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Blue Moon

11/2/2017

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A Blue Moon is the name given to the second Full Moon in one month. When we have two Full Moons in one month, due to our calendar’s operating proprieties, we have a Blue Moon. Our next Blue Moon will be on January 31, 2018.

However, my concern is not with our calendar having a Full Moon appear every 29.5 days or the rare occasion of a Blue Moon. I wish to address our next Full Moon on November 4 of 2017.

Over the years I have saved a great deal of money by using the October or November Full Moon as a reminder for the following actions around my house. Actions that save money, energy, earth, and our health:

Check and/or change all batteries in Smoke Detectors and Co alarms.
Change all timers on lights inside and outside the house.
Clean out all rain gutters.
Bring in all house plants and summer time decor.***
Drain all outdoor garden hoses, rain barrels, and clear off all drains.***
Shut off all water supplies to the outside and drain spigots.***
Blow out Low Flow watering and/or underground sprinklers.
Clean out, shut down, and cover AC units.***
Bring in or cover patio furniture.***
Gas Grills and Tanks should be cleaned, checked and serviced whenever they are scheduled for such service. Do Not bring Gas Tanks inside anywhere!
Oil heating units should be serviced and have a Steady State of Efficiency Test done. More info at our EnergyHotwire website: Click HERE

*** For those living in colder areas for the winter seasons

So each Fall Season when you see the Full Moon, use this as a reminder that summertime is over and "Check Ups" are needed around the house. Also this is the best time to "button up" your outdoor areas, for the winter will arrive.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Solar Fountain & Eclipse

8/22/2017

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America's 2017 Solar E!

My Solar powered water fountain is another action I did so that I can be “going true green.” I improvised the construction with left over parts and pieces that all came together as a conglomerate, thus provoked the fountain’s name…

Then the American 2017 Solar Eclipse occurred slowly casting a shadow that decreased the output from the 10 watt solar panel. As crickets became pronounced in sound production with this false twilight, the babbling water in the fountain stopped. The event gave a realistic aura to my fountain named The Ruins of Pompeii.

So the moral to this story is… Well, just look into a Solar powered pump for your water fountain, if you have one. Make sure you recycle and reuse the same water running through the pump. A battery backup works fine for the cloudy days and evenings when you sit outside with family and friends. The benefits are numerous all around. My water fountain comes on every morning when the sun comes up and runs all day with Free electrical energy from our sun. If I had to pay an electric bill, then I guess I would only turn the fountain on for special occasions. With Solar, I can enjoy the sounds of running water from the fountain every time I step into my yard. Even when I am just outside to pick some carrots or a water melon. This is an excellent Going True Green action that saves money, energy, water, and our environment. All by just living a more sustainable life right in your own home. If we all did these actions, together we the people, will save more of everything compared to any corporate entity.

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Fertilizer Out Of Thin Air

8/14/2017

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Many of us have heard of sayings such as: “Money doesn’t grow on trees” and “You can’t just make money appear out of thin air.”

Well, let us try this… How would you like to know how you can save money by getting something for Free “Out Of Thin Air?” Too good to be true, right? This time the answer is TRUE!

Do you have flowers, plants, or crops? Do you spend money on buying fertilizer to help your garden grow? If yes, then you are wasting your money on a product that you really don’t need because you can get fertilizer for free out of thin air!

When a lightning storm occurs, that will naturally fertilize all living plants! The science behind this is as follows: Lightning causes the nitrogen molecules in the air to cling to the oxygen molecules. This bond forms nitrogen oxides. The nitrogen oxides will either fall from the sky or be collected by the rain drops. Fertilizer’s main ingredient is nitrogen. So stop buying a product that God provides to us for free.

Now to enhance this Free benefit from the sky, many farmers will run bare copper wiring around copper stakes to form a loop around the flower patch or tomato plants. The copper wire will attract static electricity and add more nitrogen to the soil. However, I found the following to be an easier step and a better solution.

First, nitrogen from lightning will not be enough for many plants to grow as strong or as big as you may like. However, that is seen by some people as one’s own opinion. NASA has data showing that more than 2,000 thunderstorms take place around the world at any given time. Combined, these storms produce at least 100 lightning flashes per second. Yet, in addition to nitrogen helping plant life, so does bacteria. That is the extra step I take to fertilizer my plants and food that I grow. COMPOSTING.

I make my own dirt, aka Top Soil, aka Fertilizer. To read more about how to fertilize for free and save even more money, go to my GoingTrueGreen.com Blog dated 4-7-2015 under the Topic called Composting. The title of the blog is: There Is Money In Composting

These are just two more Going True Green actions to living a more sustainable life that saves you money, energy, health, and our environment! Now that is Going True Green.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Springtime in February

3/13/2017

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Recent warm temperatures in the New York City area this past February and early March has brought upon me a wave of questions from followers of my Going True Green Blog and website. Snow one day, near 70 degrees the next, and now a blizzard, can easily make many people concern with understanding what these type of weather patterns actually mean.

Since I don't want to add any fuel to the fire of misconceptions by using verbiage that can be misconstrued, I contacted Dr. Stephen Schwartz at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for additional insight. Dr. Schwartz is the Senior Scientist for BNL's Environmental and Climate Sciences Department.

Dr. Schwartz

I told Dr. Schwartz that several people from the Northeast were asking if the warm temperatures they were experiencing ever occurred in February before and if this was a direct result of climate change?

"Hard to attribute specific events (warm seasons or extreme events) to a particular cause given inherent variability associated with climate." Dr. Schwartz presented. "But temperature seems to be inexorably rising. Still, we had quite low temps here two winters ago while much of Northern Hemisphere was near the record high, a consequence of location of loops on Jet Stream. So no climatologist will draw conclusions from one or a few seasons. That said the record high global temps in 2015 and 2016 are consistent with warming expected from increases in GreenHouse Gasses."

Another question was about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) allegedly altering numbers to support a Climate Change narrative. Dr. Schwartz stated, "No evidence that NOAA is manipulating data to achieve a political objective. Always hard to prove a negative. But analyses of temperature data by several groups all coincide closely."

Many times, I have experienced these type of generalized questions only leading to a debate on who should we blame. For me, the Blame Game is useless. We don't know definitely what outcome will come upon us from a changing climate or warmer ocean temperatures. We also do not know the time frame for when something bad or good will occur. Needless to say, a good or bad outcome, does not matter. The bottom line is this: With what we do know about our planet's climate there should not be a single company or individual in our world, that would want to RISK our children's future. This is the reason why at GoingTrueGreen.com, we teach everyone how to live a more sustainable life! The reasons for doing so are not based on fear or blithe, they are because of the following:

- You save MONEY, lots of money.
- You save ENERGY, thus saving more Money.
- Improve your HEALTH.
- Improve our ENVIRONMENT and yes, perhaps save the world.

Everyone can accomplish all of the above without any sacrifice to the lifestyle known. If you peruse some of my blog posts, you will soon learn my own firsthand accounts and how saving Money, Energy, Health, and our Environment is personally satisfying and financially rewarding.

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A "True" Hero

12/9/2016

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A "True" Hero

I have several heroes and heroines, but I only look up to a few "True" heroes and heroines. As for male heros, my father, uncles, and John Glenn. I see John Glenn as a True hero not just because he was a veteran, pilot, astronaut, and political leader, but because of what he didn't do. Some may think that he never walked on the moon, but it is the fact that he never walked out on his wife, family, or God.

Annie and John Glenn were married 73 years and life wasn't easy. Two wars and raising a family when being first to ride a questionable rocket into orbit isn't normal. Yet, John Glenn was a normal man. A good gentle man, that held all that was truly important to him within his spirit. He spent weeknights on base in the Bachelor Officer's Quarters when married. He kept his room as if he was a monk. Photos, training manuals, and a well read Bible. He would drive home on the weekends to be with his family and he was by far all of the other astronauts' astronaut.

When my family moved, I found myself attending one of the High Schools named after him and there I started that school's first Astronomy Club. Our Student Council started a routine in the early 1970s to invite John Glenn every year to speak at a graduation cermony. In the 1990s John Glenn ran into a fellow alumni in Washington, D.C. and knew our school, since several are named after him, as "You are from that high school that keeps inviting me every year after year!" He was then kind enough to explain why it was so difficult for him to attend an occasion for any high school graduation.

For John Glenn, his wife Annie was his hero. As for his legacy? John Glenn did not care to project what that should be, he stated that will be written by others. So this is my contribution: John Glenn was about finding solutions and knowing the definition to words like virtue. He was a "true" hero for all.

God's speed John Glenn.

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Stars, Earth, and the Force

12/22/2015

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This morning I saw Star Wars, The Force Awakens. I saw this movie in the same theater that I saw the very first one so many years ago...

Of course the theater has been rebuilt, remodeled, and upgraded, over the years. Nevertheless, many things still remain the same, just like the message from Star Wars: There will always be good and evil in our world, you just have to evaluate ALL the FACTS to know that you are standing on the right side. When you evaluate all the facts, there is only one side that removes all doubt and that is the light of the world. While George Lucas demonstrates there are two sides of the Force, in our world we know the two sides as good and evil.

Many times we have difficulty seeing the good in our world, especially when the world's media companies just focus on the bad news in hopes for higher ratings. Yet, God has shown us the power of the good side. For those who need evidence, look no further than what Jesus teaches us and the proof He left us. Look upon all the real scientific facts given to us with an unpretentious mind from the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium head cloth.

Your research and evaluation shall be a long process when done correctly, yet when concluded, you will not just hope, believe, or have faith. You will KNOW and yes, the good side of the force will be very strong within you.

As for how any of this has anything to do with Going True Green, the reason is because everything is connected. This is the solution for our planet's limitations, dangers, and any of the many potential climate change problems confronting us tomorrow. We have three (3) fronts against climate change: Political, Corporate, and Individual.

The Individual Front, you and me, is the KEY. As an individual, we all must lead the corporations and political engines to the solution. By being connected, evaluating all the facts and recognizing the risks we create by failing as an individual...
Individuals can change inefficient light bulbs in their house to compact fluorescents or LEDs.
Individuals realize we now eat far more red meat and the results are not helping our health or our environment.
Individuals can have a compost in their backyard or in their building's courtyard.
Individuals must evaluate what they are buying and why. Is the product a "bill of goods" that we don't need?

The list goes on and on, but more importantly is how the list converts...
Individuals are contractors doing work wrong, cutting corners, or help clients save money.
Individuals operate corporations.
Individuals hold public office.
Individuals are politicians!

Once the heart and mind of an individual is corrupted, for whatever reason, and they did not take the time to learn all the facts, to talk to all the people, to work with everyone, then there is never a team effort or real shared concern. Thus, there will never be any solutions.

You and me, each individual in this world is the solution. That is my message, that is my goal with the work of GoingTrueGreen.com and EnergyHotwire.com. Together, first as an individual, then as a team, we will help save our world. For those who literally turn to the dark side, we must come together as one to stop them. For if they ever use nuclear weapons, then we will have no world to save.

This Christmas, start with the research, get all the facts on one topic at a time, then evaluate as an unpretentious scientist. As an individual I am living a more sustainable life by being more connected to God, people, and our environment. I have been successful saving money, energy, and our environment, while living healthier. Don't just hope we can help save the world, know that you can. For the same power and force that rose Jesus from the grave is within us. Peace be with you and have a blessed Christmas.

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Does The Media Actually Read?

6/26/2015

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Getting A Read On The Media

Did any reporter completely read the 180 page Encyclical Letter by Pope Francis before commenting on the message?

According to many headlines, captions, reports, summaries, soundbites and editorials, they obviously did not. I saw manipulated versions that just report lies by the “process of omission” for the sole purpose of creating additional erroneous controversies specifically done to increase ratings and make money. One of the very problems the Pope addresses in his Encyclical Letter:

It follows that the fragmentation of knowledge and the isolation of bits of information can actually become a form of ignorance, unless they are integrated into a broader vision of reality.

From the start of the letter, sections were extracted to claim that the Pope blames man’s society and market for creating Climate Change. Citing only our Industrial Age along with cars, poor transportation systems, nonrenewable fuels to produce energy, manufacturing plants, polluting, and consumption of our Earth’s resources, is a misrepresentation of the real reasons to why we have global issues destroying our environment that also harm the poorest of our brothers and sisters.

However, when you continue to read, you learn that this presented impression is only isolated bits of information. Pope Francis provided that while our creativity has produced products, actions, and inventions that are causing Climate Change, that is not where we should place blame. In fact, Pope Francis states that humankind has invented amazing products, produced life saving actions, and has wonderful accomplishments. The blame falls not upon “WHAT” we have, but the “HOW” we use them.

The real reasons for the problems we now face are from our attitudes and our lifestyles. A complete and in depth view reveals that the true reasons come from: business’ missions to increase the profit margin at any cost; greed; indifferences; misguided goals; misinformed conclusions; lack of morals and virtue; self righteous assessments that place a higher value on one self over other humans, animals, and nature; spurning the fact about everyone and everything is connected; ignoring long term consequences “So Not” to spend more money on a better way or solution; knowing there will be no consequences in their lifetime for how they do things and not caring about what our own grandchildren will face. Thus in one word: anthropocentrism.

Where we ourselves have the final word, where everything is simply our property and we use it for ourselves alone. The misuse of creation begins when we no longer recognize any higher instance than ourselves, when we see nothing else but ourselves.

Hence we should not be surprised to find, in conjunction with the omnipresent technocratic paradigm and the cult of unlimited human power, the rise of a relativism which sees everything as irrelevant unless it serves one’s own immediate interests. There is a logic in all this whereby different attitudes can feed on one another, leading to environmental
degradation and social decay.

We Must Stop Walking Toward A Cliff

Humankind has failed to realize that we have inadvertently packed the wrong items in our backpack for survival. We must stop walking this trail that leads to the edge of a cliff, and each one of us must turn toward a new direction, a new mindset. However, first we must put our backpacks down to eliminate the following invisible forces:

The Culture of Relativism, Use and Throw Away logic, The Culture of Consumerism, The Cult of Appearances, Mockery of Ethics, Immorality of Greed, Belittling Faith, Jesting about Honesty, and the worst of all, holding Anthropocentrism in our hearts.

The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast.

So Pope Francis told us that the guilt is within a company’s mission and one’s own attitude. He presented these truths by quoting many different people, speaking with words that Native Americans speak, citing examples, and pointing out the good that is within each of us. His letter speaks the hard truth while proclaiming the hope humankind is capable of. I was particularly happy to see Pope Francis point out a few claims that I have made over the years, such as the need for a Team Effort and that we are all connected. For if we harm our environment, we harm ourselves and if we destroy our environment, we destroy ourselves.

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Meeting A Heroine

5/3/2015

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Meeting Dr. Earle, Hero

Dr. Sylvia Earle, spoke this afternoon at Cold Spring Harbor’s National Laboratory and I was fortunate to be in attendance. I have several people that I admire, yet Dr. Earle has provided me with inspiration beyond depths of any ocean or height of any sky. This may sound flamboyant, but the statement holds true. The reasons are not just because of her work, reputation, accomplishments, or the wise consultation she provided to America’s Presidents, but because of who she is as a person, the way she speaks, and presents herself.

Her positive attitude and elegance abounds like an ocean as she speaks and presents short video clips to convey her powerful message, “The ocean is large and resilient, but it is not too big to fail. What we are taking out of the sea, what we are putting into the sea are actions that are undermining the most important thing the ocean delivers to humankind – our very existence.”

This amazing and remarkable woman is a true American Hero. She is a marine biologist, explorer, author, lecturer, National Geographic explorer-in-residence, first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NASA is the other one), named first Hero for the Planet in 1998, and yes, fell in love, married, and had children. She also speaks about all the life in the oceans with God in the equation.

Dr. Earle not only has my respect, she also has reached goals that I strive to reach, mostly to be a voice that will inspire, educate, and consult. Now she has established her own global network of marine areas marked for protection. Dr. Earle calls these preserves, “Hope Spots to save and restore the blue heart of the planet.”

It is an understatement when I say, “If Humankind did not have Dr. Earle, our environment, our world, would not be as kind to us as we would think.”

After thanking Dr. Earle for her time and sharing her knowledge, I asked her about a situation developing at a Wastewater Treatment plant and my recent discussions on Linkedin about Deep Sea Dumping. I will share her answer in my next Going True Green Blog Post.

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Environment & Spiritual Awareness

3/20/2015

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Some say that Pope Francis has elevated the environment to be part of our spiritual awareness. After all, the earth and all of the means provided to us are a gift from God.

More specifically, Pope Francis said on May 21, 2014;
"If we destroy creation, creation will destroy us."

One must give pause to ask if the Pope's words are a hyperbole or prophecy? Is this a prophecy because it is from a study of theology or is this a hyperbole from a review of scientific data?

Some will say perhaps there is a little of both, because of the sound belief that we must all care for what and who we have in our lives. If we are not our brother's keeper and the keeper of our earth, will the results be a profound loss of our biodiversity as we know it?

"If we destroy creation, creation will destroy us."

Too much time is wasted on debating what disasters will occur or how very little will change, because of Climate Change. The fact is, we don't have all the statistics tabulated to layout the exact time of any specific occurrences that may or may not become a reality because of Climate Change. However, we do have enough scientific data to clearly state our planet's average temperature has increased and yes, humankind is a contributing factor. The What, Where, and When, is not for us to schedule and Who's Fault is not to debate, but for all of us to prevent additional planet wide temperature increases by working together as one team. If we don't, you only need to look at recent events in Bangladesh and Australia to see the destructive force of a warmer environment.

I am tired of people claiming they know the "We Are Doomed" scenario just for their 15 minutes of fame and the other side saying, "Never In My Lifetime" will this happen. Well, what about your children or grandchildren's lifetime? Both these claims are not formulated well at all and they are immensely selfish. Humankind is very intelligent, when we choose to be, and we can overcome greed by learning how to evaluate all the facts. The book by John Klotz, called Quantum Christ: The Shroud of Turin and the Apocalypse of Selfishness offers an excellent presentation on how we must evaluate everything correctly (even God) and be selfless.

Evaluating the real science about Climate Change shows our oceans are approximately 1.5 to 2 degrees warmer over the past 5 decades. An increase by two more degrees over another decade or two is very disconcerting because scientific data shows a warmer planet will cause the ice of the Tundra to melt. The known methane trapped within that ice will warm and turn into a gas. Thus, escaping into the atmosphere of our world, causing more warming since methane gas is far worse than the carbon emissions that create a Greenhouse effect. You may wish to consider the information provided by Thom Hartmann in The Last Hours Of Humanity: Warming The World To Extinction.

As individuals, we must make choices that can contribute positively to helping our world and be within our realistic budgets of time and capabilities. For myself, I do not own a car. When the Tesla electric car becomes affordable, I will own that and recharge the batteries with solar panels. Then, yes I will recycle the batteries and all the car parts when the vehicle no longer functions correctly. For political leaders and corporations, the responsibilities are far greater and there is a definitive need to realize basic facts: To paraphrase another Pope, "People ahead of profits" was said by Pope Benedict XVI and Matthew Kelly stated in his book The Dream Manager: "Contrary to unwritten management theory and popular practice, people do not exist for the company. The company exists for people."

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The Man Who Saved the World

Once individuals and corporate entities face the facts, realize the truths, and become selfless, humankind will do just fine in spite of ourselves. I just pray we come together as one team before it is too late. Don't say that will never happen, because humankind did accomplish this once before! Yes, only once, but we must learn from history how successful this worldwide effort was and still is today. All started by one man who received a Nobel Prize. Thanks to this Dutch Atmospheric Chemist, Paul Jozef Crutzen, many say the world was saved. His research discovered the effects of Ozone-Depleting compounds and our world came together to pass laws to stop and reverse the damage being done to our Ozone Layer. People, politicians, and corporations became selfless after evaluating all the facts. NASA, America's space program, began documenting the damaged Ozone Layer from space and the world came together. At the time, President Reagan challenged the DuPont Company to find a replacement for their damaging chemicals, they did and stayed solvent. Products stopped being sold and companies changed manufacturing procedures for all products that were contributing to the destruction of our Ozone Layer. The Montreal Protocol treaty came into existence, because humankind of our world came together! Today, the improved and repaired Ozone Layer is a testament to humankind. So yes, I know we can work together as one team once again. We just need a few more real "Superheroes" like Paul Crutzen.

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EARTH TIME

3/11/2015

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Have the Time?

At New York's 1964 World's Fair, Disney had an attraction called the Carousel of Progress, where you traveled through "time" to witness all the modern conveniences that have come into our lives over the decades. The theme song, There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, will still pop into my head when I see another new device that should make our lives easier. (The song didn't replay in my head when I saw the new Apple Watch, because this new product appears to be more about what people want as opposed to what people need. Besides, many already have this, its called an iPhone.)

Yet, despite all our modern tools to give us more time, most of us only have less time. For some, we are using that extra time to do much more than the regular responsibilities of the day. Such as volunteering for several programs at church, community, along with helping family and friends. Perhaps an extra job to make "ends" meet, developing a social program of your own, inventing a better product, evaluating new ways to consume less energy and help the environment around your own home. To some other people they see you as having "too much time" on your hands, but the reality is that you mastered our modern tools to give you more time, thus allowing you to do so much more.

Today, for most kids graduating High School, they will spend 15,000 hours in front of a screen and only 11,000 hours in a classroom. Our modern electronic babysitter has pre-schoolers watching 5,000 hours of television. By the time you reach the age of 75 years, the average person will spend 13 YEARS of their LIVES watching television, about 3 YEARS watching commercials! Opening Junk Mail will consume 8 MONTHS of our lives, while we spend 6 MONTHS sitting at a red traffic light.

So how much "time" do we spend on what we truly value and then how much time is left over for us to help save the world? With all of today's time saving conveniences, this should be no problem, right?

Surveys show that most people are not managing their time well at all and they are allowing modern tools to consume their time instead of offering more time. Please spend a minute of your time now to read and learn the following:

An average married couple today spends only 4 minutes a day in meaningful conversation!
An average working couple spends only 30 SECONDS a day in conversation with their children!
An average American will only think about saving some energy when an extra high electric bill arrives.
An average American will only do something about saving energy and our environment just a few times in their life.
An average American who goes to church each week will spend only 6 MONTHS on a relationship with God by the age of 75 years. That 6 months is the same amount of time spent sitting at a red traffic light! Yet, we spend 13 years watching TV!

How many of us don't taste a food because we "think" we won't like it. How many of us don't experience the great outdoors because we fear it, how many of us spurn God because we don't understand. The author of Upper Room, The Way: 33AD to 57AD stated, "If you limit yourself to what you know and like, then you limit your knowledge." The answers can be found for everything if we only spend a little more "time" evaluating all the facts, the complete picture, with an unpretentious eye. This then will give us the truth and knowledge to be a VANGUARD in everything we do and we will have the time to do it. After all, science has proven that "time" doesn't exist. We humans made up time to measure the coming and passing of things. Therefore, not having the time isn't a problem and science's "no such thing as time" may just be the explanation to how God always was and always will be.

I will now take the time to thank Fr. Kevin Cronin, OFM (franmow.org) for providing survey data about TIME here on Earth.

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