They were up to the same old stuff people are at today-hitting people over the head with Bibles like they were bats and very hypocritical.

What is important to note here, is that my-no OUR-friend, Jesus told us that this is the way of the world, and he told us what we should do, and he told us he would always be with us. He also told us the world would get worse before it got better.

He also did not throw out the old testament as many Christians would have you believe.

Within the Bible-and I urge you to read it-are ancient covenants that have not expired. The POWER of GOD can be unlocked if we study and apply these covenants to our lives. Every promise kept - That is my God!

Anyway, my Jewish bud, I will include you in my prayers because Alas! be it ever known it is not our God who neglects us, but WE who neglect him, and our father is kind, loving, forgiving, and powerful.

In closing, since you read the New Testament, check out Matthew. If nothing else, we can feed the poor, visit the sick and imprisoned…what have you got to lose by doing that? and I guarantee you, you will recognize Christ in you, and when you look him in the mirror, you’ll be able to look him in the eye.

Love, Peace, Hope, Faith,

Ev

Side note, RRRRyan. A very dear friend has adopted a brother and sister (8 and 10) who she first took in as foster children. She was a foster child herself who was adopted by her foster parents, and now in her late 30s, she wanted to pass on what had been done for her. She is a single mom (yes, for the reason you might guess and to which some people take exception). She is a terrific mom, raising two very healthy children, both of whom are likely “normal” and will remain so, since she is raising them for who they are and to be good citizens.

Oddly, while people around him would object to a single mom adopting, I have a feeling the President would approve as soon as he saw this family in action (her mother is part of the household now, a very “normal” lady - so these kids are getting the benefit of a grandmother as well).

My reason for mentioning this is that I think you would also be taken by the good that is happening in that household. Your own desire to adopt is for similar reasons, I think, and it seems to me a reminder of the basic human values that actually connect us, even across very wide political divides.

I was raised by a stepfather, and my son, now legally adopted, was my stepson until his father agreed to the adoption. My father and my son are very, very close. People have to be told to have any idea there are no genetic connections across the three generations. There is something so much bigger than accidental biological or other accidental human connections to be found in the human spirit.

Very, very sincere admiration to you and your wife for considering adoption and giving some child or children who might not otherwise experience it a loving home.

Kids are awesome aren’t they? My daughter is so cool and I have a son on the way!

We are thinking of adopting too. It’s expensive but the adoption tax credit takes a big chunk out of that, thank you Mr. President!

Appreciate you responding, it helps to know where you are coming from. I guess we are all trying to dig through the levels of propaganda and find something that seems like truth to us. I think 98% of the time we just go with our own ideas no matter what we see on TV, hear on the radio, or read. Ah, the joys of life.:-)

BTW, not a hunter at all. I have three little girls and I doubt they would eat any “cute” animal that I shot and brought home. LOL

Now that’s one thing I like a lot about being an American. While we might not be expert, we don’t take kindly to anyone suggesting there is anything we should not feel free to think about and talk about. Honest intellectual humility plus an unquenchable desire to wonder about things make for a lot of fun in life, no matter how bewildering it sometimes is. You should have heard my uncle (Ph.D. in biology with a spider named for him) on the lack of any certainty that a Ph.D. and competence were synonymous.

That gave me a little more confidence to tinker in areas that I’m only mildly familiar with.

Gotta admit, I did enjoy reading your last post. Hell, maybe we are all billeted in a dimension, and for a brief time, that can ultimately only bewilder us.

Kid died in Orlando because his father brought home some gravel for his driveway that had been contaminated with lead (my guess is from an old car battery or batteries). It rained, the kid played in the lead-contaminated water, and the kid died of lead poisoning. Lead shot you ate passed on through, but evidence is also compelling that ingested lead causes reduced intellectual capacity in children’s brains. Lead oxide in paint is inconsequential? The point is, we are always behind the curve as a society (and a species) regarding what stewardship of the world’s ecologies (and our own specific places) means.

New theories regarding gravity are pretty damned fascinating, although I really am only an intrigued amateur in that area (and of course maybe all areas, even the ones about which I believe I’m knowledgeable).

Here’s the list of symptoms for lead poisoning:

Fatigue
Depression
Heart failure
Abdominal pain
Gout
Kidney failure
High blood pressure
Wrist or foot weakness
Reproductive problems
Anemia

I have the third to the last sometimes. I’M POISONED!

Now, I realize I’m living in a state of dementia but how can a naturally occurring ELEMENT that can be found in surface deposits just about anywhere that rocks exist be considered a pollutant? I do realize after years of exposure blood/lead absorption can be a problem, but get a handle. If we loaded our guns with the very gravel we were hunting over I’m sure someone would make an argument that the gun powder and super heating of the gravel causes a chemical reaction that destroys the ozone layer… Oh, wait, the shrinking ozone layer went off the radar once we did away with all the products it was designed to destroy. Nice. This sounds just like the DDT myth. In case you’re wondering, yes, I breathed a lot of what we called in my waterfront area “bug spray”.

So in short, don’t hate me or my ideas, hate the evil men who poisoned me and made me the way I am. In fact, clear out the prisons too, I’m sure a few of them are suffering the ill effects of mankind’s disregard for the environment!

Just think, I could of died of something natural, like malaria!

Maybe I’ll just focus on curing gravity. I think I’m on to something with this theory of relative motion. You wouldn’t have heard of it since it is an alternative to Relativity and not written by Einstein. The tested predictions are identical, it’s the untested ones that create the distinction. Anyone have an idea of how to test the speed at which gravity from one mass “strikes” another? In relativity it should be instantaneous, with relative motion it would be equal to the speed of light, which the theory calls “speed of action at a distance”. Unfortunately the distance required to measure anything at the speed of light would require huge masses to generate measurable gravity. :-\ … Hmmm…