Abigail and Dolley is a record of the ponderings and interests of a Modern Woman. From faith, to hobbies, to political and social commentary; I share with you whatever is brewing around in my brain at the time. Thanks for reading!
Whenever I stumble upon a Christian writer, I try to determine early on what they believe, this is prudent. Here at Abigail and Dolley we believe in the inerrancy of the Scripture (Protestant), that the word of God is inspired and infallible, that all Scripture is useful in the teaching and reproofing of the people. We don't pick and choose which Scriptures we like, we take the Word as it was given to us. We are pretribulation Rapture dispensationalist and believe in a literal Second Coming and Millennial Reign. We believe in crucifixion of the flesh and reject the tenants of the Word of Faith heresy. We believe the age of Grace is rapidly coming to an end at that the Church will be called home to meet the Lord soon, from there a 7 year Tribulation will descend upon the World. Maranantha.
Abigail and Dolley readers have you heard about the Sustainability Movement? Ordinary folks have started little farms. They are growing or making all their own food, building solar panel ovens, collecting rain water, and checking out from everyday American life. In the not so distant past, this type of isolated life was unthinkable and was reserved for the likes of militia and cults. Something changed and a significant number of people are living off the grid.
Do a Google search on the Sustainability Movement or Revolution or Lifestyle. Go on Facebook and rabbit trail around, there are thousands of sites and bloggers. From a secular perspective, the origins of the movement are laid out very well in this article. Reading through it, we see it was founded out of the Environmentalist Movement which is in its essence a hard core ideology that has combined nature lovers with anarchists. Before you shut me down, I am not saying all these modern pioneers are anarchists and environmental zealots, I am simply stating that the beginning of sustainability was born out of this movement.
Modern Homestead
Logically then, the first, second, and third wave adopters are decidedly left of center. The first being radical, the second probably being more spiritual, and the third probably more idealistic. The fourth wave? I'd surmise the Homeschooling Parent and that is where it crossed the political boundary. As the numbers grew, ordinary folks began to pick up on some of what they were saying and eventually the organic movement seeped into mainstream America. Newt Gingrich was the first conservative I ever heard talk about the environment as an issue where the right and the left can find common ground. Throw in the hard core right who, under the influence of World Net Daily and Glenn Beck, are stockpiling supplies and preparing for the end and you have a very unique mix of seemingly unrelated groups. In a nutshell, they are all "Preppers".
Prepper Gun Cache
Today, folks from all walks of life are modern day homesteaders. They are bartering with their neighbors, raising chickens and goats, growing their own food, making their own cleaning and hygiene products, and weaning their dependence on Big Food. We find common ground in The Food Babe Army who is pressuring corporations to remove harmful chemicals from their products. The gardening community is afire with the Back to Eden Film and this is where I had my "Aha" moment.
Survival Tent
I view everything through my worldview filter. I believe that we are living in the last days and that the Rapture of the Church is imminent. But what of those left behind? What of the Tribulation Saints? How are they going to survive when the Antichrist rules this world? How will they eat, where will they hide? I believe that God has been making provision for these people for years. Without their knowledge, without their understanding, He has called them out and taught them what they will need to know. He has provided a place for them to hide, a way for them to feed themselves, and an environment where they can be safe.
Prepper Pantry
Since the earliest adopters of this movement are decidedly anti-christian they will be the most well versed and the best established. They know how to harvest rain, build solar ovens, dehydrate food, raise livestock, and build houses from bags of dirt and shipping containers! They even feel that we are on the precipice and are frantically calling on their spiritual leaders to promote sustainability.
As for me and mine, I figure some of my unsaved neighbors will use my garden. Unsaved friends will remember the couple who has been preparing for years and will eat the stashes of survival food stored in bunkers, basements, and modern fall out shelters. God in His mercy knows they will need it.
About 6 months after we moved into our neighborhood, the city put speed humps on the main drag. I voted against them, but when my side lost I had to admit that in spite of careful intentions I did find myself going a lot faster than I should. Since it was a familiar stretch of road, my mind would go on autopilot. After a long day at work and a hellish commute, I would fly through the neighborhood in a hurry to get home.
The first day the road humps were there, it was a shock. Had I not been paying attention I might have done some serious damage to my car. The jet black humps stood out from the faded gray asphalt but the city crew did not paint the white arrows on the humps for several days. Thankfully, there was a warning sign posted in the neighborhood and later that week the white arrows were painted.
Missing the Warning Signs
As the years have gone by, I don't notice the road humps any more. The warning signs are obscured by tree branches and the dark black of the new asphalt has faded to nearly match the gray of the original road. We putz through the neighborhood, going the speed limit and slowing for the obstacles automatically. In many ways, I am thankful for the speed humps, they slow me down and have kept my neighborhood safe.
There is a lesson in these speed humps for every Christian. Before the speed bumps and warning signs, we fly through life in a hurry to get home. We know we should be slowing down and obeying the laws but we forget, get distracted, and end up going way too fast. We don't want laws or rules to make us do those things but once they are there we realize they were for our own good.
When we first see the signs, we have to look carefully - they appear to be part of the road but we know there is something up ahead. We cautiously approach them, testing their impact and slowly make our way along the path, recognizing the signs that God has put in our midst. Preachers may begin to teach on these humps and the white lines of warning are painted on them. In the beginning, we note the signs and the evidence of the obstacles. We discuss them with our neighbors. While they may appear to some as part of the road we recognize them for what they are.
After years though, the signs and the evidence become part of the journey. The black asphalt fades to almost the same color of the road and we no longer pay attention to the signs. As a body, we in the Church are used to the signs. They are part of the road, part of the world, and we don't even notice them anymore.
The shame of this is that while the Body of Christ lies sleeping, the King is approaching. Instead of shouting an alarm to the lost, we hunker down with false prophets and teach about "health and wealth", we condemn the lost instead of reaching out, or worse yet, we blaspheme and fall away in an apostasy that is astounding.
The vacuum left by the Body of Christ will be filled with something! The world is lost and confused. The believers in aliens see the imminent return. The environmentalist believe the Earth is trying to tell us something because of climate change. The fringe chemtrail, Nibiru, Lizard People believe the End is Near! Even the folks that don't prescribe to any of these theories see what is going on around us and shake their head because somethingis going on....
The World sees these signs and they are trying to interpret them, all great lies from the Devil have grains of truth in them! "Aliens" are showing themselves, but they are not what they claim to be. The Earth IS groaning but not because of Global Warming. There ARE strange things in the sky and many ARE controlled by "lizard people", but they aren't lizard people, they are ancient evil.
Everyone believes and sees the world through their own filter, everyone believes they are right. Empirically, the Church has it
right. Not because we are smarter, or better, but because we base our
worldview on the Bible, a 4000 year old book that has NEVER been wrong,
it doesn't change, and it is a solid foundation for which man has
governed himself and the world since Creation. The Bible gives us the clear signs, it is up to us to point them out to each other and to explain them to the world and THAT my friends is what I have been trying to do. Blessings to you and yours, In Christ! "Dolley".
Tornadoes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Nuclear Disasters, Floods, and Mud Slides have descended upon the Earth with a ferocity never recorded. Global Financial collapse looms as the dollar plummets, the integrity of gold deposits is called into question (Fake Gold Bars), and the stability of the stock market is in serious doubt due to an ever growing and insidious Global Financial Scam. Real unemployment is quickly approaching levels not seen since the Great Depression. Global Warming has been unmasked as a serious hoax through Climategate. The World's Savior, Barack Obama, so lauded by the lost as the Messiah, has proven himself a humiliating, bumbling and weak buffoon as clearly demonstrated by this video, Worst Foreign Trip Ever. Wars are being fought across the globe, the world is lining up against Israel, and the great restrainer, the USA, is stretched to the absolute limit and going broke. Disease and starvation annihilate the Third World especially through malaria and AIDS. The irony is that both conditions are preventable with DDT and abstinence coupled with Biblical marriage, respectively. In short, this world is teetering on the razor's edge of disaster and evil seems to be ruling the day.
Do not be deceived, these calamities are not random. They are designed to demonstrate to human beings that they are not in control of this Earth. We are not the supreme authority here and nothing in this life is safe, permanent, and secure. Everything can collapse and things we have held dear seem to be running through our fingers like sand. There is but one who is steadfast and true. There is one hope for a suffering and dying world, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Does HE have your attention, now? If not, what's it going to take? Do not be a hard-hearted and stiff necked fool! Do not reject the gift of salvation that costs you nothing and saves everything. If you have already made that transaction but continue to live in self sufficiency, is HE calling you back into fellowship with him? If you are an on fire believer are you praying for this lost world and conforming yourself daily to be like Christ to the damned?
It is time to wake up folks, these are the birth pains. The Lord is rich in mercy and desires that no one should reject Him and damn themselves to eternal torment. HE loves you, HE died for you, and HE wants you to come to Him and have fellowship with Him. If you have never before asked the Lord into your life, all you have to do is pray something like this:
Lord Jesus, I am a sinner in need of a Savior. I believe that you were born of a virgin, crucified for my sins, and on the third day rose from the dead. Please forgive me of my sins, come into my heart and save me. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Amen.
Abigail and Dolley readers I have in recent months watched a couple documentaries that have concerned me greatly: The Great Global Warming Swindle and Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed. Both of these documentaries demonstrate that the Scientific Community is effectively silencing dissension on Evolution and Global Warming. They are taking away the Freedom of Speech for thousands of scientists that question the validity of these theories.
Careers and lives are being ruined for straying from the party line, even slightly. Mere mention of Intelligent Design can get you fired. I would venture to say that since Climategate, the opponents of Global Warming are not in as much danger as they were before, but that is really beside the point. Suppression of free speech in the scientific community hurts everyone. If scientists are not free to evaluate the evidence truthfully then real break through is not possible.
Scientists that make discoveries that bolster the arguments of the "other" side are forced to come out publicly and refute their findings in order to save their careers. A case in point is the discovery of plasma, red blood cells, and connective tissues in a dinosaur bone. (To watch the video, click here: T-Rex Blood Cells). This discovery flies right in the face of the old earth evolutionist of which the scientist who discovered it belongs. Instead of being free to consider the possibility that this dinosaur bone is hundreds or thousands of years old, the lady is publicly declaring from the rooftops that she STILL believes in evolution and just can't explain why the pesky facts don't fit into their theory.
There in lies the rub, the facts just don't add up. When scientists are discovering things that refute the pet theories they are too afraid to publish them, so they are hidden and covered up. I am not a conspiracy theorist but there is enough evidence out there to validate this point. Today, there are thousands of gifted scientists that will look through their microscopes, look at their data, and marvel at their discoveries but will be too afraid to share these with the world for fear that their careers will be ruined.
I love when God uses His sense of humor. Nothing stuck my funny bone more in the last few days than the latest debacle in LA. It seems there is a new $75 million dollar school dedicated to the Green Religion (can I bring suit against them for preaching their religion in public schools?) that has been named after Al Gore and Rachel Carson. The hysterical part is that it is sitting on toxic soil! Rachel Carson is responsible for the ban on DDT and thus responsible for the murder of millions through malaria. See the article from a few days ago! We all know Mr. Bozo Ozone Man and all the damage his bloated bloviating mouth has done.
Anyway, I was going to say it was ironic, but as Gutfield says in the below video that is not really accurate. Fitting is more like it. I think God said, okay folks, you won't post my Commandments or let my kids pray in school but you will erect a monument to "Gaya", take that!
Abigail and Dolley readers know that I am all over the Global Warming Scam and the news is coming in fast and furious. My favorite news from yesterday was the revelation that 90% of the temperature sensors in the USA are improperly placed in accordance to the governments own rules. A volunteer organization has located nearly all of the sensors and photographed their locations. The data is posted at their web site www.surfacestations.org but as of this writing it is shut down, seemingly from the overwhelming traffic.
These sensors are supposed to be 100 feet from any influencing heat source, yet they are not. Some are near heat islands of airports, some sit beside window air conditioners, one sits on a tombstone, others are just on the blacktop. My favorite was 5 feet from a garbage can used to BURN rubbish.
Since the disputed rise in global temperatures is a mere 1.5 degrees, don't you think this is important? The scientists say they can adjust for these things, but do they? Or is this another way to manipulate and lie to the public about what is really going on.
This is truly the biggest scientific scandal of our time.
In spite of Climate gate, in spite of freezing temperatures, in spite of the biggest increase in Arctic Ice in 50 years, in spite of all the evidence of fraud, scam, and political maneuvering Climate Scientist are still insisting on Global Warming. See this Fox News Story!
Why? Two reasons - Money and Faith.
Follow the money - Climate research funding has gone from pennies to millions in two decades, these scientists do not want to loose the goose that laid the golden egg.
Follow the religion - the Religious Left can not accept the premise that THEY are not in control of what is happening on the Earth, because if this is just natural and they aren't the center of it, their faith is rocked.
I think the Earth is in the hands of the One who made it and He regularly takes care of His Creation.
I hope in the end, reason and prudence wins the day - that indeed would be a victory.
Why are we still allowing the NYT to still drive the news cycle? The Times has been exposed for who and what they are, yet this week we were speaking about Tea Part "violence" because of the 12 page article in the Times. This has to stop. They should have lost the privileged of setting the news of the day. Their reporting on the TX text book review process was so blatantly anti-Christian it made my stomach turn.
The lame stream media follows the NYT like lemmings running off a cliff. I despair though, that unless one is seeking information in the alternative media, much of the American people are still uninformed and uninvolved. I mentioned to a friend "Climategate" and she did not know a thing about it. That scared me. The media's refusal to cover the scandal and the swindle of Global Warming smacks of complicity and avarice.
Abigail and Dolley readers - keep informing, engaging, and reading. It is through our influence we will fight the tides and inform our fellow citizens of the clear and present danger.
Abigail and Dolley readers may recall another blog I wrote on this subject, The Green Movement. Today, I will examine the duped Environmentalist and through a fictional debate, show the unsuspecting, the truth behind their Religious Left beliefs.
Dolley: What role does God play in Environmentalism?
Greenie: What do you mean?
Dolley: I mean do you believe in a Creator that regularly tends to His creation?
Greenie: A Creator? Well no, all the evidence proves that we got here by evolution. Before you go getting all crazy on me, I do believe in a higher power and God of the universe.
Dolley: So you believe that god is in the earth?
Greenie: Yes, that's it exactly and as members of the universe have to take care of the earth.
Dolley: So, what you are saying is that you have to take care of god?
Greenie: (Sigh) We don't believe in god that way, but in essence yes.
Dolley: Since you believe that man was part of evolution, are humans on the same level as other creatures?
Greenie: Actually, humans are the destroyers of the earth and are by their behavior less than other creatures.
Dolley: What do you feel is the greatest threat today to the earth?
Greenie: Pollution, development, industry - we are destroying the earth.
Dolley: So do you think we should "decivilize"?
Greenie: Ideally, yes.
Dolley: Do you believe the earth was best when man lived in caves and hunted and gathered?
Greenie: Sure, of course.
Dolley: What would you say to me if I told you that Global Warming was a hoax?
Greenie: I would say you are ignorant of the truth and need to be educated.
Dolley: What if I refused to believe your education and insisted on living the way I chose?
Greenie: Well then, we would be forced to pass laws and make you conform.
Dolley: So if I understand this correctly, you do not believe in a Creator that regularly tends to His creation. You worship the god of the universe who requires you to take care of it. You believe that humans are an accident and the biggest threat to the earth and that all vestige of civilization should be wiped out to return to the perfect environmental state. If I do not believe you, you will just legislate my compliance with your religion.
Greenie: I don't like the way you make it sound, but yes, we must protect the earth and take you along kicking and screaming if we have to.
Would such an exchange ever take place? No, because most environmentalists would not answer the questions in a straight forward manner. They would dodge, misdirect, and name call. The question remains, if the above true, is it an accurate representation of their beliefs? I believe it is.
The environmentalist reject God of the Bible. My God is all powerful and the maker of this earth. My God loved me so much, he died on the cross for me as penalty for my sin. The environmentalist god demands that its subject serve it. Their god is weak and must be cared for at all costs. My God created the Heavens and the Earth. My God created man in His image and gave him dominion over the earth. The environmentalist believes that man is a scourge upon the earth and the destroyer thereof. My God gives and inspires innovation and invention that improve the plight of man on this earth, through drugs, safety, transportation, electricity, comfort, and long life. The environmentalist god says that all of these things are bad and must be dismantled. My God says, "Come to me all you who are burdened and I will give you rest, for my burden is light and my load is easy" and "For God so loved the earth, that He gave is only begotten Son, that whosoever that believith in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." The environmentalist god proclaims that if you don't believe in me I will force you, for your own good, of course.
Abigail and Dolley readers - I have to give credit to my fellow blogger, Bloviating Zeppelin for coining the phrase, Religious Left. It resonated with me tremendously and in the way a beautifully turned phrase can do, summarizes and clearly defines the object and essence of the subject.
Follow this link, Cambridge Plans to Fight Global Warming "Emergency" . This is clearly a story about the Religious Left gone wild in the name of the "Global Warming Emergency". The zealots are as fanatical and dangerous as any devoted cult, and they are creating policy and influencing public behavior.
The cultural wars are now clearly defined and at some point in the future everyone in America will need to choose their side.
Where will you fall - with the traditions this country was founded upon and embodied by the Conservative "Religious" Right or with the secular humanist, vegans, and socialists on the Progressive "Religious" Left?
The below provides the back ground to the Yuka Mountain Facility and I originally published this several months ago.
Fascism... the phrase is thrown around so lightly these days that I believe in order to support the title, I must define the word. Abigail and Dolley readers know that while some posts may be tongue in cheek, most are well reasoned works by thoughtful individuals, the rest are written by me. (There's that tongue in cheek thing again...)
Merriman's Online Dictionary defines fascist as: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
According to your worldview or political philosophy you will infer what you wish to our present leadership and circumstances. I submit to you an example of such fascism as displayed this week by the closing of the Yuka Mountain Nuclear Waste storage facility. William La Jeunesse wrote a great piece on this and I encourage you to read the article.
Basically, it boils down to this: Nuclear energy is the cleanest, safest, greenest, abundant, renewable energy source in the world. It is just not politically popular. This bad rap is not based on facts, but irrational fear and Hollywood hype. It is the ultimate in green energy, yet it is shunned in favor of expensive windmills that kill tens of thousands of birds a year, solar farms that are an eyesore, and other "green" solutions that costs 10, 20, 50, 200% more per power unit than nuclear power.
For decades, the Federal Government has been charging every household in America an excise tax on your power bill to pay for a nuclear waste disposal facility in the middle of no where. The Obama Administration has decided to close the Yuka Mountain facility leaving the nation without a place to store it's nuclear waste.
Do I sense a little "nudge" from the Obama crowd? What happens to all the waste currently being produced? Doesn't that sound unreasonable to you, to close a billion dollar facility with no alternative? Could their motive be to shut down nuclear power in the USA? Could their motive be a way to force power companies to raise rates and thus open the way for government to intervene against the evil power companies? Could their motive be to force the cap and trade bill though the Congress by demonizing electric companies who endanger the public with their dangerous nuclear waste? Could they intervene through the take over of health care and declare nuclear power a danger to our health? What about intervening from a National Security perspective since the power companies must now protect nuclear material?
Let's review:
fascist as: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Limiting Factors are facts and data that define parameters of a theory. If you Google the term most of the hits are related to Biology and photosynthesis, so for the point of clarity let's use this example:
If you find a sunken treasure in the ocean and within the wreckage you find a cask of gold coins. The gold coins will give you certain parameters to determine the origin of the ship and the approximate time that it sunk. If they are minted with the face of George Washington and bear the seal of the United States of America you can determine that these coins had to be made after 1776, right? Thus, 1776 is a limiting factor, you can not assume the coins are older than that because the USA did not EXIST under that name until 1776. Alternatively, if the pieces had dates, you would not look for the oldest date, you would look for the earliest date. Why? Simply because the latest date will give you the earliest possible time the ship could have sunken. A coin dated 1810 would define your range with a limiting factor of 1810. By using the principals of limiting factors you can safely surmise that the ship sunk somewhere after 1810.
Curiously, using Carbon 14 testing and dating, those same coins would probably show they were millions of years old. Based on the above, would you believe that? Of course not, because the known and observable history tells us differently and speculation that does not conform to the known and observable must be discarded when it does not line up with the evidence. Did you know they have Carbon 14 dated a baseball hat pulled out of the rubble after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980? The Carbon 14 test stated the baseball hat was millions of years old. Wow! Who knew the California Angels were playing millions of years ago?
Thus, if you apply certain observable and known facts about the Earth and its atmosphere you can extrapolate certain limiting factors about the age of the planet. With me so far? Good, lets go:
The Earth's rotation is slowing slightly every year. About once every year and a half we have to add a leap second to account for the slowing rotation. Thus, we can assume if the Earth is slowing then at some point the Earth must have been spinning faster, right? If the Earth is about 6000 years old then we do not have a problem, but if the Earth is Billions and Billions of years old there is a big problem. The rotation would have been such that no life could have possibly existed on the planet. The Coriolis Effect would have made the wind blow at over 5000 miles per hour. Day and night would have been mere seconds. The dinosaurs were obviously thrown into space from the centrifugal forces...
The Earth's magnetic force is lessening. That happens, over time magnets loose their force. The Earth's magnetic field is essential to life on Earth for several reasons:
It deflects most of the cosmic radiation that would otherwise destroy life.
Worldwide, precise measurements of the Earth's magnetic field have been made since 1829.
Since that time, the magnetic force of the Earth has deteriorated exponentially.
The decrease has followed a predictable curve.
By graphing this curve, the observable facts determine that life would have been impossible before 20,000 BC because the magnetic field would have been as strong as the Sun's. Furthermore, the Earth will cease to exist after 10,000 AD since for all practical purposes, with no magnetic field left the Earth will be fried by cosmic radiation.
The moon is moving away from the Earth. That's right, but don't worry it is going about 3 inches a year. That of course is due to the loss of the magnetic field as discussed above. If the moon is drifting away at an observable rate, then it is reasonable to determine it was at one time much closer, right? Using all sorts of complicated math we can determine if the Earth is 6000 years old there hasn't been much change, but if the Earth is Billions and Billions of years old the Moon at one point sat on the Earth and the tides covered the entire land mass.
Space dust accumulates at a predictable rate per year on the moon. If the moon is billions of years old, the accumulated space dust on the moon should have been hundreds of feet thick. When the first astronauts landed on the moon they were prepared for this and were surprised to find they did not sink! Do you know the second statement said on the moon? "It's solid". The measurement of space dust on the moon supports the premise that the moon is about 6000 years old.
The limited age of things on Earth undermines the Billions of years theory. The oldest tree is 4200 years old (pictured right). Why aren't there older trees? Perhaps because about 4400 years ago there was a flood that destroyed all life on Earth? The Sahara Dessert is about 4000 years old based on it's current growth. Why isn't it bigger if the Earth is billions of years old? The population measurements from our recorded history support the premise that all humans came from about 8 people 4400 years ago. If humans have been on the Earth for 3 billion years, using the known statistical analysis of population growth, where are all the people?
So what is reasonable when you consider the above? Why do scientists ignore these limiting factors? Probably because they have not yet come up with an alternative to the obvious. If you look at the Bible and go backwards to the Creation story you come up with about 6000 years. Wouldn't it be just like the enemy of your soul to create doubt in the world by putting forth the "billions" of years old theory? Wouldn't it be just like scientist (need I mention Global warming, flat earth, and bleeding folks as examples of this premise) to embrace a false doctrine? Do your own research, come to your own conclusions. Call me simple, but I am comfortable believing the Bible, if you are more comfortable believing science - well, I have a cap and trade plan to sell you.
This is another one of those posts, where the subject is so broad and the discussion so involved I could write a book, so for the sake of focus and brevity, I will examine one small area - Dinosaurs.
Right off the bat, I will admit I am a skeptic of modern scientific "consensus" in many areas. Abigail and Dolley readers know I beat the drum of Global Warming is a hoax on a regular basis, but there is another "established" fact that I completely disagree with and that is the old earth and evolution.
I believe that the Earth is about 6000 years old and that about 4400 years ago there was a flood. I believe that man and dinosaurs shared the Earth. Uh oh, many of you are saying....Dolley has stepped off the deep end on this one, but bear with me on this one, hear me out and then make your decision. After all, you know that Global Warming Disciples are sorely mislead; who is to say "Old Earthers" and "Evolutionist" are not equally as wrong?
My worldview is such that I take what the Bible says and sift modern "science" and attitudes and culture through the Bible as a filter. If they pass the Bible test I keep them, if they flunk the Bible test they are tossed in the waste basket with yesterday's garbage. The Bible is eternal it is perfect, timeless, and trustworthy - I can not say the same for man made ideas and attitudes, can you?
The beauty of this whole debate though, is that you don't have to be a believer to see the complete breakdown in current scientific methods when applied through the filter of rational and logical thoughts. You may choose to formulate a different rationale than the conclusion I get from the Word, but that is definitely your choice.
Consider this:
If the earth is indeed billions and billions of years old and dinosaurs lived billions and billions of years ago, then how is it that scientists have found blood vessels, blood cells, and soft tissue in dinosaur bones?
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/) or see video embedded below.
Scientist can not explain how these can still be present. Some recent specimens found appear to be "fresh" bones and there is a layer of soft tissue still in tact.
There have been recent discoveries of Dinosaur skin, irronically, the skin seems to have circular shapes on it like many ancient drawings and cave paintings. How did those cave dwellers know about the circular patterns on the dinosaur skin if they had never seen one?
Life span on the Earth prior to the flood was about 900 years. (See Genesis) Since reptiles never stop growing*, is it possible that species of reptiles grew giant during their lifetimes? (*Holt Earth Science 1991 pg. 293)
Two types of dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible - the Leviathon and the Behemouth, perhaps what we know today as the Brachiosaurus and either a Dragon or a T-Rex.
Job 40:15-24 the Brachiosaurus from the Bible -(this is a cool link using the description of Behemouth to footage of Jurassic Park. The embedded video is disabled, but the hyperlink will take you to it)
15 Behold now Behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox.
16 Behold his strength in his loins
And the power in his stomach muscles.
17 His tail sways like a cedar;
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18 His bones are tubes of bronze;
His limbs are like bars of iron.
Job 41 Describes the Leviathon - does this sound like a fire breathing Dragon to you? 12 “I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs
and its enormous strength and graceful form. 13 Who can strip off its hide,
and who can penetrate its double layer of armor?[d] 14 Who could pry open its jaws?
For its teeth are terrible! 15 Its scales are like rows of shields
tightly sealed together. 16 They are so close together
that no air can get between them. 17 Each scale sticks tight to the next.
They interlock and cannot be penetrated. 18 “When it sneezes, it flashes light!
Its eyes are like the red of dawn. 19 Lightning leaps from its mouth;
flames of fire flash out. 20 Smoke streams from its nostrils
like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes. 21 Its breath would kindle coals,
for flames shoot from its mouth.
Do I believe Dragons and Dinosaurs lived on the Earth at the same time as man? Yes, I do. There are thousands of illustrations of them in art, ancient and up until the 1500's. There are hundreds of legends about dragons across cultures of the world. There are carvings of dinosaurs on swords, caves, pottery. There are figurines throughout the globe of ancient dinosaurs. There are legends, drawings, and stories about sea serpents and giant creatures. There are currently today giant squid and octopus weighing tons and measuring over 150 feet. The Congo Swamps perhaps host living dinosaurs today. Have you watched a Loch Ness Monster special lately? To date there have been 11,000 reported sightings of "Nessie".
Notice in this video and the one below, the scientist just don't know what to do with the evidence before them because it does not fit their preconceived theory. True scientists would accept evidence over theory and throw out the theory instead of the evidence. Evolution like global warming is a religion, yet we accept this as if it is fact. Do your own research, look into creation science - haven't you had one side of this argument ad naseum?
Even if you don't believe in God, check out the science of Creationism, and see where it takes you.
I love when God has a sense of humor - thousands of pinheads converge on Denmark for a Global Warming Summit - this came from my office in Denmark this morning:
During the past 24 hours most of Denmark has been covered in snow.
We have between 50 - 80 centimetres and it is very windy. This has resulted in roads being closed and freeways are blocked because trucks can’t exit the freeway ramps. The ramps are too steep and slippery.
Also cars are stuck in piles of snow. The police are warning that people should not go out unless it is strictly necessary.
This means that currently there is no distribution of cargo in Denmark. The airports are open but truck can’t access them.
The situation is chaotic. The forecast is that it should stop snowing some time tonight. Therefore, things may stay chaotic tomorrow (Friday) as well.
If Man Made Global Warming is true and it is caused by Co2 emissions in the atmosphere from industrialization, which decade was warmer the 1930's or the 1940's?
Let's think - the 1930's were the Great Depression - lot's of government spending - huge debts - no jobs or industry. Not a whole lot going on in the industrialized world.
Fast forward to the 1940's - massive industrialization to boost the war effort, pollution, bombing, nuclear explosions, post war boom, cars, factories and explosion in Co2 emissions.
The current "consensus" says that the 1940's should be much hotter than the 30's, but the exact opposite is true. The 1930's were markedly hotter. As a matter of fact in the post war 1940-1980 the earth cooled, so much so that the scientists proclaimed a new "Ice Age".
I am no climate scientist, but whenever I see inverse correlations, I begin to doubt the conclusions of scientists that disregard the facts.
I wonder if the headlines of today could have been presented to the American people a week before last year's election would the country still have chosen the way that it did?
Copenhagen Global Warming Summit
EPA to regulate your exhale
The Federal Government to take over ALL water in the USA
The Debt Ceiling raised to 14 Trillion - legislation tied to Emergency Troop Funding
Unemployment at 10.2%
Healthcare take over will cost 2 Trillion Dollars
Repaid TARP funds not going back in the Treasury - more spending
Expand Medicare - even though it is bankrupt in 10 years at the current enrollment
Chamber of Commerce President has Bounty put on his head by Left Wing Group
Obama's Pay Czar slashes salaries
Moody's to remove the USA AAA bond rating if spending is not brought under control
Fed Workers enjoy Boomtime - average pay $71K/year.
Climate fraud continues to be ignored by the Mainstream Media and the Governments of the World
So what do you think? Was this the "change" folks were looking for when they put the Progressives in power? I sure hope not. Can we stop them, I don't know, but I am sure going to try.
Have you ever determined a course of action to later find out it was incorrect? I think we all have been faced with that situation at one time or another. The content of your character is largely determined by your actions once you discover you were wrong. An honorable person will reverse course, admit the mistake, apologize to those he has wronged if applicable, learn the lesson, and proceed forward. A dishonorable person will persist along the wrong course because to do otherwise is to admit a mistake, to do otherwise may harm his "cause". A dishonorable person will make the wrong decisions and not care who gets hurt along the way.
Such is now the case with the Copenhagen Climate Summit - the course of action our world leaders take in this regard, will in large part determine their Honor. Will they acknowledge that there are serious questions about Man Made Global Impact or will they proceed down the path that has been clearly demonstrated as wrong? I believe that the content and the character of each leader will be determined by how they proceed.
Sadly, the duly elected President of the United States of America, Barrack Hussein Obama has indicated he will proceed down the wrong path, once again putting on full display his lack of honor and intellectual courage, his lack of personal convictions of right and wrong, his inability to admit a mistake, his unwillingness to abandon the cause that leads to the ultimate end of total governmental control of the country and the world. Once again, the Narcissist Obama makes the wrong decision and to hell with the consequences.
Abigail and Dolley readers know I have been beating the "Global Warming is a Fraud" drum for a while now. If you check out the Environment/Global Warming tags, you can read to your hearts content.
In light of the developing scandal with the Climate-gate emails, I feel slight relief that perhaps the tides will begin to change. But the question really remains will it matter to the zealots? These emails show fraud, cover up, intimidation, character assassination, extortion, manipulation and out right devious disregard for proper science in regards to the "evidence" for Global Warming by the lead Scientists driving this whole hoax - but will it matter?
It doesn't seem to matter to the Lame Stream Media in the USA.
It doesn't seem to matter to the President of the United States as he prepares to go to Copenhagen for a Global Warming Summit.
It doesn't seem to matter to Al Gore, High Priest, of Global Warming
I believe it doesn't matter to any of the above folks, because they knew it was a lie to begin with. Global Warming is not about taking care of the Earth - it's about money, power, and control. Pure and simple.
But what about the devotee'? Where is the little Tree Hugger in all this scandal and corruption? They must be shaken to the core, because the Environment is no longer just a cause - the Environment is many people's religion. Where does that leave them? If man's actions aren't causing Earth changes then a major tenant of their faith is destroyed. What now, Greenie? I am sure there are more causes and I am sure there are many more things to champion, but before you move on to something else, ask yourself this question:
What if I stopped trying to believe in others, who will change and lie and manipulate? What if I stopped trying to find the answers to all of life's hard questions and rested for a moment? What if in that moment, a still small voice, that has been ignored for so long, was finally once again heard, and it said, "Come to me, all ye who are burdened and heavy laden, and I will give you rest, for my burden is light and my shoulders are strong. Come child and let me hold you. I know you are tired. I love you, won't you let me in?"
"Forgiven" by Thomas Blackshear II, copyrighted by Masterpiece Collection, a division of Dayspring Cards, Siloam Springs, Arkansas, (479) 524-9301. All rights reserved.
Global Warming, Climate Change, or whatever they are calling it this month (always to suit their political ambitions, goals and the temperature of the day) HAS to be man made, because if it isn't then the consequences are devastating to the believer. Abigail and Dolley readers know that if you base your world view on a system of beliefs that turns out to be false, then you are shattered at the realization. All of our beliefs, actions, goals, and dream are formed and shaped by how we view the world. If we have put our faith in a worldview that turns out to be false, then our entire existence becomes meaningless. Everything we have worked for and believed in was based on a lie and we are diminished in our own eyes as well as the eyes of the world.
Thus, in spite of what hundreds of scientists are proving, despite what even the most simple minded troglodyte can observe out their back porch, and in spite of the exposure of greed and capital gain that green leaders stand to make from green energy, the staunch environmentalist will not change their mind. To do so will destroy their soul. It will nullify their beliefs, their lives, and call into question their ultimate belief and worship of the earth. They will stand in the face of overwhelming evidence and shout you down. You are a heretic, a hypocrite, and a blasphemer. They will not change, they will not concede, and they will not ever stop.
Tyrannical and fascist Islam shares the same goals and end game with the environmentalist. Take over of the world, conversion of its inhabitants, death to the infidels, global government and control. Their methods and ideologies differ only in their Utopian visions of earth. One comes with a gun and a bomb - the other with laws and regulations that will collapse and strangle the system into submission. Both must be fought with equal fervor, both are a danger to our liberty, society, and our freedom. The difference is one is wearing a suit and flying to Copenhagen for a conference and the other is building nuclear facilities and stoning women and protesters in the street.
Obama has unclenched his fist at the one and is participating with the other.
Abigail and Dolley readers have come to expect critical thinking and logical presentation of facts in all of our commentaries, so let's talk about some hot button issues. The Attorney General of the United States said that Americans did not have the guts to talk about racism today. I think he is perhaps correct, but not because we are cowards and all racists at heart. I believe he threw that out knowing that in March of 2009, we would not engage. I believe in March, he was right. I believe in September, he will be proven wrong.
For the past few decades, we as a people have been told not to critically discuss issues amongst ourselves that would cause disagreements and lead to fiery debate. You know the adage and the admonition that you should not discuss politics or religion and let us not forget the untouchable subject of racism.
I must ask though, are we better off as a nation and a people because we are so "civil" to each other or have we lost one of the things that made us fundamentally alive? What happens to a people when they stop discussing the most important issues of our day? I believe we stop being a people that will speak the truth and are poorer in spirit for it. I believe that each of us begins to create our own realities based on our feelings and not the facts. I believe we will make for ourselves political ideologies and spiritual truths that are not well grounded in truth, but instead a collection of our own personal conclusions. We hold on to these personal convictions and because we live in a society that does not demand we defend our convictions in a logical manner, we are left with half formed gushy convictions that do not serve us or society well. We become offended and defensive when someone questions us or challenges us about these personal truths. When forced to defend them, we feel personally attacked. We do not like coming out of our comfort zone and will gather around ourselves like minded people who condemn the questioner or challenger instead of defending our convictions.
Absolute truth has been stripped of its ability and purpose to cleave between bone and sinew, to separate the facts from the emotions. The rejection of absolute truth as a building block and premise of civil society has the effect of denigrating the society to a group of wishy washy citizens easily led down the path of what feels good. Absolute truth though, does not change based on your feelings, see it is stronger than our rationales, it does not alter with the political or social climate of the times. Absolute truth remains a bulwark against our own personal suppositions.
Absolute truth stands boldly before failed ideology and calls it out. I can feel the bristling out there, but you must choose, if we are to continue living in a civil society, we MUST choose. Let us take some obvious examples - Murder is wrong. Absolute truth, right? But is it in our society still? Or do we have circumstantial rationale for even that? Having sex with children is wrong. But some will say, that is just the way I am and it is okay for me. How about cheating on a test? What about lying? What about adultery? Today, we can come up with scenarios that excuse all or most of this behavior. Is it any wonder then, that we are rejecting the foundations of our Republic and leaning toward the mob rule of Democracy? Law says something is bad and forbidden, man can rationalize the behavior and we are much more comfortable with that.
We see this today in our political exchanges. When we can not prove our point, we name call and ridicule. Is there any more blaring case before us today than the Joe Wilson/Barack Obama tempest? Joe Wilson's outburst was against etiquette, but he was right. Once it was discovered that he was right, well then, he was called a racist. What would have been so wrong about saying, you know, after we looked into it, the President had misspoke and here is what we are going to do about it.
Both sides decry the other when they are faced with the truth. An honest person will concede. I find that while doing that initially is painful, it leads to a wealth and a depth and a breadth of understanding I did not enjoy here to fore. I am enriched when I realize I was mistaken and give the other person their due for presenting truth. Why is that seen today as weakness? It is strength of character and soundness of mind that recognizes and acknowledges our own fallibility. Weakness is actually holding on to false ideals when presented with logical facts to the contrary.
Ideology above facts or truth. Win at all costs. Name call and demean. Lie about your opponent to suit your needs. The ends justify the means. You are a troglodyte stuck in an outmoded and outdated mind set.
Folks, it is time to engage. It is time to stop being afraid of confrontation. It is time to hold what you believe in up to the glaring light of the sun to determine if it can withstand the light of day. After all, our convictions and faith, for which we base our lives must be able to stand up to scrutiny, otherwise we ourselves can not stand up to scrutiny. That my friends is worse than being uncomfortable.
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