29 January 2024…..thought

I was reading general conference talks and pondering.  

It would be very hard to convince me that Alma the younger or Paul had faith when they had their experiences.

 

The experience was to humble them.

 

Alma had to reach into his past memories. And it wasn’t fast. He said he was struggling for three days and three nights. 

Paul saw the light and heard the voice on the road to Damascus, but he was still blind for the three days after. Left with his own thoughts. Probably praying a lot. Required to contemplate the situation. 

It would take a lot to convince me that either one of them had faith. But they developed faith, some might say rather quickly. Instead of weeks or years it was days. 

They each had to have their weaknesses shown to them. And it happened in, what we may call, a very miraculous manner. But these are two examples that happened long ago, and how many billions of people have lived and died since then. 

We can have faith, but we need to have the desire. To have the desire we need be humble or we will most likely be humbled.

Is it possible that Alma or Paul could have rejected their experience. Maybe.

 

I want to write more but others have done better than I could. 

Acts 9 

Mosiah 27 

Alma 36

17 January 2024….it’s cold

Before I go on I love my new watch. Now other news. 

I have been watching the news. I really think that you need to watch every channel a little bit. So,MSNBC, FOX, CNN, then some other stuff. 

My decision is that if you watch the news you are nearly brain dead. One side is all Trump, TRUMP, TRUMP. The other side is all BIDEN, BIDEN, BIDEN. I say if you vote for either of them in the primaries, you need a tune up on your poor brain. Bless your heart. 

There are better choices out there. Vote for a doormat at this point and you would still be better off than the two candidates everyone is trying to shove down the public’s collective throats. 

Biden. I say is a no brainer why you would not vote for him. To much idiocy since the beginning of his administration. I really have a problem with the Afganastan  debacle. 

Trump. He would be better than Biden. Still, I’m not a fan of some of the things he did when he was president. Personally I see him as the most pragmatic president there has been in a long long time. You can disagree with me. I will still live. Was January 6th an attempted coup. Hardly, but think what you like. You are entitled to be as wrong as you want. 

I have little interest in politics, except as a spectator sport. Very rarely is anyone elected to a public office that is not trying to get something for themselves, especially at the federal level. 

State governments are ok. They should be more important than they are. 

Cities and school boards should be of more interest and importance. 

Each state should be more of its own kingdom. They should have more powers than the federal government. Except in the few things outlined in the constitution. Personally, I like mail so postal roads are awesome. 

The one thing I think is beyond ridiculous is the “anyone but Trump” crowd. I would say this is dumb because it says what you don’t want, but it doesn’t say what you want. While there are moments that something is not desirable. But whatever other choice you do have is less desirable. In politics we are always given the lesser of two evils, because God isn’t on the ballot.  

I’ve heard we need to choose only good people that are on the ballot, but what if we are down to the last two choices and neither is “good”. 

I could write more but, I have little faith in government of most kinds.

16 January 2024

My father was the ultimate window shopper.  

I like to think I’m ok. But every once in a while I do awesome. 

I like watches. I don’t know exactly why but they are a fun piece of jewelry, a fascinating piece of engineering and so much more.

 

So I look a lot for fun. And with websites I can look at  everything. Houses, cars, groceries, plants. There are so many different, fun things to go shopping for. 

Now, according to my father and I shopping does not mean buying. 

So with that in mind, I shop a lot.

 

I like looking at the Walmart app. I was looking at watches. The one was on sale.$32. 

I decided to get it as a birthday present to myself.

 

The watch finally got here. The price tag was still attached. $395. So window shopping saves lots of money.