Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Wednesday Bullets: Group stink?

• I was looking for a Facebook friend on my friend list today and found Norman Murray,

• Thankfully the Norman Murray, account had been deactivated. I did not accept a friend request with that name.

• But as can be seen from the image, I still unfriended the entity. 

• If it was a scammer pretending to be me in the past, I am glad that account was deactivated.

• If it was someone that had (has) something against me, I once again state that people should reasonably talk issues out where possible, even to disagree, agreeably with mutual respect on worldview and issue differences. 

• Within my biblical worldview, I hold to: Romans 12:18 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.


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• Cited: '“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” — George Carlin'

• In a more literal sense, rioting comes to mind. The 1994 and 2011, Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver...

• One of my eye surgeons told me he was basically caught in the 2011 riot outside, but wisely with his group departed quickly. 

• He stated that while hiding out with his group at a McDonalds, one of the customers decided to throw his (his own) dinner up in the air. 

• In other words start a McRiot...(my add)

• In a more figurative sense, lack of corrective, critical, thinking in large groups, as in significantly shared societal concepts, can be found at times through fallacious reasoning:

Friday, June 04, 2021 Verecundiam, Argumentum, ad & Argumentum ad Populum 

• Argumentum ad Populum: Which is a fallacious, false appeal to popular authority.

• As example, within the Church, is when people quote the well-known pastor and/or well-known teacher as an expert, as if he/she is obviously so highly regarded that his/her views cannot reasonably be challenged. 

• At a church apologetics conference once a proponent of libertarian free will implied there was no point in me  (with my MPhil-PhD  and website researched compatibilism) disagreeing with his famous expert because this expert was doing layups like LeBron James. 

• I replied that I did not play basketball... 

• In contrast to ad populum, anyone can be reasonably challenged by a reasonable premise (s) and conclusion in disagreement.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Bullet Wednesday: Only take what is given to you

•  Photo: Arne's source of food, drink, social life and temporary shelter (until he has to walk home) in Norway. (Arne photo)

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• Everything good I have comes from God, and everything bad I have comes from God. 

• I am not in regards to my successes and failures, denying my own secondary causation. I am not denying my sinfulness; (Roman 3: 23) 23 for all [a] have sinned and fall short of the glory of God... New American Standard Bible. (NASB)

• But I am acknowledging God as sovereign and providential, as the primary cause (the first cause) of all things, either by divine direct will or divine indirect (allowing) will.

• I am not denying in reality, in many cases, secondary causation from other finite sources, finite entities, including human beings, angelic beings and demonic beings.

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• Only take what is given to you.

(I am not claiming this was a supernatural message from God, but this statement did come to mind while praying and is in regards to relationships. I am thinking of me specifically and not 'you' in a generic sense.)

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Footnotes

a Romans 3:23 Or sinned 

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Sunday Bullets: Walking around secondarily

• Thanks to my friend, Russell, from England, for posting on Facebook.

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Amazon: Cited: Rectitude:“If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito.” African proverb quoted by the Dalai Lama. Paperback – June 2, 2019 by Bereket Abraha Negassi (Author), Leah Rubin (Editor), Tamian Wood (Illustrator)

•  From a New Testament perspective, it seems to me each believer is to do their part as a part of the body of Christ, within the Kingdom of God,  1 Corinthians 12-14.

• King James Version (KJV) 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many.

• The amount of difference I make, is up to God as the primary cause, directly or indirectly, of all things. 

•  I am merely a secondary cause of my deeds. But with full moral accountability where I can significantly embrace, in significant freedom, through my human nature, consciousness, thoughts, desires, will, choices, acts/actions, that lead to the deeds I have committed and accomplished.

• That is a speculative chain, with some fluidity, of how human beings commit actions and is not always identical in my writing.


• I was invited to a political town hall today by 'The Red Dome', that flaked out in the heat, and did not walk to downtown like I did, but instead drove. 

• So I walked downtown, met my friend, and then quietly checked out the public speakers and had a brief discussion with the kind leader of one of Canada's political parties.