Why It's Tougher for Some to Focus on Christian Concerns Now Than in the 1st Century

I think it is because there are more distractions and competing agencies of socialization.Cellular telephones and television and automobiles formed a different culture where attention to one truth alone is not easy. The economic facts are more complicated too and isolate people socially within a mass culture even while conditioning them to things like Facebook, Twitter-headedness and so forth. Christians may work in liquor stores to support a family or encounter rock & roll ministers that don't have true faith yet want true middle class income. Popular video games like HALO are indirectly vicious anti-Christian propaganda and pro-evolutionary training tools. It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times.

How to Make Snow Ice Cream

Take a large bowl and pour in a little milk or half and half, some sugar, vanilla extract and add snow slowly stirring the mixture up until the ice cream is as you like it. 

I like to use about a half cup of milk and sugar, a couple of teaspoons of vanilla extract and lots of snow to get a half quart of fresh ice cream that should be consumed with the stirring spoon, yet its according to taste obviously. Some people get radical with the ingredients or add more.

Undercounting the Homeless in Dallas-Plano

A Dallas radio station reported today that last night their was a metro area-wide count of the homeless for government purposes and that the number was approx. 600 seriously underestimating the actual number of homeless people.

When I flew into DFW recently and travelled to Plano to begin living in a tent, I discovered that it is challenging to find a place to safely put up a tent. Plano is a community sprawling north extending the greater Dallas area with expensive cloned homes with mal-designed steep roofs designed better for snow country roofed with asphalt shingles rather than solar photon collecting tiles. Little space is allowed to remain for wildlife (actually about none) though nice bike paths and green spaces are planned to let the entire community be a sort of poverty free middle class slum without homeless people, cheap motels or anything that would upset the aloof milieu. Homeless people may still be away from urban centers and living more like coyotes at the edges of town where they may dash in to try to find work occasionally.

In my humble opinion the actual number of homeless people in the Dallas/Plano area is more like 2000. Counters of homeless people only find the ones that are easy to locate rather than those that have some sense and try to remain out of sight of the violent automobile driving goons that prey upon the homeless to alleviate their sense of inferiority.

In the environmmentally mal-adaptive suburban sprawl of cloned 400,000 dollar clone homes even their human servo-units have adopted the ethos of purging poverty and environment to the shadows, and purging any unregulated tree caused shadows.

ISIS Accellerates Purge of Christian in Middle East- Trash St. Elijah's Monastery

ISIS reportedly destroyed the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, or Kurdistan as the case or border may be, in Mosul. The structure was 1400 years old.


The monastery was previously destroyed by Tahmiz Nadir Shah of Persia in 1743. He also executed the monks living there at the time. ISIS at least destroyed an abandoned facility. Yet they apparently have no sense of aesthetic values, are inartistic and rudely annihilate ancient empty buildings that the economically excluded draw comfort from in reflecting upon the fact that the glitzy rich  buildings of now will also be dust someday along with the swells in them. Get a life ISIS-leave the world heritage sites alone.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-reportedly-destroys-1400-year-christian-monastery-iraq/story?id=36402008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dair_Mar_Elia

Federal Budget Deficit to Rise in 2016

For the first time since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the U.S. Federal budget deficit will rise relative to the economy. The deficit will reach nearly 3% of the nation's gross domestic product in 2016.

Increasing debts seem likely in the next decade as the economy and federal budget is rather ill-founded.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84539cf4-bed2-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf.html#axzz3xofgI9Ec 

The continuing very slow oil price per barrel -just 27$ today, will ease the transition to a sustainable economy with lower comparative entropy and more efficiency if intelligent political leadership has a will to do so perhaps renewing U.S. independence economically speaking and leading the way bite example.Full employment,guaranteed minimum income and housing that is realistic environmentally offer opportune goals for a better society.

Integration, Disintegration and Equilibrium

I watched a physics video primer on equilibrium the other day and it made me think about the way basic chemical and molecular forms change in the context of larger systems. Equilibrium is a more or less balanced state of multi-component systems including space as a component in distinction to being. Change of a balanced state of equilibrium involves disintegration of that state and integration to another.

The parameters of chemical equilibrium may be analogous to larger systems comprising the entire universe as well as to language and social concepts about the nature of change and condition of the economic infrastructure of any given system. Space-time change is itself an integration of the complete complex to construct compresence while disintegrating the past simultaneously. Change of space-time itself means disintegration as well as integration. Humans may try to form a changeless social milieu, such as existed in ancient Egypt, and conservation is not always bad-especially if in a lifeboat. Life is a process of change even while some spiritual things and forms remain the same.

There are open and closed systems with relative states of equilibrium. Space-time evolution or change of physical systems along a time axis, with time being a subjective measurement of the systemic change, involves the disintegration of an existing comparative equilibrium and the integration of new components or component relationships toward a new equilibrium.  That new equilibrium is a status quo that is changed or evolved with additional disintegration of existing forms and relationships  through integration of new components.

Obviously with integration being a change of disintegration of an existing equilibrium the effect upon terms of political correctness can integrate new ideas that potentially may disintegrate a status quo-not invariably and undesirable evolution, yet neither a necessarily positive change.

Besides the onerous recognition that sometimes needs to be given to warriors of political correctness, the evolution of ideas to philosophically adapt them to correctly appreciate the nature of physical systems is positive, especially as one recognizes the boundaries for validity of the idea lexicons of equilibrium, integrating and disintegrating concepts.

If the steady state field of material built upon field quanta is over-all in a state of equilibrium gradually transitioning to a lower state of energy, there is a possibility that the entire field is a spiritual creation of God phenomenally given fundamental field values and laws of order. Spirit precedes membranes or monads of one-dimension that arise as ordered field wave fragments.

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/equilibmenu.html

Phenomenality of Mind & Matter (poem)

Life pixels formed more

than shadowed wisps of memories

arranged freely like compositions

coalescent structures moving on

being themselves the content of time

within and without

disintegrations of sensibility

racing the content of change

toward present oblivion

where all things become the past

and pixels were attracted bits

spilled like Tom Bean's tomorrows

the A.I. existed in a space before

she evaporated through a loose expiration date

unencumbered without a predestined soul.

Would Cruz Renounce Goldman Sachs, Cuban & Canadian Citizenship if Elected

Senators Cruz and Rubio each might have Cuban citizenship as sons of Cuban migrants. Senator Cruz also has Canadian

citizenship having been born there. Yet it's his Goldman, Sachs 2012 campaign financing that has tossed a wrench into his Tea Party nationalism creds. 

Goldman Sachs has had very dubious global financial dealings since the 2008-2009 financial meltdown and is a partner in global financial crime in a manner of speaking. Senator Cruz might be bought and paid for by Butch party globalists and designed to seem American while appealing to illegal aliens in Texas who lower the prevailing wage level for poor, unemployed nationalists.   Labor shortages are requisite for average wages to go up and make physical labor as valuable as financial service workers employed by organized political criminals so far as undermining democracy goes.

The globalist Republican candidates are as bad as the Clintons at converting the U.S.A. into a pawn of planetary imperialists.

Works vs. Grace; Vaporous Ideas and Lives

A 20 year old chess Grandmaster died of a stroke recently. Life is like a vapor. It is interesting that God has an interest in the journeys of all those souls. On the abstract topic of judgment though, making judgments is the primary activity of thought.(is something light or dark, hot or cold, good or bad, right or wrong, green or red, fast or slow etc...) I think the problem arises in publishing what one thinks too much in addition to the obvious problem of judging what to think about. However everyone impacts the world; even Al Gore. This morning I flew over interstate 5 in the dark and saw miles of cars with lights creeping along putting out air pollution. I thought about how many people just run in that economic rat race without philosophical thought sufficient to be regarded as having awareness of being responsible for the consequences to the environment. They get up, waste time commuting to a job, get a paycheck, have a smoke and go home to do it again several days a week. Some do write Christian things though, or protect gun owning rights, or whatever. With all the crazy contemporary politics and immoral drift maybe dueling will be made legal again in order to keep the broadcast media from becoming more royal. I like what you wrote though. Yet the lost are the lost, that is sad yet predestined.



What about works vs grace? .I took some notes on Gershner's lectures on the Westminster standards-

good works are only such as God has commanded
a good work is a work that God has commanded
-no amount of zeal will make an act good unless God has commanded it, and done for that reason
works are evidences that one has been justified by faith
salvation by grace, not salvation by works

ability to do good works is not of themselves (the Christian)-it is wholly from the spirit of Christ
Philippians 2:11-12
justification and sanctification-similar yet dissimilar
yet hereupon they are not to grow negligent

effective calling-justification is monergistic regeneration-an activity of God

Justification and regeneration are truly monergistic-the work of God alone
sanctification is dualistic-the work of God and the saint, yet every inclination to good works is given by the Holy Spirit
On super-arrogation
They who in their obedience attain to the highest perfection in this life are very far from being able to do what God requires of them

some creeds point out positively what is believed and then point out errors

Roman catholic church believes in super-arrogation (doing more than is required)
the Bible denies that anyone is capable of attaining more than what God requires, or excess perfection-no one can do more than is required

riches are not the sin; trusting in riches is the problem
the young man who asked Jesus what he had to do to be perfect, and Jesus replied that he had to give away his riches to be perfect, is not an example of super-arrogation-the young fellow wasn't close to being perfect-his riches were just being exemplified as something that is a conflict of interest with salvation-the more you have the more you are tempted to think you earned it-rather than it being of providence.

Christianity does not require a vow of poverty
Some are eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake-they think they can do more as singles for serving God

poverty and celibacy do not mean that one is going beyond what is required; no one can go beyond what is required

God is pleased to accept and reward good works that are sincere -Jesus makes the works acceptable
Christ in his intercessory ministry makes the works acceptable unto God-Jesus cleanses the works of human imperfections

works done by unregenerate men are not pleasing to God, though the works may be necessary and in the teleological stream of providence

Unconverted persons may have the matter of virtue in them yet not the manner.
right motive
right goal-right standard
right end-right purpose (the love of God)
for an act to be moral it must be because God commands it
good works of the unregenerate are largely done to promote themselves-they do not intend to show the glory of God, but instead to promote themselves

Is Donald Trump The Candidate Most Like Ronald Reagan?

Many bureaucrat-corporate mole style Republicans obviously are opposed to the Trump candidacy because it might not simply foist more of the same old Republicrat politics that have made federal employment and large banks sinecures for the connected. While it is true that Iran just sportfully played catch and release with ten U.S.navy sailors perhaps wishing not to be contaminated with the gay marriage friendly fellows and that approach is what some of the left wanted, the U.S.A. is basically over-extended financially with too much debt, interest on the debt and policies that phase out the political philosophy of the founders with new age Islam, corporatism, globalism and basic amoral socialization. Trump appears more basic than that with American values and the courage to say what he thinks.

President Obama has given the rich and corporations more wealth and power than they could have thought possibly. Trump has a more moderate tax policy than Obama's complete leadership to make the Bush II deep tax cuts permanent. Democrats seem to just want what they want right now-instant gratification, and used the nuclear option to force through Obama care. That fundamental change that lets a simply one vote majority pass major legislation was the Democrat legacy that will change America's future substantially. It is ironic that Democrats build policies that result in movement toward tyranny, autocracy, corporatism or whatever. Aristotle thought democracy hasn't much wisdom-perhaps that is so.