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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Because He Lives.....

 I want to get a little personal here. Things have been extremely rough for me over the past year or so. The family situation has not been good. I am very concerned about the recent behavior of my 16 year old son, and to a lesser degree, my 18 year old daughter. It kills me to see the rebellion that they're involved in. Their health, their very futures are at stake. I would gladly die for either of them in a moment. I pray almost constantly for them in the most agonizing manner, and I worry about their future- there is a Heaven, and there is a hell.
 There are times that I feel I can no longer carry this burden, that it is simply too great for me. I hear others say, "Just trust the Lord", but it is very hard when it is your childrens' lives, isn't it?....

I remember about thirty or so years ago I used to sing the chorus of a song written by Bill Gaither titled, "Because He Lives", and it was easy to sing it then, when I was single and had no kids to worry about. It is not as easy for me to sing now, with all that's going on, but it is still the truth- "Because He lives I can face tomorrow, because He lives all fear is gone; Because I know He holds the future and life is worth the living just because He lives".
You know, if everything in your life goes haywire, if all seems a lost cause, if you cannot even lift up your head and life's circumstances have beaten the living snot out of you- Always keep in mind, beloved of God- Life is worth the living just because He lives. That is the one constant that believers always have. Yes, He is the reason I can face tomorrow- uncertain as it is. He is the One I can cling to when I'm afraid. He is the One Who holds the future, and LIFE IS WORTH THE LIVING JUST BECAUSE HE LIVES!

En Agape'
Jim

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

A Green Country judge is facing criticism for sentencing a teen, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, to ten years of attending church.
Some say the teen deserved a much tougher sentence.

"It was just a deal where there was no winner," said Muskogee County District Court Judge Mike Norman.

He told FOX23 he had a very tough decision to make in his courtroom on Tuesday. There were two families torn by the death of one son and the possibility of losing another to prison. 

"If he goes to prison at his age he's going to come out a very different man," Judge Norman told FOX23.

 In "Jesus of Nazareth -- The Infancy Narratives," the pope says the Christian calendar is actually based on a blunder by a sixth century monk, who Benedict says was several years off in his calculation of Jesus' birth date.

Most who come here on the net leave quickly because it loads so slowly. Wasn't always like that. But because some of the stuff i choose to post here is controversial on many levels there has been a few changes since i started this blog. Google's stats do not seem to ever match up with the stats of other counters that i use on this site, they appear to under count visitors. Did i mention this site loads O so sloooowly?

"The first large scientific study of how people respond to poor video quality on the Internet paints a picture of ever rising user expectations and the willingness to abandon ship if those expectations are not met (PDF). Some nuggets: 1) Some users are willing to wait for no more than 2 seconds for a video to start playing, with each additional second adding 6% to the abandonment rate. 2) Users with good broadband connectivity expect faster video load times and are even more impatient than ones on mobile devices. 3) Users who experience video freezing watch fewer minutes of the video than someone who does not experience freezing. If a video freezes for 1% of its total play time, 5% less of its total play time is watched, on average. 4) Users who experience failures when they try to play videos are less likely to return to the same website in the future. Big data was analyzed (260+ million minutes of video) and some cool new data analysis techniques used."

 My son is at the age that other young men are that have joined the military. His cousin has a friend who has a job in the military as a drone operator. The man told him that it was a lot like playing video games all day long. Even when he used the drone to blow people and things up it always was an emotional detached experience. As if there were no real people destroyed. He would get in his vehicle after work and go home knowing that he had killed other humans, but it just did not reach him emotionally. He found his job boring.

Now the powers that be are going to make it even more unreal to kill and destroy with no emotional after effects...

"Teenagers raised on Call of Duty and Halo might relish flying a massive Predator drone — a surprisingly similar activity. Pilots of unmanned military aircraft use a joystick to swoop down into the battlefield, spot enemy troop movements, and snap photos of terror suspects, explained John Hamby, a former military commander who led surveillance missions during the Iraq War. 'You're always maneuvering the airplane to get a closer look,' Hamby said. 'You're constantly searching for the bad guys and targets of interest. When you do find something that is actionable, you're a hero.' Yet a new study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found real-life drone operators can become easily bored. Only one participant paid attention during an entire test session, while even top performers spent a third of the time checking a cellphone or catching up on the latest novel. The solution: making the actual drone mission even more like a video game."

Speaking of a boring job...spending a year in essentially a Coke can circling the earth with no where to go?
 
"Captain Scott Kelly, brother of former commander Mark Kelly, will embark on the United States' longest manned space mission, set for 2015. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend an entire year on the orbiting International Space Station. The mission will be a first for NASA's space program, but it is far from the world record. The longest recorded time in space was the 438-day mission of Russia's Valery Polyakov, working on the Mir Space Station, 1994-1995. Kelly, a decorated Navy captain received degrees from State University of New York Maritime College and the University of Tennessee, and was the flight engineer for space station expedition 25, and commander of expedition 26 in 2010. 'Kornienko hails from Russia's Syzran, Kuibyshev, region and has worked in the space industry since 1986.' The yearlong study on humans working in space will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, spring 2015."

 At the metro in Madrid (spain) a man falls into railways while the train is arriving. A hero (which happened to be a policeman) saved his life.

Need to send large files? Gmail, meet Google Drive -- and behold 10GB file transfers.

 Most popular YouTube video in Canada

 Ski resort in the Alps.

  One cannot not say “I believe the Bible” and lightly dismiss the perspective developed by Israelites in an ancient setting.


"Today Reuters reported that due to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the dramatic rise in foreclosures of owner-occupied housing, America now has a record number of vacant homes across the country – for the first quarter of this year. In discussing the rise in the share of vacant homes, the Reuters article, by Joanne Morrison, casually dropped a bomb: “the total number of vacant U.S. properties hit 18.6 million, which was a record,” quoting a U.S. Census Bureau official.

18.6 MILLION vacant homes! Now, that’s alotta vacancies. Incredible. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty there are 3.5 million homeless people in this country. So, roughly, that’s 5 1/3 empty homes for every homeless person. This system sure is working, isn’t it?" TIL: There are 18.6 million empty homes in America, meaning you could give every person in Scotland around three houses in America...

 Costco CEO, Jim Sinegal, rejects Wall Street's assumption that to succeed in discount retailing, companies must pay poorly and skimp on benefits, or must ratchet up prices to meet Wall Street's profit demands.

 Pat Robertson: "If you fight science, you're going to lose your children:

 Steven Spielberg asked to direct a 70's Connery era 007, was denied, started working on Indiana Jones instead.

 Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires Buy Real Books!

TIL that in the 1950s, Carl Sagan worked on a project to nuke the moon.

Moral?  Glenn Beck Is Selling A Jar Of His Pee With A Toy Obama Inside


thnx4 dot org

 Psalm 118:24
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Be grateful for what you have because it could be worse. Be thankful for your home, because some people are homeless. Be thankful for your kids, because some women can not have children.

Be grateful for your job (even if you don’t like it), because some people are looking for jobs. Be thankful that you have your limbs, because some have machines for legs.

Be thankful that God woke you up today, because some people did not make it to another day.

Be thankful for your paycheck, regardless of how small it is - because some people have no income at all.

There is much to be grateful for today. Focus on the positive, instead of the negative and watch how your life changes for the better...

 "Last week was Americans' big week to give thanks. Now Russell McLendon writes that giving thanks can do wonders for the human brain according to researchers at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center where scientists have developed an easy way for people to do just that and, at the same time, contribute to a national research project and maybe also improve their lives.

 The project is part of a $5.6 million, three-year national effort called 'Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude,' funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The center has gone live with Thnx4.org, an interactive, shareable gratitude journal and has invited people in the campus community to take part in the Cal Gratitude Challenge by keeping a two-week online 'gratitude journal' and, if they choose, sharing their posts with others. Early research into the power of gratitude journals ended up proving that students who wrote down everything they were grateful for strengthened their overall resilience and became less vulnerable to everyday stresses and complaints like rashes and headaches, says Emiliana Simon-Thomas.

 'Thnx4.org wanted to make this spiral notebook very accessible, and to make the research a little more specific than it has been historically,' says Simon-Thomas. Online, anyone can take part — and potentially reap the benefits. The Cal Gratitude Challenge opened November 1 and will remain open throughout November but the project has a three-year grant and participants will be able to maintain their journals for the duration and first results from the data are expected in January.

 'We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we've received,' writes Robert Emmons as part of the project. 'This doesn't mean that life is perfect; it doesn't ignore complaints, burdens, and hassles. But when we look at life as a whole, gratitude encourages us to identify some amount of goodness in our life.'"


The story varies, but here are the basics:
1. After going only a few miles down, the drill began to spin wildly.
2. A ‘Doctor Azzakov’ is quoted as stating authoritatively that it has been shown that the earth is hollow.
3. Immensely high temperatures were experienced, much higher than expected at that depth. Usually 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit or 1,100 degrees Celsius is quoted.
4. Microphones were lowered into the hole (to ‘listen to the earth’s movement’). Human screams were heard—hordes of ‘tortured souls’.
5. Many of the scientists have quit the project in fear and/or have become total nervous wrecks.
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Here’s the "quote" that has been making it’s way through evangelical circles:
"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment."
"But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans!"
Oh, you wanted to HEAR the screams from hell? But of course! Listen to it here (mirror ) .
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More than forty years ago, researchers in the Soviet Union began an ambitious drilling project whose goal was to penetrate the Earth’s upper crust and sample the warm, mysterious area where the crust and mantle intermingle– the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or "Moho."
This type of drilling was completely new and the technology didn’t exist to go that deep, and so the Russians had to invent a completely new was of drilling to be able to do it. Unfortunately, the Russians never reached their goal, and many of the Earth’s secrets were left undiscovered, however The Kola Superdeep Borehole is still a scientifically useful site, and research there is ongoing.
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When drilling stopped in 1994, the hole was over seven miles deep, making it by far the deepest hole ever drilled by humans. The last of the cores to be plucked from from the borehole were dated to be about 2.7 billion years old. Although the Kona hole was the deepest hole ever drilled (until this one) , seven miles was still very short of the 20-80km required to penetrate the earth’s crust.
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Related:
Now we are thinking...
If it was so hot "How come da heat didn't boin da wires?" The mike would have been melted.
The following article appeared in the well respected Finland newspaper, Ammenusastia:
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As a communist I don’t believe in Heaven or the Bible; but as a scientist I now believe in Hell," said Dr. Azzacove. "Needless to say we were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of Hell!"
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Dr. Azzacove continued, ". . .the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit."
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"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain!
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At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment.""But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans!"
'The information we are gathering is so surprising, that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there,' stated Dr Azzacov, the manager of the project in remote Siberia. 'The second surprise was the high temperature they discovered in the earth's center. 'The calculations indicate the given temperature was about 1,100 degrees Celsius, or over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit,' Azzacov pointed out. 'This is far more then we expected.
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It seems almost like an inferno of fire is brutally going on in the center of the earth. 'The last discovery was nevertheless the most shocking to our ears, so much so that the scientists are afraid to continue the project. We tried to listen to the earth's movements at certain intervals with supersensitive microphones, which were let down through the hole. What we heard turned those logically thinking scientists into a trembling ruins. It was a sometimes a weak, but high pitched sound which we thought to be coming from our own equipment,' explained Dr Azzacov.
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'But after some adjustments we comprehended that indeed the sound came from the earth's interior. We could hardly believe our own ears. We heard a human voice, screaming in pain. Even though one voice was discernible, we could hear thousands, perhaps millions, in the background, of suffering souls screaming.
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After this ghastly discovery, about half of the scientists quit because of fear. Hopefully, that which is down there will stay there,' Dr Azzacov added.
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'What really unnerved the Soviets, apart from the voice recordings, was the appearance that same night of a fountainhead of luminous gas shooting up from the drill site, and out of the midst of this incandescent cloud pillar a brilliant being with bat wings revealed itself with the words (in Russian): 'I have conquered,' emblazoned against the dark Siberian sky.
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'The incident was absolutely unreal; the Soviets cried out in terror,' says Mr. Nummedal. Later that night, he saw ambulance crews circulating in the community. A driver he knew told him that they had been told to sedate everybody with a medication known to erase short term memory. The Soviets use this drug in the treatment of shock victims.
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As a communist I don’t believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I now believe in hell," said Dr. Azzacove. "Needless to say we were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of Hell!"
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Dr. Azzacove continued, ". . .the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit."
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"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment."
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"But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans!
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Do you know why Jacques Costeau, the famous underwater explorer, quit deep sea diving sometime before he died? It is said that he stopped because he had heard in one of the underwater caves he was exploring, the sounds of people screaming.
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There was also another time, when one of his men, who was in a diving bell in the deepest trench at the Bermuda Triangle, also had a similar experience. He signaled to be brought up immediately. After being revived from his shock, he told others of his frightening experience of hearing "Screams of people in pain".

 
Do You REALLY Want To Go To Hell?
 "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." 

C. S. Lewis

Thus says the Lord, "I will do a new thing." On the day of Pentecost no one knew what to expect. They had no idea that tongues of fire would appear over their heads, and that a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind would fill the house where they were sitting.

A spiritual awakening is about to take place, but no one really knows how it will be. Amos 3:7 indicates that revelation knowledge precedes any move of God’s Spirit. The early disciples knew to wait in Jerusalem. They knew when and where to be gathered and that they would receive power after the Holy Ghost came upon them, but they didn’t know how it would happen.

The Lord lets us know when He is about to do something mighty, but it’s always a wonder when He does. The mysterious ways of God are his to determine and his to reveal.

Modern day Christianity thinks they have it all worked out and that God must act accordingly. A new thing! It’s unlike any other manna that we have ever tasted before. My eyes are wide open in expectation. All we can do is yield, surrender and be pliable.
Rejoice and sing, be glad.

Even the softest pure heart is a heart of stone compared to what God desires to create within his church. The closer I come to him, the more I find that I know nothing. Nothing at all, as taught in Proverbs 3:5, "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."

A new thing is about to happen. It cannot be figured out. Greek words have no bearing on how it will happen or where it will happen. Doctrinal differences whether simple or complex will not detour it. Mark 13:37, "And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch."

Tilson