Our New Overlords and the Deeper Plan

I spend much time translating business literature,  a job that increasingly calls for a careful philosophical analysis of my source text and some research also in relation to the mainstream philosophical movements being referenced (most of which literature will be available in my target language, English).

Over recent years I have witnessed the gradual emergence to the point of absolute predominance of philosophical ideas that slavishly follow the various UN agenda, sometimes with distasteful displays of eagerness as they attempt to catch the master's eye.

Today, as I attempt to wrestle a social responsibility report for a medium size company (about 1k employees), it becomes clear that the long term plan is to devolve human management and general farming duties to these successful businesses, which are rewarded with great favour and riches. They will assume absolute control of their fiefdom, with international edicts somehow made law through the magical agency of an environmental risk or healthcare threat

I also understood that all members of the emerging society will be tagged and tracked. Ultimately no form of resistance will be tolerated. The ultimate reason for this is that they fear us: they think we will kill them, which is why they surround themselves with guards and fences.
However, in reality their lives are not imperilled by the general populace, who are most generally highly peaceable and lawful. They are actually paranoid in the true sense of the word. 

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Some broken hearts

...can mend

The heart is a powerful source of healing energy. The deep elecctromagnetic pulses transmitted by the pumping heart affect our psyche even though we cannot consciously perceive the radiation except, perhaps, occasionally.

Electromagnetic emissions from the heart are measurable using mainstream stuff like electrocaradiograms. Even electromagnetic brain activty (lower energy) can be monitored these days

When we embrace our friends and our families we are bringing our heart into close proximity with theirs and the energy levels really spike, activating triggers to raise our mood and boost our health and energy levels.

So hugging will actually mend a broken heart, but sometimes it has to be continued for a while and repeated often

I'll see if there's something in the Bible on it (sure to be)

The things we do for love

Whether this thing or that thing is true when reading and interpreting the Bible is an area I like to leave in the Lord’s hands rather than getting into apologetics and all those other tiresome types of arguments.
What I see is people professing to love the Lord but acting in a manner that seems to say something quite different, and I see that in all churches I have attended. I do see some serious breaches of scriptural conduct in the church – and I’m not referring to any carnal sin or suchlike, but rather related to the matters of pride and arrogance, both of which sins ensnare us all from time to time and seem to thrive in church.
I follow a sola scriptura type of approach: I believe the Bible holds the answer to every question and the Lord will open our minds and hearts to its truth once we put away our religious books, Strong’s concordance and study bibles of every hue and rely fully on the Word of God as we are instructed quite clearly to do in the very Bible itself.
Because I believe in the inerrancy of scripture, it is very important in my mind to read the “right” bible, and I think this is the King James Version.

It’s not just a completely random opinion. As a translator myself for the last thirty years or so (although I don’t know Bible languages or even Latin) I took a very keen interest in establishing this concept and researching the many critics of the KJV and their reasons for their criticisms. I uncovered a minefield of intellectualism and prideful debate, but ultimately I found the KJV has always defended itself against each and every attack. It is the de-facto standard and it has been preserved for four hundred years, suggesting - I would say confirming - that the hand of God has been upon it, preserving his Word faithfully through time as we are promised in the Bible.

This said, I dislike the King James Only movement – KJVO – because pride enters in quite quickly, and some those gentlemen can readily forget that having a perfect Bible is no guarantee of having a perfect heart with the Lord.

My beloved Auntie lived very near where I now reside. She was Catholic but I would call her a "believng Catholic", because she was so kindly and spoke so well of everyone, and she even organised Bible studies with some of her friends at home... even when she was well striken in years. She was the only religious - believing person in the family. Her sister, my mother, used to attend church but it was in the spirit of helping the community mainly I think. Perhaps she hadn't benefitted from good Bible teaching by a faithful teacher so she didn't know it is true, or perhaps the Lord didn't put it in her heart. I spend a time with her in the Bible in her final couple of years of life - once I had come to believe - and I think she was saved before she was taken. .

I don't accept the Catholic position for my own person – mainly because of the presence of an intermediary between man and Christ. I don’t trust the Pope/Vatican – I lived there remember! Anyway I don’t think I need a mediator: I pray to My Father which is in Heaven as I am instructed to do in Scripture.

Ultimately I don’t really care much about the nuts and bolts, because these things often produce unproductive argumentation and taking of positions, while each man has a right to stand where he sees fit, and that’s basically that. The Lord will lead us into all truth if we follow his word diligently. I’m quite sure there is much wrong in any given Catholic church you could enter into, with the deadly practices of lip service, tepid belief, boastfulness, and vanity, which are the same precise things you will find in the most hardcore Brethren assembly and any other Church in the land. It’s whether men and women (me too) will follow the Lord or not, in love and honesty, truth, humility and faith, that’s what I care about and I think I am not alone in that, though I sometimes find more kindred spirits in the pub (when they were open) than among the pews. 

Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults 
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; 
let them not have dominion over me: 
then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.