My list of things to get done seems to be forgotten when I start watching a movie. I realized it's getting late and may watch a 3-hour western... maybe.
Not much to say because I don't want to go into the videos I discovered about Lauren Chapin and her family... yesterday.
We don't really know what others are suffering.
And we don't always understand the effects abuse has on our lifetime.
It's a place I haven't visited for many years.
I am continuing my downsizing activities... sorting, shredding, filing, organizing. I found my old kitchen gadgets again. I love OLD utensils. It's like seeing how people changed the way we do things in the kitchen. Some are perfect for my prepping supplies (non-electric), others I just love to have. Some I have to figure out how to use them, still.
By the time we get to the Antichrist there will not be much that isn't connected to the internet. I found a JOHN DEERE video that shows how the tech equipment they use in harvesting crops creates a crop amount as it goes. These tractors can't be fixed by the farmers. It's scary. Everything in our lives is moving to surveillance mode.
I started to see our need to capture all the non-computerized parts of our lives a long time ago. It began with laundromat equipment. Keeping all the quarter-run machines we can. Computerized anything can't be fixed by normal people. It's trash or it has to be fixed by someone who knows what to do.
With software issues getting big, new versions of programming make continued use a problem. That's all about new phones, new routers, new endless updates we never know what's in them or are they even needed or is it just another way to collect all our private details... and we can't refuse them anymore. The computers just wait for a moment to update, usually when we sleep.
I really want to collect as much non-internet options as I can. I wish I could afford to.
In news stories you see the growing ability of law enforcement to track our phones, our calls, our texts, our pings, out life. DNA is becoming a new force in crime solving. I like to see crimes solved and the bad guys get caught, I just hate all the invasive tracking.
Off-grid, controlled internet, separate technology and software (no "cloud"), creative abilities with the possibility of hacking. Those are what I would like. Maybe a cell phone that calls 911 when you need help. :-) Or, I would have the option to only have internet attached to my phone. Well, something.
Years and years ago I discovered people used microphones the size of a sewing needle to spy on people. Now I read there are Apple tracking things people can attach anywhere they want to and you won't know they even exist... like the old movies we use to watch.
Criminals use these things to for their goals, Government uses these things for their goals. Technology is going to become a difficult opponent of freedom.
I wn't get started about medical technology!
I don't know what Christians, or anyone, can do about all this as we try to protect and help each other, but I keep hoping to try.
Think about the two sides of technology in your life... The same things that appear to help you "stay connected" can also be used to violate your lives, your freedoms, your work, your faith, your ability to protect yourself and survive.
What can we do? I don't know. We are slowly becoming ruled by technology.
When the satellite service to help you if you ever needed it was in the news every day, I realized that the same device that locks your doors to keep others out and protect you from harm could also be locked to keep you in if someone wanted to keep you from escaping. It's a scary thing. It all depends on who is in charge -- a good person or a bad person. We are heading into a world where the bad people will out number the good. How do we prepare for that?
