06/30/14
Q139: What is the point of death?
So we can go to heaven! Most kids imagine death to be far away and mostly it happens to old people. Their whole life is before them. That’s how it should be – exciting!
I am almost 80 years old now and am tiring of life here on earth because I get very tired, weary, and: ’…I see an angel peekin’ through a broken window pane.’ That line is from a popular song from my youth (1950s) in which Rosemary Cluney cheerfully sang a song called ’This old House’. It has a great melody and is really a happy song. Her grandad is very old, the house is old and the roof leaks, the door hinges squeak but he doesn’t worry because: ’…he’s a ’gettin’ ready to meet the Saints.’ My Mum made it to 100 years old but said to me one day: ’Oh Peter, I am so tired, I would just like to go to sleep and not wake up.’
For you – you are standing on the threshold of life, dreaming of being grown up and doing great things, and probably a family – and death is far away. That’s very normal and how it should be. Do live a good life and may the world be better for you being on it for many happy years.
06/30/14
Q140: Why is there wars if God is real?’
Good question and I have already answered several others like this one...but wars have a place in history.
Humans have hearts (wants) that can want a lot of things that are not theirs, so they steal it, take it by force or by stealth (robbing houses), and by mugging in the street…or even stealing a rubber in school. That’s like a small war – taking a rubber that is not yours – and so somebody has suffered a loss and must buy another one.
Wars are much bigger and a lot more people suffer loss.
God does not stop people being bad, nor does He force them to be good. It might be a very strange world if people were forced to be ’good’. I asked a class once ’How would it be if everybody obeyed the Ten Commandments like no lies, no stealing, no murder etc.?’ One boy said: ’There would not be any news would there, Sir.’ Funny or not? It makes the news very interesting but there is far too much bad news and too little good news.
None of that bad stuff is in heaven: ’God’s eye cannot look upon evil.’
There is a group of folk in the USA called ’The Amish People’ They will not use modern ’things’ like cars, trucks, tractors, home phones or ’modern’ things (there is a phone in the street for very short calls). They try to live like people did in Bible times. Recently a big ’Blue’ (dispute) arose in the community over how to behave. They took the dispute to the law courts. Dunno what it was about. Society grows and changes – maybe the girls were tired of wearing 200 year old dress styles – I know not.
10/29/14
Q141: Why are people angry?
Q141: Why are people angry? Why people turn bad?
’Help!’ that’s a huge question! I could fill many pages with my beliefs, but others would be different or write whole books about it. Some human hearts get hungry for money and power to rule over people.
Millions of people could be angry at the way some nation’s leaders (self-styled ’Presidents’, Dictators and Military bosses) put much money in foreign banks for their own benefit when they retire. Mostly, the millions of poor people know nothing about that – they are just hungry and do not get to go to school. And certain giant oil companies take millions of dollars in oil from poor countries and do not equally share the money with the poor people.
In Australia many kids are angry because Mum and Dad do not really want them around. It does happen. I heard a policeman tell a TV reporter here in Perth, that they (the Police) take some kids home but the kids don’t want to get out of the police car and go inside to their own home! They know they are not wanted there. Drugs, alcohol and sexual abuse make home a nasty place to be. Horrible for the kids.
Some kids can be sick and not realise that they are sick and should see a doctor. Must tell Mum if you are not well. Maybe Mum is on drugs and doesn’t care.
People wanting ’Things’ too much can make for an angry child. A new mobile phone, a better bike, a new Video game can distort a child’s opinion on their parents’ love for them. And some parents fail to fully explain the reason why. One reason that really annoys me (The Answerer) is that the wretched TV, radio, newspapers, etc., urge you to ’get the best car’, ’have the greenest lawn in the street’, the latest iPad or phone or whatever – to impress other people!! But, we have not got the money, or rich parents so maybe some get angry. We did without mobile phones, iPods and GPSs for 5,000 years ’OK? One of the retail ’Giants’ put on their TV ads. ’100% Happy’ What a lie – what a load of codswallop – that things you buy make you 100% happy. They break, don’t work and much of it is soon in the rubbish bin. A heart at peace and a happy home makes you happy.
Many people do get angry and do turn bad and unless someone helps them by showing kindness and guiding them along new paths in life. Sexual abuse and emotional abuse can permanently damage a person’s mind. Yes, it can really. Some people, even in churches, sexually abuse kids and emotionally damage kids minds. Some kids never really recover even with big compensation money and apologies. Children are very vulnerable to evil adults. Such child abuse is the worst kind and Jesus said the ones who do it are in for very severe punishment later on (Matthew 18:6). That does not help kids much now, and anger and ’badness’ can be a way for some people to feel better – by hurting someone else.
I have a copy of a ’classic’ Australian book: Robbery Under Arms, by Rolf Boldrewood. He was a magistrate and later a judge a hundred years ago, and made up the story from cases that had come before him in court. The father of the Marstens, a family who engaged in ’Bushranging’ (like robbing the mail coach for the gold shipment) and many years of such bushranging activity. In his later years the father revealed that as a child, he was without parents, or they were useless, and in orphanages and ’The Workhouse’ he was, for years, very badly treated by the ’upper class’ people in England i.e. beatings, hunger and no love or kindness shown to him at all. In later life he vowed to hurt such people whenever and however he could. HE hated them!! So he became ’Bad’. Maybe I would be the same!? I know not.
A long answer to a real problem but I hope that sort of answered your question.
10/29/14
Q142: Why are sisters devils?
Q142: Why are sisters devils? What can you do about them?
Whatever you do don’t shoot ’em! (only joking). It will get better as you all grow older – this is a normal process in families and most kids are ambivalent (love and hate close together) at some time.
And ’No.’ I cannot explain it. Every family is different. Some girls just adore their brothers, while others hate them, and some siblings (brothers and sisters) hate each other…but look out if anybody wants to hurt them…fierce punishment will be upon anyone who touches my family! It should get better as you grow older – if it does not get better; then maybe an independent counsellor can point you in a better direction to be real friends.
And parents ’favouring’ one child over another can be really bad causing one to hate the other (but some parents still do it). PS: ’What do your sisters think of you?’
In the Bible, Jacob ’favoured’ Rachel over Leah and there was quite a bit of anger and hostility in the family. Later Jacob ’favoured’ Joseph over his brothers by that ’coat of many colours’. Murder was in the air and 'fortunately' Joseph was sold into slavery in Egypt. That’s in Genesis chapter 29 to 31. It all finished up OK as God had a plan for Joseph to become PM of Egypt – and he did (Genesis chapter 37 to 50). Great story.
10/29/14
Q143: How come some people are brown and white?
Q143: How come some people are brown and white?
They are born that way because their Mum and Dad had brown or white skin. They inherit all the traits of their parents – skin colour, hair, shape, height and so on.
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