Take a look at the following video clip from Nasa. During the last minute of the clip you can clearly see one hovering in space not too far away from the space shuttle Atlantis and this was filmed during their latest mission.
Intriguing.....
Tie Fighter for real
We have all seen the starwars movies and the Tie fighters, the small one man craft of the empire who race around trying to eliminate the heroes. Now though, I have proof that they actually exist!
Take a look at the following video clip from Nasa. During the last minute of the clip you can clearly see one hovering in space not too far away from the space shuttle Atlantis and this was filmed during their latest mission.
Intriguing.....
Take a look at the following video clip from Nasa. During the last minute of the clip you can clearly see one hovering in space not too far away from the space shuttle Atlantis and this was filmed during their latest mission.
Intriguing.....
Friday Nights
I was somehow sidelined into this thought this morning, during a reflective time with God. Why are Friday nights and Saturday nights almost always associated with partying, letting one's hair down, getting drunk, having a good time, going out, meeting mates, going clubbing etc?
Is it really because it is the weekend? or is there something else? Something spiritual?
Satan, was a fallen angel. He was once known as Lucifer. He was the head of worship. He was worship. He loved to worship God. He loved to worship for worshipping. He began to worship himself and this led to his downfall and to the whole realm of sin and seperation from God.
God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest and also a day of celebration, a day of worship dedicated to God for who he is and what he has done for us. The Israelites and the Jews celebrate the Sabbath from twilight of Friday through to twilight of Saturday.
We brits and the rest of the world consider our Sabbath to be on a Sunday. That is the day we set apart specifically, historically and traditionally as the day for worship and celebration. Yet this leaves the gap. The original Sabbath and its spiritual connotations were regarded highly by God and by his ordained rules. These still apply, but now the fallen Lucifer has taken over the 'gap' in our lives. The worship is still there, the celebration is still ringing around the world, but it's not to God, but to the devil and to carnal desires. Music, love, lust, drunkeness, debauchery, orgies, violence, anger, hatred are all prevalent when people lose self control. The heady mix of alcohol, laughter and drugs makes for an interesting evening of escapism, which is becoming increasingly popular in our culture today. It's the devils scheme for making people worship themselves and him. Little do they know that when they are set out to have a good time, do they fall under the spell of the deceiver.
Satan still wants people to continue the sabbatical pattern of worship, but to worship anything else but God, the father and creator, as he originally ordained.
Next time you go out to have a good time, think of the reasons as to why, and then think how you can change that why to be more effective for God.
Is it really because it is the weekend? or is there something else? Something spiritual?
Satan, was a fallen angel. He was once known as Lucifer. He was the head of worship. He was worship. He loved to worship God. He loved to worship for worshipping. He began to worship himself and this led to his downfall and to the whole realm of sin and seperation from God.
God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest and also a day of celebration, a day of worship dedicated to God for who he is and what he has done for us. The Israelites and the Jews celebrate the Sabbath from twilight of Friday through to twilight of Saturday.
We brits and the rest of the world consider our Sabbath to be on a Sunday. That is the day we set apart specifically, historically and traditionally as the day for worship and celebration. Yet this leaves the gap. The original Sabbath and its spiritual connotations were regarded highly by God and by his ordained rules. These still apply, but now the fallen Lucifer has taken over the 'gap' in our lives. The worship is still there, the celebration is still ringing around the world, but it's not to God, but to the devil and to carnal desires. Music, love, lust, drunkeness, debauchery, orgies, violence, anger, hatred are all prevalent when people lose self control. The heady mix of alcohol, laughter and drugs makes for an interesting evening of escapism, which is becoming increasingly popular in our culture today. It's the devils scheme for making people worship themselves and him. Little do they know that when they are set out to have a good time, do they fall under the spell of the deceiver.
Satan still wants people to continue the sabbatical pattern of worship, but to worship anything else but God, the father and creator, as he originally ordained.
Next time you go out to have a good time, think of the reasons as to why, and then think how you can change that why to be more effective for God.
Have we really come so far?
Reports this week in the papers regarding the care (or rather the lack of care) of patients with Alzheimers in some hospital wards where they are being treated. There is apparently very little scope for enhancement or collusion towards making these patients lives that much better. Some have not been out of the ward for more than six years. There are no facilities for exercise or even for walking around a garden. There are no activities for these people to put their minds to. So what is left but a miserable existence where the only highlight of their days are the meals and going back to bed again. It rather reminds of the dark old days of the mental home institutes where people were placed there simply because society didn't know what else to do with them and how to treat them. Nowadays there are guidelines and locksmiths and specific programmes to enable alzheimer's sufferers to improve or become that much more independent and to actually enjoy life, even if it means being wheeled around a garden in the sunshine.
What it comes down to is basic budget and priorities. Society still hold out as a general rule that alzheimers sufferers can no longer contribute to the community, are no longer needed to, should be placed somewhere out of sight and therefore out of mind, left to dwell in the confused memories of their lives until they die, but without much help from anyone else because it is too painful to care, to embarrasing to care, to expensive to care, too time consuming to care and too emotionally draining to care.
Therefore whatever care they get is given under minimum budget, to cover the basic necessities of living without giving life and enjoyment.
As the elderly population increases and the fact that there'll be more alzheimers sufferers in the future, we need to start thinking now of how society can help those sufferers in the future to have a life and enjoy it as well as they can, else we once again see the desperate and detestable places the mental institutions of old were.
We are in danger of repeating the mistakes of our ancestors when we believe we are in a society that has moved on, become more advanced and knowledgeable, yet we only attend to those who shout the loudest.
What it comes down to is basic budget and priorities. Society still hold out as a general rule that alzheimers sufferers can no longer contribute to the community, are no longer needed to, should be placed somewhere out of sight and therefore out of mind, left to dwell in the confused memories of their lives until they die, but without much help from anyone else because it is too painful to care, to embarrasing to care, to expensive to care, too time consuming to care and too emotionally draining to care.
Therefore whatever care they get is given under minimum budget, to cover the basic necessities of living without giving life and enjoyment.
As the elderly population increases and the fact that there'll be more alzheimers sufferers in the future, we need to start thinking now of how society can help those sufferers in the future to have a life and enjoy it as well as they can, else we once again see the desperate and detestable places the mental institutions of old were.
We are in danger of repeating the mistakes of our ancestors when we believe we are in a society that has moved on, become more advanced and knowledgeable, yet we only attend to those who shout the loudest.
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