Month: December 2007

Three weeks ago my apartment building caretaker gave a tenant all the keys in the place, and he got into my room and stole all my money (which i’ve gotten around 60% back). Now, this morning, i open my door to see seven men standing around, and two of them flash police badges. They asked me about the man who just moved in next door, and i tell them that a couple of ladies moved in, and i saw a man with them last Friday. They sing karaoke until late at nite, and when i knocked on their door 2 nites ago, around 10:30, they turned it off. The police asked me to knock on that door, which i did, but thot it was very strange. No one came, so i told them i needed to get to work, and as i had finished my cucumber and cracker that was the tail end of my breakfast, i vamoosed.

Should i stay or should i go?

I’ve heard this idiom for a long time, and always knew it was not correct, but seeing this graph today shows, at a glance, just how wrong it is:

http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/

Sure am glad to live in this golden age of the world, even tho this world is hell compared to the unfallen worlds.

Two new videos were put up on YouTube today.  One is of the 8th Southeast Asia Union Mission Pathfinder Camporee held last week in Thailand, and the other is of a Christmas Pageant held at the elementary school where i teach.

Pathfinder Camporee: 

 http://youtube.com/watch?v=_kpsx9nipJg

Christmas Cantata:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a4zwrc1BZtg

I don’t believe any of the current spin — that the world is warming and us humans are to blame. There is no scientific evidence at all for humans causing any rise in temperatures, as there is no hard scientific evidence for any type of rise in temperatures at all! They say that in the last 100 years, temperatures have risen 0.6C. That is with a margin of error of around 1C!! But even if true that it has risen 0.6C in the last 100 years, it still doesn’t mean that the long-term “since the flood” trendline has been broken to the upside.

What i despise about the whole “global warming” myth tho, is that it has become a religion, and anyone talking against it is automatically branded as “cuckoo”. It should raise lots of warning bells in especially Seventh-day Adventist minds when we see people of all religions/faiths/athiests etc. join together in promulgating some theory.

I have seen that most all of the leading “global warming” promoters (btw, the people who started global warming first said the world was in global cooling, but nobody believed them, so they changed their tune 180!) are nearly all pro-death – meaning that they believe the less humans there are, the better.

Well, today i found this article that shows where this whole movement may be leading in their next steps to “save the planet”. It comes from a doctor in Australia who proposes a “carbon tax” on every baby:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22896334-2,00.html

“A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus “baby levy” at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child.

Writing in today’s Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child’s lifetime. “

It is nice to see at least one person has a clear mind:
“Australian Family Association spokeswoman Angela Conway said it was ridiculous to blame babies for global warming.
I think self-important professors with silly ideas should have to pay carbon tax for all the hot air they create,” she said.”

What is probably next (or maybe a few years down the pipe)? Outright killing of people of who don’t go along with this – of course starting with the killing of the unborn and very old and mentally mixed-up….

This is a very nice Bible verse, and probably most of us smile inwardly and nod our heads when we read this passage from Jesus himself.  But what happens when something happens to really test if we will live it out in our lives or not?

Last Sabbath i went to the Bangkok SDA Chinese Church, getting there in record time of only 1:15.  The Southeast Asian Union ASI director was preaching there, and had asked me by email the day before to bring some English 1858 Great Controversy books.  Of course i was only too happy to oblige, and had a good time distributing the books to the people, and then listening to him give a sermon word-for-word covering the entire chapter 31 – Covetousness – wonderful!

My friend and i went back together, getting off our bus stop around 4:20, having spent almost 2 hours on the bus.  Arriving at my room, i went to my Acer notebook, and popped in The Miracle Maker CD, and watched that.  While getting the computer set up, i noticed that my shaver that i always leave on top of my little black personal-items travel bag was missing.  “Oh well, it probably just slipped down behind something” i thot, and spent the next hour and a half happily watching the claymation movie of Jesus’ life.

By now Sabbath is over, and i’m feeling hungry, especially since i don’t eat cooked food on the Sabbath anymore, and try to eat sparingly even of the simple food i do partake of.  So i put some split yellow mung beans in the water, and turn on the electric cooker.  Now i get serious about finding the shaver.  I look all around the black travel case – no luck.  I look elsewhere in my little room, thinking that maybe my brain was foggy in the morning, and i had left it somewhere else – no luck.  Something about the clothes in the box where my computer is wasn’t quite right, and hey! my notebook is always put in a black soft case and then inside a white plastic bag, but the plastic bag is on the bottom of the box now – what????!

My heart beats faster as i look at my suitcase.  It looks alright, in the same place.  My fingers slide down to the 3-number lock – my heart almost stops —– the numbers are set totally different than the way i leave them!!!  In a flash i open the suitcase, and look at the pockets where i keep all my money that i’ve earned since coming to Thailand in August – GONE!  I feel weak.  Oh no!  First thing i do is pray, then call my friend.  She and her husband come over pretty quickly, and advise me to fill out a police report.  There is a lot of advice given, like how i shouldn’t have kept so much money in my room, how i should have put an extra lock on my door, how i should have…..  Of course my own head presents me with lots of “what ifs?”, but the most important thing at the moment is to try and recover the stolen money.

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