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? 

you WILL take responsibility for what happens to you

Ancient writers were long aware of the constant spiritual struggle going on to define words since it is mentioned in the Bible. It is also particularly prevalent in recent years as seen within the persistent political struggle going on between groups and the individual. 
Responsibility
My definition of the term, responsibility, may differ from various others. Responsibility means that whatever happens to you, we each are responsible to ourselves for it. There is no indication of blame in this word but today there is surely an strong expectation of its presence. This is the successful attempt to shed blame to someone other than the one who suffers the consequent event.

 I originally called my view my baby in the well theory. My point was that although the baby may not be to blame for accidentally falling into the well, if the baby is in the well then it is the baby that suffers the consequence and so that it is the baby alone that must respond to that event, most likely by drowning.

Although someone may be to blame for this event, or the jurisdiction over it, blame is not individual responsibility. Just as intent is not conviction or innocence, but rather only relates solely to the penalty, it is changing the meaning of words going on in academia that reflects a strong contraction of words rather than a healthy multiplication of meanings which would be present in the language of a healthy culture.

The clear desire to use fewer words for many different things, vague neautral words as well, is the opposite of a living language that expands, growing, rather than contracting, words and meanings. This is done by proponents for the purpose of reducing everything to the same thing. So growth is contained, today by one view such as  globalism, in order to control people by making them all similar. The existence as well as the rights of individuals are not welcome in this arena of knowledge destruction.

There are many words suffering in this overall struggle. For instance, where popular vote is more desired than the electoral vote. The electoral vote is evidence of a republic, not a democracy. The electoral vote is designed, as is the constitution itself, to protect individuals in small groups from individuals acting in large groups, Otherwise farmers would be the slaves of city dwellers, and the society would soon reduce itself to rubble. Therefore, the electoral vote protects what is called by the group desiring control groups like the snubbed as flyover country.

Immigration also has a definition, which is primarily to keep one particular ethnic group from gaining control over other ethnic groups as well as to make sure emigrants do not suffer neglect from the advantages of existing social structures, like hospitals, education, or the police, to name a few. Too many, too quickly, is an invasion not immigration. There must be time to assimilate if we are to keep our melting pot simmering without boiling over in order to serve those joining it.

But boiling over, whether we are aware of it or not, is the goal of agents of change. Shrinking the language, making everything the same, perhaps even including bathrooms, is a part of that strategy,

the various stages

One truth that stands out for me is that the truth cannot be told by those who know. One example is growing old, if that is, if you are lucky enough to actually grow old. First you find that your stamina does not serve as previously. My father called it weakening down. I knew what he was saying but had not idea of what he was talking about it. However, that was the first stage, and it is entirely concerned with strength in the latter stages.

You hardly know when you start forgetting, but a good indication is that when your friends finish your sentences that your realize you are in what the government calls the donut hole. Actually, in point of actual fact, since I am convinced everything has a purpose, this is the stage designed to ease you into the various stages of body death. It is commonly known a failure to fall down. Young people in their power years, 40 - 60, cheerily patronize you assuring you they understand you what you are saying, but then go ahead and do what they want, and that without telling you anything about it. This is what sets you up for your later realization you were stupid, and likely more so at the present moment.

It is possible for anyone to slowly die inside before they can be recognized as dead outside as well. So it is at this stage you want to set your automatic coordinates for everything that you hope to see happen when you shed your bod like and old coat. This is when the reflection that hits you hard is your realization that young people are all good looking. We are not aware of this when you are young, only when you are old can you recognize this. Then it is largely too late. Also, money, money starts arriving in inadequate sums only when you realize you are losing claim to it.

Strength is wasted on the young, only when they lose it can that be confirmed. Once again being told about this cannot be told. Once you realize it, it is not only too late, you find yourself laughing about it with kindred knowing souls. Laughter of course, is the opposite extremity of weeping in public.

When I was young and strong I did not know enough to write about it. When I was older and wiser, I no longer had the energy or the health.

outsmarting stupidity

I often tirelessly like to brag about my enviable brilliance by saying, I am so smart I have out smarted myself many times.
 Every year end I look back and my mistakes standout in stark contrast to common sense. I don't defend them, I just make new ones the following year.

I rank stupidity right up there alongside suffering as examples of the persistence problem in my definitions. Why are many of us so stupid in reflection and so blindsided by suffering? I wrestle with these problems because I need to consolidate my faith since I believe it is my engine of success. Everything happens because of faith and the directed strength of it. This is because we really are at bedrock, stupid. Why do I say this? It is because there is so much more that we do not know as opposed to what we actually know.

The unreliability of witnesses
Even what we know is subject to doubt in view of all the different outlooks given by equally different witnesses. (Example: Different views of Christ in the Bible are stumbling blocks for atheists butfor me when I reflect on it, it is collaborative since people all give defferent views like various perspectives as if from different orbiting planets. It is an indication of the lack of collusion or purposeful construction.) So even the more we know buries us in even deeper awareness of the lack of all the facts, as we like to call them. And what do we do with parallel facts? Can we also question proof? Continuing...

the tall tales of terrorizing talk

The previous post is really a boil over coming out of Corner Table at the Naked Eye  and needs explanation. (Click bold.) Since this site is actually bedlam contrasted to the rest of these sites, redact rules are in place to keep entries within the overall site format.

Which are? The Naked Eye, like everything else, is an account of the views of those who post there. Therefore it developed around politics. The Sunset Strollers began more as an abstract demographic site not a concrete political one, which is to say the Naked Eye became a gossip he said she said site.

The first rule was that they should stay on the subject and could not refer to actual persons. This was to keep discussions on issues and policy, not propagandizing individuals skilled in the fire arts, the fallacy art of argumentum ad hominem name calling. Most political discussions end up this way, so no naming of individuals was the reason for that rule. People can get around this rule right out of the gate as it now appears from their first outside post.

The next rule was intended to keep matters in generalizations, not specifics which always seem to start the fires burning. Some here think that is good, but the establishment around here agree that it is more like two people talking and belittering their own talk into the confusion of simple jamming.

The Naked Eye may eventually have to get their own rules, their own editors, and go off on their own.

believing with a straight face

Everyone talks for their own benefit. They are not really trying to persuade anyone but themselves. That at least is the way an individual mind would approach things. On the other hand a group minded person seems to be persuading others since they offer supporting reasons for their view while attacking with an ad hominem a story no one could seriously believe with a straight face.

I viewed a stark example of this on television. It began with a member of the reviled party detailing amendments he was suggesting so a member of the imposing party so as to gain their support. This extended effort, explaining fine points and whatnot, was then turned over to a member of the imposing party for his chance to respond. Quickly he spoke with great urgency,
  you are holding a gun to the head of our children! 

This was immediately accepted right on the spot and the scene shifted sharply to a commercial.

Life may not be rehearsal but it certainly is an experiment.

we never die

No one seems to die now that I've luckily reached the final innings of the game. They pass instead. This implies a continuation process is ahead. And as well, many operate on a new definition of forever. They all know... continued among the Memory Stones link found the the left column this date.

blaming God instead of ourselves

When God does not answer prayer, quite often I hear that God is to blame. They do not admit blaming God but go along with their idea, their own idea, that God, who decided they say not to answer that particular prayer for reasons that a good for you. God is in control and knows what He is doing it is said. This seems to me to be avoiding the fact that God cannot change His mind, nor can He lie. There are literally trillions of things He cannot do or He would be acting against Himself. So who is to blame then?

Quite obviously we are. Jesus asked a sick person, do you believe I can do this? They answered yes. Jesus said then let it be done to you according to your faith. This does not mean who do not have any faith or that you are not saved. It means you do not have enough faith. God does not change His mind. He cannot change His mind. We should be careful of finding we are avoiding our own responsibilities and pushing it off on God. God's promises are turned off that easily.

believing God but not His power

There are many Christians who believe in Jesus Christ but do not believe in his power, I call them Christian atheists. When the devil doubt cannot undermine a Christian completely then he will settle for destroying their faith by attacking their belief in the power of Jesus. Jesus without any power is just as good but since they believe in Jesus then I call them atheists but Christian atheist because they do profess to believe in Christ, See the importance of defining terms in Jesus Talking this date, linked in the left side column this date.