My Own Thoughts

One woman’s written responses to the world around her.

Archive for April, 2007

I told my sisters I was an alien

Posted: Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 @ 12:57 am in Science | No Comments »

and now I have proof. The earth WAS purple. Live Science says the earliest life on Earth might have been purple making microbes.

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My atheist son says I exaggerate the anti-Christian bias

Posted: Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 @ 12:53 am in Christianity | No Comments »

and I think it was my husband who said Christians shouldn’t whine. So, here’s an article on anti-Christian sentiment written by an agnostic. I didn’t do it. He did.

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Homosexuality and Nature v. Nurture

Posted: Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 @ 12:47 am in Science | No Comments »

Head of the Human Genome project talks on Life Site about this question. As Dr. Collins would agree, environment can influence gene expression, and free will determines the response to whatever predispositions might be present. Dr. Collins succinctly reviewed the research on homosexuality and offers the following: “An area of particularly strong public interest is [...]

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I didn’t die yesterday

Posted: Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 @ 11:55 pm in Health, Science | No Comments »

and I am very grateful to God. I was driving home from Dallas and I crossed the bridge outside of Conroe and do not remember a thing until I’m in the far left of four lanes and I’m in the Woodlands. (That’s about ten or so miles with lots of working on the road in [...]

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Colorful ancient art

Posted: Sunday, April 8th, 2007 @ 8:49 pm in Art, History | No Comments »

Technicolor Gods is the name of the exhibit of ancient works with reconstructions of color.

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Visual DNA

Posted: Sunday, April 8th, 2007 @ 8:32 pm in About Me | No Comments »

Read my VisualDNA™     Get your own VisualDNA™ I think I would pick a different love, but…

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If such a thing could happen once

Posted: Sunday, April 8th, 2007 @ 7:04 pm in History | No Comments »

it could happen again. Read the story of a heroine during the Holocaust. One woman saved 2500 children. God grant that should such a thing ever happen again, I will follow the example of this woman and risk my life to save theirs.

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He is alive.

Posted: Sunday, April 8th, 2007 @ 6:32 pm in Christianity | No Comments »

I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe that he came to the earth, lived here, was crucified, and rose again. This is close to the 2000th anniversary of that day.

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Reason 264,323 to homeschool

Posted: Saturday, April 7th, 2007 @ 6:16 pm in Teaching/Ed | No Comments »

UK study finds schools are ignoring the Holocaust and/or Crusades because they don’t want to offend Muslims.

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Other notes

Posted: Friday, April 6th, 2007 @ 9:20 am in My Life, Quizzes and Info | No Comments »

Don’t move around your house unless you have to. Stay in your room. Call 911. Get your gun. If the intruder goes towards your kids, then ge gt him. If he comes in my room’s door, I will be at the ready and challenge him- Loudly! I’ve said I would shoot someone in my house, [...]

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If you’ve shot someone and the police come

Posted: Thursday, April 5th, 2007 @ 11:10 am in My Life | No Comments »

you are in big trouble. The police don’t know you are trying to save your life. They just see someone shot and you with a gun. So if you shoot someone, do you put your gun down right away? No. How could you know that the person won’t hurt you still? (Remember if the good [...]

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Two problems in keeping your life.

Posted: Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 @ 9:59 am in My Life | No Comments »

Problem 1: Survival Problem 2: Criminal and civil liability. Reasonable is what you know when you shoot. Being alive is better than being dead. (Is it?) If you’re being robbed, how do you give them your money without being in their space? I wrote is it because I wondered if it is always better to [...]

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A fair and equal example

Posted: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 @ 8:47 am in Rant | No Comments »

How hard is it to not eat nightshades? What if you’re not a big ketchup fan, love Fritos, and prefer sweet potatoes to baked spuds? Then you might think that giving up nightshades would be simple. So what would be a fair and equal example for you of how hard it is to avoid them? [...]

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Reading romances

Posted: Sunday, April 1st, 2007 @ 2:32 pm in Books and Reading | No Comments »

I rather feel about romances as many people do about science fiction. It isn’t accepted in academia, so it shouldn’t be done. But if it must be done, it should be done in secret. I have read over thirty romance novels in the last week. But I didn’t list any of them in the books [...]

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First three months List of Books 2007

Posted: Sunday, April 1st, 2007 @ 2:25 pm in Books and Reading | No Comments »

73 books. Not up to one a day, but more than one every two days. Fiction: Ordinary Heroes: A Novel by Scott Turow Irish Magic II- story by Susan Wiggs was good, the rest not so much The Man from Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller, very well written Western Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 4 [...]

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Saint Vidicon

Posted: Sunday, April 1st, 2007 @ 2:20 pm in Books and Reading | 1 Comment »

Just finished reading Saint Vidicon To the Rescue by Christopher Stasheff. The best part of this book was the story already printed about Father Vidicon. But the switch in viewpoint was interesting, as were all the different problems encountered. I liked the time loop made by the paradox of killing your own grandfather. Interesting approach [...]

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