F451–Watching the Grass Grow...

Fahrenheit 451 “Watch it grow, sir...” 

October 21, 20

Twitter, Facebook & media censorship were all foreshadowed in 1953's Fahrenheit 451.

PLEASE read Ray Bradbury’s 1953 book Fahrenheit 451, AND then watch the classic 1966 version by the same name. Chilling. 

Dialogue from F451:

The Captain : By the way, what does Montag do on his day off duty?

Guy Montag : Not much, sir, just mow the lawn.

The Captain : And what if the law forbids that?

Guy Montag : Just watch it grow, sir.

Why???? Because your liberal politicians, media & big tech said to...

——————————————————

The Captain  to Montag after conversion: “What did you hope to do by reading these books? Walk on water?”

(At the end of the novel Montag converts to the book people. His choice of book to become?

In the movie, his choice is Poe’s ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination.” In the Bradbury’s novel he becomes the ‘Book of Ecclesiastes.’)

2 Corinthians 4:7 — “we have this treasure in earthen vessels...”

😉

One day, sooner than most would think, speech, written word & thought will be censored more than it is now. Like many other nations before, Christianity will first be tolerated, then ignored, then mocked, then demonized, then persecuted.

You will be told what to think and how to live. You will be told to watch the grass grow, or else. Watching grass grow will be common, acceptable and people will compete over who does it best, how to do it & shaming if you don’t or not enough or good enough.

*Borat & Kimmel yucking it up prime time to the Nation over the Wuhan virus coming from Israel. 

*Judge Amy Coney Barrett being mocked because her faith and it’s writings & teachings, the life of Jesus, “lives loudly in you...”

You can try and hide. Try and assimilate, act & talk & look like the rest. Bow a knee. Mouth a slogan. Become a Drew Breeze.... Post a #hashtag. 

But if you’re conservative, a practicing Jew or Christian, you will be cancelled, doxed, outed, blackballed & then persecuted. It’s on right now, spreading, growing, devouring all in its path. Liberal Press & Media, Washington Swamp, UN and NON-religious big tech, they’re coming for you, hunting you down, tracking and turning on you as needed.

If you are not active in your faith, fighting for the faith, taking a stand for the faith — you will become one of the herd. You WILL.

We are sheep. You WILL follow someone & something. Will you follow Jesus the good shepherd, or another?

Be a sheep that feeds on God’s sweet Word in a safe & abundant pasture. 

Don’t be like the world’s blind & dumb sheep watching the grass grow, because the press or liberal politicians “family” tell you to on your “parlor walls”—the wall size TV & entertainment center predicted in 1953 to take over the home and influence every decision in our life.

Revelation 3:17

“Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

We should have already chosen, and lived our lives committed to becoming living books of Jesus. We should live in a way that others identify us with Christianity, and as reflections of the Living Word. 

Yes, we are to learn how to “walk on water” from reading the books, then become the books incarnate.

——————————————

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Monday the state could move to shut down religious institutions that do not agree to comply with restrictions on mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic...

The governor took action at the request of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who sought a shutdown of nine neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens with posted coronavirus test positivity rates higher than three percent for seven straight days...

“This cannot happen again. If you do not agree to enforce the rules, then we’ll close the institutions down. I am prepared to do that,” Cuomo said.

10/5/20

https://www.foxnews.com/us/cuomo-religious-institutions-coronavirus

Borat blames coronavirus on Israel: ‘It spread from the you-know-whos’

10/20/20

“Baron Cohen, appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” opened the show by spraying disinfectant across the set and saying that his country’s intelligence services “have make discovery this morning that there is a virus.

“It come from a place called Wuhan, which is in Israel. There is no surprise. They are spreading everything,” Baron Cohen said.

“It spread from the you-know-whos,” he added, simulating a big nose with his hand.

He administered a “normal Kazakh plague questionnaire” to Kimmel, which opened with the question, “In the last week have you been in the presence of more than 15 minutes of any Jews?”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/borat-blames-coronavirus-on-israel-it-spread-from-the-you-know-whos/

Understanding How Thinking Creates New Neural Pathways that Affect a Person

“UNDERSTANDING HOW THINKING CREATES NEW NEURAL PATHWAYS THAT AFFECT A PERSON”

(Romans 12:1-2) “…And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…”

Two thousand years may have passed since under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit Paul wrote the words, “think about such things,” but in the last two decades, researchers have discovered that what a person thinks about actually changes the structure of the brain (Buonomano & Merzenich, 1998; Pascual-Leone, et al., 1995; Kandel, 2000).

Hebb (1949/2002) has shown that neurons that fire together wire together (p. 63).

He says, “The general idea is an old one, that any two cells or systems of cells that are repeatedly active at the same time will tend to become ‘associated,’ so that activity in one facilitates activity in the “other” (pp. 69-70). Additionally, research has found that neural connections will only be formed as a result of focused attention (Recanzone, Schreiner, & Merzenich, 1993).”

When attention is focused on a particular thought or task, neurons in a specific pathway fire and connect to other neurons.

As the thought or task is repeated, the connection becomes stronger and the transmission becomes faster.

What began as a mere goat path of a connection soon becomes a neuronal superhighway (Merzenich, Tallal, Peterson, Miller, & Jenkins, 1999).”

In light of this research, the command in Philippians 4:8 to “think about such things” promises a renewing of the mind, not just at a spiritual level, not just at an emotional level but even to the very core of the physical structure of the brain.

No wonder the passage ends with a promise of “the overwhelming well-being that flows from God’s peace.”

WEAK HANDS AND FEEBLE KNEES 

2019

By Rich Giberti

A thought from my world today…In dealing w long term, chronic conditions I have looked at the scriptures so many ways for MY path

There is healing – gradual & by degree, & miraculous (of which I’ve experienced both).  There are also trials for testing & growth, and trials for correction. When physical/mental living is a struggle, the mind, and faith weaken and the “why” of the broken condition becomes uncertain, and therefore the path to “how” also is uncertain

As I was reading this A.M., this scripture from Hebrews 12:12 intrigued me
Is Paul speaking literally of strengthening, and rehabilitation of the body? Is it JUST a metaphor?

In my condition, as I’ve said I am familiar w the working and power of the Spirit in my past, and no stranger to miracles, and for this I prayed n prayed

But when no immediate answer is present, I’ve had periods of doubting, fear, and depression that left me stuck…

I’ve shied away from Paul’s third prayer of specific healing, and path of courageous acquiescence

And I’ve also looked at lessons to be learned, other ways God empowers to live and act besides in a whole and healed body

For now, the injuries in my neck n head are what they are…

My takeaway?

But there are LOTS of other areas that I CAN work on, rehab, strengthen, n in so doing improve everything else

And there are “friends”, those who stick closer than a brother, who never let go, that will put you on a stretcher and haul you to Jesus, or will wait with you as you wait for the Angel to come and stir the waters

You all have helped, and are helping to strengthen my hands that hung down inactive, and to brace up my knees to serve God and humanity in some capacity — thank you
Spurgeon (sermon #243–1859) speaks of this weakness and offers timeless insight:

“John Bunyan (in Pilgim’s Progress) represents Christian as coming to the foot of the hill Difficulty, and he says, “I looked then after Christian, to see him go up the hill, where I perceived he fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and knees, because of the steepness of the place.”

“Many such a place you and I have had to pass, brother Christians. Once we could run along the walls of salvation with triumphant faith; at other times we could walk even through the valley of the shadow of death with quiet confidence: but we have come to a place of trial and of extraordinary difficulty, where all speed failed us, and strength did not suffice.

Then always on our knees in agony of prayer, and always on our hands in simplicity of faith, we climbed our weary way, often fearing lest we should fall backward to out destruction, but crying out, “Lord, let my knee find a resting place, let my hand hold on some projecting crag of promise, that there I may get a fast hold, lest I totter and fall.

I can but ascend slowly.”

“My heart followeth hard after thee, my spirit crieth after thee; Lord, help me! help me to climb this way, for back I cannot go.”


Peace!

The Earth is Flat!!...? No it’s round. I'm sure. I think...

**Research & this Blog ongoing...

The Earth is Flat!!...? No it’s round.Where's my alchemist?

 February 13, 1633: Astronomer Galileo on trial for saying Earth revolved around the sun

April 12, 1633: Galileo is convicted of heresy On April 12, 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei.

Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-is-convicted-of-heresy

October 31, 1992: After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right It took the Catholic Church 350 years to admit they were wrong...

IF renewable energy / Green New Deal is bogus, how long will it take the world to admit it? 

Can it ever?

Why eco-leftists are suddenly turning on Michael Moore??
https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/why-eco-leftists-are-suddenly-turning-on-michael-moore/    

The Earth is Flat!!...? No it’s round.

February 13, 1633: Astronomer Galileo on trial for saying Earth revolved around the sun

April 12, 1633: Galileo is convicted of heresy

On April 12, 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-is-convicted-of-heresy

October 31, 1992: After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right

It took the Catholic Church 350 years to admit they were wrong,

IF renewable energy / Green New Deal is bogus, how long will it take the world to admit it?

Can it ever?

Why eco-leftists are suddenly turning on Michael Moore
https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/why-eco-leftists-are-suddenly-turning-on-michael-moore/

“The environmental movement has basically become a religion, or rather a kind of hybrid between religion and political ideology.”

Thilo Spahl: “You founded Greenpeace 40 years ago; today you fight Greenpeace. What went wrong in the meantime?”

Patrick Moore: “Much has gone wrong over the years. In summary: when Greenpeace started, it was not just about the environment, but also about the people. ‘Green’ stood for the environment and ‘Peace’ for ending the threat of global nuclear war and the destruction of human civilisation.
Over the years, Greenpeace drifted to where the organisation now characterises people as the enemies of the earth. This is a very different approach and not one I wanted to join. Human beings are part of the earth.”

Environmentalism has become a religion—2014
Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace
https://www.spiked-online.com/2014/05/19/environmentalism-has-become-a-religion/

“What we have been calling green, renewable energy and industrial civilization are one and the same thing - desperate measures not to save the planet but to save our way of life,"

Planet of the Humans—2020
Jeff Gibbs // Michael Moore
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE

Michael Moore Just Declared War on the Climate Movement

“What we’re trying to get across is the larger point that it doesn’t even matter if they’re 100 percent efficient,” Gibbs said of renewables. “The story is that they're still part of a giant industrial civilization that consumes resources.”
https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/why-eco-leftists-are-suddenly-turning-on-michael-moore/

Renewables?

Nearly half of ALL renewable? Depletes natural resources

Largest percentage of all renewable “green” energy comes from biomass products; trees, plants, animals

Rather than being carbon neutral, biomass is liquidating millions of tons of irreplaceable carbon stocks in the midst of a climate crisis already out of control.

ALL renewable energy forms consume resources, are inefficient (no more than 20% efficiency), and produce dangerous toxic waste & bi-product
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/renewable-sources/

Green Economics — Religion to Reality
https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2012/number/3/article/green-growth.html

Bloomberg “Renewable Energy”
--Wind
--Solar
--Other (yet other comprises nearly half, and the majority is biomass—trees, plants & animals
Sooo

It’s better for the earth, better for humans to eradicate, cut down, chop down, kill off to keep the energy consumption status-quo?

Bloomberg has already donated more than $150 million to the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations as part of his previous environmental campaign, known as Beyond Coal.
 
He bought off the Sierra Club, do he could harvest the worlds trees

The world, it’s poor peoples and natural resources will be decimated, turned to profit, harvested, and abandoned. A toxic wasteland everywhere

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/climate/bloomberg-climate-pledge-coal.html

Bio-mass as “renewable” is both a scientific joke, and illogical and impractical

Cutting trees down, requires double the amount of burned wood to match coal, more to match efficient natural gas
Less than half efficient at best,
Total production 1% — a joke

Europe has ten years of data and experience w renewables, all w negative and worse than expected benchmark outcomes

https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/another-view-with-steve-goreham-the-overlooked-error-with-biomass/article_bd79c2da-88e7-5d76-9d40-46558a8b9dae.html

The old alchemists dream to “make” one substance be worth more than it actually is, become something it isn’t and cannot be through a seemingly magical process.

Renewable energy through industrialization — joke

I think science is being ignored, or not understood

Laws of Thermodynamics

Energy exists in many forms, such as heat, light, chemical energy, and electrical energy. Energy is the ability to bring about change or to do work. Thermodynamics is the study of energy.

First Law of Thermodynamics:
Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.

The total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another.

The First Law of Thermodynamics (Conservation) states that energy is always conserved, it cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another.

There is no free lunch.
--Change consumption. Drastically.
--Change lifestyle.
--De-aggregate. Eliminate cities.
--Environmental harmony, true closed system sustainability.
--Population decrease. 'Soylent Green' (JK)

Yes, IF all the above were done, and the net energy needs could be met with tree waste, and tree farms bio-mass is feasible

And then there’s the dishonesty of data—“trees” aren’t the same

Most tree farms are soft woods like pine and fir, the density of these trees is a tenth of hardwoods, and grow in a fraction of the time

And thus, cutting down forests of trees that contain hardwoods cannot be calculated into this biomass as they cannot be used unless a 30, 50, 100 year plan is involved

I.e. an 40-foot hardwood tree with a 18-inch diameter can weigh as much as 10,000 pounds while a 50-foot pine tree with a 12-inch diameter will only weigh as much as 2,000.

BUT

We know this won’t be done, nor tree harvesting contained to farms

The poor and under regulated or corrupt will sell its land, it’s trees and it’s peoples for profit
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/18/is-biomass-really-renewable/

I think I may be missing something critical; I thought the issue was CO2 emissions causing global warming and the end of life , etc etc

I thought it was established trees were the primary means to scrub and remove CO2 emissions

Yet, under this notion of a Green Society and it’s “renewable” energy is bio-mass, the largest percentage category

And bio-mass is primarily trees?

So the plan is to cut down trees, the primary means to scrub CO2, then burn them, in order to help the environment?

Someone’s crazy

Beyond all this, and to highlight what I think is “the point” of Moore’s documentary “the Planet of the Humans”, renewable energy aren’t the answer

Renewables aren’t renewable

I was around solar pv panels for years n never saw them renew, repopulate, fornicate or have little solar panels

I never saw them even make out, let alone 2nd base

Green isn’t green

If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste? Forbes 2018

“The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in 2016 estimated there was about 250,000 metric tonnes of solar panel waste in the world at the end of that year. IRENA projected that this amount could reach 78 million metric tonnes by 2050...

Solar panels often contain lead, cadmium, and other toxic chemicals that cannot be removed without breaking apart the entire panel. “Approximately 90% of most PV modules are made up of glass,” notes San Jose State environmental studies professor Dustin Mulvaney. “However, this glass often cannot be recycled as float glass due to impurities. Common problematic impurities in glass include plastics, lead, cadmium and antimony.”

There is NOWHERE to retire them safely—how good can that be?

And there currently is no mandated plan by state or federal to retire, and recycle broke or old panels

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/

Occasio's Green New Deal a Good One, Smart One, Doable? That would be NO.

Not according to a 100% bi-partisan vote against it.

"Senate UNANIMOUSLY votes down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal 57-0 with high profile Democrats joining Republicans to show their disapproval for the radical plan as she charges the GOP with wrecking the world."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6853499/Senate-votes-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortezs-Green-New-Deal-57-0.html

We ARE killing this world. We are terrible stewards of this amazing Earth. Our lack of appreciation, lack of understanding of our utter reliance on her, cruelty, waste, and greed are mind-boggling. We will be held accountable to her Creator. I love Gaia.

Renewable energy just isn't the answer.

Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone...?

November 20, 2014

Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone...?

Not all jobs, events, circumstances or relationships are destinations, often they only serve as way stations and steppingstones that help carry us along in our journey.

Breakdown Dead Ahead!

February 28, 2015

Breakdown Dead Ahead!

I know many people that prolong an often needed breakdown by self medicating, or doctor prescribed medicating for depressed and anxious symptoms.

I'm not a doctor, but I can tell you that some people need a breakdown, to hit rock bottom, to reach their wits end in order for their life to truly get better. 90% of breakthroughs are preceded by a breakdown.

Just saying. (Luke 20:17-18)

**  God lives beyond our wit's end--once we quit running, trying, working and living within and by ourselves--that's when God takes over. I called it breakdown, but we know it as surrender

Spartan!

May 6, 2014

Spartan!

I completed the Spartan Sprint 5K with a torn rotator cuff, two partially separated attaching tendons, and severe tendonitis in my right arm/shoulder.

I finished the Sunday Spartan Sprint Open in 2:17:51 — placing 24th for Age Group, 1166th for Gender, and 1706th Overall (top half of field)! Why'd I do it? After my motorcycle accident a year ago the doctors and their tests kept saying "disabled" and that started getting into my head and pulling me down--this was my "I'll show them (and me) I've got heart" moment! I completed 24/25 obstacles on the course. For those of you who are down or have been down, let me remind you it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog that matters... Philippians 4:13

Colorado Springs Military Spartan Sprint: 4.5 mile course created by Spartan Sprint & Army Special Forces. 25 obstacles.

First Section:
Obstacle 1: Over-Under-Over (runners must first climb over a wall, run 10 yards, climb under a wall, run 10 yards, then through a square hole placed in a wall. This obstacle was repeated three times in a row). Obstacle 2: can't remember!. Obstacle 3: GFT Wall (runners must climb over a wooden walls. The first was 4', the next was 6' and the last was 8'). Obstacle 4: Muck Run (runners ran, waded through a nasty, mucky creek, through a 2-4 ft. pond and up a 15 ft. muddy hill). Obstacle 5: The Gamble (each participant was faced with a decision, to choose between flipping a 250 lb. tractor tire multiple times, or drag a tractor tire--I chose the flip). Obstacle 6: Atlas Lift (lift a 120 lb. round stone and carry it 15 yards, drop it, do 5 burpees, repeat).

Second Section:
Obstacle 7: can't remember. Obstacle 8: Log Hop (runners had to hop across differently sized and spaced logs/stumps without touching the ground. Bonus, the stumps were unstable in the mud). Obstacle 9: Barb Wire Crawl (runners had to crawl 100+ yards through muddy pits under barbed wire, staying low to the ground as to not get injured by the wire). Obstacle 10: Tractor Pull (runners drag/pull a chain looped through a 40 lb. knobby cement block through a bumpy dirty course up and down hills for about a quarter mile). Obstacle 11. Rope Climb (runners climb a rope 20 ft. hung over a body of water/mud -- the one obstacle I did NOT complete).


Third Section:
Obstacle 12: Monkey Net (a version of the monkey bars obstacle which fashioned cargo webbing that began with a 20 ft. incline and ended with a decline traverse). Obstacle 13: Rolling Mud (runners climbed a slippery, muddy hill followed by a water pit and this repeats 5 times in a row. The hill is between 5-10 feet tall and the water is 2-4 ft. deep). Obstacle 14: Inverted Wall (runners climbed a wall that was 10-12 feet high but was like a ramp... only the ramp was on the other side and you were under it). Obstacle 15: Rucksack Carry (runners had to pick up and carry a 125 lb. rucksack/backpack a quarter mile up and down steep, winding hills).

Fourth Section:
Obstacle 16: Object Carry (runners had to carry a 70 lb. "pancake"/sandbag a quarter mile). Obstacle 17: Weaver (runners had to “weave” through logs with 3 ft. gaps, going over one beam and then under one beam, to the top of the 20 ft. A-Frame and back down the opposite side). Obstacle 18: Underwater Wall (runners climb a muudy hill and slide down it. Once in the water, there is a solid wall with barbwire across the top that skims the surface of the water so you have to completely submerge yourself to go under ad ten up another mud hill) Obstacle 19: Traverse Wall (runners had to traverse sideways a long wall of maybe a 100ft with small pieces of 2x4 screwed on at varying spans, similar to a bouldering wall). Obstacle 20: Spear Throw (participants had to throw a wooden spear into a target from a distance of 10-20 yards).

Fifth Section:

Obstacle 21: Herculean Hoist (Athletes must hoist a 75 lb. sandbag 25 ft. off the ground using a pulley system. This obstacle is similar to the "lat-pull" exercise machine, but is more difficult because the rope is often muddy and slippery... Once the block is in the air you cannot drop it. You have to get the block to the top and then bring it to the ground without letting go of the rope). Obstacle 22: Dunk Wall/Slip Wall (runners climb up a slick 10 ft. mudwall with a rope. Then slide down the mud wall on the other side into 6-8 ft. deep water/mud). Obstacle 23: Bridge (runners have to climb a wooden ladder that has been painted and caked with mud up 90ft to the top of a platform. Once at the top, you have a 45ft long horizontal cargo net to get across, followed by the 90ft climb back down the same type ladder on the other side). Obstacle 24: Fire Jump (athletes run through and then jump over a burning section of wood 1 foot to 2 feet tall). Obstacle 25: Gladiator Gauntlet.

 My brother Mike said I had something in my teeth. I told him a was a little bit of determination. ;)