Requested by Erlene, a worship song based on Revelation: The Midnight Cry, sung by John Jones.
I’m back from the doctor’s now because I was the first one there this morning. I’m all right, he says.
While I was there, Patty went out and did a couple of errands. She hasn’t been able to do that for months! Thank you, everybody, for your prayers; and thank you, Lord Jesus, for hearing them.
Can you imagine this song being a hit today? The Bible Tells Me So–written by Dale Evans, sung with her husband, Roy Rogers (“King of the Cowboys!”)–was released in 1962. I remember hearing it on the radio. “Faith, hope, and charity, that’s the way to live successfully. How do I know? The Bible tells me so!”
Meanwhile, I’m vegetating in the doctor’s waiting room… and hoping a lot of you will browse the blog archives while you’re here and I’m there.
No, I’m not going to post a picture of a sex-bot! Here’s a nice summery katydid instead–and thanks be to God for the way they sing to us at night.
“All it takes it one line of bad code,” an expert warns–and next thing you know, your superhumanly strong mechanical girlfriend has got her hands around your neck and won’t let go, she’s strangling you, dude–!
No, not a nightmare. More of an absurdity. Be that as it may, we have been warned: “coding errors” might turn your sex-both into an unstoppable killing machine (https://clarion.causeaction.com/2019/08/25/sex-bots-with-coding-errors-prone-to-violence-and-could-strangle/).
Especially, warns the expert, “if they are equipped with free will.”
Equipped with free will? By who? Oh–by the programmer. So you mean they are programmed to have free will?
I can hardly believe I’m typing this absurdity. But I assure you I’m not making it up. It only sounds that way.
So, if you’re one of those weird people who has a sex-bot…
Well, whatever happens probably serves you right.
It’s really college prep…
So they canceled the kindergarten show because they thought the four- and five-year-olds needed to spend the time getting ready for college. You don’t know whether to burst out laughing or take off your hat and bow your head for a moment of silence.
When I said the “educators” have leaf-litter for brains, I was being charitable. But the parents who send their children to be “taught” by these clowns are not much better.
Actually, the way college is now, a four-year-old ought to do quite well there.
An Icelandic rock band called Arstidir decided to sing an a capella hymn–in a railway station. This is how it turned out. And I guess we have to make an exception to the rule that rockers can’t sick, because this is beautiful.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!
Unlike the cats in this video, our cat Peep likes me to sing to her. Her favorites are “Walk like a Peep, Talk like a Peep” and “Farewell and Adieu to You, Fair Spanish Peepsters.” It’s probably a plus that I don’t sound like Julio Iglesias.
I’m afraid most of the people in this little film deserved to be silenced by their cats.
She’s not ready to go out and tangle with an Ankylosaurus, or take break-dancing lessons; but as her assorted doctors try to find just the right medication for her, my wife has begun to feel better and yesterday was able to go grocery-shopping with me. The inhaler she’s using now seems to be doing some good.
So I thank all of you out there who’ve prayed for us, and ask you to keep on praying: we’re not out of the woods yet. But maybe we’re getting there–for which we give God the glory, and our thanks. Praying always in Jesus’ name, Amen.
I just remembered I have to write a Newswithviews column today, somehow. That’s along with trying to finish writing a chapter of The Wind From Heaven, coming up with more material for the blog, and getting it all done today because tomorrow I’ll be stuck in the doctor’s waiting room all morning.
When it comes to work, my cup runneth over.
At least the threat of rain has passed. I can go outside and write my book.
(This cat is making me dizzy, just watching him…)
Requested by Joshua, God Is My Redeemer, by GLAD. Sung a capella with skill and discipline that awes me–all in God’s service and to His praise. I was in a choir once, but they just had me stand in the back row and move my lips.
Is your score high enough to allow you to eat at decent restaurant?
How would you like to be punished for something without even knowing what it was, without a trial, without a chance to defend yourself, without even a chance to say anything about it? And because the punishment is not administered by the legal system, there’s no way to appeal it, no way to get it lifted.
Welcome to Red China’s “social credit” system. There, Big Tech closely monitors everything that everybody says and does and helps the government “rate” citizens according to their “trustworthiness”… as defined by the government. You run up points for doing things the government likes for you to do; and if your score is too low, you can’t shop at the nicer stores, can’t sent your kids to a nice school, can’t hold a good job, can’t travel on a plane, can’t ride the choo-choo train.
Here, Big Tech’s mouth is watering as they dream up ways to impose a similar system on the increasingly less “free” world (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/08/26/fast-company-silicon-valley-is-building-a-communist-style-social-credit-system/).
Some of the big corporations–banks, insurance companies, Facebook, Uber, and Lyft, and even Amazon–are already rating their customers, and some are banning people for having “wrong” opinions. (Note: I got banned by Facebook yesterday.) Say the wrong thing on the social media, and maybe next time you need a ride from Uber, the algorithm will say you can’t have one.
This is a liberal’s dream come true. Why go to all the trouble of passing a law against Climbit Change Denial, and maybe have a judge just strike it down, when Big Tech is ready, willing, and able to do your dirty work for you? And your victim won’t be able to go to court and get his punishment lifted. You don’t even have to tell him why he’s being punished.
Remember a book called Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner, vintage 1971? Freedom and dignity, argued the father of behavior modification theory, are outdated and “unscientific,” obstacles to a utopia designed by Scientists and the kind of government that’ll kill you as soon as look at you.
“Social credit” is behavior mod for the entire country, administered by private entities without the consent of the governed–but certainly with a sly wink from the Democrats.
Please! Do not, under any circumstances, vote for any Democrat anywhere! Next year is our chance to put them out of business… before they put our country out of business.