I have just been listening, on the radio in my car, to a remarkable interview with a lady in her 70s. She is to have her body frozen when she dies in the hope of being brought back to life some time in the future when technology has advanced.
I would really like to understand the thoughts of someone like this. I see a number of problems.
She assumes that some day it will be possible to make an old person young again, if they are able to thaw the body without damaging the cells that is.
However, I think they overlook one big thing. These people must believe that some day it will be possible to make the dead live again. I don’t just mean resuscitating someone gone for a moment, I mean giving life to the DEAD!
Once the spirit has left will it be possible to call it back again? I think not. The Bibles says, “It is given to a person once to die, and then the judgement.”
Once more we had a great time at Costa Coffee. It is a good place to be on a Sunday evening, with a group of friends, relaxing in a nice place.
Once a month our church does church in Costa and this time it was ‘Costa Del Soul’s Got Talent’ - an open mic night. The acts were surprisingly high quality.
The winner was Susie on her new guitar, singing ‘Use Somebody’. The prizes were a little bit better than usual. Suzie won a coffee grinder.
My friend Don is advanced in years and is getting great pleasure from his recent entrance into the world of Internet communication. He read of some research that claimed too much Internet use can make a person depressed. Jokingly he announced online that he must be depressed. Don underestimated the efficiency of Internet communication and he was soon getting sympathetic replied from his cyber friends on other countries.
Speaking into the mind of those in a vegetative state is not so easy but it now at least seems to be possible. Great conversations will now be possible with some of those locked into their still world.
What will we now hear from those yes and no converstations? Will we discover hope or dispair? If new levels of awareness are dicovered it will shed new light on conversations that have been carried on in thier presence such as family feuds or partners moving on to new lovers.
The think I wonder about more than anything else is whether a way will be discovered of calling those people our of their frozen state. What power! What a privilege to be the one to make that call. It reminds me of the account in the Gospel of John in the Bible1 where Jesus has the entrance stone removed from a dead man’s tomb. Jesus then calls, “Lazarus, come out!”
Are we on the verge of a new age when the modern equivalent of the call to Lazarus will become common? This is going to change so many lives.
I used Wordmobi sometimes on my E71. It is a mobile application for blogs running on Wordpress, like this one.
I have now installed it on my Nokia E72. Will it work? This is a test post to see if all is working.
The good thing about Wordmobi is that it handles image resizing and posting from the phone without having to have to go into the Wordpress dashboard to do it.
I have just heard that some footballer has been sacked because he committed adultery with the partner of his friend. Or at least that seems to be gist of it.
What I want to know is whether there will be an outcry at the injustice of it all. Will voices be raised to say it is unfair and discriminatory, that his sexual behaviour should have no bearing on his employment?
I wonder how different it would have been if it had been a church leader sacked for adultery. Had the Equalities Bill not been thrown out in the Lord’s last week a rogue church leader would have had more protection in law than that footballer. I think it was thought that the footballer was not a good role model. That was one of the arguments against the Equalities Bill by Christians.
Odd how people can think a footballer carries more responsibility for maintaining society’s moral standards than a church leader does.
I passed a Ladbrokes and wondered when it was that their shops were opened up to view. It used to be that the windows were screened so the inside could not be seen from the street.
I don’t use betting shops so the change could have happened years ago or months ago for all I would know.
I wonder why the change though? Did the betting industry think the sight would look so attractive it would recruit new gamblers? How could they not realise they look as joyful as a doctors waiting room?
I think they should go back to screening the windows again. I think the sad and lonely deserve their privacy.
The Bible says that hope disappointed makes the heart sick. That is what I think of when I look in there.
I have been wondering what the new Apple product would be like and I had guested it would be a giant iPhone. It seems I was pretty much right on after all.
Perhaps we should feel sorry for Microsoft. They have launched their tablet computers twice and both times nobody has taken any notice.
I had expected a better screen on the iPad though. I have been looking at a friend’s Kindle and am so impressed with it. The screen is so clear and easy on the eye, much better than a back-lit screen like a laptop or iPad for reading from for a long time.
I can not see the iPad killing the Kindle just yet then. The Kindle is good to read from, can be slipped into a jacket pocket without it seeming like a piece of luggage. The batteries last for 2 weeks if you are not using the wireless. Just the thing for travelling. I once went to Turkey backpacking and forgot to pack a book. After a few days of not being able to read I was willing to pay a ridiculous price for a week old English language newspaper. A compact, light Kindle would have been great.
My reservation about Kindle, and perhaps it will be the same for the iPad, are the restrictions on the books that people have bought. If I have bought a book, (a paper one that is) and I now own it, I can lend it to a friend or give it away. I can leave my whole library to someone when I pop my clogs. Not so with a Kindle or with other ebook formats. Only the buyer can own it. Though it is as though I never own it, they only lease it. In that case I think they should be VERY much cheaper than a real book.
