Give it time
For months now, the news media has nightly shown the poll numbers from Iowa and New Hampshire which is an absolute waste of time, as both states are basically lily white in there citizens make up. Our nation is very diverse as to different cultures and neither one of them have a city that could be considered huge, which brings a very different prospective of millions of citizens to the table..
There is so much really important news events and issues that would allow the general population of this nation a better view of the overall needs to better the living standards and make better decisions, as to improve our daily lives.
It once again shows the need for the FCC to force a period of time for all stations to have non-sponsored news hours that offer fact based information to our nation’s population. Enough with the talking heads, we need true journalist who are not under the control of their stations owners or sponsors editing their work.
Jim Hall, Clearlake Oaks
Logic
In 1952 thirty-five Biblical scholars, called the Revision Committee of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, headed by Luther A. Weigle, was tasked with the job of revising the current version of the Bible. All of the revisions and comments made about the Bible were then reviewed and voted upon by a larger group, The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America which represents about 45 million adherents and 100,000 congregations. Neither the faithful nor an atheist can dispute the validity of their findings or pass them off as irrelevant or illogical. It is simply logical.
One comment made by Harry M. Orlinsky, a member of the Revision Committee, was that even though the Bible had some older passages “the plain meaning of the Hebrew text would be completely clear to us were it not primarily for two reasons: (1) the forgotten meaning of individual words and expressions, and (2) the corrupted form of the text. In Biblical times, the Israelites did not devote their time to the study of the Pentateuch or to the writings of the prophets. The overwhelming majority of the people were too taken up with the daily onerous task of eking out an existence, of providing food, clothing, and shelter for themselves and their households, to have the leisure, energy, and interest for such study. The literary creations remained, by and large, the property of the relatively few, often only in oral form.”
He continues: “Except for a few fragments, the overwhelming majority of the eight hundred or so manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible which have been studied derive from the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries A.D.; after that the printed editions begin.”
So here I am an “illogical atheist” using Biblical scholars’ words to show that the prophecies in the Bible, which Bill Kettenhofen says proves the existence of God, were written down some 1,000 years after the prophecies were made. Common sense tells me that these writings do not prove the existence of an all knowing God. The writings look more like the works of common men trying to convince us of some kind of miracle.
Why can’t God send us a video of what really happened so this nonsense can be put to rest? Come out from behind the curtain!
Greg Blinn, Kelseyville
Not forgotten
When I was a little boy my dad told me something that, in 92 years, I have not forgotten. I remember it because my dad almost never said anything to anybody. This made everybody think my dad was a very wise man. He told me that if I had an itchy place, I should not scratch it. Instead, I should just give the itchy place a light little rub or two, and that would very often stop the itching. Sure enough, he was right. It does stop it, usually.
My dad didn’t know why it stopped the itching, which makes me one up on him. I know why. It’s because a person’s brain works for his body. This is because his brain is part of his body. If a person scratches an itchy place hard, it will stop the itching for a little while; but the itching will very soon begin again. The explanation is that scratching the place hard give one’s brain an intimation that he wants the place to itch so that he can enjoy the sensation attendant on scratching it. If he just touches the itchy place or gives it a light little rub, that will intimate to the brain that he wants the itching to stop, and his brain will try to stop it. One’s brain corresponds with one’s thought, not with one’s actions.
This works on other things, too, like diseases or injuries. Tomography has shown us this. Tomography can also show us what is under the surface of the earth — might save us a lot of digging.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
