Posted on 10/19/2018 10:55:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
I won't throw anything away.
In Data We Trust
Cool that my DNA has programmed into it things like being or not being hit by a bus, airplane crashes, meteor extinction, etc.
Not hijack the point of the thread but instead of looking for something genetic here to explain it he probably could have just found out that his brother got molested by a gay guy when he was young.
Outside of some scheming life insurance reason I can find almost no practical use for knowing ones approximate time of death.
There is a reason the good Lord kept such information from us. Who would not likely develop acute and perhaps incapacitating anxiety with such knowledge and more so as that time drew near? Here’s what I do know. It is 100% certain that I am going to die. Knowing the day or the hour should not affect the manner in which I live my life. If it did, then something is significantly wrong with my approach to life and the time I am allotted.
““I would love to know when I’m going to die,” says Brian Chen, a researcher who is chief science officer for Life Epigenetics, a company that services the insurance industry. “That would influence how I approach life.””
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For all his ‘smarts,’ this individual is missing the entire picture. We’re not promised tomorrow; we’re not promised the next breath. And he and his ilk think they can out smart the Creator. They keep refusing to accept that there is a Creator because they want to be in charge of it all.
I’m probably saying it incorrectly...what is it...about living responsibly for the future yet expect to be called tonight. It’s the opposite of the farmer who thought he’d be able to live a long life based on what he had, only to be told he’d be called (die) that night.
My memory is going. Can anyone assist with that saying?
The destruction and mayhem caused by people not wanting to die at their allotted time would be horrendous. There would always be someone willing to kill another or cause indirectly/accidently the death of another while trying to remain past the Lord’s given time to them.
What a nightmare that would be, yes? It would be like opening another Pandora’s Box.
I saw a T-shirt once that said “if I lived every day like I knew it would be my last, the body count would be horrendous.”
Luke 20
And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
That was the New Testament parable of the rich fool:
Luke 12:13-21
Luke 12:13-21 New International Version (NIV)
The Parable of the Rich Fool
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
New International Version (NIV)
“Luke 20”
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Thank you, Obadiah!
Can you recall the other proverb I’m thinking of? It goes how we’re to plan for the future and yet be ready to be called... Not planning like partying or such..planning like being good stewards for our future yet knowing we could be called anytime...
And I’m going to write Luke 20 on a tabbie and tape it to my pc. I keep having to put notes up for a misplaced memory.
If only Vince Foster had had better DNA ...
Thank you, as well, Red Badger!
I put my foot in my mouth so often on this site (usually because of my memory) and am so glad to see well rounded people on it who can assist!
This site is wonderful for folks who seek knowledge.
I am hiring a retired Google coder to overwrite my DNA to match Methuselah’s.
They have a name for people who forget things and it is . . . I forget what it's called. But they have a name for it.
My DNA states “die at 95 with two sexy 24 year old blonde nurses in Vegas”..
Two of my sisters have passed away. One fell off of a train overpass and died at 62 and another decided to sit in a chair for 10 years without moving. She died at the age of 70.
It’s not all DNA.
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