Canadian Commentary

Just a few more thoughts from Matthew. Hope you are keeping well these days. God bless you always!🙂🥰

Hope you are keeping well these days.🙂🥰🙏

Time to write some thoughts on the concept of being born again in the spirit realm. That should keep me busy for the next little while.

Hello my friend, thank you for watching my video. I wish you happiness and blessings, today and every day!🙂🥰❤🙏

Pierre Poilievre dropped the ball by ignoring Canadians during the recent protests by parents against the perverted indoctrination programs being made mandatory in the Canadian public school system.

Comments on the recent Conservative Party Convention and policies being implmented under Pierre Poilievre.

Happy Sunday! By the time we reach our senior years, most of us will have experienced wounds and scars from various types of trauma. Losing a loved one, broken relationships, abuse from others, business failures, the list goes on. In spite of past pain, we can focus on being productive in the here and now. Allow the good news of God's love, forgiveness and acceptance - to strengthen our hearts, to be a blessing to others. If we will commit to being a channel for love, our later years can be, indeed will be, our most productive of all.❤

Maxime Bernier recently responded to suggestions that he should join forces with Pierre Poilievre. Instead of listening to these comments, he has dug in his heels and declared that HIS plans are more important than the hopes of his conservative followers. It is his way or the highway. He is so stubborn that he would rather see the Canadian landscape crash and burn than to ever consider joining forces with the Conservative Party under Poilievre. This shows that his egotistical quest for power at all costs comes before what is best for Canadians in general. He chose bad strategy while running in Portage-Lisgar, and he is choosing bad strategy once more. He not only alienated himself from the voters in Manitoba, he is now alienating himself from members of his own party.

A review of: The Genius Within - Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

A review of A Guide for the Perplexed - by E.F. Schumacher Part 3 of 3

A review of A Guide for the Perplexed - by E.F. Schumacher Part 2 Thank you for support! Puppy joins me at the end of this video! Schumacher describes four fields of knowledge: 1 - What do I feel like? 2 - What do you feel like? 3 - What do I like like? 4 - What do you look like? "Without self-awareness, i.e. without a consciousness that is conscious of itself, man merely imagines that he is in control of himself, that he has free will and is able to carry out his intentions. In fact, as Ouspensky would put it, he has no more freedom to form intentions and act in accordance with them than has a machine. Only in occassional moments of self-awareness has he such freedom, and his most important task is by one means or another to make self-awareness continuous and controllable."

Would you like to join me for my prayer time at the park? I wish I could spend more time praying but life seems to crowd my mind with so many distractions. I hope you are able to find a great prayer spot that is peaceful. God bless you always.🙂🥰🙏

A review of A Guide for the Perplexed - by E.F. Schumacher

A review of Rational Recovery - The New Cure for Substance Addiction by Jack Trimpey - The Revolutionary Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous 1 - Author describes the ‘allure’ & ‘benefits’ of drinking in too much detail. (Needs to read ‘Blink’ by Malcolm Gladwell.) 2 – Author is too combative and essentially malicious towards AA – and he spends too much time bashing them - unproductive. (Those who are not against us are for us.) (Pg 72) But there is no Treatment for addiction any more than there would be a treatment for dancing. (Pg 75) What is to stop anyone from quitting the use of a substance? Whatever appears as the answer to this question is the sound of the Addictive Voice. (Pg 76) If you let your eyes follow the bouncing dollar, you may notice that addiction treatment benefits those who treat far more than those who are treated. (Pg 125) “It is hard to control a lion on a leash. That’s why we keep them in cages.” Referring to moderation as trying to hold a lion on a leash and abstinence as putting alcohol consumption away – in a cage so to speak. You have met the enemy, and it is within you. (Was similar to a famous quote by Nietzsche) (You are your own best friend.) (pg.149) Language center of the brain, The inner voice that must be recognized = focused self-awareness. (Pg. 150) The reasons listed for drinking (Pg 151) should be presented in the negative; for example Number 1 should read: Drinking is not good for me. It is not good for the heart,,etc. As written, the author is unintentionally reinforcing the reasons people use to drink! Although it may be useful to recognize this “Addiction Diction.” (Pg 152) the author should read ‘Blink’ by Malcolm Gladwell and incorporate a better, (and safer) delivery of these reasons people use for drinking. e.g. Don’t write detailed descriptions about how delicious food is, if you are writing a diet book! (Page 190) In traditional programs, one is said to be at high risk of drinking alcohol if any of the “HALT conditions” exist. HALT is the acronym for “hungry, angry, lonely, or tired.” (Pg 238) Now, you know what it was (the inner 'Beast') that got the better of you—a part of you that is part of being human but not the essence of being human. Not a human being. (Pg 244) Addiction is a state of chemically enhanced stupidity that can be overcome by abstinence. (Pg 245) Remember that quitting addictions does not make people into ideal personalities. (Pg 254) reasonable, logical efforts that usually involve promises to themselves and others to drink less, or to drink less frequently, only at certain times, or to quit for a period of time and then drink only moderately. There is nothing wrong with this, and some people, however few, succeed in achieving the goal of moderate drinking. This simple approach to addiction or substance abuse often produces results and costs nothing. (Pg 295) The quest for status—and funding—has led to progressive medicalization of human services in America and has spawned practices that offend common sense, produce little, and very often create new problems worse than the original.

Freeman Dyson and Richard Feynman both believed that electrons can zigzag forwards and backwards through time. Are we able to receive snippets of information from the future when the 'signal' is strong enough? What are the implications (and possible applications) for adherents of the Law of Attraction?🤔 Maybe I should be updating my vision board more often; or better yet - maybe I should listen more closely to what I should be putting on the vision board in the first place!

The eighth promise for those that overcome from the last chapters of Revelation.

Revelation Chapters 2 & 3

Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Law - This book is a collection of his lectures. The material is excessively verbose and directed at an elementary level audience. Tedious and painful to read, unfortunately this book is void of any inspiring elements worth mentioning. A great book on overcoming addiction is Rational Recovery by Jack Trimpey. Here is a link to a free download: https://archive.org/details/rationalrecovery00trim

Richard Feynman, "the greatest physicist of the twentieth century" admits that scientists have no clue where stars come from or how they are made. Apart from guessing that gas gets compressed by gravity and then magically turns into stars. That, or, stars explode and then make more stars. That's the best two theories they could come up with! They also do not know why gravity works much differently at very small scales then it does at very large scales.

Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson - Part 10 Chapter 24 Dreams of Earth and Sky Freemon Dyson shapes the dream that answers all his questions. Pagge 258: A dream shows us hidden connections between things that our waking minds keep in separate compartments. We are not merely spectators; we are actors in the drama of the universe.

Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson - Part 9 Chapters 22 & 23 Chapter 22 Back to Earth. Freeman Dyson tells of his experience off the coast of British Columbia, Canada on an island north of Vancouver. Thoreau said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, yet desperataion implies effort. Many have already given up. So it may be more accurate to say - most men lead lives of quiet misery. Page 242 "Tragedy is no stranger to these islands." Chapter 23 The Argument from Design. Page 249: The laws (of physics) leave a place for mind in the description of every molecule. It is clear that that Freeman Dyson reached the conclusion that the architecture of the universe is consistent with the hypothesis that God plays an essential role in its functioning.

Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson - Part 8 Chapters 18,19,20, & 21 Page 201: If the generation time is twenty years, comparable with a human generation, then the automata do not change dramatically the conditions of human society. In this case they can multiply and produce new wealth only at about the same rate to which we are accustomed in our normal industrial growth. If the generation time is one year, the situation is different. A single machine then produces a progeny of a million in twenty years, a billion in thirty years, and the economic basis of society can be changed in one human generation. ....bacteria and protozoa, the simplest truly self-reproducing organisms, have generation times of a few hours or days. Page 207 "Founders of religions are not to be held responsible for the dogmas which their followers build upon their words. Page 216: Many biologists and chemists have concluded from inadequate evidence that the development of intelligent life should be a frequent occurence in our galaxy. Having examined their evidence and heard their arguments, I consider it just as likely that no intelligent species other than our own has ever existed. The question can only be answered by observation. Page 217: A reasonable long-range program of searching for evidence of intelligence in the universe is indistinguishable from a reasonable long-range program of general astronomical exploration. Page 220: "...one would expect, when an intelligent species evolves the use of language , that there would be only one language. one would expect that the first speaking animals would evolve a fixed structure of words and meanings, as immutable as the genetic code that evolved the billion years earlier. This is NOT a naive expectation. A convoluted Darwinian explanation does nothing to change the fact that diversity of language has slowed human co-existence and progress, and just as certainly and obviously has done nothing to speed up global co-operation. The divine explanation given in Genesis, as an indirect means to slow the perfidity of humans, is just as reasonable, if not more so, than one based on natural selection or any other fanciful Darwinian-based explanation. Page 221: All three fundamental 'inventions' mention by Freeman Dyson on page 221 death, sex, and speciation require a supreme, exongenous intelligence. The anthropomorphical description used by Dyson, itself, points to the need of an 'inventor'. Page 229: Long ago God invented the tree, a device for converting air, water and sunlight into fuel and other useful chemicals. A tree is more versatile and more economical than any device our gray technology has imagined. Page 233: So long as mankind remains confined to this planet, the ethic of human brotherhood must prevail over our desire for diversity. Page 237: "...in the long run, the sane will adapt and survive better than the insane....Sanity is, in its essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.

Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson - Part 7 Chapters 15, 16, & 17 Page 172 in reference to research in recombinanat DNA and genetic engineering: Two things we have learned from Wells and Haldane. Man cannot play God and still stay sane. And the progress of biology is inescapably placing in man's hands the power to play God. But from these two facts it does not follow that there is no hope for us. We still can choose to be masters of our fate. To deny to any man the power to play God, it is not necessary to forbid him to experiment and explore. It is necessary only to make strict laws placing the application of his knowledge under public control. Page 173: The man who did more than any other single person to rid the world of biological weapons is Matthew Meselson, professor of biology at Harvard. He came as I did to the ACDA (Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for the summer of 1963... Page 185: "Do I dare disturb the universe?" a quote from T.S. Eliot 1917 Page 193: "The past and the future are not remote from us. The people six hundred years back and of six hundred years ahead are people like ourselves. They are our neighbors in this universe. Technology has caused, and will cause, profound changes in style of life and thought, seperating us from our neighbors. All the more precious, then, are the bonds of kinship that tie us all together." ~ Freeman Dyson

Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson - Part 6 Chapters 12, 13, & 14 Page 151: Either we establish some kind of world government with a monopoly of military power. Or we achieve a stable division of the world into independent sovereign states, with the armed force of each state strictly confined to the mission of defending its own teritory. On humanistic and cultural as well as political grounds, I vastly prefer the second alternative. Fortunately, the majority of people seem to share my preference. From the beginnings of human history until today, great empires have tended to disintegrate and world-government movements have failed to attract wide public. If we consider world government either undesirable or unattainable, then the aim of our military and diplomatic efforts should be, not to abolish nationalism, but to guide the forces of nationalism into truly defensive channels. We should strive to build a peaceful and harmonious society of independent nations, in which each country maintains a citizen army as Switzerland does now, posing no threat to its neighbors but ready to fight like hell against anybody who comes with dreams of conquest.

Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson - Part 5 Chapters 8,9.10 & 11 Page 88: He (Edward Teller) revealed himself as an ardent supporter of the World Government movement, an organization which in those days promised salvation by means of a world government to set up in the near future with or without the cooperation of the Soviet Union. Teller preached the gospel of world government with great charm and intelligence. I concluded my weekly report to my family with the words: "He is a good example of the saying that no man is so dangerous as an idealist." Page 91: Dyson quotes from 'The Ascent of F6' by W.H. Auden & Christopher Isherwood: "As long as the world endures, there ust be order, there must be government: but woe to the governors, for by the very operation of their duty, however excellent, they themselves are destroyed. For you can only rule men by appealing to their fear and their lust; government requires the exercise of the human will: and the human will is from the Demon." Page 91: Nuclear explosives have a glitter more seductive than gold to those who play with them.