To be insane or not to be?

[BeauJangles]

On 1/8/2020 at 11:25 AM, CaptWalker said:

Other than that these "ramblings" are basically what you might call having nothing better to do... 

Thanks for the chuckle. I needed that today. 

[CaptWalker]

Well it's always a good feeling to make somebody laugh, and the way my luck has been going lately, it's just what i needed. And it's good to know that i am not the only one who doesn't take everything so seriously, and I would much rather people laugh at my misfortunes which is why i try my best to make that happen...and in this one case it finally did, at least for one person??

[CaptWalker]

Yes i think we should take seriously anything in God's word, especially the "Days of Noah". Which basically is referring to that 1 year period when he was in the ark and also what i feel is the same amount of time we will be in the Great Tribulation, which will be shortened from 3 and 1/2 years, as Christ said it would be or else no one would be left or survive that time.  But at the same time we should consider Ecclesiastes  1:11-

"There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall their be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after." 

So of course we should pay attention to these things but at the same time realize that it is human nature to simply forget about such things that are already past, and some events in the past are meant to be forgotten, like the saying goes..."Let sleeping dogs lie". But this has nothing really at all to do with that quote by Einstein, and don't even know why we are bringing it up?? But it is a good principle to live by nonetheless even if what Einstein has ever said had nothing at all to do with anything in the Bible unless you are just reaching for something to try and justify some glorified agnostic.

[Prycejosh1987]

On 1/7/2020 at 10:11 PM, CaptWalker said:

~ "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." {Albert Einstein}

So I was just wondering what anyone else thinks about this and is it something a true Christian should even give any credence to since Einstein was an avowed Agnostic, so then what makes his opinion so legitimate and infallible?? I guess i'm really asking this because i was just wondering what exactly he meant by it, and would it go so far as even to include someone who is commuting almost an hour everyday to a job they do not like and yet still expecting that they will eventually get used to it? Well i know what it means to me but am more curious as to how many others there are out there like myself...? And in case the title heading threw you off, i do often think of Shakespeare and Einstein as being very much alike since they were both very enlightened thinkers...even if not very spiritually minded.

The pastors at the church i go to had said this from time to time. It depends because sometimes persistence, in doing the same thing again and again can eventually work. But with other things they needed to be tackled using different methods. It really depends on what the person is trying to achieve. For example asking a girl out requires persistence in the same way but learning something like riding a bike might require different methods to make learning more effective.