Bullet Monday: Strawberry heads forever?

Canada day: Steveston, Richmond

Flickr: Not actually Chuck

•Chuck continues to build his legendary saint status. On Canada day, he realized that he was to drive the two of us out to Steveston, Richmond or Surrey-Largely to get the 'Hintz' that evening for fireworks. This is approximately up to a one hour drive, and up to a two hour round trip.

•Does Chuck earlier in the day, drive his brothers to somewhere closer to Maple Ridge? No. no. no, this computerized genius takes his brothers way out to a boat in Richmond, brings them home, has dinner, then takes him and I back to Richmond for the Steveston, Canada Day, 150th Anniversary celebration.

•With all those hours of driving in the summer heat, no wonder, Saint Chuckles often looks like strawberry heads forever.

•This from Chuck, that when he visits here some weekends requires a huge pot of coffee to avoid getting sleepy by 10 pm.

•At the Steveston event, our group had fine seafood within a technically floating restaurant. Philosophy Man, Deaaannn, stated (paraphrased) his opinion that American evangelicals have sold themselves out supporting an ethically questionable President Trump. He also critiqued that with the Republican health care reforms, millions of Americans will be left without health care. This issue has been a documented concern on Facebook by another good friend of mine, Documentary Man.

•I did introduce Philosophy Man to Documentary Man back in 2002 when Documentary Man visited. Metropolitan Vancouver. Thankfully the universe did not implode.

•At the seafood dinner, I agreed with Deaaannn that President Trump was ethically questionable. I reason there are too many, for example, questionable tweets and instances where a President should 'turn the other cheek' and stick to government business.

•I am a moderate conservative, and I did state at the table that I am not a typical 'What would Jesus do?' commenter. But, being in Christ, I do not believe that the Biblical God would call Christians to support an ethical view where people are left without at least basic essential healthcare. I realize that more complex treatments may not always be covered by a government or insurance. This is the case here in British Columbia. On Thursday I have to spend $1450 on a custom wheelchair for the Boss. I also had to pay $500 to redo three rooms in order for the Boss to be set up in the living room.

•A problem with the very conservative view that 'stupid people' that waste their lives and do not insure selves properly, do not deserve health care is that sometimes these people have children and/or other dependents. I do not think the children should pay for the mistakes of their parents when it comes to health care. Nor should other dependents.

•My conservative, libertarian view on government spending is that all of the essentials. health care, infrastructure, security, mandated education and deemed essentials, should be fully covered before there are any funds available for secondary concerns. Especially politically charged political agendas!

•For balance, for my conservative friends, I do reason that President Trump, being a successful businessman can lead an administration which does at least, benefit the American economy by eliminating some unnecessary restrictions on business. I am not stating to forget about protecting the environment for the sake of economic growth.

•I have watched Fox News for a few months now. I do think it is mainstream media, it is just not the liberal mainstream media, it is the conservative mainstream media. There is a different theme, largely for entertainment purposes. See Hannity, especially. I do reason Tucker Carlson Tonight offers many good insights.

Pastor claims he went to hell & killed Satan

Happyhana.com: Isaac Asempah, June 23 2017

Cited

'Pastor MBORO has claimed on his Facebook page that he went to hell and killed satan.

On a post that was later deleted when people started asking questions, the pastor claims God sent him to hell to get rid of world’s number one enemy.

He wrote “when I got to hell there was a queue of millions of people waiting to be braai’d by Satan. I even saw some prominent South African politicians. I was so shocked because they lived like angels here on earth. I thought they went to heaven. When Satan saw me he panicked and directed his army to kill me. Like Samson in the Bible, I defeated them. Satan was my last victim”'

Morningpost.co.za: June 26 2017

Same story linked above:

What does the Scripture state is the end of Satan and satanic beings:

Revelation 20

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain [a]in his hand. 2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. 4 Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of [b]their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

7 When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the [c]seashore. 9 And they came up on the [d]broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the [e]saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and [f]brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose [g]presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and [h]books were opened; and another [i]book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the [j]books, according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if [k]anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Footnotes: Revelation 20:1 Lit upon Revelation 20:4 Lit the Revelation 20:8 Lit sea Revelation 20:9 Lit breadth of the earth Revelation 20:9 Or holy ones Revelation 20:10 I.e. burning sulphur Revelation 20:11 Lit face Revelation 20:12 Or scrolls Revelation 20:12 Or scroll Revelation 20:12 Or scrolls Revelation 20:15 Lit anyone was
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Scholars can debate in regard to the degrees of literalness from this particularly, eschatological, apocalyptic literature. Mounce writes that there is 'an indefensible literalism or a highly imaginative subjectivism. I have attempted to steer a middle course because that is the way I believe the ancient text fell upon the ears of the seven first-century churches in Asia to whom it was written.' (12).

Accepting this reasonable scholarship; Revelation as text is sufficiently literal throughout, that Satan's fate within the lake of fire is predetermined by God. It can be theologically reasoned that Satan is not going to be killed in the meantime by anyone!

'On a post that was later deleted when people started asking questions,...'

This pastor needs to resign from 'ministry' and work on his improving his poor fiction writing skills.

MOUNCE, ROBERT H. (1990) The Book of Revelation, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Bullet Wednesday: So then who are the fascists?

•BBC News June 28 2017 Chucky posted this link on Facebook.

•Since switching cable from Shaw to Telus, I now can watch Fox News, besides CNN, BBC and other. Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox, provides the narrative that there is a radical, fascist left today in the United States and the United Kingdom. This radical left is in particular within some American colleges and Universities, which are stated to have intolerant millennial students being influenced by leftist professors. There are some examples documented and shown by Fox News that do demonstrate a lack of intellectual toleration on campus.

•I of course went through this losing my PhD appointment at the University of Manchester and then moving to the University of Wales, for MPhil and PhD degrees. I faced academic bias that could be considered from a liberal, secular view.

•I have British friends, in person and on Facebook that opine at times that President Donald Trump and the Republicans have fascist leanings.

•Who are fascists? According to British philosopher, Blackburn: Fascism entails; nationalism, hostility to ideals of equality, hatred of minorities, degenerates and deviants, elitism, hostility toward the ideas of liberalism, and opposition to the freedom of expression, the cult of the charismatic leader, the destiny of race, political symbolism, the need for energy and struggle, the need for human action as influence. (136).

•The radical left wing academics may be intolerant at times, but are not generally nationalistic, they do support aspects of equality and are not generally against minorities, degenerates and deviants. They also support certain ideas of liberalism. President Donald Trump and the Republicans, certainly support many aspects of freedom and have criticized the elites. Seems to me, neither group is classically fascist, therefore, if either or both groups have neo-fascist aspects that would have to be debated.

•As I have mentioned both in offline and online in regard to politics, there is a radical left and radical right and any Christians in either group, should repent and seek a more gospel focused approach to life and politics.

•'Krazy' day for me. RMH called me to let me know they were ready to ask the Red Cross to move in Mother's new supplies for the return of the Boss. But not into her bedroom as was expected, no, in the living room/den. Well, I had not been told for certain it would be the living room/den. I was expecting her bedroom to be changed. I will have to have a friend assist me move her bed out, because she needs a hospital bed, and a new lift. But with the move taking place in the living room/den, a hospital bed will eliminate the room socially for watching television other than for Mother. The sofa needs to be moved out, into her bedroom.

•My loft therefore becomes the new den, where I can invite friends over and watch television. The loft is our social area, but in the past, if we watched television, it would be downstairs. Thankfully, by God's grace, I had a notion I needed to have an upstairs television as an option, so when I switched my cable provider to Telus, I had Telus set up the loft set up for television. I just had to purchase a new television, which I did today. When I was installing the television stand, the guide on the television broke and fell inside the television. I took it back to the dealer and the salesperson assisted with the completion and stated it was no problem.

•The Telus technician and myself, had created quite a 'nest' of chords. I had to move furniture to correct, today. This photo below shows a nest half the size that existed. This is just the chords that no longer belong.

•Chucky stated the other day while looking at the Facebook mobile, 'Search' application, that when he types in a letter of the alphabet, the 'sl***' and 'wh****' have been cleaned up. I stated, I agreed, and it had taken a couple of years. By the way, I told Chuckins about the application, in the first place.

•Facebook cleaning out the trash leaves more room for my high quality female stalkers to reappear on the application.

•I receive Facebook messages from women daily. I am not interested in playing, the 'Where do you live?', 'How old are you?', 'Are you married?', boring game. Not investigating where I live shows intellectual laziness and that the young woman probably noted that I have a PhD and thinks that the sinful and classic potential sex for potential $$$ ploy might entice me. No thanks! I need someone that I could discuss Reformed theology with and philosophy of religion. I think that would be God's will for me, if someone was a right person. A problem is limiting such a rare person, today, to within 5 years of age of me is philosophically absurd!

•According to the Dalrock blog, (paraphrased) Christian, young women, due to feministic influences, such as career and a market value dating theory, will in their early 20's reject numerous men, that were possibly or potentially good husbands. Market value dating gives young women the highest market value and therefore, a young woman is informed by western society that she should be choosy and play the field and pick someone suitable at a later age rather than in her early twenties. Perhaps in her early to mid 30's.

•From my Reformed theological perspective this is highly problematic. This approach assumes there is no reasonable way that God would will that a Christian young woman could meet a good potential husband, perhaps the best one, at an early age where she is more immature. This approach omits the concept that God could use an evolving relationship to mature the young woman in order that she would be ready for marriage, when initially she felt this was not reasonable. Therefore, the young woman is left with following a heavily, secular influenced system and placing God in a relationship, marriage box that God would not put the man into her life, until she is ready, assuming that is not in her early twenties. It assumes that by the Holy Spirit a very young woman would not be evolved into a ready person at early adulthood. Yet this certainly occurred in earlier eras...

•Market value dating is unbiblical because it is more concerned with the desires of finite, sinful persons (universal humanity, Romans, Galatians) that supposedly deserve someone of equal social and physical value. This opposed to pursuing someone in Christ, of the opposite sex, that is not aged and can partake in producing a family. It is not concerned with a biblical standard of mutual spiritual, intellectual and romantic attraction in Jesus Christ.

Nothing to be proud about, I suppose

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Howard Hughes?

My Mother @RMH is developing 'Howard Hughes' like fingernails...

The kind nurse offered to assist, if I brought a new/private pair of clippers in...