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Radical Incline

Repeal! Repeal! Rewind!

I invested my saved daylight time at interest. When most of you get your hour back, I got a return of an hour and seven minutes back.

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When I asked the fellah who rents the pasture about it, he said you adjust the cattle by winding their tails. Clockwise in the Spring...

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As DST ends, I have three house clocks, a microwave, a coffee maker, and one auto clock to adjust.

The clock on the other vehicle was always on Standard Time. Because I can't not adjust my wristwatch anymore, since I quit wearing one, I resist tyranny in the truck.

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Always disappointing, when alleged or self-described Constitutional conservatives don't see the fingers of unConstitutional governance for what they are. Welfare, prohibitionism, public transportation, government schools, so broadly accepted, tolerated, even expected, by ignorant citizens, are all creeping (sometimes hustling) socialism.

So, please help stop tyranny:
Sign the Petition to Get Government out of our Clocks!
End Daylight Savings Time!

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Eternal ClockThe point is not DST itself, of course.

The point is the government all up in our clocks.

Get over it, says anybody who's happy with, or not personally affected by, some overreach or other of government.

Sorry. It's the principle of the thing. The principle of the proper and improper province of government.

Businesses, individuals, you want to adjust your work hours or golf club hours or sleeping time twice a year, fine, go ahead. Make it a big club so you can all do it on the same day, whatever you please. The Saving Time Club. You can have votes on when and everything. Your school or job or family doesn't respect your DST preference? Move, change jobs, find a new family. If that were the way it was, we could say, "It's a free country."

"But," ask those inured to tyranny, "Without a Law, everybody would be on different schedules! How will we all know what time it is?"

By leaving the clocks alone. Duh. You change your store's 9-to-5 to 8-to-4 if you want to.

Repeal of 100% of what "government" is permitted to do by our neglect to reign it in - that's the principle of the thing.

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Y'know, as long as I'm tilting at windmills…

Repeal Time Zone Designations altogether!
Bring back God's accurate Local Time!

Time, as time zones, were standardized primarily so that train schedules could be accurate. Today's shipping techniques are all digitized, and computerized clocks - as with sundials - know where they are, so, they can know when it is at that location. We can return to God's sun's local time everywhere. If you need to refer to a global standard, there's always Greenwich Mean.

And DST was sold to the public as a means to save on whale oil used for lighting, so people wouldn't burn so much for light in the evening. Whale oil lighting — that's still so precious nowadays!

Returning to local time would be a hoot. Totally possible, with digital, geo-aware, linked-up clocks.

But then, then, after the EMPs




Best of Spirits

Just always seemed t'me just like something Jesus might do.

Mormonism's idea that the risen Jesus appeared to people in the Western Hemisphere has always tickled me. Just always seemed t'me just like something Jesus might do.

I believe sometimes the Spirit tries to coalesce a concept in the mortal mind, and all kinds of imaginary thoughts are generated in consequence. One great truth may be accompanied by much dross. Not saying this about Smith or Mormon, specifically.

I have no idea when or how or why anyone thinks he may have done it, but I always figured it would be easiest during his time as the Risen Jesus. He hung around for nearly six weeks, and he reportedly was materially free to travel.

Maybe it's just that I so like thinking the Master would have reached out, just as he taught, to all the world. And since no other disciple of his at the time could possibly get there....




Best of Spirits

Caught in the battlefield

The War in Heaven, initiated a third of a billion years ago by the rebel administrator Lucifer, is long settled, and the betrayer is incarcerated and new, loyal administrators have replaced him and his rebellious associates.

His subordinate administrator in charge of this world was removed from official status two millennia ago, but that did not end the battling. The devilish former prince of this world is not yet rounded up, and though greatly disempowered, is not without willing allies still.

The final struggle for souls on disrupted planets, the very destiny of the world, continues. Those who seek Truth know the ultimate outcome.

It's all about spirit. Every major topic is about Reality and its opponents.

True Disciples of the Prince of Deception have the mark of the beast in their shifty eyes and nervous speech and endless body tells.

Mere Followers of the Lie cannot reason effectively, instead responding propagandistically, and their morals and principles are, at best, confused, at worst, non-existent.

It's not about different ideas or reaching across the aisle or getting along. This is the ongoing War in Heaven begun eons ago. No fence-sitting possible.

Truth. Accept no substitutes.

Paradise Lost - Gustave Doré



Best of Spirits

They're not Out There. We are.

"One In Five Milky Way Stars Host Potentially Life-Friendly Earth Like Planets"
Yahoo News headline [cached], h/t to BenK on Ace of Spades

What study really said, Irene Klotz reporting for Reuters:
"One out of every five sun-like stars in the Milky Way galaxy has a planet about the size of Earth that is properly positioned for water, a key ingredient for life...."


Actually, it's obvious to any reasoning person:

The Extremely Inhabited Universe is watching us closely, helping us, as much as the rules allow (respect of individual relative free will, independent planetary cultural development & all that), and will contact us when we are decided.

As a world.

So, it may be a while yet.

Kepler Candidates
More than 3,500 potential inhabitable worlds known in our galaxy



Best of Spirits

Different levels of authority.

Levels of Authority
My cats are mad at me for letting it rain when they want to go out. I try to explain, I am but a lowly god with gods above me, but since I (with Mrs lowly god) cause fish to appear in their bowls, can remove and change our fur, and do marvelous miracles with those divine thumbs, we must be in charge of the rain, too.




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