Unbelievable!

This is a first for me, three posts in one day!  But I just have to say something.  Towards the end of Mom's life her favorite word became, "unbelievable".  If she was in our Relief Society class today, she certainly would have uttered that word.  Lisa and I certainly uttered it several times on our way home from church.

Whatever happened to people being reverent in church and being respectful in God's house?  As a child and youth I was always taught to be reverent at church.  I was taught that the church is God's house and we need to respect Him in His house.  As a child that meant folding arms, bowing head, walking slowly, speaking quietly, wearing your Sunday best, showing basic respect.

Over the decades I've noticed casualness creeping into worship services in church. For a lot of people Sunday best has become casual; denim, flip-flops, etc. Church hallways are loud and boisterous with kids running around.  Even the old ladies in Relief Society are not as reverent as they once were.  

I've been in Relief Society for 34 years now.  And I've been in the church for over half a century.  And I've been to church every week for all those years.  I've never before experienced what happened today.

Ironically, the Relief Society lesson was about finding rest from the world.  The teacher asked a question – which I can't even remember what it was at this point – but a sister sitting in the back casually doing some kind of embroidery or cross-stitch raised her hand.  

When called upon she proceeded to tell all of us that she doesn't like people and we creep her out.  And she said she was sitting there listening to all of the comments being made and doesn't buy all of the BS.  Except she used the entire profanity.  In church!  My heart leapt into my throat and I was shocked.  

She then went on some rant for 10 minutes about how she homeschools her kids and detailed some experiment they did with the metamorphosis of monarch butterflies.  I don't know what her point was.  But I do know that she disrespected God in His own house and offended me and probably every other sister in the room.

If others weren't offended, they should have been.  I don't get offended easily, but profanity – especially in God's house!  – offends me.  Not much shocks me anymore, but that did.  I was not expecting to be accosted with profanity at church.

Ironically the lesson was about finding rest from the world when that sister brought the world into church.  I go to church as a refuge from the world.   Today, instead of refuge, I was bombarded with the world.

Today, I was going to make my first comment in Relief Society in 34 years but didn't get called on. Then, another sister said basically what I was going to say so I didn't feel the need to speak after that.

Mortality is becoming more and more surreal.  Even in the church.  I mean even most people who have gone apostate and no longer attend church or believe it's doctrines would have enough respect to not profane in church.

It's the last days.  These are crazy times we are living in.  Chaos and evil surround us.  Now, we can't even seek refuge at church without being accosted with profanity.  As Mom would say, "Unbelievable!".

Unbelievable indeed.

That's my two cents.

College Football Picks Weeks 14 & 15 Results

1. Rex -2 TB 70
2. Lisa -3 TB 64
3. Clint -4 tiebreaker 62
4. Tammy -6. TB 70

Actual tie breaker: 71

MyHeritage AI Time Machine 1950s

1950s Chic (33)

1950s Chic (20)

I like to think that I was chic in my younger years.  These are my favorite images from the 1950s set.  The others are kind of weird.  But I do think it would've been a good looking 1950s chic woman.  :-) I like dressing up.
 

1950s Illustration (33)

Again you can see the remnants of the Superman logo on some of these photos.  Weird.  And what's up with the heads cut off some of the images?

1950s Illustration (20)

1950s (33)

1950s (20)

These don't really look like a 1950s era photos to me.

Next post will be 1970s. (I don't know why they don't have the 1960s.)

MyHeritage AI Time Machine 1940s

1940s Glamour Girl (20)

1940s Glamour Girl (33)

 The bottom left photo is all distorted.  In the top left photo shows my superman emblem from my Superman shirt photo.  Kind of weird how they blend things.  I think I may have iinadvertently included a photo were I was sitting on some rocks.  So the AI distorted that photo to look like the one where I was sitting on the rocks perhaps.  Kinda crazy.

1940s Painter (33)

1940s painter (20)

1940s (20)

1940s (33)

I don't think any of these really look like me at all.  My favorite one, that I think looks like me the most, is the top right on the first panel – pink side view.  What do you think?

Next post will be 1950s.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy birthday to me,

happy birthday to me,

happy birthday dear Tammy,

birthday to me! 

This is one of my favorite pictures of me.  I was half the age I am now when this photo was taken.  Juliet took this photo of me on a bus in Hawaii when I was visiting her one spring break.  Mid 90s.  The original photo is the one below which is a bit blurry.  The one above I enhanced on MyHeritage when I was loading photos for the Time Machine.  I think it did a pretty good job in clarifying the picture.

I will resume the Time Machine pictures tomorrow.  Just had to take a break to wish myself a happy birthday today.  :-)

That's my two cents.

MyHeritage AI Time Machine 1930s

1930s British Lady (33)

1930s British Lady (20)

 

1930s Hollywood Movie Star (20)

1930s Hollywood Movie Star (33)

1930s Scientist (33)

These have to be the worst ones yet.  None of them look anything like me.  :-(

1930s Scientist (20)

Since I love science, I was hoping the scientist ones would've turned out better.  Glad I wasn't around in the 30s.  :-) Not a flattering era for me.

Next post will be the 1940s.

MyHeritage AI Time Machine 1920s

 

1920s Black and White (33)

1920s Black and White (20)

1920s Flapper (33)

1920s Flapper (20)

1920s (20)

1920s (33)

MyHeritage AI Time Machine

MyHeritage is a genealogical website similar to ancestry.com.  I've been a member for years, but don't use it that often.  Anyway they sent me an email yesterday touting their new artificial intelligence program for photos.  So I thought I would try it.  The way that works is you have to upload at least 10 photos of yourself in various angles and their AI program generates images of you from different eras and themes.

So the guidelines were to load three or four each (but more is better) of the following photos of yourself: full body, close-up (waist up), closer up (headshot), and profile.  Well, I didn't really have any profiles.  But I had the other three.  When I did it yesterday I loaded 20 photos.  All from the same file when I lived in Los Angeles.  Then today I did it again and loaded 33 photos from different files but all from my Utah State and CCPM days.

I think the 33 photos results were more accurate in what I actually look like.  But I think some of the first ones I did with 20 photos look better.  :-) So I will post both results on here and you can be the judge.

Some of them look absolutely nothing like me.  As some of them are pretty close to what I look like.  There are 56 different categories, if I counted correctly.  So I'm going to break it up into smaller chunks over several days.  Let me know what you think in the comments.

This was fun and I hope you enjoy the various AI generated images of me.  If you want to do your own, go to myheritage.com and click on AI Time Machine.

Enjoy!

16th-Century Royalty (33)

16th-Century Royalty (20)

18th-Century Bride (33)

18th-Century Bride (20)

18th-Century France (20)

18th-Century France (33)

19th-Century Princess (33)

19th-Century Princess (20)

What do you think?  Do any of them look like me?  Next post will be the 1920s.

College Football Picks Week 13 Results

1. Rex -16 tiebreaker 63
2. Lisa -22 tiebreaker 57
3. Tammy -25 tiebreaker 43

actual tiebreaker 65 

College Football Picks Week 12 Results

1. Clint -16 tiebreaker 62 
2. Tammy -20 tiebreaker 67
3.  Lisa -21 tiebreaker 64
4. Rex -25 tiebreaker 69

actual tiebreaker 37

Democrat Definitions

When Democrats speak, it's sometimes hard to understand what they really mean.  Therefore, I thought I would help you out today by taking a page out of the Democrat dictionary.  I will explain for you some words Democrats often use, and give the real definition.

So the first word will be the Democrat buzzword.  After the colon is the actual definition of the buzzword.

Misinformation: truth

Conspiracy Theory: truth

Democracy: liberal/leftist agenda

Science: any fallacy that can be presented as fact

Biology: a social construct

Expert: anyone with formal education willing to spew lies

Election Denier: anyone with common sense who sees and calls out the blatant fraud committed in elections.

Racism: easy way to accuse white people and divide Americans

White Privilege: a nonexistent entity used as racism against white people

Women's Healthcare: murder of pre-born babies

Education: indoctrinating children with liberal/leftist agenda

Woman: undefinable

When Democrats speak of people spreading misinformation, they actually mean people who are spreading truth.  When Democrats speak of people spreading conspiracy theories, they actually mean people who speak the truth.  When Democrats speak of democracy being in jeopardy, they actually mean their liberal/leftist agenda being in jeopardy.

When Democrats urge people to follow the science and believe science, what they really want is for everybody to believe, as truth, the lies they are presenting as facts.  When Democrats speak of biology, it has nothing to do with science.  They want you to believe that biology is just a social construct.  If everybody agrees, it must be true.  Men can be women and women can be men.  Gender is just a feeling, it has nothing to do with DNA and chromosomes.  Their experts will back them up on that.  After all, an expert is just someone with a degree, willing to lie for them.  And we better believe them because, after all, they know more than us.  They are experts.  And if we don't believe them, then we are horrible human beings.

A favorite term of Democrats recently is election denier.  The left won't tolerate people who are onto their blatant shenanigans in rigging elections.  They just call us election deniers.  And they get away with it.

Another recent favorite of Democrats is taking every opportunity to call racism and white privilege.  They accuse white people of racism and of being privileged because of their whiteness, when in reality their goal is to divide the country even further by creating racism – especially against white people.

Of course their misnomer of women's healthcare is just a way to sugarcoat abortion.  If they actually called it what it is – murder – it wouldn't be nearly as appealing.

Education is an excellent way to indoctrinate children in the perverted leftist agenda.  There is no such thing as education anymore.  It's all about indoctrination.  And it's very effective.

And last, but not least, ask a Democrat/liberal/leftist what a woman is.  They won't be able to define it.  This is how far the leftist agenda has permeated our society.  Something a toddler can decipher – the difference between a man and a woman – completely stumps a full-grown liberal/leftist.  Just ask them to define woman.  Then wait for the puzzled look on their face.

I'm sure there are many more words in the Democrat dictionary that I haven't touched on.  But this is a good start for you to begin understanding what the Democrats/liberals/leftists mean when they speak.

That's my two cents.

College Football Picks Week 11 Results

1. Clint -17 tiebreaker 54
2. Rex -19 tiebreaker 61
3. Tammy -19 tiebreaker 55
4. Lisa -23 tiebreaker 64

actual tiebreaker 75 

Every time I actually need the tiebreaker, I'm way off.  Whenever it doesn't matter, I'm spot on– or at least close.  :-)

They Did It Again

The Democrats have done it again.  They managed to steal votes and turn a red tsunami into a red ripple.  But, fraud wasn't the only problem.  Fraud has been part of elections since elections have existed.  Although, I do believe the Democrats have been ramping up their efforts.  The 2020 election was obviously massively tampered with – all in favor of Democrats.  And this midterm election was no exception.  The shenanigans in Maricopa County Arizona were repeated with voting machine problems.  Conveniently in more conservative districts.  I thought there was some election reform that happened between now and two years ago.  But apparently the only state that seems to reflect reality is Florida.

There was an actual red tsunami in Florida.  Two reasons.  Ron DeSantis is a strong conservative leader.  He has fought back against the woke agenda being shoved down our throats by the left.  He fought back against lockdowns and mandates.  He's basically preserved the freedoms of Floridians in the wake of tyranny from the federal government.  And the second reason is election reform.  Because of that, Ron DeSantis beat his opponent by nearly 20 points!  Unheard of.  He was leading by about 11 points just before the election.  But he blew that number out of the water.  That's what should've happened across the country.  But, unfortunately, fraud and weak candidates stopped the red tsunami.

It wasn't just a couple of states either.  I mean we expect Pennsylvania to be corrupt.  Philadelphia's been corrupt for decades.  They are notorious for their skewed election results.  And, here in Washington being vote by mail only lends to plenty of opportunity to make up Democrat votes to counteract Republican votes.  Tiffany Smiley should have beat Patty Murray – and probably did.

Besides fraud though, the left owns the media.  People are easily brainwashed.  They watch CNN or some mainstream media news and believe it.  So there are many who just blindly vote Democrat because of the media influence.  Covid made it very apparent how easily people are brainwashed and so readily do the bidding of those who brainwash them.  The left.

Another reason people turn blue and vote Democrat is because of the destruction of our society.  So many people are turning away from God and religion and morals.  These are necessary for a civil society. 

Alma 10:19

"… yea, well did he say that if the time should come that the voice of this people should choose iniquity, that is, if the time should come that this people should fall into transgression, they would be ripe for destruction."

 Those of us who still choose God, religion, morals, and freedom are dwindling.  The voice of the people is ever increasingly choosing iniquity and turning away from truth and good.  Therefore, we, as a nation and society in general, are ripening for destruction.

These are the last days.  Satan is pulling out all stops and many people are falling for his lies and deceptions.  This is prophesied.  But, let us not lose hope.  Our Constitution is hanging by a thread but we are still living in the promised land.  The greatest country in the world.  And despite all of the leftists and their evil antics, there are still many of us who treasure our freedoms and love our great nation.

There are still good people who will fight for our treasured freedoms and nation.  There may be rocky roads ahead but we can remain happy and calm amidst the storms.  And soon, our Savior will come again.  I hope and pray that He comes quickly.

That's my two cents.

College Football Picks Results Week 10

1. Tammy -16 tiebreaker 59
2. Rex -20 tiebreaker 74
3. Clint -21 tiebreaker 59
4. Lisa -21 tiebreaker 63 

actual tiebreaker 59

It's amazing that two of us guessed the tiebreaker spot on.  Congrats Clint.  There were some crazy upsets this week.

My strategy this week was to not overthink it and just pick whichever team came into my head first.  Seems to have worked.  At least this week.  :-) 

Good luck next week everybody.  This season is going by fast.

College Football Picks Week 9 Results

1. Clint -12 tiebreaker 62
2. Lisa -17 tiebreaker 67
3. Tammy -18 tiebreaker 53
4. Rex -19 tiebreaker 74

actual tiebreaker 62