Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Around five in the afternoon on Tuesday (July 3) last week, my “kid” sister Karen became Mrs. Miguel Ureña.
Here they are at 4:56 that afternoon:
This one was taken at the Portland Rose Gardens a day or two or three later:
¡Bienvenido a la familia, Miguel!
Well, maybe the aphid saw it.
When (s)he was flapping around at the Wooden Shoe Bulb Farm near Woodburn, Oregon.
If not, that’s OK. You can enjoy the view anyway.
Once upon a time, way back in my late teens, I thought I wouldn’t reach the age of 35.
I did. Almost 13 years ago.
Today some men are remembered who reached 34 and no more.
Jim Walker, who had a wife and two children.
Gregory Young, who had a wife and four children.
Scott Showalter, who had a wife and four children. Killed along with him in a farming tragedy were his wife and two oldest children as well as one employee.
So, why did I get past 34?
God alone knows.
That is one of my thoughts regarding this: New Drug Deletes Bad Memories
| Do you have a really bad memory, or past heartache, that you would prefer to forget?
Researchers at Harvard and McGill University (in Montreal) are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories. The technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled. In a new study, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the drug propranolol is used along with therapy to “dampen” memories of trauma victims. They treated 19 accident or rape victims for ten days, during which the patients were asked to describe their memories of the traumatic event that had happened 10 years earlier. Some patients were given the drug, which is also used to treat amnesia, while others were given a placebo. A week later, they found that patients given the drug showed fewer signs of stress when recalling their trauma. |
As well as a new tool in the hands of cults and cultic brainwashers.
As well as a new way to escape the reality of pain and guilt, which bears with it grave spiritual and moral and psychological peril. With eternal consequences.
Thus the progressive doping of the West continues. And the East. And the South. And the North.
Will these experimenters and researchers never learn?
That is, something that used to be beautiful.
Now dead.
![[dead leaf]](/mvp/wp-content/deadleaf-b.jpg)
People’s bodies are that way too.
And what people make have the same problem.
So prepare for heaven.
And lay up treasures in heaven.
So many people want to boot Bush, action he may well have earned.
But I propose he be given a personal, non-political boost instead.
| To some of those invited to talk, Bush seems alone, isolated by events beyond his control, with trusted advisers taking their leave and erstwhile friends turning on him. |
He needs God’s people praying for him.
He should be encouraged this week.
Maybe a nice, personal birthday wish? (He turns 61 on Friday.)
| Students from Mexico, Peru, Venezuala, Bolivia and other countries often spend all they have to attend Rio Grand Bible Institute in Texas. This means they often simply do without items like shampoo, toothpaste and other necessities.
When Mary Newman, a missionary from World Gospel Mission realized this, she knew she had to help them. She was studying Spanish at RGBI at the time and decided to put together packages for the young women there. Newman and her mother prepared bags filled with shampoo, toothpaste, detergent, lotions, first aid supplies, and other things. Then, the young women were all invited to a party where the bags were distributed. |
I think that’s a very good idea.