I'm doing most of that. I want to get a degoogled phone because, if you have an android or iphone, there is only so much you can do. I haven't gotten around to getting the degoogled phone due to cost and the effort required to learn it and set it up to work for me, but hopefully soon.

I hope you are right. I do think the America will get CBDCs. I think there will be major pushback initially, but the government will start paying out only in CBDCs (social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment, housing subsidies, etc.). People will do whatever is required to get their "free" money. That still won't get enough people into CBDCs, so the government will then give out some free money, either something similar to the covid subsidies or a full blown UBI (Universal Basic Income). Almost everyone will line up for their "free" money. Once everyone is using it, it won't be that hard to phase out USD, first with banning cash (to stop criminals) and then banning USD entirely. That is how I see it playing out.

One-size-fits-all solutions never work. People, their cares, and their environment are different and require different solutions or a different mix of solutions.

In the case of energy, some places are band work well for solar. Some places are windy and work well for windmills. Some places have some of each and it is helpful to have some of each because it tends to be windier at night and in the winter when there is less sun for solar and there is more sunlight in the summer and daytime which works better with solar. Neither works very well if you don't have batteries to store energy produced when it is abundant to use when none is being produced.

It doesn't matter the subject. People in rural areas have different needs than city people. People in one country have different needs than people in another. People in the mountains have different needs than people in the lowlands & plains. The free market allows people to use the solution that works best for them.

Why does anyone vote for these brain dead octogenarians? Even if you agreed with them when they were younger (I obviously do not), they are incompetent at this point (and corrupt to boot).

I was listening to a podcast that was talking about needs and wants and how many millennials think a lot of things are needs that aren't. That made me think that so many people think cell phones are needs when they aren't. Then I thought that since the government has mandated 2 factor authentication for things, a cell phone has almost become mandatory.

Being a pessimist and someone who doesn't trust government, it made me think "did the government mandate 2FA so everyone had to own their own cell phone which would then enable the government to track everyone?"

It kind of makes you go "hmmm".

#grownostr #trustbutverify #government #privacy #lies

as we are seeing in the world today.

Missed this one:

Christopher Rupe & John Sanford's "Contested Bone" about how supposed missing links are anything but.

Books I have read recently or am reading now:

John Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion"

John D. Morris's "The Global Flood"

"Newton’s Revised History of Ancient Kingdoms" (Cook book written by Isaac Newton, but edited into English and current dating that shows errors in what we are taught about ancient history and how it matches the Bible)

Terry Mortenson's "Coming to Grips with Genesis"

John C Sanford's "Genetic Entropy" (shows how genetic mutation say man can't be much over 6000 years old because the genetic mutations would kill us off)

Danny Faulkner's "The Expanse of Heaven" (shows how Bible and Astronomy match and what the Bible says about Astronomy)

Andrew Snelling's "Earth's Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation, & the Flood"

Tim Clarey's "Carved in Stone: Geological Evidence of the Worldwide Flood" (goes through geological core data to show layers across the globe and what they mean and how they are prove of progressive flooding of the whole Earth and not long ages)

Jake Hebert's "The Ice Age and Climate Change" (about how evidence supports one ice age caused by the global flood of the Bible)

Vernon Cupp's "Rethinking Radiometric Dating" (explains how radiometric dating really works and why it can't tell real dates. How what we know supports the Bible's time frame.)

"The Great Controversy" (forget who wrote it and don't agree with everything, but is an interesting view of Christianity, the Catholic Church, and spiritual warfare. It is an interesting read)

Henry M. Morris's "The Remarkable Journey of Jonah"

George Koukl's "Tactics" (about how to discuss your Christian convictions" (want to read again)

Tim Lahaye & Ed Hindson's "Exploring bible Prophecy from Genesis to Revelation"

Weston Field's "Unformed & Unfilled" (A little dry, but good info)

J.I. Packer's "Knowing God"

Tom Doyle's "Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe" (Goes into stories of multiple people, mostly in the Middle East, many of whom were martyred and how God lead them, sometimes miraculously)

J. Warner Wallace's "God's Crime Scene: A cold-case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe" Proves the existence of God without using the Bible but using what happened in History and was said by others about Him.)

I would recommend all of these books.

100%

I used to read through the Bible completely and then reread the New Testament and repeat because I thought the old testament wasn't as important, but the truth is, until you fully understand the first few chapters in Genesis, you can't fully understand the rest of the Bible. Whole foundation is in Genesis.

Being a Christian and an Engineer (and science geek), my passion has become using science to defend the Bible and how Genesis (especially the first 11 chapters, but the first 3 most of all) is the foundation on which our whole understanding of the Bible rests. So many Christians sacrifice the truth and/or clarity of Genesis and then can't stand firm on the rest of the Bible because they destroyed the foundation. Yes, Genesis is literal and true.

I was just reading this verse:

Psalms 40:5 (NKJV)

Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.

We cannot recount His thoughts in order because he is outside time and space, so His thoughts have no order.

Most (all??) people have way too small a view of God, the creator.

It is open in France, but what do you want to bet the US already does this at least some?

It would be nice to have more control of the feed than just follow or global.

It would be nice to rate npubs by priority so we don't miss anything from the npubs we care the most about and to rate others low because they overpost.

It would be nice to be able to switch between my ratings of who is best to follow, who is most popular (followed most) of global or the people I follow, and to be able to see the most liked or commented on posts from the people I follow.

I read an article a bit ago that talked about mercury in the body. There are ethyl and methyl mercury (I forget which is which). One is in fish and the other is in thimerosal which is in vaccines. The "experts" claim the form in fish is dangerous and stays in your blood, but the form in thimerosal is "safe" and leaves you blood. One person decided to find out where the "safe" mercury goes when it leaves your blood. He tested the sweat, pee, poop, and hair of people who had been vaccinated with a thimerosal vaccine. There was none, so where was the mercury going when it left the blood. During the study, one person died of natural causes, so they were able to do an autopsy. They found all of the mercury in the brain. That says to me that the kind of mercury in vaccines is the most dangerous form of mercury because mercury is a known neurotoxin.

I wish I remembered exactly where I read the information, but I can't remember.

I've taken God's creation account to mean that God is outside of time and space (or at least not limited by either). I was reading this verse which strongly suggests that God acts outside of time.

Psalm 40:5

Many, O LORD my God are Your wonderful works which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

God's thoughts cannot be recounted in order because they are not limited by time and therefore don't have an order. I thought that was pretty cool.

#bible #christian #verses #biblestr #godsword #awesomegod

I'm seeing notes from people (or at least one that is filling up my feed) that I never followed.

I'm sorry you think it is bad for the brand. I believe in the truth even if it is unpopular. I don't believe something because "experts" or "authorities" tell me it is true. I believe things when I analyze the facts and I go where they lead. The evidence does not support evolution or the big bang theory. Both theories keep being revised because they fail to explain the evidence. People believe them for 3 reasons. They don't want a god to exist because they would need to obey him; they blindly follow the crowd and don't analyze the evidence openly; or they follow the crowd because that's what they have to do to be successful. "Science" still destroys those who don't follow the accepted "science". It doesn't matter if it is

Evolution, the Big Bang, Covid-19, vaccines, etc. If you want to make a living in "science" you don't disturb the accepted narrative. Too many people have made their careers on that narrative and would look bad if it was found to be wrong.

I'm sorry you won't even look at the evidence. I won't bother you any more.

Rocks don't say how old they are. You have to use assumptions to figure out the likelihood of their age. There are 2 primary ways that ages are determined.

The first is circular reasoning that the rocks are millions of years old because of the fossils that are in them and the fossils are millions of years old because of the rocks they are in. They need to have millions of years for evolution to even be plausible to the uninformed. The reality is there is zero evidence that any new kind of animal/plant ever turned into another. There is only evidence of small changes within kinds. No matter how hard people have tried, there is no means of creating the first life naturally.

The 2nd way or supposedly saying the rocks are millions of years old is radio isotope dating. Radio isotope dating is based on several assumptions. It assumes the starting conditions (how do we know the starting conditions when we don't even know how old the rocks are), that no parent or daughter isotopes ever left the rock (water gets into everything and most isotopes are water soluble so this is so unlikely as to be basically impossible), and that the decay rate is always the same. (This is the most likely to be right but there are radio halos in rocks that strongly suggest that decay rates were much higher in the past). When we do radio isotope dating on rocks of known ages, they always (or almost always, I don't know every example) give a much older date than the known date. Some examples include Mt. Etna Basalt was 29 years old but tested to be .35 million years old. Kilauea basalt that was < 200 years old was calculated to be 21 million years old. Mt Stomboli that was 38 years old was calculated to be 2.4 million years old.

The age of homo sapiens is equally poorly proven.

As an aside there are over a 100 dinosaur fossils with soft tissues in them. You can see and test the blood cells and blood vessels and the osteoblasts. The tissue is still flexible and stretchable. It was only recently that anyone looked because everyone assumed dinosaurs died out millions of years ago. Physics proves that there should be zero organic tissue left in even the most ideal conditions, but they are there. This strongly suggests that the dinosaurs were around much more recently. Mary Schweitzer in Montana was the first to find the soft tissue in a T-Rex bone, but many more have been found.

The evidence doesn't match the claims that man has been around for 100,000 of years or that the rocks or dinosaurs are millions of years old. Saying it is fact or saying "the experts say" doesn't change the actual facts.

You have just made personal attacks and not actually refuted the facts that there are drawings of sauropods made before dinosaurs were discovered. I know of no way this can be true other than people saw sauropods. This is just one of many examples of artwork showing dinosaurs that we now know existed. There are many more. It also makes sense that the dinosaur "legends" from almost every culture on every continent ,except Antarctica, are based on people actually seeing dinosaurs.

I'd say having a similar world view helps a lot. That doesn't mean you have to agree on everything. I would agree with StellaInForest that having someone devoted to you and your relationship is probably more important, but having a similar worldview, interests, and tastes sure helps make things go smoother because there are fewer things you have to compromise on. Generally with compromise, neither party is fully content with the result.

You do need to know what principles are truly important to you. Those are more important to have in common than general preferences or interests.

That sounds nice, but I won't download anything google onto any of my electronics.