Peace-Guys
Are Peace-Guys like the Minions? They are like them in many ways, but there are also some very big differences. For example, they do not seek a villain or villains to serve. What they actually do is seek emotionally troubled people in order to help them. Another difference is that they are very, very good at what they do, not clumsy and accident prone.
How are they like the Minions? They are fun, silly guys. They love to play games and have amazing adventures. Their favorite games to play with each other are Tag and Hide-and-Seek. They also like it when I set up scavenger hunts for them or when I announce surprise races and give a destination… fun stuff!
Are Peace-Guys my pets or my servants? Nope! They are my friends, and I am theirs.
Do Peace-Guys serve anyone? Yes! They know, love, and serve God.
Do I boss them around or ask them for information about other people or situations that I’d otherwise not be privy to? Never! The closest I ever come to bossing them around is when I occasionally insist that they be careful when there may be a danger present or nearby. As for asking them for information about other people or situations that are none of my business, I just don’t do it.
Do Peace-Guys know and understand what you all are doing? Yes, they know it and understand it better than I do.
Do I know how very blessed I am to be having this experience with them that is much like the experience of the kids in E.T. (screenplay by Melissa Mathison, book by William Kotzwinkle), or Keith Gridley in The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary? I do! And I sometimes thank God for letting me have such amazing friends!
God bless you, everyone!
Most interesting…
I’m sure that there is a lot of interesting media that I’ve not even discovered yet, but here is a list of the most interesting I’ve discovered so far (not including the books listed at the end).
Please, do be a little cautious. While all of these have some content that is exactly correct, they also have some that is not.
Television Series…
Star Trek: Discovery
Movie…
Forrest Gump or The Truman Show
Song…
Metallica: The Unforgiven
Here are the books I’ve recently read 🙂 …
- Star Trek: Enterprise, Daedalus’s Children by Dave Stern
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Knight Errant by John Jackson Miller (this one has some not-interesting content)
- Starman, by Alan Dean Foster
Currently reading…
- The Abyss by Orson Scott Card
Who John Boring is not
I know that you all know this already. I feel more than a little dumb saying it, but maybe I do need to say it so that all of you know that I know it too.
John Boring is not God.
I know this. I have always known this. I never meant to suggest otherwise, but I do see how something I said years ago could have easily been misinterpreted as me claiming that he is God.
My apologies to anyone and everyone adversely affected by any seemingness that I was claiming something so very bizarre and ridiculous!
God bless you all!
Heart issue
I imagine that even if word wasn’t out previously, it is now. I have a heart problem.
First, the good news: As severe as my heart problem is, I’m going to be okay. I will survive. I don’t know all of God’s plans for me, but I do know that death is not part of them. God has revealed to me some of the plans he has for me in the near and distant future, and they are all things I could not do if I were dead.
Exciting news for cardiologists! (I have deduced that this has not ever been done previously). I will eventually be receiving a Big-Place-medical-science-level artificial heart at the first opportunity. I don’t know who will be installing it, but I do know who is designing it, and that person has come strongly recommended by Almighty God, so I have no doubt my new heart will be a good one!
In the meantime, everyone, please be patient with Leader-Guy. He is not delaying the treatment of my medical needs without very, very good reason. Leader-Guy is putting the safety and needs of everyone ahead of mine alone. I totally agree with him on this and support his choice to have me wait.
I should probably mention this too. I don’t actually know that an artificial heart is ready for me yet. I do know that the designer was contacted a few years ago, though.
Side note: Neurologists can expect some VERY exciting news and HUGE scientific breakthroughs eventually too!
God bless everyone!
Not feeling well :(
I’m going to be taking some time off from posting due to not feeling well lately. Don’t worry, it’s not anything contagious. I hope to get back to posting next week.
God bless you all.
Some interesting movies
Click the images if you would like to view the theatrical trailers on YouTube. Please, do be a little cautious, though. While all of these movies have some content that is interesting, they also have much that is not.
A tiny flutter
About a week ago, I had a conversation on the topic of the strength of my conviction in the existence of God. In the conversation, I claimed to be more certain of God’s existence than I am of my own.
I know it isn’t a great conversational practice to make a statement and then finish evaluating it afterwards, but that’s what I did on this occasion. I suppose it was because of the boldness of the statement that I then found my mind wandering and evaluating the statement. I asked myself, “Am I really more certain of God’s existence than I am of my own existence?”
I thought for a moment that what I had said was not true. I thought, “I am equally sure of God’s existence as I am of my own.”
I continued to think about it. I noticed that my thoughts fluttered a tiny bit, almost imperceptibly, while contemplating my own existence, but not at all when pondering the existence of God.
I realized that I am really and truly more sure of God’s existence than of my own. The difference in my strength of conviction from one to the other is small, but it is there. I marvel at that.
I am amazed at what God has done with me. He literally led me from a place of strong, stubborn agnosticism to being more sure of his existence than of my own. It wasn’t an easy journey. As a matter of fact, it was by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but the result is very well worth the difficulty I endured.
God bless everyone!
Tinnitus
Tinnitus (pronounced tih-NITE-us or TIN-uh-tus) is the perception of sound that does not have an external source, so other people cannot hear it.
Tinnitus is commonly described as a ringing sound, but some people hear other types of sounds, such as roaring or buzzing.
https://www.nidcd.nih.gov
While I cannot promise a cure or treatment for tinnitus, I would like to share some of my thoughts about it.
God did not directly teach me what the cause of tinnitus is. However, by my own deduction from my lessons, I have come to think that tinnitus is probably caused by some soul-related issue. Maybe the tinnitus sufferer’s soul is micro-vibrating at an incorrect frequency, or maybe it is pressing too strongly against some auditory apparatus (hearing-related anatomy), etc.
There is going to be a lot of information about the human soul in the Playback. I am feeling optimistic that the information will eventually help science find a cure for tinnitus and that a lot of people’s ears are going to stop ringing/roaring/buzzing. I wonder how it will be for myself and other tinnitus sufferers who have never experienced silence to experience it for the first time. Words such as “bliss,” “calm,” and “peace” come to mind as I try to imagine how it will feel.
I don’t know why God made sure that I know the very talented and very likeable Mr. Michael Tucker (actor) is severely affected by tinnitus, but I suspect that it is because God would like me to mention Mr. Tucker in this article… ✅Done!
God bless you all!
Interesting / Not-Interesting
March 5, 2024, 8:00 pm
Everything else
Santi
It occurred to me recently that some people may think that when I describe something as interesting or not-interesting, I’m trying to somehow relate that subject to my grandfather. Please rest assured, I am not doing that.
When I describe something as interesting, I just mean that it seems to point at elements in our experience in a way that seems too accurate or close to accurate to be dismissed as mere coincidence.
When I describe something as not-interesting, what I’m trying to convey is that it seems to relate to something in our experience, and it is too amazing to be mere coincidence, but it is not accurate, nor is it near accurate. On all the occasions I have ever described something as not-interesting, I was never trying to say that something is boring (nor Boring).
When I wrote about having a houseguest, I described things here (in my apartment) as uninteresting, but that is a different word, so it’s not in conflict with what I wrote in the paragraph above, but I would like to be clear that what I meant is that things here are boring (lower-case b, adjective). In that instance also, I was not at all trying to relate the subject to my grandfather.
My original intent was to simply convey an idea in a very concise way instead of being long-winded about it. Well, I made an unfortunate choice of wording, and so here I am being long-winded about it, but at least I only have to do it once… yay!
I didn’t mean to cause confusion. I’m sorry that I probably did, and I apologize for that.
God bless everyone!
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