Something They Haven't Told Gore

This is an article by the DailyTech called Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here.  The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

Installing Windows 3.1 DosBox

I don't know about you, but the majority of us run windows on our desktop.  Be it XP or Vista, the majority of people in America and around the world run Windows.  Windows has been around for a very long time, so, in the interest of getting an idea of what life was like in the good old days, I have installed Windows 3.1 on to my computer.

Installing Windows 3.1 is not as hard as it may seem.  Windows 3.1 is only a whopping 8mb in size and does a clean install in less then a minute.  Here is the list of software I used to install Windows 3.1:

• Dos Box (This will create a dos system that allows me to install Windows 3.1 on to it)
• Windows 3.1 iso (for legal purposes I cannot link to it, but if you don't already have it, then do a search for it)
• Alcohol 52% (this will mount the iso for me.  If I wanted to I could of just burned it onto a CD, but this saves the effort).

Most of these are free software (all except Windows 3.1, your on your own trying to find a copy).  Please don't get scared by all these steps.  You only have to run through them once and most are very simple.

1. Start up Dos Box
2. Mount the iso image of Windows 3.1 using Alcohol 52%, remember the drive letter that it is mounted as.
3. Create the folder that you want to use for your C drive.  This folder can be anywhere on your computer.  I placed mine in my Documents folder with the name Windows31, but it doesn't matter where you put it.
4. Mount the cd drive in Dos Box
   
5. Mount the c drive the same way (use command Z:\>mount c C:\Users\Clegs\Windows31)
6. Navigate to the d drive (use command Z:\>D:)
7. Type "Setup" and press Enter
   
8. When the setup screen comes up press Enter, then Enter again on the next screen.  You will have to wait for the Setup to copy some files.
9. A screen will appear asking you to enter your name, put your name down there and press Continue.  Verify that you entered it correct and press Continue again.
10. Windows will then copy some more files.
11. When asked for a printer just click "No Printer Attached" and press Install.
12. An option then comes up asking whether or not you want to run the Tutorial.  Choose whatever you want.  For the sake of the setup, I pressed Skip Tutorial.
13. When given the option to Reboot or Return to MS-DOS, press Reboot.  (When I did this Dos Box froze and I had to press the X in the corner and restart Dos Box)
14. WINDOWS 3.1 IS NOW SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED!!!!
15. But wait, when you start Dos Box up again it does not automatically load into windows.  You need to edit the configuration file for Dos Box.
16. Open file explorer and go the the location where you installed Dos Box (C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72 on my system).
17. Double-click "dosbox.conf".
18. A window will come up asking you what you want to do.  Check Select a program from a list and press OK.
     
19. When the list comes up double click Notepad or WordPad, it doesn't matter.
    
20. Scroll to the very bottom of the document and add these lines of code:
    
21. Restart Dos Box and you are done!!!  Every time you open Dos Box Windows 3.1 will boot!!!

Now you have Windows 3.1, one of the earliest versions of Windows, running in a window on your computer!

Instant Expectations

I know some people who recently described the frustration with there Christian experience. "I read the Bible nothing happens," they confessed. "Same thing when I go to church. Same thing with my prayer time. None of it seems to have any effect. I want to be close to God, but whatever I'm doing doesn't seem to be working. Bible study, prayer,church-- its all so dry and sometimes boring. And am starting to wonder why I bother."


To me it sounds like these people are pursuing a relationship with God the way you approach micro-wave popcorn: a minute of prayer, and ding.... intimacy! Unfortunately, what they are getting isn't intimacy at all, but a relationship as dry as, well, a mouthful of popcorn.

Spiritual disciplines. How is it that prayer, Bible reading, meditation, fasting and worship can become so "dry" or boring" that we avoid them? Occasionally I'll talk to people who online, who, because of boredom, quit these spiritual disciplines entirely. I've gone through seasons like that myself.

I can't answer that question for everybody, But God doesn't want the disciplines to merely be a list of obligations I fulfill to keep me on his good side. He wants them to be ways to connect us--habits that serve to get my eyes off of me and onto Him. That's the point. The disciplines are not an end; they are means by which we read the end: an intimate friendship with our Creator.

Intimacy is any relationship takes time and patience, two rare commodities in our culture of instant everything. We crave the quick fix and immediate satisfaction. Want a meal? Drive through and you can be eating in 60 seconds. Want something from a store 1,000 miles away? Get on the Internet, and it'll be in your hands tomorrow. Want intimacy with Christ. A short prayer, a verse or two...but it doesn't happen that way.

Patient cultivation. Our journey with God is not like popping corn in the microwave, but rather like growing corn in the field. As with any deep relationship a trusted friendship or a solid marriage, a relationship with Christ must be nurtured, cultivated and tended. Among the many provocative statements of A.W. Tozer was observation in the 1940s that "modern" Christians ave lost the idea of "cultivation and exercise":

So dear to the saints of old,[it] now has no place in our total religious experience. We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. I can't imagine what Tozer would say of us today.

Hopeful anticipation: God reveals himself to us as we train ourselves through prayer, Bible study and other spiritual disciplines. When I see the disciplines from that perspective, I practice them with hopeful anticipation that the triune God, the God who loves me, will engage me personally. How could I not be excited about that?

I should remind my friends that our well-intentioned routines can seem meaningless, and we may be tempted to give up. I advise all of you to remember that the point of exercising spiritual disciplines is a deeper relationship with God, and cultivating that relationship takes time. The next time you sit down with your Bible or set aside time to think, focus your heart on finding the One who is waiting to meet you there.

What defines a man of God?

I think this is a great question. Here's the ultimate example of manhood: "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to  be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of servant, being made in human likeness.  And be a man, he humbled himself and become obedient to death -- even on the cross!"  (Philippians 2:5-8).   Being a man isn't grounded on physical strength, athletic ability, Hollywood "hunkiness" or how attractive you are to girls.   A real man... serves others.  Shows kindness and compassion. Walks with honor and integrity.  Pursues purity in word and deed.   Lives courageously for Christ.  And Loves God with all of his heart, mind and soul.

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Never give up on someone that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Marriage in Heaven

Will there be marriage in heaven?  What will your relationship to your spouse be in heaven?

Mark 12:18-34
Some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) came to Jesus, and began questioning Him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that IF A MAN's BROTHER DIES and leaves behind a wife AND LEAVES NO CHILD, HIS BROTHER SHOULD MARRY THE WIFE AND RAISE UP CHILDREN TO HIS BROTHER.  "There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died leaving no children.  The second one married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the tired likewise; and so all seven left no children.  Last of all the woman died also.  In the resurrection, when they rise again, which one's wife will she be?  For all seven had married her."

Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?  For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angles in heaven.  But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, and the God of Jacob'?  He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken."

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?"  Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'HEAR, O ISRAEL!  THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.'  The second is this, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'  There is no other commandment greater than these.

The scribe said to Him, "Right, Teacher; You have truly stated that HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM; AND TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE HEART AND WITH ALL THE UNDERSTANDING AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH, AND TO LOVE ONE's NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."  When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God."  After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions.

Having an understanding of what believers in Christ will be going through on the other side of death helps us prepare for it now.
Jesus makes it very clear that there will NOT be any marriage in heaven (second paragraph of quoted text).  When I first read that my heart sunk.  I will be single for eternity!?  But then I kept reading.

Jesus goes on to say in verse 29 that we are supposed to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength.  Just after that, the scribe says something interesting, "AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM."  God gave us marriage for multiple reasons.  One is to be fruitful and multiply (Ge 1:28), another one is because of weakness.  Paul says that it is better if you are not married to remain unmarried, but if you cannot control yourself, it is better for you to marry then to burn with passion (1Co 7:6).  In heaven there will be no such weaknesses.

In John chapter 3 verse 29 when John the Baptist is asked about being the Christ he answers them by saying, "He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice.  So this joy of mine has been made full."  He refers to Jesus as the bridegroom, and us, the church, as the bride.  All throughout the new testament we are described as Christ's bride.  Husband and wife roles are exactly the same as Christ's roles to the church.

So in answer to my fear of being single for all eternity, I will have greatest relationship ever.  I will be joined with Christ, a son of God.  In my head I think I know what marriage could be like, I've heard people say it is the greatest pleasure God has given us on earth, how much greater will this be in heaven?

Why is Porn sinful? Isn't it just a guy thing?

Things people ask me... Anyways, here I goes.

I think plugging into pornography is far from a "Guy thing" It's actually a messed-up-heart thing. I urge every young guy to stay far away from this lethal stuff. To answer the question, porn is sinful for a lot of reasons.

1. It devalues people. It promotes the beliefe that humans are not dignifed beings but isntead are toys to be used for personal gratification. Women are portrayed as sexual objects and that are used, abused and thrown away. Men are depicted as lust-driven machines.

2. It encourages casual sex between unmarried men and women. It also often promotes unfaithfulness between husbands and wives.


3. It turns sex into a cheap activity. Porn twists and distorts God's gift to husbands and wives, turning it into somthing dark and perverted.

4. Its addicting. Experts agree that the soft-core stuff such as the photo spreads found in magazines is the "marijuana" of pornography. It leads users to the harder, more bizarre "heroin" versions of sexual explicitness, such as the stuff found on the Internet. And once hooked, the user keeps coming back for more sexal turnons. What was once gross or replusive but still sexually arousing becomes common place. Some even begin acting out the fantasies.


5. It is off-limits for God's people. It doesn't matter what the world says is OK. Check out what the Bible tells us: " Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

The fact is, you and I weren't born with christians attitudes, opinions and values. The Bible tells us that we all have an inborn leaning toward sin. This is called our sinful flesh. We know, too, from God's Word that the Devil seeks to work through the world and the evil influences all around us to lead God's people to sin and lack of trust in God.

On top of that, ins like pornography are powerful because our sex drive is powerful. That's why porn is addicting and why it trips up so many men. My Advice: Don't embrace this sin. Find a trusted partern, or adult. Preferably your dad, who can help you unplug porn if your involved in it. It isn't merely a guy thing or innocent entertainment. It's deadly.


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Never give up on someone that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Internet Radio

For decades people have been listening to the radio over the air with its many commercials and less then par sound quality.  Only in recent years has there been a much easier way.  Listening to the radio online!

A really nice benefit to listening to radio online is no commercials!  Most online radio stations run commercial free, either by displaying audio ads on the screen or by listener donations.  To get started all you really need is an internet connection.  Different sites have requirements on what software you should have installed on your computer in order to listen, but most don't require any software to be installed at all!

ChristianRock.net is one of my favorite online radio stations.  It plays commercial free, high quality Christian rock 24 hours a day.

Another good site is Pandora.com.

Pandora lets you stream online radio based off of your musical tastes.  You start by telling Pandora one song or artist that you like.  With that information, Pandora plays more songs like it.  You then thumb up, or thumb down the songs depending on how you like them.  It doesn't take long for Pandora to learn your musical tastes and only play music that you like.

Musicovery.com allows you to specify what mood and style of music you want to listen to.  After you specify the genre and mood of music you want to listen to, it displays a web of all the different songs that are in that genre and mood.

Those are the internet radio stations that I listen to the most.

A Hillary Supporter

Little Johnny was in class with all his fellow students one day. The kids and their teacher were talking about politics and the teacher asked, “So, how many of you kids here are Hillary supporters?” All of the kids except Johnny raised their hands.
Teacher-“Why Johnny! You don’t support Hillary?”
Johnny- “No teacher.”
Teacher- “Well then, who do you support?”
Johnny- “I support Bush. George W. Bush. My daddy supports George Bush, my mommy supports George Bush, and so I support George Bush.”
Teacher- “So Johnny, if your daddy is a moron, your mommy is a complete idiot, what does that make you?”
Johnny- “A Hillary supporter!”

Introduction to Intelligent Design.

At a very precise moment nine months after conception, a hormone leaves the unborn child's brain. It soon travels all the way across the placenta,enters the maternal circulation, and then happily makes it way to the mother's pituitary gland. Although this hormone is very complicated and convoluted chemical, its message is very quite simple: I'm ready, start the delivery process. My lungs have matured enough to breathe on their own, my heart is strong enough to assume control, my gastrointestinal tract is prepared to process food, and my brain is eager to start learning about the world. My ten trillion cells are put to work together. It's the new unborn child, and not the mother, who makes the decision. Then all the sudden, the mother and child orchestrates there new journey together. Lets think, this is not a spontaneous event Or is it?. The mother's body began preparations in the instant the sperm entered a specific egg. Her uterus, now very large and is stretched very hard to accommodate the growing fetus, and is ready to be squeezed down and push. The small baby's head has been shifted downward with its arms at its sides and legs tucked in so that it can more easily pass through the birth canal. Only 3.5 perfect of human babies present feet first. The mother's breasts are engorged with milk and food. Endorphins are flowing fastly to help with the discomfort; the hormones are giving her strong maternal instincts. Her vagina has held a secreteded special glycogen to prevent infection. A connection between the pelvic bones loosens to help the bone portions of the canal expand. Every maternal instinct has been primed. Every system is focused on success. At first, the contractions come very slowly, as if the uterus were warming up, but they quickly crescendo to more frequent and forcefully squeezes. A myriad of different chemicals and hormones prompt and support every action and movment as billions of muscle cells wor togeather in unison to break the bag of waters, and dilate the opening in the cervix and deliver a new child.

The journey is often cited as the most dangerous moment in a persons life. Indeed it may be, yet every aspect of the process is well-coordinated,prearranged,rehearsed for millennias,and designed to bring new life into being. Even the seams in the baby's skull bones have not yet fused together, so that its unusually large head will be pliable enough to make it through. As the process unfolds, the adrenal glands add a blast of stress hormones to help the infant cope. The newborn child will not breathe until it has cleared the birth canal. Anything sooner would lead to certain suffocation. It also will not wait too long. Rising carbon dioxide levels and falling oxygen concentrations will prompt that first breath. Otherwise, there could easily be be permanent brain damage. The inner workings of every newborn know precisely when to breath, how deeply to breathe, and how to clear the debris inhaled from the amniotic sac.

Moments before the mother and child completely disconnect, the newborn receives a last-minute blood transfusion from the umbilical cord. The placenta, which has been purposefully storing nutrients for this moment, infuses extra nourishment. And there is evidence that the fetus sends some of its own stem cells into the mother's bloodsteam. These newly discovered microchimmera stem cells seem to be purposefully left behind to help maintain the mother's good health. The childs survival might depend on it.

Every step is preprogrammed. Medical folks like to say they deliver a baby, but they mostly catch it. As a newborn takes it first breath into the new world, two tiny flaps inside its heart automatically close off a hole between the right side and the left side of that organ, which then routes unoxygenated blood to the brand newly functioning lungs. A large blood vessel that connects the aorta to the lungs also automatically seals off. The artery in the umbilical cord shifts to servicing the new bladder. The placenta detaches on cue and follows the baby out. If it were to precede the child or detach prematurely, the consequences could be disastrous. Death. Soon, the baby's remnants of the umbilical cord dries up and falls away, and of course, If any of these steps were to fail to occur or did not follow the right order, the human race would never have existed. They are very complex, all-or none phenomenon, an improbably collection of coincidences!

The baby arrives with a vernix thick coating to protect its skin. It also comes with natural sucking reflex, and the mother's first milk is purposefully loaded with all the right nutrients, minerals,vitamins, and of course, host of required antibodies. The newborn easily fits so perfectly into the crooks of its mothers' arm, where the breast and nipple are strategically situated and it instinctively knows how to nurse upon her breast. This is, obivously, the process everyone of us has to follow to travel here. Very specific and very precise, these instructions have been passed down from generation to generation. The whole process is beyond complexity; it is an evolutionary impossibility.

If you honestly believe that these preprogrammed, constantly changing, and these interdependent series of all complex cellular events from conception all the way to birth could have simply just come out, about by trail and error,survival of the fittest, or a series of extremely lucky accidents of nature, there's no need for you to read on what am about to explain to you. Cause you won't like it. If you should read on however, please continue to always ask yourself a question: What could possibly have been intermediary,successful steps (links about evolution) beforehand. As for my further writings, please note I will, however, in some cases, may use book materials, as of this one, or sources to explain my thoughts or views. With closing, I look forward to more writing. Enjoy



Part of this Material Taken from: Billions of Missing Links
Copyright © 2007 by Geoffrey Simmons M.D.
Published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR
Used by Permission

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Never give up on someone that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Abortion

Abortion

 

Every day, children die. Before they know what it means to live, before they have a chance to cry, their lives are swept away forever. This is happening now, it's happening here, and it's a travesty, it's horrible.

The arguments for and against abortion have been raging on long before my birth, and I suspect they will continue long after I'm gone. It's a shame we have to argue at all. This is America. Land of the free, home of the brave. We are a nation that was once founded upon Biblical principles and a desire to worship God as we pleased. This idea, this concept of freedom from oppression and the right to make our own choices is both our greatest strength and our greatest downfall in America. We are, inevitably, a nation that embraces choice. There are good choices, there are poor choices. We make both every day, some without thinking.(As for myself)

But the choice that determines the life or death of an unborn child? This choice is never given to the child. Instead, it is torn away from the least defensible of all people, those whose voices remain silent. Our values have changed over the years, in part because good men choose to do nothing. It is our selfish nature to think only of ourselves and that which best suits our needs. The preservation and sanctity of life is something that must come from beyond ourselves. Christians have a responsibility to proclaim the reason for the joy they have within, that sole reason that their lives have meaning and worth. Only when we understand how precious life is to the One who gave it up will we be filled with a desire to cherish it.


I still remember my mom would drive my brother to the orthodontist's office, we would pass a certain medical clinic. Without fail, an old feeble woman with white hair stood outside that clinic holding one of two signs. Both bore messages of choosing life over death for pregnant mothers. One sign featured a simple image of a smiling baby in a blanket, with the word "Life" printed at the top. The other, a gruesome photo of an aborted, dismembered, discolored child. It always infuriated me when the woman would choose the latter. Who was she to offend me in that way? I know about abortion. I know that those tactics turn off more people than they convict. I believe she made a poor choice in trying to help others make a good one. We must make a case for life, not a case against death.


Ultimately, I believe a woman must make a decision regarding the life of her unborn child. I don't pretend to know what it's like to carry another person inside you for nine months, but I do know that such a life is not the mother's to do with as she wills. Life is a gift from God, I firmly believe that. In His Word it is clear that life matters, and has value beyond what we place on it. Because of this, I believe abortion is wrong.


It would also be wrong for me to tell a woman what choice to make. It's not my place. But God has a say in the matter, and He says life has meaning. So I would strongly encourage all women to think before they make their choice, and to make a choice for life. My mother chose life for me. Yours did the same.

Do likewise.

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Never give up on someone that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Bill of NON-Rights

The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA, who should run for President one day...

'We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and others.

We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.'

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.

ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don't care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from!

(lastly...)

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!!!!

The First Sin

On Monday mornings I attend a Bible Study.  In this last Bible study, our pastor said some interesting things about Adam and Eve in the garden.  He stated that Eve was not the first to sin, it was Adam.

This puzzled me at first.  If that were the case, how come I hadn't thought of that before.  This is what I can remember of what he said to explain how Adam sinned first:

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that is was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

This verse says that Adam was there with her.  Meaning he probably saw everything that the serpent was doing to Eve and did nothing.  It is God's plan for the husband to protect his wife.  Being passive and standing to the side while she is being enticed to sin is wrong, and a sin in itself.  This means that Adam sinned before Eve even took her bite.

What are my thoughts on this?  I'm not convinced one way or the other for who sinned first.  There is no evidence that God had told Adam that we was to be the protector of his wife before that time.  We do know that God had walked in the garden with them and talked to them, and I could assume that he told them each of their roles, but we don't know that.

I just thought this was an interesting piece of information and thought I'd pass it on.  What do you think?  Could that have been the first sin?