Moving soon

I saw the apartment that I am going to be renting today. It sort of makes it more real. My old life is ending and with this move a new life will begin again. A unilateral action by my ex has resulted in everyone's life changing.

For most of the past decade I have lived in a five bedroom, 2,700 square foot home. I will be moving into an 800 square foot apartment. I sort of like that, something I can furnish as I wish and not as others wish.

I have all sorts of people that want to come to visit me when I move in and even more that want to have dinner with me when I move. Since age 24 I have raised children and been with the same woman. When we separated I rented an apartment a few blocks away, it was different. This time there is no coming back and I will be living in a very urban environment.

Change of subject. I just read an article from newsmax.com, I am not familiar with the publication. It states that Apple has pulled an app from their I-Phones that has certain Christian teachings known as the "Manhattan Declaration". They wont allow the app on their phones because it says that homosexuality is a sin.

I wonder if they have also removed Koran or the old testament as they both say homosexuality is a sin? I don't care how you feel about homosexuality, bigger issue at stake here kids. The issue is one of free speech. This year more electronic books were sold than were books made of paper. What happens when publishers stop making paper books and all books are electronic if the manufacturer of the electronic books refuses to allow the technology to be used to read the bible?

A little history, while we can still know history. When the Kindle came out it deleted two books from every Kindle in the world. It deleted George Orwell's "1984" and "The Animal Farm". Both books were about totalitarianism. You know, what we are increasingly living in.

About two weeks ago a man was arrested that wrote a book about the way to have sex with children without harming them. A lot of people thought that was a great thing, I did not and I wont even date someone in their 30s.

Please read through everything I write before forming an opinion or having a position. The man that wrote the book had been a pedophile and claimed he no longer engaged in such things and they have not arrested him for such a thing nor did they arrest him for having child pornography. There are few things lower than pedophiles but they do exist.

The man, it is said (Didn't read his book nor do I intend to) wrote the book so that people who were pedophiles would understand how to do it with the least amount of harm to the child. I know and agree that any harm is too much and they should not have sex with children. But there are pedophiles and they do pray on children. IF he wrote it for his stated reason and the children were harmed less because of his book, should he be allowed to write it without going to jail?

Lets continue to look at this rather than jump to emotions. The man that was arrested for writing the book will win in court and will be released. Heck, you can write books about building bombs and that is okay. Yet, the teachings of Christianity regarding homosexuality can be deleted.

We have to see down the road to understand how we lose our rights. Today people publish hard copies of books and pamphlets, tomorrow they will not. At least not many. Hold on to your bibles because they are at risk. You might even try reading them.

Ray Bradbury wrote a book called "Fahrenheit 451". It is about a totalitarian government that burns all books. Paper burns at 451. Across the United States libraries are closing. What happens when all books are electronic, the government doesn't need to censor, the tech companies can simply refuse to distribute.

What we are being presented with is a false choice. We can allow everything to be printed or restrict things based on personal criteria. We have laws against molesting children and posting naked pictures of them anywhere. Pedophilia is a crime, thinking homosexuality is wrong is not a crime. We don't have to agree with everything. There was a time when homosexuality was a crime, I don't believe it should have been illegal. They are adults and are quite aware of what they are doing.

You are being played by the media and the government. A lot of it has to do with the openness of the internet. The solution will be that people have to say who they really are when on the net in order to protect children and that sites will be age specific. They are already working on this. The news stories are so that you will accept the solution.

I was taken away from my room and lost my train of thought. Sorry. Be well.