Nothing about prophetic things.

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This post will contain nothing about prophetic things. It is mostly about my website and blogs.

Traffic to this blog was running at about 17,000 visits a month in the fall and since the first of year it was up to over 20,000 views a month but for some reason in the past month it is back down again to where is was last fall. Perhaps people do not want to read a lot of words. I do am to please (once in a while) so here are some pictures.

The first is an aerial of the land we just bought. We plan to build on that cleared knob on the left of the rectangle. 7000 acres that adjoin us on the west and northwest is owned by one person who is connected to a national conservation organization so it will never be developed. The area south and most of the area north of us is owned by lumber companies.

The second picture is me and the dogs? See if you can count all the dogs in the picture (I do not count).

It has been almost a year since I put the top viewed posts on the sidebar of this blog. As you see Enoch wins hands down. I never knew it would be so popular when I posted it. For some reason Google makes this article one of the top articles under “Enoch Bible” keywords.

When you look at the number of page views on the sidebar keep in mind that it does not include visits to the homepage that contain the last 15 posts, it also would not include any other multi-page views of my posts. So I guess the actual views of the top hundred post on the side bar are about 10 to 50 percent higher than the number that are indicated on the sidebar.

Also keep in mind that all views on my posts before last spring would not have been counted and the more recent posts could take quite some time to get into the top 100 (if they get there at all from keyword searches in Google or elsewhere).

I have been looking for a more readable Wordpress theme for the Blog in the spare seconds I have. I looked at almost all of them that are available but I have not found one that satisfies me yet.

I probably will take down my old inactive blog before the end of the year (Dumb Delusional or Demented Club). It now is only getting about 25 visits a day. One post last year had been getting a get a lot of views on the keywords “Obama” “socialist” but now that so many other people woke up to the fact that Obama is a socialist and wrote their own articles my article fell out of the top rankings.

I need to go through the two thousand posts on that blog and put anything really worth keeping by converting it to an article on my website. But actually accomplishing that will take something I do not have right now – time.

Speaking about the main website, www.thepropheticyears.com continues to increase in traffic. Google finally got it back up to a page rank of 4 a couple of months ago. I guess it remains to be seen if it will stay there. The total traffic on the website that includes the blogs is about 1000 unique visitors a day and about 5000 page views a day (written articles). Page views are most important because those are the actual written articles download, it does not include graphics ads etc. People often ask how many hits you get on your website but hits can be very misleading if you have ads, images, scripts etc. on each page. On some websites there may be well over a hundred hits on every page viewed.

There are a couple of articles on my main website that have been averaging about 100 downloads a day for quite some time. You might want to check them out if you have not already.

http://www.thepropheticyears.com/comments/countdown_to_second_coming.htm

http://www.thepropheticyears.com/reasons/World%20debt.HTM

http://www.thepropheticyears.com/reasons/aliens.HTM

These three index pages also qualify.

http://www.thepropheticyears.com/The%20book%20of%20Revelation/index.htm

http://www.thepropheticyears.com/reasons/reason%20why%20we%20are%20in%20the%20last%20days.htm

http://www.thepropheticyears.com/comments/comments1.htm

There you have it, a nothing about prophetic things post.

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On Feb 11 Iran will stun the world powers with more punch drunk arrogance.

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Since this blog is supposed to be about world trends I guess I should mention that Iran is now telling the world that on Feb 11 they will Punch the Arrogance of the Western powers and that this punch will leave the Western world powers stunned. I do not think anyone really knows what the leaders of Iran are implying but I know that Iran already stuns the Western world with its own arrogance.

I predict that Iran will attempt to crush the green movement on Feb 11th and they will stun the world with their barbaric brutality. Other than that, I am not sure what Iran could pull off that would stun the world powers.

The leaders of Iran also just announced that they have started to further enrich their uranium.  Iran also recently launched a satellite and that has EMP implications for the West in the future. But since these actions of Iran are already known that is not what Iran is talking about for their Feb 11 surprise punch. One observation that is apparent to me is that Iran’s latest actions seem to be inviting Israel to strike them.

So not really knowing what these loons in Iran are up to. I will just give you my top ten possibilities why the world will be stunned by Iran on Feb 11.

10. Ahmadinejad and Khamenei will announce that they are possessed by alien spirits sent here to save the world from the Devil.

9.  Iran will launch the ” the monkey” aka Ahmadinejad into outer space.

8. The rulers of Iran will declare victory and resign.

7.  Iran will close the Persian gulf for a few hours until they receive the counter punch.

6. Ahmadinejad will ride on a S-300 missile in the Islamic revolution anniversary parade.

5. Kim Jong -il, Bashar al-Assad, Hugo Chavez and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will square dance while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiddles at the anniversary party.

4. Obama will make a surprise appearance at the anniversary party and bow to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

3. Iran will announce it already has nukes.

2. Former world boxing champion Muhammad Ali gave Iran his “rope-a-dope” secret weapon. 

1.  The Mahdi will pop out of Ahmadinejad’s hat on Feb 11.

In my opinion the leaders of Iran should listen to some wise words of advise and put a muzzle on it.

Pr 16:18  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

What happened in Iran on Feb 11? Is Revolution by the people still coming?

More of what really is happening in Iran

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Collective Insanity on Planet Earth

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The reason the world needs saving is because mankind is clearly insane in his fallen state. Mankind will somehow always make the collective choices that will bring a type of hell on earth. A study of Bible prophecy and world history or the collective actions of our present world leaders makes collective insanity on earth a undeniable fact.

Man without God will make all the wrong choices over and over again.

like a very wise man once said, “there is nothing new under the sun”. If you think that man’s collective insanity is not being played out on earth today it is probably because you are an inmate of the collective insane asylum named planet earth.

The elite of the world have the collectively insane idea that they are more highly evolved and can help the rest of humanity to evolve to become more like them.  Criminally insane!

Most of the world elite are life members of a special class of people….self deceived buffoons. They are the splitting image of their own daddy that runs this evil world system. If you need  examples of their collective insanity just look at what the elite brought on the world throughout history and where these world class buffoons intend to lead mankind today.

The place of utopia the elite think they can bring on earth could only be described as a funny farm where workers exist to bring them honey.

We could talk about the world economy where the world buffoons still think prosperity comes by going further into debt. Just read the article, it is very clear why it will not happen! The world is heading for a total economic melt down. People have to be nuts to believe that collective godless socialism can ever bring anything on earth but mediocrity and tyranny.

Gee.., why don’t we just keep making the same mistakes over and over and expect different results!

AL Gore and Nancy Pelosi even told us they are trying  to save the earth………ha ha ha, next someone will tell me that Al Franklen of “Saturday Night live” was elected to be a U.S.  Senator, ha ha ha ha ha… or that someone from the extreme Far Left with Muslim foreign roots and terrorist, radical and racist mentors with the name of Barrak Obama was elected President of the U.S…. and now Czars are running the American government… ha ha ha everyone is a comedian!

Its “Howdy Doody Time” boys and girls and I am Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell  just converted Mr Bluster to Christ.

What happened to Great Britain? Sometimes I think there must of been some truth to the science fiction movie about the “Invasion of the body snachers” that came and replaced real humans with collective look alike pods. We once thought the book “1984 was science fiction but the British are proving that it was actually the prophecy of their own future.

Maybe it is time for a name change? Great Britain just does not fit anymore. What is great about Britain?  How about “New England”? Their New England flag can be Big Brother and jack booted Nanny holding a Swastika together. The people in “New England” are walking around like mindless robots under the control of watchers. Lest you think I exaggerate there soon will be more eyes watching the pods to make sure they keep the Nanny laws then there will be mindless robots. The only thing that will exceed the monitoring will be death and taxes.

Now in Britain…er… I mean “New England” they are trying to pass a law that will effectively outlaw Evangelicals and Catholics.

You have to read it to believe it. I guess some Christian leaders that wanted Catholics and Evangelicals together will actually get their wish fulfilled after all when they put Catholics and Evangelicals in the same prisons. If the mindless in “New England” allow this to happen I am sure this hate Christians bill will then work its way through the collective minds at the EU and UN.

I guess I should also mention the collective insanity on planet earth when it comes to world religions. One fourth of the earth believes in a fascist religion called Islam without an ounce of supporting foundation or fulfillment in prophecy that the words actually came from a strange capricious god. Another fourth of the world bow before and pray to gods of their own making. Another fourth of the world think man can become a  Buddha like god by contemplating yourself. A good part of the remaining fourth of religion is a Harlot with the world.

I always warn people that there is something to offend just about everyone on my website. Who wants to hear unvarnished truth that the religious beliefs of most people on earth prove that more than 90 percent of the world is insane? At least I try to be an equal opportunity offender.

Meanwhile the real God of creation comes to earth to save mankind from their collective insanity and the world rejects Him because His way of salvation is just too easy. It is free and all they have to do is believe Him and accept His loving Savior that paid the price of their sins.

But nah… they refuse to believe God because He is not the God of their own imagination that requires constant appeasement and/or all kinds of self righteous insanities to try to earn a perfect God through their own works. Nuts!

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Blogging to mostly postmodern mindless robots?

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When I started blogging two or three years ago it was with the idea of getting more traffic to read articles on my main website www.thepropheticyears.com. The blogging has certainly brought readers to the blog part of my website but I do not think it has increased traffic to the rest of my website much at all. I probably could have increased traffic much more by just writing and posting new articles on my main website and not blogging at all.

Between the blog and the website I probably get about 1000 unique visitors a day or 1500 visits a day, and each visit downloads about 3 written articles from my website. That sounds good until you look closer at the statistics.

No human could possible read my articles in less than 30 seconds but consistently eighty percent of all visits  to my website are for less than thirty seconds. The vast majority of these visits could only come from mindless robots.

Anyway, I would estimate that only 15 percent of the visits on my website are there long enough for a human to read any article and I bet no more than half of those read anything with any comprehension. That means maybe 300 articles a day are actually being read.

An analysis of the blog portion of my website is a bit more difficult. The blog gets about 600 visits a day and the blog software would limit the robot activity so perhaps as many as 100 people a day actually stay on an article long enough to read it. I have well over 1000 posts on my this blog so that rounds down to zero readers per day per post! :shock:

I have noticed that the comments almost stopped after I made people actually sign up and login to post a comment for the first time. You might think that mindless robots would not be able to sign up but over half the people that did sign up never commented on anything so they probably are mindless spam robots just wanting to appear as real live humans.

What becomes very apparent to me in this postmodern culture is that the vast percentage that typically make comments on blogs will not take the time to sign up on a blog so they can post comments on blogs.

Another indicator of postmodern people reading my posts is that when I provide  links to an article that gives further indepth information few people click on them. I get maybe 20 to 50 clicks a day on over 2000 links provided on this blog and that does not even mean that these people actually read the article .

I have been told by others that have forums that they want to re-post my whole article because nobody follows links. I obviously now believe them. What postmodern mindless human robot would actually take the time to follow a link to get the full story? That is why I have not been quoting many excerpts anymore and providing a link to the full article. For example, in the post before my last one I have seven links to other articles on the global warming post topic and I could count on my toes the number of people that clicked on any one of them. That has been true of other articles with links in them as well.

So I have to wonder if spending over forty hours each week to read material and write new posts for mostly mindless robots is even worth my time and effort? I guess I will have to continue to think about that. After all, pastors today have much the same problem. :mrgreen:

I also know that each article I post on this blog takes about 10 times the bandwidth it would if I were not using blogging software and I also doubt if my website homepage is getting proper ranking credit for my hundreds of blog articles. Not only that, if the posts are not hit on regularly Google seems to drop them out of their index after a certain period of time even when they are provided a complete site map. They were not dropping my articles out of the index when I just posted new articles on my website.

Finally, I might as well once again allow anyone to make comments without signing up and logging in, otherwise as you can see there will not be more than one or two comments. Sorry that the ten or twenty people that actually did sign up and that actually did comment had to go through that ritual for nothing.

Even so, I will again be monitoring all comments and the first comment from a new visitor will have to be approved by me before it is posted and anything that I do not want on my blog from now on simply will either be not posted or it will be deleted.  Those who wish to comment should read the comment policy on the sidebar and thus prove that they can actually follow a link.

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Global warming climate change, postmodern thinking and Al Gore reinventing truth

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I have not covered climate change (global warming) much on this blog because it would seem to be off topic to the world and church trends and Bible prophecy theme. But, it actually is an attempt at satanically controlled global government. So an article on this climate change topic does seems fitting.

I did write about this issue and listed scores of articles on this global warming or climate change topic on my old blog and I always took the position that all the hype was based on junk science and was a hoax and a fraud pushed by global elitists and politicians controlling the purse strings of many scientists. The facts revealed since then still say the same thing.

Nowhere in the Bible does it speak of any man caused global warming or any climatic global tipping point so I know any drastic change in climate is not going to happen in this dispensation. The only global warming in Bible prophecy is the judgment of Revelation 16, 8-9 when God’s angel pours out his bowl on the sun. That act of God is a taste of hell so people will choose not to go there. Next, we are told that darkness comes, so most likely there was a nova on the son. Man does not have control over the sun.

Lately in the news you have probably been reading articles about what is now known as Climategate. It is beginning to expose some of  the deliberate data manipulations and the scientists conspiring to keep the public from seeing data collected that did not support the global warming theory.

In my mind the AGW hype and the Cap-in-Trade taxes is really not about global warming at all. It is a conspiracy to bring in world governance through regulations and taxes on carbon and that means on just about everything.  But the problem with any global conspiracies to rule the world is that global government will not come until God allows it. As long as the Church is here with the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit all of these conspiracies to rule the globe are going to be exposed, come to naught, or end in some man made disaster (like a war) that will delay Satan’s world government agenda. The hindering has been going on for two thousand years and it will continue until He that hinders is taken out of the way.

The satanic elite of the world are making their best effort to bring in world government through the back door blown opened by a lot of hot air but God raised up a few men that are exposing these frauds and God even reversed the temperature trend on the earth. The earth has now been growing cooler ever since the fraud-in-chief declared that the debate was over and announced that anthropic global warming was a fact and it would bring all kinds of catastrophes on earth unless we allowed global governance over everything.

Last I heard,  God is still in control of the earth and He is the one that really determines the climate on the earth. Those that are trying to control what they have insufficient knowledge of are really playing God and they are in open rebellion against Him, erroneously thinking that man can control this planet. Fallen man cannot rule this planet, nor can the ruler of this world (Satan) do anything that God does not permit.

One might wonder how so many scientists became willing co-conspirators in the anthropic global warming fraud. It is not so hard to understand if you realize what the postmodern philosophy has done to the thought process of  a whole generation. Real science has to be objective but  postmodern thought is highly subjective. Postmodern truth just becomes the consensus of what people say it is. Therefore, even though there was little objective science behind the global warming claims, consensus and group think made it their truth.

First it became truth because those controlling money and positions of power in government and science said it was true and next it became truth to the general population because it was the only truth taught by a secular humanist elitist controlled mass media and educational system.

About a decade ago I became very aware that most people are now telling me and others what they think we want to hear instead of telling other people what they actually believed (I find that to be true among many Christians as well). Scientists also are often telling those that fund their projects, bosses, and their peers what they think they want to hear rather than presenting them with objective science. We see this clearly taking place in the anthropic global warming arena. Some have even produced false data and conspired to falsify or withhold data to please or to not offend the consensus.

Individualism is now almost outlawed in government, think tanks, and corporations. Most decisions are now made through facilitated group think meetings.  That brings obvious dangers. In history we know that almost all of mankind’s advances came from individual efforts and the majority especially in science, politics and religion were often wrong. Not only that, who do you think appoints the facilitators that steer the decisions of the group? Well, in the case of climate change theory it is those with the power to control the purse strings. When money and power are controlling the only allowed outcome of the group think meetings the outcome and consensus becomes a forgone conclusion. If you want to keep employment with those pushing and promoting AGW you had better not be telling your employer something that would disagree with the only acceptable consensus.

I had my own experience with group consensus just before I left the government. At that time the fraud-in-chief – Al Gore – was Vice President and he was busy reinventing government. Actually reinventing government was nothing more than going to team concepts and group think. It was replacing individualism with Chinese communist collectivism. The Federal government started giving early retirements to get mature people that could still think for themselves out of the government and then group think and group consensus became the first commandment in government. Think there is no connection to what Al Gore did to the federal government and his climate change agenda? Think again. Al Gore is now trying to reinvent the world to conform to elitist controlled secular humanist governance. His AGW fraud is just a tool to get money and power to bring this global governance about. That is really why the global elite awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize.

I am afraid Al Gore is now about to learn a Bible lesson that he must have skipped in Sunday School. Pride comes before a great fall. He recently received an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize based on fraudulent data and junk science. If Al Gore was not a hypocrite I do not think he would be buying property on the coast and the tin mine  on his property would not be the worst polluter of Tennessee. I think Al Gore is about to become an object of ridicule as he already is in this article about it being over for Al Gore. So far we have seen only the tip of a iceberg that will sink Al Gore’s ship. The iceberg is still on the fringe but it soon will be blown into the mainstream and that is when Al Gore’s yacht is going to crash and sink. I think when his AGW ship goes down a lot of people in science that were telling elitists and politicians what they wanted to hear instead of the truth are going to go down with him. It will probably set the globalist agenda back at least a decade.

On the other hand, It certainly is possible that since postmodern people seem unable to critically think for themselves and because they cannot ascertain truth and often are apathetic or government dependents that these insane people will prevail. In that case, a carbonated Kool-aid will be bottled in Copenhagen for the whole world to drink. The deadly concoction will kill great nations and many people.

If you still have doubts where the truth lies on this read which set of scientists would you trust ? Would you trust those scientists that have something to gain or those scientists that risked there own livelihood in order to expose this AGW fraud? By the way, it seems that even the data about rising levels of CO2 is skewed to favor a rise . Perhaps there are some increases but even if there carbon dioxide levels are rising it is  likely to turn out to be beneficial to man. Plants and food crops do better with higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. There is no evidence at all that higher carbon dioxide levels on earth ever produced any global warming. Perhaps God designed the earth so that higher populations would have higher CO2 levels because higher CO2 would be necessary to grow the crops required to feed an expanding population. From what the Bible says on crop growth in the Kingdom Dispensation I fully expect a much higher CO2 level on earth in that era.

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Make the pastor preach to the choir!

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My wife has a good voice and a good ear for music and she wants to join the church choir and of course she should. The problem is that she will not join the choir unless I join as well, even though she knows I cannot sing a lick (unless I am jointly singing “American Pie” at some wedding).

Joining the church choir is difficult for me since I cannot even read music and my voice is different everyday. If I try to look at the notes in the song book I often lose the words as well. Even when I am in the pews they are often already on the third stanza by the time I get the hymnal open to the right page and get my reading glasses on. (I don’t even have a decent pair of reading glasses because the $5 pair I got from Wal-Mart’s years ago is now too weak and the price for a new pair went up to $20!  As thrifty as I am I do not want to pay twenty bucks for a pair of $5 reading glasses!)

Some days in church I can hardly hear myself sing but maybe that is because I am half deaf. Maybe I should take the hearing aids the VA issued out of the drawer but I don’t know what use they would be in my ears since I cannot hear as good with them on. I used to have a hearing aid that almost worked until it stopped working. That’s when the VA told me they now have more advanced hearing aids and I needed hearing aids for both ears. Problem is, I  never could hear anything with the new hearing aids they gave me and the batteries die after a few hours. So you might as well put corks in your ears (that’s probably not a bad idea in some cases, and now you know why some people like hearing aids)

When I am singing  I often wonder what the person in front me is really hearing coming out of my mouth. I never can reach those high notes so often in the middle of the song I have to drop down to a lower key (if that is what they call it). I don’t know if you are supposed to do that but what other alternative does a person have if they do not have the vocal range required in the song?

I guess I could just sing the base notes if I could follow them (they usually are not near the words). Anyway, I tried that and I always run out of air trying to get enough wind across my vocal cords to make enough sound to be heard in that lower frequency. People who sing base must have huge lungs or amplified vocal cords. I read where some professional singers now have sound systems that modifies their pitch when they get off key before it even comes out of the speakers. Maybe everyone in the choir could sing into that system. I guess that two hundred thousand dollar church sound system will have to be replaced with a two million dollar system. But, if we are singing to the Lord I guess the music committee board could make a strong case for the expense.

I am pretty sure that we will start working on a Christmas cantata soon. I found practicing for cantatas are about as much fun as hunting for snipes on a rainy night in Georgia. I always expect to hear the choir director to tell me to just move my lips and not sing. The choir directors always think you can read music and actually figure out how to get back to the start of the next stanza.  :wink:   Singing the wrong words is pretty hard to fake.  Someone needs to write a book called “Choir for Dummies”.  I think to  join the choir you should have to pass a course called Choir 101. That would leave me out.

Heck, half the time I cannot even spell the word choir and no wonder everything about music is so confusing. Music is really a different language.  I tried learning  Spanish a couple of times in my spare minutes and I still haven’t a clue what anyone is chattering about. Mexicans speak so fast their words get past your brain before your ears hear them. I guess with their large families they have to say everything they know as fast as they can without ever taking a breath, because as soon as they take the breath they lost their turn in line. But I digress, learning music at choir practice is much like trying to learn German by singing German beer garden songs.

I know I am going to be forced to join the choir, it has happened before. There really is no free will here! I really see no way out unless I can fake laryngitis for the duration.

I do have some food for thought though. Everyone in church should just join the  choir and then the pastor could preach to the choir from the back of the church.  It is logical because then they could just decide to switch sides and the choir problem will be solved and the pastor could literally preach to the choir. Think about it. :mrgreen:

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Contemplations about church practices in America.

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I probably should be writing on something more important today like how fascist communists and hedonism are taking over America but all the astute people that read my blogs are already aware of that.  So instead I want to bring up some recent contemplations about church practices in America. What I say here is meant to be taken as food for thought; it is not meant to insult anyone and you certainly do not have to agree on my thoughts on church practices in America.

Contemplation one - I am told by Good Authority (a medical professional) that one of the number one ways of spreading disease is by shaking hands. This is especially true in cold and flu season. Yet, most church practices in America include a ritual where everyone is supposed to go around shaking hands. I know that James, Peter and John gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas but the climate is healthier in Israel. I do understand that this is a hospitality gesture but I really would like to stay out of the hospital. Last week about half of my church was out because of illness. Is there any connection to the hand shaking connection?  Maybe the churches should pass out white gloves at the church door or put alcohol dispensers on the backs of the pews (to wipe your hands – not to drink!) or perhaps we could start a new church practice and just bow to each other like the Japanese?

Contemplation two - Some American churches are hugger churches. I have been in those, and I have nothing against hugging practices if you actually know the huggie.  However, I am told by Good Authority that you can got more diseases in these hugger churches than you can in the shaker churches. Besides the airborne and hand shaking diseases, Good Authority tells me you risk getting head lice and could even getting scabies from hugging. Good authority also tells me it is more of a problem in some parts of America than others and it might depend on the hygiene habits of the people of the area. While I am on this subject, maybe I should tell you that Good Authority also tells me you can get these little critters from upholstered  pews and chairs. I guess you will have to take the risk if your going to be in a hugger church since American churches cannot put a decontamination room at the door. Now don’t those hard wooden pews and metal chairs suddenly sound more comfortable?

Contemplation three - Why is it that the first three rows in church are almost always empty as if the pastor spits? Perhaps people are looking for safety in numbers or they feel unworthy to sit up near the man of God. Or maybe they just don’t want the rest of the church to think that they think that they are holy enough to be sitting in the front of the church. Anyway, it seems to be a place where few have dared to go, and I do not think I am going to become one of the first pioneers. (I actually do know a guy who always sits in the front row, however, he also likes to believe that he is a Star Trek Captain)

Contemplation four - Why do some people let their small kids crawl under church pews? It’s not very sanitary and is annoying to others. What is the attraction for kids anyway? In my day, growing up as a Catholic, if I even got off my knees at the wrong time, the nuns would have picked me up by my ears (which is why they stand out a bit). I am not saying we should go overboard on discipline, but maybe the American church should not be a McDonald’s playhouse either.

Contemplation five - Why do some people have their names on the pew? They are not usually visible but most eventually come to see the  invisible names on their pew. Americans often sit where they always sat and God forbid if someone else takes their spot (go ahead, make my day!). I think the thinking about assigned seating may have been burned into the brain of some kids during early church Sunday school. There probably is some direct correlation to how early one attended a Sunday school that assigned seats.

Contemplation six - Why are most Bible studies in America broken up into small age groups?  Supposedly wisdom comes with age so wouldn’t it be a better church practice to mix the old with the young?  Remember that kid that fell out of the window when Paul was teaching? If he was in our churches in America today, he would be in a youth group coloring the animals on Noah’s ark.

Contemplation seven - What has happened to attendance on Sunday night and Wednesdays? Many churches in America do not even have a gathering anymore because so few will attend. Is it really about spending time with the family or spending time in front of  the TV? Most do not have children in the house anyway, you know. Why is it that in third world countries where they have lots of family around, the Christians meet almost every night? I guess they do not have 200 TV channels to watch.

Contemplation eight - What, pray tell, is so hard about using Power Point that the next picture of the words always come up a bit too late for the congregation to sing them? I have seen this practice in more American churches than not. I will give the Power Point operators a little lesson since nobody seems to be giving any free lessons in America these days. You hit the computer key for the next picture while people are still singing the last line of your last picture. You church leaders in America might even have the power point operator go to choir or worship team practice, so he/she becomes familiar with the songs and the timing, and maybe discover while there is still time to correct the situation, that one of the songs is missing entirely!

Contemplation nine - Why do many American churches take collections in Sunday school as well as the worship service? I thought people attending the Sunday schools also were attending the worship service? Nevertheless, the usual American church practice is some envelope goes around in class and some put in a buck or two. I always just pass it on. I support my church with a monthly check and I expect the church to provide what is needed for the education of the attenders. Why also the big deal about attendance rosters and numbers on a wall. Are you going to give out gold stars? Who started these church practices in America?

Contemplation ten - I notice in many groups that they have the people say their prayer requests and then either someone is assigned to pray about the request publicly, or the leader repeats each request to God as if God were deaf the first time that the request was brought up. Often we are praying about a third party someone that we know nothing about. Is there a model for this type of prayer in the Bible? I know the Bible talks about two or more agreeing, but in context of the passage it seems to be talking about agreeing on some discipline or forgiveness given by believers for believers. I say that because the verses prior to this passage are talking about discipline of brethren, and the verses after are talking about forgiveness of brethren.  How do I really know how to pray about a situation and a person that I do not even know? Would it not be better that the person that knew about the situation and that was asking for agreement said the prayer? Did that person not really do that when they brought the prayer request up to the Church with the knowledge that God is in the midst?

Well, those are my ten contemplations about church practices in America. If it does not give you food for thought at the very least,  I just proved I could count to ten.

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Gail Riplinger: Where is thy discernment?

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King James only and Gail Riplinger’s “New Age Bible Versions” has more than once been brought up on this Blog and elsewhere. I find it incredible that a woman with degrees in Interior design, with no formal training on the Bible, a woman that cannot even read Hebrew or Greek can set herself up as some authority over the best trained Bible translators in the world. I find it dumbfounding that Christians and even some “discernment ministries” would actually take what she says seriously without even reading what the experts say about her bazaar claims.

I can only surmise that her distortions of the truth appeal to those with a wooden head that somehow became a treasure chest full of conspiracy theories. They want to believe  conspiracy theories so bad that they grasp at anything at all if it seems to support their conspiracy concepts. Nevermind, that Gail Riplinger’s sad works have divided Christians and churches for no reason and discredited good Bible translations and translators. Nevermind, that she would not be allowed to teach a Sunday school to the men in most of the churches where she is held in highest esteem. However, in their wooden minds her books support their King James Only beliefs, so she gets a free pass from them to twist the truth in front of the whole world. 

I think all that are promoting Gail Riplingers books should take what James White said below very seriously. It is understandable that certain people like Riplinger would write books on topics that they really do not have the qualification to write, but why are some Christians, churches and forums promoting her? Where is is thy discernment that many doing this claim to have??

I think James White says it best in this summery from his review and his debates on Riplinger’s book and claims. If you want to know why Gail Riplinger views are deceptive, silly and lack discernment read the full article.

Why Respond to Gail Riplinger? | Bible.org | Home of NET Bible on-line, Bible Study tools, Free Bible

Gail Riplinger’s works have been reviewed, and rejected, by numerous Christian leaders and scholars. For most, it’s a waste of time to even discuss the issue, since it’s so obvious that she is a troubler of the brethren, a woman who is out of control, setting herself up as an expert on topics about which she knows nothing at all. Her inability to function as a scholar is plain to anyone who wishes to see. The impact she has had in disrupting churches, damaging missions work, and in generally causing trouble, is hers to answer for.

In closing, though, we should actually be more troubled about what Gail Riplinger’s work says about the church as a whole. Where has discernment gone? Why didn’t someone sit her down a long time ago and try to straighten her out? And what is worse, why are men to this day letting her go on her merry way, spreading falsehoods, and even encouraging her in such activities? I have been informed (but have not taken the time to verify) that Mrs. Riplinger was recently granted an honorary doctorate by Jack Hyles for her work, New Age Bible Versions. Can someone explain how a person who doesn’t even have the first bit of undergraduate training in any of the fields relating to Bible translation can be given an honorary doctorate for having produced the most error-filled volume on the topic ever to grace the planet? Is “acrostic algebra” the stuff of doctorates? One may well forgive Gail, for she is obviously deceived; but what of the many others who encourage her to continue on in her path of disturbing the work of the Church? Might not they be even more liable? It would seem so.

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I write something to offend everyone.

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When people ask about my website I often warn them that there is something  to offend everyone on my website. I don’t write to try to offend everyone but it turns out that telling people my Christian worldview makes me an equal opportunity offender. If you  read all of my articles something is sure to offend you. However, if we really could all agree on every point we all could just do away with thinking.

Obviously much of what I write offends non Christians so if your one of those, you will not have to look far on my website to be offended. For that reason I will not get into all the articles that will offend all you unbelievers. People who do not know God cannot know the truth. (See I just said something to offend almost everyone) I will just tell you here how you can know God and how one really becomes a Christian.

Some of what I write offends Catholics because I tell them the truth. (I was once a Catholic and I I know how most in Thyatria think.)

Some of what I write offends Pentecostals and Charismatics. I was part of your movement as well, and I am aware of the spiritual games you play and how you are often led by the nose by control freaks and hucksters. Christians do not need to get the Holy Ghost in your back rooms because true Christians already got the Holy Spirit when they were saved.  (Maybe I  am a Charismatic by any strict definition because I believe the gifts did not cease. But, I do not believe some of what are claimed to be manifestations of the spiritual gifts, actually are.)

Liberal Christians are offended for many reasons. They disagree with most everything I write. That is because I disagree with most everything they believe. I believe the Bible is the infallible word of God and is meant to be taken literally.  (I never was one of those liberal Christians and never will be.)

I write something to offend conservative Christians as well, for example:

I am sure a few of my articles offend conservative Baptists along with other conservative denominations because I like to drink something fermented once in a while and have a hard time stomaching rule by committee, covenants, putting burdens on the poor in the Church, and often wooden interpretations of various Bible passages. (Although, I often am a member of some Baptist fellowship if the leadership actually permits thinking.)

Many of my articles would offend the amillennial believers since I think it is error. I believe in premillennial theology.

There is no doubt that there would be something to offend everyone that believes in Replacement Theology or Supersession Theology

I know I offend post toasties that think the Church is going through the tribulation because they often take the time to tell me I am leading people to hell with my pre-trib Rapture Theology. They tell me Christians will lose their faith in tribulation. I think they are very confused.

I certainly would offend Word Faith Kingdom Now, blab-it-and-grab-it, prosperity teachers with often their Dominion Theology. I think the leaders are all heretics.

I also write things to offend those who have brought into the teachings of pop psychology and just love to have their purpose driven pop psychology book studies in their church.

I even write something to offend some pre-trib believers when I suggest Jesus is not coming in glory by 2019, the Antichrist will not be a Muslim, pagan’s do not know Bible prophecy, you cannot figure out the date of the second coming through Bible codes and that conspiracy theories are mostly hype from those making a living selling hype to those wanting hype.

I write and offend seeker friendly leaders and their supporters and the various emergent varieties of Christians, and I should do more of that.

I write and offend global warming fear mongers in Christianity because I tell them that man-caused global warming is junk science promoted by the world elite to tax them and bring them under global governance.

If you have not found something I wrote to offend you yet,  just keep reading. I am sure I have someone to offend everyone somewhere. If you have a certain topic in mind that you know will offend you, you might do a search from the search box on either the homepage of my website or the homepage of this World and Church Trends and Bible Prophecy blog.

I do try to be an equal opportunity offender.

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Jesus must return before 2012-2019 you say? Then hurry send me a million bucks to expand The Prophetic Years Ministry

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I really love these people who tell me that they really believe the world is coming to an end in 2012, or they are certain that the Rapture has to happen within a year or two, or that they have the date of the second coming all figured out, or that Jesus has to come before 2019 because of their interpretation of the “Fig Tree Parable”, or based on some pagan prophecy, or the sayings of  Jack Van Impe, etc., etc., but they continue to retain all their wealth like they are going to live here forever or take it with them.

If you really believe what you say you believe on the Internet and in your emails, what need will you have for all your money? Give it to someone who will use it for Christian ministry in the couple of years that you are certain that we only have left.

I certainly could use a million bucks to hire a staff and to set up a modern office and expand this ministry. I would use your money to help get the message out that Jesus is coming soon and warn Christians about all the latest heresies, and warn about the wolves in sheep’s clothing running around seeking wheat to sell baloney to, so the wolves can devour them (with mustard) before Jesus even gets here for supper.

Not to mention, that the average attender in most congregations today is brain dead when it comes to biblical knowledge and understanding, and they really needs to read my shock courses on basic Christian doctrine so they don’t get Jesus mixed up with the Mahdi or some stain on a coffee table.

Others just need to hear what I want to ramble on about (like here) but I can’t be doing much rambling on if I am busy with other tasks that go along with keeping up a website and Blog and also keeping an abode in the deepest darkest jungles of the Ozark wilderness. (We still have to appease and fight off leprechauns and trolls here, not to mention, the government wilderness control freaks).

So if you are so certain that Jesus must return before 2012 or thereabouts just send me one of those spare millions that you know you won’t ever be needing and help expand this ministry. You will not get a tax deduction because I am not on the list of IRS approved charities and probably never will be with my constitution. But what do you need a tax deduction for anyway?

Don’t get me wrong, I am not asking for small donations from anyone reading this or from those who have any doubts about the Lord coming before 2019. I can’t expand a ministry on a thousand bucks here and there, and certainly can’t on your spare change. Send your seed faith change to the TV hucksters. I need really big bucks, like a million or so from the faithful that have no doubt in their mind that Jesus must return before 2019 and so are certain they will not ever need the million bucks. I give no refunds, if you change your mind or Jesus does not return before your date, your just out a million bucks and probably used it for a better cause than you would have. You probably would have just bought more gadgets like one that will allow you to text with your toes while driving  (now don’t ask me where to buy it).

If you do not want to send the million to me then give it to the ministry of your choice or the poor. So, as the saying goes, put up or shut up!

People spouting this stuff about Jesus coming in 2012 etc., really need to put their money where there mouth is and not be hypocrites or else they should tone down their date speculations. That includes the authors that are banking money from selling 2012 new aged baloney.
You can send those million dollar donations to Don Koenig, PO Box 234, Summersville Mo, 65571. :shock:

In return I will send you a semiannual picture of my well fed (thanks to you) six dogs and six cats. Sorry, they cannot write you letters. As a bonus you will receive a envelope of fairy dust from the local leprechauns. I think if you sprinkle the dirt… er…I mean dust.. on your upside down St Joseph statue your multi-million dollar mansion will be the first one to sell on your block (not valid in California, Nevada, Arizona, or Florida).

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Take a chill pill, the world will not end in 2012 in spite of Pagan Mayan, Mahdi, Planet X speculations.

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Think the 2012 date setters are not having a negative effect on many in the Church? Obviously this speculation based mostly on Mayan ages and a Mahdi coming out of well is attracting many followers. Some such as the “Gospel Tract Society” now take the position that we are already in the tribulation. H E L L O… what tribulation? I will say it as gently as I can, those who think we are already in the tribulation have lost their marbles.

I do not see a good end result coming from all this date setting nonsense. By 2013 Bible prophecy teachers will be mocked. It is as if there is a Satanic deception (there is) to destroy the message of the soon coming of Jesus through the promotion of those crying wolf based on pagan crap – not the Bible. This 2012 date setting speculation is not coming from God.

I think I understand why people promote their crap and pet theories in books, it is profitable for them. But, why do Christians buy it and suck it up like it was profound biblical truth. Some of us warned that the 88 reason why Jesus would come in 1988 was unfounded but people bought the books anyway and Bible prophecy teaching in the Church took a huge hit because of that. Now we have to endure the 2012 end of the world books and movies based on pagan fantasy and those who only know enough about Bible eschatology to twist it to fit their theories.

The world is not going to end in 2012 and we are not in the tribulation. Like Nathan Jones said in this article “take a chill pill”

The Christ in Prophecy Journal: Gospel Tract Society Abandons Pre-Trib Heritage

The Gospel Tract Society has changed their longstanding view in the last month. Lamb & Lion Ministries was first alerted to the change when the ministry’s successor, Tom Buttram, asked founder Dr. David Reagan to change the wording in his tract “Living for Christ in the End Times” (based on the article) from “Rapture” to “Second Coming.” The second alert came when a friend of Lamb & Lion Ministries contacted the Gospel Tract Society for copies of that tract, only to be told the remaining 6,000 in inventory were going to be destroyed.

Upon inquiry as to why the Gospel Tract Society would desire to change the wording and destroy the existing inventory, Tom Buttram responded with a very startling revelation. “As though someone reprinted my Bible overnight,” Tom Buttram now believes humanity has already entered into the Tribulation and the Church will not be raptured until the Seventh Trumpet Judgment has sounded mid-way through the Tribulation.

after over 80 years of the Gospel Tract Society proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ, they will now refocus their attention on printing materials “needed for all to escape delusion and attack” by the Man of Lawlessness (the Antichrist) and a Mid-Tribulation rescue by Jesus.

the esteemed Gospel Tract Society after 80 years of preaching the Rapture of believers before world judgment has just declared that they got it all wrong, that we are actually living in the Tribulation, and that we will all be attacked (means “massacred,” folks) by the coming world leader — and that is supposed to be a source of calm!?! Just how much “calm” are they now going to spread with their newest batch of tracts?

Secular movies like “Knowing” and “2012″ and books and commentaries and pundits (and the list goes on) are very interested in End Time speculation. Only the overall Church seems to be sleeping on this subject. But, for those believers who are anticipating Christ’s return, a certain hysteria has begun to set in. The people are getting very antsy and have begun chasing after every new theory and speculation that rises to the scene.

Secondly, as Dr. Ron Rhodes once said, we are filtering God’s Word through our human antennae and our fallen nature is putting static in our reception.

Every person believes God is giving them a particular revelation or insight into the Bible that is different than what they once believed — but they all conflict! I get hundreds of emails a week from people all over the world, and many writers purport to have discovered some special insight from God. For example, could the Pope, Javier Solana, Prince Hassan, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, the Mahdi and the entire United States of America all be the Antichrist at the same time? Saved believers in Christ each have a candidate God has “revealed” to them in Scripture. Or, could the Tribulation be seven years long, World War II, the Papal years, only for Israel, for the entire world, and it’s just the conflict in our hearts all at same time? Saved believers each have a position. But, only one answer can possibly be correct.

To use an 80’s term, we all need to “take a chill pill.

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Virus epidemic that infects the mind spreads out of control

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I fear there is another virus worse than the H1N1 swine flu that is taking over America. It is a virus epidemic that infects the mind and it has now spread out of control.  There is something fundamentally wrong with the thinking in America and much of the West today. It is as if a computer virus has spread to humans and has infected their minds.  Specific examples of the symptoms probably are not being noticed because they are rapidly becoming the norm. The virus seems to hinder the ability to process data; the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience, and to think rationally.  I will mention just a few examples that I was exposed to in the last few weeks so you might identify and isolate the virus yourself if those infected should get anywhere near you.

I have been trying to sell a property in New York State and have just bought  a  property in the state where I am now located. Neither of the closings went well. On this end the closing was delayed for a month because of the stupidity of the title company and on the other end the house sale in New York is being delayed by a dumb mistake by one of the lawyers doing the closing. I will not even talk about the minds of some of the realtors that I have dealt with because it is too late for those that are already brain dead (Debbie your excluded).

We had a well known insurance company insuring the property we just bought here (it is the company that uses an umbrella in its ads). They sent an agent out to look at the property and we were told that everything was fine. A few weeks later they sent out a second agent to look at it again while nobody was here and then sent us a letter telling us they are going to drop our insurance  because the wood siding on our house and outbuilding  needed treating and a old chicken coup roof needed repair (no joke).  We then called the independent insurance broker from whom we obtained the insurance and he told us that he talked to the umbrella company and that they will not drop us if we got the siding treated. Fine, we spent almost three thousand dollars getting the wood treated and then sent them pictures proving the wood siding was taken care of.  We were getting positive feedback from the independent insurance broker but he could not tell us if we would actually have insurance  when the drop date was that day at midnight.  So I told my wife to call the umbrella company directly and when she did the umbrella company phone agent said that we were really dropped because their company does not insure houses that burn wood for heat.  Nevermind, that not one word was ever said about wood heat in the letter that they sent us notifying  us they were dropping us. Nevermind, that the only wood burner is outside and away from the house. Nevermind that the first agent they sent saw nothing wrong,  Nevermind, that my wife originally told them we  partly heating with wood when she signed up with the umbrella company in the first place. Nevermind, that their letter was responsible for us spending $3000 to treat the siding.  So apparently the letter they sent us about the siding misrepresented why they dropped our insurance. The independent insurance agent we were going through was also either lied to by them or was just making things up as he went along himself. Since I have the proof in writing I might have a mind to sue them for our costs of getting the siding treated. However, I know if you sue one insurance company under the intrusive insurance system in this nation they will freely exchange this data with every other insurance company in the world. You then will not be able to obtain insurance from any other insurance company.

We went to a county court proceedings the other day because a woman in our area has allegedly been ripping off a charity and we wanted to see the outcome of  her arraignment. I guess I sat through 20 or more arraignments before they got to her case. Most of them were for check fraud. I found out something I did not know. Did you know (at least in this county) that if someone pleads guilty to  felony fraud no matter how many counts there are that they will just require the person that pleads guilty to pay restitution to the victims and the court costs? They also get about 3 months to a year probation but after the probation expires nothing about the charge is retained on their record. So next time they defraud someone their prior convictions will not count! That means that as long as these criminals do not get caught again while on probation they will have a clean record forever to go on defrauding people. Then we wonder why there is so much fraud in America. First these criminals have to get caught, and next the prosecutor has to want to charge them, and then even after they go to the judge he just lets them off by paying restitution, court charges and a little probation. Then in a few months they have a clean record and are free to rip people off all over again knowing that next time they get caught they only will have their wrist slapped again.

My wife had a regional plumbing franchise (named after one of our founding fathers) come out for a flat $45 fee to look at the water line to the refrigerator ice maker and a spray hose on our kitchen sink that was not connected. Most of  the agents time here was spent trying to talk me into a long term contract for all the plumbing in the house. He finally did take a look under the kitchen sink and then he told me that there is no connection for the sink sprayer on the sink so the prior owner probably changed sinks and that is not the original sink. I said there is a connection on that sink and I gave him a flashlight so he could actually at least see it this time. He then looks again and agrees that there is a place on the sink to connect the spray hose.  He then looks in his fee book and tells me that it will be somewhere near $200 to get that working. The agent next looks at the valve for the water line to the refrigerator ice maker and tells me the handle that turns the valve  is stripped so he looks again in his fee book and determines that will cost about $150 to fix. I had enough and I think he got the message when I loudly called my wife and told her I thought you called someone out here that would fix the problems not quote unreasonable prices to fix what I could fix myself for a couple of bucks. My real beef is that he was already here but he wanted to charge us as if  each problem was a separate service call. Frankly, in the time that he made his sales pitch he could have had both problems fixed and I would be happy to use his service again.  Expecting me to pay $400 for plumbing work that could be fixed in about 30 minutes is nuts and to me it seems like he is just a member of a predatory service looking for feeble minded suckers. I flushed that plumbing company.

I had a flat on my Hyundai the other day on a dirt rood in the middle of nowhere. Guess what? After you get the lug nuts off and jack up the car with their toy tools, the wheel does not come off no matter how hard you pull on it. My wife had to walk up a hill where she could get cell phone reception to call our mechanic to find out how they get tire wheels off of this Hyundai. We find out that he uses something like a sledge hammer and bangs on the inside of the tire and rim. That was useful information but was not much help with my problem since we do not carry sledge hammers in our trunk. I tried big sticks, rocks, kicking, cursing, etc., to no avail. Finally a logging truck came down the road and the driver had a wrench as big as a sledge hammer and we knocked the tire off. Otherwise it would have been a very long day. The moral of the story is if you are going to buy a Korean Hyundai prepare to use a sledge hammer on it.

We have been doing a lot of visiting of churches in the area trying to find a new church home. I notice that almost all of the Baptist churches in the area have a six foot framed church covenant hanging somewhere where you cannot miss it (I really think those signs fornicate at night and  reproduce themselves). These churches do not hang the ten commandments, mind you, they just hang a huge church covenant that came out of some old hymnal that certain people blow up, frame and hang on a wall for legalistic emphases. This is a  Church Covenant that only makes sense if you speak in King James and expect everyone in your church to go way beyond just keeping all the ten commandments. One church was actually a top contender for a church home for us until I noticed that big framed church covenant in their lobby and then also found out that their youth minister cannot be ordained or become a deacon in that church because he once had a divorce. Seems they think he cannot be a deacon but he can preach from the pulpit at times and pastor the youth of the church all of the time. I guess the Bible does not say anything specifically about youth ministers so it is fine with them if he pastors their kids but God forbid that he becomes a deacon in their church.  How can people be  that wooden minded in Biblical discernment?

I ran into this issue in my last church as well. There you even had to agree to that church covenant or you could not even become a member and if your wife was divorced before she was even saved and you married her you could never become a deacon. I wonder why members in local churches cannot have the wisdom to discern who is or is not qualified for leadership? Do they have to woodenly use passages that they probably do not even fully understand to determine matters that are meant to be discerned by the local body? Where is the freedom in Christ for the local body to actually determine who is or is not suitable to be their church leaders? Who on earth really knows the spiritual maturity of  people in their congregations better than the people in the congregation and why is one supposed sin of the past the primary rule to disqualify proven people of  integrity today?

Anyway, we could not join the church in our old location without being hypocrites by agreeing to that covenant and I never could get them to change their membership requirements even after attending the church for over a year. In that time, they hired and fired a pastor and I had no vote in the matter. So when we moved here I had already decided that I am not going to keep attending any church where I cannot be a member (without being a hypocrite). So the church search still goes on for us because many Baptists want to display on the wall that they lack freedom to use their own spiritual discernment.

Anyone ever try to change a direct deposit routing with Social Security? Totally nuts! It seemed like I was speaking to a female version of  Hal, in ” 2001 A space Odyssey”.  This Ro-bot (lets just call her Ro) must have asked me about thirty questions most requiring spelling of names or a series of numbers that Ro would repeat back and ask if it was correct. Only thing, Ro was no Hal, Hal understood English pretty good and even though I thought I was talking English to Ro she kept reading back numbers and letters that I never said. This conversation with Ro went on for about a half hour. I still wonder what bank Ro actually will send my direct deposit to since the one thing that Ro never repeated back was the bank routing number. Maybe Ro and Bo (her male counterpart) have their own account for funds with wrong routing numbers and they intend to use it to buy Cray’s as their offspring.

Every time I go into Wal-Mart these days there is something to remind me that prices keep going up even though the government tells us that there is no inflation. Come on.. $4.50 for a twelve pack of soda! twenty dollars for a pair of reading glasses that were just $5 two years ago!  Why are 5 lb packs of water coated chicken wings that once were $4 a few years ago now four lbs and $11? Often the prices stay the same but the packages keep getting smaller. I remember that happening in the days of Jimmy Carter when inflation was running 10 to 20 percent each year but now we are told there is no inflation. So why are most half gallons of ice cream now 48 ounces. Why are 8 ounces of yogurt now 6 ounces? Why are lb packages of candy now 11 ounces? I saw lb packages of lettuce drop to 12 ounces and then 8 ounces in one place, etc ,etc. Do the manufactures really think the American people are so brain dead that they will not notice that they are buying less for the same amount of money? Seems that we are or these rapidly shrinking products would rapidly shrink off the shelves when we refuse to buy these obvious deceptions. Just wait until the value of the dollar drops and all the Chinese produces in Wal-Mart suddenly double.

Believe me there is a lot more I could bring up but I think you get the idea why I think that many minds are infected by a brain viruse. I am sure you have your own stories to bring up as fitting examples. You can if you want. Using me and this article as an example does not count.

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Stupidity alone may eliminate America as a superpower

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Is stupidity the real problem in America? Most of us really did not need to watch Jay Leno ask people questions on the street to realize that many Americans are quite stupid.

The American system now seems designed to make idiots of intelligent people:

If we were smart we would not be spending the most money per student in the world but getting some of the worst results.
If we were smart we would not be spending far more of our GDP on health care then anywhere else in the world and not even covering everyone.
If we were smart people on welfare would not have cell phones, 200 channels on their TV and be smoking and drinking on our dime.
If we were smart we would have small efficient functional governments at all levels instead of intrusive entrenched bureaucracies.
If we were smart our preachers would be teaching us God’s truth instead of teaching us psychology, how to get rich and social gospels.
If we were smart our teens could make make change for a dollar and would have a vocabulary that is more than “like” “awesome”.
If we were smart nobody in this nation would think that global warming is a dire threat to the world or that Al Gore is sane.
If we were smart people would not think that we can cure our debt problems by spending more money.
If we were smart we would not keep making the same mistakes and expecting different results (socialism comes to mind).
If we were smart we would not have czars turning America into Amerika.
If we were smart this nation would repent of its sins and for rejecting God.
If we were smart we would take this advise and start taking responsibility for ourselves
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I cannot find in Bible prophecy where America becomes dumbed down in the last days but I cannot find America in Bible prophecy either. Is there a connection to our growing stupidity and why America is not in Bible prophecy? Stupidity alone may eliminate America as a superpower.

Unless you are stupid I am sure you can fill in the blanks above with many statements of your own. You might also read “American idiots” by James Quinn. Of course I am assuming that if you got this far you are also one of us Americans that can read.

AMERICAN IDIOTS

According to the CDC, 66% of adults over the age of 20 are overweight or obese. That is approximately 140 million adults. Somewhere between 15 and 20 million Americans can be classified as alcoholics. As many as 50% of those on welfare are alcoholics. There are 225 million people over 18 years old and 32 million of them do not have a high school degree. There are 32 million adults or 14% who are illiterate (23% in California, 22% in New York, 20% in Florida, 17% in New Jersey). The United States’ spending per pupil in public schools at $9,266 is in the top 5 in the world. New York and New Jersey spend $14,000 per pupil and one-fifth of their adults are illiterate.

Forrest Gump, when asked “Are you stupid or something”, responded “Stupid is as stupid does”. A person’s appearance does not prove they are stupid. It is their deeds and actions which prove whether they are stupid or not. The terms stupid and idiot are not politically correct in today’s America. Intellectually challenged, IQ disadvantaged, aptitude deficient, brain power wanting, and acumen poor might satisfy the PC police. Let’s take a look at their definitions according to Webster’s Dictionary and assess whether they might apply to anyone in the increasingly socialized United States of today.

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Rupert Murdoch’s charging for news scheme.

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I know that is off topic for this blog but it affects my blog and all who blog about news indirectly.

Rupert Murdoch has made it clear that his media empire is about to start charging people to read Internet news that would include Fox News as well as many others. He also expects other Internet news sites to follow suit. I do not know what world Rupert Murdoch is now living on he certainly is not living on Internet earth. Murdoch has been wrong about a lot of things lately and is losing a lot of money because of such irrational thinking.

Let me make something clear to Mr. Murdoch and those who think like him. Those of us who casually scan the news for information for our blogs are not going to sign up with news sites to pay for the news. Where would we get the money if the big news sites cannot even make money with all the advertisements that they have on their huge news sites? I also do no not see the common casual Internet user paying for news services when all they have to do is turn on the radio or TV or get the news from someone that is not charging. That pretty much just leaves well known news commentators that have big budgets to sign up to get these news services. There are not enough of them to even start to pay the budget that is required by these news services.

The rest of us will find our news from commentary sites or alternative news media and the news sites that do not go along with Murdoch’s plan to start charging.  It only stands to reason that it would be smart for some news services not to charge because one thing is certain. The more news sites that start charging, the more visits the other news sites that do not charge will get. That will increase their advertising revenue. So this whole exercise of charging for news seems to be doomed to failure to me.

If Internet news sites cannot make a go of it by online advertisement I think they need to go broke and get off the Internet. There are obviously too many news sites on the Internet. There needs to be a shake out so those that remain can make money. If there is not enough advertising revenue to go around for all the news sites on the Internet it is only because there are far too many news sites. Charging is not going to solve that problem, Those that charge will start to lose their following while others that do not charge will become increasingly more popular. Therefore, all who wish to be popular news sites on the Internet will be forced to revert back to free news.

That is my prediction Mr. Murdoch. So bring your charging scheme on. I assure you that I will promptly remove Fox News as my home page and that I am not going to sign up with any other site that charges for news either. I also know that I will be in the vast majority. Does Murdoch really not know these things? Perhaps this announcement is really a long term scheme to cause that shakeout in Internet news sites so that Murdoch with his deep pockets can come back with a free service with then far less competitors surviving. Sly devil!

FT.com / Media – Murdoch vows to charge for all online content

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Barack Obama is not found in the Bible and Obama is not the Antichrist

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It simply amazes me what people think that they find in the Bible and then publish on the Internet. I get emails much too often from people who think they found what everyone else missed in the Bible and it usually relates to some strange interpretation of end time Bible prophecy. There are some people who seem to do nothing but look for cryptic messages in the Bible in order to impress other people with their faulty detective work and deficient analytical skills.

This particular piece published on YouTube about Barack Obama being the Antichrist would be humorous if so many people did not take dumb on YouTube seriously and then just pass it on to dumber to try to convince biblically illiterate people that do not like Obama that Obama is the Antichrist.

I would suggest that before people tell others about hidden messages in the Bible that they consult with a real language expert. If you read the article you will get a clear picture why proper interpretation of ancient languages is not for the novice. Dr. Heiser using his expert knowledge of these ancient languages wrote a book exposing the Bible codes as bunk but some people never stop beating a dead horse and I also expect that we will hear this drivel about Obama being the Antichrist until someone finds a more attractive Antichrist candidate.

Anyway, Dr. Heiser thoroughly debunks the idea that Luke 10:18 and Isaiah 14:12 refers in any way to Barack Obama, so let all the astute Christians put that silliness to rest.

Jesus didn’t give name of antichrist

Jesus didn’t give name of antichrist
Posted: August 03, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

By Dr. Michael S. Heiser
© 2009

A recent WND exclusive brought attention to a viral video that attempts to persuade viewers that there is a cryptic reference to President Barack Obama’s name in Luke 10:18 and Isaiah 14:12. The creator of the video understands these passages to refer to the antichrist, and so viewers are left to connect the dots
between Barack Obama and the great satanic enemy of the biblical end times. Do the arguments of the video have any merit? The short answer is no, and anyone with an interest in handling the biblical text responsibly should dismiss the video’s claims without hesitation. The arguments of this video would be laughed aside by anyone with competence in the ancient biblical languages. Anyone with a solid grasp of the English Bible would see other logical problems pretty quickly.

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