In addition to sharing imagery on these pages, I share with you, no small amount of opinions.
Today I will share first some opinions, and secondly, some photos, and then more opinions.
Where do my opinions come from?
Some, and only some of my opinions, come from good ideas and thoughts from others. On TV, the radio, of course the internet, or maybe something I heard some say while grocery shopping. Most come right from me.
I pick and choose carefully, and more often than not, I reject using what I hear, and search my own data base of thoughts, and life experiences, . Then I think about them again and pray over them, and if I believe those ideas are both honest and permeated with common sense, I share them here.
The same is true for both politics and religion
I always, think first, and take my opinions from others last. Then I pray. My goal is to share with you, my own honest opinions, not “necessarily“ those of others.
I do not treat region, politics, and social order very differently. Most end in prayer. Yes, there is one who is wiser than I. God, the triune God of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
I call on all three.
I d never copy other people’s opinions, but at times (rarely) I carefully use them to bolster my own thoughts.
.I do enjoy sharing my opinions, despite the fact that they usually anger some, occasionally enough to leave this blog.
I do not suggest that anybody immediately accept my opinions. Think about them. Keep what you want, and discard the rest. Of course, if you blindly accept each of them, you will be wiser for doing that.
Do not edit my opinions, and share them, or remove them. Criticize them if you wish. I afford all of those rights to you and your opinions as well.
In the end, we all have a right to our opinions, but we also have the right to reject those from others. Not change them, reject them.
Images
Feather abstract

2Dragonfly

3Butterfly

Beetle

5Bleeding Heart Blossoms

6Male Cardinal

7 On the lookout

Pigeons on a wire

Lookout below. Tern

lost in the leaves. Baltimore Oriole

Pica with dinner. Above 14,000 feet.

1 Coyote on the hunt

Trail to the sky.

Reflections of autumn in a northern forest in Wisconsin.

Is it not a shame, how often in life, good ideas become corrupted and go bad?
I began my journey into social media (a good idea) about 30 years ago, when it began. Well, we found out via our experiences, that those platforms, while the creators wanted everybody to join for financial reasons, were only ready to play fair and honest with those who agreed with their left of center views on politics and social order. They would go so far as to punish those who would dare to vote for the presidential Canidate that they did not like.
In many ways, those times were more honest than today. It is more insidious now and camouflaged, while their politics are still rewarded.
People are allowed their opinions now when they come from the right, but the “media moguls, can live with it because so many from the right, have left for places like Truth Social and so on. In other words, and we’ll use Facebook as an example, it is a twice a month stop, rather than a three times a day stop.
Moving on.
Perilous times begin. See below.
Revelation 16:18
And there were voices and thunder and lightning, and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth.
Now if you say about that verse, you don’t actually believe that do you Wayne?.
Yes I do. Every word.
My question is, of those of you who ask that question, but who own a Bible or go to church, why do you waste your time with church? Do you think if you belong to a church, that means you go to Heaven? Regardless of what they do and do not tpreach?
As I admitted on these pages some time back, in my youth, I had a girlfriend who got pregnant. From me. It took both of us for that to happen. We decided that we were too important to bring a child into the world at that time, so we had an abortion. Yes it was legal, and I say we had an abortion not she had one.
Should I blame my then girlfriend for killing our child, or should I accept my 50/50 roll in the matter, and admit that I also killed our baby?
It is up to us to decide what Heaven means if it exisits in your opinion, and not find mental ways to reduce it.
Indeed, you should be careful in believing some blog writer.At the very least that same caution, should be taken with a pastor or a church.
Sometimes our institutions are wrong, and sometimes they are not.
One thing I have surely learned. after being first on the left, and then being set free and moved to the right, bondage and slavery lives in the left, and is removed only by leaving.
In fact, as someone who was first on the left, and in recent years on the right, that my left wing pals, then and even more so now, leave people burned out and sometimes dead, while my current right-winged groups, only leave people with anger and hurt feelings?
I want to make one thing clear. I do not hate the political left,as they hate me and those like me. Hatred belongs to them. It was true when I was on the left, and it is still true now.
I Moved right, and found God in the same move.
Hopefully the left, and it’s riots, destruction and death, will bypass you.
I always appreciate those who stop by here at Earth Images, whether you agree or disagree with my beliefs. I would imagine, that the opinions I have left you with today, will chase away a percentage of you.
I have found that often, the only way with the truth, is to come right out and say it. If that means that 70% of everybody who reads you will leave, that is sad but that 30% that remains, is more than worth it.
God Bless you whatever you believe,
Wayne