04.25.11
Posted in family stuff, food and restaurants at 9:59 am by Administrator
Today would have been my dad’s 80th birthday. Last year we were planning on having a big family trip to celebrate it. The destination was Egypt, but as fate would have it, he didn’t make it to his 80th, plus with the upheaval currently going on in Egypt, we likely wouldn’t have gone anyway. It just wasn’t meant to be. Instead, I’ll be heading over to mom’s for a quiet visit. I still have a lot more pictures of happier days with dad like this one of his last birthday celebrating his 79th.
This was taken at The Lobster in Santa Monica. Dad LOVED lobster. While it still makes me sad and cry, I’m glad I have so many pictures of dad, especially of this day because he was very happy. We all were.
Happy Birthday Daddy!
Love always,
Marlakins
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04.22.11
Posted in quotes at 12:30 am by Administrator
“For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.”
~James 2:13
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04.21.11
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:10 am by Administrator
For any of you Sci-Fi enthusiasts, Zephyr Axiom has recently launched his new website where he’ll be uploading some of his writings on a weekly basis. His first story is called, Kahverengi’s Delimma. Chapters 1 and 2 are now up. His website can be accessed at Zephyr Axiom
Enjoy!
Marlakins
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04.16.11
Posted in Church Issues and Bible Interpretations, God, Health-related--Natural Alternative Treatments, History, family stuff at 12:21 pm by Administrator
If I were to describe my mood today, I would say, “a bit sad.” Ordinarily I should be happy. My oldest son is finally “officially” graduating with a BA! The ceremony is to take place in June. Last Wednesday I went with him to his Grad fair and picked up his cap and gown, took his grad pictures and all those extra stuffs associated with graduating. I was very happy for him. We even discussed the possibility of him going off to Korea and teaching English for a year. Course the doting mom that I an would go with him! LOL It’s not the highest paying job, but a nice diversion and experience for a young man. Then the reality of the Fukushima reactor still spewing out radioactivity relatively close by South Korea hit me. . . Radioactivity from Chernobyl traveled hundreds and even thousands of miles leaving elevated radioactivity in places still today such as Germany and Sweden. I’m sure other places, too. Should I let that get in our way? Weighing the possibility of genetic damage and subsequent cancers, deformities in offspring, and other health concerns, should we risk that? I have to use my head and opt to forgo South Korea. At the age of 46, I’ll likely never see South Korea in my lifetime since nuclear radioactivity will last longer than my lifetime. I’m not only sad for myself, but sad for my children, not to mention the millions of people living in those contaminated zones. It’s really tragic.
I think of when I visited Tokyo as a teenager with my dad years ago. It was very nice. I had thought that one day I’d like to take my boys there for a visit. Now we’re not likely to ever go. Such a beautiful place, such a shame that it has been needlessly contaminated.
Am I over reacting? Well, I’ve been trying to educate myself on the matter and have been trying to soak up what everyone is saying and weigh the material. While I don’t want to be paranoid, I also want to be responsible and not be willfully ignorant. I do believe in the consequences of that. I have to do my best and then trust God for the rest. But I do believe God expects us to do what we can to help ourselves first. He has given us all that we need, but we have to reach out to use it. God finds no pleasure in sluggards as the Bible even tells us that, “the slack hand will be put to forced labor.” Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.” There’s a lot about laziness in the Bible. Another example is Proverbs 19:24 “A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.” That seems to indicate that a lazy person won’t even feed himself. No, I don’t believe we just wait for good things to happen to us. We have to strive for good. Thus, do I just walk into a radioactive zone and pray that I’m spared damage? No, I should do my homework. I shouldn’t be lazy and expect God to preserve me. I have to use the good judgment God gave me and act according to good sense.
The topic of nuclear power and radioactivity is very complicated. There is so much out there that I’ve been trying to learn and understand. While I understand that nuclear energy is very controversial, I’m still amazed that there are those who feel it is safe and clean. I just can’t see how any informed honest person can believe that. But then again I’ve been amazed to find how little some people know about radioactivity at all. I’ve even met someone who didn’t know what Chernobyl was!!! Oh my, no wonder our rights have been so easily trampled. Many of us have been in the dark. I’m still learning a lot and finding so much that I didn’t know. The contamination to our earth is much worse than I had known, and it’s making Revelation 11:18 much more meaningful to me,
“And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”
I have since learned that there have been many more nuclear accidents that have been hidden from us. Many more parts of our earth have been contaminated and left uninhabitable for generations. It’s likely that all of us have some nuclear contamination already. The video presentation, Chernobyl Heart, is only a glimpse of what so many people have suffered as a result of nuclear energy. So many other people who suffered nuclear exposures have been forgotten like all the military personnel and civilians used in nuclear tests and experiments. People we never hear about, but who have suffered greatly. Not only do we not hear about them, we are lied to that they never existed. Even today, these children in Belarus and the surrounding areas are little known and would be still unknown if not for the kind people who documented Chernobyl Heart.
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It’s maddening to think of how much we spend on the military and this is what we get for it–death, destruction, and contamination. (Nuclear energy was harnessed by and for the military. The main reason it was pushed onto the public sector was to keep the technology alive during “peace time.” Check out the story behind Windscale aka Sellafield.) No wonder the 24 elders in Revelation spoke of “destroying those who destroy the earth.” This reminds me of another parallel concept in the Bible, “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.” Matthew 26:52 “52Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” I think of all these things and I get angry. But mostly and more recently, I’ve been sad.
Marlakins
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04.03.11
Posted in humor at 1:48 pm by Administrator
There’s just so much bad news on these days that half the time I just don’t feel like blogging about any of it. Then in light of that news, I feel like blogging about other things are so petty. So what to do? Well, laughter is good for the soul, right? And Chaplin usually makes me laugh. I especially like this particular clip–Modern Times. Enjoy!
Marlakins
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04.01.11
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:37 am by Administrator
While searching for info on Three Mile Island and the Santa Susana Laboratory, I came across an interesting video by Nova titled Inside Chernobyl’s Sarcophagus. It’s an interesting documentary regarding what the sarcophagus looked like inside years after the nuclear accident in 1986. Some of Russia’s scientist went in to study what became of the missing nuclear fuel and also to assess the condition of the structure.
Youtube has it separated in to five parts.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
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