It is unfortunate that I failed to get outside last afternoon to benefit from the day's sunshine ─ since around 2:45 p.m. this afternoon, we've been getting rain showers.
I am not going to fill today's post with the usual detailed tripe exemplifying just how empty my life is. Nevertheless, I do feel compelled to mention a few points of personal interest concerning home entertainment as provided through our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box.
I think that is was Monday evening that my younger brother and I watched the final series episode of Shades of Blue ─ I hadn't realized until seeing that episode that it was not just the third season that was drawing to a close.
During the latter morning yesterday, we watched the move Silence. Anyone who is even remotely accepting of the legitimacy of the Christian faith should gain some perspective from that film, even if all it manages to make you realize is that God has very little interest in demonstrating that faith and prayer matter to Him.
I have struggled throughout most of my life because ─ despite the evidence ─ I have always blindly believed that somehow I might be special to God, and that one day He will finally take a hand and help me to make something truly meaningful of my life.
However, just as with the title of that movie and the whole basis of the story it told, I have honestly only ever met with God's silence despite my prayers.
And now I am only a little over four months from achieving my 70th birthday, and I no longer have the vitality and reserves that carried me during my younger life. It is becoming extremely unlikely that when the crunch finally does come ─ whatever that eventful crunch is ─ I will no longer be able to 'hit the ground running' as once I might have been able to.
I am not Catholic, but the strength of belief of the two central Jesuit priest characters on the movie was very impressive.
I wonder how many viewers of the movie recognized and maybe even saw something of themselves in the Japanese character Kichijiro, a Japanese Catholic who just could not hold true to his principles and Christian beliefs?
It seems to me that at least four times he renounced his belief in God when the Japanese authorities forced him to renounce his faith or face death ─ he was too weak to remain true, and would always seek absolution and forgiveness from a priest afterward.
This sort of absolution can be nothing more than a licence to sin. There is no need to stand strong in the face of adversity. Just yield to weakness and temptation, seek priestly absolution, and carry on just as before until the next time it becomes too uncomfortable to 'toe the line.'
After all, why sweat it? Just give up whenever it suits you, seek forgiveness, and carry on in the fantasy that you are living a faithful life.
I don't know what my brother got out of the movie. It was certainly bleak in outcome.
Late this morning I tuned in a documentary that I expected would meet with vocal resistance from him, so I hid from him that it was over an hour in duration: 5G Apocalypse: The Extinction Event.
To my delighted surprise, he was very interested, and even had me pause the feature when he had to use the toilet.
I tuned it in via the YouTube 'app' downloaded into our Android TV Box, but I won't link to any sources because none of the links will likely remain valid.
The premise of the documentary is that enactment of 5G technology on the scale that seems will be coming out in the next year or two will lead to unimaginable health issues in people and all life on our planet, and may even result in our very extinction in just a few generations.
Whether responsible governments are actually diabolical, or simply comprised of a majority who are ignorant and / or avaricious, is so hard to figure out.
Is it the same mentality that sees some of these governments constantly protecting and even fostering the glyphosate industry?
Despite the known toxicity of glyphosate, the U.S. and Canadian governments keep pushing the use of this poison. Why are our agencies that are supposed to be watchdogs and protectors so actively working against the people?
America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing everything but the task of protecting the environment and the people who have to try and live in it:
JacksDailyDose.com
Reuters.com
CNN.com
The EPA says glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, doesn't cause cancer. Others aren't so sure
It's the same here in Canada with the blinkered nitwits staffing Health Canada.
Substances like glyphosate are only ever looked at and tested in isolation ─ no account is taken of the impact each toxic chemical can have in combination with all of the others we are being drenched with.
Maybe there is such a thing as some minimal safe level. But that level is meaningless when our tolerances are being reduced far lower by all manner of other chemical hazards in our air, food, water, and everything we surround ourselves with in our homes and workplaces.
This is why electromagnetic radiation and 5G technology are such a threat ─ it's everywhere and impossible to escape from.
Who cares that each and every device may be emitting some theoretically safe level? Cumulatively, that level is incalculably exceeded by uncountable electronic devices throughout the environment, whether country, suburb, or city.
Yesterday I signed a Canadian petition that I learned about ─ the petition concerned the plastic that is flooding the world and its oceans:
We’ve all seen the images. Turtles choking on plastic bags. Dead whales washing up on beaches, filled to the brim with grocery bags, straws, and other plastics.But I was shocked when I read that 91% of Canada’s trash ends up in oceans and landfills because it’s too toxic to recycle.A zero waste strategy would move us away from the “make-and-dispose” approach to a system that focuses on renewability, reusability, and repair. It would ban materials too toxic or hard to recycle — like plastics, and force big corporations to use recycled materials only — or get hit with tough penalties.It sounds ambitious — because it is. It’s exactly the kind of bold, visionary planning required to build a cleaner, more livable future. Countries like Sweden have implemented zero waste plans — and we can get one here too.It’s an election year. Other political parties have announced bold plans to reduce pollution — we can make the Liberals feel like they have to keep up — and like watering down their bold plans to create a cleaner Canada will cost them big at the polls.But to make it work, they need to hear from as many people as possible before Minister McKenna locks in and unveils their waste reduction plans — which could happen any day now.While working to eliminate materials that are difficult to recycle (like plastic straws) — we need to make sure that biodegradable alternatives are available and accessible to those who rely on them.
Plastic should not exist ─ it should be banned everywhere.
The only reason that doing so is not feasible is strictly one of economics for 'Big Business.' It would negatively affect their profits. And that of course is of far more importance than everyone's health, and the health of the planet itself.
Do we all deserve to die because we are so bloody stupid and inert to make those changes that must be made?
Maybe. Maybe we really do.
One final article I want to link to concerns the over-promotion of a specific vegetable ─ an over-promotion that I have read or heard about before. But this time, the article may have finally gotten me to hold the vegetable in lower regard where my purchasing choices are concerned:
DrMicozzi.com
I am going to close this post with three photos that were taken early into a trip my wife made a year ago to visit her sister who essentially lives in Italy.
It's possible that the photos were taken on June 6 (2018), but the digital camera that was being used had not had its date setting adjusted for the holiday.
It may not even have been adjusted for the time change that we underwent earlier that year here in the Pacific Time Zone when we adjusted our clocks ahead by an hour.
Anyway, my wife was apparently being treated to a visit to a restaurant or pub ─ this is her:
And this is her sister:
And why not take a photo of the waitress?
My wife has two sisters; the other one lives in Thailand with her devoted Thai husband.
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