INTRODUCTION:

I AM NOT ordained. I have NO advanced religious degree. I have done a great bit of "lay pastor" work. DO NOT take any of my thoughts, words or encouragement as "Gospel". It is possible that I do at times profess the Gospel accurately but that would have be by God's doing. I do have many friends and family who are ordained and I do consult them as often as I see necessary!

IFF (scientific notation meaning "if and ONLY if") there is a bit of praiseworthy aspects to me...It is HE in me.

NOW...Overture, hit the lights, this is it, the night of heights & oh what heights we'll hit, On with the show. This is it!

(looney toons theme)

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Ockham's Razor....NO, Not Gillette's last innovation, quite old in fact.  Most often encountered in my life and experience relative to the hereafter– e.g. is there a heaven or even a hereafter of ANY sort...most simplified "Does God exist??"

Typically: do y0u believe in another life or life beyond this realm? Arguement, If I believe it does and He does and I'm wrong....oh well, "wasted" hope and thought i suppose,

...BUT If I choose NOT to believe it or He doesn't...well, then YOU may be MIGHTILY SCREWED!!

Ockham would say, in other worlds, using the least amount of variables, simplify the issue to the point where you're left with only one LOGICAL choice no matter your beliefs.

This is NOT LIVING as God would desire us to live. THAT is hedging one's bet. Sure fine in Vegas (uh-hum...Sin City lol.)

God asks that we live in Faith, Hope, Love and Confidence ABSOLUTE BELIEF in Faith. As a matter of fact, there are a number of comments, particularly in the book of Revelation from St. John, about churches and people living this way– paraphrased "you are neither hot nor cold"...you are bland and without ANY flavor, I spit you out of my mouth...e,g.  TAKE SOME STAND...Geez!

By dictionary reference:

In philosophy, Ockham's razor (Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami)is the problem-solving principle that recommends  

searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony. Attributed to William of Ockham, a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian, it is frequently cited as Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, which translates as "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity",^[1][2] although Occam never used these exact words.Popularly, the principle is sometimes inaccurately^[3] paraphrased as "The simplest explanation is usually the best one."^[4]

This philosophical razor advocates that when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one shoulspeech to

spritten wordd prefer the one that requires the fewest assumptions^[3] and that this is not meant to be a way of choosing between hypotheses thatmake different predictions. Similarly, in science, Occam's razor is used as an abductive heuristic in the development of theoretical models rather than as a rigorous arbiter between candidate models

I'm thinking God wouldn't be a fan of rice cakes; i liken them to cardboard cakes...Mmmmmm! "Oh ye of little"... flavor. Bleech!

If you've read any of my blogs, you know that I am an ABSOLUTE believer in the hereafter. Why you may ask and again I will reply "He is  creator", he tells as He has prepared a room for believers, why would he lie?  As best my reading tells me He is no fan of wasted effort...to design planned obsolesence or degredation and failure seems an anathema. it seems to me he builds creation to persevere as He desires. (REFER BACK to my "You must be this crazy to ride this ride" post.

God's way is decidedly not the "easy way"...biblically-ish, it would be easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle that to strictly adhere to God's dictates to achieve heaven.

No, its not easy but then again almost everything truly worth pursuing isn't east 

What will today bring? I have no idea. I'm sure it will encounter some discovery, awe and some learning opportunity that seems like a pretty awesome thing.  Well today you may encounter some hardship, some possible very very hardships yes it may but that doesn't mean that we have to view it as hardship perhaps it's a learning opportunity that God is allowing us to have.

Open heart and eyes folks! I've heard people say God hates me. He does nothing that adds benefit to my life or promise or hope...NOTHING. That is your human perspective. We have no idea (nor could we) on what God's intention are. Why did my brother die at 44?

I do not know; I will one day I'm guessing and I guarantee you it's purposeful for God. We were not promised a life of ease, of continuous joy, of no problems and actually how lousy that would be if it was the case because my greatest learning opportunities have been in some of awful stressful times.

I love all of you all who are reading this because one :you're reading it; two because you are a fellow human on this journey with me for my thinking Occam's razor makes as much sense as believing the Earth is flat. There's all kinds of proof to contrary and I have very ever rarely had the easiest way be the best way for something to happen not only that I've never done anything with the intention of doing it good enough. To me "Good enough" is a mortal enemy of best. I try to do my best because that's the talent God gave me and instilled in my soul.