Leaping quanta, and other matters

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Jan 21, 2015 at 23:58

...our different life experiences, social paradigms, access to relevant media...

Yikes, Waza, you sound like a social scientist!

"...from Norway to Australia - the perception of the islamisation by stealth of our cultures that so very many Westerners have is virtually identical. It gets to a tipping point where we either are totally deluded and the people who say that muslims want to integrate, love us all and only want their religion for themselves are correct . Or - the opposite is true - that we realise the longterm effects of islamisation by stealth to our cultures - and the 'yay' sayers are themselves deluded..."

I honestly don't know about this, Waz, having never lived around Muslims. I've lived around American Blacks, Mexicans and poor Whites, generally in combination. There was never anything "stealthy" about that bunch -- they just had a lifestyle that included foul language, loud music, and a nasty habit of mugging people, that tended to drive as many as could afford it to leave the neighborhood. I thought the situation "from Norway to Australia" was along those lines; so I may have been wrong.

"There is a third option - be totally detached from the outcome and don't care one way or another as the world does what it is going to do anyway. This third option is quite sensible too, in one way. Any of us could leave tomorrow - so who cares what happens - when our main responsibility is to be happy wthin ourselves simply because we are in touch with ourselves?"

That sort of thing a bloke does with himself in private -- is that called "being in touch"? Yeah, it does make one sort of happy, able to get away from it all. In the US, once someone gets enough money, especially if he's married, he packs up his family and moves to the suburbs. We've gone one further -- we're practically in the boondocks.

"But we might have longer than we think. I believe we make history every day and bad things will happen if people are not made aware of the potential losses. We do owe it to children growing up now not to leave a world that has fallen into an islamic sh*hole due to our cowardice to say what we know is right"

1. "longer than we think..." I suppose you're talking about end-times prophecies. The way I have it figured, I might get to see Zechariah 14 happen while I'm still alive. Oh joy, joy! (sarcasm) Nuclear war -- just the thing to ward off boredom. My other option is to die before that happens. At age 66, that might not be so far away. I have a Muslim doctor, who says, "You're a ticking time bomb, ready to explode!" I've never heard it put that way; but when a Muslim talks about these things, it gets scary, don't you think?

2. "...we make history every day..." Hah. I AM history. I was part of the Vietnam War, the Counterculture and the Jesus Movement -- all momentous happenings, all of them completely screwed up by the historians so that they aren't anything like what I remembered. "Making history" is greatly over-rated.

3. "...bad things will happen if people are not made aware of the potential losses...." Yeah, as Isaiah said, "Who has believed our report?"

Do you know why I do this prophecy stuff? Because I like looking into things, investigating life. In Bible prophecies, God gives us tidy hooks to hang things on as we sort out the mess around us, and helps us make sense of it all. That's what I do, what I'm interested in, so of course, that's what I like to talk about. It is nice to think I'm doing some good, in warning people -- maybe even eternal good, if it causes someone to abandon wickedness and return to God; but if I didn't enjoy it, I don't think I would do it.

Back to "paradigms" . How about "quantum leaps"? Now, there's a fancy word -- there's even a branch of physics called "Quantum Physics". But did you know, that "quantum" is just the neuter form of "qantas"? And we all know what a qantas is -- it's something that leaps through the air, to whit, a kangaroo. I'll bet you never knew of the connection, which proves that we never stop learning.

Shalom shalom :-)

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