The Fall

        Jesus overcame death. This is a cardinal, fundamental belief in Christianity. My first question was, why did God create us with mortality? Why do we have to die in the first place? Why did Jesus (the son of God, mind you) have to die, and then be resurrected? Could it be that's just what God had to work with, with the instability of organic compounds? Probably not, because I'd imagine that the creator of the world-and the universe-could overcome it. No, there's a reason personal to God here. According to the Bible, God did this because of Adam and Eve's disobedience by eating fruit from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil"' and also, the "tree of life". It's vitally important, since this story comes right after God created Adam and Eve. Watch the video below for a thorough covering of these subjects.

Perspective

Can we ever reach the stars by conventional ships? No, it's not conceivable, except for the words themselves describing the actual thing: the nearest star is 24.9 trillion miles away from the Earth.  It would take close to 79 million years to reach this star at the average speed of a rocket ship. Other notable places in the known universe are much farther. Travelling at the speed of light, it would take "only" about 4.4 years to reach the nearest star (Proxima Centauri). Physicists claim, based on our current  knowledge, that matter-all matter-becomes infinitely massive as it approaches the speed of light. A ship, therefore, would not only become infinitely massive, it would require an infinite amount of energy to maintain it's speed. In other words, interstellar space travel for humans is either outright impossible, or insanely impractical and expensive as to be impossible. 

The same physics would apply to alien races on alien planets, if they are out there. 

Trump Haters

and other scum

Consider this: the stealing of the 2020 election, combined with the Covid masks-social distancing-lockdown insanity, has caused death, suffering, and even the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. This has become well documented and well known.

Also consider this: many of you will remember the malicious spite, the glee which the Biden administration dismantled Trump’s border policies.

While Trump was president, America prospered. We withdrew from useless wars abroad. America had real deterrence power all over the world. The southern border was secured. Russian and Chinese aggression was kept in check. Unemployment in America reached an all-time low.

Trump was one of the most successful and effective Presidents in American history. Trump is also one of the most successful and effective leaders in world history. His record demonstrates this unequivocally. Millions of people love and respect him for his leadership, and policies.

Recovery and Geographical Change

 "Nothing changes inside us because of a change in landscape."

    --12-step program (Alcoholics Anonymous, et al) proverb, commonly heard at the meetings.

One day, it happened that I noticed I was living permanently in a beautiful place, in an area of town I adore with all the elements of my dreams of such matters, dreams going back to the middle 1980s and beyond. In fact, that day is today, Christmas Eve at my home, and all is well with everything, including my family and health. As usual, I did not take the time to truly appreciate what I had come to in my life. I looked around me and was astounded that I had, in fact, succeeded in this area of my long and eventful life. I was living my dream. I had arrived. 

But...

Apocalypse

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

This snippet of poetry is the first stanza in William Butler Yeat's famous poem "The Second Coming". Written in 1919 as a response to the horror of World War I, it is a bleak, dark poem with absolutely no optimism for the human race at all. Looking at the numerous news reports of thousands of people demonstrating in favor of the Hamas terrorists, who butchered, tortured, raped and killed thousands of innocent people, I am inclined to agree. 

Morning Thoughts, December 11, 2023

What do you think when you see someone who passionately believes something which is false? Do you think maybe there is some sort of mental illness involved? Or is it because of the effect of social media and it's distortion and erosion of reality? Witness hundreds of thousands of people who believe Israel is a brutal conqueror, an occupier of stolen land. Even more people believe that climate change is an imminent threat that must be addressed now. Both of these beliefs are false, but just look at them with all their passionate intensity. Notice the self-righteous scorn they use whenever their beliefs are challenged.

The Rise of Naked, Smirking Evil

 Israel uses rockets to defend it's people; Hamas uses people to defend their rockets.

What we are seeing these days is Jew hatred, sometimes called anti-Semitism, on blatant display. All across the western world, university students are angrily displaying their Jew hatred by calling for the gassing of all Jews, chanting the "from the river to the sea" slogan of Hamas, and showing open support for the Hamas terrorists. Some of these students have been filmed tearing down the posters of kidnapped or missing Jews, placed there by distraught family members desperate to find their loved ones. After the mass slaughter on Oct. 7, 2023 of men, women, and children in Israel by Hamas terrorists, emotions have run high all over the world. Therefore, the objective facts need to be highlighted and brought to everyone's attention.