Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The REAL POWER OF COLLEGE IS THE ABILITY TO FORMULATE AND ASK REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS

RELIGIONS ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON.

THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS THEY SIMPLY DO NOT WANT YOU TO ASK. WHY IS THIS?

It is my personal opionion that All religions are designed around telling fairy tales to people (THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRUE) for the purpose of reassuring people (especially younger people) to not just running screaming off a cliff and ending it.

I think religions have always been like this.

So, the main statement all religions make to me is:

DON'T BE ASKING TOO MANY QUESTIONS OR YOU ARE GOING TO SCARE THE CHILDREN INTO RUNNING OFF A CLIFF AND KILLING THEMSELVES THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE THEY LOVE DIES.

So, this is what I think of religions: They are basically fairy tales to keep the young alive until they get old enough to see what the world is actually like for themselves.

(IF THEY EVER DO).

I suppose this is cynical but I have always found looking at things directly like this quite helpful in long term survival of myself and my family here on earth.

However, this doesn't mean I don't experience God and Angels all the time 24 hours a day!

However, what it does mean to me is that religions are mostly about making money to support the priests and ministers around the world by telling fairy tales to children so they make more children.

This appears to be the dynamic regarding all successful religions.

If you don't have your people make more children in every generation then that church is going to die.

Everyone has to find their own way.

Everyone has to find God and meaning in life their own way.

And not everyone is even going to believe in God and you have to allow them to think this way too.

What is important is Kindness towards yourself and all beings on earth.

Kindness is the hallmark of all successful civilizations no matter what secular religion or religions helped build that culture.

By God's Grace

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology:

Examines human cultures, societies, and social structures, often through ethnographic fieldwork

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For Me, Philosophy led to psychology which led to Cultural anthropology which made me interested in staying alive longer here on earth.

Also, a friend of mine was a student at UCLA studying History of Religion so this comparative religion that he often talked about comparing all religions on earth helped me a lot.

Then I began asking questions like: "What was religion like before Christianity and Judaism and even Buddhism.

This took me to Shamanism worldwide in all the tribes before they starting growing food for themselves. They were hunter Gatherers always moving around because they couldn't survive otherwise.

So, this led to questions like: "What was life like before Buddhism Christianity and Brahmanism and other more organized religions that began after people started growing food?

These questions really stimulated me in becoming more interested in staying alive as a young man here on earth.

I began to see how universal suffering is for people at least up to age 30 or so. and even now here in the U.S. they say "You can expect to live to 90 if you first survive to 30".

I began to think about why this was always true?

All these questions began to have answers which allowed me to create a way forward in my life and not self destruct like so many people did in the 1960s and 1970s whether that was through the Viet Nam War by volunteering or getting drafted or fast cars or fast women or drugs or whatever risky thing that they were doing at the time.

I also had this terminal macho gene myself just like my father and grandfather and uncles. So, I wanted to know what to do with all this intelligence and intensity that I was raised with in a mostly Swiss Family.

Then my mother's parents were pure Scottish (all their parents were Scottish from Scotland. So, this more Celtic Way of thinking and being that reminded me more of Merlin the Magician and the knights of the Round Table and King Arthur and Guinevere was there too in my life.

So, making sense of all of this was my path to deciding to stay alive here on earth and to create a life I could stand to live just like everyone who actually survived the last 25,000 years here on earth.

The point is: 'Don't be a victim of others if you can help it!

Be the Captain of your own Ship and the Creator of your own destiny.

Don't be a victim or you are just another one of the living dead we see all over the world who have no hope and walk on sort of like Zombies.

Don't be a Victim!

Create the world you want to live in.

You might not be able to save anyone else but yourself and your family.

But, NEVER BE A VICTIM!

By God's Grace

Kangaroo causes collision, stops traffic on Alabama highway

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Kangaroo causes collision, stops traffic on Alabama highway

The animal was tranquilized twice before its caretaker carried it to an awaiting SUV amid a traffic backup in Macon County, video from the sheriff showed.

Kangaroo hopping along Alabama highway causes crash, roadway closure

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April 29, 2025, 4:05 PM PDT

By Dennis Romero

A kangaroo hopping along an Alabama highway Tuesday caused a two-vehicle crash and a roadway closure as authorities helped capture it, they said.

The collision on Interstate 85 in Macon County, between Tuskegee and Auburn, was reported just before noon, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a statement.

No injuries were reported.

kangaroo wild animal — A kangaroo is captured in Alabama on Tuesday.Macon County Sheriff André Brunson via Facebook

Macon County Sheriff André Brunson livestreamed the response, during which he said the kangaroo's caretaker had tranquilized it and was moving in for a second shot.

"I didn't believe it," he said during the livestream. "Nobody believed it. But I'm looking at him. ... A kangaroo, fellas, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Macon County. We see a little bit of everything here."

The kangaroo was captured and carried to a SUV, Brunson's video showed. News organization al.com, citing Brunson, reported the kangaroo belongs to a petting zoo in adjacent Lee County.

"Y'all did a great job," Brunson said in the video, praising dispatchers for coordinating the effort and tracking down the kangaroo's owner.

Social media video before the capture showed the kangaroo hopping on the highway at a rapid pace.

Alabama Highway Patrol Division troopers, Macon County sheriff's deputies and a conservation enforcement officer were credited with helping nab the marsupial, according to ALEA and Brunson.

"The animal has now been recovered, and the roadway is back open," ALEA said. "The kangaroo was not injured in the crash."

Brunson and a petting zoo in Lee County did not immediately respond to requests for more information.

Dennis Romero

Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.

Bryan Gallion and John Filippelli contributed.

Police doubt crash that killed 4 girls at Illinois after-school camp was a 'targeted attack'

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Police doubt crash that killed 4 girls at Illinois after-school camp was a 'targeted attack'

North Korea’s Kim watches missile test-firings from country’s first destroyer

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North Korea’s Kim watches missile test-firings from country’s first destroyer

Walt Disney's Disneyland: Season 1 (1954-1955) First Disney TV Series Videos

The first episode was about 10 months before Disneyland in Anaheim Opened near Los Angeles. My mother took me to Disneyland in 1955 because I loved to watch the Disney shows more than anything else on TV. Also, we bought our first 17 inch black and white TV this year. But, usually I went to watch this on a bigger TV in Glendale with my Aunt and 5 years older Cousin so we all would watch this together I think either every Tuesday or Wednesday night (likely Wednesday night then). In 1954 I was 6 years old.

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