Global Cooling

Here's a great link on the global warming trend:

The Pattern of Isreal.

God blesses and curses. Our Country has turned from God. We have made bad choices and we will be held accountable for them. Just as Israel in the Bible, we will be destroyed for our iniquities..."for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us."

Trust Your Government Like a Wolf

I spend a lot of time working with Governments, my profession is closely related to the operations of state and local governments. I had someone ask me once if I noted a lot of fraud during my interaction with these government entities and I would like to explain what I do see and how it is a microcosm of larger things. Just as Enron was a microcosm of larger things. There's a definite pattern that can be clearly identified within governments or what I'll refer to as large power systems. Maybe I shouldn't even use the word large. Where there's power there are abuses of power. My experience with state and local governments is that there really isn't a major fraud problem at the ground level, in the details of their book keeping and spending. You do have problems with entities like the City of Bell, California from time to time but even those are indicative of the fact that the real abuses take place by people of authority and often aren't illegal at all. They are decisions made well within the purview of their authority.
So the problem isn't fraud the problem really is one of abuse by those in authority. I think this issue is systemic. The same problem existed with Enron and as we've seen with the housing bubble it exists at the level of the US Government as well. Where there's power there's corruption. You can't avoid it. I believe that is one of the major messages of the reign of Saul, David, and Solomon. Even the Lords chosen were corrupted. Only one is fit to rule, and in the mean time we better be sure we aren't letting our guard down. Trust your government like you would a wolf.

Update on the acceptance of Pedophelia as healthy sexuality:

There has recently been a brief uproar in the media regarding the sale of an ebook by Amazon.com promoting Pedophelia or as the politically correct will soon demand "Pedosexuality". As you will note in my earlier blogpost I predicted that this same train of thought would follow on the heals of the Prop 8 Hate propoganda. News coverage of course has censured this position however the fact that it is even being entertained of course means that soon the talking heads will be suggesting that it is in fact just another healthy sexual preference and deserves protection under the law. So now I guess we will need to extend the acronym to...LGBP. Perhaps we should also cut to the chase and ad the B to include the important protection of bestosexuality.

-Porter

Invasion of Privacy: Google and My Mormon Underwear

Privacy is one of those words that will have a different meaning to the coming generation. Precisely because the coming generation will have none. To my surprise the ad at the top of my Gmail account this evening referred to "Mormon Underwear". Yes, I am a Mormon, and yes I wear underwear. In fact I wear Mormon underwear as many of you who are Mormon or know Mormons may understand. Mormons and their beliefs are a topic for another conversation. Regardless of your beliefs and whatever type of underwear you subscribe to, privacy is a right that is quickly disappearing. I've never sent an email about my Mormon underwear, I've never Googled Mormon underwear, in fact I don't think I've ever discussed my Mormon underwear with another human being. So how has Google tallied enough information about me to know about my Mormon underwear? When will Google quit reading my mail? I thought they only did that in oppressive or communist countries. And when will Google stop tallying my searches in an attempt to understand my most inner thoughts? I think the short answer is never. Maybe even more appalling, when are people going to care that this is happening? The short answer to that is likely...once it's too late to do anything about it. I gave a report on Google in a university English class several years ago, and for fun mentioned that if Google wanted to they could put together all your email transactions from Gmail, all your searches through their search engine, and every Youtube video you've ever watched and paint a picture of you that is terribly detailed, perhaps more detailed than most of us are comfortable with. I said it just to make a fun point to the class, but I honestly didn't really worry about it then, because I thought Google would never do such a thing. How naive I was and how quickly science fiction is coming true. Someone once told me that poor people in 3rd world countries aren't really so bad off, because they don't know anything different. It doesn't seem so bad to them. So maybe losing our right to privacy won't be so bad because in a generation of two most humans will never have known anything different either. Welcome to 1984, and yes, I know Blogger is in fact owned by Google too.

God's Economy

I never want to stand before God and know that He knows I was a coward or a traitor to what I knew. There's a lot of "knows" in that sentence. You might need to read it twice. That's a tough goal. Due diligence is a phrase commonly used in the legal and professional world. In the religious world I've often heard people discuss the idea of "God's economy". The usage often goes like this, "In God's economy you will not receive something through prayer that God has already provided you with the opportunity to have through a duty you failed to fulfill." You might need to read that one twice also. God's economy is maybe more easily understood in the concept of God's transactions with man. God dwells in the universe of laws. Likewise the devil or "old scratch" dwells in the universe between laws. Both God and old scratch transact with man. The universe of those transactions may be called an economy. Patterns of transaction based upon the wants, resources and rules of each arena are observable. In God's economy we are given opportunities. Those opportunities appear in ways much different than often we perceive opportunities in Man's economy because value in God's economy attaches to different phenomenon than in Man's economy. Very often in God's economy, opportunities are only available to those who have performed their due diligence. In doing the things you're "supposed" to do, are commanded to do, opportunities are hidden. In obedience to "conscience". In contrast, opportunities in the devils economy are not hidden but stare you in the face. They appear all around you. They require the breaking of laws or the movement between laws, however their benefit is very real and often substantial. Within the devils economy hides the devil's opportunity. It's in getting you to do what you are not supposed to do that he finds his opportunity, his benefit. In disobedience to "conscience" or even the elimination of it.

Our Generations Moral Compass

We're a generation intellectually nourished by MTV. We're really a bunch of lost idiots with no morals or ethics aside from these two defining ideals:

1. Racism is wrong (and if nobody has told you yet, you are probably racist)
2. Everything else is okay

Of course racism is wrong. However, MTV culture has managed to pound into our Cheeto nourished brains that the two ideas go hand in hand and if you don't agree with idea number two, then you also must not agree with idea number one. I'm really annoyed from hearing idiots claim intellectual superiority by claiming to have the inside scoop on the rest of the population being racist. I'm tired of corrupt people using the racism shield to manipulate a dumbed down public from what is really taking place in society. I think Barak Obama is a socialist. I am an American. Someone taking America down the path of the USSR is abhorrent to me. Does that mean I'm racist because coincidentally the person facilitating the communist revolution in America is also black? The answer according to our generations moral compass of course is of course yes. I am also not ok with everything else going on in the world. I must be a white racist, case closed. I also think the people of Israel are occupying someone else's country. Kind of like the early Americans decided that they would take the Indians land. I don't think it's a fair thing. However, the people of Israel are also Jewish. Everyone knows that if you speak out against someone Jewish then you are a closet skinhead. I guess I'm a skinhead. I don't know why I can't just grow some morals and relax. I should just declare that white people are bad and Barak can go on destroying America as long as nobody in America is racist. Our Country is toast. We're swimming in a sea of idiots. The elite will in fact win and they are winning because they are smarter than us. I'm really disappointed in the people of America.

The Evolution of Evil Men

Power, money, and sex corrupt. Corruption is when men are willing to break rules or laws to obtain these things. The most talented of corrupt men achieve corruption in the highest of places. If within a body such as a corporation or government it is known that opportunity for such things exist. Corrupt men seeking for such things will begin to compete with one another for position. And as they say, may the best man win, or in this case the most effectively evil and ruthless man win. When lawless men compete with other lawless men, it is the most cunning and ruthless that will win. Because of this an environment is created where corruption is able to evolve into the most diabolical evils. Hitler would seem like a real anomoly otherwise. I don't think there are many Hitlers out there. However the nature of our government and power causes the few potential items out there to compete with one another and evolve and grow until the most evil man comes out on top and you get a Hitler. That is why society must be careful whom they allow to hold positions of power. That is why it is necessary to have educated citizens and that is why it is necessary for the government to be subject to every form of scrutiny. Otherwise you create an atmosphere like a cancer where finally the most evil, intelligent, ruthless man emerges wearing the gauntlet of power and all that you hold dear as a society will be destroyed. It can happen anywhere and will.

My Chiropractor Warned Me About This...

My chiropractor grumbled to me while he was working on my shoulder, "people don't change". He was talking about his obnoxious father in law. He said you just can't change people, people don't change. I was really offended. I was really bothered by what he said. It really went against everything that I believed about life...when I was twenty.

A few years later and you know, I am really disappointed with people. Deep down I am really disappointed with the quality of people that I've met and found in the world. When I was young I believed in people. I loved people. I thought there were people in the world worth knowing, worth becoming friends with. But I got to know some of them. I became friends with a lot of them. I've known a lot of people. It's funny the way that it's turned out to be. It's really odd that what's expected has become so uniform. I don't know why it is, but the whole world sometimes seems to be made up of morally, mentally useless people. People who don't think, don't care. People you couldn't have an interesting or meaningful conversation with if the fate of the universe depended on it.

I really don't bother with people much anymore because I know how it will turn out. I can't stand having friends anymore because I know how it will turn out. People really are people. You can't change them. They don't change. I don't expect much from them. I know how they will behave. I know what they'll do.

If the world needed a big change, and it does, it's not going to get it. I guarantee it. We're not going to change. I'd bet my life on it. I wish we would, but we won't. That's just the way it is.