Holy Week

A principle of God being behind all the multiple universes is that you have a common designer to any possible universe.  The physical laws are the same in all of them.  It would be like if you have a duck, an alligator, a bear and a human, all of them are very different but they are all vertebrates.   So were you to go to one of these you would find a commonality.  Now Stephan Hawking may be trying to prove the possibility of traveling to one of these universes.  I stated (sometime) that it was a scientific impossibility but not a logical impossibility.  But that it would take God to do it.   I had been thinking of telling Paul about Stephen Hawking’s last theory.  But Judy has the gall to say “This theory can’t be valid because it’s all just imagination”.  Of course here is a person who pretty much believes that Donald Trump is God, and if he does it, that makes it OK.  It's amazing how easily people will subordenate their own morality and logic to one person.  A lot of questions arise when attacking someone on science with an IQ way higher than yours or mine.  And I would ask how much "science" there is behind Church beliefs not only in the past but at this present date.  I would ask about church and “The third Heaven” of Paul or the “Seventh Heaven” of Dante, or Limbo or Pergitory of Dante.  This was and has been accepted Catholic doctrine for centuries.   I found the burial references personally insulting and I’m not going to dignify them with a response. 

 There is a huge satellite the size of a school bus that’s going to crash anywhere from northern California to Pennsylvania between March 20^th and April 3^rd, but it will probably crash April first, April Fools.  They “aren’t sure” where such a big satellite will burn up in the earth’s atmosphere.  This is several days later and the question of where it will strike still isn't resolved.   

CREAM IN YOUR COFFEE

3 6 9 (Shirley Ellis)

Boogaloo Down Broadway (Johnny C) (?)

Bottle of Wine (Jimmy Gilner & the Fireballs)

Can’t Get Next to You (Temptations)

Conquistador (Procol Herum)

Give Me Some Kind of Sign (Brenton Wood)

Hang ‘em High (Booker T & the M G’s)

Hang On, Sloopy (Vibrations)

Here Come the Judge (Shorty Long)

Hitch Hike (Marvyn Gaye)

I Can’t Let You Go (Foundations)

I Need Your Loving Every Day  (artist?)

I’ll Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson)

Iko Iko (Dixie Cups)

Jackson (Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood)

One Mint Julip (Ray Charles band)

Sally Go ‘Round the Roses (Janettes)
Scratch My Back (Slim Harpo)
Show Me A Woman (Joe Tex)

Something’s Got a Hold on Me  (Etta James)
The Cha Cha Cha (Sam Cooke)

The Coffee Song (Cream)  
Who’ll Be the Next in Line? (Kinks)

We are skewed toward the beginning of the alphabet on this one.  This contains 19 of the 20 songs “dictated to me” as I wrote them down.  We didn’t have Time for one song once I developed a proper foundational understand.  (Side order of Smitherines not included)  The front photo design is of a steaming cup of coffee with a flowery cup design, and then kind of a darkish background fading to a lighter red.  The title listings are on the back along with some brief commentary.  These are “Mostly soul” sixties songs.  Over half of these songs are new but some of them are songs from “Soul Train” we decided to bring forward to more prominence.  In the open out left we have nine of the faces of Trump administration people who have either been fired or left their jobs, including that attorney last week.  The media pundits agree that President Trump is setting us up with John Bolton for a major war wither with Iran or North Korea. We dug deep into the archives for these songs.  Sunday evening (now) we added "The Cha Cha Cha" and "Show Me A Woman" because we re-figured the playing time and we had the room.   An additional song was added Tuesday afternoon, which is the only track in this album popular in 1966.   I think we're done now.  

The accusation was raised by someone yesterday that we scientists don’t really believe in God or at least “The word of God” as recorded in the Bible as “revealed knowledge” but instead have to rely on our imaginations to keep coming up with novel scientific theories without the proper scientific foundation.  We’ll talk about this more in a minute.   Well I do agree with Einstein on two issues.  The first is that Black Holes are highly dubious even at this date.  Because gravity not only bends and holds back light, it even bends and holds back itself.   Under Einstein’s acceleration theory- - the formula is geared to accept no values higher than Infinity, which on at least four occasions in “real” math (analog) is a precise number.  If you try to exceed infinity you get nonsensical results.  I only say this because Black Holes require this formula to give values that exceed infinity.  Be warned.  You’re treading on thin ice.  If Black Holes are what people back fifty years ago believed they were- - their existence is something that can never be proved.  This is why people doubted the theory of Black Holes for a long time.  The other thing I agree with Einstein on is the phrase “God doesn’t roll the dice”.  God leaves nothing to chance.  I myself am a Deist, Determinist, Anti-dyspensationalist, Objectivist.  I have my own definitions for all of these words.   A deist would agree with Jim Morrison that “You cannot petition the Lord with prayer”.   An anti-dyspensationalist is someone who believes simply that God, whatever he is, does not change.  You’d be surprised at the Christian who believe that he has.  But the Bible itself makes it clear that God himself declares “I don’t change”. 

In Jesus Christ Superstar, everybody seemed to have mental focus and knew where they were headed, all except for Jesus, who seems forever the victim of circumstance buffeted about this way and that.  “You may not know where you came from or even who you are or how you ever got this far” but if you’re a Christian you have one thing the secular world doesn’t, and that’s an unshakable faith.  Martin Luther might as well have said “Only Faith” because he rejects any book that says “Faith without works is dead”.   We all have those books in the Bible that we don’t like.  Beware the book of Hebrews.  It contains dubious doctrines contained nowhere else.  It is the only book which so clearly declares “These are the Last Days”.  We weren’t in the “Last Days” then and I don’t believe we are in the last days now.   The book of Hebrews states that animal blood sacrifices “Don’t work anymore”.  In other words there was an expiration date on God’s words and commands that declared animal sacrifice was a way to get rid of all sorts of sin, and it names them.  That’s number two.  Hebrews praises a man who offered his virgin daughter as a “burnt offering” to God.  God doesn’t say to offer human sacrifices.  That the author of Hebrews would condone dealing so cheaply with your daughter’s life is abhorant to me.  Also we have no idea who wrote the book of Hebrews.   The book of Hebrews is the only book that expressly says “There are angels incognito amongst us and we may have entertained angels in our homes and not known it”.   You may believe it- - but you’d be hard pressed to find scripture back-up outside the book of Hebrews.  This is number four.  Also Hebrews is the only NT book that doesn’t accept the doctrine of “soul sleep”.   The book of Revelations does sort of but it’s a metaphoric book and not meant to be taken literally.  But Hebrews speaks of a “cloud of witnesses (or “martyrs”) looking down on us and cheering us on in our Christian pursuits.  I don’t think Aunt Jane is looking over your shoulder.  This is number five.  Hebrews almost engages in Martyr idolatry.  Finally Hebrews declares “It’s appointed once for men to die, and after this the Judgement”.   Nowhere else does it say that Judgement comes immediately after death.  Indeed in the book of Revelation is speaks of men in white robes “who have been slain in Christ” or something- - and they are looking for the Judgement on God on their enemies.  “When will we be avenged of our enemies”.  God tells them to hang tight and that judgement is coming.  I believe this whole conversation is metaphorical to make a point.  But what Hebrews does is both to knock out the doctrine of soul sleep taught in the rest of the Bible, but also it eliminates any hope of reincarnation, if you are a Hindu or Bhuddist looking for that.   There were Christians who believed in the possability of reincarnation as late as the fifth century.   Also the "hericy" of universal salvation was fought at this time.  Universal salvation would solve a lot of problems.  They say that if you’re not picky about where you’re headed, any road will take you there.  If you have a hundred dollars or so you can trace the migrations of your ancestors sixty thousand years ago.   They really ought to call it “forty-six and me”, though.