📜 Noah’s Ark (Part 1) 📜
Young Earth Creationists (YECs), come in many flavors. Some insist the earth is only 6,000 years old. Others allow it could be as much as 10,000. Some believe there was a world wide flood. Some accept that maybe it was a massive regional flood. Some think dinosaurs never existed. Alternatively, some believe Noah had dinosaurs on the Ark. I’ll cover some of the various YEC convictions in future posts. This post is to specifically address the belief that there was a world wide flood, and Noah had dinosaurs and other now-extinct critters on the Ark. Having been raised in a YEC environment, I’m in the position of witnessing how the…
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Vance & Walz Battle it Out
The Trump team couldn’t wait to find dirt on Walz to dig up. The only thing they could find was… he left the military before his unit deployed? Republicans seem to be drawing much of their slanderous remarks from this PAID attack ad dated November 2, 2018. Who are Paul Herr and Thomas Behrends? Are they real people? If they are, did they say what they did because they received monetary compensation to do so? In contrast, many who served with Walz are making opposite statements in support of Walz’s actions, although there is conflicting information about how sure or not sure the unit was about whether they would be…
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Kamala and Netflix and Things
Nothing to see here – just the usual Trump and his supporters spreading false information without ever checking the facts. I want to point out I’m politically in the middle leaning right. That means I don’t automatically support Kamala. She’s done some things I find admirable, but in some things she’s further left than I’m comfortable with. Interestingly, some Democrats feel that she’s not liberal enough. Of course, those on the far right think she’s too liberal. How she would pan out as a President remains to be seen, assuming she’s elected. I’m for truth, and I want to combat the moronic memes and rumors flying around social media. Harris…
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📜The Story of Joseph, Mary and Jesus📜
Houston, We Have a Fashion
I’ve seen many documentaries about space missions, from old black & white ones to new ones, covering the very earliest missions, and on through to the present. I have found it very interesting to note the changing clothing styles of the scientists and engineers as the years have passed. In the late 50s to early 60s, all the scientists and engineers wore suits and ties, and were very neat and clean cut, reflecting most workplaces. Well, the men did. The women behind the scenes wore proper dresses. As time moved through the mid 60s into the late 60s, I’ve noticed more and more of them were slowly transitioning to colored…
Shrunken Heads for Inflated Egos
The 1500s was the Age of Exploration, as ships became faster and more efficient, if not necessarily safer. Adventure seekers traversed the world and brought home every kind of curiosity and artifact from distant lands. These oddities were in great demand by collectors, who clamored for the strange, bizarre and unusual, and Cabinets of Curiosity became a focal point in upper class homes. The Cabinet of Curiosity displayed everything from fossils to strange stuffed animals to tribal masks, and anything else to impress guests and spark debates about the nature of the offbeat items. The more absurd and gruesome, the better. Then in 1798, Napoleon conquered Egypt, and within a…
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My Science, My Religion
I never intended to write this post In my cloud drive, I have a folder full of subfolders and links and lots of notes for the science and history posts I plan to write. And I have reminders about personal experiences I’ll tell about. This post was never planned, but I’m getting so frustrated, I need to write it. I badly want to “be myself” in sciency discussions at Facebook and Quora, but I get attacked from two sides. If I agree with any science that science denying Christians (especially Young Earth Creationists), perceive as going against the Bible, they say I can’t possibly be a Christian. If I state…
Project 2025
I’m seeing a lot of alarmist posts on Facebook about something called Project 2025. If Trump gets elected (again), Project 2025 will go into effect and all this horrible stuff is going to happen. People who are scared don’t understand about Lobbyist Groups and how things work in Washington. Project 2025 is a proposal by the Heritage Foundation. A proposal is something that a lobbyist group presents to Congress saying, this is something we would like to see happen. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of lobbyist groups presenting hundreds of proposals all the time. 99.999% of proposals fail. Congress looks, says nah, and goes on to the next proposal. On…
Political School Daze
Here we go again with the Bible in schools fight; it’s been happening with great regularity ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the 1920s. Currently, Louisiana is requiring that the 10 Commandments must be displayed in public schools, and Oklahoma says that schools must teach the Bible in the classroom. No doubt that’s only the beginning, and more states will come up with their own new laws. I have no objection to these things if parents want it in their own school district, but states have no business making laws, and if parents don’t want it, then don’t do it. If residents of California can vote on how much…
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Movin’ on Down… Under, That Is.
Francis Howard Greenway was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1777. You probably never heard of him. He grew up and became a successful and talented architect until 1809, when unfortunate circumstances led to his bankruptcy. Undeterred, he tried to recover his fortune by counterfeiting financial documents. Accomplished architect he may have been, but he was not so proficient at forgery, and got caught. In those days, Britain gave many criminals a choice: be hanged or imprisoned at home, or be transported to a penal colony in Australia. Greenway chose transport. After settling in the new colony of Sydney, he sent for his wife and children. Prisoners were all assigned jobs…
A Sucker Born Every Minute
I wasn’t sure how to start this post, so I think I’ll just start with the backstory. It was the early 90s and I was homeless for the umpteenth time. My mother wanted me to come here, but Charles wouldn’t let me. He had made no secret since I was a child that he “hated my guts” (his words). I wasn’t his biological daughter and he made sure I didn’t forget that. Then someone gave my mother an old travel trailer. It was about 60 or 70 years old and had seen better days. It was parked way in the back, near the barnyard. My mother talked Charles into letting…
The Joro Spider
Yet another case of people sharing alarmist memes without checking the facts. Even some of the news media are spinning the misinformation. The Joro Spider (Trichonephila clavata), is related to golden orb garden spiders, which many people are familiar with. The Joro is found in many areas in Asia, but since about 2013 or 2014, it’s been spreading throughout parts of southern and eastern United States. Scientists think they arrived as stowaways on cargo ships. Female have blue and yellow banded legs and back, and asymmetrical red, yellow, and black markings on their abdomen. Males are plain brown. Like many other spiders, baby Joros will spin a parachute-like web to…
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Avoid Scams on Facebook!
(IMAGE HEAVY POST) So many scams on Facebook. So many people miss the warning signs and fall for them! They’re easy to spot if you learn what to look for. The scammers use fake profiles. The groups they join are public so the post can be shared by the uninitiated. What do they get out of it? In the case of a lost pet, kind hearted people will message them, offering to send them money to help care for the pet that they don’t have possession of anyhow. They post random tear-jerking pictures they find on the internet, designed to get a response. It’s not always injured pets they found.…
A Rustling of Thoughts
