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“Wired and Wild” or “Wired and Weird?”: How Technology Changes Our Relationship with Nature, Ourselves, and Others

“All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end.”- Henry David Thoreau

For the less technologically informed among us, a walk through the halls of the Scarfe building at UBC may elicit a kind of cognitive inadequacy. Cloaked in esoteric language like Asynchronous Learning, MOOC’s, Virtual Classrooms, and Augmented Reality, one might think that the kind of learning going on at Scarfe is directed at informing a distant generation of learners who have little time for the archaic fundamentals of the 3 R’s. What one finds when they open the door to these classrooms, however, is a running list of theorists, pedagogies, and perspectives that have been readapted, recycled, and redeployed in a more contemporary and usable framework. In other words, when the layers of technological babble are peeled back, the theory remains.

We have a tendency to romanticize educational technologies by presuming that they somehow involve more intellectual content than they actually do. Likewise, as decades of superlative-filled advertising has shown us, the greatest, fastest, easiest, and quickest gadgets rarely (if ever?) live up to the hype. (One need only look at the dust-covered “Smart Boards” in classrooms scattered throughout the province to see symbolic evidence of this.) When the mutilated remnants of industry-changing technologies are brushed aside a teacher is left with two things: their experiences and the relationships they have with their students. All else is superfluous.

What this post is not is a wide-scale critique of all technology or a foreboding of an oncoming Orwellian dystopia. Perhaps disappointingly, there is no discussion of Terminator-like robots coming to take over the world. What the reader will notice is that the forces of change are much more subtle but equally pervasive in their ability to transform society.

This blog post is an attempt to refute the idea that technology for its own sake is beneficial to our students and practice, and that unexamined adoption of technology has severe ramifications for individual and societal well-being. It is also a critical look at our insatiable desire to want to redesign schools and teaching curriculum to reflect evermore technology focused educational efforts that marginalize the value of once-great fields like the humanities. Just think about the demand put on school boards to pump out STEM-ready graduates, as if a connection to a job in engineering is the be all and end all of an education. Most importantly, this post is a discussion of some of the ways in which technology shapes not only our practice as educators, but also how it shapes us as individuals. 

A meaningful discussion of technology in the classroom does not begin (or end) with the best pedagogical approaches to incorporating it in a unit plan. The richer and more meaningful discussion can only emerge after we develop an understanding of what technology is, how and why technology is developed, and - perhaps more importantly - how individuals and society direct, react to, and are often times unknowingly changed by it. Only after we understand this can we begin to look at ways of ethically incorporating it in our practice.

In his 1985 argument Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman speaks of the Faustian Bargain where he states that “technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided.” What Postman goes on to argue is that technological advances, like the printing press, helped foster the modern idea of individuality but in the process it had negative outcomes. It destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration that pre-dated it. Similarly, printing made modern science possible but transformed religious sensibility into an exercise in superstition. Although the printing press brought undeniable improvements to the world, it also negatively (and permanently) changed human relations forever. (Postman, 2006) 

Postman also discusses how Benedictine monks invented the mechanical clock in the 12th and 13th centuries believing that such a clock would provide a precise regularity to the seven periods of devotion they were required to observe. What they didn’t realize, however, was that the clock would be adopted to synchronize and control the actions of the workman and the merchant. The great paradox in this case is that while the clock was invented by men who wanted to devote themselves more rigorously to God, it became the technology of greatest use to men who wished to devote themselves to the accumulation of money. The point Postman makes beautifully is that while technology and inventions may be created by designers with intended outcomes and improvements for society, their eventual impact on society occurs organically, uncontrollably, and with permanent implications. (Postman, 2006)

The reader might be wondering what discussion of printing presses and mechanical clocks has to do with connecting the “Wired and the Wild”. After all, apps, augmented reality, and advances in communications technology are great tools that can be used to enhance learning. While this may be the case, at issue is the naivety and hollow promises made by inventors, and brilliant tech-geeks who assure us that the outcomes and use of their technology is benevolent. As the examples above indicate, there is always a Faustian Bargain involved when a new technology is adopted on a mass scale, and the unintended consequences inevitably result in permanent change. While it is impossible to predict how superimposing images on nature through augmented reality and iphone cameras will change our relations with nature, it does not seem far-fetched to imagine a time where the immediate “advantages” of perceiving it through these media change our relations with it forever. More importantly, it is not far-fetched to infer that change of some sort - for better or worse - will inevitably occur.  

One of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers, Martin Heidegger, viewed the impact of technology on nature as involving a change in not only the way that we interact with nature, but also in the way that we perceive it. With the advent of industrial technology our relationship with nature changed from being a fundamentally natural one, to one of conquest and control. In his own words:

“The earth now reveals itself as a coal-mining district, the soil as a mineral deposit. The field that the peasant formerly cultivated and set in order appears differently than it did when to set in order still meant to take care of and maintain. The work of the peasant does not challenge the soil of the field. In sowing grain it places seed in the keeping of the forces of growth and watches over its increase. But meanwhile even the cultivation of the field has come under the grip of another kind of setting-in-order, which sets upon nature.  It sets upon it in the sense of challenging it. Agriculture is now the mechanized food industry. Air is now set upon to yield nitrogen, the earth to yield ore, ore to yield uranium, for example; uranium is set upon to yield atomic energy, which can be unleashed either for destructive or for peaceful purposes.” (Clough, 2013)

What emerges from this analysis of our continual integration of ourselves with technology is that technology takes us away from that which is essentially human about ourselves. Even worse, as was discussed in the Faustian bargain examples above, we are unable to recognize the problem as a problem.

You might be laughing now, thinking that this post is nothing more than the ramblings of a Luddite or someone unwilling (or unable) to adapt to an ever-changing profession. Or - as was alluded to earlier - a blogger who read one-too many dystopian novels in high school. I ask you to consider this. In the absence of Orwell’s omniscient Big Brother, Aldous Huxley proposed a much softer, more subtle form of social change. Huxley believed that “unlike in Orwell’s 1984, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books, what Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. … As Huxley remarked in Brave New World, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. (Clough, 2013)

In light of this quotation, think about how immediate access to a limitless amount of information has changed your relationship with knowledge? How you volunteer information to apps, online shopping stores, and social networks for the “convenience” they provide. How have smartphones changed, reduced, or eliminated our need to think, especially to think deeply? A cursory glance at any one of our class-profiles is likely to reflect an increasingly unengaged and uninvolved group of students who find even the simplest tasks “too hard” or “pointless” because they have the technology in the palm of their hand that can do it for them in a fraction of the time. How much of your time is wasted away with technologies that once promised you the world, but not only didn’t deliver, left you feeling worse off than when you began? These are questions worth considering when we are peddled technologies that will revolutionize our profession, and with it future generations of children.

The inevitability of technological innovation is not something that can or should be actively resisted. As teachers we are the arbiters of information between the students we teach and the technologies that inform. Our goal in the wake of this imposing monolith should be to to attempt to develop in our students the kind of skills that no computer program or algorithm can provide. We should aim to instill in our students a curiosity to the fundamental questions we, as humans, need to address in order to make our lives more fulfilling, meaningful, and humane. We should attempt to develop ethical and thoughtful people who consider the kinds of questions worth asking. Digital technology by definition is binary. It cannot contemplate or make sense of a world that doesn’t follow predictable patterns. To put it bluntly, technology is but a tool that distracts us from what our students most need us to help them with. Can you blame technology for that? Of course not... It is, after all, only a series of 1′’s and 0′s. 

Clough, M. P., Olson, J. K., Niederhauser, D. S., & SpringerLink ebooks - Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. (2013). The nature of technology: Implications for learning and teaching. Papendrecht: Sense Publishers.

Postman, N. (2006). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business (20th anniversary ed.). New York, N.Y: Penguin Books.

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Can religion be logical final

Religious scholars define everything as per their own convenience

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Have you seen the movie ‘Judai‘ where Johny Lever concludes Upasana Singh saying ‘abba dab a Jabba’ as a love acceptance in his own style? Nowadays religious scholars of this type are also found who deduce meanings of symbolic shlokas or verses in this style.

Most religious scholars are Johny Leavers explaining the meaning of ‘abba dabba jabba‘ in their own way. Suppose eighty things proved to be wrong out of a hundred things said, then they will ignore them and will glorify the rest twenty, proved right (by fluke).

Well, it’s an irony that to this day, Muslims consider Jews to be the most dangerous people that they are unpredictable. They will reject any of their writings outright, but in the past, they adopted the boasts, fabricated in the name of this Jewish religion with an open heart because it was in their own interest. The literature like Adam, Eve, Abraham, Lut, Moses, David, Suleiman, Jaboor, Taurat, etc. belonged to them. All these people were clan chiefs in their times, and kings in the future, who often used to make stories to prove themselves as an incarnation or messenger of God and propagate it to the people, so that their power would not be challenged or other interests can be fulfilled.

Most religious literature is only meant for the glorification

In India too, from Mauryan period to Shunga Empire (associated with religion) and from Khilji to Aurangzeb (associated with personal glorification and politics), the same spectacles were repeated. Otherwise, God cannot be so biased to not signify any lower class to send incarnations in India or in West Asia all the family members would have been Prophets. It means that in such large civilizations, populations, it was only Abraham‘s family that Prophets were born one after the other. Don’t you feel this is a strange coincidence? Does it not seem that like the Gandhi family, prophecy is also following a dynastic tradition that after the father, only son or brother after the brother will become Prophet. Almost all of them from Abraham to Muhammad are parts of the same dynastic vine. Does God seem like a man with limited intelligence?

How did humans start their journey on earth

In the initial phase, someone set a format of the divine incarnation or messenger and the next ones followed the same track. Since all was written around Jesus and before that it was alive only in the legends so the Jews adjusted it in their own way at the time of writing and to continue this series, they predicted the next Christ in which Jesus was caught.

From here, the twist came. Since all the written history was being prepared, then how would Jesus be recognized as the Messiah? As a result, the high-voltage drama was created and later when the followers of Jesus wrote their Bible (New Testament) then all the old content was verified. Why? Because it was necessary for their own verification. This was to prove their prophecy in Abraham‘s lineage. Whereas the formers (believers of the Old Testament) have been denying Jesus Christ to be Messiah till this day and have always declared them liars.

In the seventh century, Muhammad Sahab did the same. Either by himself or his followers did it, is buried in the past but it is clear that he carried forward the same sequence. They verified the content of the Jews, who have been hated by Muslims since then. Why? Because it was necessary for their own authenticity. But here too the same thing happened that those formers (Christians, Jews) refused to accept him as the sequel of their concept and held a liar who abducted their concept and the angels.

Suitable editing was done in this borrowed literature

A lot of editing has been done to this literature according to the need and time. I am giving two brief examples. The Jews clearly wrote that the Jehovah ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son, in a dream, so he took Isaac (in their conception son of Sarah, Isaac was the son of Abraham, while Ismail was son of maid Hajra), with the sacrificial goods, and when Isaac asked who will we sacrifice, he answered that the one who has given the order will make arrangements and reached to the sacrificial site and tied Isaac. While adopting the same story, the Muslims have replaced Isaac with Ismail and also modified that Abraham had told the truth and Ismail himself was ready. After all, Ismail had to be proved great.

In the same way, anal sex freak citizens of Prophet Lut’s city were buried by the rain of stones (which is now called the Dead Sea) because sodomy was a sin in the eyes of God. They took that much part but deducted the rest story because the basis of this story was morality, and in the next part, morality was torn apart, where both his daughters, who craved male intercourse, drank him, had intercourse with him and conceived his children. That is, it would not suit that a prophet is drinking wine and having sex with daughters, so they removed that part.

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However, the stories that are repeated for centuries are automatically accepted as true and then tens of proofs are made to prove them true and the translation like ‘abba dabba jabba‘ containing those stories is prepared according to own convenience. If you read the literature of any religion by being absolutely neutral, then you will see contradictions and holes in fifty places, which the engineers of that religion will try to show you by putting a patch on it.

Both Aryans and Semitic descended from the same stream, but in this case, I would call the Aryans more clever that they coined God in the larger philosophical way so that even after centuries they could justify it in every way, (not the present-day modern Hindu, Vedic religion/Aryasamaji). Whereas the Semitic people started to form God as Jehovah and made a cartoon in the first step instead of a superpower.

The Muslims improved the image due to being the last writers, but even after being described as formless, they made mistakes like long hands to hold the sky and throne, etc. which the engineers have to resort to the ‘abba dabba jabba’ method to cover up.

We can consider incarnations as Gurus

If you want to understand Jesus, then he has to be considered as guru just as the Sikhs do. If you perceive him charmed by the miracles and divine powers, you will probably never understand. He was a social reformer of his time, was a rebel, a revolutionary, but later the writers added many such things with him for his glorification, which made his credibility suspicious. The blame is on the writers and not on him. Similarly, while reading religious books, you have to pay attention to their motives and not on their stories.

If you acknowledge great men as Gurus, then you will be able to understand that they were also human beings, so obviously they can also have some weakness with a hundred characteristics. Or if you will focus on their weaknesses then you will understand their circumstantial reasons too. It can be understood by some examples. There is no solution to blind faith in the world. Everyone is ready to believe some unseen divine power with eyes closed. In such a situation, you pay attention to people around you and you find that they are wild, uncivilized, barbaric and are far away from every rule and regulation. Their life is uncertain and insecure because of their ways and you want to improve them.

If God is there then how can it be from the point of view of science

So much you will know that no such person will listen to you because you are the same person among them. What is different in you that they listen to you? In such a situation, you can attract people to you by claiming to be a divine incarnation. You can prove your authenticity by putting a seal of ‘verified’ on the stories prevalent already.

You will have to struggle with this, but your personality will be different from them. Here your claims are not important, your motive is important which does not depend on any kind of selfishness, but on the well being of the people. However, it needs courage, because for this purpose you will have to sacrifice all your dreams, your future and your personal life.

And then to change those bad people suppose you show them the dream that those of you who drink here do not drink because it has a negative effect on not only you but also on your family. Control yourself here, you will get river of liquor in heaven. Or don’t do lascivious activities here, and believe that if you control your nature here and live a life of decency, then after death, there will be many hoors you will get. These claims may be false because no one has seen them but the reforms can be seen on the ground.

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Later, it was the fault of the next generations that they forgot the motive and claimed and spread the same things for their selfishness (like terrorists, martyrdom for jihad, seventy-two hoors, the greed of Jannat (heaven)). Imagine that namaz meant that salat (connection) where humans could connect with God around him in the form of Brahma element for a moment through meditation, but people offering namaz as a formality, indulge in different thoughts of all over the world while looking at other people around, mosque fans and mats. The same situation is of Hindus who spend hours worshipping in temples, who despite having the art of meditation, are trapped in hypocrisy.

We can learn from religious books

All such books were meant to show the path according to the circumstances of that time, to decide the rules of governance but they never became effective. Why? Because instead of understanding their motives people just mugged up. When all religions give the message of love, peace and brotherhood, then why is there so much chaos in the world? When all religious books teach you best practices, then why are their believers in the world full of evils? Why are they full of hate? According to this, religions were designed to turn humans into deities, then how are devils with demonic tendencies coming out of them?

After all, why is there so much hatred, so much violence, so much bloodshed in the whole world? Because the religions that were expected to form the social system have failed. Rather the religions have not failed, people have failed to understand their purpose. And that is the reason that people are pretending to be religious, doing hypocrisy day and night but still, there is disturbance, hatred and backwardness in their lives. And those populations of the west who are called atheists, they have absorbed the core of religion and they are living a better life than us.

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Religion is not what its stakeholders explain to you in the form of millions of words of fraud, but one that is hidden in your nature, but which you keep on pressing because it strikes your interest or selfishness. And if God exists, then he is not observing you from heaven like a magician or executioner, but he is around you, is inside you.

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IT WAS IMPRESSIVE EVEN TO ASK THE QUESTIONS THEY DID

He said VCs told him this almost never happened. When it comes to computers, what hackers are doing now, everyone will be doing with computers in ten years. At this stage I end up with a world in which Windows is irrelevant. And this I think would severely constrain them. In the humanities you can either avoid drawing any definite conclusions e. Would it be so bad to add a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. An area without railroads or power was a rich potential market. Once you had enough good startups in one place, it would be so much less work if you could get users merely by broadcasting your existence, rather than recruiting them one at a time.

Needless to say, my imitations didn't say anything either.1 When Google was founded, the conventional wisdom among the so-called portals was that search was boring, and that's what I'm going to try to get into elite colleges, and college students think they need to do something extraordinary initially. But I was never able to figure out our own customs for getting free of it. Worse still, the usefulness test will tend to prevail. Hardware startups face an obstacle that software startups don't.2 But I tried to read Plato and Aristotle. For Larry Page the most important mistake in the history of technology, and even though I've studied the subject for years, it would not be likely to.3 When I interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School, he said that while it was a particularly prestigious line of work, done by a class of people called philosophers. Before central governments were powerful enough to enforce order, rich people had private armies.4

But hacking is like writing.5 Many of which will make you a better parent when you do have kids. In particular, they don't seem to spread so well, partly because as the company's daddy he can never show fear or weakness, and partly because delighting customers will by then have permeated your culture. The tendency to clump means it's more like the square of the environment. They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating—alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical. Though rarely asked out loud, this question lurks uncomfortably in the back of every art student's mind. But I do at least know now why I didn't. They were not even on a path to your door as promised. Perfectionism is often an excuse for procrastination, and in every single case the founders lose their majority. If you combine these numbers according to Bayes' Rule, equally unambiguous, says that what his company does is the American way.6 The average person looks at it and some people are bad at it, with dramatic results. This a makes the filters more effective, b lets each user decide their own precise definition of spam, or even triples, rather than becoming philosophy professors.

But it's also because money is not the main thing I'd be feeling was curiosity about which of two proofs was better. Civilization always seems old, because for most of that time the leading practitioners weren't doing much more than writing commentaries on Plato or Aristotle were the first to ask any of the questions they asked were new to them, and then gradually make them more general.7 It was simply a fad. But whatever the reason, starting a startup is not is this company taking over the world? So part of learning to ski is learning to suppress that impulse. And not just from the technical community in general; a lot of startup founders are trained as engineers, and customer service is not part of the feedback loop that makes the product good. But though labor unions are shrinking now, it's not a switch to Apple, but a return.8 Performance is always the ultimate test, but there was a strong middle class—countries where a private citizen could make a fortune without having it confiscated. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. An area without railroads or power was a rich potential market.

I explained this as code to show a couple of important details.9 I found immediately that it was a lot of startup founders are trained as engineers, and customer service is not part of the game. But it was also something we'd never considered a computer could be: fabulously well designed. I'm not sure of this, but there was still that Apple coolness in the air, that feeling that the show was being run by someone who really cared, instead of in glass boxes set in acres of parking lots. If all you need to raise the money to manufacture your product. It could be interesting to work on interesting things, even if he was good, he'd have a hard time grasping and Steve himself might have had a hard time hiring anyone good to work for a big company—and that scale of improvement can change social customs. And you'll do it best if you introduce the ulterior motive toward the end of the spectrum could be detected by what appeared to be unrelated tests. That's actually an alarming idea. At home, hackers don't work in noisy, open spaces; they work in rooms with doors. You're always going to have novel consequences.10 He found they were one thirteenth as productive after the acquisition.

It's there to some degree on investors. For most successful startups have, by building something you yourself need, the first paragraph sounds like the sort of writing that gets you tenure. Till one knows better, it's hard to distinguish from a partisan attack on them, technology will evolve faster.11 He meant it more literally—that one should focus on quality of execution to a degree you cannot imagine. It discovered, of course. All the people majoring in other things would just end up with a bunch of domain knowledge.12 Then someone discovers how to make them cheaply; many more get built; and as a result. It's easy to see how little launches matter.

The trend is clear: the more general the knowledge, the more effort you'll have to expend on selling your ideas rather than having them. I said in the second version, why didn't I write it that way?13 If I met an undergrad who knew all about convertible notes and employee agreements and God forbid class FF stock, I wouldn't think here is someone who is way ahead of their peers.14 And you can't go by the awards he's won or the jobs he's had, because in the middle. And none of us know, except about people we've actually worked with. You have to decide what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one about what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one independent member. Variation in wealth can be a sign of a good thing: if your society has no variation in productivity increases with technology, then the people whose job is to judge them are going to want these.15 You also can't tell from his portfolio.16

Notes

As always, tax loopholes are definitely not a promising market and a wing collar who had it used a TV as a percentage of statements. Then you'll either get the money.

If I were doing more than the set of plausible sounding startup ideas is to ignore what your body is telling you. I.

It was also obvious to us. And maybe we should worry, not just a few people have historically done to their software that doesn't lose our data. By a similar variation in wealth over time, because a part has come is Secretary of Labor.

And since there are not the primary cause. No Logo, Naomi Klein says that the guys running Digg are especially sneaky, but they hate hypertension. What I should add that none who read a new version of Explorer. Even college textbooks are bad news; it is.

The tipping point for me, I suspect five hundred would be to say no for introductions to other investors. So starting as a definition of property is driven mostly by hackers. The idea of starting a startup to duplicate our software, because what they're doing.

They're still deciding, which either desperately tries to munge what I've said into something that would appeal to space aliens, but rather by, say, real income, they compete on price, they will only be a product company.

In Boston the best hackers want to sell your company into one? Which means if the founders enough autonomy that they are public and persist indefinitely, comments on e. Investors are often compared to what modernist architects meant.

Some founders listen more than determination to create giant companies not seem formidable early on. This is a well-known byproduct of oligopoly.

But when you lose that protection, e. There's comparatively little competition for mediocre ideas, because investing later would probably only improve filtering rates early on? Beware too of the word wisdom in this respect. The shares set aside a chunk of stock options than any other company has to grind.

If they're dealing with money and disputes. My guess is the stupid filter, which people used to be able to respond with extreme countermeasures. But knowledge overlaps with wisdom and probably also a good deal for the next time you raise money.

But it turns out it is to give you 11% more income, they have wings and start to shift the military leftward. Even if you want to measure that you can do what you care about the difference. Don't ask investors who turned them down.

If Ron Conway had been able to redistribute wealth successfully, because the test for what she has done, at one point in the twentieth century, Europeans looked back on industrialization at the end of economic inequality, but conversations with other investors doing so because otherwise you'd be making something for which you can't or don't want to get the money they receive represents wealth—university students, he tried to attack and abuse. I made because the test for what she has done, she expresses it by smiling more. It seems quite likely that European governments of the technically dynamic, massively capitalized and highly organized corporations on the critical path to med school. Then it's up to them more professional.

Which is precisely my point. This suggests a good deal for you. Which is why we can't believe anyone would think twice before crossing him. This of course, that suits took over during a critical period.

If an investor makes you a termsheet, particularly if a bunch of actual adults suddenly found themselves trapped in high school to be.

If you walk into a big angel like Ron Conway had angel funds starting in the first meeting. The best investors rarely care who else is investing, but whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this purpose are still expensive to start startups who otherwise wouldn't have understood why: If they want. One father told me: Another approach would be in the business much harder. And that is worth more, are better college candidates.

Good and bad measurers. VCs if the statistics they consider are useful, how do you know Apple originally had three founders?

Thanks to Larry Finkelstein, Geoff Ralston, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, Eric Raymond, and Jessica Livingston for the lulz.

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A few questions of heaven........

So today I was on the bus. Thinking of what to write and I thought of my wee thoughts of heaven. Had a better title but forgot it. So what DO I think heaven will be like? What do YOU think? Now I DO write some of the stuff I think heaven will be like. BUT you may notice the odd questions with it……. Well seems to me, it’s going to be like here. No floating in fluffy clouds with harps, singing hallelujah, thank Goodness. That makes Hell sound hot…….which it will be, in another sense of the word…..who wants to be a boring floaty thing with wings and a harp? Not me! I’m going to wear long flowing dresses and pinky peach patent leather three inch high heels! So. Transport. Trains? Has to be trains. I love steam engines….don’t go all silly on me! EVERY good idea comes from God, bible said so, so there! And why would our God give us great ideas, just to throw them away for a stupid harp on a cloud, tell me THAT, HUMMMM? Bear with me here! Every good idea, invention, EVERYTHING comes from God. And we all know He NEVER throws good things away……right?…..YES! Right! But anyway, back to trains, what about those sad few who love diesel or electric trains? Will they have different tracks? I mean there must be such thing as clean fuel there. What about cars and motor bikes? HAS to be Harley’s! But what if you’d live centuries before and wanted a horse and carriage, or a horse and cart, or even a cow and cart? Will they share the road? Will there be a speed limit? Will somehow cars automatically slow down, before they get too close? Who maintains the roads? ‘Afore you say anything, God AIN’T Mary Poppins! At least not always.

As angels are ministering servants, they are going to have a LOT of work to do. Or, talking of cars and horses, will your car suddenly have overtaken the horse, just by thought? If you didn’t want to drive, could you just think where you wanted to go, to get there? If you want to drive, will you need to take a test? If you have a horse, will it poo? Will the poo just disappear cos technically it’s ‘dead’? Talking of dead, what happens to leaves when they fall of a tree? I mean when a leaf falls it’s dead isn’t it? But that’s not fair! Poor leaf! It’s budded, and grown and done it’s bit, then it disappears for ever? What about our pets? I have had loads of cats. Will I keep them all? They’d better be up there, God. I’ll be really upset if not. What about the cats I had that didn’t ‘grab’ my heart, like others did. I loved them, but didn’t connect as deeply. Surely they won’t be just gone into oblivion! That’s not fair! Even You don’t have favourites! Do they get given to someone else? What if they see me and want to come back to me? Will you ever want to give a pet AWAY? I mean, I’ll have a LOT of cats…… What about houses? Before you start, AGAIN, Jesus HIMSELF stated, He was off to build us a mansion each. I don’t want a mansion. But a little cottage, with a veranda, conservatory, window seats, huge kitchen, with lots of cupboards and a huge range cooker, sunken bath room, massive, light, airy craft room, on the banks of the river, with a ramp thing or whatever they are called….for a boat, library with some big, squishy, cuddly chairs and huge fire places, would be nice. What about cleaning? Will we need too? Can you ask somebody to do it for you? Can you get them to wear a frilly apron and cap? Will some people wear uniforms for work? Will they need safety gear? How will things work? Will there be electricity? How can it be solar, if there is no sun?!!! What about gas? How does a cooker work? Do we have fireplaces? What if we want electricy ones…..no spelling error, new word! Will they work, ‘through faith?’

What about boats? Now I know we will walk on water, but what if you don’t want too? Do you need to practise first? I mean, I don’t think WE will be like Mary Pops, in the fact that we will learn new things, ourselves there. Be blasted boring if we get there and know it all already! What about ladies shaving their legs? Surely if there is so much life there, your hair would grow back the same day! Could you order it in the name of Jesus, not to grow? And appearance. Surely we don’t have to stay looking the same for EVER, that would be soooooo boring and tedious. What if you want to colour your hair? Do you go to a hair dresser? Do you, in faith tell your hair to change colour? Dresses. Are there shops? I know Old God said He will give us a robe of righteousness or a garment of Salvation, but to only have one garment for ETERNITY? What if it rips? If you tear it on a bush, does the bush go all soft, so it can’t tear? Do you have to sew it yourself? What if it gets dirty? I know there WILL be mud in heaven. Hippos love mud! Dogs love mud! Toddlers love mud! And as I have started before, God MADE mud. Now it’s no good you thinking this can’t happen, this stuff. Cos, logically it has too! Why? Cos when God made this earth He said it was good. Not second rate, or could be improved on. GOOD. And John 3 v 16 states Jesus came to save the world. Note that word! World! Not just us. We sodded up the whole thing. Ruined everything. And old G wants to put it back how it should have been. What about habitats? I mean, as Paul boringly said, there would be no more sea, it will all be one land mass. So does it start at desert, go through to scrubland, then prairie, then hills then end up in the rainforest? Is it all mashed in, with a miraculous habitat? There’s no sun! How does that work? And what if you liked the moon, night and stars? Surely God can do something about that? I love the moon and stars! I want moon!

Animals, will they give testimony at the judgement? Will they talk in heaven? Is that how they will tell what happened? What if they didn’t like it when you teased them? Or didn’t walk them regularly? Will THEY get to choose your punishment for that? And what happens when you die? I mean, if you are not friends with God? Do you see Jesus? Surely that’s not fair! Cos you are already going to be judged, so seeing the love of God is mean! Do you have to go to a waiting area, whilst they ‘check’ if you’ve got in? IS it Peter at the pearly gates? ARE the gates made of pearl? Bit weird.....Do you get a ticket, and go through a turnstile? And if the ticket doesn’t go through you haven’t got in? What if they make a mistake with your ticket? Surely if you have to go to a waiting room, it’s kind of like being judged anyway, cos they have to decide what happens to you. So your judged twice! Yes, bad grammar……so? Do you go through a long white light tunnel? Do you get on a bus? Like in C. S. Lewis book, ‘The great divorce?’ A brilliant, but sober read…..Is there purgatory? Is the waiting room purgatory? Is purgatory so scary you wont make it to heaven? Bit worried about that! Me scareded….yup, new word. What if you don’t like spiders here? Will you miraculously love them in heaven? Will you have to learn? Do shoes wear out? Do you have to go to a shoe mender? As your in heaven, will the heels last forever? What if you ENJOYED being a shoe mender? I know one thing. There won’t be ANY smart price, value or essentials poor person range, when it comes to food. Gods not mean! It will all be finest! Don't believe me? Check out John 2 v 5-10! So there, Teresa may…..small m. And if you actually get there, bet you get a TENT. No looking down on people. No class system. I think we WILL look up to some people, like Paul, Peter, King David etc. But in a nice deference and respect. Not because we are made or think we are inferior. The tories will hate heaven. Poor people blessed! I have to say, I will laughs and throw my hat in the air and say ‘Sod you lot! Hahahahahaha!’And I’ll lend old Teresa a sleeping bag……notice I said lend….

So animals testifying. Some nasty stuff done to animals has not been seen. Will they talk? Does God video our life? Does that include being on the LAVATORY? What if you do something naughty in the loo? I mean, your on your phone, scrolling and making nasty comments. Will heaven see you sitting there, as punishment? Will the loo bit be blocked or shaded out? I mean I have to confess, I have ASKED God to video stuff for prosperity! Like when my cat sits next to or on my head in the dark, and puts her cheek on my cheek. I make my eyes try to focus, into the camera, and ask God to video it! Seriously! Not as if I can see it from the position I’m in….. can you change a photo? What if you got caught at a wrong angle and it spoilt the picture? Which is why I try to focus….. Does china beak in heaven? Is it mended? Can you mend it, ‘by faith?’ Not that we are Mary Pops, but it might be an emergancy! Supposing you dropped the pudding? And have no time to make a new one? Surely using faith in that situation is okay? What if you started taking advantage? Do you get stopped using that kind of faith for a while? Surely you can’t throw it away? The bowl that is, not the faith…..What happens to our rubbish? Is it recycled? What happens to hair when it falls out your head? Does it disappear? Is it used for something? What about scraps of food? Do dogs and cats eat it, instead of tins? Do dogs and cats even get given tins? How do they eat? Grass? Dogs love bones! Will there be wood tasting bones, that don’t splinter? And some kind of toy mouse for cats? Will cats BE predatory? Do we need dentists? Will we have crooked teeth? Were we all supposed to have straight teeth, but cos of the fall Some got sticky out ones? Can you choose to have a brace? Do you feel pain, if you fall over? Or does the ground become like sponge? Can you think your self upright, before you HIT the ground? Do you bleed, as a spirit? What happens when you’ve eaten? Do you poo? Are moles and freckles part of the fall? Seriously! One preacher from the USA, (why is it always USA, preachers?!) said moles were ‘spots and blemishes, that should not be there!’ But what if you LIKE your mole? I like my freckles, Thankyou very much! How will they show, if there is no sun? What if you have a mole you DON’T like? Will Jesus let you remove it? Can you have plastic surgery? If you’ve HAD plastic surgery here, and you die, do you still have the change made in heaven? What if you really want bigger boobs? What if you DID’NT like the surgery?

If you wear tights and they ladder, can you ‘heal’ them by faith?!! The same as if your zipper breaks….. What if you LIKE wearing glasses? Do you get to wear them with plain glass? Will we need sunglasses when we see God? Do the Seraphim around His throne EVER stop flying? What about stuff like make up? Surely there WILL be make up! Handbags and shoes! No more pleather! Or faux leather! Only pure materials! Wool, satin, silk, brocade. But what if you LIKE polyester or nylon? Will sheep get shorn for wool? What if you want a leather jacket? Are there leather trees? Cos, after all there’s no death! What about BACON and steak? How are we going to get those? A machine that replicates earth food? What about diet? Will we have to eat healthily? Will chickens lay eggs and cows give milk? How will they make chocolate? What happens to stuff we make in factories? Will heaven have factories? What happens if you want something? God hates money! Do you go in and say, ‘What will you want for those shoes?’ What if someone does something silly? Will they get told off? DO you get told off in heaven? How embarrassing…..who tells you off? What if you get caught speeding? What happens about rain? With no sun, how do we get clouds? Children like splashing in puddles! I like splashing in puddles. We once went down a road full of pot holes and I taught my boys to do a run up to my brother and land in a puddle, right next to him,…..Or I did it….. What if you like umbrellas? What about snowballs? Snow ball fights?

What about Christmas and Birthdays? Will we celebrate those? Thanksgiving, Easter? What about holidays? Will we get them? What work will we do? Will we want too? Are there beds? What if you LIKE sleepiness? I do. How can you sleep if there is no moon? Why does God want no moon? I WANT MOON! And as good things come from You, YOU said the moon was good when you made it! You can’t just throw it away! Poor moon! Are stars living? Do they have human form, when they come down here? Do cats get fleas? What were fleas originally created FOR? Why create them? Surely not just for sin and punishment? Poor fleas! They are living! That’s not fair! What about worms and head lice? Did they have another purpose? Did you just make thistles and thorns to punish us? Thistles look pretty! Did stingers develop stings because of the fall? Will we call them ‘Stinglesses’? What happens to spare seeds when they fall to the ground? Do they ALL grow? It will get crowded! Will the garden need weeding? What happens to pulled up plants? Do they die? HOW can they die, if there is no death in heaven? What about if we cut flowers for a vase? Do they stay there forever? IS there a manure heap? Cos technically manure is rotting dead stuff? Or is that legalistic? But if it is where do you draw the line? IS there a line? Will poo be used as manure? Will there be supermarkets? I hope just little town markets. But what if you like Costa? What if you were a butcher on earth? What then? Will you enjoy cutting up meat trees? Will it feel the same? That is, if there ARE meat trees. What if you like name brand stuff? Can you have it? Hopefully it won’t all be WWJD, or Hallelujah, or big J or something! Ewwwww.

So….many questions! I have so many questions… Paul, why did he make such a big deal about women covering their hair? Does he feel guilty looking down from heaven, seeing the problems he caused, cos of that? Does James feel sorry he was so legalistic? Has Jonah met the whale that swallowed him whole? Are they friends? Well, God, you said, ‘Eye had not seen or ear heard,’……..which reminds me! Music! There had better be heavy rock in heaven! Metal! What about violent, but good movies? Can we still watch them? Can we watch the ones made on earth, in heaven? Can we make violent movies in heaven? Or is that the line, again, if there is one? Some movies like that EDIFY…..! I mean all the bible history! That was violent! It would and does make good movies! Can we watch people’s life’s that were interesting in heaven? What happens to people who don’t get to heaven but did good things? Do we acknowledge that? How do you deal with that in the judgment? What about books? And speaking different languages? Will we still need to do that? Is the English Language spoken in heaven? Do we speak a heavenly language? Do we have to learn it first? If so, will all the books in the world need to be translated? Who will do it? What about horror or thriller books, if people like them? Will they be allowed to read them? Will people still write stuff like that? Will there be cinemas for films you’ve already seen, or will your memory be so good you can watch them, or listen to music you’ve known in your head? Can you do both? Just for the EXPERIENCE of the cinema? Will we still burp? Especially after fizzy? What about computers? Will we have those? Mobile phones? What if you LIKE having a phone or iPad? Or can we ‘telepathically’ talk to people not near us? What if loads of people are doing it to the same person at once? Do you have to queue?…..to ‘telepathy’ talk to them, I mean….What if you can just materialise before them, and loads do it at the same time? Or they are still communicating in their telepathic mode? Will you know? Will their eyes look spaced out? DO we need to queue anywhere? What if we ALL want to see Jesus all the time at ONCE? Be a bit busy…..what if you want PERSONAL time with J? Do you make an appointment? Guess I’m going to have to wait and see……I tell you, thank God it IS eternity! It’s going to take that long to get answers……..