My Ideas

So many preachers will tell you if you are not sure what to do in a given case you should pray about it.  I'm going to say though that I don't think this is the right advice.  God is against divination. Asking God what should I do is just a way of saying I'm not going to think about what I should do I'm going to let you decide.   I think God wants us to think about what to do.  He wants us to come up with ways to do the right thing.  Divination is just done when someone wants to do one thing and they hope that God will tell them it's ok.  Also it removes the important responsibility of actively loving our neighbor.  We shouldn't just help others when they ask for help but we should be actively seeking ways to help others.  We should ask God: please give me ideas on how I can help someone.  Give me opportunities to help.  Help me to think of ways to do good.  Help me to think of the best possible ways to help others and promote ...

I realize now that Beth's death was Deus Ex Machina.   It was just pure bad luck.  At least it's usually the cavalry coming to save the day so at least you can be happy about it.  But in this case they rescued Beth and she was safe and sound and then she pointlessly dies for no reason.   People doing dumb things in the name of horror isn't going to convince anyone that the post apocalypse is dangerous.  Bad luck tragedy is just as annoying as good luck coming to the rescue.   If the viewer is sitting there saying "Why don't they just leave? She hasn't even drawn on them."    I tried watching another episode and it just solidified in my head that it's pointless to go on watching.   They have nothing else to accomplish except to make more dumb mistakes till they are all dead.    I think the problem is that none of the writers expected Beth to take on a life of her own.  She was never meant to be a pa...

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. I'f you notice in this passage names 3 men but only two of them are fathers.    Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.   Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ The 3rd however is not a father.  He is Tubal-Cain.  If you know history you know that the ability to forge Iron was not discovered till many ages in the future.   In other words the science of iron was forgotten.   The skills of Jabal and Jubal were remembered however and so what we have here is a different meaning for the word father.    Despite the fact that Jabal and Jubal...

We humans don't occupy a single point in space.   So I'm wondering if the same is true of time.  I usually think of myself as occupying a single point in time.   There is the present moment an infinitesimal moment in time that I occupy and all other time can be grouped as either past or future.  However this goes against every other aspect of our lives.  Nothing really occupies a single point.   Therefore what seems more likely is that we occupy a time segment.   There is past and future and the present time segment which is actually a segment of time in which we exist in both past and future.  All time within that segment is accessible.   It is a region of timelessness between past and future where our imagination can conceive time scenarios.  Without this ability to time travel we would perhaps no concept of time at all.  We couldn't conceive of either a future or a past. It's like looking at a picture....

I just realized something.  I avoid company websites and spend more time on Wiki pages.  I go to find out information and company websites don't really offer that.   I mean who really goes to a website to see a full page cartoon image?    A lot of websites are really beautiful with their full page images and a couple buttons but I mean it looks like a game (but it's not a game),  It may look like an app (but it's not an app either).   It really looks like something but it doesn't do anything at all except sell the product.  Even if I'm interested in their product I'd rather go to a wiki page to find out about it because I know I'm not going to find out about it after the website finally loads up.  I'll find out way more information about the product on the wiki page.  I guess though that's a problem for web in general I mean if everyone else is making bad websites then people are still going to avoid my site no matter how ...

I think in fiction the protagonist should not be synonymous with the main character or the hero.  I believe I was taught that the protagonist is the one who initiates the action.   In most science fiction I think the person who initiates the action is the Villain.   Even though the villain may not be the hero or even the main character he is the protagonist in that he is the one who with motivation to accomplish some goal such as taking over the world.   The Antagonist then is the one who opposes the purpose of the protagonist.  Again in many science fiction novels the person who tries to stop the Villain from his goal is the Hero.  The hero has no goal other than to stop a person from finishing what he started.   In this case then the hero would be the Antagonist.   Stories where the Hero is the Protagonist are hard for me to come up with by this definition.   Superman The Quest For Peace comes to mind though I'...

If racism didn't cause us so much suffering I'd have to laugh at how silly it is.   How can a person be blamed for what someone else did?   If we are blamed for Adams sin then isn't that similar to what happens when people are racist?     Muslims destroyed the Twin Towers but if I blame all Muslims then why shouldn't I also be blamed for Adam's sin?  If I seek revenge on all Muslims then why shouldn't God seek revenge on me for what Adam did? We're the same race right?  Not only that we are the same species.  If I don't want God to punish me for Adam's sin then I should not blame the Muslims for what the hijackers did.   If you have a problem with God blaming us for Adam's sin then you sure as heck can't be a racist can you?  If you are then you're a hypocrite.   Maybe God wanted us to ask that question.  "Why should I be blamed for Adam's sin?"   Why does God blame us?   Such a conu...