Showing posts with label Intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intelligence. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Don’t Get Confused

 

Kiiara - Don't Get Confused (Lyrics)

 

A sign is not the reality

Neither a symptom the problem

But it is at the back end

That we treat to both of them.

 

Jesus in Matthew 24

Spoke about many a sign

But the signs were not the end

As he did remind.

 

Matthew 24:6

 

And ye shall hear of wars

And rumours of wars:

See that ye be not troubled:

For all these things must come to pass,

But the end is not yet.

 

Myriad signs

But the end is not yet,

To confuse signs with the reality

Is to be out of step.

 

We yet look for signs,

I’m not too sure for what

Since the coming Jesus spoke of,

Those back there got.

 

Matthew 24:32-34 “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be  fulfilled.” -

 

That generation, he said,

Would not pass away

And they would see him come again

On a soon to come day.

 

And he gave many signs

That pointed to this reality,

And the Bible shows this clearly

In its fulfilled prophecy.

 

Take note of the signs

But don’t confuse the two,

A sign certainly is not the reality:

This is absolutely true.

 

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A symptom is not the problem

Yet we treat to symptoms,

Panadol and the like we often use

But still, we have the problem.

 

Not only in human illnesses

But in politics as well

And illnesses that beset countries

Is on which we now dwell.

 

The sign of gun prevalence

To us is starkly clear,

It has become a sinister problem

Which many countries fear.

 

More than thirty gun-deaths

In Barbados the past year

Plus, another almost 20 homicides

Driving us to despair.

 

Liezi Quote: “To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the  symptom.”

 

Dealing with the outcome

Is like treating to the symptom

But does proportionately very little

Re the cause of the problem.

 

The source of the guns:

Who are bringing them in?

Is there any possibility of discovering

The source of this spring?

 

And if in fact there is,

Why is there this reluctance

To tackle the source of this scourge

With intelligence?

 

Ghost guns drive rise in untraceable firearms confiscated in California –  Orange County Register

 

For every gun that kills

There is obviously a user

But pray tell, how did it get here

Without an importer?

 

The user is the symptom

The importer is the problem,

Are these problems so complex

That none can solve them?

 

A sign is not the reality

Neither a symptom the problem

But it is at the very source of each

That we ought to treat them.

 

Start arresting importers:

They are the source of the spring,

Regardless of status or affiliation

Let the police bring them in.

 

Stewart Russell © March 15, 2025

 

Monday, March 14, 2022

Can’t Stand Change

 

Change for the Sake of Change | Academic Briefing

 

Change, change, change!

Who wants to change?

You get accustomed to everything

And then it must be rearranged.

 

This is the familiar-

I am accustomed to this,

If I get rid of anything in my life

It would be a terrible miss.

 

Disrupt my routine?

You got to be kidding!

Change is far too demanding

I am not in the bidding.

 

“The measure of intelligence

Is the ability to change.”

So quoted Einstein

But he seemed a little strange.

 

If that is the demand

For me to be reckoned intelligent

Then such intelligence

I shall forever resent.

Change for the Sake of Change | Academic Briefing

 

Cause I can’t stand change-

It is too disruptive

Hence, any change coming way,

I will consider abusive.

 

I like my comfort zone

Plus, I am just getting the knack,

Any forced change on me now

And I am arching my back.

 

I intend to resist it

With every ounce of my strength,

To ensure that it does not work

I will go to any length.

 

What if the world goes ahead?

Well let it go ahead,

I will be happy in my little corner

Until the day I am dead.

 

I am not a world changer

And I do not need to change,

I am happy with the world as it is

To me that is not strange.

Change for the Sake of Change | Academic Briefing

Change, change, change!

Why would I want to change?

At present I am coping…

Of course, I am deranged!

 

Stewart Russell © April 7, 2021

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Scientific Proof of God’s Existence



Image result for images for DNA 

Many intellectuals are of the opinion
That there is no scholarship in creationism,
It is full of lies, myths and mystery
And ultimately lacks scientific integrity.

The Bible on which this premise is built
Has oft been ridiculed up to the hilt
Thereby rendering it unbelievable
To scientists, astronomers and other people.

During the nineteenth century and before
It was the belief of most scientists for sure
That the universe did not have a beginning
But after that scientific minds were set a spinning.


Given the advent of greater visibility,
The compliments of sophisticated technology,
Telescopic reach extended far into space
Revealing evidence that before was untraced.

For these scientists nothing could be worse
Than the evidence for an expanding universe,
There were galaxies beyond our own Milky Way,
So many galaxies that none of them could say.

Before they were numbered in the millions
But now they even surpassed the billions,
Clearly the universe had a beginning at a point in time
Today that is what all the scientists opine.

Someone greater than science started it all
And now many scientists are supporting this call,
The Bible points to the God of eternity
And posits that He created matter, space and energy.

Three amazing discoveries all point to God
Straight up and simple like three peas in a pod,
Marvel of marvels, they were there all the time
But scientists didn’t want to have God on their mind.

The universe had a beginning quite definitely
Unlike God it’s not from eternity to eternity,
Everything in the universe came out of nothing,
The evidence shows a divine will created everything.
  
God created the heavens and the earth
Outside of Him nothing has any value or worth,
The astronomical evidence points to the biblical view
And scientific advances are showing this to be true.

Scientists who scoffed at the Bible’s account
Are gradually descending from their lofty mount
In humble acknowledgement of a grand design
And that the designer is God, some are inclined.

A cosmic explosion could not have caused life
Anymore than love and peace could cause war and strife,
God is the Author of all that we see
He is the Super-intellect that caused it all to be.

A cosmic explosion would only cause strife
But the universe is finely tuned for life,
Scientists who believe in God may have expected this
But atheists and agnostics, God they have dissed.

The fine-tuning for them would be remarkable
But they would not see this as a miracle
Straight out of the mind of a Grand Designer
Whom we refer to as the Creator.

Some believe it could have happened by chance
And go to great limits their theories to advance,
But such is winning a mega-million lottery on a single ticket
And doing so over a thousand consecutive times as a habit.

Fine-tuning as it relates to life on this earth
Is necessary for all living cells and natural birth,
Hence DNA the language of life is next on the list
Of evidence for God that we should not resist.

As vast and numberless as the stars in space
So is the DNA molecule with its wonders laced,
Baffling the minds of the micro-biologists
And adding to the amazement of the world’s scientists.
 
Image result for images for DNA

DNA coding reveals such intelligence
That it staggers the imagination of those studying science,
It is a molecule that contains immense information
With an extremely complex software code for its operation.

There are religious implications but scientists shy away
Proffering unscientific explanations during their say,
Acknowledging there is a compelling case for a Creator
But unwilling to acknowledge God as the Supreme Designer.

One renowned astronomer with no Christian agenda
Posits “shock and despair” as some scientists’ dilemma
Who thought they had squeezed God out of their world
Only to find evidence that causes them to be more disturbed.

Image result for images for a mountain peak

For the scientist who has lived by the power of reason
The story ends like a very bad dream
For as he reaches up to conquer the highest peak
He is greeted by theologians who’ve been long at this scene.

So if there is a Creator what is he like?
Is he some cosmic force or a personal being like us?
There is compelling evidence for a personal God
And he walked this earth without the royal fuss.

Two thousand years ago he came to this earth
In the city of Bethlehem born of lowly birth,
His name was Jesus and he was the Christ
That came to this earth to pay sin’s price.

Compare to many his sojourn was a pause
But he displayed creative powers over nature’s laws,
He healed the blind, the deaf and the lame
And for the paralytic and demonic he did the same.

He stopped raging storms instantly
And turn water into wine at a wedding,
He created food for the hungry right on the spot
When his disciples had no way of getting.

He was wise, humble and full of compassion
And performed miracles of all kinds and fashion
Until that day of his brutal execution
By the means we now know as crucifixion.

But he rose from the dead as he said he would,
Death at its worst had not him withstood,
On the third day he did what no other could,
Acknowledge him now!  You really should.

He’s the One who flung the stars into space
Put DNA in a cell and created the human race,
To you he now extends his marvelous grace
So that you could be rid of sin without a trace.

He is the visible expression of the invisible God
And existed even before creation began,
He desires to have a relationship with you
Before the foundation of the world this was his plan.

It was necessary for us that Christ should die
And so he left his home far beyond the sky,
Coming to planet earth sin’s scourge to defy
And now on the resurrected Christ even scientists can rely.

I reserve this final verse to acknowledge my source
So that you can go there should that be your course,
“Science Has Found Proof of the Existence of God”,
My acknowledgements to this YouTube video, give it a nod.


Stewart Russell © June 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er9D00DXQQs

Thursday, May 05, 2016

Stewie's Proverbs Volume 5

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Adversity has few friends
After a storm comes a clean up
Salvation is eternal
East is west
Insurance is not assurance
A feast is more than enough
Every little is all there is
Several sides to a story one side to the truth
Fight fire with water
Finders villains losers victims
First impressions come easy
Fools have no fear of folly
That the obvious is not obvious to a fool is obvious
A fool will no doubt fool himself but he need not fool the whole world too
Intelligence is folly to the unlearned
 
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Foundation is established not constructed
God helps the able unable and disable
God helps the stable and unstable
It took one person to make a world
Nothing is better than best
No one knows the unknown
No news is no news
Was once a thief is not a thief
Once bitten get rid of the dog
  
It’s impossible to live with a perfect human being
If you can’t beat them you’ve lost already
Failure is an ended effort
Salvation is impossible without conversion
Prayer doesn’t do a thing God does
Two opposing views cannot both be right at the same time
There is a vast difference between doing and being
Just as I am without one plea was not meant for the rest of my life to be
When tomorrow comes it’s today
Your first gift today was today

 
Stewart Russell © 2012…