Arkansas City will not be the focus now, but we can still talk about the town. For now the blog is a blog in search of an identity. Considering what the new niche will be.
Here is a quiz to see how much you know about religion and how that compares to the average.
It is not an atheist quiz or anything, it is a real quiz with general knowledge questions. but it did say that statistically atheist/agnostics and jews score the highest.
I scored 14/15 only missing the one about the jewish sabbath.
(CNN) - Donald Trump responded Monday to Mike Huckabee's suggestion that he serve as treasury secretary, predicting who would be hurt most by the potential appointment.
"I'll tell you, it would be very painful for China, it would be very painful for OPEC, it would be very painful for many of the countries that are just ripping us off," the real estate mogul said on Fox News.
Former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee, who first made the suggestion last week, reiterated his call Monday morning, saying current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has "failed the economy and failed this president."
---------- Now there is an interesting idea!
Rather than turning to a more restrictive style of Government with more regulations, job killing policies and taxes?
Why don't we ask/make those countries who are contributing/benefiting from America to PAY to PLAY!
Use Capitalism and not Socialism/Communism!
And
(NO not unionization like Europe and/or protectionism. Just good old competition!)
If you have followed the News out of Venezula lately:
You would find out that Chavez's policies of Nationalizing that Countries businesses has resulted in a rise in inflation of 25% year over year! Thats 25% inflation for the whole population regardless of income or economic status!
Tell me again that Socialism/Communism works!
(The best plan is probably to afford people the ability to change their economic status/class. Not trap them at a specific level!)
Capitalism is the only system that provides/promotes a middle class! (A ladder to move up or down! (Rags to riches and/or riches to rags!)
if China were to stop buying Treasuries, the value of the Yuan would rise, Chinese exports would become more expensive and employment in China would fall.
So at the very moment China's bloggers and state-run media were blasting the U.S. government for its profligacy, guess what Beijing was doing?
It was buying U.S. Treasuries.
The reality is that China is trapped into a cycle of buying our T-bonds. No matter what any ratings agency says, no other bond market is as big or as safe.
So ignore all those theories about China doing America a huge favor. The reality is, they have nowhere else to go. We're probably doing them a favor.
And by the way, in terms of who is paying whom, data from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the U.S. pays out some 74 million dollars to China in interest payments on debt every day. We did the math. That means Washington is paying Beijing 833 dollars every second.
London (CNN) -- Prime Minister David Cameron blames the riots that shook Britain over the past 10 days on a "slow-motion moral collapse ... in parts of our country," he said Monday.
Cameron listed problems including "Irresponsibility. Selfishness. Behaving as if your choices have no consequences. Children without fathers. Schools without discipline. Reward without effort. Crime without punishment. Rights without responsibilities. Communities without control," in a speech in his constituency in Oxfordshire.
And he promised that the government will "review every aspect of our work to mend our broken society" in the coming weeks.
The U.S. sent 42 billion dollars to foreign countries for oil purchased in the month of July 2011! ?? These are american and multi national corporaitons that are getting this money. G. Bush and his oil cronies. I dont hear anyone advocating socialism,, only the far right making the accusation every time the win blows :)
These are american and multi national corporaitons that are getting this money. G. Bush and his oil cronies.
There are some muti-nationals, but they are losing their grip worldwide! Many have been kicked out of foreign countries who then take over their own reserves. (Or let some other country develope them.) Like Mexico, Venezula etc. But they don't manage the production or invest properly to extend the life of their reserves! Then you have countries like China who are simply buying the "rights" to new discoveries! (For oil and minerals). You still want to blame George Bush - when WE built a country dependent on oil! But can't even use our own reserves! (Maybe you should also blame Carter and Clinton! Maybe even Car Mfgs. and the UAW?)
Seems like an awful lot of money leaving the country for oil and interest on the Nation Debt! (Taxes, Taxes and More Taxes - and still no one seems to want to address the real problems!)(That 42 billion was 60% of the oil consumed in July and it was all imported!)
But then we can just keep those printing presses in high gear! (Then leave it to future generations!)
Mr. Williams shook his head. "They're missing the real problem," he said.
The working class may be taking a beating from spending cuts used to close a cavernous deficit, Mr. Williams said, but the root of California's woes is its reliance on taxing the wealthy.
Nearly half of California's income taxes before the recession came from the top 1% of earners: households that took in more than $490,000 a year. High earners, it turns out, have especially volatile incomes—their earnings fell by more than twice as much as the rest of the population's during the recession. When they crashed, they took California's finances down with them.
Mr. Williams, a former economic forecaster for the state, spent more than a decade warning state leaders about California's over-dependence on the rich. "We created a revenue cliff," he said. "We built a large part of our government on the state's most unstable income group."
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois—states that are the most heavily reliant on the taxes of the wealthy—are now among those with the biggest budget holes. A large population of rich residents was a blessing during the boom, showering states with billions in tax revenue. But it became a curse as their incomes collapsed with financial markets.
Arriving at a time of greatly increased public spending, this reversal highlights the dependence of the states on the outsize incomes of the wealthy. The result for state finances and budgets has been extreme volatility.
Good day! I'm looking for any contact details (email, phone number or mail address)of the website owner or marketing person that I can communicate with for possible business venture on website income opportunities. We are very much interested to do business with you. Please send me an email together with your website name and I'll be glad to call you to discuss this matter. Thank you
Well I don't think I'd respond to his e-mail address unless you want to be communicating with someone in the Phillipines! (At least that how I see it on the sitemeter!)
"We don't have the data to say for certain what explains these patterns, but I would caution against concluding that what we have here is a real increase in the occurrence of this condition," stressed study author Dr. Lara J. Akinbami, a medical officer with the National Center for Health Statistics. The findings appear in an Aug. 18 report from the agency.
"In fact, it would be hard for me to argue that what we see here is a true change in prevalence," Akinbami added. "Instead, I would say that most probably what we found has a lot to do with better access to health care among a broader group of children, and doctors who have become more and more familiar with this condition and now have better tools to screen for it. So, this is probably about better screening, rather than a real increase, and that means we may continue to see this pattern unfold."
According to the National Institutes of Health, ADHD is the most common behavioral disorder among children.
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Now you have to wonder if after all that screening and drugging?
That they will find out that Children aren't going to act like ADULTS! That they mature at different rates and that most all of them out grow that CONDITION!
What if it is a normal condition within the population - but no one has the time to deal with it! SO LETS PUT THEM ON DRUGS! (1 in 10? maybe more?)
Jesus' Facebook fans are 'most engaged' By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor
Take a guess: What Facebook page has a more highly engaged audience than any other? Justin Bieber’s? Kim Kardashian’s? Manchester United football club's?
No, it’s Jesus Daily, a page that had 8.4 million “Likes” and belongs to a North Carolina-based diet doctor.
The New York Times reports on the page, which Dr. Aaron Tabor began as a hobby in 2009 after he began using Facebook to promote a diet book he wrote and a Web-based diet business, which includes selling shakes and protein bars.
The page features a picture of Jesus dressed as a shepherd and is updated daily with biblical quotes, prayers and reflections on the man who Christians call the savior.
Here’s a post from Monday morning:
When I despair.......HE GIVE ME HOPE. When I am sad.......HE BRIGHTENS ME. When I stumble.......HE STABILIZES ME. When I am damaged.......HE RENEWS MY LIFE. My Jesus. ♥
The Times notes that Jesus Daily is hardly the only wildly popular religious page and that the page speaks to a trend of people connecting with their faith outside of traditional religious institutions:
Altogether, the hand of Au. sediba has more features related to tool-making than that of the first human species thought of as a tool user, the "handy man" Homo habilis, said researcher Tracy Kivell at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. "This suggests to us that sediba may also have been a toolmaker."
Though the scientists haven't excavated the site in search of stone tools, "the hand and brain morphology suggest that Au. sediba may have had the capacity to manufacture and use complex tools," Kivell added.
The researchers do caution that although they suggest that Au. sediba was ancestral to the human lineage, all these apparent resemblances between it and us could just be coincidences, with this extinct species evolving similar traits to our lineages due, perhaps, to similar circumstances. [Top 10 Missing Links]
In fact, it might be just as interesting to imagine that Au. sediba was not directly ancestral to Homo, because it opens up the possibility "of independent evolution of the same sorts of features," Carlson said. "Whether or not it's on the same lineage as leading to Homo, I think there are interesting questions and implications."
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All that article to then suggest it just might be a coincidence?
All they have is bones?
Just a bunch of Men trying to explain their existence - because they can't accept the truth?
Where is that missing link that proves men were created through evolution? (I don't think its beyond the realm of reality that man (or other creatures) has evolved due to his environment within his own species - but with the breaking of the genetic code? Where is that link that allows different species to crossover/inter mingle?) Surely DNA would show that quantum leap!
Why would there be any order in the theory of evolution? Why isn't it all just random? Then and Today? (What would make it progress/function in an orderly manor?) What is it that keeps order in the universe and on Earth?
I think that answer lies in design!
I wonder who could have designed it? (In the beginning?)
Christianity is the belief that a cosmic jewish zombie, who was his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a man's rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magic tree.
4. At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5. "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty." 6. Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and you sin atoned for." 8. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
**I wonder how many of those: 76% United States 82.7% Mexican 77% Canadian as well as all those around the rest of the world who claim to believe in God and call themselves "Christians".
But that narrative, implying that U.S. manufacturing withered while we bought Chinese products at the mall, is simply wrong. American manufacturing boomed during the expansion. The value of "what we build" increased every year. The problem for the President -- and it's a giant, central problem for him -- is that we did it with fewer workers every year.
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Fewer people relentlessly produce more and better stuff, whether it's corn, cars, or any other physical product. The trend isn't going to reverse.
-------------
But one thing we know for sure is that the more advanced that manufacturing becomes, the fewer people it employs. At a time when the country desperately needs more jobs, manufacturing is obviously not the place to look for them. As the President meets with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council, listen carefully to what he says. A delusional policy for America's No. 1 problem is the last thing we need.
From an article on Yahoo Finance by Robert Kiyosaki (My Rich Dad/Poor Dad) - Oct. 27, 2010.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
• From bondage to spiritual faith;
• From spiritual faith to great courage;
• From courage to liberty;
• From liberty to abundance;
• From abundance to complacency;
• From complacency to apathy;
• From apathy to dependence;
• From dependence back to bondage.
His closing paragraphs -
This is not the time to be complacent or apathetic. This is the time to think globally. Putting up trade barriers would be disastrous. Instead, it's time our schools train students to be entrepreneurs who export to the world rather than employees looking for jobs that are being exported to low-wage countries.
Please be clear. I don't fear the Chinese. I fear our own growing weakness. Only a weak people can be oppressed. Today, America has too many people looking to the government for financial salvation.
In 1620 the Pilgrims fled the spiritual oppression of the Church of England. Today Americans may need to flee the financial oppression of our own government as our democracy dies. If we follow Tytler's cycle for democracy, our financial dependence will lead us to financial bondage.
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This is a good article and throughout he backs up his statements with history!
8. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
I once had a relative ask me in my mid- twenties - "have they convicted you yet?" No, they weren't talking about a crime it was directed to my parents and the church! (Convicted of my Sins!)
Well little did they know I had been convicted or converted at an early age - but didn't know what that really meant.
Its kind of ironic how some people think the Bible just changes your mind and behaviors just by opening it or listening to someone recite or preach from it! (However, it is full of people throughout history and how they lived and what they saw/knew/believed when they were on the Earth! It is a different "AGE" but we are decendants of those same PEOPLE!)
But, as I got older and went through various stages (even the one of infinite wisdom where no one can tell you anything!) I began to notice the difference between those who believe and follow God and those who DON'T!
The rains came and "STORMS RAGED" on the "JUST" and the "UNJUST" equally! Some gave up in both Camps! But the ones that weathered "LIFE'S STORMS" the best were those who were changed to become "unchanged" - because they relied on GOD! (Those who built their houses upon the rocks (truths) along with with all others who believed and lived that SAME WAY!)
I am here LORD "CHANGE ME TO BE UNCHANGED" and use ME!
Here is a quiz to see how much you know about religion and how that compares to the average.
ReplyDeleteIt is not an atheist quiz or anything, it is a real quiz with general knowledge questions. but it did say that statistically atheist/agnostics and jews score the highest.
I scored 14/15 only missing the one about the jewish sabbath.
http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/
ReplyDeleteyea its a good quiz. the pew center is a legitimate research center.
ReplyDeletei missed one as well. the pakistan religion ...
it is pretty amazing the lack of knowledge people have about religion .. which is why conmen and false prophets do so well.
how many know the five points of calvin and why they matter?
:)
JJ,
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Pickens Plan.com:
The U.S. sent 42 billion dollars to foreign countries for oil purchased in the month of July 2011!
We imported a total of 359 million barrels!
(Some of those countries who certainly don't share Americas values.)
Do you see that as a problem?
Do you see that as a problem?
ReplyDelete(CNN) - Donald Trump responded Monday to Mike Huckabee's suggestion that he serve as treasury secretary, predicting who would be hurt most by the potential appointment.
"I'll tell you, it would be very painful for China, it would be very painful for OPEC, it would be very painful for many of the countries that are just ripping us off," the real estate mogul said on Fox News.
Former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee, who first made the suggestion last week, reiterated his call Monday morning, saying current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has "failed the economy and failed this president."
----------
Now there is an interesting idea!
Rather than turning to a more restrictive style of Government with more regulations, job killing policies and taxes?
Why don't we ask/make those countries who are contributing/benefiting from America to PAY to PLAY!
Use Capitalism and not Socialism/Communism!
And
(NO not unionization like Europe and/or
protectionism. Just good old competition!)
Use Capitalism and not Socialism/Communism!
ReplyDeleteIf you have followed the News out of Venezula lately:
You would find out that Chavez's policies of Nationalizing that Countries businesses has resulted in a rise in inflation of 25% year over year!
Thats 25% inflation for the whole population regardless of income or economic status!
Tell me again that Socialism/Communism works!
(The best plan is probably to afford people the ability to change their economic status/class. Not trap them at a specific level!)
Capitalism is the only system that provides/promotes a middle class! (A ladder to move up or down! (Rags to riches and/or riches to rags!)
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn/2011/08/why-china-needs-u-s/?hpt=hp_t2
ReplyDeleteby Fareed Zakaria
The end of that article:
if China were to stop buying Treasuries, the value of the Yuan would rise, Chinese exports would become more expensive and employment in China would fall.
So at the very moment China's bloggers and state-run media were blasting the U.S. government for its profligacy, guess what Beijing was doing?
It was buying U.S. Treasuries.
The reality is that China is trapped into a cycle of buying our T-bonds. No matter what any ratings agency says, no other bond market is as big or as safe.
So ignore all those theories about China doing America a huge favor. The reality is, they have nowhere else to go. We're probably doing them a favor.
And by the way, in terms of who is paying whom, data from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the U.S. pays out some 74 million dollars to China in interest payments on debt every day. We did the math. That means Washington is paying Beijing 833 dollars every second.
From Today on CNN:
ReplyDeleteLondon (CNN) -- Prime Minister David Cameron blames the riots that shook Britain over the past 10 days on a "slow-motion moral collapse ... in parts of our country," he said Monday.
Cameron listed problems including "Irresponsibility. Selfishness. Behaving as if your choices have no consequences. Children without fathers. Schools without discipline. Reward without effort. Crime without punishment. Rights without responsibilities. Communities without control," in a speech in his constituency in Oxfordshire.
And he promised that the government will "review every aspect of our work to mend our broken society" in the coming weeks.
The U.S. sent 42 billion dollars to foreign countries for oil purchased in the month of July 2011!
ReplyDelete??
These are american and multi national corporaitons that are getting this money. G. Bush and his oil cronies.
I dont hear anyone advocating socialism,, only the far right making the accusation every time the win blows :)
These are american and multi national corporaitons that are getting this money. G. Bush and his oil cronies.
ReplyDeleteThere are some muti-nationals, but they are losing their grip worldwide! Many have been kicked out of foreign countries who then take over their own reserves. (Or let some other country develope them.) Like Mexico, Venezula etc. But they don't manage the production or invest properly to extend the life of their reserves!
Then you have countries like China who are simply buying the "rights" to new discoveries!
(For oil and minerals). You still want to blame George Bush - when WE built a country dependent on oil! But can't even use our own reserves! (Maybe you should also blame Carter and Clinton!
Maybe even Car Mfgs. and the UAW?)
Seems like an awful lot of money leaving the country for oil and interest on the Nation Debt! (Taxes, Taxes and More Taxes - and still no one seems to want to address the real problems!)(That 42 billion was 60% of the oil consumed in July and it was all imported!)
But then we can just keep those printing presses in high gear! (Then leave it to future generations!)
From an article on the Wall Street Journal
ReplyDelete"The price of Taxing the Rich" Mar. 26, 2011
Mr. Williams shook his head. "They're missing the real problem," he said.
The working class may be taking a beating from spending cuts used to close a cavernous deficit, Mr. Williams said, but the root of California's woes is its reliance on taxing the wealthy.
Nearly half of California's income taxes before the recession came from the top 1% of earners: households that took in more than $490,000 a year. High earners, it turns out, have especially volatile incomes—their earnings fell by more than twice as much as the rest of the population's during the recession. When they crashed, they took California's finances down with them.
Mr. Williams, a former economic forecaster for the state, spent more than a decade warning state leaders about California's over-dependence on the rich. "We created a revenue cliff," he said. "We built a large part of our government on the state's most unstable income group."
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois—states that are the most heavily reliant on the taxes of the wealthy—are now among those with the biggest budget holes. A large population of rich residents was a blessing during the boom, showering states with billions in tax revenue. But it became a curse as their incomes collapsed with financial markets.
Arriving at a time of greatly increased public spending, this reversal highlights the dependence of the states on the outsize incomes of the wealthy. The result for state finances and budgets has been extreme volatility.
Good day!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking for any contact details (email, phone number or mail address)of the website owner or marketing person that I can communicate with for possible business venture on website income opportunities. We are very much interested to do business with you. Please send me an email together with your website name and I'll be glad to call you to discuss this matter.
Thank you
arazeilia@yourmediaguru.com
First time to the site, apparently.
ReplyDeleteWell I don't think I'd respond to his e-mail address unless you want to be communicating with someone in the Phillipines! (At least that how I see it on the sitemeter!)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/china-libya-oil-2011-8
ReplyDeleteSeems like China wants to take advantage of Libya's infrastructure - oil? (See article above)
I don't see where asking for payment of the millions we spent in support is really all that out of line - Do you?
Btw: I think China did the exact same thing in IRAQ!(Boy aren't we a Smart Super Power?)
http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-1-10-u-kids-diagnosed-adhd-160803440.html
ReplyDeleteFrom the article above:
"We don't have the data to say for certain what explains these patterns, but I would caution against concluding that what we have here is a real increase in the occurrence of this condition," stressed study author Dr. Lara J. Akinbami, a medical officer with the National Center for Health Statistics. The findings appear in an Aug. 18 report from the agency.
"In fact, it would be hard for me to argue that what we see here is a true change in prevalence," Akinbami added. "Instead, I would say that most probably what we found has a lot to do with better access to health care among a broader group of children, and doctors who have become more and more familiar with this condition and now have better tools to screen for it. So, this is probably about better screening, rather than a real increase, and that means we may continue to see this pattern unfold."
According to the National Institutes of Health, ADHD is the most common behavioral disorder among children.
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Now you have to wonder if after all that screening and drugging?
That they will find out that Children aren't going to act like ADULTS! That they mature at different rates and that most all of them out grow that CONDITION!
What if it is a normal condition within the population - but no one has the time to deal with it! SO LETS PUT THEM ON DRUGS!
(1 in 10? maybe more?)
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/02/news/companies/government_mortgage/index.htm
ReplyDeleteWE bailed some of these Big Banks out so we could then Sue them - pinch me!
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/05/jesus-facebook-fans-are-most-engaged/?hpt=hp_t2
ReplyDeleteFrom the article above:
Jesus' Facebook fans are 'most engaged'
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor
Take a guess: What Facebook page has a more highly engaged audience than any other? Justin Bieber’s? Kim Kardashian’s? Manchester United football club's?
No, it’s Jesus Daily, a page that had 8.4 million “Likes” and belongs to a North Carolina-based diet doctor.
The New York Times reports on the page, which Dr. Aaron Tabor began as a hobby in 2009 after he began using Facebook to promote a diet book he wrote and a Web-based diet business, which includes selling shakes and protein bars.
The page features a picture of Jesus dressed as a shepherd and is updated daily with biblical quotes, prayers and reflections on the man who Christians call the savior.
Here’s a post from Monday morning:
When I despair.......HE GIVE ME HOPE.
When I am sad.......HE BRIGHTENS ME.
When I stumble.......HE STABILIZES ME.
When I am damaged.......HE RENEWS MY LIFE. My Jesus. ♥
The Times notes that Jesus Daily is hardly the only wildly popular religious page and that the page speaks to a trend of people connecting with their faith outside of traditional religious institutions:
http://news.yahoo.com/closest-human-ancestor-may-rewrite-steps-evolution-141606435.html
ReplyDeleteAltogether, the hand of Au. sediba has more features related to tool-making than that of the first human species thought of as a tool user, the "handy man" Homo habilis, said researcher Tracy Kivell at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. "This suggests to us that sediba may also have been a toolmaker."
ReplyDeleteThough the scientists haven't excavated the site in search of stone tools, "the hand and brain morphology suggest that Au. sediba may have had the capacity to manufacture and use complex tools," Kivell added.
The researchers do caution that although they suggest that Au. sediba was ancestral to the human lineage, all these apparent resemblances between it and us could just be coincidences, with this extinct species evolving similar traits to our lineages due, perhaps, to similar circumstances. [Top 10 Missing Links]
In fact, it might be just as interesting to imagine that Au. sediba was not directly ancestral to Homo, because it opens up the possibility "of independent evolution of the same sorts of features," Carlson said. "Whether or not it's on the same lineage as leading to Homo, I think there are interesting questions and implications."
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All that article to then suggest it just might be a coincidence?
All they have is bones?
Just a bunch of Men trying to explain their existence - because they can't accept the truth?
Where is that missing link that proves men were created through evolution? (I don't think its beyond the realm of reality that man (or other creatures) has evolved due to his environment within his own species - but with the breaking of the genetic code? Where is that link that allows different species to crossover/inter mingle?)
Surely DNA would show that quantum leap!
Btw: While your on your atheist evolution kick!
ReplyDeleteWhy would there be any order in the theory of evolution? Why isn't it all just random? Then and Today? (What would make it progress/function in an orderly manor?)
What is it that keeps order in the universe and on Earth?
I think that answer lies in design!
I wonder who could have designed it? (In the beginning?)
Christianity is the belief that a cosmic jewish zombie, who was his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a man's rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magic tree.
ReplyDeleteAnd evolution seems illogical to you?
And evolution seems illogical to you?
ReplyDeleteSeems like God gave us both that same CHOICE!
As for Me and my house, we choose to serve the Lord! (The God of the Bible.)
No, god did not give me or you a choice. Your parents gave you indoctrination into a world of make believe, and you fell for it.
ReplyDeleteAs for me and my house, we choose to serve man.
"IT'S A COOK BOOK!"
Isaiah 6: 4-8
ReplyDelete4. At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5. "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty."
6. Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and you sin atoned for."
8. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
**I wonder how many of those:
76% United States
82.7% Mexican
77% Canadian
as well as all those around the rest of the world who claim to believe in God and call themselves "Christians".
Would say:
"Here am I Lord", Send/Use me!
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/19/obama-looking-for-jobs-in-all-the-wrong-places/?iid=HP_River
ReplyDeleteFrom that article:
But that narrative, implying that U.S. manufacturing withered while we bought Chinese products at the mall, is simply wrong. American manufacturing boomed during the expansion. The value of "what we build" increased every year. The problem for the President -- and it's a giant, central problem for him -- is that we did it with fewer workers every year.
------------
Fewer people relentlessly produce more and better stuff, whether it's corn, cars, or any other physical product. The trend isn't going to reverse.
-------------
But one thing we know for sure is that the more advanced that manufacturing becomes, the fewer people it employs. At a time when the country desperately needs more jobs, manufacturing is obviously not the place to look for them. As the President meets with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council, listen carefully to what he says. A delusional policy for America's No. 1 problem is the last thing we need.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/23/news/economy/poverty_suburbs/index.htm
ReplyDeleteFrom an article on Yahoo Finance by Robert Kiyosaki (My Rich Dad/Poor Dad) - Oct. 27, 2010.
ReplyDeleteA democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
• From bondage to spiritual faith;
• From spiritual faith to great courage;
• From courage to liberty;
• From liberty to abundance;
• From abundance to complacency;
• From complacency to apathy;
• From apathy to dependence;
• From dependence back to bondage.
His closing paragraphs -
This is not the time to be complacent or apathetic. This is the time to think globally. Putting up trade barriers would be disastrous. Instead, it's time our schools train students to be entrepreneurs who export to the world rather than employees looking for jobs that are being exported to low-wage countries.
Please be clear. I don't fear the Chinese. I fear our own growing weakness. Only a weak people can be oppressed. Today, America has too many people looking to the government for financial salvation.
In 1620 the Pilgrims fled the spiritual oppression of the Church of England. Today Americans may need to flee the financial oppression of our own government as our democracy dies. If we follow Tytler's cycle for democracy, our financial dependence will lead us to financial bondage.
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This is a good article and throughout he backs up his statements with history!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/kansas_rodeo_exception_claimed_unborns_life.html
ReplyDelete8. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
ReplyDeleteI once had a relative ask me in my mid- twenties - "have they convicted you yet?"
No, they weren't talking about a crime it was directed to my parents and the church!
(Convicted of my Sins!)
Well little did they know I had been convicted or converted at an early age - but didn't know what that really meant.
Its kind of ironic how some people think the Bible just changes your mind and behaviors just by opening it or listening to someone recite or preach from it! (However, it is full of people throughout history and how they lived and what they saw/knew/believed when they were on the Earth! It is a different "AGE" but we are decendants of those same PEOPLE!)
But, as I got older and went through various stages (even the one of infinite wisdom where no one can tell you anything!) I began to notice the difference between those who believe and follow God and those who DON'T!
The rains came and "STORMS RAGED" on the "JUST" and the "UNJUST" equally! Some gave up in both Camps! But the ones that weathered "LIFE'S STORMS" the best were those who were changed to become "unchanged" - because they relied on GOD! (Those who built their houses upon the rocks (truths) along with with all others who believed and lived that SAME WAY!)
I am here LORD "CHANGE ME TO BE UNCHANGED" and use ME!