8-4-24 (British style) is the date of America's next total solar eclipse. Yesterday's rare American coast-to-coast total solar eclipse was the first total solar eclipse in history to be experienced by so many human beings. Yet a similar event is only seven years away on 8th April 2024. One of my nephew's emigrated to Toronto, …
Author: Donald
America’s total solar eclipse today
A total solar eclipse will bisect the USA today for the first time in 99 years. It could be the most viewed total solar eclipse in history. Millions will experience it for the first time, but another solar eclipse will cross America in another direction seven years later on 8th April 2024. The midday Moon, …
Big Ben falls silent at noon today
Big Ben is taking a rest for four years while its clock tower is refurbished. Its iconic bong will not be heard except when it will be reactivated on special occasions such as heralding the New Year in the UK. It will fall silent after announcing 12 noon on Monday 21st August 2017, or more …
Market research surveys
Do you know when you are filling in a Market Research survey? Some people are happy enough to do so, but what if you do not know if you are doing so? Today I was asked by a well-known retail chain for my email at payment. Okay - it is in the public domain. I …
Peer-group pressure is changing you
Cambridge Analytica, a company which specialises in behaviour change, is credited, along with Facebook, with Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential election victory on 8/11/2016. The homepage of Cambridge Analytica's website says “Data drives all that we do. Cambridge Analytica uses data to change audience behavior [sic].’ This is an acknowledgement that peer-group pressure …
Whose sovereignty is it anyway?
The crisis in current democracy can be traced to a clash of sovereignties. In the past, royal authority was supreme, and sovereignty resided in the monarch. However the abuses of the Stuart monarchies in the 17th century, based on their idea of 'the divine right of kings', led to Parliamentary democracy being pioneered in Britain, …
Hyper Evolution and the fear of Robots
If we can create robots in a few years, why can God not create man in a day? The inability of secular minds to imagine the power and creativity of God as Creator is wonderful to behold. Hyper evolution is the new term to hype up man's creativity. It is astonishing to see what man …
Browbeating by secularists
From referendums to climate change, secularists will not tolerate differences from their opinion.The failure to accept election results is a manifestation of the teenage tantrums of modern society – recent well-known examples being the Scottish Independence Referendum on 18/9/2014, the Brexit referendum on 23/6/2016 and Donald Trump's Presidential election victory on 8/11/2016.The secularist section of …
So you think you don’t have enough time?
Some people think that they don't have enough time to investigate the claims of Christianity and in particular the claims of Jesus Christ. They think that they have better things to do with their time. Only – they do have enough time. God has given them the time. It is called their lifetime, but more …
Those who have no hope
There are many people living hopeless lives, and some go to the extreme of committing suicide. Dante's poem imagines the supposed inscription at the entrance to hell: "Abandon every hope, you who enter in." It is amazing that those on earth with no hope would hasten their way towards that place with no hope. However, …
Donald's Thoughts 