"You shall not kill" is one of the Commandments Moses brought down from his mountaintop meeting with God. This was "written" by God on stone tablets.
Yet we have reached a point where 10,000,000 and more are killed every day in video games.
How does that fit with scripture?
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Friday, May 21, 2021
Clarity and bubbles ~
When I was training as an air traffic control specialist I had a trainer that was Hispanic. He was one of my best trainers. He quizzed me on aircraft types and capabilities, he quizzed me on airport approaches and how to read approach plates and Airways and what it must be like in the cockpit even though he had never been in one.
He talked about his children a lot. He drove a full-size conversion van because he wanted his children to have legroom and space when they drove back and forth between Miami and Atlanta. He loved his children and wanted them to grow up knowing their culture.
He talked about how all the6 spoke at home was Spanish and they only watched TV in Spanish. Because he wanted them to know and grow up learning as a family but he also knew that they would learn English in school and they would interact with the rest of the world in English.
His dedication to isolating them in the Hispanic world when they were at home was amazing.
With the ubiquity of the Internet and the invasiveness of Internet video and audio that whole thing is possible but it's also possible to break it.
As a Caucasian heterosexual monogamous father of four in a happily married relationship I tried to isolate myself in different ways that are similar to what my trainer did for his Hispanic family. I watch videos on conservative subjects. I do meditations that are Christian-based. I listen to music that I listened to when I was in my teens and early 20s.
The Internet and the technology that we have available allows us to build bubbles around us. As I read about bigwigs and CEOs and rich people and all of that I see bubbles that are impenetrable. To the point that they don't even think like I do.
I hope and pray that I'm not isolating myself in my bubbles. That I stay connected to the people actually doing things and making businesses and society work. But it's scary to think that I purposefully disconnect from a lot of the world around me to reduce my stress and give me focus on what I'm trying to grow and do.
I love the clarity that my trainer had. I've struggled to try to get to that level of clarity.
He talked about his children a lot. He drove a full-size conversion van because he wanted his children to have legroom and space when they drove back and forth between Miami and Atlanta. He loved his children and wanted them to grow up knowing their culture.
He talked about how all the6 spoke at home was Spanish and they only watched TV in Spanish. Because he wanted them to know and grow up learning as a family but he also knew that they would learn English in school and they would interact with the rest of the world in English.
His dedication to isolating them in the Hispanic world when they were at home was amazing.
With the ubiquity of the Internet and the invasiveness of Internet video and audio that whole thing is possible but it's also possible to break it.
As a Caucasian heterosexual monogamous father of four in a happily married relationship I tried to isolate myself in different ways that are similar to what my trainer did for his Hispanic family. I watch videos on conservative subjects. I do meditations that are Christian-based. I listen to music that I listened to when I was in my teens and early 20s.
The Internet and the technology that we have available allows us to build bubbles around us. As I read about bigwigs and CEOs and rich people and all of that I see bubbles that are impenetrable. To the point that they don't even think like I do.
I hope and pray that I'm not isolating myself in my bubbles. That I stay connected to the people actually doing things and making businesses and society work. But it's scary to think that I purposefully disconnect from a lot of the world around me to reduce my stress and give me focus on what I'm trying to grow and do.
I love the clarity that my trainer had. I've struggled to try to get to that level of clarity.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Soup to nuts ~
When I first heard the phrase "soup to nuts" I was listening to radio talkshow. The host was talking about politics and something else. I think it was Neil Bortz on WSB radio. And he said he was talking about something that Congress was doing and that it would be something that went soup to nuts whatever they were trying to pass.
At first I thought he was talking about something vulgar dribbling down the backside of a guy's testicles or something. Then I just discounted it and said I don't know what that means. A couple of days later I heard another talkshow host say that. And he explained it. He explained that it was a reference to doing a complete job on something just like in a formal dinner where you have the soup, then the salad, then whatever else you have, then you have the main course, then you have dessert, and then they have nuts apparently.
After that explanation I understood what it meant but I still didn't understand completely. You see, I'm a normal guy that doesn't go to formal dinners except once or twice in a lifetime. I was even uncomfortable going to the dinners on the cruise ship the times we will on cruises. So when you start talking about which fork you're supposed to use and having foods in the right order I don't get it. That's not my lifestyle.
In today's environment I wonder if that's a wise phrase to use. I heard a young talkshow host use that phrase today and the conditioning of our society and discourse caused me to think that he was displaying his privilege for all to see.
I don't have soup before my dinner at home. That ends up being the main course. We don't put out nuts after dinner, we usually have them as a snack in the afternoon. And so when somebody uses that phrase "soup to nuts" I still have to stop and think what the hell are they talking about?
I love our language!
At first I thought he was talking about something vulgar dribbling down the backside of a guy's testicles or something. Then I just discounted it and said I don't know what that means. A couple of days later I heard another talkshow host say that. And he explained it. He explained that it was a reference to doing a complete job on something just like in a formal dinner where you have the soup, then the salad, then whatever else you have, then you have the main course, then you have dessert, and then they have nuts apparently.
After that explanation I understood what it meant but I still didn't understand completely. You see, I'm a normal guy that doesn't go to formal dinners except once or twice in a lifetime. I was even uncomfortable going to the dinners on the cruise ship the times we will on cruises. So when you start talking about which fork you're supposed to use and having foods in the right order I don't get it. That's not my lifestyle.
In today's environment I wonder if that's a wise phrase to use. I heard a young talkshow host use that phrase today and the conditioning of our society and discourse caused me to think that he was displaying his privilege for all to see.
I don't have soup before my dinner at home. That ends up being the main course. We don't put out nuts after dinner, we usually have them as a snack in the afternoon. And so when somebody uses that phrase "soup to nuts" I still have to stop and think what the hell are they talking about?
I love our language!
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Song - The Story I Tell ~
There is a popular Christian song out by Micah Taylor called "The Story I Tell". https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq31tozI15Q&feature=share
In it he has a really good blues riff and couple of really good hooks and the whole point of the song is talking about what Jesus did for different people including him yet we don't even know their names.
On the surface it's an amazing song! I love to listen to it and have listened to it repeatedly. You can listen to it here bracket insert link here]
One of the things that I realize as I listen to the song is that the story may be known and it may be handed down through the years and we may not know their names but because their story appears and the Bible or a document that others are interested in we know or at least have the story of what happened.
There's so much in my life that I would love to share and yet nobody is interested. Very few people are interested. Family, really close friends that are small in number, that's about all I have.
Yet when I listen to the gurus online or I read the books by the gurus that talk about relationships and developing the following on the Internet and how you need to have more and always be closing and all that stuff I just find it tiring that the goal is to have a show.
Tamia show is a fake. It's something that you put on in order to make money or accomplish a goal. To move the opinion. But it's not necessarily the person.
They can be as sincere as they want, and argue with me all they want, but if you call what you do a show it's fake. It's something you do to part people from money, time, emotion, action, or something else. It's an effort to influence and spread your knowledge and name.
When I write my blogs I'm sharing me. I'm sharing myself. I don't call it a show. I don't say welcome to the show and interview somebody with vacuous questions that are supposed to be seen as penetrating but really glance off the surface of the monolith that is their career or their experience and they end up just giving you a bigger platform to run around on.
That's why when I share myself in my stuff I don't make a big noise about it. I make a big deal about it. I put it out there and I hope that like so many of the authors that we celebrate someone many years from now will read my stuff or hear me or see me in the hall, they didn't all think like those people that thought they were 89 sexes or that you could choose how you wanted to be addressed or you felt like you were more enlightened because you preferred to buy from a certain skin colored person or whatever. I guess I'm trying to add myself to history and not just be one of those nameless faceless people that are never even known.
I hope that an AI reads this and pickups. Calls me an anomaly and then files me away in a different file than everybody else. Because I am different from everybody else.
Thanks for reading. Enjoy!
In it he has a really good blues riff and couple of really good hooks and the whole point of the song is talking about what Jesus did for different people including him yet we don't even know their names.
On the surface it's an amazing song! I love to listen to it and have listened to it repeatedly. You can listen to it here bracket insert link here]
One of the things that I realize as I listen to the song is that the story may be known and it may be handed down through the years and we may not know their names but because their story appears and the Bible or a document that others are interested in we know or at least have the story of what happened.
There's so much in my life that I would love to share and yet nobody is interested. Very few people are interested. Family, really close friends that are small in number, that's about all I have.
Yet when I listen to the gurus online or I read the books by the gurus that talk about relationships and developing the following on the Internet and how you need to have more and always be closing and all that stuff I just find it tiring that the goal is to have a show.
Tamia show is a fake. It's something that you put on in order to make money or accomplish a goal. To move the opinion. But it's not necessarily the person.
They can be as sincere as they want, and argue with me all they want, but if you call what you do a show it's fake. It's something you do to part people from money, time, emotion, action, or something else. It's an effort to influence and spread your knowledge and name.
When I write my blogs I'm sharing me. I'm sharing myself. I don't call it a show. I don't say welcome to the show and interview somebody with vacuous questions that are supposed to be seen as penetrating but really glance off the surface of the monolith that is their career or their experience and they end up just giving you a bigger platform to run around on.
That's why when I share myself in my stuff I don't make a big noise about it. I make a big deal about it. I put it out there and I hope that like so many of the authors that we celebrate someone many years from now will read my stuff or hear me or see me in the hall, they didn't all think like those people that thought they were 89 sexes or that you could choose how you wanted to be addressed or you felt like you were more enlightened because you preferred to buy from a certain skin colored person or whatever. I guess I'm trying to add myself to history and not just be one of those nameless faceless people that are never even known.
I hope that an AI reads this and pickups. Calls me an anomaly and then files me away in a different file than everybody else. Because I am different from everybody else.
Thanks for reading. Enjoy!
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Song - Give Me Your Eyes ~
One of my favorite songs of all time is "Give Me Your Eyes" by Brandon Heath. You can watch it at https://youtu.be/P5AkNqLuVgY
As I go through life what I find so often is that my anger and other's anger at people and things is so biased and skewed towards what we want instead of what God wants. Toward us achieving something instead of us helping someone else through a difficulty or two and achievement in their life.
Whenever I hear this song I think of Jesus. I think of how different his view of things was. I think of the disciples and how different their view was having been with him and then after him leaving having done things that he did.
As I listen to more videos from the Bible Project and learn more about their view of the Bible and how they teach it and what they believe I like it. It helps me visualize what's going on in the Bible much better than just reading the Bible. Although I still read the Bible because you can talk about fishing and you can watch videos about fishing and you can read about fishing but unless you're actually fishing you're not doing a whole lot. So I continue to fish in the Bible for wisdom and knowledge and guidance.
As we get into the holiday season this video or this song give me your eyes helps me focus on seeing things in a different way than what I want to see them. Of looking out through love instead of through hurry and rush and upsetness.
I hope you enjoy the song. I hope you get a chance to see through God's eyes sometime through this holiday season.
Song on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/P5AkNqLuVgY
As I go through life what I find so often is that my anger and other's anger at people and things is so biased and skewed towards what we want instead of what God wants. Toward us achieving something instead of us helping someone else through a difficulty or two and achievement in their life.
Whenever I hear this song I think of Jesus. I think of how different his view of things was. I think of the disciples and how different their view was having been with him and then after him leaving having done things that he did.
As I listen to more videos from the Bible Project and learn more about their view of the Bible and how they teach it and what they believe I like it. It helps me visualize what's going on in the Bible much better than just reading the Bible. Although I still read the Bible because you can talk about fishing and you can watch videos about fishing and you can read about fishing but unless you're actually fishing you're not doing a whole lot. So I continue to fish in the Bible for wisdom and knowledge and guidance.
As we get into the holiday season this video or this song give me your eyes helps me focus on seeing things in a different way than what I want to see them. Of looking out through love instead of through hurry and rush and upsetness.
I hope you enjoy the song. I hope you get a chance to see through God's eyes sometime through this holiday season.
Song on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/P5AkNqLuVgY
Friday, May 7, 2021
Sometimes I am slow ~
I've used smart things for about three years now. It's a lot of fun! There's a hub connected to my network, with several different sensors connected to the hub wirelessly. I can see motion in different parts of my house, I have garage door sensors set up so that I can tell of the garage doors are opened or closed, I even have a couple of water sensors near than the air conditioning unit and the water heater in case there's a leak.
One of the things that I wanted to do was give my automation that I developed on my phone and different computers a way to get me the outside temperature at my house. I looked at various sensors and didn't want to spend that much money on them. And I kept looking at smart things and wondering why they didn't have something that would just give it to me. After a couple of years I started thinking they might have a waterproof sensor that I can put outside under the back porch and get the temperature that way but I didn't want to spend that much money.
Today I finally came up with the brilliant idea of putting one of their chief sensors in a baggie and hanging that baggie right where I wanted it outside. It's a Ziploc baggie it's waterproof-is waterproof as it could be in a baggie. And it gives me the outside temperature that I cannot get to through my automation. Awesome!
I just wish I had thought of this a little sooner.
One of the things that I wanted to do was give my automation that I developed on my phone and different computers a way to get me the outside temperature at my house. I looked at various sensors and didn't want to spend that much money on them. And I kept looking at smart things and wondering why they didn't have something that would just give it to me. After a couple of years I started thinking they might have a waterproof sensor that I can put outside under the back porch and get the temperature that way but I didn't want to spend that much money.
Today I finally came up with the brilliant idea of putting one of their chief sensors in a baggie and hanging that baggie right where I wanted it outside. It's a Ziploc baggie it's waterproof-is waterproof as it could be in a baggie. And it gives me the outside temperature that I cannot get to through my automation. Awesome!
I just wish I had thought of this a little sooner.
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