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Reason

Everything does not happen for a reason. To say that everything happens for a reason would be to suggest that we have no free will and that we are all living some preplanned existence. Saying that everything happens for a reason is to believe in evil because bad things happen. Some science suggests that our brain makes a decision just before we actually act on the decision which would support the existence of a preplanned path however, God loves us and would not have us make decisions that would harm ourselves or one another (Harris, 2012). To take away a persons true free will in any way and in essence act as a God in an individuals life is the purest form of evil.

Also, I'm pretty sure we don't get a do-over in life; unless of course you didn't die because it wasn't your time.

Reference

Harris, S. (2012). Free will. Simon & Schuster.

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Lies

I used to be a skeptic. Honestly, I used to think of the Bible as a book of fables and perhaps because of my own life experiences I now believe that the stories in the Bible actually happened the way that they are written... Except for one.

When I was younger there was a garden planted every year in the yard of the house where I grew up. The neighbors built a white fence around their house but left an opening between the properties where my dad and neighbor used to get together and talk in the evenings. A crape myrtle tree grew near that opening. One day as I was walking toward the fence, and kind of in my own head not worried about my surroundings, I looked up and there was a big black snake under the crape myrtle tree with its head up. This one seems precarious to me know because I've stumbled across enough snakes to know that they are not typically found with their head up in the way that I found this one. I ran away from the snake and when I looked back it had slithered in the direction that I ran. My instinct was to run away from it. I couldn't imagine trying to talk to the snake. I think the story may really be that Adam lied.

Animals still live and thrive in what God blessed them with. Only people, not animals, seem to be plagued with having to build their own shelters since.

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Reposting

Monica's Telepathic Communication Theory

This is the first building block to provide proof of Einstein's Spooky Action At A Distance Theory or Quantum Entanglement Theory. Action cannot occur without first establishing communication.

The first form of communication was nonverbal. Communication originally consisted of the body motions and telepathy. Telepathy is not a level of enlightenment but rather a primal instinct, which is why it cannot be induced through any sort of manufactured drug or substance. Telepathy has been defined as "communication by means other than through normal senses". At its root telepathy is through a singular common language. As the human population increased a verbal communication was developed to better distinguish whom one was communicating with. Telepathy is an innate ability. Animals have always used a form of telepathy to communicate amongst each other, which is how they are able to intermingle without verbal or motion cues. There is evidence of previous civilizations having used telepathy to communicate over vast distances. This would explain how the Egyptians and Mayans, whom spoke different languages, were able to construct similar pyramids in different areas of the world. A true neural communication network would cause significant issues for privacy that can explain the demise for these ancient civilizations. Being able to communicate telepathically is not an advance in technology, but rather a regression to understand origins. The ability to interface mind and technology is an advancement in the evolution of humans.

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I raised a mixed flock of birds over a few years. The two that had the most personality were the black hen named Blackie and the gray duck named Daisy. Daisy liked to be picked up and held sometimes and Blackie would sit in my lap or on a chair that I would sit in a watch them. I raised them all from chicks and some, like Daisy, hatched their own. The ducks that Daisy raised were much more wild than herself. A few had a very strong mothering instinct and would sit on eggs that they had not laid hoping that they would hatch. One of the turkens tried to sit on eggs under the turkey once. The turkey, not having a mate because turkeys can be very difficult to raise from being baby turkeys, would sit on the chicken eggs until I finally put a baby chick under her to raise. One bantam rooster refused to live in the hen house and would fly up into a tree every night at dusk. In the morning they would all wait to be let out and fed. My dog, Biff a blue healer, was raised around the birds also. When he was still a puppy he killed one of the chicks and then buried it. He told on himself after, which is how it was found out that he had buried the chick. I didn't clip their wings.

The most interesting of their behavior was that the migratory birds were free to fly away if they wanted to, but they didn't. Some of them would fly up on a fence or the turkey liked to fly up on top of the hen house. The geese and ducks would make short flights across the field but mostly walked around and wouldn't fly away. There was always a small pool of water for the water birds and I would put them in the water to practice swimming when they were young but I suppose since they were well cared for they never flew away.

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PERFECT and expecting

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Fire

I’ve spent many nights camping in the woods and noticed how the trees always seem to rest at night.  Same as humans shed their hair and dead skin trees seem to shed their dead branches or limbs that have become too heavy.  Natural disasters aside, on more than one occasion I’ve missed a very painful night by where I’ve decided to position my tent and narrowly escaped a tree limb falling on my tent in the middle of the night.  Fortunately, nature always seems to provide me with enough wood for an adequate campfire.

Fire has always been an active element in nature.  Necessary to burn away the dead foliage, induce seed pods to open for new growth, and for a multitude of other uses by humans and Mother Nature alike.  What is important to understand is that humans never discovered fire; they learned to control it.  Of the elements found in nature, earth, water, fire, air, and some include space, fire remains the element humans have exerted the most control over.  But why?  Each of the elements can be both destructive and useful to humans so why do humans remain to have an utter fascination with fire and why did they decide to harness this element most of all?

Perhaps one of the least useful elements to early humans; scientists have long entertained the strange relationship between humans and fire.  Unlike most, fire is an element that does not simply exist like the earth, water, and air.  Fire, still a natural element, needs to be created and is fleeting.  Humans need water to stay hydrated, earth for sources of food to grow from and so that photosynthesis can maintain a balance of necessary air quality for survival.  Humans don’t really need fire.  There are places warm enough for humans to live without needing a heat source and food sources are available that do not require cooking. 

My initial thought was that humans may have first decided to learn to control fire for a source of heat to stay warm but given how quizzical human behavior is it is entirely plausible that humans relationship with fire was derived from pure curiosity not from necessity and later the uses of fire were developed and found to be useful.  This would explain the spontaneous instances of fire in early human history and it not being until much later that actual heaths were discovered as being used by humans who had discovered ways in which fire would benefit their existence.

References

Gowlett, J. A. (2016, June 5). The discovery of fire by humans: A long and convoluted process. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2015.0164

Recker, J. (2022, June 29). When did early humans start using fire? To find answers, scientists enlist artificial intelligence. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/evidence-of--fire-artificial-intelligence-180980319/

Scott, A. C. (2018, June 1). When did humans discover fire? Time. https://time.com/5295907/discover-fire/

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The Jesus Nut

Helicopter analogy:  Does the world really just spin around and everything is held together by the “Jesus Nut”?  This doesn’t really seem to work for all parts of the world which might explain how the world actually functions vs. how people would like for it to function.

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Earth Cycles II

           Limestone found in Weatherford, TX contains nautiloid fossils that appear to be cymatoceras or in the cephalopoda class.  These fossils are likely from the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era, 79 to 66 million years ago, but could be up to 260 million years old.  During this time what is now Texas was completely covered by a shallow ocean which is what left behind the fossils that you can find in the limestone in Texas today.  Similar cretaceous-like species can still be found in the ocean today, though not in Central Texas.  Limestone in parts of Texas can be found up to about 42 feet deep and was once the floor of the ocean.  Limestone may often be confused by some as being caliche, while caliche is a calcified compound it does not contain fossils like limestone.  This supports the theory that if Texas was once covered by the ocean millions of years ago that perhaps one day the earth would cycle back to covering Texas by the ocean once again, and perhaps we’ve just been referring to the natural and very slow warming of the earth and rising of the tides as Global Warming.

References:

Hessong, A. (2017, October 17). Texas limestone hides fossils of sea creatures in the hill country. Texas Hill Country. https://texashillcountry.com/find-fossils-texas-limestone/

Judson, O. (2015, January). When Texas was at the bottom of the sea. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-texas-was-bottom-sea-180953653/

Miller, A. K., & Harris, R. A. (1945). North American Cymatoceratidae (Mesozoic Nautiloidea). Journal of Paleontology, 19(1), 1–13. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1299162

National Geographic. (2015, April 3). Cretaceous period. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cretaceous

TXFossils. (n.d.). https://www.txfossils.com

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Never try to fix someone.  When you fix something you put it back together the way that it was, it broke for a reason.  Help make someone better, don't fix them.  Make them unbreakable.

Monica, December 29, 2017

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Who came first?

Q: “Who came first the chicken or the egg?”

A: The rooster did not come first.  Hens can lay eggs without a rooster.

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Natural Beauty

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Truth:  I’m completely miserable and have been for years!  Why?  Because I’d rather be spending time with my daughter.  Maybe it would be different if I didn’t have a daughter, but I do and that pain of being separated never goes away.  Don’t let anyone tell you differently.  I’m afforded just enough time to be able to distract myself from this truth by getting away.  I think the only thing that would have been different if she had spent more time with me is she would have been able to be a part of all of my adventures.  We look way cuter in our matching swimsuits anyhow.

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