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SHOW ME: Is Ai entertaining, informative or deceptive?

I grew up in Kansas. It’s neighbor to the east is Missouri, the ‘Show Me’ state. Don’t just tell me, show me. The ‘Show Me’ slogan was coined near the turn of the 20th century. We are now approaching the quarter marker of the 21st century. It seems we all need to question practically everything,…

Illustration: Jesus Christ Superstar at Hollywood Bowl
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Knowledge and Understanding

Revival? The Jesus Movement was a spiritual revolution in the late 60’s, early 1970’s. Many young people in America became Jesus freaks. I was not one of them, but I was curious. Today, the ‘Ashbury Revival’ is the talk of the town in Christendom. There have been plenty of videos, blog posts and blah, blah,…

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Don’t Get Iced by Ai

Nations and corporations are competing to develop and dominate artificial intelligence: Ai. Ai: More Than a Game Modern AI goes back to the 1950’s. That’s when John McCarthy, a computer scientist coined the term artificial intelligence. But the world at large didn’t to take notice until 1997. That’s when world chess champion Garry Kasparov was…

Angel in the heavens

Strange Things in the Sky. What They Might Possibly Be

A spy balloon floated across the United States gathering intelligence until it was shot down by an F-22 over the Atlantic. Additional Objects in the Sky Only days later, unknown objects in the skies over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron were shot down by sidewinder missiles. We’ve learned that one missile missed its target and…

Watercolor painting made during an earthquake.
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Escape the Quake that Will One Day Shake the World

Escape the Coming Tribulation If you live in California, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘the big one’. This is common in light of a major earthquake somewhere on our planet. Undoubtably, you’ve seen heartbreaking images and videos of the loss of life and property damage in the quakes in Turkey and Syria. The Big One…

59 Chevy Low Rider

Baby Daddy

The NPR headline read, Lowriding was born in California, but it’s restricted. Lawmakers want to change that. Those restrictive laws don’t stop low riding. I know, I used to be a low rider myself. Some people are going to find a way to do whatever they want regardless of what laws are on the books….

Drawing of Cabot Cove Fisherman
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What to do When Life Happens

I was going through my Youtube channel recently cleaning up (deleting) some old videos. I came across a video about five years old. It was a little over 40 minutes long. I thought I would listen to the first few minutes to see if it got the trash can treatment. 40 minutes later, I was…

Get in the Car. Storm approaching.
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Get in the Car

I grew up in a small town in Kansas; in a region known as tornado alley. When I was about 12 years old, my teacher took his class camping. The campsite was several miles outside of town. We got on the highway, then turned off on a dirt road to get to the campsite. When…