DARPA Created the Internet and Lifelog, But "Killed" Lifelog the Same Day Facebook Began. Co-Inky Dink?

I saw that Facebook was an easy way to collect all kinds of data and sell it to various entities. Also, the so-called privacy controls are almost meaningless for professional users, especially those paying for their access.

Besides that, many FB denizens have been tricked into using additional "free" gimmicks and games to collect all the data on their FB friends.

Much of this is also accomplished through tracking cookies on computers plus unique identifiers - like cell phone numbers and email addresses. Both identifiers are unique and often used, so anyone with one can get the other.

Facebook could dissolve tomorrow and the data gathering would continue at the same pace.

I just want people to be aware of this and to be careful of what they publish. I had a big laugh when Father Hollywood got angry that I posted (as his FB friend) on "his" page. When software is "free," the individual's data is the product. It is Zuckerberg's software, Zuckerberg's page, Zuckerberg's data to sell.

To continue using Facebook, avoid all games and platforms completely. Limit the ability of others to view posts, friend lists, and photos. Use a long password like this - 19LittleRock01! - very hard to crack by outsiders.

I will use Facebook for now but I expect it to be a punchline in a few years.

Study uncovers surprising things about squirrels | National | bakersfield.com

 My butler Greg Jackson knew this years ago.
Where is his gubmint grant?

Study uncovers surprising things about squirrels | National | bakersfield.com:



"In one experiment, Delgado tested how squirrels assess food when provided nuts of different values. She presented participating squirrels with a specific order of hazelnuts and peanuts and observed the following behaviors for each nut: the number of head flicks, the time manipulating the nut with the paw, the time until the nut was eaten or cached, the number of incomplete caches before a successful cache and the time spent covering a cached nut.

Turning a nut around in their paws serves multiple functions. It helps the squirrels assess the integrity of the nut and spot any holes or cracks in the shell. Imperfections could indicate the nut is more susceptible to rot. They also might be the best entry points for breaking into the shell."

 These boys were waiting a few feet away until I filled their feeder with sunflower seeds.

'via Blog this'

 Our squirrels are not spoiled.

First Lesson in Romans - Greek - Romans 1:1-10

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ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ 1 1550 Stephanus New Testament (TR1550)

1 παυλος δουλος ιησου χριστου κλητος αποστολος αφωρισμενος εις ευαγγελιον θεου

Mostly nominative. Apposition, concise, no article. Most words are easy to guess in this verse. See the κλητος in verse 6.

2 ο προεπηγγειλατο δια των προφητων αυτου εν γραφαις αγιαις
angel - message, ep makes it promise, pro makes it promise in advance

3 περι του υιου αυτου του γενομενου εκ σπερματος δαβιδ κατα σαρκα
Three easy guess words. gen, sperm, sarcophagus, sarc

4 του ορισθεντος υιου θεου εν δυναμει κατα πνευμα αγιωσυνης εξ αναστασεως νεκρων ιησου χριστου του κυριου ημων
horizon, dynamite, pneumonia, hagiography, 

5 δι ου ελαβομεν χαριν και αποστολην εις υπακοην πιστεως εν πασιν τοις εθνεσιν υπερ του ονοματος αυτου
onomatopoeia 

6 εν οις εστε και υμεις κλητοι ιησου χριστου

7 πασιν τοις ουσιν εν ρωμη αγαπητοις θεου κλητοις αγιοις - χαρις υμιν και ειρηνη απο θεου πατρος ημων και κυριου ιησου χριστου
End of formal greeting.

8 πρωτον μεν ευχαριστω τω θεω μου δια ιησου χριστου υπερ παντων υμων οτι η πιστις υμων καταγγελλεται εν ολω τω κοσμω

9 μαρτυς γαρ μου εστιν ο θεος ω λατρευω εν τω πνευματι μου εν τω ευαγγελιω του υιου αυτου ως αδιαλειπτως μνειαν υμων ποιουμαι
Martyr - witness.

10 παντοτε επι των προσευχων μου δεομενος ειπως ηδη ποτε ευοδωθησομαι εν τω θεληματι του θεου ελθειν προς υμας

 Nouns and adjectives have these endings.

Calvinistic Substance, Pietistic Style

 When was the first time the UOJ Stormtroopers used this quotation from Robert Preus' book? Never!

Edward Preuss was a Missouri professor until he joined Rome. Neuhaus also went from UOJ to UOJ/Rome.

Some people catch onto the contradictions in Universal Objective Justification right away. Does anyone ask where the U came from? WELS seems to be obsessed with Universal Objective Justification, which is both redundant and new. Perhaps the Objective Justification term makes the ELS/LCMS more "confessional," though they cannot find their OJ in the Confessions.

This dogma belongs in the Calvinistic shoebox because it combines two of the worst parts of that dogma.

1. Unconditional Election - UOJ is election without faith.
2. Irresistible Grace - UOJ is grace without faith.

Naturally, a foul dogma squeezed out of the cankers of Calvinism and Pietism will have numerous contradictions. Various names for this WELS-ELS-LCMS disorder have justification in their title, all signifying a declaration of forgiveness without faith. That is their Helen of Troy, the unfaith that launched a thousand essays.

• OJ
• UOJ
• Justification of the World
• General Justification

Their dank muttering is contradictory because they start with a crippled vocabulary. Justification in the New Testament always means a declaration of forgiveness, and it is always connected with faith. The same is true of the Book of Concord, Chemnitz, Gerhard, and others. The Atonement has many synonyms, such as propitiation, expiation.

So these MDiv graduates, with little Latin and less Greek, want us to fall for their con-game. "OJ is not the Atonement," they say. But OJ foolishly merges the Atonement with Justification, to produce the sterile offspring, the mule named OJ, UOJ, etc etc. And they glory in "without faith."

 The acrobatics fail to convince. If only the editors of the Formula of Concord knew as much as WELS!

A Reader Contributed This Note

From a Reader

If I understand correctly,  UOJ claims that the whole world has its

sins forgiven even if they don't realize it and don't believe. However, in John 3:18 we read:

18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

How can the proponents of UOJ claim people are forgiven when the Bible itself says you are *condemned * if you don't believe? Clearly, without faith there is no remission of sins.

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GJ - You are correct. We have nothing to fear from Christians who read and comprehend the clear, plain, efficacious Word of God.

Sig Becker did not tell the truth. The LCMS never had an official position on UOJ, as one DP recently admitted. The Brief Statement is just a convention document. The catechisms of Missouri have been Justification by Faith documents, which is natural for a Lutheran church body.

The WELS Gausewitz catechism was JBFA, so they kicked it to the curb and replaced it with the Kuske UOJ book for simpletons.

Rolf or the Holy Word of God?

Pastor Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 9705 Registered: 5-2001

Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 6:39 pm:       Mr. Ames, you write: So maybe a more capable writer could better state this than myself, the truth is you cannot ask for trust because one leader is a thoroughly confessional Lutheran pastor. I agree! I don't think you should trust any synod. Synods aren't worthy of trust. Trust God and his holy word. When a man shows himself to be a faithful teacher of the word, you can trust him, but always provisionally. During the Battle for the Bible in the LCMS, Jack Preus took a stand and stayed with it. Many if not most of the faculty at CSL attacked him for his stand. Franzmann was a disappointment. He didn't want to offend his friends on the faculty and he didn't. Missouri must resist the spirit of unionism. W/ELS must resist the spirit of sectarianism. Pastor Rolf David Preus

Pastor Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 9706 Registered: 5-2001

Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 6:49 pm:       I don't want to revisit the arguments we had some time back on Luther Quest about the W/ELS doctrine of church and ministry. I will only point out that the official teaching of the W/ELS asserts things as doctrine that cannot be substantiated by the written Word of God. This is sectarian. On the other hand, many within Missouri give lip service to our "renunciation of unionism and syncretism of every description," but remain unionists at heart. We don't trust synods. We trust the pure and wholesome teaching of God's word taught in the Bible and confessed in the Book of Concord. Pastor Rolf David Preus

Do We Trust Rolf? or the Holy Word of God?

Romans 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

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How Bad Is Ichabad? - Discussion Really Is Gone from Facebook Now

 I think the cat is yawning, my exact reaction to WELS/ELS foam sharks.

One person told me about "Ichabad" being discussed on the WELS Discussions page on Facebook. I thought it was gone, but no, it was still up there, minus the Lillo post with the link. Just now a WELS member told me it is definitely removed.

However, I have preserved their wisdom in this post -

WELS/ELS Facebook Slander Party

They should know by now that I always copy and paste comments about this blog so the writers can be judged by everyone, not just their in-bred pals in crime.

An ELS member made this graphic for the blog.

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 The UOJ gurus have eliminated more churches than the Chicago Fire.

GJ - The genius class in WELS/ELS concludes "they are just talking about words." But words convey ideas. Try to think without words or argue a point without words.

UOJ is a rationalistic philosophy at war against the Scriptures. They is why they keep repeating their little slogans in their little sects, which fewer and fewer people take seriously.

 The Wolf of Wall Street lectures Thrivent.

 The wolves of WELS-ELS-LCMS...
or are they just the hirelings of Thrivent?