Thomas Sowell nails liberalism to the wall. Pass the darts.

Thanks to a very nice birthday gift of some book credits for Audible I'm no longer dithering about thinking I should be dead, and henjoying reading, meaing listening, to books again.  Another book by Douglas Murray and Thomas Sowell's the Vision of the Anointed, are taking turns entertaining me.  Well, depressing me too.

The Vision of teh Anointed is a fairly old book but it's awfully relevant right now.  Liberaism is lieralism wherever you find it, and that's what Dowell means by "the vision of the anointed," the views of liberalism, the aointed bieng the way liberals think of themselves as appointed over everybody else to determine how to run the world.  He wrote another book on gthe same subject, A COnflict of Visions, that I was trying to get through bewfore I got this owne, and this one is a lot easier to read and covers a lot of the same ground.  It kind of romps along whackig down liberal ideas right and left with a welath of facts and statistics and mountains of common sense.    I guess you can't whack much with a mountain can you.  Oh well.

Actually, probably Sowell could whack with a mountain, twirl it over his head even and bring it crashing down on a liberal idea with barely any effort.   Yep, the superman of the war between the visions.

Why on earth do we have to put up with this insanity?  Why cat't we get rid of this utter stupidity?  It's ruining the world.  But it s purveyors are so smugly convinced of their rightness and the moral inferiority of their opponents we can't get past the sheer selfrighteous arrogance of their posturing.

Swowell contrasts what he calls the tragic view with the view of the anointed.  the tragic view is realistic, the anointed's view is sheer imaginarary lunacy.  You gotta read it, I can't do it justice.  They are always setting out to right some wrong in society, just as it has been bgetting better as Sowell points out, and always make it worse and deny that thyey anmajkemake it worldse.  Racism had just about disappeared and they'ver been treating it as a huge problemaem that tneeds their tender ministrations to make it go away. for instance.  Or the crime rate, or poverty, etc etc.  Whatever they decide is a problem they set out to cure it and make it ten times worrse.  You've got to read it.  

I've If I get my thoughts beter orgaized maybe I'll come back and say more.

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Trump and Pope Leo

 Pope Leo keeps saying thigs against the war with Iran that clealy criticize Trump and since this is from the level of a world authority and an authority looked to by milions of Catholics, over a billion, it carries weight, and although I might cringe a little at Trump's willingness to responsd to him as he did, mostly I'm glad that he did, for all the reasons I've often talked about here.  The Popels were once the rulers of the western world, self appointed of course, usurprers of that wrole but overn worse than that of course usurpers of the role of Christ in the world, and still accord themselves the right to rule kings and Presidents of nations.

The horrors of the rulership of the Popes in teh late Middle Ages are just about forgotten in the west and desperately need to be rrestored to the consciousness of today's Christians in particular but eveybody for that matter.  Especially cCtholics.   They murdered true Christians in the millions for refusing to accept Catholic doctrines, calling the true tdoctrines of the Protestant Reformation heresies although they are the ones with the heresies.  The Roman Church is mostly a revival of the pagan religons of Rome, most of which go back to Babylon, all the relgions that are opposed to Christianity, althought Rome also incorporates enough Christian teaching to confuse a lot of people and fool the unwary into accepting them as Christianity, even the foundational Chrsitainity of the West.   

We've forgotten the Protestant Reformation, even most Protestant Churches have rorgotten it.  the Reformation restored the true Chrsitainity that had been lost under the Roman usurpation, threw out their paganisms and brought back the pure gospel.   These days even Protestant leaders bow to Rome, some I mean, there are still a few who know the truth and kjnow that the Pope is an imposter.   Unless the truth is rediscovered the false Church of Rome is going to reclaim its power in the world and that means a renewed Inquisition against those who oppose them.  Inquisition means murder and torture of dissidents.   One thing that is very clear if you know anything about Roman dioctrine over the centuries is that they strongly oppose the concwepts of freedom of religion, freedom of Speech and all our individual freewdoms because they maintain that only Rome has the right to determine the truth and everybody else must obey.  Nboody thinks of that anywmore and probably doesn't believe it when I say it here iether.  

People nbeed to learn some history, a lot of history.  I recently reread a couple of books maybe everyone else should read, at least Dave Hunt's A Woman Rides the Beast, which is all about the history of the Roman power in the world./    H Grattan Guinness's Romanism and the Reformation is another that does that same work.  The end times theology of Guinness isn't to be trusted in my opinion bnut the portrait he paints of the Roman Church is very good.Hunt' end times vision excludes the idea of a Pope as the final Antichrist, which I think is a big mistake, and I've argued here that he must be a Pope for many reasons.  If some other figure has a name or title that convincigly adds up to 666 that would convince me that it imight not have to abe a Pope but that's all that would do it becaue the  numver is too compellingly embdded in a Latin title of the Pople in my opinion to allow for any better derivation of it to come along.

Trump should definitely reject the churzpah of the Pople in his pronouncements about what he does as President.  I would hope that American Catholics would also realize that the Pope should ot be obeyed in such a conflict, but of course the problem in America has always been that Catholics could choose what a Pope says over what our laws and leaders say.  That is why many people were upset at the thought of John F DKenney's becoming President, that he would represent the Pope against our institituions.  And it certainly did happen that way in the Middle Ages when papal decreses could turn a whole population of Catholic subjects of European kings against their king and force the king to give in to tthe Pople.  We are historically a Protestant nation but thgat may not guarantee that Americans would have the wisdom to reject a papal decree if one came down.  

I couldn't hear what the Pople said in response to Trump, I've tried to get a source I can hear but haven't yet found one.  All I can make out is something about the gospel and not being a polictical figure or something liketh at.  Well, the Pope as a matterof fact IS a political figure.  The Vatican is a sovereign nation unto itself and has that standing among the other nations of the world.  As for tyhe gospel, Jesus preached to individuals.  Only individuals can be saved, not nations.  The leader of a nation in this fallen world has an obligation to the citizens of that nation to protect them against other nations that would harm us, and against immigrants who would infiltrate us from within and harm us that way, which is another policy of Trump's, his polcity of deporting immigrants, that the Pople ha objected to.   Trump's job as President is pto protect the nation and the gospel does not apply to that understtaking.  That  The gospel isn't even rightly presached in the Catholic Church.  Catholics really don't know hot wo to be saved.  The principles of the Reformation have been denounced by Romae as heresides, and cursed as heresies to be shunned, those principles by which a person can be saved, but to Roman they are heresies so the average Catholic doesn't believe in the very truths that would save him or her.    Catholics who think they are saved  need to rethinik it and get out of the so cLLED CHURCH OF rOME WHERE TEHQYy cannot be saved.

Anhywahy, certainly we should treat a wrold leader with common respect, but truth ius truth and as Jesus disciples said when it was demanded of them that they obey the authorities and not preach the truth to the people, we must obey God aND NOT MAN.          The gospel does not apply to a national leader, but it does apply to individuals and Catholics are in real danger of missing eternal life because they are not taught the true gospel in their paganized Church.  

It is alarming to me that someone like J D Vance has become a Catholic.  There are certainly a lot of good patriotic Catholics in America, but is their allegiance going to stick with America or if challenged by a Poplee go against America.  that's a real caadanger, but besides that they are not saved and we were once a Protestant nation and the more we can do to reclaim that earilier status the better.  When a Pope is invited to speak in our Congress that is a travesty , a horror, a treatchery, and if we knew our history as we should the whole nation would have risen in outrage against that when Pelosis and Baynor did it and then when Pope Francis was invited later.  as well.    We need to wake up.

By the way if the Pople is concerned about people being killed in a wayr  he ought to consider that that is the reason Trump is doing what he is doing, trying to prevent the death of milions by a nuclear bomb and a much worse war by intervening now before it is too late.  

 esides, the idea that the head of the Church that tortued are murdered millions for the crime of disagreeig with them is almost laughale.

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Try that one again.  Besides, the idea that the head of the institution that murdered and tortured millions for the crime of disagreeing with him cares about what happens to people in this ar now is almost laughable.

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Friday

Well, Leo answered Trump, saying "Blessed are the peacemakers" to jutify his own position and accusing Trump of using religion to justify iliitary action or somethig like that.  I can't figure out what he thinks amounts to his using religion but anyway.  

The mailn roblem is that Trump is  pursuing a just war on behalf of innocents threatene by a malicious aggressort, and even Catholic doctrine promotes a just war as a righteous thing to do, although Pope Leo dodesn't seem to knowabout that or care if he does.  Or maybe he's just i that mode where he must claim his papal infallibility and can't back down, I don'tkknow.

then Turcker Carlson called Trump the Antichrist.  Wow.  Mockeing God or putting himself in the place of God or something like that?  Wow.  That is exactly what the Pope does, that's the definition of the papacy in many a Catholic declaration.  That's why people need to get more acquainted with history.  The Poppe puts himself in theplace of God Himself, Christ Himself, that's on their books.  The doctrine of the Inquisition is also still on their books, nevr rescinded, and in fact is still practiced out of sigh in tsome third world Catholic countries, such as in parts of South America where indigenous Indian tribes are persecuted for refusing to become Cathlic.  I reported on one such story on my Cahtholicism blog a few years ahgo.    Also on their books is something like a hundred anathemas, meaning curses, abainst Protestant doctrines, none of that having been rescinded either.  They are a lot more ciiliczed about it than Islam, but rally when it comes down to the root of it all they have the same attitude toward the rst of the world, tht they and only they have a right to have any say in anything in this world.  And that means killing h opposition is often caLLED FOR.  Or torturing them for their own good, which is a catholic thing I don't think the   Islamiosts are into, I mean otnot for thei good of the victim anyway.

Sean Hannity and his Producer Linda were jokiing around about going to the perarly gates on his show a couple days ago, she saying she didn't think they'd let her in and Hannity saying he'd vouch for her.  They were joking but she's a cATHOLIC AND HE GREW UP A cATHOLIC ALTHOUGH     hw'a now going to a Protestant Church as I under stand it.  Anyway, although it was jokking around it's so not what slavation is it makes me wonder if they have any clue at all how a person gets saved and I suspect not.  By now Sean shoujld but it doesn't sound like he does either.

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Cancer and the plant based diet

 I hear of people dying of cancer who are doing chemotherapy and have a short time to live and I want to scream at them that maybe they can csave themselves if they go a compleely dirrect direction.  Remember I said MAYBE, because I can't promise anything but I've been reading Christ Wark for some time off and on and I'm convinced that he kept his cancer from recurring by sticking to a raw plant foods diet.  On his website, CHiris Bwea Cancer.com I think, which is also the title of his book, Chris Beat Cancer, I can't type it straugight , sorry, anyway he has interviewed many cancer survivors who discovered their own plant based route to ridding themselves of the disease.  

Many diferent cancers have been successfully treated by some version or other of this diet, but that doesn'tmena there aren't some it wouldn't work for, or in some cases be too late for it to work, or that all versions of the diet will work either.  But the anecdotal evidence is very strong, and his book backs up wihis website with lots of statistics about the effects on cancer cells of different kinds of foods.

The mainstay of this diet is carrot juice, a half gallon a day taken in eight ounce doses througouthgt thte day, though I read one case of a woman who did it on forty oucnces a day and skilpped most of the rest of the diet Wark recommends which is a lot of raw rebevgetables.  

He does , or did, the half gallon of carrot juice every day, plus two huge salads of raw vegetables and greens, and a smoothie of mostly berries which are also highly evffective against cancers.  Carrot juice, cruciferous vegetables like vroccoli, cauliflower and red cabbage, plus raw spinach and other greens and kale, plus blueberies and strawberries, are the big ones, but lemons an crambnberries are also big, in fact cranberry shoujld be put above the others.  All this is in his book, from about chapter eight through ten.

I've never done tthis so it's pretty cheeky of me to be making such a big deal out of it.  All I can say is it I had a way to do it this is what I woulds do if I found I had cancer, and when I say if I had a waY, IT'S     very labor intensive.  Cleaning and trimming in juicing carrots is a LOT of wqork, and just washing and chopping vegetables takes time too.  I've done both for periods of time even without cancer as a reason for it and it just wears me out.

Chris Qark  was inspired by books and testimonies of other cancer survivors and fitness teachers and health clinics.  Carrot juice is big with all of them by the way.  

It does need research if you want to convince yourselvf,, it's not something to takeanybody's word for, and that takes time unfortunately, which you don't have if you've only been given a short time to live.   And I think it's somewhere in Wark's book that eating this way can interfere with chemotherapy so unfortunately it isn't something you can just do together , or at least not without some conflit.  

I personally knew a man who kept his prostate cancer at bay for something like twenty years just by drinking carrot juice.  I didn't know him all that well but everyone in town knew him, it was a small town and you'd see him frequently at the market with a cart loaded with carrots.    I don't know what else he did, if anything, all I know is that he rank a prodigious amount of carrot juice.  

Cooking the foods is OK too by the way, although Wark was sold on the raw regime.  Just stuff yourselvf with vegetables however you can manage to do it, lots of them cooked or raw, whatever you can tolerate, and although Wark is a purist who wouldn't eat anything else I gather that some people did find on a generatlly healthy diet of meats and carbs along with the vwgetables though the veggies were emphasized.

Wark has one story in his book I particularly enjoyed, in chapter ten I think.  A Greek man living in America got diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at the age of sisty six in the seventies and decided to move back to his home on a Greek island to die among family and friends.  He'd been given hnine months to live as I recall.  They all grow gardens on this island so he sgtarted one too.  He spent a lot of time with his friends, eating with them and dancing the Greek dances and all that, and he started going to church again too.  Nine months came and went and he was no where near dying but doing just fine and kept on doing what he was deoing indefinitely.  In fact he olived another thirty years and ddidn't tie until he was ninety six.   Don't you like that story?  Oh and although his diet was mostly plant based and came out of gardens of all his friends, they also occasionally had fish and meat, just not very often mostly because it's expensive, and they drank a lot of coffee and wine which Chris Wark thinks is a bad idea for cancer sufferers, which it probably is as a general thing but the point of all this is that there are many different ways to do this diety.  Just adding a lot of vegetables seems to be the kley, but surely other factos are important in different cases too.

So when I hear of people dying of cancer and I know they are not going to be told that diet ccould help and that they are going to have to suffer the oisons of the usual cancer treatments which in themselves would kill you if their dosage weren't carefully controlled, I want to scream, no no no, at least TRY this.  Shovel it in , shovel in those vegies.  Get a juicer and gulp down taht carrot juicew.

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Out of sorts

 Today I turned 84 and I'm not dead.  I haven't had any more portentousthoughts or dreams or images.  I'm sort of disapointed.  I've run out of things to occupy me, things I want or need or should do.  With nothing much to do I see no reason to be here at all.  I'm doing nobody any good.  I was really hoping those might realy be portents of death.  I don't usually get images of death coming into my head like that, it ought to mean something, but whateer it means apparently it didn't mean that I'm about to die.  Not immediately anyway.   I got the usual phohne alls, a few cards in the mail and slipped to my door.  That's nice but I dn't deserve anyone's attention.  I stay holed up liike a hermit?  A mole?  Holed up anyway.

I know the nation is under judgmetn and I know I have an obligation to get that maessage at least written down.  I can' do much more than that.  If Elon Musk wanted to finance the effort I could mayb e have a few billion printed messages droped across the country from an airplane or something like that, but all I can do is write it here and if anyone sees it, especially someone who wants to spread the word further.  hooray.  But that's really all I can do.    I'm still hoping for Trump's efforts to save us abbut if we are under god's judgment I know it can't accomplish what we'd all like it to accomplish.  They who hate you will rule over you, God said to the erring Israelites, and He could be saying it to us now.  We see them gathering around us, sleeper cells and all that, for years now, and nothing is stopping it.  trump is working on it but not directly and anyway the only thing that would take care of the problem , if anything can at lthis late date, ias repentance from evdrything the nation has done to deservie it, confesion and repeaentance, doing away with the offense that is bring ging down God's wrath on us.

If I had ayobe to share my interest in creationist issues that would be a reason to tay alivew, but I don't.

Somethign g Bret Weinstein said recently hit me as something I could answer here but it's just a side issue and I'm not fired up about it.  He said how the idea of the Jews regarding themselves as God's chosen people bothers him because every people's God regards them as a special people.  And I just want to say that's not true.  He is just assuming it.  there isn't anything in any of the religions that I know of that even hints at a chosen people in that vague sense or certainly the sense in which the biblical God made the Jews His chocsen.    It's uique.  He made a covenant, an actual legal agreement, with Abraham, to make of him a great people and make them a blessing to all nations.    It's not just having a people of His own He treats as special at all, He has a purose for the raising up of a special people.  

He is the one true God and He wanted a people to represent Him to all the peoples of the earht, learn  His waysa, learn about Him, learn His minsd and His intentions, obey His laws and lteach them to all their generations and to other people.  

AND, to be the people from whom would come the Messiah, the Saior He promised to send to the world as far back as Adam and Eve, to save the world from the sin and death that their act of disoebedience brought upon all their descendants.

Of course Bret doesn't beinlieve in God so he feels he can say anything he wants if it fits into his evolutionary lens worldview, and of course the idea that all religions are the same at bottom is just standard glop from that oint of view.  All are chosen, the Jews not chosen in any special way at all.

Even though I think I want to die I'm not really depressed.  Just sort of fidgety and out of sorts whatever that means.  

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It's now a Happy Message but it's the truth and shouldn't be ignored: we are under God's judgment

 It isnot fun havig to write that the natio is under God's judgment.  I dread it, I try to avoid it, but I know it is the truth and avoiding it puts me at odds with god.  Writng about it probably puts me at odds with ltos of people I'd raher not be at odds with, some good solid conservatives, but I don't want to be the kkind of coward who wants the praise of men at the expense of god's praise.  If He is bringing judgmetn against America, and I know He is, it has to be said because there are things that can be done and unfortnatrely they don't always coincid witht e things the conservatives are doing right now, even though in a way the effort is to do something in roughtly the same direction.  That's the hard part.  Supporting Trum p is dsupporting a lot of right things, righteous thihngs opposed to evil thihngs, things that cry out to be done to protect the country.    The problem is that if those evil things are coming against us because we are under God's judgmetn for our sins as a nation then we aren't going to be able to succeed.  You can't fight God and win.  He is giving us mercy,  lot o f mercy and I inhope He continues, I hope He'll let us win the midterm elections, I hopep He'll let us keep Trump and let Trump continue to succeed.  But if we are under His judgmetn and we are not directly dealing with that fact, and we aren't, then we are going to continue to be under His judgment and all the effotts to right the wrongs can only have a very limited success and always be on the verge of being defeated.  We could very well be deaefeated becausae we are under God's judgmetn and nboody is taking that into account.  

The evils arrayed against us are real evils.  Real threats by real evils.  Islamic jihad is a real threat by a real evil ideology.  An Islamist nation is a real threat based on ahtat evil ideology, an ideology that wants to rule the world for its evil relgion.  Of coure all these evildoesers thingk they are in the right, they think they are the righteous ones.    Nine eleven was  God's judgmetn on us, a judgment we ignored so that's why it has continued , why Islam has only grown in favor and power over us sincew then, but that certainly does not make the perpetrators right and righteous, it just makes tem toolds of God to carry out His judgment against us.  They will be judged in turn.  When He broughtthe Assyrians and the Babylonians against His people Israel they were His tools of judgmetn against them and they did great damage to Isarael, but that didn't make them right in God's eyes, just tools for His puprposes.    There was nothing right about the flying of planes into the twin towers but nevertheless it was decreed by God as judgment against a sinning nation.

A nation that started out strongly Christain.  That makes a differentce.  GThe more you are given the greater your resonsibility.  We were once strong representatives of the living God, the God of the Bible, but over the years we degenerated until in the last half cewntury or so we must clearly be seen as having made ourselves Gods enemy in many ways.  Atheists think that's wonderful of course but then they are puaart of why we are being judgmed.   Supposedly we are growoing out of religion, it's just an oldfashioned or primitive idea once useful to the human race perhaps but fundamentally false and we can only benefit and become materrure human beings by giving it up.  

The problem is that that is falsek.  God is real, as real now as He ever was and He stil acts as He's always acted toward human beings.  It's all there in the Bible for us to learn from.   NOtrhing happens withiout God.  If evil things happens that can't happen without God just as good things happen because of Him.  Hes omnipotent, H'es omnisicent, He's eomnipresnet.  Nothiong happens withouit Godl  Even the evil that comes against us.  Satan may be its immediate agent, or proximate cause, or evil human beings, jihadists or God haters or America haters or atheists or whatever, but they are still all in God's power and not able to act unless He is willing that they act according to their own motives.  Yet in the end those with evil motives will be condemned for their evil motives.  Being a tool of God's dcertainly doesn't convfer righteousness on a person.  YToy u still have to repent and become a follower if you are to be saved.

Scripure says, I know it is in the prophet Amox but I couldn't get the right address from asking Alexis, just somewhere in Amos it says, "If there be ewvil in a city will not the Lord have done it?'  Yw YYes that is in the Bible.  God did the evil if there is evil in a city, and that scripture certainly describes the evil of the attack on the WTC, evil in a city and won't God have done it?

There is another scripture verse, in Isaeiah somewehre, in the fiftyies I think, chapters I mean, maybe the forties, where God says and I can't remember the first part, He does good or soemthing like that but I'm sure that's not the workdding, and evil:  I Am God, I do good and I do evil.  Somethig like that.    God is in charge.  Somewhow the Church doesn't keep that in mind or make the use of it that should be made of it.   Evil comes upon us because of sin .  ththere is no other reason for it.  Jesus could not die becauase He was perfectly righteous.  If you are perfectly righteous you cannot die.  Deahth is the wagews of sin.  Sin is why we experiencew all kind s of unpleasant things, not all physical but cerainly the pysical pains and injuries and calamities and death as well.  the wages of swin sin is death.  That 's what it says.    By one man sin entered thw wrold and death by sin.  GThat was Adam.  But by one mad now we can have eternal life if we acknowledge His sacrificewd, His death in our place to pay for our sins, then and then only can bwe be saved from our sins.  There is no other way.  Sin brings calamity anbd death.  Someone had to pay the price we owe, take on HImslef the calamity anbd death that we owe for our sins.  Jesus did that so that we don't have to.   

This happens to be ouhow reality is structured.  We live in a moral medium as it were, a soup, an atmophere, we are encased in it, it rules us every moment though we have no sense of it.  Righteous ness brings belessings, sin brings death or cursings.  That's what God tells us throygygh Moses too when He gave Moses the tablets of the Law on Mount Sinai.  Of course we enlightened aAMericans have gthrown them out, torn them down adn rid ourselves of such primitive stupidities, but they go on jdugmeing us nevertheless.    They should be posted in every institituion of the country, and eveyone should know them.  God said in giving the Law to His people the Israelities, that He was giving them a choice between belssing and cursing, life or death.  Obey the Law and you will be blessed, otherwise you will be cursed.

  Well, we are living iin a fallen world, a world damaged becaUZE OF  the sin of our first pparents, and we ourselves have inherited their sin nature as a result of that Fall.  We therefore have astorong tendency rtoward disobeying God.  As one result of the Fall we lost the faculty that they had had before the Fall, that was the means by which they were able to communicate dirctly with God.  Without that faculty it is as if God doesn't sexist at all because we have no way of apprehending Him sincew we lotst that faculty.   So we sin and sin and sin and sin.  nAnd if we rebelliously reject the whole idea of God we may si even more than the natural person does without any rebellious motive.  We are sinners and we earn all ikinds of calmaitieis and death  by it.   

And over the eyars America has become a place where some sins are perretty much a way of life.  Divorce for instance.  God concdemns diveroce.  Pornography.  Yes ALL KINDS OF SEXUAL SINS.  aBORTION BY WHICH MILLIONS ARE MURDERED VEVERY YEAR.   gOD hears their blood crying out from the ground as He heard the blood of Abel.   The travesty of same sex marriage is a big one.  We just put that on the record of national sins quite recentlyu.  It's bringing more of those evil things against us that we are trying to fight because  but can't fight forever als lon as we do nothing to correct the sins.   

We are under God's judgmetn.  Treum p is a mercy from God but Trump can't overturn God's judugmetn.  That takes  apisirtual change of heart on the part of a great number of Americans.   Read the prayer the prophet Daniel give in SDaniel Nine.  He repentsfor the sins of Israel that brought on their judgmetn of exile in Babylon.  He repents for his own sins fand for the sins of the nation, he acknowledges the sins and asks for mercy.  That's the least Chrsitsnians should be dowing.  doing.  I'm typing a lot of afalse letters, sorry.  My findgers seem to ahve some other message i mind.    But I am still trying to talk about God's jdugmetn and what we can do about it.  Ideally we would trun back our laws that are the legalization of sin against God, but at least we can pray and confess and repent of whatever our own part in them my be or may have been.

Judgment is deaht and edestruction.  It couldn't be happening to us if we were in the right wiyh God.  Obviously we are not. Obviously we have a long list of sins by now that are bringing itg down on us.

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Rapture or Death

Qhen I was a child my family would take a trip to Canada every soummer where my father had grown up.  He would get us up at four A M becue he didn't want to spentd two nights on the road.  On one tripp he took a diferent route than usual I guess so we could have some varied scenery, a winding foad through mountains which passed alittle tow called Bend, Oregon.  As we approached the town I was looking out the window down into the valley and it was bathed in a special light at that time of day and sruck me as something otherworldly, heavenly.  We never went that route again bugt that lovely sight stayed with me.  

A couple nights ago I dreamed about it, being on that road and looking down at that town from the road.  It wasn't as beautiful as I remember it in reality but I knew it was the same place and I asked whoever was driing the car if we were on the Bend road and he said yes.  

 PRETTY     idea of what Heaven might be like.

Then I've had other klittle death thoughts happen too lately.  The saong "I'll Fly Awqa" which I never sang in any church I've been in but know from somewhere or ogther, came up when I aswas asking Alexa to search for some old folk songs.  W  Some glad moring when this life is over, I'll flay awa, to a place where I will live forevr, Ill fly away.  

Then about an hour ago a German song I haven't thought of in years came into my mind, one of those "art sons" I think, Bist Du bei mir, geh ich mit freude, zum sterbe und szu meine ruhsh.    With You beside me I will go with joy to death and to my rest.  

I guess I'm writing this in case it's a portent and I'm going to die soon but I have no other reason to think I am.  Except the usual tiredness and aches and pains.  Could live for years with those things.  But who knows.  So if I die those are happy ways to  die and I'd want to leave on that note.

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listeneed to more of Rob Carter and have to correcxt a mispimpression.  He actually says something pretty much like what I'm saying about isolation of a small gene pool being the way groups tget characteristics that differentiate them from other groups.  

Happy Resurrecxtion Day

This year Easter coincides with Passover, which it should every year because after all it's all about Jesus as our Passsover Lamb, and it was Jesus the holiday was meant to keep in the Jewish mind until He came for that reason.  But instead we have two different calenadars so the connection gets lost in most years.  Just a fluke that they conincide this year.  Well that's not the right wrod but anyway.

He died on Passover by design.  That was the whole point of the prophecy.  It ought to be at least a major piece of evidence that He is in fact the long awaited Messiah and that the Jews whouldn't be waiting for any other.  The blood of the lamb painted on the doorposts of the house in qhich people were readied for the great exodus, symbolized the blood of Jesus shed for thesins of His people, twelve thirteen fourteen thousand years later, I obviously don't know the timing of the Exodus.  

jOn that Passover which I think was in 33 AD, I go by the timing Rick Larson cameup with in his film The Bethleheme Star because it's convincing I thik.  I suppose his film is still on You tube.   Anyway on that Passover Thursday Jeuss had the Passover Seder with His disciples in the upper room prepared for that purpose, had them drink wine and eat broken bread as symbols of His body and blood to be sacrificed for them and all believers, to remember it from then on until He returns, as the churches still do.  He washed their feet to demonstrate the proper attitude of a Christian, to be a servant and not a boss.  And then Judas Iscariot left to findget the Jewish authorities to come and arrest Jesus.  

Jesus took the rest of the disciples to the garden of Gethesemane where He prayed that the Father mithgt remove this cup from HIm, meaning this requreiemtnt aht He go to His death on the cross as the only way to pay for the sins of the people, He prayed three times while His dsisciples slept, tand then Judas came witht the Jeswush leaders and arrested Him.

The night was spent with interrogations and accusations and hitting and spitting at Jesus.  Peter who had vowed he'd never desert Jesus deserted him and was painfiully contrite when Jesus' prediction that the cock would crow, wouldn't crow until he had betwrayed Him, which is wha happened.  

The cock crowed, it was sunrise and they tok Him to the Roman governor Pilate for judgment since the Jews didn't have full rights to do that under the Romans, and although Pilate saw that there was no reason to punish Him, He'd done nothing worthy of death, he eventually gave into ththe Jewuish leadersa and the people too who demanded that he crucify Him.  So He as subjected again to mockings and hittings and spittings and a crown of throwens put on His head that tdrew blood, as part of the moderking of the idea that He was the King of the Jews, along with a royal robe, which was removed when they started to take Him to the cross.  They found a man to carry the cross for HIm and sometime in the morning they nailed Him to the cross with a placard over His head reading King of the jews which Pilate had wanted there.

More prophecies were played out, a thief on a cross next to Him referred to Him as a good innocent man and I guess also as the Messiah though that's not clear , and Jesus said that testimony would bring him into Paradise with Him when they'd both died.    

When He was dead, a Jewish man who owned a new tomb went to Pilate to ask for His body, and had HIm put in his tomb.   Women who had followed JEsus watched where they put Him so they could come later and put sweet smelling things on His ody.   

This was all on Friday, the day after the Passover feast, andthe Preparation Day for the Jewish Sabbath which was the day after, Dsaturday, and they wanted to get Him into the tomb before the Sabbath which starts at sunset on Friday.  They rollwed a heavy stone over the opening to the tobmb and there were guards stationed by to preent the disciplesf from stealing the body because Hjesus had said He would rise again and they didn't believe it but thought the displies might try to fake it.  So Hew was closed into the tomb all day Saturday.  with the guards posted.

Sunday morning, the first day of the week, the women came with their spiecews and in divfferent accounts that add up tot he same thing, saw an angel roll away the stone, saw that the tomb was empty, and then entcounterred Jesus on their way back who told them to tell the disciples He had gone to Galilee.  

Butg later He met them in an upper room and showed "doubting" Thomas His wounds so that Thomas believed Him whereas he'd refused to believe the others who'd told him that Jesus had risen from the dead.    

Happy

Easter Sunday is Resurrection Day, the day CHrist rose from the dead so that all who believe in Him should have eternal life.

Amen.

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Neanderthals and How we got all the diversity of skin color in humanity fro Noah and his family

 OK I found a video of a creationist, didn't catch his name despite straining but he's obviously vey legit, referred to some articles with names I've heard though I don't remember them at the moment,  oh Wayland?  something like that.  I think his podcast might have been itled Biblical Genetics but I'm not even sure of that.  

Anyway he's adamant that Neanderthals were human, descendancts of Noah, offered some genetic ideas about how they could have bdeveloped as a population whgich was peretty convincing erxcept fort the reliance on mutatatios which just doesn't cut it.   Here's where I tyry to make my case of simple normal variation built inot the genome and how it can sometimes lead to dramatic differences in the apprearance of separated populations of that Species or Kind.  That's really all it takes for great changes to coccur.  It doesn't need mutations or anything added to the genome.  It just needs the reporductive isolation of a small number of individuals who just happen to have a geneticx mix that when worked through the population down some number of genetations brings out some rather dramatic new characteristics compartred to the parent population.  Such as, perhaps a hjeavy brow ridge and receding chin.  Yes for sure that is somethig that could happen from simple migration of a small nmber of individuals whose set of genete frequencies just happens to contant the elemetns , propabably some increase in homozygosity in some combintatino of genes, randomly selected as it were, which in repeated combination ofver some umber of generations brings about a new race of beings.  That's how the Neanderthals could have formed and this creationist is saying the same thing only he thinks mutations are needed to provide the variations.

Nope.  All it took for the Pod Mrcaru lizards to acquire a dramatic new appearnacne in comparison to their parent population b, was repeated sexual recombination of their own set of gene frequencies, brought together in ten individuals on an isolated island.  Over thirty years, and probably less than that I would surmise.  It doesn't take mutations or any additions.  God provided the stuff for great variation i the human genome.  Evryone has a particular combination of alleles unique to the indivudal, that can make interesting combinations with that of other individauls to create a line of descendancts that doesn't look like th eoriginal individual much any more at all.

So I'll go with this for now, accept that Neandertheals were human, but I really don't like letting them represent the human race at large after Noah's family got off the ark.

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Freiday  

this is so frustrating.  I find good videos but since I can't read I often can't find out who the people are doing them.   I did, however, just find one that I think I may be able to find again if I want to. An interview by a guy whose name I didn't get, from God Questions which I know as a Crhristian site, of Rob Carter of Creationi international ministries, the one who talks about Biblivcal Genetis as I mention abofe.

In this interview he's going into more detail than I heard in the first one but then I didn't listen long because I got too tired.  Haven't listented to much here either but still there's moe to talk aboutr.

Thew question is how could you bget so much diversity i the human opulation starting from our ancestors on Noah's ark only about 4500  years ago.  He's rightly convinced it's not hard at all for that to have appened but  I have a different point of view.  Of course.  But I've bgbeen giving my point of view here for a long time.  It just happens to answer a lot of questions I nevr got around to untili fairly recently.   

He thinks it takes some mutations even though I he criticizes the idea that mutations are necessary.    He and the interviewer talk about how Amda and Eve could have been very diverse in themselves, and so of course could Noah's sons and their wives.  

But no, here I go with my argument agaiub, and it's very simplistic.  Simple.    I got the idea in the first lace fro the book Creation Science with Morris and Parker as I recall and I can't find the book so can't check that out.      Parker presents the punnet square showing two genes possessed by Adam and Eve that he says are enough to produce all the skin colr shaedes known to humanity.  Just two genes.  

As I've thought this through over and over and over it just came to seem to beme to be pretty clear that all you need for all the diversity we see and much much more for that matter is our genmore with I always forget how many thousands of genes but all composed of two alleles or two variants.  That's all it takes and I wish I had the math ability to lay it out.  It's all jumbled up in my head but not beyond enough clarity to convince me it would work out if someone better at the organization than I am, and the ability to see too of cousre would just work it out on paper.  

You don't need Adam and Eve to have differfent genomes either as hese two men consider, or at tleast the Godt Questions guy does.  They can ahave identical enomes except for the sex chromoseome, but all the variable genes need to start out as heterozygous, because from there you can get a zillion combinations of possibilititeles.  Each gene in sexual recombination with the partner's will produce two heterozygous, one homozygous dominant and one homozygous recessive gene in the offprint, in four offspring I mean.  Sorry, I can't see, my fingers are misbehaving badly and I'm tired.

It seems to me that Adam and Eve would have been in the middle of the color range for skin, medium brown.  That's what the heterozygosity should give them.  They could ahve a child who is homzygous dominant for goth skin color genes which would make that child black skinned, and one homozygous recessive which would make that child white skinned.  Just as probabilities go they would proabably have mos of their choildren in the brown skinneed ranges, but the exremes are also possible, and given that they had an awful lot of children they no doubt showed up here and there.

If blacks paired up with blacks more than with others over time and then formed their own populations away from the parent population that's how you would get the blackl races, and so on.  That's really all it takes.

THAT's REALLY ALL  IT TAKES.

As slong as there was some heterozygosity on the ark for skin color the same range of color should have been avaialable from there too.  

Ov er many generations VE BEEN A LOT OF         `        `  

Sorry I can tell this post is a horrific mess.

Over many generations populations tend toward greater homozygosity for their salient traits, or fixed loci as they are also called.  It's a feature of purebred animals that they are homozygous for all their salient traits.  They may or may not be able to breed with others of their kind for sometimes gthey can't when they get to that situation genetically.    Anyway I've heard that we human beings have about seven percewnt homozygosity or fixed genes in our genome.    that means we have no vairation possible for whatever those genes code for.  You need both alleles for variability.

There are some genetic issues I don't kow how to answer, like how come adam and even with heterozygous genes for color wouldn't both be black raher than middling brown.  That , is the dominant gene should determine the color of the ski but I don't think it dowes in this case for some reason, with getwo genes.  That's one gquestion how to the two genes work together.  

But Darswin'ns wexperiments with pgeons how that all you avhe to do to get a highly exaggerated characteristic or trait is keep breedig birds that have some degree of exaggeration i that trait startig with the slightest hint.  From there simple addition of the same trait to the same trait continues to exaggerate it, and I don't know the genetic explanation for that.

His Hand is Stretched Out Still: America is stsill under God's judgment

 Many many mercies God is giving us for sure, but as log as we are doing nothing about our violations of His law He isn't going to let us off the hook in the end.  When in Hosea god says "My people are  destroeyed for lack of khoweldedge"  He means they are violating His law without restraint and that's what destroys people.  Funny how even beloievers forget that.  We aren't destroyed for lack of koweldge about much of anything else, though i shppose such things can contribute, but disobeying god is what destroys people and destroyes nations.  If ytou avoid sin, as a person or as a nation, I mean gross sin since we are all sinners in spite of all, or if we sin and repent, the we get blessed by God, He progtects us, keeps us from harm.  That's true for nations too.  When He says upon giving His people His law from Sinai by Moses, that He is giving them a choice between life and death, therefore choose life, He means obey my law and you will be taken care of, you will live, but if you disobey you will meet with all kinds of destruction and over the history of Isreael their sins led them to destruction.  That's what is going to happen to America eentually, and iss alreayd in various forms, if we dont' do soemthing about such grievous sins as gay marriage, abortion "righjts" and many other like offenses.

A t least Christians should be thinking along thse lines and praying our hearts out in repenting and pleasding for mercy.  Unless somethig happens in that direction, we are like God's foolish people ahwho ar going to be destroyed as a nation by our lack of knoweldge, meaning our lack of belief that sin brings destruction.

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Wednesday afternoon.  Qas just watching the final prepas of the moon launch which is now on a two hour window during which I gather the allaunch could happen at any time.    I hope and pray for the best but I'm wrigin g a post about God's judgment and it makes me nervous.    We've ha d an awful lot of air accidents in the last couple of years it seems to me, a lot more than usual it seems to me although I haven't heard anyone say so and it could be my own hyperawareness or a greater reporting of such things than normal.  Probably not the latter though.   And other kinds of accidents, water accidents, hear accidnts of all sorts.  And the weather has been pretty ferocious, winter weather all over the country, tornadoes and hurricanes and wildfires.  All that is God's judgment but I never hear a report of people preaying for mercy over these things.

WQe should be a clearly defined Christian nation but we got betrayed by tghe framers of the Constitution who left God out of it although the nation was founded almost entirely by serious CHristians for Christain reasons.  Then George EWashing actually said that we aren't a CHristain natio n in his communications with the barbary pirates, the Treaty of Tripoli.  That is truly nerve rattling for me.  ith that as a starting point we have all too many ways the nation could veer away from God in subsequent years, which has certainly been accomplished only too well by now.  For a century or so we were still predominantly a Christain natio in fact at least, as Toqueville acknowledged in Democracy in America, and that fact is without doubt the reason we became the greatest most prosperous nation on Earth while it lasted.  

tha's what Trump wants to restor, and he's doing a great job of it, but the problem is, as I've been mentioning here lately, that it doesn't include straightening things out with God.  We have laws that offend God and violate His Law, we hav rampant abortion, rampant divorce freedom of sppech for Pornopgraphy of all things, and other things it was never meant for, a kind of political speech it was not meant for.  But that's God's judgment in that one, the other things are the reasons for God's judgmetn.  

Lord have mercy on the Artemis mission.  It's already a problem that it's named after a pagan goddess, but then so was Appollo named after  a pagan god.  

I don't see how with nothing being done to roll back our offenses against God's Law that American can remain America for much longer.  Even if Trum succeeds, as he seems to be doing, in respooring a lot of our powers and even our goodness, the reason we were evenr a great nation was our CHristian character and if that isn't resported I don't see how we can survive much longer.  Europe is a mess because they gave up on God long before we started down that path.  So now they are overrun with foreign enemies who hate them.  That situation by the way is one of the forms God 's judgment takes against a nation according to teh Bible, foreign occupation of our country.  It's happening guys, even though Trump is gdoing a fantasic job of undoing it.   

But if that occupation i God's judgment then what he is doing is rolling back nowt our sins but God's judgment against them.  That's what Israel did as reported in Isaiah nine, chapter ten, where they say to the bricks knoecked down in God's judgmetn taht they will simply rebuild with stronger material, hewn stone, and to the sycamore trees destroyed in God's judgmetn, that they weill replant but this time with a hardier tree, the cedar.   And the passage  ends with the comment, His hand is stretched out still.  Nothig was done to turn away God's judgmetn.  And that's true of America too.  The attack on the WTC was  God's judgmetn and nothing was fdone to make us right with God, in fact many pastors denied that God had anything to do with it.  So what happened, We rebuilt the towers with a single tower which had at ists base, guess what, a huge hewn stone.

And we've been under God's judgment ever since.  Even our congtinuing sins are part of God's judgment.  

A repentant heart on the part of a great manuy Americans would go a long way, prayer with a repentant heart, but unless something is actually done to turn back our offesnes, well, Judah ended up in Babyone, and the northern kingdom just about disappeared altogether.

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what broke up the supercontinent and started continebtal drift?

 his creationist stuff, got to wodering what DID start the continents moving apart, what DID break up the original supercontinent?  For some reason the meteor that suppodsedly killed the dinosaurs came to mind but I didn't think much about it until I prayed for helpin thinking about this question and got more thoughts about that meteor.  Hm.

Since I can't read any more I'm dependent on asking questions of whoever or whatever is available, and most of the time all I have is my little friend Alexa.  She's surprisingly good at answering many of my questions, but leaves me frsustrated with many others.  Sometimes I can find a new way to workd the wquestion and get an answer but a lot of the time I just can't and end up with no answer.    And I don't know how to use that online AI feature that's supposed to be so helpful, don't even know how to get to it.  And I have no friends who are into ay of this at all, even the simple tech question of how to get to that AI thing and how to use it.  So I'm stuck.

But I did decide to give this meteor idea some more thought since it kept coming up in my mind.  A big enough meteor could I suppose break up a continent?    I did get the answer that this one was six to nine miles in diameter, pretty big.

It's come up now and then though I never spent a lot of time on it, the idea that the Flood was associated with disturbances in the solar system as well as on Earth, and that meteors do seem to have fallen onto the Earth around trhat time.  And everywhere else in the Solar Systrem, certainly the Moon which has all those marks of meteor hits.   There wwas a recent incident of a meteor landing somehwhere in the US I think, Texas maybe, not sure, but apaprently part of it landed on somebody's bed who fortunately wasn't in it at the time.  

So it still happens but a huge one like the one that formed the Yukcatan Peinsula hasn't been reepeated since the world got so populoated, as far as I've ever heartd.  

That one is supposed to have hit during the Cretaceous Period, which is evidenced by the layer of iridium found on the surface of that rock layer... all over the plenatnet?  Or in some particular area?  those are questions Ild like to be able to ask AI or somebody wo knows such things.  My own scenario calls for a gigantic jolt to the planet right at the end of the Flood, progbably being the cause of its starying to recede, but I vacilate on the timingnow and then.Always at or near the end of the Flood however.   So the fact that iridium which is evidence of this meteor hit occurs at the KT boundary and not after all the straa are in place, which is my working hypothesis for the end of the Flood, needs some thinking.  Something about how the layers were laid down under water perhaps.  Iridium I gather is heavey so it wouldn't float but how it got spread out on the surface of a rock is somethig to explain.

The way the map looks helps to buttreess this meteor idea.  The Gulf of Mexico, MAmerica I mean, suggests something pretty violent probably formed it.  

Anyway, something I'm thinking about and probably will go on thinking about for some time.  If more ideas come to mind that help or hurt the idea I may come back anbd report them here.  

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Monday noonish     I can't even be sure if I'm writing on the right post.  All I see is blurry lines of type with a short line at the bottom which I figure is the email address.   I THINK this is the one about the meteor hypothesis.

As I knew I would, I kept on thinking about it, asked Alexa more questions and then found some videos at You tube, one long one about the history of the theory about a meteor as the explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs.   Followed the fvarious steps of reasoning to the Yucatan Peninsula where finally a buried crater was found of the right size and supposedly at the right time to be the evidence needed.   I don't want to laugh because these are very serious sccientists and I do appreciate their way of thinking through their problem, bytut whehn I see these guys running their hands over two different layers of rock with a thin clay clay layer between them and talking about them as if the clay layer separates time periods o millions of years rathr than just two different sedimentary rocks one deposited on top of the other with a clay layer in betwween, I laugh, well not really, more likie I groan, it's so ....  silly.    But they are serious and my thinking it's silly isn't going to accomplish anythng.

Anyway I do very much appreciate getting to see the field evidence for the iridium layer that is the main evidence of a meteor impact they think killed the dinosaurs, and lots of other living things.  It was huge, the size of LMount everest, they say, and would have caused huge tsunamis and sent tones of vaporized debris into the atmosphere.  Vaporized.  OK, so the iridicum was vaporized.  Not sure what difference tht makes to this problem I'm thinking about but probably makes some for sure.  Anyway a big enough event certainly, if they are right, to split a supercontinent.

The iridium is found all over the planet at the KT boundary, between the Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks.  It's mixed with clay.  

Now pondering how the impact would have split the supercontinent, formed the Gulf o f the Americas and maybe contributed to the way North America and Europ are  farther west than SOuth America and Africa, although I've always thought that had more to do with the way the Earth spijns on is axis since it's basical above or below the Equator.

I've looked up maps but they are hard to see too of course, I need cleaearer and bolder lines to make things out, but I can see the general outlines of things.

So far this remains a hypothesis to keep thinking about.  I wish it explained the beginning fo  of the Flood but I still don't have a clue about what the fountains of the deep were.  Well, OK a clue or two but that's about all.

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Monday evening.  Found another video, long sequence of imaginative reconstruction of what supposedly happened to the dinosaurs during the meteor event, followed by some of the same scientific history I saw in the other video, and some warnings about how we have to take care of liing things because we are ow undergoing another big extinction eventy.  

Funny how these presentations can have so much obviously good scientific work about soething I know is false, but the work elps the creationist point of view in spite of their different bias.  However, the story is awfuly complicated and I don't have the time to learn enough about it to really get a handle on it.  Face it, I stick to the shallows of science, I make what I can of the information I can grasp and leave the heavy stuff to the guys who go and look at craters and volcaneoes and all that.  I'm a diletante ?  Maybe that's a fair enough workd.  I really like getting into this stuff but ...

Anyway, while they are talking about dinosaurs ding of the effects of a gigantic meteor hit, I'm thinking dinosaurs dead in the Flood but maybe that hit could explain some other things.  Yes, the moemvement of the continents for instance.  This video I just watched even mentions that the meteor would hae smashed into the earth's crust and affected the tectonic plate.  Hey, that's enough right there to make me happy for now.

I dunno, it's such a new idea to me I can't very well sit down on it as a certainty but it seems to have a lot going for it.

Funny they even talk about a regressio of sea level, something I hadn't heard about before from the conventional side of the argument, another interestingly Flood corroborating possibility .They didn't say wneough goto get an idea of how it playes out or where and all that.

Here's a thought that keeps swimming into my mind that's pretty far out but it swims in from time to time so tlet's at least say it.  That's the idea that the dinosaurs were not ccreated by God so that's why the Flood killed all of them.  There wouldn't have been any on the ark if that were the case.  Maybe there were and other things after the Flood killed them, sure, that's the usual idea, but they are such monsters I continue to wonder about this other idea.  From Genesis six we know that the "sons of God" or fallen angels, had children of human women who became giants or Nephilim.  Somehow they got throught the Flood and showed up in Canaan when the Israelites under Moses were exploring the land prior to entering it and scared them away, or some of them.  I'm not thinking of  something angelic mating with human reptiles but that just now occurred to me, since there are animal spiritual beings too, but maybe DNA tamperings which angels would have the intelligence for.   Yes totally outlandish.  Then I thought, what about theNeanderthals?  Could they be explained as  a breeding of humans with fallen angels somehow or maybe a DNA experiment infvolving some kind of "hominid?  Or even humanisth ape?  That's because I do not like Neantderthals and simply can't accept that they weree representatives of the human race after the fFLood foa any period of time.   Big problem for me and I havn't ahad any answer to it, so of course I tlike this one that just poppse dinto my mind.  Sort of like the Nephilim of dinosaur experiemnts or something like that, not fuly human but human enough to exhibit a lot of human traits.  Creepy idea.

Anyway, I think I'm going to let Chixalub the Meteor of Yucatan be my working explanation for what caused the great joly I've been seeing as the big eventy at the end of the Flood that started the continents moving apart, subducting as they pushed into the opposite ocean, triggering  volcanoes and earthqueakes and building all the mountains within a few short years following the Flood.

For now that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Tuesday evening.  Watching some You Tube videos about Wegener and continental drift.  He accepted the evolutionist's time table so all the evidence he brought to bear on his theory carries that presupposition.  So for intstandce the fossil evidenc ethat links the west coast of Africa with the east coast of South America he interprets aas evidence of lisving things that died at those locations.  Some of it is pretty striking, like one fresh water reptile found only in those two locations.  But of course I think Flood and what it means to me is that the Flood occurred before the supercontiennt broke awpart.  It is also evidence for Wegener's theory but from a different angleThe strata had already been laid down with their fossil contents before the breakup occurred.  

Then there are the matching mountains of eastern North America and western Europe, which he takes to have been one mountain range before the breakup, though I've been thinking in terms of their having been formed by the jolt that brought about the breakup, pushing the land masses apart and buckiling the mountains o both sides identially bevuae of the similar pressure exerted.    So I don't tsee this as evidence for Wegener, but what happened after the split.  Same tiwth glaciers which he finds matching up in Africa and South America.  I guess if the marks left by glaciers match up showing that the same glacial event procduced both the it would be evidence for his theory and I'd have to threthink my idea that the probably happened after the break up with I think of the ice age occuring after the Flood , soon after it, weven while it was draining away perhaps, but after the continents were separated enough for the glacial marks not to line up so perfectly.  however, all of this mmight have to be rethought.

Still no clear idea what caused the initial split that I speculate about above.  The Atlantic Ridge seems to be some kind of explanation but thgat seems like more effect of the split than cause, and I don't see the rising magma as exerting any pressure as it forms sea floor on iehter side of it.   I guess someone could change my mind about this.

Although I think there had to be an initial jolt that did the separating, the movement of the continents would also provide plenty of jolting as subduction gets started on the far side where they are being pushed into the Pacific and buckling mountains quite dramatically, setting off volcanoes and causing big earthquakes.  Lotta jolting going on there i a short period of time, and continuing  though in smaller doses after the first great upheaval.   

Which I guess COULD have been caused by Chixalub..  A metero is a bit more of a random event than I would have expected for such a momentous event but it's all foI've got for now.  I still want to account for what I see on cross sections  as a great jolt after the strata were all laid down and not before.    Seomthing that probably started the Flood's receding as well as all that rearranging of the land.

Tuesday night 

The ice age drew so much of the ocean water into ice that sea level drastically lowered and landbridges formed though I'm not clear between what land masses since nobody said that I remember hearing and I can't see if they were illustrated on the screen..   But I would think that those who have been trying to explain how animals dierged from the ark across the world, or I should say dispersed though they did both, would have considered these land bridges and I don't recall hearing that mentioned in creationist circles.  

When the idea of continental shelves occurred to me I thought that was a prettty good explanation but the land bridges are a similar way of explaining it.  I did know that sea level had dropped far enough for the shelves to be dry and traversible.  Maybe that's what they are actually talking about.  Anyway, especially if the continents weren't yet very far apart whifch they shouldn't have been on my scenario at least, such exposed land makes a good explanation for how living things got from one part of the world to another.  Especialy if you incluede other likeley helps such as greater vigor of plangs after the Flood, a carryove from the greater vigor before the Flood.  It wouldn't have lasted vry long, though maybe a few hundred years, as long as humans kept living to be over a hundred years old for instance, and that's long enoguht to be a lot of animlas across oceans that weren't quotite the huge oceans then that they are dtoday.   Not just the plants but the animals themseles should ahve retained that pre Flood vigor from the earlier evironment.  humans did acccording to scriputre so should everthing else.

Funny how a creationist has to keep doublethinking everything presented on these subjects by the conventional evolutionist mentality.  Why did all the megafauna of the Pleistocene die out?  Well probably the change in climate and the rise of the humanoids.  Golly gosh, looks to me like it was the Flood that killed them all.  And the humanoids too, including the Neanderthals whatever they may turn out to be in the end.  If you are a creationist who believes the Flood ended before the Pleistocene then you thijnk both the giant aimals and the humanistsh creatures came off the ark.  Withou considering the eirdness of that possibility I just continue with my doggedly simpleminded notion that if they are found in fossilized form in side a layer of sedimentary rock that lookcs like all the other rocks of the Geologic column, then it was killed in the Flood.   Yeah I know it's simplemeinded.  But all the other possibilities seem ....  impossibler.

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Beginning to realize I shouldn't be going about this the way I am, allowing myself to post so much half baked stuff.  Keeping a log of my thought process as it were seemed like a good idea in a way but now I think it's just irresponsible of me.  When I find ou I had the wrong information it's just boring to have to review all the steps I had to go through to undo it and then find myself with another sest of wrong information to undo anyway.  Qell, when I finally stop working on this post I'll try to get more responsible.

Right now I want to resport that I realize that the land bridge they've been talking about is between Siberia and North America in ALaska or somewhere up there.  I think the creationist guys did gcover that come tot think of it.  Caused by the gathering up of the water into the ice of the ide age.  But then that is also what I discovered about the cotinental shelf idea, that they too were exposed by the ice age.  

What I should do at this point is try to covert all those millions and multiple thousands of years into reasonable creationist time so I can get an idea of how what the sceintists are discovering about the ice age really did do somethig real related to creationist questions.  But the time factor is a big imediment at the moent.

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Before Let's Talk Creation caputred my attention I hadn't done much thinking about the ice age after the FLood at all, a little but not much.  I'd seen a vew videos and tried to figure out how it might have developed and when and came up with some ideas but I never focused much on it.  Now because they spend time on the end of the Flood and where to place its boundary, and the human types associated with that time period and have theories of their own I'm wishing I'd spent more time on it and now have littleopportunity to find out a lot of things I'd like to know.

I've been watchig videos that are of course all fro the evolutionist mindset and need rethinking I'm not in agood enough position to do well.  Then I've been regarding the Cenozoid strata as all Flood caued and Todd and Paul see them as post Flood so I can't count on their thinking to help me with mine.

I never spent any time grappling with the fossils found in the strata of thge recent time periods so I'm learning now that they are full of those giangantic heavily furred creatures also heavily horned and fanged and tusked, and been listening to the evolutionisst reimaginiings of how they had evolved over thousands and thousands of years for this or that purpose related to a long long long idce age or series of icea  ages.  All this needs a LOT of rethinking.  Sigh.

One thing keeps coming up in these videos about the ice age and that is the exposed land bridges.  Now it seems all the continents were connetected by dry land through these extensive bridges, well after the supercontinent had separated.  If the animals were dispersiong fro the ark dureing the idce age this would be how they got all over the world, but I have a lot of thinking to do to figure out what timing makes most sense to me.

Rules for Rhinking, Charlie Kirk, Iran, Pope as Antichrist,

 Bret and Heather of Dark Horse Podcast, or at least Bret, apparently considers it a possibility that Charlie Kirk might have been he victim of a conspiracy rather than just a lone gunman, and they discuss the reasioning for this and similar ideas on their most recent show.  They want to lay out rules for thinking about such things and not so much the arguments for any particular point of view so I end up wondering what their arguments are for a conspiracy.  Clearly it's not an impossisbility but pretty unlikely so I'd need to hear their evidence.  To mmy mind there were so many of Charlie's friends standing with him i their tent area and saw what happened from behind at least, and rasied no doubts themselves aobut it that I don't see anything in the shot itelsef that could have been evidnece against a lone gunman.  I certainly don't see any reason to doubt ay of his friends as I heard a lot of discussion from all of them over the next couple of weeks and their sincerity is just not questionable to my mind.   Again, not impossible I suppose but DSO unlikely.    The level of cleverness needed to pull of any treachery from within that group is just behond ordinary talents among other things.

then ther is this weird idea they don't themeslves hold but is an idea some apparently do hold, that Valley college where the assassination occurred is laid out like a pentagram which is an occultic or stataic symbol and that points to something of a conspiracy too although I don't think he said anything to explain how.   So they were disucssiong how you might follow rules for thinking about such things to keep you from gross errors and keep the doror open on ideas that may seem reote to you but end up being the truth.  OK, although I found most of the discussion pretty boring, sorry to say.  If such rules could be established I certainly wouldn't want to start my thinking with a review of them, I'd want to think it through and then  mayb review my thought porrocess against them to see if I wentoff track.  I guess I could see that as a practical use for it bu still I don't tlike the idea of laing out a list of rules like that.  GFor one thing how do ou know you've arrived at the right collection of rules anyway?  Oh well.  

But I wans thinking abou tthis pentagram idea.  Apparently the geographic layout of the land isn't a really great pentagram shape but some take it that way anywya.  But what I would ask which isn't what Bret was asking, is whetyher Vallye College is known for its satanic or demonic incidents or at least for people thinking there are many incidents that should be thought of that way?  If the murder of Charlie Kirk is the only one where that symbolic shape is applied, forget it, if the pentagram means anythihjg it means it for all the time the college has occupied land of that shape.  It would have to have a reputation for such things for it to have any bearing on the Charlie Kirk murder.    That should be on his list of rules somewhow.

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Changing the subject, I think I might add a few things to the post where I said I was only going to say what I said and nothing more about he Mark Levin accusations of Tucker Carlson.  Levin is the one who quoted Thomas Sowell fomr a decade or so aboutago about the importance of the US taking out Iran's nuclear capacity, and then I happened to hear Douglas Murray on Uncommon Knoweldge recently saying the same thing and thow e two are completely trustworthy observers to my mind so I was hapy to make them enough of a reason to oppose Carlson's suspicious that Israel had somehow forced Trump into the attack on Iran.  I'd thought that was clearly false anyway but Sowell and Murray made good corroboration for mte.  Now I'll add that Levin played clips of cofour Democrats who are now saying the same thing Carlson said, or at least saying that the action against Iran is just wrong, who over the last four years all said separately that we need to take down Iran's nuclear capacity.  Funny how the Democrates change their minds  jus because they don't like GTrump.  They agreed with him about all kinds of things over the years that now all of a sucdden they condemn him for.  Anyway, that adds four names to my two who strongly called for a US President to remove the threat of Iran's nuclear capacbility.      Six is better than two althoughj my original two were strong enough to bmmy mind.

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The Pope once dominated kings and already is acting like he has a right to criticize our President concerning illegal immigration and the Iran war.  He doesn't have the power at the moment to do a lot about it but he does happen to be a world class voice even now and if prophecy is right as I read it he is going to be once again the rule oer of knings and all world leaders for a seve year period before Jesus retursn, and yes, that has felt very close for a long time abut all that means is that it is closer yet.  Could happen anyway that the clock will start tivcking onthe last seven years before the world ends, he world as we know it.   The trigger will be the Antichrist's making of a covenant, or "confirming" of a covenant with Israel, which he will breatk half way through those seven years, which is where those crucial numbers come from, twelve hundreed and sixty days, forty two months, time , times and half a time.   Those last three and ahlaf years are knownas the Great Tribulation and no, youj don't want to be here for that. Well, it might be better than Hell, so rethinkik all that first.

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Prophet Joel confirms for me that it is the Seventh Seal of the Book of Revelation that is the beginning of the tribultion perio d of sevewn years, otherwise known as the Seventieth Week of Daniel, Week meaning year in this conctencxt.  That seventieth week was never fulfilled though all sixty nineof the weeks prophesided in Daniel were fulfilled right to the entering of Jerusalem by Jesus on the donkey.   After that the seventieth just hasn't occurrted.   YOu olook throughout history of it iand it isen't there.  Therefore it has to beyet future and most Protestants findit in the book of revelation.  I differ from tjhe usual idea about it in that I don't think the first five seals are to be included in that period of time, and I think the sixth seal is an announcewment of what is coming, and then the last seven years begins with the opening of the seventh seal, which has all the language of wrath that is lacking oin the first seals.    That's my own reading and I have no idea how many others might be with me or against me in this.  But the Protphet Joel describes the day of the lord as a horrific time of csuffering including for the cattle who find their grass all burned up.  The burning up of the grass is the first trumpet to sound in the seventh seal.  

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As a believer in God, the biblical God and Christ, I now have a hard time sympathizing with those who don't believe, it is all so obvious to me.   Of course I too was once in that same posistion.  I couldn't believe.  And sometimes I wanted to believe, I just had no idea how to go about it.  It nenver occurred to me just to read the Bible, stupid.  Or rad some Christian books, stupid.  I heard nothing but the weird liberalish reinterpretations of Chrsitainity that were once popular in college town people of the sort I hung out with.  The kind of people who went to the Unitarian Church which isno church at all but a sort of philosophical political and of course liberal indoctrination milieu.    Read real Chistian books.  Tozer is one although he's really for believers, not sure what an unbeliever could do with him.  Come to think of it any book I could reccomment would be for believers, for the born again, and since you need to be born again to understand the thigs of God maybe it is all useless for anyone else.   Ryle is another one, Edwards, Spurgeon, even a couple of mthe muystics although I hesitate with them and mention them only bevcause tozer also like s them.  Molinos and Julian of Norwish are maybe trustworthy enough, maye even Madame Guyon.  But when they get into Mary bewyond a mere metion that's where I stop, and none of them give a really clear statemewnt of the salvation message.  Oh Tersteegen, he's anothernhr I think really can be recommended.  I can't find his books in audible form unfortuantely for me.

About he Antichrist, reald Dave Hunt's  A WQoman Rides the Beast.  Also H Grattan Guinness  Romanism and the Reofrmation.  Guineness regfjects all furturism so I'm against him on that, but Hunt retjects the idea of the Pope as ntichirst so I'm against him on that.    But either one gives a solid picture of how the Roman Church is not Christianity.  And the Papa

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And yes the US is unders God's judgmetn and I still don't see anything eer liikely to be done about it and that means we're going down eventually, mabye about the time of the beginning of the Great Tirbulation.cy.

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How LIttle We KNow God, Even We WHo Believew

 It is all too easy, at least for me, to go through Christian life with a strange dullness or emptiness about the truths of our supposed faith, about Jesus who is the center of it all, about God Himself who ought to be the object of such awe and fear and gratitude and joy that the very thought of Him should take our breath away.  But no, too ooften there is a dullness, a distractedness a big nothingneess.  And only nowand then, such as for me right now, the last few days or so, a recognition of how wrong this is, a wondering about why it is, and an ateempt to come to a realistic feeling and knowledge of what are really the most amazing things in this world.

From time to time I try to renew my  original hristian excitement, those days when the idea of God was new to me and staggeringly prsent and real and breathtaking.  I go back to some of the books that hold that perspective and used to be able to kindle it in me.  Even now they can but not as mucsch as  they could years ago..  It is a great loss.  Of course they always tell you it's not possible to expect to always have mountain highs in the Christian life, you must come back to earth.  But do we alwaYS HAVE TO COME BACK TO THIS DULLNESS?    I'm nso disappointed in myself that this happens ove and over again and efforts to renew my orighinal zeal and passion just don't do it any more.    I've fallen so many times back into the flesh, even at times into pretty horrendous zin, perhaps theLord just insn't ogoint to let e come back in trhis life.   But I'm trhing again, I'm praying that He will give me a right response to knowledge of Him.  A right response, not the abstracteddullness of mind that He certainly doesn't deserve and certainly doesn't do anything fo rmy spiritual life.

Paul and Todd of Let's Talk Creation this week did a show on theology and had a guest who ws very inspiring, a Judd Dabis, who is one of those rare people who know the Bible so well he knows it in both original languages and knows it on more than one level.  He describes frustrations in his learly Christian life with churches that didn't teach the whole Bible and he acquired a real desaire to know the origianl languages.  That's rare.  I now many want to learn those languages but I don't think I've ver heard anyone talk about such a craving to know them as this man describes.  To be BLE TO         to know God's word as it was originallyh written, and know it well.  And by now he says he's read through the Old Testament in Hebrew maybe a hundred times, and the New Testament in Greek thousands of thiimes.     It was an inspiring show for me and helps to keep me on the scurrent path of trhying to renew my own Christian life, again, for the zillianoth time.  

But I still go for certain books, and always A W Tozer is at the top of my list.  The Pursuit of God, God's Puruist of Man, and now I'm listening through The Knowledge of the HOly, in wqhich he takes one of God's attributes and makes a chapter of it and succeedss in making it relevant to ordinary daily human life on this fallen world.   

Of all things how can God becom boring?  He is so high above us and so out of reach or so it seems, I guess that's why.  Bug Tozer brings Him into focus in this book i such a way that it really does  cause me to have more of that right response to Him that I've been praying for.    

Sometimes it seems heaven will just be boringly endless if all it is is worshiping bGOd, but a book like this makes the worship of God seem like the only thing a human being hould ever want to do, endlessly exciting endlessly fed by new knowledge of Him, knoqwledge to which there can literally be no end.  

I often feel sorry for people who don't beliee.  My efforts at evangelism are not very effective and I guess I have only myslef to blame, but nevertheless I still feel sorry for those who don' believe.  What they are missing, and I think that even when I mhyself am missing so much as I've deascribed above.   But hey have no idea.  No idea.  No idea.  Even the barest knowledge of the truth is so amazing it takes the breath awa.   For years, even at my lowest spiritual level I've been able go siply open the Bible and be filled with a peace that takes all the kinks out of my tensed muscles.  Or when I hear it read or uotesd, or even somethiges when someone like Tozzer shows me a new perspective on Him.  Just that wave of peace coming over me is a great gift of God, based on my siply acceptance of His sacrifice to pay for my wsins, .  Just knowing that brings the new borth and the new birth is the regeneration of the spiritual faculty we lost at the Fall, wen Adam and Eve disobeyed God and punged their posterity into the darkness of his current world.    God is such an enrapturing object in HImself just the tiniest taste of Him through the renewed spirit is all it takes for the psalmist to say As the edeer panteth after the water brooks so paneteth my soul after Thee.  

I'm no good at writing aout these things.  I want to but I'm just not good at it.

All I'm going to say about Mark Levin versus Tucker Carlson

Bothj Thomas Sowell and Douglas Murray at different times but begore the recent atatack on Iran begnan, said it was of crucial importance for the security of the United States that we take out their ability to have nuclear weapons, and I think but don't remember clearly, they or one of them may ahve said, take out the currentIslamist regime.   Those two are enough to persuade me that Carloson is wrong.  

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A great throng even stands in the rain and cheers when the Anitchrist appears ot his window.  He expressed s concern about the war in the Middle East.  So many people suffering.  There's nothing good or necessary about it.  He opposes those who are responsible for it.  He doesn't need to name them.   Nobody appreciates just what a power this man is, this antichrist.  A Christian leader.  The world has no sense of history, not even the Protestants who of all people should know.  They don't.   He will walk us to the Great Tribulation hen he will reign again oer the world as he did in the temillennium up to the Reformation, and still does in the shadows, but not even in the showdows.  Watch, he still is a world power, not the one he wants to be and once was but still he sis and again will be not too far in the future.   But this is just Catholic bashing.  No it is a warning to Catholics to leave him and his institutuio.  He ran the world once and will again at the end.  Then Jesus will retrn and destroy him but he will do a lot of damage before that happenes.    Transubstantiation?  I don't know.  More like the mark of the beast will be the reason people die for Christ this time.

It should concern us but it is hardly noticed by most.   And I still have to point out that Americ a is under God's judgment and however glad I am for Trump's presidency and the work he is doing, as long as nothing is done about the reasons we are hjunder judgment it can't last.  Nbody takes God into account except to foolishly expect Him to be on our side no matter what.      Roe v WaDE  was taken out of the national category and put back on the states but it is still killing babies for America and even more than it used to.  It's still pulling down God's wrath on us.  Is anyubody paying attention?  ANybody?  What about gay marriage?  Anybody realizing how juch wrath that is provoking?   So many other violations, the list is long, but just take those two.  They need to go if America is to be safe, but they won't be taken away so we aren't safe.  And the Tribulation is coming for nthose who aren't in Christ.  And things just aren't good no matter how much good there may be if you look from certain angles.

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Catastrophic Plate Tectonics

 With a big enough sheet of paper, and a bold enough pen I was able to do some calculations I should have done for the previous post.  I say there that at the rte of subduction supposed to be as much as meters per second North America and Asia would have come within hailing distance within the year of the Flood.  But that is apparently a big underestimation of the numbers if my current calculations are correct.

What I get if I call meters per second three meters per second, is a mobvement of the North American continent at a rate of one hundred and sixty one miles PER DAY.    I had to do this more than once and ask my little friend Alexa for her calculations as well but that's what I end up tgetting and at that rate  North America would have bashed into Asia after about two and a half months of travel across the Pacific.   The total travel time for a year comes out to over  58,000  miles which is something like fife times the greatest width of the Pacific.  

Is this what the CPT people think or am I getting somethig very wrong here?  Do they think the continents bashed together like that after traveling ast such a high rate of speed?  And what then?  In the Atlantic the splitting of the original continent is what brought  about the Atlantic ridge which creates new sea floor as the continents move apart.  There's no breaking apart to be done on the Pacific side and I'm not even sure what would cause the continents to spearate again after crashing into each other.   Also, as that was happening, closing up twelve thousand miles of Pacific Ocean that is, the Atlantic would ahve to be expanding by that same amount, some disix thousand iles on either side of the ridge.  Could the magma welling up create sea floor basalt at that rate?  I don't know, wmaybe it could.  

But I con't know what the whole CPT model is.  It hasn't really been spellied out on Wood and Garner's podcast, or in Garner's book, sjust roughly indicated.  hat I'm coming up with may not be anything ike what they came up with and I hE NO WAY OF KNOWING.  I wish that caps lock key would just disappear, I guess I hit it from time to time without noticing and so I have no idea how long it was on.  Sorry.

Anyway, this whole CPT scenario has me utterly flummoed and skeptical.  If all that bashing occurred I don't see how the Geologic Column had  could have formed with any regularity at all.  The jolting of subduction alone triggers volcanoes and earthquakes, and yet the column is intact in some places and blocks of it intact here and there as well.  I also don't see how it could have matched up so ewell across the Atlantic ocea as it does if all that activity was going on as well as the gulf wideing at a uge rate daily.

My own model is based on a mere cross section.  Laugh away.  It is corroborated by some other observations however.  But the cross section clearly whshows that tectonic activity started afer all the strata were in place.   That's why I came up with the idea of one gigantic jolt at the end of the flood, just before it started draining and probably the cause of its draining.  It would have to have somehow created the space for the water along with the breaking up of the supercontinent, somehow dropping the level of the ocean floor?   

It would be nice to have someone to talk to about all this who inows a lot oabout it.  

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Later:..    Always something I get wrong.  SIgh.  I gave the widg of the Pacific Ocean as twelve thousand miles.  That's the width TODAY.  But at the time of the splitting of the supercotinent and drifting of the current continents its width would ahve been that plus the curent width of the Atlant ciic Ocean which I thinki is around three tousand miles?  Maybe more like 3500.  Guess I'll ahve to chekc when I have the opportunity.    So fifteen thousand or more miles but that isn'tgoing to make a differnce in the basic scenario as the continents ware still goig to travel falset eough to bash into each other in a few months.    

Later yet.  Double Sigh.  Another correctrion.  When I first asked Alexis the width of the Pacific Ocean she gave me twelve thousand miles and I didn't stop to realize that she must be talking about a distance tbetween maybe Australia or the Pacific Islands or something and SOUTH America rather than North America beause that distance is just too much.   Sigh.  So I asked again.  Btween Asia and North America, I said, and got somethijng under six thousand miles.    

Half the distance I'd hd in mind earlier.  So now the contnetns would have been crashing into eafch other in a little over a monthj rather than two and a half months.    Again it doesn't make much sidfferntce to the overall point but I do want to try to get things right.