B a d l y M i s s i n g R e f l e c t i o n s
Update, 2nd week of May 2024:  Yucky bummer, 2-1/2 months since I last wrote something...yet my oh my, how very active that life can be with time being taken up by necessary things of life where time that is hoped for to work on special meaningful things but rarely happens, keeps flowing from day to day to day like an uninterrupted annoyance under your skin and gnawing at your mind that keeps you thinking well gee, hey I sure wish the time for working on these special and meaningful things that have importance, would flow as uninterrupted as all these circumstances of life that keep preventing these special meaningful things from being worked on.
Update May 2024, Paragraph 2.  I mean, hey come on, there are political events and judicial/legal events that keep leaving their continued trail over time of very bad results for society overall because they are so psychologically lazy and shallow with impatience that doesn't think things through with reflective thought.  And the people enacting these events very definitely make it ridiculously asininely obvious that they blatantly spit in the face of the importance of remembering the past because the present is becoming more and more worse with the outlook for the future being made even more grim.  They sure aren't stopping or at least pausing.  And the shallow mentally lazy news organizations that keep their mentality going of mental shallowness and laziness in what they say to the public, they sure aren't stopping or even pausing for a week or even a day.
Update May 2024, Paragraph 3.  And to top off all of that ridiculously asinine emotional irresponsibility that is as repugnant as it is childish, are so many Charismatic and Pentecostal churches and ministry organizations on CBN and TBN (and I think another network called BOT Radio if I remember right), that are blindedly limited and shallow in what they look at and believe is important to preach about, so it would then seem that what actually is the very important relevance of God's spirituality of life to these tragic shortcomings throughout society, is instead absent from the reasoning and considerations of these ministry organizations for what of God and society is talked about and how it is talked about.  What is so painfully repeated like a lifeless and stagnant mantra, is focusing way too much on the same types of physical manifestations of God's life-giving supernatural ability as what are told about in the Bible.  This is so blatantly shallow and psychologically lazy and spiritually complacent, that it defies reasonable logic in comparison with the vastness of what the mind and human spirit are capable of understanding and achieving for the regular goings on of this earthly day-to-day life which we are blessed with but one of, when energized by and led by God's spirituality of life.  Being energized by and led by God's spirituality of life also means, implies, that the reasonings in the mind and spirit are to be not constricted within the shallow lazy detrimental and belittling pre-conceived boundaries that have been so common and popular for far far too long that are created by the world of organized formalized religion and which most certainly includes the formalizations in the world of Charismatic and Pentecostal churches.
Update May 2024, Paragraph 4.  The life-diminishing constrictions within the world that is shallow and is also too often backwards, of the formalizations of organized religion, have their beginnings and foundation in the 2nd half of the 1st century and continuing to the 1st half of the 2nd century.  Even that soon after Jesus ascended into Heaven and during the time when the original apostles began building and spreading the Christian church, was the beginning of neglecting the importance of remembering the past.  More and more complacent reasonings continued to be born with each passing decade and were believed in as "so-called actual real truth" that was supposedly adequate only because of how similar those reasonings were to the actual real truth that was in the very recent past at the time.  And this justification of "similarity to the recent past" kept continuing over time so that the ACTUAL real truth from the ACTUAL time in the past when it began, kept being more and more forgotten as that ACTUAL time in the past kept getting farther away in time with each generation of what things were talked about and how they were talked about.  The patience of reflective thought that studies life, kept on being neglected in the mind and spirit as the decades continued on.  This beginning period of neglecting the importance of remembering the past with patient reflective thought in the mind and spirit, culminated with the gatherings of the very many men who were in the positions of authoritative control and in charge of religious and church matters.  These gatherings were large-scale meetings that were called "Councils", two of them being The Council Of Carthage and The Council Of Nicaea.  Each of these Councils were actually comprised of several meetings over several days because of how long it took these people to actually accomplish what their goals were but which were still shortcomings compared with the fullness of what they should have and could have accomplished.  The complicated lengthiness is what actually should have been their first clues to step back and look at their mentality and approach, as to how much of the past was being forgotten and how they were neglecting the importance of patient reflective thought in their minds and spirits, because then there'd have been much more accomplished and with better results in a much shorter length of time.  It really is a fascinating thing to study the high value of patient reflective thought and to realize how much more can be accomplished and how much better it can be accomplished, in a shorter time.  But no, even now still in the 21st century, this importance is neglected and not even looked at, to the progressively digressive point that there is essentially no awareness of this importance and no awareness of what can be accomplished, be it in the political world for how to lead society and in the world of certain news organizations for how to influence society, as well as still to too high a degree in the world of organized formalized religion.
Update May 2024, Paragraph 5.  I've decided I need to stop being so concerned about the development of this website overall, with all the content and writings that I wanted to have finished before I would believe it ready to become public.  I've been approaching it this way because I've believed it necessary to have enough content that covers a broad enough group of subjects so as to convey the importance from many perspectives of regular day-to-day life as well as the corporate business world and also the political world, of remembering the past and studying it.  This importance is especially true from the perspectives of religious and spiritual matters.  So because of this now changed approach to my website, I'm going to do one writing about a subject in the Bible that is also very widespread throughout society. It is all over society because it is one of the most fundamental aspects of being alive and even just being a person.  Also, in various ways, this fundamental aspect of being a person has effects in the business corporate world and also the political world.
Update May 2024, Paragraph 6.  It is the subject of marriage, divorce, and remarriage. This subject has been treated with such disdainful disrespect and psychological shallowness and spiritual complacency in the world of organized formalized religion, that the proof of neglecting the importance of remembering the past is not possible to be more clear and more obvious.  But the interest and motivation of caring about actual real truth must be alive in the mind and spirit in order for the eyes of understanding to see it.  However, the main foundation of the problem is that the religious/Bible teachings about this subject that have been common and popular for so many decades and centuries, come from formalized institutions of Bible Colleges and Seminaries where students have to do well in classes and excel on tests and final exams in order to graduate and then become the pastors and ministry organization leaders that we hear and see in churches and broadcasts on radio programs and TV programs and ministry organization magazines and published articles.  There has been a false substitute of shallow contentment and satisfaction in the minds and spirits of those well-meaning well-intended people who are involved with the continuing propogation of the common popular teachings about this subject (i.e., the people in charge of curriculums at Bible Colleges and Seminaries, and the people at ministry organizations who are in charge of deciding on the people to accept of those who apply to work there and be a part of the organization). It is a false substitute that is shallow because of what has been focused on for determining whether or not the truth is being believed and taught, and what has been focused on for far farrrrr too longgggggg, is based in the flesh of what is seen and read with the physical eyes and heard with the physical ears, rather than looking to God's spirituality of life inside one's mind and spirit and inside the minds and spirits of fellow human beings.
Update May 2024, Paragraph 7.  It is not possible for things to improve and get better while the same ways of reasoning and same common teachings keep on being insisted upon as what the truth is of God and of the Bible and of the very special meaningfulness that this subject has for day-to-day earthly life that we have but one of.  It is one of the definitions of insanity to believe things will actually improve while not letting the reasoning processes to deepen and widen in the mind and spirit by God's spirituality of life, instead of them staying stagnant and always the same.  New ideas are only new if the underlying reasoning processes are actually new with more depth and breadth so as to have more substance.  New ideas that come from the same reasoning processes as before, are not actually new because only the outward methods or actions of these "so-called new ideas" are different.  It is the underlying reasoning processes which matter for whether there is fresh newness or not.  Take a look around society and judge for yourself what you actually honestly believe the truth is about either the improvement or the worsening of:
- Inter-personal close friendships and relationships with trustworthiness.
- Strength and self-confidence for the personal deeper-down openness that is required in order for emotional and mental intimacy to thrive (nevermind physical/sexual intimacy for now, that's a different subject that's essentially meaningless without emotional and mental intimacy).
- Falling in love and happiness thriving between both people of a couple, while at the same time there being gladness and supportiveness for the couple by each's friends and family.
- ....the vital importance of personal inner security so as to even have the strength and self-confidence to be......intimately open emotionally and mentally so as to let in someone else...
- ....togetherness rate as opposed to the divorce rate....
- ....and all of this, plus lots lots more, for the grand wonderful purpose of having a happy satisfying future in one's elderly years by the memories there are to look back upon being fulfilling by causing true happiness and appreciation of life that swells up inside deep down, the kind that gives you tears when you look back on special moments with a smile that won't quit.
Update, 3rd week of Feb 2024:  FINALLY the snags really are done & finished & outta' here.  Now I'm completely working on the format and layout for the various screen sizes of phones and tablets and regular computer monitors.  With phones and tablets, there is the added detail of portrait orientation and landscape, where portrait is when your phone or tablet is held up-and-down and landscape is when it's held sideways.  If you're interested in seeing this detail yourself, go to the webpage of What Is My Viewport, and hold your phone or tablet both ways to see the difference in display area.  It also shows the actual screen size, but for webpage display area, what matters is what's called the viewport size or dimensions.  When all these format-and-layout details are taken care of, then finally I'll be able to focus on the goldmine of the content.
Update, 2nd week of Feb 2024:  A few more snags came up even after the 4th week of January which I wrote about in the last paragraph shortly below, but at least most of these have pertained to fine-tuning various details that I'd finally figured out to actually be working.  It's been invigorating and inspiring to also have been taking more notes of what content to write about and why it's very important for this theme of reflective thought that's been badly missing for the importance of remembering the past and studying it.  I'm finally only fine-tuning the appearance and layout in certain places for different screen sizes of phones and tablets and computer monitors and TV's.  It will be very VERY refreshing to finally be done with this phase in the next few days or so, and to actually get content written from the many notes I've taken of what to write about and the sequence
The content is being developed. The main theme or central idea that I write from is the importance of remembering the past and studying it so that the present can be improved and the future can have a brighter outlook.  Reflective thought in the mind and spirit are crucial attitudes just for being a person and especially for caring about studying the past.  Reflective thought is about studying oneself and studying life, and it requires being interested in having patience and objectivity that cares about actual real truth.  Reflective thought with patience in the mind and spirit would also make a wonderful difference in the normal regular day-to-day life with people and families, and most all of society and especially the world of organized formalized religion.  There is far too little in the world of formalized religion and society as a whole, that acknowledges the importance and puts it into actual practice, of a person's future in their older years, being genuinely happy or at least positive in the mind and spirit. The memories that there will be to look back upon are what is always realized to be the most important aspect of life, in what reasoning processes about life and oneself and people that were the most important.
There is a spirituality to life that isn't given enough attention or focus, and it comes from God, but in a way much simpler than how the world of organized formalized religion is able to convey or propogate it. It is simple and pure spirituality to life that is without pre-conceived ways of believing and without shallowly-manipulated ways of thinking to fit certain expectations of shallow people, and besides being much simpler, it is also a spirituality that is pure because its purity isn't marred by names and labels that end up resulting in what looks like a catalogue of what "so-called truths" to pick-and-choose from.  It simply *is*, and it is of truth and about truth, which ends up making more than "just so-called possible" to have older years and old age to have happy positive memories to look back upon that give warm smiles to the heart and mind and spirit.This site will be comprised of 2 main areas, one of them being a blog area and the other being a discussion forum with categories to go along with the blog writings and also other related categories. The responsibilities of basic human decency with respectful considerateness will be abided by here so that no decent respectful respectable person will have to worry about whether or not what they write will be reacted to with shallow impatient cold disrespectful inconsiderateness, and so that what is written by decent respectful respectable people can actually be enjoyed as an actual for-real conversation.
It is as yet an unknown for when enough content will be ready for this site to be public, although I'd hoped it would be Dec 2023. Then the hopeful time-frame had changed to mid-January 2024 when I started to make progress with a couple of programs for creating webpages and it was looking very hopeful that progress would be faster, or rather "fast enough". However, the struggling had continued at understanding how the main program works in too many places for it to really be called a simple program.  The progress became faster, or "less slow" rather, than it was before, but still hindered by figuring out how this program works in many places and having to start over three times but fortunately without too much having been finished up to that point of having to start all over.
In late-January I'd been getting back to where I was after starting semi-over that third time. During this third time, I finally figured out enough of the parts of this program for what the Website Introduction needs.  I thought then that I'd get back to where I was before having to start over.  But no, more snags popped up, the only non-negative thing was that they weren't as difficult as the previous snags.  After this "basic minimum introducton webpage" is finished, then the *real* work will get going on creating the content of blog writings and the category names of discussion forums, along with the full-blown site introduction,