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Nature of the Paranormal

Is the Paranormal just a bunch of misconceptions?   One way to determine if this is true is to figure out what people are likely to misconstrue and from the extrapolate whether the two coincide with one another.   Do they coincide?  If they do then the paranormal is just misconceptions.   But if they do not then they are two  different things and the Paranormal is real.   Things like ghosts are real.  A lot of paranormal events seem very likely to be true.  More the paranormal than aliens.  I thought for sure the Travis walton event was real.  But people dug deeper into the story and found out some evidence to the contrary.  That perhaps it was a hoax after all.   The confusion stemmnig from the fact that the investigation went from murder to hoax and there is no longer any need or right for a police detective to investigate a hoax when his job is to figure out murders and more important criminal activi...

Libaries as storage facilities

I propose a re-purposing of libraries as storage facilities for books and media that people no longer want.   People can donate their books to the library with a confidence that the library will place those books on their shelves and make them available to the public for checkout.   This would add value to the books you donate.  I guess this concept may not be new but the library in town is always selling books.     I'm not sure how common this is but they are often selling books and I don't understand such things.  I think the problem is that they run out of space.   However my library has a lots of space and they are   Books get old but books have always gotten old and in the old days books got incredibly old but the library didn't get rid of them.  They would rebind them.   Nowdays they can even put them online.  What if by donating your book to the library the library could then add that to a it's online virtua...

In Your Doing Good Do Good.

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 ...

Walking Dead Beth's **SPOILER**.

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...

Tubal-Cain

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...

Are we all time travelers?

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....

Informational Web Design.

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 ...