Tears in the rain

One of my top all time favorite quotes is said by the actor Rutger Haur in the conclusion of the first film Bladerunner when he contemplates, All those moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.

I recall reading about the last reputed survivor of the revolutionary war. He was 115 years old when he died. I figured out at the time that had he lived a second 115 years he would have been dead an additional 34 years already!  Everyone wants to live and avoid great changes from what we are used to previously. But in the time field we can never win apparently.

Think about John Keats for example. He died pauperized at 21 most likely thinking he had not received any great attention as a writer. As it just happened I had just finished reading about another writer of his time who lived in country estate luxury to an advanced age popularly successful and with respectable wealth. Contemplate this comparison however, now that they are both passed so long ago. What can we make of it now? How do we figure time with such a background.

My memories, such as they remain, suddenly leave me in Boston where there is a cemetery attached to a church. Here my high school graduation was held. Outside a stone announces the presence of the remains of  Benjamin Franklin's parents.
(This thread continues this date in the link in the first column, Specific Theory of Existence.)

how long does faith hold out?

Christians in some numbers have called other Christians who believe in faith liars because they believe in things that are not as though they were. This of course is the definition of faith as given in Hebrews. The hinge word here seems to be persistence and the lack of persistence. When persistence fails then my faith fails. Fears are the opposites of faith. Most know that but apparently do not know when they declare God did not heal someone that they are saying it was all God's fault and not their own lack of persistence.

taking offenses is offensive

If I take an offense, for any reason whatever, from anyone, then I by virtue of having taken the offense, have become an offensive person. The act does not have anything to do with anyone except me, the offensive person.
             Nothing anyone can say should have any influence upon me unless I have given control over myself to others. If however, I do take an offense then this shows I am part of a larger group rather than being an individual within the group. From this you can tell a lot about a person, politically being only one portion of their personality thus revealed.
            Salvation is only available to the individual. However, the individual can chose to be part of the group. Whether they would gain salvation from that servitude is doubtful since nothing happens to the group without individual majority input.                               

two nice guys

Hard for me as an individual to be influenced by anyone's style rather than their substance. I recall saying I would rather have coffee with one president but feel better if another president were in the white house. What does anyone's style have to do with me beyond enjoying a cup of coffee with them? 

So this person in conversation mentioned they liked a particular president. I responded that I liked another president who was diametrically the political opposite of the one he had named. He said oh I liked him too. I pointed out that they were both opposites of each other. He said oh no they weren't, they were both nice guys. So it appears one person's style is another person's substance, or something like that. 

persistence bedrock of faith

What if you ask God to heal you and He does not do it.  I once was told this story by a pastor several years ago now. He said, if we pray for two men to be healed and He heals one but not the other then the reason God did not heal the other because He did not want to. He either even had a lesson to teach the other one or else He wanted the other one to do some suffering for his own good, etc.

Notice that this is in direct opposition to the definition of faith. First of all since faith is belief in things that are not as though they were, then who was it that quit faith altogether and decided God, God Himself, did not heal? 

I think rather that is we who decided the game was over, and the gig was up that did not believe in any healing. We forgot along the way of unbelief that persistence is the bedrock of faith. If our persistence wavers or we pull it back and turn from the plow, then we do not believe. If there is no persistence then there is no faith. 

I will believe even after death, death of the body will not deter me. Why was I not healed? I only know I am to do what I am told to do, and no explanation outside of that will weaken my faith except make it stronger. This is what I speak. 

Unfortunately people who go to church to gain faith, are often given no incentive to build their faith. Rather they are left to sit and wait until they decide no answer is coming. What else is such a decision but the end of faith? There is nothing for them to do.

If we do not get an answer and our request to God seems to go down into the grave with Lazarus what then? I don't know, but I trust God anyway even though He kill me. So what if I do not have enough faith to hurl a mountain in the sea? The disciples could not heal the little boy but when they turned him over of to Jesus he was healed. Why they asked could we not do it? This came out only with much prayer and fasting, Jesus said. 

So faith comes in various degrees, some with little and others with great.  Those with little best go to work. But it does not mean I am not saved or will not go to heaven. It means I did not have enough faith to accept healing at that point. I might suggest we ask God... ask Jesus... ask the Holy Spirit to step in and shore us up. We can never say He does not do it until our persistence turns to jelly. I say I will persist anyway and never give up my faith. 

I do not have to know everything. I am a slave dead in Christ. 

knowlege is heavy

We'll never know everything as knowledge multiplies ignorance divides it. Knowledge is heavy. Where enough knowledge is, forgiveness is light. Mankind is crafty and can do anything it sets out to do. Groups are crafty, drawing upon many convergent directions within themselves. God, as the personified Spirit of Existence, is not a committee or a group and therefore wise, able to carry that which He gave existence. Survival is a core desire and leads to hope, but it does not reach to existence.

spiritual struggle to define and change meaning

There is a constant spiritual struggle to define words and change some people's reality for the ultimate purpose to control perceptions and the preceptors to control themselves according to the desires of others to think for them. The words remain but the spirit of the words is changed. 

The great barrier to understanding these abstract spiritual forces is the lack of an understanding of time. We don't know what it is. Physicists cannot agree and must step back offering viewpoints, suspicions, but little understanding of time. I tend toward the idea time only exists in a comparative state. We compare ourselves to our sun. What would time be somewhere else compared to another somewhere else? It is not one thing but many, so it is without any singular meaning, and does not have meaning outside itself.

There is no concept of time outside our own dimension. In the abstract spiritual world time is forever, without beginning and without end. Just one big bang after another as current theory holds. Therefore time does not exist except in our concrete seen world, which itself came from the unseen.  

This means we are living as in a brief dream with an end, and the dream is from the unseen. We shall see what we shall see.

politics is a no plausabilty zone

Politics is gossip, but recently politics is mostly bullying by those who control the microphones. Also it is the many attacking one individual without any attempt at plausibility. When anyone speaks about another they tell more about themselves than anyone else. If a person sees racists among issues with no relation to racism then we have an open book speaking to us about what they see and hear within themselves. When one gives tongue to the devil it is the devil's message being scattered about. If one really wanted to starve racism they would do better than to feed it. Why would anyone keep coming back to racism if it is not the urge to speak what they see, hear, with a desire to keep alive. Bullies speak for their own benefit about what pleases them the most.

the first definition of God

God defined Himself, according to the report of Moses, in what seems to be the first definition of who God was written down. He said He was Existence, "I Am that I Am". Also this was to be His name for all generations, as a memorial of who He was, according to the report of Moses. 

There was no mention of "supreme being", a definition offered since then by men and other various sources. The aforementioned definition could easily embrace idols as well anything else. The reading of ancient writers reveals they clearly understood God to be Existence. 

everyone faces their faith alone

Faith for believers pleases God. Faith for the atheistic view is all there is to fall back on since one will never have all the facts to prove a negative. So we all are forced to operate on faith. It helps to believe strongly and steadily in something. This something for believers is their Bible and reading and rereading it until it is deep into their spirit. Atheists usually believe in some form of humanism, which could be themselves or mankind.

(I understand that some adults are giving teaching the children another sort of regressive language designed to render everything as simple as possible so as to make everything the same. So mankind would be another word. Well, they have their language and I have mine.)

There is another route to faith alongside the Bible. It is unendorsed but I think it valid. Faith cannot be effective if it comes within itself. In other words if one wants faith then it must be as if independent of or alongside a belief such as the Bible. That would be a belief in another person outside yourself which for Christians would be Jesus. It could also be God and or the Holy Spirit but I favor Jesus. This reflects a simple binary nature rather than a mathematics elaborately organized. 

 I favor Jesus but I find myself talking primarily to the Comforter. Faith is not so easily gained as I suspect many people may think. One cannot believe so easily as a belief based on agreement, or just going along with someone else, rather it must be deep down into the spirit already locked in and decided. It necessarily must be worked on daily if you are to move it forward.

Jesus was the first prominent voice to reveal the importance of the unseen spirit within elevated to the Holy Spirit from which it comes. When science dedicated to the known split off from the devotion to the unknown from which all things known originate, this was a serious handicap to enlarging knowledge. This handicap suffered a serious blow when Newton discovered scientifically characterized knowledge that was totally unseen, such as gravity. This knowledge was perhaps the only abstract spiritually characterized facts that appeared in the focus of Jesus up to the time of Newton.

There are many individuals who cannot relate whatsoever to anything spiritual and continue their focus on things concrete which misses entirely the binary nature of faith arising from faith founded on a conscious decision to believe on a power source from within a personified Spirit. In the best case, this would be Jesus.

the facts and the fancy

There are physicists who are accepting the idea of a designer source, in an effort to understand how things came to be about. The viewpoint of a designing force takes in more than one entity at a time, which seems to rule out anything evolutionary. These entities are often binary in nature. They multiply by dividing similar to observations under the microscope. What I find fascinating is the mathematics of binary functions. Why is the numerical mathematics we utilize  so well, not the foundation of the designer? Binary code is the most simple and fundamental of anything that could come about. It does allow any room for evolution from within a single source and is not even intended to be visually useful or easily recognized. Who can recall a binary number in their heads? They all look alike.

So what is the nature of binary numbers and what is their significance in understanding progressions. One entity evolves but two would have to evolve separately. The male was designed with the female in mind. In other words, the designing force had to be behind the evolving of both as not one but two. 

The ghost of Isaac Asimov has entered deliberations. Whenever he wanted to know something about anything, he wrote a book about it. When you know nothing about a subject, this is the perfect time to explain things. Sounds like first glance we could get something from nothing, as has been suggested elsewhere. 

If one does not believe in the concept or the need for a purpose in the progressions, what do we do with the resulting absurdities? Here one can wonder why it is that when we finally figure something out we find all our previous paradigms weren't even close? 

did you ever hear an adult say, "see Spot run?"

I sometimes think about war and its' constant presence in the pages of history. I wonder if war is part of our condition, as a measure of what should survive and who should dominate. Ever consider hurricanes as a cleaning of the planet surface? Fire rejuvenates the forest, like a farmer burning off his blueberries. Volcanoes are evidence of constant moving of the crust of terra firma. Everything is constantly changing in the concrete world. War is like the planting of seeds and peace is the time of growing. Is the United States changing outwardly or is it, because of it size and success, changing eternally. With change there is life and with further change there is death, All this is evidence of renewing. Where is our abstract spirit in all this concrete change changing to? Two signs of death or two signs of change in Groups are the weakening defenses of failing borders and the escalating cultural suicide in the practice of abortions. These are not social issues we consider here, this is merely doing the math.