Automatons

 

#1566

June 17, 2013

Automatons

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)

            Millions of Americans have been jolted recently, learning that the IRS and other government agencies are checking everything about them. They thought they were living in a land of freedom (this writer has experienced police state brutality in such places as the Seychelle islands, Mauritius, China, where and when you were talking to someone they were constantly glancing around to see who was listening or watching). If citizens knew the peril they face in revealing their lives on Face book the government already know more about you, your bank account, your sins and silliness, than you do. Young people do not realize they are in a steady march to a Gulag. Even those who already live in government subsidized housing, even those totally dependant on welfare.

            Like the so called meteorologist on television, the news commentator, just READERS who have no comprehension of their subject matter just parroting something that a government worker has dictated. Much like Mr. Obama, clueless unless reading from a teleprompter.

            Americans have become Alta tones, just falling in line believing anything. They actually believe that chemotherapy and radiology will cure cancer, the very things that cause cancer, strange chemicals and radiation, both of which accumulate in the body. Cancer will not be cured because cancer is worth 1.2million dollars for every person with cancer. Many Americans actually believe that their children are being educated in a public school, when we rank 37th in the world in our knowledge of math and science. This is why home schooling grows seven times faster than public schooling. Parents want to get their loved children away from the decadence of public schooling... Some refuse to fall in line.

            This writer dropped his membership in AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), several years ago, because I found that today's scientist are much more interested in government and foundation grants than in research to improve the life of their fellow man. Like many pastors, much more interested in their pastoral packet (vacation, retirement, car allowance, etc) than the souls of people who just might come to hear them and the fact that UNSAVED people, still go to hell.

            A verse of scripture that changed my life many years ago,  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee (Psalm 84:5). The knowledge that my strength comes from God, has enabled me to live life as a 100% disabled veteran.

            In my lifetime, 82 years, the world has changed AND, it is truly remarkable how people and businesses become just automatons.

            How well I remember when any store, you receive personal service... A clerk taking care of you. How well I remember the first self service store I ever encountered... Pushing a shopping cart around, picking up things, checking out with a cashier. I thought, "anyone with baggy clothes can steal anything, and so it is". It really makes no difference anymore, because government welfare agencies are much more concerned about the shoppers than the seller... Furnishing a plastic card so the poorest do not have to worry about stealing AND, the twist beyond comprehension, sex and tabloid papers and magazines totally hiding the cash register so you cannot see what you are being charged. Business, from the banking house, to the court house, to the road house, has become a matter of greed. The hardworking, God fearing, tax paying citizen, attempting to live according to God's book, caught in the middle. The temptation of the automaton even as a child, "Everyone is doing it".

            In my youth, church house, and school house, we were taught not to gossip. As one man said to me long ago, "If you cannot prove what your saying to me about someone else, don't tell me". Starting with gossip "screenland" magazines, then moving to the radio with engaging personalities such as Hedda Hopper, late night TV talk shows, led by Johnny Carson, all media fell in line with gossip talk shows.

            The public, even responsible homes like automatons have fallen right in line with any sin or shameful activity coming around. Parents of young children even some who warm church house pews think it is fair to recognize same sex marriage, even the spending of $50 for the morning after pill by any young girl on a abortion activity... A pill to prevent inception -gestation. When will bible believing, real Christians, say enough is enough and throw the TV and other cesspools of satanic activity out of their house. It is not that we do not know better but Satan has his hold on us.

            Doctors -nursing -public health officials know better, yet they will walk on carpet in the corridors of hospitals. They know full well that every germ known to man is hiding in these carpets. Parents and grandparents, who love their children and grandchildren, will sit right there in a house wall to wall carpet , a precious child crawling around on that carpet, souls of shoes, bottoms of animals have brought every germ possible to that house now hiding in the carpet. Intelligent people will go to a doctors office, wanting to get well. Further exposing themselves to every germ known to man by licking their fingers, turning pages of old germ infested magazines, sitting on chairs where the skin of sick people have instilled germs. Most doctors, their staffs, are all too busy making money to clean their offices -hospitals, - clinics. The automaton theory of life, knowledge means little whether biological, political, or spiritual, just get in line and do what everyone else is doing.

 

Dr. T.R. Morris
Lt. Col USA Retired
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Automaton

An automaton is a self-operating machine. The word is sometimes used to describe a robot, more specifically an autonomous robot. The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of a duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739. The mechanical duck appeared to have the ability to eat kernels of grain, and to metabolize and defecate them. While the duck did not actually have the ability to do this - the food was collected in one inner container, and the feces being 'produced' from a second, so that no actual digestion took place - Vaucanson hoped that a truly digesting automaton could one day be designed. To date, no such robot has been invented. Voltaire wrote that "without [...] the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the glory of France."

Since we're talking about Voltaire, the object of affection and of many quotes from one of my French professors, more has been written about his religious beliefs than anything else in his biography. Perhaps it can all be summed up as follows, “Voltaire, though often mistaken for an atheist, did in fact take part in religious activities and even erected a chapel on his estate at Ferney. The chief source for the misconception is a line from one of his poems (called "Epistle to the author of the book, The Three Impostors") that translates to: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." The full body of the work, however, reveals his criticism was more focused towards the actions of organized religion, rather than on the concept of religion itself. “

God did not design us to be automatons. The greatest blessing of living is 'free will'. The cow has no feelings for the bull, the sow has no feelings for the boar, but the maternal instinct of any animal is very obvious. Only in genus homo do we find a female member of a species who will kill her child. Unlike the lower animals, man has the ability to think and reason, chosen of God, made in his image, with 'free will' for faith, hope and love.

The desire for knowledge is the beginning of knowledge. It is only in a police state, communist system of government, where you do not find church steeples, that man has been degraded, to acting and reacting like bridled lower animals. We find, and true blindness isn't necessary (as this writer is), that we can even walk and become servants of God by faith alone. (Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1) Paul wrote this letter to a group of Hebrews who were still trying to keep the law, though Christian, the 613 laws in the Old Testament were observed religiously, automatons, God's chosen race, seeking to please him now and for eternity. How they could skip over marvelous assurance in Proverbs is incomprehensible. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6) OR “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)

Thanks be to God, Christ came to deliver us and redeem us from law keeping. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” (Matthew 5:17) After 400 years of slavery in Egypt, 40 years of 'basic training' wandering around in a desert was necessary in order to prove to these rebellious people that God loved them. It is wonderful to know, in our present day rebellion, when it would be convenient to act as automatons that God loves us more than we love him.

I said to a great theologian one time, “I simply cannot understand all the killing in the Old Testament.” He said, “and every time God told them to kill, and they did not, they lived to regret it. Most people do not understand that most of the Bible, is a history of one people, Jews. From Abraham, the first Jew, called from his people in Ur, near present day Baghdad, to travel six hundred miles north to Canaan, land promised him by God. His father Terah, worshiper of idols, who died on the way just outside of Damascus, his nephew Lot, his wife Sarah, the long story of God giving the land to Abraham and his descendents, telling him that everywhere he walked was his. (Just imagine one man walking, saying “mine, mine, mine”) Abraham and his two sons Isaac and Ishmael, from then until now, racial forces determining the history of the world. And then there were the twin sons of Isaac, and of course, the twelve sons of Jacob (twelve tribes of Israel). A type of Christ, Joesph, the slavery in Egypt, the redemption, Moses, Jesse, David, right on to God giving the world, in a tent of flesh, His only Son, Jesus Christ, to live among us, show the example of Godly living, the atonement, death burial and resurrection of Jesus, His words, His sacrifice, then the apostle Paul and the church, the letter to the Hebrews by Paul showing the transition from Law to grace. I do not understand and have found few who do understand God's relationship with man before the flood, even after the flood to the cross. I do understand on this side of the cross, but the inhabitants of Canaan, before the children of Israel moved in, Balak-Balaam and others, gentiles and their relationship with God. Jesus, his disciples, the prophets, the early church, all Jews. Gentiles, the rest of us, enter the divine plan only in relationship to the Jews. The Old Testament, the Gospels all preliminary to the church, it is the greatest story every told (Fulton Oursler), we do not need anything else except God's Word as we seek his sovereignty, known the truth of sin's ruin and Christ's redemption. He gave us the plan, and even though complex at times, we do not need Mary Baker Eddy, Joesph Smith, or any other books of archeology, psychiatry, etc. to get us to our final destination