It was the best of news
It was the best of news
It was the worst of news.
My ex wife had made the jump to light speed.
She always lived life on her terms, and it has come to an end.
We spent more than half our time on this planet together, but last year we divorced. You wouldn't have to see it so much to believe it, as to understand it. It was undoubtedly one of the strangest unions the universe will ever see.
My new life partner.
it will be awkward at first
but I'm sure over time we will growe to love each other
It was the worst of news.
My ex wife had made the jump to light speed.
She always lived life on her terms, and it has come to an end.
We spent more than half our time on this planet together, but last year we divorced. You wouldn't have to see it so much to believe it, as to understand it. It was undoubtedly one of the strangest unions the universe will ever see.
My new life partner.
it will be awkward at first
but I'm sure over time we will growe to love each other
Chicks dig homeless guys
No, not all homeless guys. There's a certain type that looks pretty fit and is wearing camos. Chicks think maybe this guy is undercover or ex navy seal. Maybe he's some kind of rouge agent on the lamb. These chicks are 25-33 and generally 5'5" and 128 lbs. They give food or money. The rouge ex navy seals always say thank you. They usually are wearing a ball cap. The military Olive green Australian hat must send some weird message, like I'm really not desperate. A ball cap sends just the right message, intelligent enough to avoid skin cancer but not too dressy.
Once chicks get to be 35+ they know homeless guys are probably homeless for a reason. And they don't make good puppy's.
Once chicks get to be 35+ they know homeless guys are probably homeless for a reason. And they don't make good puppy's.
Living the dream
This isn't a great picture but you get the idea. A huge house sitting alone on a hilltop at the base of the mighty Rocky mountains. This was a big dream that someone made a reality.
Unfortunately it's close to a big city, so eventually the dream will be ruined by city growth. But until that day!
Unfortunately it's close to a big city, so eventually the dream will be ruined by city growth. But until that day!
What's going on with me
It's been a wild ride. Thanks to all who have voiced concern.
About ten years ago my wife's health began a steady decline. My mother-in-law's health had been in decline for years including heart surgery at one point. My health was relatively stable thanks to the Strong hands of the Father Son and holy Spirit along with generous amounts of alcohol. My mother-in-law depended most heavily on two of her children, one of which was my wife. We are all Christians and this certainly lightened the load, still it was an emotional rollercoaster. I have continued to work into my senior years and the declining health of my wife and mother-in-law was an additional challenge. In the last two years my mother-in-law died and my wife of 33 years filed for divorce, which is now final. Near the end my mother-in-law said to me, I hated to go out in public, I look scary. I assured her it was old age, but she actually did look scary. She died a few weeks later.
There have been several other aspects of my personal and professional life that have gone non linear, and thanks to the spiritual and physical sustainment of the Father Son and holy Spirit I have continued to flourish. I have had two short term illnesses which required me to quit drinking. Both times I went through alcohol withdrawal, but after going through night sweats and physical recovery I am happily drinking again.
Thanks for all your prayers. If you would like to donate some alcohol please email me at scratchwiththechickens@Gmail.Com
My favorite is vodka. Unfortunately tequila is not agreeable with me. It tastes delicious, but leaves a strange hangover.
Before we divorced my wife became convinced I was trying to kill her. It was sad, but we must go on. Yes, she is still alive.
We will have a wonderful eternity together in the eternal Paradise soon after we finish this rigorous testing.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
About ten years ago my wife's health began a steady decline. My mother-in-law's health had been in decline for years including heart surgery at one point. My health was relatively stable thanks to the Strong hands of the Father Son and holy Spirit along with generous amounts of alcohol. My mother-in-law depended most heavily on two of her children, one of which was my wife. We are all Christians and this certainly lightened the load, still it was an emotional rollercoaster. I have continued to work into my senior years and the declining health of my wife and mother-in-law was an additional challenge. In the last two years my mother-in-law died and my wife of 33 years filed for divorce, which is now final. Near the end my mother-in-law said to me, I hated to go out in public, I look scary. I assured her it was old age, but she actually did look scary. She died a few weeks later.
There have been several other aspects of my personal and professional life that have gone non linear, and thanks to the spiritual and physical sustainment of the Father Son and holy Spirit I have continued to flourish. I have had two short term illnesses which required me to quit drinking. Both times I went through alcohol withdrawal, but after going through night sweats and physical recovery I am happily drinking again.
Thanks for all your prayers. If you would like to donate some alcohol please email me at scratchwiththechickens@Gmail.Com
My favorite is vodka. Unfortunately tequila is not agreeable with me. It tastes delicious, but leaves a strange hangover.
Before we divorced my wife became convinced I was trying to kill her. It was sad, but we must go on. Yes, she is still alive.
We will have a wonderful eternity together in the eternal Paradise soon after we finish this rigorous testing.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Filling in some stuff
Here is some speculation about what we are being subjected to in this Earth age. It is wholey based on standard Christian theology, which, at the core, States that Jesus is God in a flesh body.
First imagine that God is infinite. Now imagine God wants to create something. There is one small problem. Infinity is very large, so large that there is nowhere outside of God. Not to worry, God is infinitely smart. By making a tiny little space in that infinite brain God created heaven and the physical universe. Unlike human brains this infinite brain never loses anything.
So with that accomplished God creates humans. Humans are intended to be God's friends forever. Of course there are some questions about what is wrong with some of them. These questions will not be answered here. Anyway, some of these people end up in a happy place called Paradise. Everyone else goes into the lake of fire. These apparently are the rejects.
So people keep saying stuff like, God loves everyone! God would never throw people into an eternal fire. Well imagine this. God runs this simulation about an infinite number of times and guess what. It seems impossible to create a stable eternity with only good people. Once God eliminates the rejects more good people go bad. Now this is not in the Bible, so calm down. But the Bible plainly States that Satan and his angels are in the lake of fire forever. Why not just dissolve them? Why the drama of eternal damnation? Well there must be a reason, you figure it out.
Another thought is, if all things are possible with God, why not make copies of God. Then there could be a near infinite number of perfect infinite beings. This seems to violate a prime reality of infinity. So God has settled on an eternal existence that increases forever and humans shine brighter than the sun. I can live with that.
First imagine that God is infinite. Now imagine God wants to create something. There is one small problem. Infinity is very large, so large that there is nowhere outside of God. Not to worry, God is infinitely smart. By making a tiny little space in that infinite brain God created heaven and the physical universe. Unlike human brains this infinite brain never loses anything.
So with that accomplished God creates humans. Humans are intended to be God's friends forever. Of course there are some questions about what is wrong with some of them. These questions will not be answered here. Anyway, some of these people end up in a happy place called Paradise. Everyone else goes into the lake of fire. These apparently are the rejects.
So people keep saying stuff like, God loves everyone! God would never throw people into an eternal fire. Well imagine this. God runs this simulation about an infinite number of times and guess what. It seems impossible to create a stable eternity with only good people. Once God eliminates the rejects more good people go bad. Now this is not in the Bible, so calm down. But the Bible plainly States that Satan and his angels are in the lake of fire forever. Why not just dissolve them? Why the drama of eternal damnation? Well there must be a reason, you figure it out.
Another thought is, if all things are possible with God, why not make copies of God. Then there could be a near infinite number of perfect infinite beings. This seems to violate a prime reality of infinity. So God has settled on an eternal existence that increases forever and humans shine brighter than the sun. I can live with that.
Look Out! Mountain
This morning, September 2 2019 seemed like a nice quite morning to drive up lookout mountain road, near Golden Colorado. To my surprise there were only a few cars all the way up and back down! A Subaru or two and the obligatory Corvettes. Making up for the lack of motor vehicles were about 50 bicycles. The diversity of the shapes of these cyclers was enlightening. Of course there was a generous serving of rock hard skinny men. The kind where every sinew and tendon bulges under stretched skin. There were some hot babes with some cleavage showing. Very nice. Mostly white and a few orientals. What was most ridiculous was the suicidal descent. These otherwise rational people were whizzing down several miles of winding two Lane black top at 30+ miles per hour. There must be some spectacular crashes to accompany the thrilling views. The entire road from top to bottom has guard rails. There isn't one flat section.
lookout mountain road Golden Colorado
lookout mountain road Golden Colorado
The curse of earthly governments
Yes, the United States government is a curse. Just like every government since ISamuel 8. Government employees make more, get better benefits, and get way more time off than the rest of us. Unless, of course, you're free-loading off the government on welfare, which too some degree is being employed by the government to vote for more government. Now president Trump wants to drain the swamp, which is an admirable goal, except for one thing, the swamp is a curse from God; so there is no fixing it. The argument for government employees living better than the rest of us goes like this, we have to pay higher and make things cushy so we can have the best people working in government. Do you really think the best people want to be treated better than everyone else and basically do nothing? Oh they work hard, just ask them.
[2] Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
[3] And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
[4] Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
[5] And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
[6] But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
[7] And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
[8] According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
[9] Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
[10] And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
[11] And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
[12] And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
[13] And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
[14] And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
[15] And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
[16] And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
[17] He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
[18] And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
[19] Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
[20] That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
[21] And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
[22] And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
1Sam.8
[1] And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.[2] Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
[3] And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
[4] Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
[5] And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
[6] But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
[7] And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
[8] According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
[9] Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
[10] And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
[11] And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
[12] And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
[13] And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
[14] And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
[15] And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
[16] And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
[17] He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
[18] And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
[19] Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
[20] That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
[21] And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
[22] And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
Tecarta Bible app
There is an Android Bible app called tecarta. The king James version is nice because it has an add-on for the Strong's numbers and definitions. The big thing it has its a self reading feature. The text to speech has improved significantly. It has a female British voice, which is great. It will start reading anywhere you pick and read till the end of the Bible. Pretty amazing. There is one odd thing. When it is reading and it comes across these characters "semicolon right parenthesis" ;) it says "winky face". And for this :) it says "smiley face". There are a few of these in the king James new testament in some of Paul's writings. Of course Paul wrote in Greek, and there is no punctuation in Greek, but the English needs some punctuation. Not sure why parens are necessary. Be careful not to put your phone under your pillow. It sounds really great this way if you want to listen to it while you sleep. The problem is phones have a battery and the battery overheats and could catch on fire. They make pillow speakers. Maybe there is a Bluetooth one or one that would plug into the headphone plug.
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