Redemption or suicide - take your choice - by P.K. Odendaal March 2024
There has been many instances in history and society where people have chosen suicide in stead of redemption, to their own destruction and nihilation.
Judas Iscariot, who sold Jesus Christ to the pharisees, and Hitler, who was instrumental in the death of millions of people, were two.
My prayer when riding the French Camino in May 2024 with a bicycle
God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
It is with humility, veneration and admiration that I contemplate your omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence and your universe with everything that is in it.
The quest for information, knowledge understanding and
wisdom
Yes, we were born without any of these. Shall we remain so, or shall we strive
for wisdom – our ultimate quest?
It is said that a fool knows the
price of everything and the value of nothing.
Shall we have all the information there is in this world or even the universe,
and remain fools?
It seems to me that most of us do not even get out of the starting blocks and are not interested in information at all. We feed on what was good for yesterday and for our ancestors.
Just more than seventy years ago, Alan Turing, working on the first crude computer which had intelligence, made a statement on how to establish when a source of intelligence was human or artificial intelligence.
Today I am on an excursion into the labyrinths of religious conventional wisdom, trying to set the record straight. We have wandered too far away from the evident truths of the Bible, even changed it to suit our delusional concept of God and translated it so many times - almost into oblivion, so that it can mean anything for anyone.
God is a utilitarian par excellence.
One of the best qualities I like and attribute to God is His utilitarianism, and by extension our utilitarianism which is a spin off of our free will. Similarly, it is also a spin off of God's free will.
In essence, utilitarianism is the act of doing the best for yourself or for groups on whose behalf you may act or choose.
The Root of all Evil – Part 2 – by P.K. Odendaal July 2023
My previous article on the root of all evil is pure drivel.
Will
I delete that article or will I keep it here on my repertoire as a lesson in
folly? Yes, I will keep it here, as the endeavour and accomplishment of
humankind is fraught with error, omission, folly and evil. I make no excuse.
What this exercise in folly really taught me, is that an idea which has slumbered in my soul for too long - the idea that expressing an opinion is useless, fruitless, superficial and egoistic, has been let loose.
The Gift of Flight - Part 6 - Escaping death in the Zlin
Published January 2023 by P.K. Odendaal
ZLIN 50-LS 325 HP
And so it happened that, after I got all my flying licences and flying ratings, that I got bored with flying ‘straight and level’. That was lesson one in my training, and I did not want to stop there.
The
Pursuit of Happiness – Part 8 – Becoming a Friend of God.
We have now come to the end of this series, not that the subject is exhausted, but rather that this part is the ultimate happiness and joy any human can live for and even die for; the incredible opportunity to be a friend of God, or more specifically, to be a friend of Jesus Christ, the human side of God. Scripture says 'for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily'.
The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 7 – Exploring a conversation with God
How does one strike up a conversation with God ?
That was my main thought when Jesus Christ came my way some
five decades ago, and saved my soul by God's Grace.
