Latest post in my blog on popular science:
Time and Motion
https://populscience.blogspot.com/2026/09/time-and-motion.html
Regards,
Thank you, Manuel, wise and delightful as usual!
My thoughts are that any kind of sequence requires time. A past, present, and future. Language requires time. This must be differentiated from our experience of time as well as from measures of time.
God created time. Whether there is something analogous to time within the Trinity in which the Father expresses Himself eternally in terms of the Son and Son and Spirit pour themselves eternally back to the Father in adoring Love, is vastly beyond my ability to speculate.
When God created the angels or whatever He created first, something like time had to begin.
In the new heavens and earth, a redeemed time will have to exist in order for anything at all to happen there.
Such a pleasure to see familiar names popping up in SpareOom!
This Autumn, I am now fully retired and enjoying puttering about with flower gardens and chickens. Plus my cats! I am beginning my annual trek through Lewis by starting with his letters. I plan to reread all his wonderful essays followed by the Narnia books over Christmas, then the science fiction books. Depending on time, I reread Miracles and Problem of Pain before or after Christmas. I think those last two essential apologetics.
The Lewis quote about critics of Shakespeare is in Screwtape: the junior tempter is advised to distract his victim with the “historical Jesus” about which he can find much published. As he could about the historical Shakespeare.
Blessings,
Ruby
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In the new heavens and earth, a redeemed time will have to exist in order for anything at all to happen there.
I tend to agree with this, although I have no idea what it may be like.
This Autumn, I am now fully retired and enjoying puttering about with flower gardens and chickens. Plus my cats!
In Spain, if you want to have chickens at home, you must declare them and get a permission. I wonder, is it the same in the US? Or can you have them without any conditions, as we did, a few decades ago?
In the EU cats will have to carry a chip starting about 2035, I think. Dogs must have then now.
Regards,
It depends very much on the locale. Certainly in the rural locations there’s no such requirement, and even in many suburban areas you can keep with without any sort of registration (my brother lives in a city of 135k, and has chickens at his home without any such thing). In the larger cities, you generally wouldn’t have enough land to do this.
Manuel, the laws for having any kind of animal will vary by locale in the U.S. Urban centers generally require a permit for hens and a limit of four with no roosters (noise problem). I live in Mt Juliet, TN, a suburb of Nashville. Same rules apply: no noise, smell, or other nuisance to disturb your neighbors. Otherwise, no restrictions provided you are able and willing to care for your “livestock.”
Dogs have a leash law and vaccine requirements (rabies minimum). Cats have no leash law. Rabies vaccine are required by law for cats.
My own convictions: everything belongs to God and I want to care for His things, His people, and His creation as an act of worship. I want to love my neighbor as myself and hence will not do anything which violates that love. Recently, one of our hens flew over our backyard fence: the neighbor’s pit bull made quick work of that one. They were afraid we would be offended but we assured them that was on the chicken; the dog was doing what came naturally to a dog. No offense at all. I do clip the flight feathers of the hens’ wings to keep them from flying out of our backyard.
The restaurants my husband and I eat at regularly will begin a bag of kitchen scraps as soon as we walk in the door! The chickens love that and so do we!
Giving one’s neighbors gorgeous organic eggs periodically helps, of course. I think the trend is to encourage urban farming within manageable limits, of course.
Blessing,
Ruby