Vending machines dispense pot in LA – Yahoo! News

Well, this eliminates the “Dealer”!  More seriously, I understand that there are situations when Marijuana or Pot use helps alleviate symptoms suffered in certain illnesses, and that’s fine.  I don’t think anyone would disagree with pot being used there.

The problem that I am seeing is all of the sudden the list of sufferings by patients is forever growing.  For example in this very article one person who is taking the drug for anger management totally surprised me.  You might ask why, since anyone who has ever used pot for recreational purposes knows this drug basically makes you totally passive.  You would say its perfect for anger management. 

Well the problem with pot is the addiction isn’t so much a physical addiction as it is a psychological addiction, and when you quit as I did from a two to three ounce usage per month addiction for years.  The first thing you encounter is a very increased anger level.  So using it for anger management is basically taking someone who has a problem and adding gas to the flame.  Now you have just created a monster.  

That is the problem with this idea of prescribed use of pot.  Any reason to use is appearing on the list.  Yes I know that we live in a medicated society, when you consider pot, and all of the other drugs, legal or not, and then you mustn’t forget alcoholic beverages,  and this new stuff called designer drugs such as ecstasy and such.  America is medicated!

Because of all of this, has anyone ever considered just what the ramifications are to our society, to the human race?  How much dose it contribute to incest, birth defects, crime, physiological dysfunction in the populous, and finally the ultimate conclusion, death.  Where would we, the human race be, if we weren’t inhibited by all of this unnecessary  pollution, can you imagine?

R. William Collier

http://mindworthy.mypodcast.com    

Vending machines dispense pot in LA – Yahoo! News

A pastor walks into a bar … to listen – Faith- msnbc.com

 This is an interesting approach in Christian ministry, and there could be pitfalls and temptations and possible controversies but, hey that is what surrounds effective outreaches to those who really need someone anyway’s.  Wether or not the bartender has trouble directing someone to the Pastor isn’t important, it is wether the bartender thinks they are qualified to council someone in need.

The bartender would be relieved of a duty they were never intended to have in the first place.  Which would allow them to continue with their proper duties such as the rest of the customers for one, and more time to maintain their work station. 

People who are spiritually lost and unfortunately don’t know where to go, or who to trust, often find themselves confiding in people who haven’t a clue as to what to say or where to direct them.  Having Pastors in bars is the perfect solution for them not to mention, with the Pastors there it might make it much easier for the one who becomes too intoxicated to drive or make it home on their own, to get home safely.

If a bartender feels like an important aspect of their job is being taken away from them, well then maybe they should consider a career change.  There is always the need for more Pastors, and I hope in the future even in bars. 

R. William Collier

http://mindworthy.mypodcast.com

A pastor walks into a bar … to listen – Faith- msnbc.com

Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells – washingtonpost.com

This reminds me of a story about a scientist who challenged God to a contest.  The scientist told God I can create life just like you, and God said ok, I’ll create something and you create it too.  So God created a mouse, and the mouse began walking around looking for something to eat.  God said to the scientist ok, your turn.  So the scientist began collecting his things and getting his lab ready and he began mixing his potions and getting his samples of tissue and such, when God said, wait a minute!  Get your own stuff!

Point being, we tend to use this word “create” a little too loosely.  To truly create something it would have to be from nothing.  So as we read this article keep that fact in mind. 

The real question to this article is the same old one.  Do we have the right to copy life, or in a limited sense create life?  Is it moral for us to do this?  Well that is the reason I am writing this article on the subject of another article. 

Producing replacement tissue seems to be fine, but in order to understand what this means, requires a few questions to be answered first.  For example the words egg and embryos seem to be used synonymously in this article.  The question is what qualifies an egg to become an embryo, are they saying that because of the fusing of the skin tissue with an egg warrants it to be called an embryo?  Well then ok, we can go with that, and on that basis we would consider that the egg also, if not harvested would be naturally discarded by the donors body, well that’s fine too.  I don’t see any moral issue with that, in being any different from taking an aspirin for a headache, or using an artery from a leg to bypass a blocked one by the heart.

However, on the subject of cloning a human being, now that’s a controversy!  I would have to take the stance that cloning a human being is wrong morally, and especially for any other reason than to allow such an individual to live normally and free.  The moral question, would a cloned individual have a soul?  Well of course they would, and you ask how?  Simply, I must point back to the story in the first paragraph.  God is still in control of everything that happens on this planet.  Nothing escapes His notice, all things are visible in His sight.  If we were to produce a cloned human being by fusing a egg with DNA and calling it a embryo, and then inserting it into a woman’s womb to gestate to maturity and birth.  God would be completely involved in this individuals life in the intimacy of the womb just like anyone else.  God would also be using His “stuff” to allow all of this to happen.  If He didn’t want it to happen it wouldn’t. 

Being a God who is everything that the word “LOVE” imply’s would never allow a being come to life that wouldn’t be Loved by him.  In that Love, would demand that this cloned individual would posses a soul just like everyone of us. and as the Bible verse communicates, God Loves the whole world, not just some in the world.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send His Son into the world that He might judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.                                      John 3:16,17  (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

 

R. William Collier

http://mindworthy.mypodcast.com

 

Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells – washingtonpost.com