Rules for new roads...

Intelligence is measured by predictive success but intelligence is gained thru imaginative predictive efforts where success is often a surprise full of completely camouflaged twists choking the road.

What I do not like about it all is the appearance of almost legal series of justifications required to support whatever target in front of me without stretching believability too far ahead. 

What this means is any progress, especially if recently achieved, may be lost without even realizing it. Hopeful on my part but unavoidable nevertheless.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), in my view, is exhausting itself sooner than expected and is heading largely toward instant series of parallel calculations they may not break beyond. Ethics still is an unsolvable danger. 

It is alright to laugh. After all, it is always done. 

Knowledge a strange curiosity.....

 Why was Gaining Knowledge a Sin?

I think it was because the desire to gain knowledge whether accidentally or by putting the orderly intensity of our minds to, it attracted the struggle for existence between good and evil, between God and the devil. These are the principalities and powers that struggle constantly in motion that Pail mentions.

  I often notice the harmony between languages. Exceptions put color into odd interactions. I remember noticing a sign in a small upscale town while cycling in the country that said dog spelled backwards was God. Of course. The devil can recite the Lord's Prayer backwards as well.

God did not create evil any more than He can negate Himself. Evil came out of good, themselves wanting to be god probably turning the power of knowledge against itself. Evil spirits are many and they have power. I do not tangle with them. It is enough for me to recognize them. They are the opposite of the fruit of the Spirit seen in Galatians 5:22. Believing in those Spirits can overcome the body, as I earlier mentioned my mother testified.

I do know God cannot tolerate even the very presence of evil before Him.  I may not know how all the hows work today. But all that is most likely in the future when I finally get into the present, where eternity is stuck.

Five favorite quotes with the blokes

1. Can someone repeat a lie without telling a lie?

2. Which person is the worse off?

        The one tells a lie or the one who believes it.

3. Anyone who takes an offense becomes an offensive person. 

4. The truth cannot be told by those who know.

5. All things seen come from the unseen.

Trusting the Spirit

Seeing is Believing or is Believing Seeing?

The flesh will not help us, Jesus said, but it is hard to trust, or even understand, the Spirit when all one knows is the flesh up against something not even seen, ever. There comes a time when my age is against me. That means that there is not much time left for me when I'll discover what I really believe beyond any lip service. For those who do not believe in God, I think they will have to be their own God.

A Fine Kettle of Fish

A Crisis in Faith

This life is all I know so far. As for where I came from there is no memory, unless it is just tabla rosa. The best I can do is mostly remember what I was told. 

My flesh grew, prospered, and time spread out before me until it went into a well-documented, undeniable decay glide. Even tho expectations for the future were promising, the foundation for a second birth was rooted in more lip service than not.

As the story goes, when the Sunday School teacher asked the class who wanted to go to heaven, only little Johnny did not raise his hand, because he thought she was getting up a busload for today.

For Now: Not Right Now 

I want to go to heaven but, like Johnny, I would rather be healed to extend things right now. When asked about eventually, I said I wanted to be with Jesus, the only Spirit I trusted. 

If I did not, or will not be healed, then that is because I did not have enough faith to be healed. God healed me by Jesus' stripes before Jesus went up on the Cross. As for persuading God to be healed anew, I was holding God accountable in my error. I even knew this as I read about Jesus as He asked a woman if she believed He could heal her, and she answered yes. Then Jesus said then be it done to you according to your (her) faith in Jesus.

It is better to be born again and be with Jesus, is it not? Little Johnny was ahead of me. If I fear death, then maybe there is not enough faith to be healed in me, or even to be with Jesus as well, because there is no faith in doubt. I once held God in an ultimatum and now it looks like He could hold an ultimatum on me. 

Time does not exist by itself

Time only exists in a comparative state.

When our spirits are finally fully present, we will be outside time because outside time the present alone is, by itself, eternal. Time therefore cannot be measured without reference points outside itself.

The past will always be sad, no matter how bad or how good it was. The future will always be hope. But when the spirit is in the present the present by itself alone is eternity because there is no time.

All things seen came from the unseen....

We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

Greater Faith and Greatest Faith

Are the Jesus and Jonah 

Stories Possibly True?

Anything is possible but it will be a long way home to probable. No one seems to be annually challenging the Jesus rose from the death story. 

Key Word: Enough

Here we run into the enough faith condition as the roadblock for many in the walking on the moon story.  It is easier to believe the crossing the Red Sea story. But, but only, if we consider the possibilities that the Red Sea was once fed by monster tidal rivers from rising tides at both ends, that being the Mediterranean and the Indian Oceans.

I don't know the how about the hard things, except it is easy to believe the easy things, but harder to believe the hard things. This is why I believe the hard things anyway because I believe the hard things no matter what. Later, the hard things could seem so much more easier than now. 

Faith Cannot Exist Alongside Proof

Proof Only Exists to Our Own Satisfaction

If anyone could actually prove God existed, then it would remove God from all consideration regarding Faith. The ancient writers recorded that God is not impressed with anyone's proof, only Faith.

Therefore, anyone impressed with proofs would know that proofs are new and improved by less than viral facts more often than generationally. Nothing can actually be proved without fail except to one's own satisfaction or the betting odds. 

The next day's rising of the sun maybe a good bet but all chips are off the table if it explodes inexplicably. Write me if that happens, or just send the even money. Don't worry I won't be counting the zeros.    

People, similar to planets, carry weight according to their mass, attracting the lessers like the moon to the earth. Every individual is a witness, and like planets, are in different orbits adopting views influenced by their own orbits.

Time Changes Everything

Then, we have to rewind the time thingie. There are more of these theories than seconds in just one of those "billions of years" predictions. How accurate can one of those billions of trillions of years predictions be? If the world was in ice millions of years ago, how meaningful can anyone be in such a wide and local time frame?  

Meanwhile God is aware of our predictions all the way from the present tense. That is how God knows the future while the reckless among us think He cheats. From my perspective, for me, I catch up to the future as soon it falls into the past pretty much all of the time.

In Your Light we see light

Psalm 36:9

Hard getting ahead of the idea of God  

Why I worship God is because I am stunned by all the evidence and intricate beauty of existence. Who or what some ever even had any concept idea of what existence should be like from the start? Then in this mix, physical scientists say the universe is expanding?

In the light of all the stars, just as in the light of all our growing understanding, I suspect it may merely be that it is because it is we who are expanding. "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of our own ignorance." That is Thomas Sowell's famous quote.

So, every time we discover the answer to one question we did not formerly even realize existed. we discover within our answer several accompanying questions we had no prior knowledge of whatsoever. In other words, I am merely expanding my own knowledge of my ignorance. So, if the universe is actually expanding, I and everyone else is correspondingly shrinking their understanding of our existence. 

This is why I think no one has enough information on which to make a decision of whether or not God exists or not. So, I am stuck with the idea that if there is no God, then I will just have to be my own God, stuck, essentially, on myself.  

God is a Spirit within

Why do I love God, and why do I worship Him? Because Moses testified that he

asked God, who shall he say to the people told him that he, Moses, should be believed by the people? 

According to Moses' testimony God responded, I am who I am. Thereby He told Moses that He was Existence. Truths were placed in the hearts of ancient writers and prophets such as that God spoke everything into Existence by the breath of His Spirit. 

(Exodus 3:13 and 14, is where Moses was told all this, that God told him, Moses, that He wanted to be known as, as I am that I am, throughout all generations. This I could likened onto epiphanies where the truth of a matter suddenly opens up to persons from within themselves. The truth of any particular matter is so evidently grounded that it is never even thought to be questioned.)

Time fools us all,

Everyone, as I've said before, knows they are not going to live forever. It is just no one is going to die, now. Then too, I at one time thought summers were forever, and I was shocked to find that my mother said I had to go back to school. Seems like time gets us in the end.

I say that because no one wants to leave the life we know any more than we got a kick out of being born. But there came a time when we are born again, that is, everyone is. The flesh as it slowly became evident, there was good no doubt about that.

But after a good spell on the jolly roll seemed to flatten out. Then life pointed in the other direction until there was no way out. No matter how long we live it gets lonely out there alone, without anyone to echo our memories. What great fun is it to struggle to their 100s if that is when one dies? Not much future into continuing to grow old.

I think life in the fading flesh is like an embryonic experience. Then we are born into the spirit, a spirit that we believed in. The spirit is very difficult for many to get a grip on, since there is no time to be born, like now.