Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[ChemEngrMBA]

"There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls" ~ Max Planck, Nobel Laureate in physics

[ChemEngrMBA]

My daily goal is to help as many people as possible in as many ways as possible.
Toward that end, I just ordered prescription glasses at an online source I have used for years.
It is 39dollarglasses.com  You do not have to pay $200 or $300 for your prescription glasses.
These guys have great bargains and I have never returned anything they sent me.
Mention my name, tell them I referred you and you get $10 off your first order.
They will also send me a $10 credit toward my next order, but I don't care much about that.  
This is for all of you.

[ChemEngrMBA]

RULES FOR DOING GOOD

[ChemEngrMBA]

“One hundred years from my day, there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.” - Voltaire in 1776 (1694-1778)

Today there are 2.4 billion Christians worldwide, and 450 million atheists, which has been adjudicated a religion by the Supreme Court in two separate decisions.  Atheists are clueless of the definition of "religion."  "A strongly held belief system"

[ChemEngrMBA]

I met a physics teacher two years ago and spoke to him about my book which discusses the brilliant creations surrounding all of us.  He agreed and said he asks his physics classes, "How long would it take all of the separate parts of a Tesla to assemble themselves into an operational car?" 
As illuminating as his question is, the inalienable fact is that it would be inconceivably more impossible for all the raw materials from around the world to mine themselves, then ship themselves to factories, where they would each individually be refined, machined and assembled to precise tolerances to fit together, then ship themselves to the warehouse and shelve themselves, to eventually assemble one magnificent automobile

[ChemEngrMBA]

Man can make cars, and computers from schematics.  Even though we have schematics and equations for living organisms, we can't manufacture a simple one-celled animal.  Trees make wood from only water and air.  What can you make from water and air?  I studied chemistry for five years and I can't make anything but ice.  These are some of the discussions I wrote in my book, Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life.
 BigUn liked it a lot.  So did Dr. Orosz and Dr. McCartney to name but a few.

[ChemEngrMBA]

January 2025  How can New Jersey teachers teach now when they no longer have to know how to read at even a 6th grade level!
[Attachment]

December 21, 2024   As the American Enterprise Institute’s Charles Murray wrote in 2012, “The long, intrusive, expensive role of the federal government in K-12 education does not have any credible evidence for a positive effect on American education.”

Professor Jay Greene writes, “The Department of Education has performed wonderfully once you understand what its true purpose has always been. The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes. In achieving this goal, the Department of Education has been a smashing success.”

 America went from first to 24th in education after Carter created the Department of Education, which has an annual budget of 251 billion dollars.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"No corporation on earth comes close to the accounting fraud
practiced year after year by the federal government." --Rep. Ron Paul

That is coming to an abrupt end thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

[corbe]

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Rejoice with the wife of thy youth." - Proverbs 5:18
"Be thou always ravished with her love." - Proverbs 5:19

"There is almost nothing a man can do wrong if he shows his children that he loves their mother." - James Dobson, PhD, Founder of Focus on the Family

From my personal experience, I state that a man must love, honor, respect and protect his wife, bringing joy to them both

[ChemEngrMBA]

I gave cash gifts to each of my grandchildren, instructing them to open a Fidelity Roth IRA account and purchase $10,000 in QQQ, FIFNX, or SPY and hold them for their retirement.  If they will add just $2,000 annually for forty years, when they begin withdrawals, their balances will be over $1,200,000 and they can withdraw as they need, with no federal income taxes.

Take care of your grandchildren in a very memorable way. [The annual limit is $7,000 and they must have earned income, but the first year purchase can add a make-up contribution for the previous year.]

[ChemEngrMBA]

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”

 
 He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
 
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
 
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

[ChemEngrMBA]

Verily, verily I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. - Jesus in John 10:1

Applicable to illegals entering America, with drugs, welfare recipients, rapists and murderers.

[ChemEngrMBA]

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.  - Thomas Sowell

[Cyber Liberty]

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.  - Thomas Sowell

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Consider why shrinking government is moral. The more the federal government provides for people, the more it deprives them not only of their dignity, but of one of the most sacred rights.’  - Thomas Jefferson

[ChemEngrMBA]

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." --Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954) 

[libertybele]

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; [b]it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." --Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954) [/size][/b]

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

The information within the DNA that corresponds to the nucleic acids is primary to the entire discussion of life.  The information is even more fundamental than the matter upon which it is encoded. The requisite molecules, including lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates are so unlikely to have occurred in the states and quantities needed that we never could have gotten to the point of figuring out the genesis of the requisite code of information.  The code is analogous to the difference between the library of congress and a big box of alphabetic letters.  The library has a huge amount of embedded information, while the box of letters has little.  Without that first cell, which requires the four molecule types plus information, all proposals regarding biological evolution are without a base of life. - Dr. James Tour, biochemist

[ChemEngrMBA]

Science of the Bible
by John Phillip Jaeger

Pages 6,7
Many people don’t realize that science basically involves assumptions and faith. Wonderful things in both science and religion come from our efforts based on observations, thoughtful assumptions, faith and logic. (With the findings of modern physics, it) seems extremely unlikely (that the existence of life and humanity are) just accidental. (Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics at University of California, Berkeley)1 

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them (people); for God hath shewed it unto them.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they (nonbelievers) are without excuse. (Romans 1:19–20)
“Show me proof of God,” nonchalantly demanded by atheists today, was anticipated and answered two thousand years ago. “The invisible things of him are clearly seen.”

I spoke with a physics teacher about these observations, and he replied, “I ask my students, ‘How long do you think it would take a warehouse of Tesla car parts to assemble themselves?’”
As creative and illustrative as this Socratic method question is, the far bigger challenge is for the warehouse full of complementary and perfectly matched parts to mine their ores and materials from around the world; ship themselves across oceans to factories where they would have to refine, shape, machine, and fabricate themselves to incredibly close tolerances; then ship themselves again to the final warehouse where they would then, hypothetically, assemble themselves.

[ChemEngrMBA]

How mentally compromised must Democrats by the millions be to hate Elon Musk for pointing out and eliminating hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and corruption!?
When conservatives and real men found Bud Light transgender insanity offensive, they simply stopped buying it. 
In contrast, Democrats are vandalizing, spray painting, and burning up Teslas.

[ChemEngrMBA]

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[Cyber Liberty]

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[ChemEngrMBA]

“Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism, and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound." - President Ronald Reagan

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.  In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity." - Thomas Sowell

April 6:  This thread has been visited over 1,300 times in less than 24 hours.  What an audience the Room has!  Amazing.  It has to be good to keep so many smart people coming back.  CyberLiberty lovin' it.

Five hundred more before noon today.  Sheesh.

[libertybele]

How mentally compromised must Democrats by the millions be to hate Elon Musk for pointing out and eliminating hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and corruption!?
When conservatives and real men found Bud Light transgender insanity offensive, they simply stopped buying it. 
In contrast, Democrats are vandalizing, spray painting, and burning up Teslas.

The hatred in this country is absolutely incredible and in fact downright frightening.  It is very difficult for me to understand the massive number of people filled with hate.  Where does this come from?  How has it been instilled in so many?  MSM? Liberal ideology taught in schools?  Parents then projecting that hate onto their children?  How did we as a society get to this point?

[Bigun]

"Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.  In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity." - Thomas Sowell

“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. “


Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

[Smokin Joe]

The Democrats are behaving like petulent adolescents who have been told that if they want something, they should get a job and save their money; mommy and daddy aren't buying it for them any more. It is the tantrum of resistance from those who will not embrace the responsibility of adulthood and self sufficiency, who would prefer to live off the largess of others. The reason Elon is one of the foci for their hate/tantrum is that he has effectively exposed the means by which the Democrats and the Left have funded their antics until now, and he is cutting them off from those lucrative sources.

[ChemEngrMBA]

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[ChemEngrMBA]

"What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
Leader of the Social Democrat Party, the Nazis, who set out to destroy capitalism and Christianity

[ChemEngrMBA]

This reads two ways:

1. Trump and Musk are ending Federal government corruption.

2. Trump and Musk are enabling a corporation to surpass Federal government corruption. 

Your first sentence is reasonable, sensible, and of course correct.
Your second spin is cynical, negative and wildly crazy.  It's something the mainstream media would cook up and repeat endlessly.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Psychological professionals in the twenty-first century have
affirmed the substantial benefits, both mental and physical, of
positive thinking in countless scholarly experiments, published papers
and books. (Optimism and Its Impact on Mental and Physical Well-Being)
 [nih.gov]
Science of the Bible, by John Phillip Jaeger, page 7

[ChemEngrMBA]

Religiously unaffiliated subjects had significantly more lifetime suicide attempts and more first-degree relatives who committed suicide than subjects who endorsed a religious affiliation. Unaffiliated subjects were younger, less often married, less often had children, and had less contact with family members. Furthermore, subjects with no religious affiliation perceived fewer reasons for living, particularly fewer moral objections to suicide. In terms of clinical characteristics, religiously unaffiliated subjects had more lifetime impulsivity, aggression, and past substance use disorder. - Religious Affiliation and Suicide Attempt, American Journal of Psychiatry, December, 2004

[ChemEngrMBA]

"My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism." - Karl Marx

[ChemEngrMBA]

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the founder of American Atheists organization declared concerning hospitals: "An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.".[19]

Neither Madalyn Murray O’Hair nor the American Atheists organization ever built a hospital.    There are 6,093 hospitals in the U.S.



Despite the gaslighting claim of "rationality" and "science," I cannot find a single atheist school, college, or university in the U.S.  There are 95,852 public schools, 19,329 private schools and 26,727 high schools in the U.S.

How irrational and unscientific, these atheists.

[Cyber Liberty]

I wish Christians loved God as much as the atheists hate Him.

I  love God plenty.

[Smokin Joe]

"My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism." - Karl Marx

Well, I wonder how that is working out for him?

[Smokin Joe]

I wish Christians loved God as much as the atheists hate Him.

He is my Rock and my Salvation.
None other comes before Him.

[ChemEngrMBA]

He is my Rock and my Salvation.
None other comes before Him.

Well stated.  You would enjoy my books.

[ChemEngrMBA]

It ain't braggin' if you really done it. - Hall of Fame Pitcher, Dizzy Dean

[ChemEngrMBA]

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. – Proverbs 17:22

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life. - Ecclesiastes 8:15

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. - life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Psalm 118:24

These are broken spirits, without mirth, without merriment:

[ChemEngrMBA]

"People who think money buys happiness don't have money."  - Billionaire David Geffen

[ChemEngrMBA]

"It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion, science offers a surer path to God than religion.” —Paul Davies, physicist, winner of Faraday Prize, 2001
Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life,   page 40

[ChemEngrMBA]

"The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, who not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil and other difficulties have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability...." - Voltaire:  Philosophical Dictionary

 “One hundred years from my day, there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.”  - Voltaire, in 1776 (1694-1778)

[ChemEngrMBA]

I'm in over my head but I'm a good swimmer. - My original paraprosdokian (Greek for "Unexpected ending)

[ChemEngrMBA]

“I have been made victorious through terror.” – (Bukhari 4.52.220 - Mohammad) 

[ChemEngrMBA]

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

[ChemEngrMBA]

“There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.” —Geneticist Francis Collins, Nobel Laureate (Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life, page 84)

[ChemEngrMBA]

“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population...." - Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics which murder unborn black infants at 3.8 times the rate of non-Hispanic whites, according to the CDC in 2016