God Centered Dad

  It seems as if the world is beginning to come apart at the seams. There are protests and wars and violence everywhere. It could just be due to our western obsession with the news, but it just seems like everywhere I look these days there is violence and destruction. Whereas people used to go to work, now it seems like there are those who are either paid to protest, or perhaps the protests are a convenient cover for their theft and looting which is how they really pay the bills. Like I said in " Confusion as a Tool of Anarchy and Tyranny ", it is so hard to determine the truth of a matter these days. As much information as we have available to us, it may actually be getting harder to determine truth. Take, for example, the riots that have plagued Paris, Marseille and some other French cities as of late. If you look for information online, what you see is that virtually every single legacy media outlet has these riots labelled as the "PSG Riots", referring to a Euro...

   Humanity has long been fascinated by creatures that are different than us. I'm not only talking about animals being different from humans, but there has always been an almost obscene interest in creatures that are different from humans and that at least appear to be more powerful than humans. This will have begun with angels and demons, but it has evolved to other areas of interest such as extraterrestrials as well. There have even been cults and religions that have been built around these creatures. Some of the most well known of these creatures stem from Greek and Roman mythology. My family has the Narnia series of movies in which several of these creatures play prominent roles, in particular the faun, the centaur, the minotaur and the mermaid. These four will be my focus today, but this does not mean that the premise of this article cannot extend to other mythological creatures as well. The use of these creatures by C.S. Lewis adds a mythological feel to the story line...

  I have been watching with some horror and dismay as "protests" have been erupting in North American cities that are more reminiscent of what I might have at one time called middle east style protests. Unfortunately, due to the scourge of mass illegal immigration, particularly in Europe, those middle east style protests are happening in western civilizations more and more. As a young man, I would often watch the coverage of riots and protests in the middle east on the television and I would wonder, "How can so many people spend so much time protesting? Don't they have mouths to feed and bills to pay?"  Those same thoughts are now running through my mind as I watch what is happening in Canada with Palestinian protesters taking over streets and buildings, and as I am watching Los Angeles and Dallas dealing with mass "protesters" who are angry about the Trump administration seeking out and deporting illegal immigrants who have been abusing and hiding fro...

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in popularity in the developed world. There are numerous companies that are all racing to create and train the next great AI platform, and along with this are other companies that are racing to create robots powered by AI that look and move like humans; upright bipeds that are designed to help us with our domestic chores and will soon replace us in the workforce. I am not going to fear-monger about robots replacing us, though I am not a fan of the growing interest in them. I am more concerned about the rise of AI into all aspects of life. I have never yet initiated the virtual assistant on any digital device that I have owned, and I never will. Does that stop the device from listening to everything that I say and sending reports back to the software developer? Probably not, but I am leaning more and more towards moving myself away from modern electronics and returning to the good old days of dumb phones, televisions and fridges and ol...

   Have you noticed it? We are a society that is slipping. This is not the first time that a powerful society has done so, but this is the first time that said society encompasses the globe. Over the course of history, there have been numerous people groups that have built societies based on their collective values. Many of these have remained small while some morphed into empires, often conquering surrounding peoples and wrapping them up into their own growing society. One empire has often fallen to the expansion of another empire, yet my underdeveloped understanding of world history indicates to me that the empire that fell had already been in decline for some time before they succumbed to the newly rising empire. They may not have recognized it as a decline, in fact, they probably thought that they were living in the ultimate decadence of their society, but it was a decline none the less. The most recent empire that most people will consider is the Roman empire. It grew thr...

  We live in a fallen and confused world. I am bewildered over and over again as I watch the ways in which mankind gets turned around in their thinking. Religious confusion is not necessarily one of those areas that troubles me; mankind has been looking for something outside of themselves all the way back to Adam and Eve, and it is inevitable that not everyone is going to find the one true path. I suppose that the fact that people find alternative paths to 'enlightenment' is the root of much of the confusion that we see in the world today. In Romans 1:18-32, Paul tells us of what happens to men when we fail to recognize God as the Head of everything. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and div...