The indoctrination of students with lies is worse, but I do think the school system has done students wrong by degrading blue collar jobs. As AI starts taking over jobs, it is likely going to be people in the skilled trades (plumber, electrician, carpenter, etc.) who have guaranteed well-paying jobs, while many (most?) of the people with college degrees end up on unemployment.

I'm all for the overthrow of the current evil Iran regime, but every time the US picks the leader, it goes badly. The Iranian people can pick their own leader. The older generation of Iran knows democracy. They had a democracy, but the US helped Britain overthrow the duly elected leader so Britain could In a fair election, it won't be a muslim leader.

Sorry I was slow responding to your post. I've been crazy busy lately, and I didn't want to just throw a response without thinking more carefully about how I wanted to respond.

I have read some portions of the Quran, but not all of it. I don't want to be offensive, but I do want to be honest with you. When I read from the Quran, it seemed inconsistent. Some parts seemed almost like a sect of the Jews, while other parts seemed to hate and despise both Jews and Christians. It almost felt like it was written by two or more minds that didn't agree.

When I read the Bible, it is one coherent whole. The whole of the Bible agrees. It is a coherent history and explanation of God that is consistent with itself and with reality. The Bible truly is the world of God.

If I am not mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong), Islam does consider the Bible to be from God, but consider the Quran to be above and beyond the Bible. The Bible says:

"I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel, which is not just another account; but there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, even now I say again: if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!" (Galatians 1:6-9)

The Bible tells us that we cannot listen to anyone who teaches a different path to God and heaven than what is written in the Bible. Even if an angel gives the new gospel, it is accursed. Muhammed was not taught by an angel from God. The angel that came to him taught a different gospel and the Bible says that anyone teaching a different gospel should be accursed.

You definitely shared some nice verses (not sure if the same term applies for the Quran), but I do not believe they came from God.

"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)

There is only one path to God,--through the Lord Jesus Christ.

May God call you to Himself and help you to see the true God and the true gospel, so we may meet in heaven some day. God bless you.

I had to like, just for fun.

I haven't used google for search in 5-10 years.

Sounds like the phone doesn't really disconnect from the network when you tell it to. You can't trust them. I keep location off on my phone. I've always wondered if it really turns off location or just makes it check location less frequently.

I sure miss the days when I could easily pull the battery out of my cell phone.

It broke my heart last night. We had 2 women come into our dealership to buy a side-by-side. They had a 4 year old child with them. They referred to the child as theirs, so we are assuming they were a lesbian couple. One time they referred to the child as she and one time as he. They seemed to mix up genders. The poor child is being used and abused and not taught reality. I wanted to cry.

It is a good thing they had already left when I heard the details. I would've been tempted to reprimand them for their mistreatment of the poor child.

As a general rule, I don't think we need to go to war with other nations and act as the world's policemen, but I do feel that after Trump said for the people to revolt and that America has their back, it is horrible to go back on his word. Tens of thousands died because they trusted that he had their back.

I've also heard a stat that >60% of Iranians want to be invaded by the US or Israel because they hate their Islamic rulers. Although the Iranian leaders claim 98% of the nation is muslim, less than a third even attend the mosques. The nation isn't as muslim as most people think.

I would've preferred the US stay out of it, but allow Israel to attack if they wished, but since Trump promised to support them, I lean towards rescuing the Iranian people from the tyrannical leaders. I do however wish Trump had not made a promise.

The drought is going to be a big problem this summer. Having lost my previous house to a wind fueled grass fire, I'm a little sensitive to such things.

I just read a thing today that said North Florida had gotten more snow than Salt Lake City, UT. The weather this winter is not normal.

Not normally, especially not when the temperature is 0 F, but we did last night. It only happens down by the river.