revenge of the quotables

When words multiply so does confusion. When word meanings shrink so does understanding. Everyone persuades themselves, but we all normally undertake to persuade someone else first. Let them take the responsibility.

Anger is a sign of weakness in one's argument. Insults, especially one word name calling, is a sign of a weakening vocabulary in an individual and a weakening culture disappearing in any collective setting. Abortion is cultural suicide for that particular group.

a design observed requires a designer

Evolution theory is fine and agrees with the description of it found in the Bible recorded by the ancient writers. Confirming knowledge, when it arrives after the truth is already known, continues to have a lesser after the fact status,

It is more important to the individual, as opposed to the collective, to believe before even knowing, if that is in anyway necessary. Belief comes through diligent continuous effort, if you are rich in knowledge, because knowledge by itself will begat doubt.

I am experiencing a dangerous schedule of sleep depravation. The risk for the body is great but the rewards might then also be great. In any event the lack of regular sleep could portent a public decline in the physical even as it promotes a wider path to the spiritual. 

the fine edge of success

Caring and not caring at the same time. We must and we should really care about what we do. And yet, if we don't, if we relax and let go and don't care we, at least, execute better. Between the two, if we can bring them together into a fine sharp cutting edge point we will find the secret of success. This was I think the secret of success for Dean Martin, whether he knew or understood anything about it or not. He was well known for not caring, but there is evidence he did care, I do think, and between the two he succeeded to bring them together to a fine point leading to his successes.

detail in dreams

Time seems to be forever lurking behind all my thoughts in my awareness of the abstract spiritual. This life we lead, the concrete world we see and react to, is like a dream upon looking back. Dreams themselves are so real at the time but upon looking back on them I wonder why. The memory of the dream musters mostly sparse dark images. Why did they seem so real at the time with so details. More on this in Manna. 

the way one sees it

Hawking made a prediction just before he passed away...this is the way I heard it....he predicted the world  would end shortly after he died. It is quite understandable anyone would think at the end of their life that those were the end times. Many believers in Christ think He will return and that those are the end times. The end times are for us individually or are they for everyone collectively? Depends on your definition of the end times I guess, individually or collectively. Some people drift off quietly in private. Others like to exit with a crowd around them. But the bald fact is we each go alone into the night as we cross the River of Lethe otherwise known also as the Sea of Forgetfulness.

the first lie out there wins

One has to have a boney fide genuine dung detector in order to navigate the news through less truth than can rise off excrement in a snow bank. Any argumentum ad hominem tale normally tells more about the talker than the talkee. 

faith the most vital

Believing is not so easy as just saying one believes and the only way to please God is through faith. The only way to gain faith found in the Bible is to diligently reread the word constantly until it is down deep in your spirit. By the same token, listening to the recorded word I find even more startling effective. The method can be used for any message whether evil or good. It does not matter. So I have to be sharply aware of time and what may be clogging up my spiritual arteries. Specific Theory of Existence 

divide in order to multiply

To understand something in order to multiply our knowledge, we must first divide it. Instead of starting by learning our first numbers up to twelve, in the beginning we really only have to learn two, either a one or a zero. There are only two numbers and you divide your problem to be understood in two also. Depending on the point of your study, it should be relevant. For instance in order to understand politics, which is essentially only gossip, I would divide people in two with the individual on one side and the consensus individual, primarily a peer pressured individual strongly influenced by the group.

By listing the characteristic of each, one can arrive at a good source of predictability for each. The individual needs the group, but the group does not need the individual. We see this most starkly in the Constitution which was written solely to protect the individual from the group. This is why the individual is always appealing to the Constitution while the group would like to evolve it out of the picture altogether. They also favor majority vote in the Electoral College where individuals in small groups can survive the domination of one massive single peer group, that individuals in smaller specific groups term mobocracy. Specific Theory of Existence

Atheism is eating Christian churches' lunch

Christ said Christians are not as smart as atheists. What do you think of that? Whenever I ask that question of a Christian I am asked where is that in the Bible?

Protestant church social cliques with which I've been long familiar are forever learning and never coming closer to the truth, This also is in the Bible and since I am not a chapter and verse person, "diligent seekers" who cannot find their lunch will just have to root that info for themselves. 

Churches dominated by retirees are treated almost continually with stories they should have heard by now at least a mil-yun times. Seldom if ever is anything difficult discussed such as increasing faith, and that at a time in one's life when it is clearly going to be tested sooner than later. Further comment on this generally would most likely be filed under the link Church & Faith at Pulpit Rock . 

the last days of the end times are here

When you enter your eighties you will start to believe you are in the end times. You will believe in news accounts of extra terrestrials, in some cases, their bodies intact, on display at a well known secret location in the US. Underneath the mainland US it will be reported, a super volcano being rocked by strings of earthquakes. The media will trumpet the doings of superstars you never heard of before. All the superstars you do know are safely dead, and that for sometime already. Assassination conspiracy theories will be, as you learn more and more information about them, seem quite possibly true.

Then you will finally realize that you will really die someday, and likely pretty soon. But not now. This is your definition of forever.

institutions are losing control

Government is losing control and is being overwhelmed by the governed, as well as being even overwhelmed by itself. 

So many many people each morning are not going to make it to eventide. Every single day large numbers who did not expect it, are dead by suppertime amid great unseen individual lamentations. The tendency of those blaming the triggers rather than the pullers of triggers resembles animals chasing their tails. They perceive but cannot conceive. The resulting sadness of the knowledge of so many who are lost in the invisible vortex of time is so extreme that, personally I can only hope spoons will soon be banned for those who are overweight. Mocking laughter is the extreme anecdote for the sadness of the opposing extreme, tears.

Time hoovers quietly over us all, waiting to absorb us within itself, casting a unique mood of inevitability which if one luckily lives long enough, includes suffering, What is going to happen to us? Will those who are desperate enough to survive, to make it across the river of forgetfulness?