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Monday, March 10, 2014

Cosmos --Atheistic Scientist Attempting To Deny GOD

        The Big Bang Theory. An Anti-Christ President who swore on the Bible to become President of these United States of America. The line is being drawn  and those who stand for GOD and CHRIST must now be ready to do so. Neil deGrasse Tyson gave the big warning sign when he debunked a teacher for taking sides with the bible's story of the flood and Noah's ark.                                                                                                  
       
         For us the true believers of GOD, the show Cosmos did nothing but affirm our knowledge,and faith in the infinite greatness of the Creator of the Universes, dimensions etc. Let us now examine with extreme logic the theory of the Big Bang and see for ourselves if it has a leg to stand on.                                                                                       
        By proclaiming that the stars,and other solar systems began with the explosion of an atom, Mr Tyson left two important facts out. One, when man first split the atom and created the atomic bomb,order did not come about happenstance shortly thereafter. After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- the first two 'big bangs' of world war two,The Japanese surrendered. Both cities that got bombed would not be reconstructed until years after. More than 200,000 people died.                                                                           
        The second and most important omission is the Fact that GOD created the heavens and the earth.In the book of Hebrews chapter 1 vs 1-2 we read, "God, who at sundry[different] times and in divers [various] manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds";.                                                                 
         Please note the word worlds, as in more than one, which was written long before the advent of the Roman Catholic Church. Also note worthy is the fact that long before Galileo, Copernicus or Columbus, the prophet Isaiah wrote that the earth is round. Isaiah chapter 40 vs 22, "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.                                                                                             
         When the clothes hamper is filled with dirty clothes and you want them cleaned would you throw a stick of dynamite into the hamper or lob a grenade and expect them to be clean and neatly folded  after blowing it up? The case and point here is that GOD created the Universe, man and every life form on this planet, and all life forms from whatever planets or dimensions from whence they travel.                                                           
         Man and the Planet 'Eden' -also called earth, are fairly new to the Universe. The photographic images of Jupiter and Saturn leaves the burning question to be answered, what did the inhabitants of those worlds do to have incurred the wrath of the Most high God? Jupiter has constant fire raging on it's surface. Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? they got burnt for their blatant homosexuality. How about Pompeii? Another decadent homosexual society that erupted a volcano upon them and buried that place with fiery hot lava. Next up, Saturn.                                                                                                     
         The host of the show Cosmos  made a statement that along the rings of Saturn are thousands of snowballs falling. Really?  Was he there to put one in his hand to confirm it was snowballs? Since at the start of the show viewers are told about the use of the imagination, let us imagine a different scenario. The rings around Saturn and all that fluff floating around came from cataclysmic planetary warfare of some sort long before man was created on the planet earth/'Eden'.                                                                               
        Time and it's continue-um is fairly relative as was shown by Einstein. Is it then that hard to accept that God showed John what happened in the past to what would happen in the future? Revelation chapter 12 vs 7-9, "And there WAS war in heaven: Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels [pretty much like the force against Darth Vader] And prevailed not; {Satan lost the war} neither was their place  [planet?] found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him".                                                                
         Since they cannot reside on Jupiter or Saturn any more, here they are on our planet earth attempting to tell us of a big bang and doing their utmost to turn mans minds and hearts away from GOD. Is it any wonder that morality and the educational level of our nations schools have deteriorated since the bible was abolished from the school system? NO. We have a President that Lauds homosexuality, while should a teacher or student open a bible in school they would be ostracized as if they had attempted to wipe out humanity. Christians do you see what is wrong with that picture?? It is time for the GOD fearing people of the planet to take a stand.                                                                         
        The next phase of all those who subscribe to the 'Big Bang Theory' is so called evolution. So far events on this planet have yet to provide a continuous string of events to support this argument of theirs.  As of this writing,none of the many species of gorillas, apes, monkeys, chimpanzees, baboons or orangutans, have given birth to a humanoid form either in the zoo or the wilds where they naturally live.                                              
        No dolphin nor whale or any other creature from the sea/oceans have come ashore, stood up and begin to walk. Every single life form on this planet continues to reproduce their own kind just as GOD intended them to when he created them. Let us now proceed to prove that [a] God made man, and [b] that there are definitely other life forms in existence other than man, and amazingly it is/has been documented in the Bible.  Are you ready for this journey back in time??                                                                                          
        Genesis chapter 1 vs 26, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness": Again the question most preachers, pastors and reverends seem to avoid from answering the basic lay person, is, Who was us and our that God was referring to?  In vs 21 of the same chapter we read,"And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, [ please keep in mind that water exist in three phases, liquid, solid-ice,and vapor in the which we all move and breathe h2o,] and every winged fowl after his kind":                                             
        This the story of creation is true despite the evolutionist's attempt to discredit the bible and God Almighty. Deuteronomy Chap 33 vs 2 "And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Se'ir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints":. Most folks do not realize this was referring to what today we call UFO's. Judges chapter 6 vs 21, "Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight".                                                                                   
        Judges chapter 13 vs 6 "Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [face] was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name": Vs 20 "For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar."                                                    
        One angel used his staff to create fire out of a rock, clearly a sign of much higher technology than we know of up to this day. Another angel goes upward in flames? Surely these beings must come from elsewhere and quite possible another dimension. The 'book of Enoch' tells of different levels or dimensions of heaven.                                            

         In the book of Ezekiel chapter one, he gives the description of a spaceship as it appears to him. A fire enfolding unto itself describes how a rocket looks on take off from a launch pad.  As for eyes round about, imagine if ancient man saw an airplane for the first time, the windows on all sides would seem to be eyes for all intents and purposes. Lastly, but not least Hebrews chap 13 vs 2, "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. There are also numerous scriptures that mention Flying objects [UFO's]. 1st Corinthians chap 15 vs 40, "There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one,and the glory of the terrestrial is another". We are not alone in this Universe. So until next time we meet, live well, be happy, make love,we bid you Peace.                                          

Sunday, March 2, 2014

The War On Terror, TEOTWAWKI, And Spirituality.

        Thousands of people the world over, have been preparing themselves for some sort of apocalypse that will occur  sometime in the near future. Indeed ever since Y2K,the eyes of more than a few persons were opened to the dramatic possibilities that face both urban and suburban  and even rural farm areas should chaos strike civilized man. This of course  being the age of capitalism and Democracy, The thought occurred to me to try to make money while actually trying to help others.                                                           
  
         What if, as in the case of Three Mile Island,another nuclear plant had a mishap? Radioactive gear and associated equipment would be 'hot sellers'. Natural Disasters? Blankets, batteries, generators and water purifying equipment would also be  good things to have available to those who would be in need.                                                          

        And so yours truly thought , it would be a great idea to have a website that would be able to provide things like these to those of the public that would like to enhance their chances of survival. Of course after setting up a web site, it turned out that access to the aforementioned wares and the selling of them turned out to be a more daunting task than was first presumed. Turns out that the places that have the things I would like to sell actually aren't in a rush to part with or give  someone else access to their inventory and so trying to have the site as I wish to is stymied.                                                                  
        Now in building a site one has to have a 'niche' so to speak, or field of specialty.  Upon further trying to establish one's self in the survival 'niche' we find out that our options are extremely limited in what we can offer.                                                                    
        Now the only thing we find to trade off of is e-books with survival tips from 'experts' from various uniformed services, i.e.military and ex-policemen. Not to disparage these 'experts' as we are quite sure the guidelines they are issuing is most invaluable, but one can read a whole lot of instructions, but until one actually has been through a hands on experience, reading about it pales in comparison.                                                                           
        Whilst on the subject of survival and the web, I would be remiss if I did not mention that Rob Richardson has an excellent website to assist those in need of survival equipment. Another great website to also visit in terms of obtaining nuggets of information, and I do mean golden nuggets of info is James J Rawles survival blog.                                        
         Ever since subscribing to the survival blog , I even found more than 50 uses for socks if it comes down to having to use them in surviving, some uses were astonishing given the fact it is a an overlooked part of our daily wear.                                                                 
         On March 11th of 2011, a giant earthquake rocked the coast of Japan and sent a massive Tsunami crashing into the shores of those Islands. The near doomsday scenario from overheating fuel cores should have opened the eyes of all those who plan and build these plants.                                                                                                               
   
         Whilst Nuclear power has been forced upon the general public of many a nation. by the conglomerates that have the power and authority to do so, one startling fact as been omitted by all the parties involved in the undertaking, and, that is the fact that none in the industry has instituted a guaranteed fail safe system to protect the people closest to these plants much less the environment.                                                                   
  
          Chernobyl and Three Mile Island are stark reminders of nuclear power wreaking havoc on people and their surroundings.                                                                                   
          Now we have been told that the Muslim philosophy is one of peace, despite the fanatics and questionable behavior of some Muslim Governments. If memory serves me correctly, the history of the Muslim religion was spread through time by outright violence, indeed many became muslims under the threat of death if they did not convert to the religious beliefs. The fact that the word 'assassin' came from those who smoked hashish before going out to kill those who would not accept the philosophy gives us the type of mentality that we are dealing with.                                                                                       
        Should the modern world accept the fact that Iran is in the process of building nuclear facilities? Which will lead to Nuclear weapons? The answer should be a resounding NO. Is not this the same country that gave the world the Ayatollah? These are the same people who expect to receive religious tolerance but they themselves will under no circumstance be willing to extend that courtesy to Christians or Jews alike. All Muslims are potential jihadists, and thus anyone professing those beliefs are suspect in my book. Even as of the time of this writing Christians in all Muslim countries are under suppression by these people professing to be righteous.                                                                               
        The war on terror will not come to an end until that ideology has been wiped out from the face of the Earth. The seed of Ishmael [Arabs] who are currently destroying the lives of many Africans in Jordan simply because they say only Arabs are the only true Muslims, shows the propensity of these people for terrorism.                                                       
          In the book of Genesis chap 16 vs 12-concerning Ishmael, "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him"; Prophetic words to take heed unto, as Ishmael should not be trusted with nuclear capabilities. Pakistan  once the capitol of India before the British divided India in two and created the Nation of Pakistan are two countries on the verge of nuclear catastrophe.While India is host to many Hindu religious beliefs and factions, Pakistan on the other hand has embraced the Muslim ideology more so than India and that has also been one of the reasons peace between both nations has become a remote possibility.                                                                      
         The increase of terrorist attacks in India can also be linked to the rise/increase of Muslim followers in that country. Of course as is human nature there is good and bad among all peoples and religious beliefs irregardless of nation or race or creed, and the innocent all bemoan the loss of fair and just treatment because of the acts of evil men. Sad but true, also is the fact that whilst some evil persons may try to hide under the guise of Christianity, their deeds can only go but so far until more evil convinces them that what they embark upon is for the good of mankind thus engendering world wars. Now we come to spirituality.                                                                                                              
         Some people practice Yoga for the means of achieving inner peace. Yoga, certain facets of it, indeed has benefits for the maintenance of the physical body. This in turn has me mention Onesima Jaurige,a person who makes and refines bath solutions to help individuals relax at home much like the practitioners of the yoga. Others take up martial arts in order to achieve mastery of self.                                                                                
         Last but not least is the spiritually inclined that walk with God and Jesus in their hearts. It may seem a bit trite, but for those of us that believe in GOD and his son Christ, to be in harmony with The Most High and his Holy Son and having the Holy Spirit guiding one's every move while we are awake, and in our thoughts while we sleep, is the greatest level of spirituality, Zen, Yoga or any form of Martial Art cannot even come close to. And so friends until next time, live well, be happy,make love we bid you Peace.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

The Lighter Side - The End Of The Football Season

        Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks for achieving football's holy grail this season, The Vince Lombardi Trophy. Congrats are also in order to Russell Wilson as he quietly and systematically went about becoming the second African-American to win The top prize of this most challenging sport.                                                                                           
         The first African -American to win a 'Super Bowl' was the QB for the Washington Redskins, [Doug Williams], he was promptly discarded by them and never even endorsed a single sneaker, from Converse, Adidas or Nike.                                                                                            
          Despite the crowning of the various professional pundits who gave the crown of 'greatness' to Andrew Luck', despite the gaudy numbers of Colin Kaepernick's running  stats or the impressive stats of Cam Newton, Mr Russell Wilson just methodically dismembered all the opposition on his way to becoming a legend in his own right. Perhaps he needs to win two more to be considered an Elite QB to be called up in the same conversation as Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.                                                               
         
         As for the games MVP, I personally think that Percy Harvin should have gotten the award. Why?? Because the minute he stepped on the field with his teammates their confidence level [the offense] rose up three notches.                                                                         
        Not only did Percy put a spark into the offense in the first quarter/half, he livened up the entire game, and his first play of the second half which resulted in a touchdown was the proverbial knife to the heart of the Denver Broncos.                                                       
        Now unto Fox and their almost incredible coverage of Super Bowl weekend. Alec Baldwin's opening for Saturday night's NFL awards program was pure comic genius at it's best. Indeed all of the nominees for the Walter Payton 'Man of The Year' award were indeed deserving of it, and Charles Tillman even more so.                                                                       
        Fox was indeed on a roll until three hours before kickoff when they had to inject a sour note in the days festivities and give themselves a black eye by introducing politics into the most holy of football days.                                                                                    
        How dare you Fox??? What on earth possessed you to commit this sacrilege???  The good book says, and it has even been put in song, that, there is a time for every thing, and believe me leading up to the big game was not the time to interject some knee jerk reporter bent on political assassination instead of honoring the warriors of the battlefield of football and overseas.                                                                                                  

         If the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces were there to give verbal appreciation to the brave men and women stationed overseas, that would have understandably been a good thing. Having served overseas myself if one's unit was not in the field or on high alert, it was always a welcome relief to get the game on the AFEES network,and relaying  greetings to loved ones back home is always a winner. Memo to Fox Honchos, have you ever seen a political debate or convention get interrupted by a Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, soccer or Football game???                                                                         
         Don't you ever make that mistake again. And now to my awards for the best Ads in my opinion. Pistachios, great innovation takes the top prize for being the best after the slow starting promo. The Second best goes to Doritos for the kid with the time machine, absolutely hilarious. The third goes to Ford with Riggles and Franco and the double up, nicely done. Fourth prize also goes to Doritos again with the little girl riding the mastiff and lassoing the prized package from her brothers grasp when before she could hardly throw the rope anywhere.                                                                                         

        An overall great weekend in football history, a great job by Fox [except for the political faux paus], another great football season has come and gone. For those of us who love the game, next season can hardly get here soon enough.                                                    
         Incidentally I forgot to give kudos to KIA and Larry Fishburn for the arias he did, it was, er, window shattering to say the least, ha ha that ad has a most honorable mention. And by the by wasn't it ridiculous that New Jersey Transit had Over 100 buses and drivers standing idly by with the drivers receiving overtime for doing absolutely nothing while our visitors and football fans had to suffer needlessly through chaos waiting for path trains to leave New Jersey.                                                                                                             
         Once again New York and New York sports gets a black eye for New Jerseys shenanigans, Why doesn't New York just go ahead and secede from New Jersey? After all, give the title New Jersey to the Giants and the Jets, as in truth that is indeed where they play at, in East Rutherford N.J. Truthfully the only team that plays for the state of New York are the Buffalo Bills.                                                                                                                
         So if you agree we should change the N.Y. Giants to the N.J. Giants and the N.Y. Jets to the N.J. Jets then lets start a campaign to do so, Jersey gets all the money and glory while all New York gets is bad mouth and the blame whenever anything goes wrong. This ought not to be so.                                                                                                            
         And so my fellow football aficionados while we wait patiently for the start of next season, live well, be happy, make love, we bid you Peace.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Civilization - The March/Road to Annihilation - 3

         Trees, are one of the few species of life on land that has a longer lifespan than man. They are not sentient, stationary, and the only movement they have is to grow upward. [Vines excepted]. The mention of this serves a twofold purpose. One is to show the importance of trees to our existence and secondly, to highlight the intelligences at work in this volume.                                                                                                                   
        The average lifespan of man is, give or take 70 years. There are of course the occasional  aberration of people exceeding this number. there are a few known cases of people exceeding 100. Psalms 90 vs 10 says this."The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away". Note that a score is twenty. Just what does that have to do with trees?                                                                                    
         Some trees live for up to 400 years in some parts of the wilderness and forests, and that number dwarfs just how long an individual life span of man is.  In Genesis, before the flood the oldest man known was Me-thu'selah who lived to be 969 years old. Incredible? Lets look at what took place after the flood.                                                                         
         Shortly before the flood,GOD had said, in Genesis chap 6 vs 3,"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years".   The deluge that covered the earth and killed all land moving creatures with the exception of trees was caused by 'the sons of God' who came and took wives of all the beautiful women that they chose. Who were these 'sons of God'? Were they the children of Adam? Or were they beings from the other planets as we so ardently speculated in the series on the imagination?                                                              
          Also in chapter 6 of Genesis, we are told that there were giants in those days, and in ancient lore they were called the 'Annakim'. So if what we were imagining was true, then it stands to reason that these 'sons of God' had to come from other planets to cohabit with our women. God shortened our lifespan because we were 'flesh' not made to travel between the planets or stars.                                                                                    

         Man as the dominant force on this planet, outlives most species, and as such we tend to think of ourselves as having higher intelligence, than say a {for example} talking parrot, or any of the animal life found in the local zoo. With our limited lifespan, just how would we be viewed by beings from other worlds endued with an infinitely greater lifespan than ours? They most certainly would view us the same way we view the animals in the zoo, as animals with limited intelligence.                                                                                  
         In the book of Jo'b, we are told in chapter 2 vs 1,"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord". The implication here is that 'Satan' is one of the 'sons of God', it was he and the others that he influenced to breakaway from God that were taking our women and having these offspring which in turn caused God to destroy their offspring to return this earth to man.                                                                                        
         Let us keep in mind that in Revelation 12 vs 12 we were given this warning. "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time".  Imagine that for a being that has been living for an indefinite amount of time to be overthrown from the domain he was once given, and being told that his eternal lifespan was being revoked sometime in the near future, that creature had to have been upset.                                                         
        That said, he engineered the cause of the flood. That failed because God had Noah and his three sons, along with the animals of God's choosing, to repopulate the earth. Next up came the failed attempt to build the spaceport of great Babylon.  The city and tower was to be a landing zone for Lucifer and his fellow conspirators, but, God came down and created the language divide. This created confusion and thus the name Babel[confusion of tongues], which sounded like babbling.                                                                       
        Woe, in the book, also means destruction in particular cases. the First worlds war among the industrialized nations was his second attempt to cause the destruction of the planet, as was world war two. Having failed in his/their previous attempts to get rid of mankind and destroy the planet in one fell swoop, Lucifer and his cronies decided to try a different approach.  Knowing that the lifespan of man was limited compared to theirs, they decided to come up with a different approach.                                                              
        Why not give man the knowledge to create devices that can lead to his own destruction? The deception of Eve had already worked partially by bringing the sentence of death to mankind. Lucifer and his pals launched an all out attack against man in a myriad of ways. As per his threat to turn man away from God,  they started the first known enclave of homosexuality known as the five cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, as you know the first tenet of sex was to reproduce, a fact that two members of the same species cannot do. Despite the burning of those cities Lucifer continued to push that perversion upon man until it's worldwide prevalence today.                                                                         
        Another one of their ploys was the introduction of technology, along with entertainment. Lucifer began to put into the minds of some that [a] there was no such thing as a Supreme Deity, and [b] he{Lucifer} should be worshipped. Those who fall to his philosophy are called agnostics or atheist. Then there are those who worship him openly. Those that do so however, while doing it in public, make secretive hand signals to their fellow cohorts, while pretending to the public that they are God fearing individuals while the truth is the exact opposite.                                                                                             
         For the many that are involved in the leadership of commerce and it's inventions, and those who control the entertainment industries, when gathered together at their private meetings and assemblies, they then openly worship Lucifer as the god Baphomet. Romans Chapter 1 vs 25, " Who changed the truth of God into a lie," [Lucifer and friends with  the big bang theory among a list of other things including Santa clause],"and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen". All of that led to the following:                                                                                                  
        Political intrigue, Business spying by various companies trying to keep ahead of the competition, distrust and a gradual decaying of morality and decency. In the 30th vs of the same chapter we read, "Backbiters, [I'm quite sure you know a few, those who speak well to your face and the minuite your back is turned say the most awful things about you], haters of God, [Avowed atheists and agnostics], despiteful, proud, boasters,inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents".                                                                            
         Note that many of today's gadgets and inventions come to us under the guise of saving time in whatever the endeavor one used to do minus that device. Just what and how will you save time? Where will you put that time saved? In a bank? God Himself made time to be a boundary for man along with day and night and the four seasons. Secondly most of these inventions usually end up doing great harm to our environment, such as plastics, and automobile emissions.                                                                                                
         Most modern medicines today, have an incredibly high incidence of a litany of side effects. Have you ever asked yourself why the commercials for almost all the medicines advertised contain warnings? From risking high blood pressure to asthma attacks, with warnings not to take with other type medicines, just how much trust can you put into these modern marvels?                                                                                            

         Along with the loss of purity of the planets oceans,we also have to face the fact, that sadly, we have lost the vast majority of the earths wooded areas which contributed to our having a plentiful supply of breathable air, That combined with the constant use of the fossil fueled automobile with it's harmful emissions, the so called greenhouse effect has taken place. Global warming has become a household term.                                           
         What many do not realize, is among the evil inventions, [apart from nuclear devices and other weapons of mass destruction including viral {viruses} warfare], machines have been set up in strategic places of the globe whose use has been instrumental in affecting the weather patterns everywhere. They have been in use to induce earthquakes, Tsunamis, tornadoes and inclement weather in different parts of the globe. The recent snowfall in Egypt was no coincidence.                                                                                         
         Just how many of us realize that the vast areas of the desserts were once inhabited? It has been noted that in some, rainfall comes once a year, and some of the most exquisite plants come alive if only for a brief span of time, along with creatures that are not seen like the plants they disappear with.                                                                              
         If not for the promise of God to come to our rescue, the annihilation of man seems certain at the current rate of speed we are travelling. The extremely wealthy would like to leave the planet and embark on life anew in the stars, but alas they are but flesh and so their survival is not guaranteed.  Like the proverbial frog in water under a low fire,the water has now come to extreme heat and our 'goose' [for want of a better word] is being cooked. Mankind has been hoodwinked by Lucifer and all that some of us can do is pray and wait for,deliverance from on high.  Are we all doomed? Time will tell, and so until the next time, live well, be happy, make love, we bid you Peace.   

Monday, January 6, 2014

Civilization-Road To Annihilation PT 2

          Continuing the saga of mans path to self destruction, we had left off at the start of the new age in automobiles and the loss of marine life due to oil spills. This in turn  has led to major pollution of the planets entire water supply.                                                                                                        
          In the early 50's the loss of an occasional oil tanker, [as those ships were called back then], were downplayed to the public and seemed almost trivial to the seemingly unlimited supply of oceanic waters. Sad to say but, like the old proverbial saying 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step' so too was the beginning of our destruction of the planet's oceans via oil spills, and other toxic dumping in the seas.                                                                                      
          During the the early days of the development of the automobile, a far worse invention was about to become unleashed upon the face of the globe.                                                                               
           It's name was Plastic. First introduced by an inventor named Alexander Parkes in 1862, his material then was called Parkesine, an organic material derived from cellulose. It was a process first used to coat billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt improved upon it with a derivative called celluloid and the use of it spread to the making of film  for the movie industry. By the time the 50's had arrived, the use of this substance was beginning to seep into our everyday lives in a most innocuous manner.                                                                                                                   
           Plastic bags were first introduced on a large scale manner, with the story that it would help save the trees and reduce the use of paper by reducing the need for paper bags. Back then too, when you went food shopping at the supermarket or the neighborhood grocery you would get your goods in brown shopping bags.                                                                                                  
          Now in the dawn of the 21st century, plastic has been ingrained into every facet of our lives, and while it has been promoted as something for the benefit of mankind, the flip side of this is that it is something that can lead to the planet's demise. here are a few interesting things to know about this 'indispensable, can't live without material'. From the original three compounds of material used, it is now a combo of many.                                                                                           
          Now made from polymers, plastics is now used in the manufacturing of more products, and in use in more industries than wood. The main ingredient of today's plastics is crude oil. Yes crude oil happens to be the main ingredient combined with a slew of other chemicals and compounds, whose negative effects are mind boggling to say the least.  Apart from crude oil here are a few of the other main ingredients that comprise today's modern plastic/s. Vinyl Chloride, Terephthalic Acid, Propylene, Ethylene, Butadiene 1.3, among many others that are used to either harden or soften the plastic. Allegedly photo-synthetic [ the ability to decompose by sunlight] it has yet to be seen doing so.                                                                                        
          Non biodegradable, this substance is now found floating over a goodly size of the earths oceans,and on land takes an extremely long time to disintegrate, all of which is leading to an accumulation of garbage that civilized man is finding harder and harder to dispose of safely. This in turn means we may or may not have a world left to turn over to little Johnny or his sister Sarah. Doesn't look like a bright future does it?                                                                                
          Vinyl Chloride,- used in the making of poly vinyl chloride [PVC] plastic and other vinyl products. Studies have shown that [acute] short term exposure [to concentrated amounts],in the air, has affected the central nervous system of humans, causing dizziness, drowsiness and headaches. Chronic [long term] exposure to vinyl chloride, again in the air, has resulted in liver damage to humans.  Cancer has also become a concern as a rare form of liver cancer in humans has been tied to the prolonged breathing and oral intake of vinyl chloride. The E.P.A. has classified vinyl chloride as a group A human carcinogen.                                                                                  
         Ethylene- a small hydro carbon gas that is most often bonded with polypropylene to create Methyl - ethylene and can be soluble in water.Hmm, beginning to see the picture yet?.  Still unclear? Lets go further.                                                                                                                       
          Propylene,- exposure to high amounts of this gas can or may cause damage to the following organs, the Lungs and the upper respiratory tract. While we are told that these things can only harm us in concentrated amounts, what about the long term effects of being exposed to them for extremely long periods of time?  Would you nibble a half of a pellet of rat poison daily thinking that it can only harm you if you take it in mass quantities? Or for that matter Arsenic, a carcinogen and deadly poison that is being introduced to many municipal water supplies and certain brands of apple juice, do you think that because you didn't die from it in the first two weeks that it is any less harmful?                                                                                                        
           Enter Butadiene,- an industrial chemical used in the production of synthetic rubber, now being used in the production of plastic. Butadiene can also be found coming from... the exhaust of automobiles. The NIOSH has considered butadiene 1.3 to be an occupational carcinogen as defined by the OSHA.  As with propylene, butadiene is also highly soluble in both water and alcohol.  Epidemiological studies have shown that workers exposed to 1.3 butadiene, i.e. [rubber factory workers], show an increase in the incidence of leukemia, and the EPA has classified it as a carcinogen to humans.                                                                                           
            Last but not least is the use of terephthalic acid. while not much elaboration can be done because of the scientific jargon, it's importance here comes from it being not as soluble as butadiene or propylene, and it is used mostly in the production of plastic bottles and clothing. It has been touted as the greatest thing since sliced bread by the very people who brought us the Gulf of Mexico fiasco.                                                                                                                           
            The fact that these people are bragging of it's benefits to our every day way of life should set alarm bells ringing. This has been a company that has been known to flagrantly disregard safety in all it's procedures to minimize expenditures.                                                                     
             Lets see how much this scourge to the earth has been interjected into our daily lives. If you smoke, it is wrapped around every pack of cigarettes. The majority of cooking oils are presented to us in plastic bottles, as are sodas, and juices. Of course buying soda or juice from the can or carton you have to face the fact that the interior of them is coated with Teflon which contributes to another form of chemicalized poisoning. Damned if you do, and damned if you don't, the enemy of man has this destruction of man on lock down.                                                                               
            Tupperware, a female favorite is made from plastic, dishware cups,  all manner of utensils used in the kitchen are not only made from this substance, but when purchased they also come wrapped up in plastic- talk about overkill. Buying bread, cakes and snacks at the supermarket? the bread in all likelihood is wrapped in plastic. Cakes in a box? Chances are that to see the product you can view it through a plastic partition in the box.  Anything and everything that we purchase for either necessity or pleasure comes encased in plastic.the disposal of trying to dispose of all this plastic dwarfs the imagination.                                                                              
            Those avid weekend fishermen who sail off in chartered boats out to the deep blue to enjoy an early morning to evening day of fishing usually have one or two six packs of beer along for the trip. Here's the bad side. That plastic that usually holds the six pack together is usually tossed overboard when the last can of beer is about to be consumed. it doesn't sink. It does not melt from the rays of the sun, and because of it's density it does not dissolve in the briny ocean. Aquatic life that have the unfortunate mishap to swim into the snares of these plastic anomalies, usually end up being asphyxiated. Clear plastic has been the main culprit for the demise of many a marine life, and birds that live on land but feed off the seas. As these goes so do man.                                                                                                         
            If the insertion and proliferation of plastic continues unchecked this planet may very well become encased in a prism or prison of our own making which would limit water and sunshine, indeed the future with this looks grim indeed. As you make your way home or to work keep in mind that vital parts of the car you drive, the bus you take, or the train you sit on all have plastic parts in the interior and engines. With this much dependence upon plastic who knows what will become us. Until next time, live well, be happy, make love, we bid you Peace.                                                                                                                                                    

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Civilization, The March Toward Annhilation

         At some time in your life you must have heard the saying, 'The more things change, the more they stay the same'. As a product of the 20th century, born to the use of electricity, but also knowing about lamp lights, the former gets preference. The use of electrical gadgets and modern comforts has certainly made the old ways of living seem not only trite but also passe. We certainly do not wish to return to the use of tree leaves and the outhouse. Horse drawn carriages and stagecoaches? No thanks.                                                                                      
         Grateful are we also for the eradication of the bubonic plague, the decrease in polio, malaria, cholera and many other life threatening diseases. The modern train has certainly done wonders replacing the ancient caravans. Send messages by carrier pigeons? The new Internet can have New York to Mumbai in communication with each other in minutes. Ye olde transistor radio's, replaced by Blackberry's, I-Pads and Kindles.                                                                                 
          Funny thing though, insignificant as radio may seem to some, it is still the basis of the telephone and Television and wireless internet communication. Once Radio got accepted and established, the prince of the air, the 'enemy of man, knew he had the seeds to plant the gradual training and programming of man. Telegraphs as in the early days of the stagecoach all depended upon wires. Not so with Radio.                                                                                           
         In ancient times, reading and writing were reserved for the privileged of their respective societies, i.e. Priests and the Kings court or ruling class, however you'd prefer to refer to them. Today illiteracy is frowned upon and every member of society, has been required to know the basics. How much further one would like to enlarge their learning is up to the individual. Is not all this great technological improvement for the betterment of mankind? We have the latest in radar  and satellite technology to predict the weather anywhere, but, it still cannot stop the tornadoes or tsunamis', blizzards or hurricanes.                                                                               
          Ancient writing was done on scrolls or on papyrus, and as such made the availability of knowledge to the underclass undesirable,not economically feasible so to speak, until the discovery of how to make paper and produce the printed word. Enter the beginning of mercury being introduced into the lives of man, as it was now a necessary ingredient in the production of ink. As wood was the primary ingredient in the manufacture of paper, Trees, which served as a valued source of giving us pure oxygen in our air supply, began to be decimated from the face of many a mountain and Forrest.                                                                                                          
         The other negative side effect was that in producing paper from wood, the paper mills, usually set up by or close to rivers or streams, produced runoff into those waters which, naturally had the chemical residues of what they used in the manufacturing processes, which in turn began the cycle of pollution on our once pristine planet. To the common man not living in the immediate vicinity, or affected by such, the loss of a stream or two, or a couple of rivers was a trade off for progress. Back then the supplies of trees and water seemed an almost inexhaustible supply. Who knew it would become finite?                                                                    
          Apart from being a source supply of paper, trees were , and is still used as lumber for building homes, in the construction industry for the building of skyscrapers, shipping docks, roads, and furniture. Almost two hundred years later we are bemoaning the loss of trees, and realizing the value they have in our ecosystem. Birds, Squirrels and various other creatures and insects also use trees as a home, and , as man became more and more industrially advanced , so too did more and more species of life become extinct.                                                                                                                       
          While the number of species of life on land began to decimate, it is unclear, or rather, no one knows just how much aquatic species have disappeared under the onslaught of civilization, which brings us back to what has now become a finite commodity, water. Mankind in the use of water in our cities, has contributed to so much waste and pollution of this life supporting substance that it boggles the mind.                                                                                                  
          For those who can afford it, a water purifying system for the home is a mandatory piece of equipment. Such a luxurious machine was not in use during the time of the black plague, however man has bounced back from the scourges of leprosy and other ancient illnesses with remarkable powers of recovery. Perhaps these were not fast enough to destroy mankind and so the 'enemy' stirred up the first world's war among the industrialized powers, for as man came up with new inventions to make life seem easier, he also came up with newer and more deadly weapons of warfare, making killing on a larger scale than ancient times more possible. Guns and bullets replaced bows and arrows.                                                                                            
         Today's modern arsenal of nuclear bombs make the grenade, TNT and nitroglycerin relics of the past along with slingshots, spears and stone tomahawks. Man now has at his fingertips the means to wipe out every living thing on the earth and in the oceans. Scary but true we are living in the shadow of death. With the production of the printing press, man began to build more and more factories, including automobile plants.                                                                                  
         This proliferation only led to more pollutants in our air and water. the automobile had to run with petrol, which was refined from crude oil upon the discovery of it. This petrol was now called gasoline and while we were happy to have this newfound power of transporting ourselves, no one gave a thought to what was coming out of the tailpipes of the automobile.  At the start of the 18th century cars and the technology to create them began to become more and more prevalent. As with anything new, this fairly new contraption was something only the very wealthy could afford to tinker with it.                                                                                                                
         Henry Ford, the creator of the Model T made the automobile available to the common man and a new era was born. Interesting to note was that the first prototypes of the modern automobile were steam powered, until the petrol based designed engines won over the mindset of the then prevailing scientific minds involved with the production of these engines. With the common man now buying an automobile, the law of supply and demand began to take effect, as there had to be places where to get fuel.                                                                                                                 
         Apart from the creation of urban sprawl, the other draw back was now man had to seek places on the globe where there were mass quantities of this crude oil in order to run his machines. As with anything that man ventures with there were bound to be mishaps. OIl spills not only occurred on land, [making that parcel of earth toxic] but by the time that it began to be shipped, there were numerous occasions of tragedy at sea with sinkings and accidents creating highly toxic areas at sea.                                                                                                                               
         The most two infamous incidents in recent memory were the Exxon-Valdez incidence in Alaska and the recent debacle in the Gulf of Mexico. Those events, coupled with world's wars 1 and 2 have contributed greatly to making the once infinite supply of the oceans waters a finite supply. Will civilized man change his ways to be at one with his surroundings?  We have met the Enemy and he is us, We all need to change the way we support those whose ways of doing business is detrimental to the planet earth and therefore ourselves. Sure some companies allege that they support the greening of the planet, or that they themselves are a green company, but that my friend is a smoke screen by some. Just because they say that they are  doesn't mean that they do what they say, so until the next time,  live well, be happy, make love, we bid you Peace.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Questions From The Lighter Side.

      How did the Seattle Seahawks allow themselves to fall asleep on the Arizona Cardinals? They must have thought that the Diamondbacks had come to town. The final week of regular season play comes Sunday with some playoff spots for grabs. Who will grab one with the opportunity to go for all the marbles?Tune in Sunday and find out. The Fox Sunday game time show at noon has always been excellent, they put the fun in football win or lose,Terry,Howie,Michael, Jimmy, Jay G, Riggles and that other guy who sits across from Terry , You guys made Sundays worthwhile. Shame the season's coming to an end.                                                                           
       The Philadelphia Eagles is rising while the Kansas City Chiefs are sliding. Coach Reid, it's time to rally your team together before your detractors and naysayers  start saying thats why you were released  from Philly. Time to give your team a fire and brimstone talking to, or something like that. How could you lose to the Colts?                                                                                                
        Baltimore Ravens? stay home and forfeit the game. That's what you should have done when the Patriots came to town, I mean that was a substitute team from another dimension out there this past Sunday, wasn't it? And you call yourself a football team.                                                        
        Miami,another team that sent actors to act like they was playing ball up in Buffalo. Instead of winning they just handed the playoffs to New England. Sigh. What a travesty!  The understudy QB didn't even have a clue as to where he was or what was at stake. And Shouldn't someone tell the Pittsburgh Steelers that it's a little too late to be trying to surge now? Guess they like being spoilers.                                                                                                                                   
        Jets beat the Browns, and the accolades start to fall from the sky touting Rex's coaching genius and Geno's talent. C'mon gimme a break here, it's just the Browns for crying out loud. if they were any good they'd have been battling the Patriots for the top spot in their division. SOJ. Same old Jets.                                                                                                                                     
         Biggest disappointment of the day goes to the Detroit Lions. Losing to the Giants sure showed us you're not ready for prime time. I am quite sure the entire team has been told about ball control. Obviously the coaches have not been reinforcing this into the mind of the players, most importantly the QB, running backs and the receiving corps who for whatever the reason has not yet figured out that to win games you must retain the ball until you score. Detroit, you follow the path of the Jets and Texans.                                                                                                                 
         After 2 great seasons the Houston Texans have just disintegrated into oblivion.. Is there something in the water over there in Texas?  The Dallas Cowboys have been struggling to look like a contender, instead of a pretender, and Houston?.... Hmm.                                                 
        The Rams, Jaguars  and Titans will be saying, wait till next year, along with the Jets, Browns, Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Oh, wait, that battle cry of wait till next year will also be shared by the Ravens, Bills,Giants, Raiders to name a few. Of course so will those teams who get derailed during the Playoffs, But at least they showed up much to the delight of their fans. Hotlanta, someone threw an arctic iceberg on the whole Atlanta falcons team. How else do you explain going from a superbowl contender to a middling cross between the Jets and Browns? Perhaps they were indeed pretenders.                                                                                         
         49ers have stepped up the pace and now Seattle is beginning to feel the heat. Speaking of heat will the voters ever make the politicians who shut down the gov't feel the heat? Has the general public just given up hope for a better day?. I once was told that to ask questions meant one was seeking validation for the question/s they asked. here I am thinking that to ask a question meant I was searching for answers. Hmm,mm.mm.mm.  Politics and the political processes, is to the average person  akin to hypnosis, where the victim is lulled/put into a deep sleep. After the Bills are passed[ laws enacted], you awake from sleep pockets turned inside out, Refrigerator empty and wondering how the hell did this happen?                                        
         
          Have you ever counted how many products that you've bought that are completely encased in plastic?  Seems like everything is just going down the toilet. And speaking of the loo, All these T.P[toilet paper] manufacturers, with the promise of a thousand sheets per roll, who the heck is counting to make sure they had a thousand sheets in the roll they just put up. for all we know they just may be giving us eight hundred and eighty nine sheets, no wonder the roll ends so fast, after all, they count on , who the hell is counting? Not to seem heartless, but is it me? why do people with handicapped plates and stickers drive like they're handicapped? They'll pull out from the slow lane and sit in front of you on purpose. Sheeeesh.                                                     
         
         The oil industry made $47 Billion in the first 6 months of 2013. Why are we allowing our paid representatives to grant them taxpayer funded subsidies? In most major cities across America, why is it that gas stations for the same brand,i.e. Mobil, BP,and Sunoco have different prices in six different places in the same city, in fact six differing prices each?                                                  
          
         Monopolizing an entire industry for one's own gain has been against the law for some time, but why hasn't the oil industry been held to account and regulated? Are we, John Q Public to be held up and kept prisoners to a bunch of bandits who pretend to be model citizens simply because they can afford to wear Tuxedos?  How can they pretend to not know that with every price increase on gasoline that the price of goods and services also skyrocket?                                                           
         
         The Chemical industry,another $800 Billion a year field that partners closely with the oil giants, is also guilty of much. To begin to point out their foibles here would take at least three days.The depressing thought of so many things wrong with this world today is giving me a headache, Think I'll go look at some pretty girls to take my mind off whats wrong with the world today, so until the next time, live well, be happy, make love, we bid you peace,