In Proverbs 31 Wisdom is personified as a woman. We find this advice to a man from Wisdom: "Give not your strength to women, or your ways to that which destroys kings". It is interesting that a wisdom's advice to a man she cares for, one she wants to give the "inside track" to, is to avoid other women.
I wonder if women are different from mothers, sisters, wife, daughters ? He should not spend his money, time and influence for women that are not his family. Rather, of the woman he engages foremost, he should favor his mother, sister, wife, daughter.
The thrust of a man's life should not be women. I think it would not be even his wife. He should consider his purpose in life is to serve his God. In the service of his God he cares for and prefers his wife and raises and educates his children. In the exercise of serving his God, a man serves others, like wife and children.
When God is going over the books with you in heaven and you get to the "Treatment of Other People" section, the first major category will be "Family".
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
DOES MY ARM REALLY ITCH?
An amputee feels sensations of itching or pain from a limb (arm or leg) that is no longer there. There are no longer any physical sensors (nerves) to provide signals. No messages can travel from sensors that are not there. Where is the feeling coming from when there is no limb?
Yet the sense of itching or pain is still present in the victim; the victim knows, the victim can feel it. Where is the feeling when there is no limb?
Does it arise from an actual electrical-chemical-physical stimulus? What is its origin: The Spinal Chord, the brain's nerves? If it is, how can this process be identified, demonstrated and measured? Can it be controlled by drugs or surgery?
Does the feeling have an emotional, not-physical source? Is it a process of thought, of emotion? Can the victim control this process? What does the existence of this phenomenon say about spiritual reality? Where is the pain or itching really? Is it in the limb, the nerves, or in the brain?
When we, who have all our limbs, feel itching or pain where does it really exist: in the limb, the nerves, or in the brain?
Yet the sense of itching or pain is still present in the victim; the victim knows, the victim can feel it. Where is the feeling when there is no limb?
Does it arise from an actual electrical-chemical-physical stimulus? What is its origin: The Spinal Chord, the brain's nerves? If it is, how can this process be identified, demonstrated and measured? Can it be controlled by drugs or surgery?
Does the feeling have an emotional, not-physical source? Is it a process of thought, of emotion? Can the victim control this process? What does the existence of this phenomenon say about spiritual reality? Where is the pain or itching really? Is it in the limb, the nerves, or in the brain?
When we, who have all our limbs, feel itching or pain where does it really exist: in the limb, the nerves, or in the brain?
Thursday, December 10, 2015
VANTAGE POINTS
12 September 1994
A while ago I was flying in the plane on my way to the MACS (Marine Corps Air Station) at Tustin, California I looked down upon the earth from 35000 feet. Things of men were so small that only the largest of buildings were obvious. When looking at a super highway it would have been difficult to pick out a semi truck. Indeed, I never saw one. If a person, like say Jesus, was standing in the middle of an intersection you might know in your mind he was there but you could not possibly see him. Then let your eye wander over the rest of the earth that you could see. The smallness of that place where Jesus is becomes astounding.
Yet through such a means (a human body) God saved the world. Think of God living in one human body. Compare to John 1:14 . . . and the Word became flesh and dwelt among men . . .
The vantage point of the plane demonstrates the expansiveness of God's comprehension. He comprehends what the human eye in the plane sees . . . and every thing else.
A while ago I was flying in the plane on my way to the MACS (Marine Corps Air Station) at Tustin, California I looked down upon the earth from 35000 feet. Things of men were so small that only the largest of buildings were obvious. When looking at a super highway it would have been difficult to pick out a semi truck. Indeed, I never saw one. If a person, like say Jesus, was standing in the middle of an intersection you might know in your mind he was there but you could not possibly see him. Then let your eye wander over the rest of the earth that you could see. The smallness of that place where Jesus is becomes astounding.
Yet through such a means (a human body) God saved the world. Think of God living in one human body. Compare to John 1:14 . . . and the Word became flesh and dwelt among men . . .
The vantage point of the plane demonstrates the expansiveness of God's comprehension. He comprehends what the human eye in the plane sees . . . and every thing else.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
AUTOBIOGRAPHY POSTINGS
The following blogs, down to the one titled "Buster and The Toilet" (posted 11-16-2015), were taken from an autobiography I intended to write. Upon reflection I don't believe anyone except my immediate family would really be interested in an autobiography about me. So I put them here, which is as close as they ever will get to the public.
The only new post in this series from November 16 2015 to date is titled "Zacchaeus" (posted 11-22-2015).
The only new post in this series from November 16 2015 to date is titled "Zacchaeus" (posted 11-22-2015).
MAY 2012 MEMORY LOSS-6
MEMORY LOSS
[[This blog, and several following, have to do with memory loss events apparently due to "brain freezes". All took place before my one-and-only seizure. ]]
An entry in FaceBook that is not repeated here elsewhere:
"And it's even better than that. I seems Tamra had a graduation party on Saturday, and I was there. Well, my body was there. Maybe I drove off without my memory. I didn't make a fool of myself, did I? I have no inkling that anything is "slipping", as far as I know.
"How I know about the party came from a Facebook invitation to Tamra's party, dated last week. Well, the party may be gone, but Tamra is not. PapaJ loves you girl, and your sisters and Mom and Dad."
5/23/2012
[[This blog, and several following, have to do with memory loss events apparently due to "brain freezes". All took place before my one-and-only seizure. ]]
An entry in FaceBook that is not repeated here elsewhere:
"And it's even better than that. I seems Tamra had a graduation party on Saturday, and I was there. Well, my body was there. Maybe I drove off without my memory. I didn't make a fool of myself, did I? I have no inkling that anything is "slipping", as far as I know.
"How I know about the party came from a Facebook invitation to Tamra's party, dated last week. Well, the party may be gone, but Tamra is not. PapaJ loves you girl, and your sisters and Mom and Dad."
5/23/2012
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