My Passion for the Terminator Franchise

     My birthday was on August 17th, I turned 35. If you haven't got me a new gift, its  not too late. I am still accepting them! Do I feel older? Yes. Especially when I try to get up from sitting or laying down, my limbs hurt now. Signs of old age. I am half-way, damn near, through my life. I am not excited at the prospect of becoming a senior and needing outside care. I hope the LORD calls me home before than. I also pray that he Bless me with a beautiful family. That would be the bee's knees.

     I keep hearing bad predictions for the U.S. economy about a new recession coming and gloom and doom about it. I am certain one is coming. Because, every decade or so we have one. It's part of the cycle and like before, it will come back and so will upturns and good business. No need to give up hope. These things come and go with normal frequency. You just have to be economically smart about navigating the muddy waters. As for me, I know nothing about economics or even basic home money matters. I am poor in finance, but rich in spirit. I have been watching the Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles. At first I was critical about the characters being nothing like the movie characters, but I have grown used to it and have learned to accept them. So I am enjoying the series now. I have accepted it as a sort of parallel time line from the movies. In one of the later movies they radically changed the main characters looks and personalities which like wise made me have to learn to get used to. Now I just enjoy all the Terminator expressions as alternate time lines. Helps me enjoy the franchise a lot more.



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Brief point about the Baha'i Faith:
+1844 was the Advent of the Bab
     (11 years between-solar cycles occur in 11 year rounds)
+1833 Miss Margaret Scott (resident of Scotland) proclaims that she had a vision indicating Christ's soon return, which coincides with the coming of Baha'u'llah.

NEWS:

* More shootings in America.
* Teen shot in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Gunman still at large.
* Children victims in shooting attack on a mobile home in Mesa, AZ.


LINKS:
* On the Juche Idea

An Open Statement to America

       Does art mimic life, or is it life that mimics art? Video game design is an art form. Violence should not be. Evidently is has become an art form however, because as you see quite literally in the streets around you it is expressed in all of its forms. The dystopian themed games of  the 'Grand Theft Auto' franchise allow players to wield any number of weapons and provides a digital environment to slay millions of people in. Completing missions sometimes involve beating up and killing pedestrians. Somehow art has become reality. Now we are in the matrix. Put society up to a great big mirror and what do you find staring back at you? Grand Theft Auto. Who needs to play video games these days, when you can simply step outside and find yourself getting shot at? The country we live in is not a boring one! Every newspaper seems to bring us news of seemingly daily massacres in our country.


Some Madden NFL '93 on Sega? I wish life more closely resembled games like this one.


     


     Both problem and solution lay within ourselves. I am heartbroken at what my country has turned in to, and I don't see much being done about it. I fear for the state of our republic. Our politicians don't seem to be doing anything to help us. Too many good men and women have died shedding their blood for this country that we shouldn't be shedding our own. This is one of the greatest countries in the world. I fear that we are witnessing the fall of a great empire like unto Rome, Greece or Babylon. Speaking of which, our nation also appears to be emulating Babylon. We can change the course our country is taking, but it begins with the type of people we want to be. We have the make the change in ourselves before we can hope to see it around us.

    The  U.S. Congress doesn't back the president, which creates a a bad model for our nation. As citizens of the United States we essentially are a team. A community of communities. I am a registered voter and am active in the politics of my community and I urge you to do the same. Treat the people around you as you would want someone to treat you. Give love to one another. The incidents of mass murders in public places has become epidemic. I hope that we as a nation will stand up as one and create the society in which we would want our children to live. Let us stand tall and strong again. Think about how you influence the world around you and in what ways you can do so for the  better.

      -Brian Hill,
       Briantology Blog
       Norman, OK

Xmas Edition (But no Xmas in China-Christians being executed in Chinese Prison Camps)

     Wet winter for my area. An insultingly small amount of snow a few weeks ago, I think. Outside it ices just a bit. No Christmas for me this year, no thank you. Maybe next year. An interesting note...the 7.0 M earthquake that hit Anchorage a couple of weeks ago happened on 'St. Andrews Feast Day'. St. Andrew is whom the San Andreas fault was named after. Interesting synchronicity. Tuesday YET ANOTHER gunman (surprisingly this one wasn't in America) did his thing at at a market in France. This gunman was formerly known by police and considered radicalized. Police shot the man after 48 hours. Terrorism was considered in the case, as he did yell "God is Great" in Arabic (none of these guys can think of a single thing new to say). He had been well known by police since the age of 10, having had at east 26 convictions (you might say he started his career early). If he was so well known by police and under their eye for two years, why was he able to carry out such an attack? How is it that in this BIG BROTHER society, the authorities have nosed their way into the citizenry's business in every nook and cranny it could poke it, and yet are still unable to prevent these attacks while spending so much money and time monitoring us? Either they are incompetent, wilfully negligent, or they are allowing these things to happen to further whatever agenda they have.  I think it's probably the third one. But, I bet if I jaywalked across Robinson and I-35 service road, one of those cam-cops would snap a pic of me and using face recognition would have a citation for me waiting in my mailbox or whatever they use to deliver such things. Yet, our security forces are seemingly at times absolutely impotent to protect us. I don't think its us they are interested in protecting. My heart goes out to the people of Paris, because that city has had so many heart breaks over these kind of events in our modern era.

     In China Muslims, Christians and other people of faith are being rounded up and sent away to "reeducation camps" and man are being executed in a modern holocaust for refusing to denounce their faith and worship the tin god state. Wake up, because soon enough, these things will be happening in America. We are not far behind at all. Russia has its sites on invasion of Ukraine. A one nation-state possibly looms for Europe's future. Our climate is wrecked, the second worst Ebola outbreak in history is happening in west central Africa and cyber-attacks of unprecedented proportions are hitting the New Babylon for the holidays. This year, the times have me feeling less than 'Christmassey'. I hope your is better. May God Bless and Protect you.