I looked for your email, but couldn't find it. I am trying to get my blog out there and would appreciate it if you would review it and if you think it warrants merit, please send it on to all those you know. http://revealedcoverups.blogspot.com/
Looks like you have a lot of interesting conspiracy videos there.
I think faith is important. I also tend to think that there are possibly a lot of conspiracies, but of course a good one is often not found out. This makes many of them possibly not true. Also, there are probably hundreds of conspiracy like actions for every rich person. If you think about it, every time you help a friend, you're helping someone out who you know, like and is in your inner circle. So in a sense for every rich person, scheme to save money on taxes or effort to advance politically, we could say there is a conspiracy.
I'd say there are probably hundreds of thousands of conspiracies, and good theories and books to waste a lot of time on. The overall effect on focusing on to many of them however is to either seem like we are gullible to any fable or just stress folks out to the point where they won't know what to do and just sit back and throw up their hands.
As far as the end times. Well there's a lot of this stuff out there, and it's the nature of the church and new Christians and new Christian movements to look for the return of Christ, which is what Maranatha means. Every revival since the early church has a spirit of looking for the return of Christ, so in a sense this is normal in a Christian life to look for the return of Jesus.
For every Christian argument or thought about the soon return of Christ there is a counter argument. Often pre and post tribulationists will debate on the merits or negatives of the others view. Those who think He is coming soon, and believe in a rapture (and I've preached this at times myself), think that Jesus will come and rescue us from the tribulation. The opponents of this view say it's escapism and just an effort to cop out and not work for justice. Those who believe in post-tribulation, that is the church going through much or more of the "7 year period" which is a Protestant invention of the late 1800's. Those who feel that the church will go through Great Tribulation, are thought of as to negative by those who think there's a rescue about to happen any time.
It's interesting to look at the perspective of history as well. In WWII half the people thought Hitler was THE ANTICHRIST, the other half Mussilini, at least in the USA. In the 1950s many Christians in China thought the rapture would save them from the Communists, but Jesus didn't return. This of course is also predicted, that we won't know when He returns. As I grow older, I think the more important question is when God returns for me personally, in other words, if Jesus doens't come back, well eventually we all die anyway. So maybe it's because I'm older, I like to emphasize a little more about life after death than "the rapture is upon us". There's also great fodder by sceptics on the "rapture" when fringe groups, decide to run for the hills and wait for the return of Christ.
The Catholic church was kind of burned in 1000AD when Jesus didn't return. Many thought he would at that date, and repented and got right and did charity just before the 1000AD mark, hoping the extra good works would help them find favor in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Anyway, I liked looking at your site none the less, but don't have the time to check out all those videos.
I also think it's a little bit crazy to think that we can get rid of the Fed and the federal government basically by getting rid of taxes. When you really think about it, an awful lot of stuff has been done, both good and bad with the economic system and taxes. I know there's a great desire to get away from taxes and go it alone, but in a competitive world with competition between nations, we have to have advances and things like "reading" and "education". Roads and armies to keep our society from being over-run by other competing nations. Unfortunately we get out of hand with all the control and over-zeolous expansion perhaps.
We aren't going to be going back to the old early ways any time soon. In the old days, taxes were collected on goods and import tarrifs defined our country. This was our old definition of a nation. Things have certainly become more complicated and in some ways corrupt with the current system. We have no real borders for those who import cheap goods from slave countries. We have no self control as consumers for the most part. We don't care about the conditions of the worker or wages of our fellow citizens when buying at the stores. Importers, store buyers, and government officials allow this to happen. They allow the offshoring of work and the macro-economic paradise/or/horror we see today.
The various systems are so huge they are often thought of as to big to fail, even as they fail or struggle.
I don't know if there's a really good answer, short of the return of a conquering Messiah. I don't think there's every a good solution that will make everyone happy. It's the three natures of the way the natural world works. Competition on a natural level, global and national credit, and peak fossil and resource limits. The desire to expand an empire, which all countries do. To compete with other companies and drive them into the ground, which all companies do. The desire to get an advantage for my business with politicians and buy them off, which many do. The need to fund a campaign and pay for commercials to build and image, which all politicians do. These provide a wide degree of corruption and decay in the various flawed systems we have.
My father used to say, Judgement day isn't going to be happening next Tuesday. In other words, don't get to upset about all the injustice around. It's just a part of the flawed world. Judgement day is coming. For each cult or philosophy it means something different and some of them are quite strange. But it's coming.
I guess the overall question when we get down to preaching is, does our faith take us beyond the grave? Does it offer hope and how does that impact the way we actually live?
Do we show mercy and truth in our collective church groups and lives and love God first. Those are the important issues. This is what a true Christian works toward in their obeying of Christ and hopefully seeing Him work out in their lives.
Added to blog for Astronomy
I'm a member of the FAAC Astronomy Club. We provide technical aid for the Hector J Robinson Observatory in Lincoln Park Michigan.
The original observatory was refurbished in 2009 thanks to the help of Dr. Timothy Dey who had a vision to reopen and fix up the observatory and Leo McMaster who is a middle school teacher at the middle school. We have new equipment installed at the observatory thanks to a grant from Toshiba and more info can be found here an on other sites on the net.
STUDYING DECAY PROFILE I'm just a guy with a little digital camera. Taking a few quick photos once in a while. I work in Detroit, live near Detroit. Detroit area, easy to slam I suppose. I'm focusing on decay, but not trying to make this a Detroit is all bad blog. However there's a heck of a lot that is messed up in Detroit. So most like to get out and never look back. Those who stay or try to help, are faced with huge and often overwhelming problems. Massive growth and now massive decline followed with a lot of crime and poverty.
Other side of this building. Post office near here.
I looked for your email, but couldn't find it. I am trying to get my blog out there and would appreciate it if you would review it and if you think it warrants merit, please send it on to all those you know. http://revealedcoverups.blogspot.com/
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Sorry about that. I've added an email address hopefully this blog software will display it now if I've done everything correctly.
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Looks like you have a lot of interesting conspiracy videos there.
ReplyDeleteI think faith is important. I also tend to think that there are possibly a lot of conspiracies, but of course a good one is often not found out. This makes many of them possibly not true. Also, there are probably hundreds of conspiracy like actions for every rich person. If you think about it, every time you help a friend, you're helping someone out who you know, like and is in your inner circle. So in a sense for every rich person, scheme to save money on taxes or effort to advance politically, we could say there is a conspiracy.
I'd say there are probably hundreds of thousands of conspiracies, and good theories and books to waste a lot of time on. The overall effect on focusing on to many of them however is to either seem like we are gullible to any fable or just stress folks out to the point where they won't know what to do and just sit back and throw up their hands.
As far as the end times. Well there's a lot of this stuff out there, and it's the nature of the church and new Christians and new Christian movements to look for the return of Christ, which is what Maranatha means. Every revival since the early church has a spirit of looking for the return of Christ, so in a sense this is normal in a Christian life to look for the return of Jesus.
For every Christian argument or thought about the soon return of Christ there is a counter argument. Often pre and post tribulationists will debate on the merits or negatives of the others view. Those who think He is coming soon, and believe in a rapture (and I've preached this at times myself), think that Jesus will come and rescue us from the tribulation. The opponents of this view say it's escapism and just an effort to cop out and not work for justice. Those who believe in post-tribulation, that is the church going through much or more of the "7 year period" which is a Protestant invention of the late 1800's. Those who feel that the church will go through Great Tribulation, are thought of as to negative by those who think there's a rescue about to happen any time.
It's interesting to look at the perspective of history as well. In WWII half the people thought Hitler was THE ANTICHRIST, the other half Mussilini, at least in the USA. In the 1950s many Christians in China thought the rapture would save them from the Communists, but Jesus didn't return. This of course is also predicted, that we won't know when He returns. As I grow older, I think the more important question is when God returns for me personally, in other words, if Jesus doens't come back, well eventually we all die anyway. So maybe it's because I'm older, I like to emphasize a little more about life after death than "the rapture is upon us". There's also great fodder by sceptics on the "rapture" when fringe groups, decide to run for the hills and wait for the return of Christ.
The Catholic church was kind of burned in 1000AD when Jesus didn't return. Many thought he would at that date, and repented and got right and did charity just before the 1000AD mark, hoping the extra good works would help them find favor in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Anyway, I liked looking at your site none the less, but don't have the time to check out all those videos.
I also think it's a little bit crazy to think that we can get rid of the Fed and the federal government basically by getting rid of taxes. When you really think about it, an awful lot of stuff has been done, both good and bad with the economic system and taxes. I know there's a great desire to get away from taxes and go it alone, but in a competitive world with competition between nations, we have to have advances and things like "reading" and "education". Roads and armies to keep our society from being over-run by other competing nations. Unfortunately we get out of hand with all the control and over-zeolous expansion perhaps.
We aren't going to be going back to the old early ways any time soon. In the old days, taxes were collected on goods and import tarrifs defined our country. This was our old definition of a nation. Things have certainly become more complicated and in some ways corrupt with the current system. We have no real borders for those who import cheap goods from slave countries. We have no self control as consumers for the most part. We don't care about the conditions of the worker or wages of our fellow citizens when buying at the stores. Importers, store buyers, and government officials allow this to happen. They allow the offshoring of work and the macro-economic paradise/or/horror we see today.
The various systems are so huge they are often thought of as to big to fail, even as they fail or struggle.
I don't know if there's a really good answer, short of the return of a conquering Messiah. I don't think there's every a good solution that will make everyone happy. It's the three natures of the way the natural world works. Competition on a natural level, global and national credit, and peak fossil and resource limits. The desire to expand an empire, which all countries do. To compete with other companies and drive them into the ground, which all companies do. The desire to get an advantage for my business with politicians and buy them off, which many do. The need to fund a campaign and pay for commercials to build and image, which all politicians do. These provide a wide degree of corruption and decay in the various flawed systems we have.
My father used to say, Judgement day isn't going to be happening next Tuesday. In other words, don't get to upset about all the injustice around. It's just a part of the flawed world. Judgement day is coming. For each cult or philosophy it means something different and some of them are quite strange. But it's coming.
I guess the overall question when we get down to preaching is, does our faith take us beyond the grave? Does it offer hope and how does that impact the way we actually live?
Do we show mercy and truth in our collective church groups and lives and love God first. Those are the important issues. This is what a true Christian works toward in their obeying of Christ and hopefully seeing Him work out in their lives.