THE TALE OF TWO CELL PHONES

Once upon a time two cell phones were on a shelf side by side.

One was brand new.  Never used.  Never even turned on once.

The other was old, used and abused.  It had experienced many a

phone call.  It had been very useful and appreciated by it's owner.

The new unused, not even once, cell phone decided it was smarter

than the old used one.   After all, the old cell phone talked about 

sending and receiving messages.  Unseen messages at that.  It also

mentioned things like radio frequencies, radio waves or signals,
UHF band and such foolishness.

Now the new cell phone knew that was an utter absurdity.  After 

all, it had been in existence for several months now.  And in all 

that time it had never, even once, seen one of those radio signals.

It had not felt, tasted, weighed or measured one of these so call

radio frequencies.  What foolishness.

"The fool says in his heart,

'There is no God."

(Psalms 14:1 RSV)

MESSENGERS WITHOUT A MESSAGE

In the time of king David of Israel there was a man named

Ahimaaz.  His name was almost as funny as some of our names.

But his actions were much the same as ours.

A very important battle had just been won.  Ahimaaz wanted

to be the one to run and tell the king the outcome of the battle.

But some else was sent.

Ahmaaz kept insisting that he should run and tell the king.

Finally he was allowed to run with the news to the king also.

Ahmaaz out run the first runner and delivered the following

message to the king.

"Sir, when your officer Joab sent me,

I saw a great commotion,

but I couldn't tell what it was."

(2 Samuel 18:29 GNB)

Now what kind of information is that????

How informed did the king become from this message?

  

I love the ease of finding information on the internet as vs.

buying a book or card files in the library.

But I have learned something.

If you really want to learn something - stay away from forums.

Some of the people who post on the forums have no concept of

what they are talking about.  They simply want to say something.

Many others are only guessing, but also only want to say something.

And a few - very few - know what they are talking about and

have useful information.  That is, if you can be patient enough

and keep digging through the rest of the postings.

Forums have become a last resort for myself.

If you watch videos you have found much the same thing.  A

lot of the videos were made by people who do not know what

they are doing.  They just want to make a video.  I have even

seen some that have never even done the task they are trying 

to teach you about.

Should we even mention Facebook and the stupidity that is

posted daily there?   

Yes, there are some good posts even on Facebook. 

But you will have a warped mind by the time you get to it.

Those of us that try to blog are sure that blogging is much
different.  Isn't it? 

Should we leave the use of these things alone?

"You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will

have to give account of every useless word you have ever

spoken.  Your words will be used to judge you - to declare

you either innocent or guilty."

(Matthew 12:36,37 GNB)