Sunday Senectuous Senectitude

 

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey 

God's Creation 

The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer. http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ 

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/05/10/artist-hand-paints-47000-stars-on-museum-ceiling/ 

http://www.visualnews.com/2012/06/10/traditional-chinese-art-made-with-a-nail-gun/ 

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/04/12/man-spends-6000-hours-engraving-his-honda-civic/ 

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/04/08/a-friendship-between-a-young-girl-and-her-cat/ 

http://www.visualnews.com/2015/04/29/playgrounds-around-world/

"An Australian university appears to be excelling at cultivating some of Australia's best computer hackers. Following the University of NSW's students recently placing first, second and third in a hacking war game (the first place winners also won first place last year).

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on what exactly about the NSW institution is breeding some of Australia's best hackers. It finds that a lecturer and mentor to the students with controversial views on responsible disclosure appears to the be the reason for their success."


"A worldwide gang of criminals stole a total of $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday. ... Here’s how it worked: Hackers got into bank databases, eliminated withdrawal limits on prepaid-debit cards and created access codes. Others loaded that data onto any plastic card with a magnetic stripe — an old hotel key card or an expired credit card worked fine as long as it carried the account data and correct access codes."

Revelation 13:16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,

Revelation 13:15-17 (in Context) Revelation 13

Revelation 13:17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-18 (in Context) Revelation 13

 I love a good conspiracy. The Mystery of Time Traveler John Titor.

My dog has a useless talent.
Midnight, 19 May 1961. A crisp frost had descended on Turin’s city centre which was deserted and deathly silent. Well, almost. Two brothers, aged 20 and 23, raced through the grid-like streets (that would later be made famous by the film The Italian Job) in a tiny Fiat 600, which screamed in protest as they bounced across one cobbled piazza after another at top speed.
 Residents of Naco, Arizona join residents of Naco, Mexico for a volleyball match during the fourth "Fiesta Bi-Nacional" at the fence that separates the U.S. (left) and Mexico (right)

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This is a really good article:

 Midnight, 19 May 1961. A crisp frost had descended on Turin’s city centre which was deserted and deathly silent. Well, almost. Two brothers, aged 20 and 23, raced through the grid-like streets (that would later be made famous by the film The Italian Job) in a tiny Fiat 600, which screamed in protest as they bounced across one cobbled piazza after another at top speed.

Tilson Shumate

When hope is gone, both life and death seem to have no meaning.

  As the saying goes, “You haven’t begun to live until you’ve lost it all.” 

 In Christ, we must die to live.  When it all slips away and there’s nothing left to hold us down, God steps in and lifts us up. 

 He changes everything.

Thus saith the LORD,

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Set Your affections on things above,

 Colossians 3:2

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

 and by all means, minimize your involvement with this world. 

 1 John 2:15

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

 Come out from it as much as is humanly possible, trusting that the Lord himself will bring you the rest of the way.  

Scale down and travel light. 

 These are the last days and we must redeem the time.  

The day is approaching when we will give account for our lives.  How did we spend it.

Buried in debt is no way to live. 

 Jesus said “He who the Son sets free, is free indeed.”  

What can this world possibly have to offer compared to the peace that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

  To the church I wonder, where is your heart?

  To the world, I already know where their heart is at, but unfortunately the church has become much like the world.

The Bible says to:

  “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). 

 “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21).

The Holy Spirit is calling out to Christians everywhere, in all the earth, to deny themselves, take up the cross, and follow Jesus. 

 Matthew 16:24

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

 It may be that for some, their cross to bear is to generate wealth for the kingdom of God. 

 Your business, your investments and all that you have are for the glory of God. 

 At every level, rich or poor, God is calling each of us to be an important part of His last call.

Some Christians are selling everything while other Christians are buying and multiplying material things.  

We are all a part of what God is doing when we do all that we do unto Him. 

 God blesses us to multiply the things we have so He can multiply for others the things we give. 

 He supplies the seed, but we must sow the seed in order to reap. 

 The more we give, the more God gives us to give.

When Jesus fed the five thousand, He didn’t create, He multiplied.

  He took existing materials and by the grace of God expanded them to make enough for everyone. 

 It was a shared blessing because someone among them was willing to share what they had, even though it was not enough to go around.

  They could have had the attitude ‘I can’t save the world’ and kept what they had for themselves but they didn’t, they gave the Lord something to work with and there was plenty.

The prosperity message is absolutely true when it is in your heart to prosper others.

  The problem with the prosperity message comes in when we allow our brothers and sisters in Christ to go without while storing up for ourselves.

  The love of money is a carnal motivation that God will never bless. 

 He may allow it, but in the end it’s not worth it. 

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul” (Mark 8:36).

Tilson Shumate