Alys brought 2 Peace Corps friends to the Sunday English worship service Sunday evening. I'm not sure how she met them, but . They are an older couple, a few years older than Mel and me, and they are working at one of the universities in town. I invited them to dinner tomorrow night, but that is not going to work out. So, Barb and I, and probably Mel, too, will go explore part of the city and have some late lunch together. I'm looking forward to getting to know her better. She and her husband are not Christians, although she was raised Catholic. Her husband is Jewish. So, we will see how the day unfolds. If you think about it, pray for us.
I've been reading the news on Japan and the reactors, reading a blogs by missionaries there, reading the volcano blog, the earthquake page and another page on a regular basis. This other page has been very interesting, but I realized a couple nights ago that I need, no I must not read everything that is on it. It is a news gathering site that posts dozens of articles from all over the world, placing short blubs and links to the full articles into specific categories on the page. Now the one where they put all the UFO stuff is interesting, as is the one where they have all the natural stuff (dead dolphines washing ashore, wildfires, earthquakes, etc). A couple of the categories are evil. It is the political and psychological pages that are evil. And I do mean evil. There is also at least one other section that is sometimes evil.
Evil. What do I mean by that?? I looked up the definition and there were none on the first page that had anything to do with anything spiritual at all. Wow. That is really not good. I had to look for "Bible definition of evil" to find what I was looking for: link "The word "Evil" has a distinct technical and categorical meaning in the Word of God. It is not simply a generic word referring to anything that is bad or sinful.
The word "Evil" refers specifically to the policy of Satan as the ruler of this world. Evil is the modus operandi of Satan from the time of his fall throughout the angelic revolution and down to the point when be became the ruler of the world.
Satan is directly opposed to anything involving the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan's is devoted to distorting or obscuring any truth related to Christ."
I realized very quickly that this site promotes some very evil things, although they are presented differently, nicely and very attractively (think 'angel of light' kind of attractive). I was somewhat amused, in a ironic/cynical kind of way, to see that they promote knowledge - of unknown things, of secret things (some things Satan uses just keep on working over the centuries with mankind).
One day I explored it further and discovered that the co-founder communes with demons. Now she would insist that that is not true, that she is in communication with other beings on some comet or in some other dimension or something. But there is no getting around it - she is definitely influenced, if not possessed, by demons. Some of this comes through in the comments or editorializing that is attached to some articles. These comments are easy to ignore because they are always highlighted in blue.
The site is also very anti-Jewish, anti-government (especially conservative government but at heart it is anarchist), anti-religion, and so forth. I quickly realized that there were some articles I was not going to read, including most of the comments included with some of the articles.
Why do I continue to read this site? Well, again, I skim the headlines and pick and chose, that's it. And I don't read the comments any more, either at the end of the blurb, or those written by other people.
I wish there was another place to find the interesting and "not dangerous" articles like these. I need to keep searching and see if I can find a place that does not have such an evil agenda.
Ok, Mel is home and it's time to get supper on the table. So, I'm off for now. Hopefully I'll have a bunch of photos tomorrow to post! :-)
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Do you want me to send you some yarn?
Thanks for the offer, Sue. What I need to do is go down to one of the little shops and see what is available here now. I'm only using acrylic at this point. They do sell it here (from Turkey last time I looked, but that's been a while). I also ordered some that I found on sale on the internet. Mom and Dad shipped it to me with some other stuff recently. Hopefully I'll have it in another 6 or 8 weeks. No blues, tho - how could I have not ordered blue? That's funny. My favorite color.
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