The Real Cost of Net Zero !

The Real Cost of Net Zero isn't Zero!

It's more like One followed by multiple Zeros!

The decimal is the Point.

The Capital and Labour is the issue.

But without Foreign Investment there is shortage without  Hi-Technology Storage. But even that is Not  the Real and urgent Need and Issue.

Tragedy for the everyday consumer!

and the Real Cost Tragedy to the Nation... and the World.  Hhmmm ?

Does this mean, go more gas or should we sow even more multiple billions and not weed? When do we harvest? When  do utilities become cheaper? If ever?

What about carbon capture technologies? What about go- nuclear?

Please watch the documentary: The Real Cost of Net Zero .on Sky News.com.au website -Australia.

Monolithic Truth? Or Bolgna?

As terrible as fake news is and mis and dis information has been utilised since the earliest years of mankind... well, Free speech has been fought for nearly as much. Only Christianity changed the virus of lies into freedom of speech when and where men and women told the unstained truth. Men and women who followed the precepts of honesty as proclaimed by that marvellous Theologian of Christ.

Put off the old man...

It's been said that lies travel faster around the world than truth can put on its trousers. Winston Churchill said words to that affect. Truth, a rare commodity in today's world of spin, legalese and taffee- stretching reporting.

When Pontus Pilate asked the King of the Jews,  what is truth? Jesus of Nazareth simply stood there. Was he afraid to tell the truth about his mission or what he was up to? Did he shut his mouth because he was frightened? Or had he simply wanted appear knowledgeable by not answering any questions? Toughing his way out of trouble before the Roman procurator. Was he the ancient consummate politician or the Messiah as Hebrew ( and as  Christians  later believed) prophecy proclaimed? Where does the truth lie? Or stand?

Did he,  in fact, just stand there as the embodiment of Truth in a human being?

Believe it or not?

 

 

Belief in Gods and faith in God

 

Believe it or not?

 

We might think that we can divide all human beings into two groups: those who believe in God and those who do not. Often in conversations, one person will ask another, “Do you believe in God?” and receive a simple yes or no.

 

But that way of thinking obscures the vast complication of the question.

 

 For “God” means many things to many people. There is the highest Hindu god, Brahma, who resides far from the realm of human thought, beyond light and darkness, beyond good and evil. There is Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, who gets jealous and angry, commits adultery and tosses lightning bolts at people. There is Aristotle’s Prime Mover, the first cause of everything, who nevertheless does not know or love anything on the earth. There is the God of pantheists like Plotinus, Spinoza, and Hegel, who are identical to the world and the world to him.

 

 There is the God of deists like Lord Herbert, who thinks that God made the world run according to natural laws and never interfered with it again. To some, God is a benevolent grandfather figure or grandmother whose love excludes any kind of punishment or discipline. To some, God is a blessing disperse-r who gives people everything they want as long as they pray with enough faith. To still others, God is a cosmic policeman who stands ready to pounce on anyone who makes a moral mistake.

Then there are the gods of the amateur theologians, the ones who say, “Yes, I believe in God,” and immediately follow that with, “My God is like this,” or “My God would never do that.” 

Clearly, it is not the case that all these “gods” are different names of one being. These “gods” are vastly different. Also we can similarly dismiss the common comment that “under the surface, all religions are the same.” Worshiping Aristotle’s Prime Mover is clearly distinct from worshiping Baal or Aphrodite.

 Consider an accomplished, many Oscar-awarded Actor or singer like Taylor Swift. Such are often worshiped as deities or gods. Then there are the sex goddesses of the New Age kind. What of the survivor–gods and money- gods or power or fame? Clearly they are worshiped as gods. Then there is the god of science and technology. Or the universe which many contend acts like a god.

But who is your ultimate god and have you heard of the “one true God?”

 

 

Freedom to Believe

 

 Freedom to Believe

 

Os Guinness writes, “Freedom of religion and belief affirms the dignity, worth and agency of every human person by freeing us to align ‘who we understand ourselves to be’ with ‘what we believe ultimately is,’ and then to think, live, speak and act in line with those convictions.”

 Just as the individual possesses freedom of conscience, Australia should continue to provide freedom of religion in the land.

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Sunrise

 

Discouragement Weaponised

 Dear Reader,

This is what I discovered. 

It’s what I so desperately needed; perhaps you need this as well?

The enemy uses discouragement as a weapon against you!

Once a person feels distant from God, for some reason or another, their interests are often directed elsewhere because they are discouraged in their relationship with God. This often leads to depression, addictions, obsessions,  roller-coaster feelings, spending binges and unbalanced priorities. After a while, the person loses more and more interest in their relationship with God, until they simply don't even bother to pick up their Bibles and spend time with Him. 

This is how Satan will use discouragement to destroy a person's relationship with God.The whole reason that Satan (who works through impossible virtuous demands and evil spirits) wants us to feel discouraged is because he wants to get us to a place where we will give up. He wants our relationship with God to just seem "impossible" and too hard to maintain. This leads a person to lukewarmness and deflates their faith in God, because they have no confidence in their relationship with God. The Bible tells us to draw near to God with assurance, having our heart's sprinkled clean from an evil conscience!
 

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our
bodies washed with pure water.” Hebrews 10:22

The reason that Satan tries to attack is with guilt and shame, is for the very purpose of destroying our confidence in our relationship with God.
 

Satan uses past failures as well. Satan will also work diligently to convince a person that because of a certain failure(s) in their past, that they cannot be restored in right standing before God. This often involves one sin in particular, such as abortion or sexual immorality. Even though the sin has been repented of (confessed as sin and turned from), the enemy will continue to badger the person with guilt and shame over what they have done, as if they never repented of it! This is known as false guilt, because once a sin is repented of, that failure is washed away by the Blood of Christ. In other words, Satan is pointing at something that is no longer on your account! God's Word tells us that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us.

 This is a promise!

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9

In the above verse, we also find that He won't just cleanse us of certain sins and not others, but we find that He is prepared to cleanse us of ALL unrighteousness!

Praise God for His mercy!

 By Robert. L. Bolt.

Neo- Billionaires ?

 Carnegie’s Cost Accounting

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”

—Colton

Anyone who has made it through business school has taken a course in cost accounting. Fewer make millions without business school these post –modern times. So, a few people realized that the subject was a significant reason why Andrew Carnegie became one of the wealthiest men the world has ever known. Carnegie learned about cost accounting during his twelve years with the Pennsylvania Railroad—considered by many as America’s “graduate school of business” in the mid-nineteenth century.

When he bought into the steel business, Carnegie found that most steel mills had no idea whether they were operating at a profit or a loss until their books were balanced at the end of the year.

 By instituting a weekly accounting of all functions and knowing precisely how much each activity cost, Carnegie lowered the cost of producing steel from $56 dollars per ton to $11.50 per ton.

Other steel producers scoffed at his efficiency techniques, saying that running the mills twenty-four hours a day would wear out the equipment. That was true, but Carnegie had counted the costs and constantly bought better equipment, replacing older, inefficient equipment even when it was not worn out.

 Many called him wasteful, but Carnegie’s mills made a profit while others barely survived. Even though Carnegie knew little about steel, he knew how to institute accounting techniques that would keep him in touch with costs and enable him to take advantage of economies of scale.

CONSIDER THIS: Do you know where your bottom line stands weekly? Have you analyzed each part of your organization to determine how much it contributes? Is your business always improving?

Do you know? 

To count the cost in business as well as counting the cost in life! Little do people realise the cost of living life that is not examined reflectively. Thoughtful living is just as intentional as mindful living. Checking in with a mentor every so often is good as checking in is with your God, if you believe. In fact, you can make your human coach more effective, if he or she-- and you are followers of Christ. Your contribution and God’s contribution maximises potential.

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