I Know Where You Have Been

Smart phones are very helpful little devices, but they also can remember many things like where you have been. I would like to show you how you can see this information on your smart phone if you have one. It is kinda cool to see this location information, but since others can also see it the day may come when it might be used against you. Look at the following pictures and see what you think.

The following apply to the iPhone. I don't have the screens for other smart phones.

Go to settings and scan down to select Privacy.

At the top of the Privacy screen select Location Services.

At the bottom of the Location Services screen select System Services.

On the System Services screen scan down and select Frequent Locations.

On the Frequent Locations screen you will find a list of where you have been. There are other screens you can go to and get actual times when you were at the different locations. If you don't like your smart phone collecting this information then select Clear History and turn off the Frequent Locations switch. 

Are You Ready To Be Micro-chipped?

A headline reads:

NBC Warns: All Americans Will Be Microchipped In Less Than 3 Years

Are you ready to allow the implant of the chip shown in the picture or one similar to it?

Link to Article

I thought I would share some thoughts on this. Is the microchip itself evil? Is it wrong to put one in your body? Does it require you to deny your faith in Jesus Christ?

Is the pacemaker itself evil? Is it wrong to put one in your body and have a doctor access it through your smartphone or some other device?

During the Bible time of Paul was the meat offered to idols contaminated? Was it wrong to eat it? That depends upon the conscience of the person eating it. For the stronger in faith it wasn't, but if the weaker in faith ate under pressure of the stronger against his own conscience then it was wrong and a sin. Based upon a level of understanding two people can have different views on something and establish a level of conscience concerning it. Either one who violates their conscience sins even though the thing was done in two different ways.

I have come to understand that through love I am to respect the conscience of the weaker and not cause that one to sin. God in time may bring the two of us onto the same page, but until that happens love implies we show tolerance

Back to the microchip. For me it is not a problem. All that information is on my smart phone in my back pocket. One day I may have it on my wrist. What is so sacred about which side of the skin the information is on? I carry a lot of important health information on my smart phone that I would much rather have on a chip under my skin. But I think we are back to a matter on conscience. For me it is ok because it has not affected my relation with the Lord as is the case in Revelation. But for some it is believed to be wrong. Out of love and respect I have to allow them their position. Likewise they must allow me my position. When the day comes that I would have to deny my Lord in order for the chip to work, then that is the day that I would have to stop using it and be marked as an enemy to be destroyed. To discontinue its use to track me at that time I could use a sharp knife and remove it.

Just some thoughts.

One Awesome Road Trip

The students I have been giving driving lessons to the past three years have covered many miles with me, both in driver training and driving me from Texas to New York summers. Three of them have posted on Facebook all the states they been in. I ran across this article showing how you can cover all 48 states and visit an important site in each. It is a trip of 13,699 miles and can be done in 224 hours if there is no traffic problems. Below is a map and also a link to the article I found.

Article

Chinese Fire Works

Sometimes things are done on a grand scale. These fireworks are on a grand scale. Take a look and see what you think.

Fireworks

Here Comes the Microchip Implant

With the use of smart bracelets and the coming iWatch on our wrists it appears we might be very close to accepting the implant. Here is a link to a video of a company using the implant as an employee ID. Are you ready for this?

Link to Video

Northern Lights

There are times when solar storms occur on the surface of the sun producing magnetic plasma radiation which travels to earth creating a beautiful display of light called the "Northern Lights." A severe solar storm occurred on the sun on Sunday, March 15, reaching the earth on Tuesday producing a spectacular show for those who saw it. I saw some amazing pictures that were presented in a news article. I have provided a link to that article for you to enjoy. A sample picture is shown below.

Link to Article

Speed of Passing Years

For a very long time I have heard people say as they got older the years seem to pass by faster. As I thought about that I realized there was a simple answer and began to share it when opportunity presented itself. I would generally explain using two examples. The first example is straight forward. Each older year you live is always measured against a longer life lived and thus seems shorter. The second example I give always gets their attention because I compare life lived against a roll of toilet paper being used. As you use paper (each year lived) the roll spins faster because the paper used unwraps from around the core farther. The faster spin with use compares to faster years as you age. I decided to do the mathematics for each example and graph the results and see how my idea compares. The results are shown below.

Year Lived Compared to Life Lived

Year Lived Compared to Cylinder Rotation Speed

I am one of those people with a visual mind and have to draw pictures of my thoughts. I think it is kinda fun. The application is, "Brace yourself because life is going to accelerate you right into eternity." The big question is, "Which path are you on?"