support Romney. He is one of them, and those who support him are more interested in maintaining government funding […]
Horizontal vs. Vertical
Most of our concerns are horizontal. We work to ensure that we have adequate cash flow to survive and prosper. Most of our efforts are expended on various types of material goods around us. Above us is a level that’s invisible to those who spend all their time looking around them for opportunities on earth. […]
From Today’s Reading, Psalm 9;5
“You rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; their name you blotted out forever and ever. The nations are sunk in the pit they have made; in the snare they set, their foot is caught.” The First Programming Log makes it clear that large groups of people (nations) destroy themselves with their own policies. In […]