Student and a Professor's discussion of God ( You will be surprised to who the Student was)

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is Satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does Satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student :Yes

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smell your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends /colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN

Listening to 1812 Overture

I did an experiment with my hearing aids and my Bose over the ear headset. First I listened to the music with my hearing aids in on the music program with the headset. Then I listened using the streamer connected to my music with the audio cable, then I listened to the music with my hearing aids out and just using my headset. My unprofessional results is that the music sounds much better with my hearing aids on the music program and using my Bose headset.  The range of music was much better and the sound level was much better too. With the streamer connected with the audio cable is was good but the sound was not as good and the lows did not come through as good. With my aids out of course I had to turn up the volume and I and I seemed to be missing some of the middle range frequencies. The lows were great and the very high notes were also great. 

I have tried it with the Bluetooth streaming with my streamer before and it was no where as good. 

After almost 3 months with my new hearing aids.

I have been using the Alta Pros now for almost 3 months, and I have really noticed some great changes. All of the sounds around me are really sounding so normal now. I am not having to change programs near as often. I even find myself able to sound out words so much better when I am trying to spell words. I have been so bad as a speller for almost 35 years. Even my wife has made comments that I am pronouncing my words a lot better than I use to. 
Also I find that even after my Audi turned down my aids by a click that I am turning them down another click after I put them in in the mornings. Except when the TV is on or my wife is listening to music I can hear my wife talk to me from the other rooms of the house. 
I am still having the normal issues with extremely noisy places and times, but I am hearing things again that I never expected to again. It did not happen all at once one I got these aids it has just been happening a little along. I really believe that Oticon has it right with brain hearing, it sure seems that I am relearning hearing again, and I am sure it is my aids that are also learning from the environment that I am in and a round. 
Also I find that I am much more relaxed now and even my blood pressure is lower, I understand a some of it is due to me being retired and finally excepting that fact. 

My office is in the front of the house and we have a front porch, the other day there were birds the were in hanging flower pots, and I could hear them singing even with the winds closed and the fan noise of the old computer I have in my office. At first I did not know what it was then my wife who was setting in the office with me looked over and smiled, and said you can hear the birds too cannot you, and I said yes. 
I have to say that these aids at least for me have improve my quality of life. 

Now that I am getting older I really need to get this off my chest and finally say what I am thinking and feeling.

First off, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am more of a middle of the road type of person. I am conservative in lots of ways, but I am also very liberal too. I very much believe and depend on Social Security, but it does not do much more that help me live. I also believe in Medicare even with all of its throw backs. I believe that we all need health and live insurance, but I do not believe that Obama Care is the answer to the issue. And when it comes to Income Tax, I believe we all should pay our share. But I also believe that the rich and the corporations do not pay their fair share. Most of the tax bill is falling on the Middle Class and the Middle Class is getting much smaller all the time. I do not understand how the USA is going to be able to keep going the way it is.

We need to stop giving our money away to other Countries and start taking care of the one here in this country. We also need to enforce our immigration laws and stop giving the country away to the illegals that is taking over this country. We have to close our borders and enforce the laws. We have to either make the illegals pay the fines and taxes that they owe this country, and stop them from sending all of the money they make back to their home countries. We also should not be paying for their schooling unless they are here legally, nor should we be paying for the medical, or housing etc. And we are doing that now.

Now let me say I am not against immigration I am just against everyone that is crossing or borders illegally. And while I am at it The USA is a country that English is the language the we speak and we should not be teaching anything but English in our schools except for electives. Yes I know we live in a world now that we should know other languages but we should not have to teach our kids anything but English until high school. I also do not believe we should have any road signs or any of the official documentation in any other language but English.

I also want to say something else. This is going to be hard for me to explain correctly. I hate what has happened to this world due to race issues. We as humans should see all others as equals. We should not be labeling anyone due to there color or race. We were all created equal and we should all be treated as equals, but to do that we have to act as equals.

I also have to say this it hurts and makes me so very angry how our Police are being treated. I know that they as a whole do the best that they can to protect everyone. I hate the way that they are being treated and that treatment is be multiplied by our very liberal press. They do not care about anything but the numbers and the more they can keep things stirred up the more that they get the numbers.

Now on to our so called House of Representatives and Senators. They are a joke, they are elected to represent us but all they do is pad their own bank accounts. They are so worried about the big money they can get from special interest that the country means nothing to them. I believe we should outlaw special interest money, and lobbyist. I also believe that we should get away from the party system that we have now it is doing nothing but sending this country to Hell.

And for my last and most important thinking, we have to put God and prayer back into or schools and lives. This country has been going down hill ever since we gave into a few and removed God for our schools and our Government and lives. I am not saying we should push any one belief, we should respect others beliefs. And we should expect others to respect our beliefs. I do not tell anyone how or what they should believe, and I expect them to do the same for me. If they do not then I will continue to believe the way I do and I will pray and praise my God in front of them anyway, as I would expect them to do the same. But I will not except or yield to anyone that tells me I cannot pray in public because it is against their beliefs.

God Bless y-all  

Our Christmas Tree

I love it

My hearing aid history

I have been wearing aids since May of 2005. My first aids were Sonic Innovations ITE, they were poorly fit. I applied to the VA for a Service related Hearing loss and received my Siemens ITE aids in Nov of 2006 they worked out to be fairly good. and March 2010 I had another VA appointment and was given new aids; Oticon Dual WX with the streamer; I have the Plus domes. OK for an update I received my new aids this October and the are Oticon Alta Pro custom fit ITC. The VA is still taking care of my aids and hearing. I am very much more active and love to ride my bicycle, walk, hike, an work in the yard. The Duals had issues with me sweating and have stopped working several times. Both have been repaired at least twice, also my hearing has gotten worse and I am now at a severe hearing loss in my right ear with only 20% voice recognition left in the right ear, my left ear is moderately severe. My Alta Pros are proving to be really great, I am hearing much better, even enjoying music and the TV much more than ever before. I am here to help you if I can.

My Experience with Hearing Aids.

My hearing aid experience begins with me getting and hearing test back early in 2005 and being told that I really needed hearing aids. I really had no idea what to expect or even what I needed. I was having issues understanding what people was telling me, and at times not even hearing people talk to me.
But to go a lot farther back in time when I was mustering out of the Navy back in very early 1977, I was given a hearing test and was told that I had a hearing loss, but they did not say anything to me about needing aids or that I should have gone as soon as possible to the VA and get into the VA system. I pretty much just for got about it. Then again in about 1992 I was working on a government job and was given a hearing test and again was told I had a hearing loss, but again was not really told I needed help with hearing or that I should seek further help.
Then in 1999 I had a job as phone support specialist and was noticing myself shouting into the phones when I had some one on the other end that was in a very noise server data center, and I was also being asked by others that worked with me to hold it down. But still I was not willing to go and seek the help that I needed. So I just kept putting it off.
Then fast forward to 2005. I start by searching the Internet for information about hearing aids. And I ended up with an audiologist that was recommended by a hearing aid company that their aids sound good to me. And to be Honest that was a big mistake, but at least I managed to get started on my journey.
It has been my experience that it takes your brain about 6 weeks to 3 months to get use to hearing aids. The aids will be letting you hear so many different sounds that you have not been able to hear or maybe the sounds are just so much louder that they seem to be new. Believe me brain hearing is a true statement and your brain has to get use to the new/old sounds that it has forgotten about. I can only imagine what it is like for someone that is deaf that gets implants and are then able to hear. To give you just one example, upon leaving the audiologist after getting my first aids, I got into my car and was hearing something that I did not know what it was, it turned out to be the turn signal, I never knew that they made any sound. I could goon and on but I believe you can figure it out from there. Also it was great to be out in nature again and hear the bees, and the birds etc.
You will need to be very patient when you get your first set of aids, not only with it take time to get them adjusted correctly but you will have to adjust also to the new sounds of your environment. 

Is it just me talking

We all have our likes and dislikes, but that does not mean we are always right. What is right for me does not mean it is right for anyone else. It is alright to voice our likes and dislikes but never right to force them on anyone else.

VA appointment this morning

Up early this morning, I had a VA hearing appointment. I had so minor adjustments made to my hearing aids. I talked to my audiologist about some of the issues I have with hearing my wife while I am in the car and or driving. She is ordering me a bluetooth mic that my wife can wear on that will let me hear her better. My wife if my navigator while I drive and also helps me at times understand what the cars GPS is trying to tell us.
I noticed lots if changes at the clinic, the VA really seems to be trying to make improvements. And starting in January I will be able to just walk in for minor adjustments that I have been having to wait as much as 2 months to have done. I know that the wait my be some time before I will be seen but it is much better than before.
And today I found out that my audiologist wears aids too. I always knew that she talked as if she had hearing problems but today we got to talking about different aids and she showed me what she wears. I do not believe I ever could wear an aid that was completely hidden in my ear canal, first off my hearing is to bad for the power that the real small aids can put out. second I do not believe I could handle something that small any more.

I am so fed up

I am so fed up with the US news media and even the Federal Government. The News media and the Government never had very much common sense and now they have none. Between the Government and the News media steering up so much trouble and problems that it is getting to be criminal. It is like the Federal Attorney General and the President are trying to start a revolution are even a take over of the Government.

I have not been exercising enough lately

But I have been doing a lot of research on my new hearing aids and my hearing loss. I am getting geared up for my appointment with my audiologist. My aids are great but I believe that I can now explain what I am hearing and hopefully be able to even make my aids and streamer better.
My aids seem to be the best on the market for my hearing loss, and I am hoping for a few adjustments to even make them better. I will post back on this after 12/10/2014

Here we are in December already

The year is almost over, and I feel that I have not done anything this year. I should be so happy with the fact that I retired, but that is not what I wanted. I see so much that is wrong with the world and just not sure what to do about it. There is a part of me that says the people of the world needs to take this world back one country at a time by taking back control of every nation on earth. But that is not the way I was raised. We have to be asking our God to help us to bring an end to this evil that has taken over our world. And it is at the highest level of ever government and every country on earth.
God please come and take us away for the devil that is among us.