The truth is often so poorly lit

A man was known in his neighborhood, just as well abroad, that walked and stumbled about, wearing a blindfold across his eyes. He became proficient in walking with his stick but still by the very nature of his inability to see, he was limited to what he could do. Family and friends grew accustomed to his blindfold so that they no longer noticed it or questioned him about it. The blindfold did on rare occasions became a topic of discussion when he would be approached by a stranger.

“Hello sir, if you don’t mind and I mean no offense, but may I ask you a question?”

He continues feeling about trying to ascertain what type of fruit is in his hand. “Yes you may, if you must.”

“Sir, why do you walk about with a blindfold?”

“Actually young man, is it? Yes, actually I do not know what you are referring to.”

“Sir, the” and he gently touches the blindfold, “this object sir. It covers yours eyes.”

“Young man, you are in error. I have no blindfold. I have been struck with blindness from when I was a young man. And to this day I can see no longer.”

The young man looks at the man as he was continuing to feel about the fruit. The young man looked around and noticed a person beside him a short distance who was following the strange conversation. He looked at him and the man shrugged and shook his head. “Um, sir if you would allow may I show you what I mean?”

“Young man, you have already poked me in the face, which was not appreciated; what other harm do you mean to do to me whom am innocently just like many here, seeking to purchase some food?”

“I did not mean to poke you, that was not my intent. I was simply touching the blindfold I was referencing so as to bring it to your attention. It is quite probably the source of your darkness. Your blindness. And if you would but remove it, you would be able to see. You could see the fruit before you. You could see your hands and your cart. You could see me, whom talks with you. Sir, you could see.”

“Young man, you poked my face and I didn’t appreciate it. I was going to let it go unreferenced but as with those like you, you must continue to push on me your words and belief. As I told you, I have been blind since I was a young man. Actually, quite possibly, I was your age or very close. I have had this blindness and I have mastered living with it and in it. It is no longer a restriction to me. Nor cumbersome. And seeing that you, pardon the pun, are of the sorts that are judgmental of people such as I, I request, no! I demand, you leave me alone and go about your own business. Your meddling has upset me and is not at all appreciated.”

With that the man with the blindfold pushed his cart away from the bin of nectarines. The young man watched the man go toward the next aisle and reflected on the encounter. He said within himself, “Why would a person choose to live life with a blindfold on? It hampers the senses. The person cannot see clearly and thereby understand correctly. Why would one want to live as such?”

The young man then walked toward the cashier and continued to ponder.


[Part one]

title is a nod to Rush’s Turn the Page

tags: truth, bubba, neil peart, letter, rush, parable

To parents

Lessons I have learned from the recent deaths of both my parents, roughly thirteen months apart (not in the order of significance).

  1. Make sure you have a will with an executor named. Don’t be lazy! When both parents are dead then everything has to be done in probate court under their supervision. It is a stressful thing to do to whomever ends up being the administrator of your estate. You may think “I don’t have anything…” and you would be thinking wrong.
  2. Make sure you have pre-paid and properly documented location for your burial or whatever your choice is for handling your physical body. Make it perfectly clear. If you want a full service and such, make that clear. Designate or write suggestions. Make it clear.
  3. The items that mean something to you, make sure to document whom gets what. Make it clear. (Are you seeing a pattern about this subject).
  4. You are/were the parents so in your death/s lead by example as well. You know the loss of a loved one impacts people so you SHOULD want to help your loved ones manage the responsibilities, grief and sorrow as best as possible.

Cryptomator

My 2 cents:
I have been using this resource for a couple years and of the many vault/encryption resources I have used in the past, this one gets my “support”. It does what it is supposed to which of course is important but this did one thing I have had no luck with other resources in the past. With the others and with Cryptomator I had to end up using the recovery tool in order to get the opportunity to reset the password. Cryptomator is the only one I have used that allowed it to occur. Now we can say it is all user error (in ref to the past) but this time I got it right. I am not going to argue which is also why I am not providing the names of the resources that ended up not working for me.

Cryptomator did and does work.

https://cryptomator.org/downloads/

I don’t tangibly fear the future.

I use the word ‘fear’ more of a sobering apprehension of what is going to unfold. The how bad will it get.

The things which we will experience are not directed at us (so far) for being Christians. What is going to unfold is necessary for Lucifer to have his way when the body of Christ is removed. With Germany in 30s-40s he was able to develop and test on humans in a very limited scenario. Since that time, as mankind has gotten wickeder and wickeder, he has been able to flex his muscles more than before.


Undoubtedly what is swirling is luciferian in purpose so we know if unchecked it will get uglier. 


I wonder how long it will take for God the Father to have the Lord Jesus Christ open the seals of Revelation 6. Judgment seat of Christ completed by then? How long will that take? Does He judge everybody individually but all at once? Sure we will be outside of time but the seals being opened impact earth so then by implication time. John saw/watched it all unfold so he as the ‘type’ for the body of Christ; does that mean we will watch it all unfold as well? Yet the ref of 19:7 seems to imply we aren’t made ready till then or we were made ready earlier but no need to mention us until 19:7 due to what and when what was unfolding on the earth. 


So the USA, what of it?  In the scheme of things now and future, does the USA have any real impact or part to play in the timing of things? I think to think we do could be hubris and/or ignorance. But then again at this moment in time if the USA would completely fall (it is picking up steam downward) will that not mean the end is very near? I just don’t know if the USA really matters in ref to God’s timetable.

I guess how it matters is to us and our level of safety and comfort. 

Don’t know why I have rattled about this. Usually when I do such I delete it but this time I’m gonna go ahead and post it.

spiritual matter and in the near future it has damning repercussions

16m long
I recommend turning on the CC and change playback speed to 1.25 or 1.5

The significance of this video is: we have been lied to, we are still being lied & will continue to be lied to.
It is a spiritual matter not a technology matter or extraterrestrial as it has become defined…

A spiritual matter and in the near future it has damning repercussions