Ordinarily, people in distress cry out. Their distress can be due to an incurable disease, the death of a loved one, or the loss of employment. They ask, “Where was God when I needed Him?”
The Bible is replete with personal stories of suffering. Let’s examine a few stories in the New Testament.
Cases of Jesus knowing facts beyond the limits of human senses
Case No. 1—Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
In John chapter 4:1-42, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at a community water well. In conversation with the woman, Jesus reveals her marital history. She had five husbands, and she lived with a paramour.
The purpose of Jesus’ out-of-the-way trip through Samaria served to show his divine authority.
How did Jesus know intimate details about the Samaritan woman?
Case No. 2—The Death of Lazarus
John chapter 11:1-43 is the story of the death and resurrection of Lazarus. Lazarus and his two sisters shared a close, personal relationship with Jesus. Lazarus became very ill. His sisters sent word of the sickness to Jesus.
Jesus delayed going to Lazarus, who died and was entombed in a cave. Jesus and his entourage of disciples arrived four days after Lazarus died.
Jesus approached Lazarus’ tomb and loudly said, “Lazarus, come out.” Lazarus walked out of that tomb, alive.
Case No. 3—The Healing of a Man Born Blind
John chapter 9:1-41 As Jesus moved about, his eyes caught sight of a young man blind from birth. Jesus mixed his own saliva with soil. He applied the mud to the eyes of the blind man. Then he instructed him to wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam. He returned to Jesus with his eyesight fully functional.
After much civil turmoil, Jesus sought the young man he had healed. The young man worshiped Jesus.
Case No. 4—The Calling of Philip and Nathanael
John chapter 1:43-50 Jesus invited Philip to join his team of disciples. Philip discussed his encounter with Jesus. Nathanael, skeptical of Jesus, asked, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Despite his skepticism, Nathanael accepted Philip’s invitation to “come and see.” As Nathanael approaches, Jesus declares, “Here is an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.” Nathanael asked Jesus how he knew him. Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael was thoroughly convinced Jesus is the Son of God.
Questions
- How did Jesus know the Samaritan woman was cohabiting with a man to whom she was not wed?
- How was it possible for Jesus to know all the details of the death of his friend Lazarus?
- How did Jesus recognize the blind young man so readily? How did he know the young man lived a sinless life?
- How did Jesus see Nathanael under the fig tree?
I leave explanations of the Holy Trinity to theologians. Instead, let’s focus on one of the names of God, Jehovah Smammah, “The Lord Is There.” Ezekiel 48:35, Matthew 28:20, Revelation 21:3, John 1:14, Psalm 34:18, Psalm 23:4, Psalm 139:1-4, Psalm 139:7-12, Psalm 121:4-6
The Lord is omnipresent. He neither slumbers nor sleeps. He is omniscient; we have no secrets from Him.
How did Jesus know the details of Lazarus’ sickness, his death, and his burial? How did Jesus know about the Samaritan woman’s marital history and more? How in the world did Jesus see Nathanael under that fig tree, and how did He know Nathanael’s character? How did Jesus know the blind man was not blinded by some sinful act?
The Apostle Paul addressed the idolatrous Thessalonians who had many idols including one to “The Unknown God”. Paul explained the living God.
24 “God who made the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands. 25 Nor is He served by men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives all men life and breath and all things. 26 He has made from one blood every nation of men to live on the entire face of the earth, having appointed fixed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they should seek the Lord so perhaps they might reach for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. 28 ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
29 “Therefore since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone or an engraved work of art or an image of the reflection of man. 30 God overlooked the times of ignorance, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent. 31 For He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, having given assurance of this to all men by raising Him from the dead.”
Acts 17:24-31 Modern English Version
To The Point
Jesus has all the characteristics of the Living God because He is the Living God manifested in human form.
Human nature suggests we are flesh and bone creatures with a spirit. Quite to the contrary, we are spirit beings with a temporary human body. Where in the Bible can you find this truth?
King David lusted after his neighbor’s wife, Bathsheba. They hooked up in secret; she became pregnant. David had Bathsheba’s husband killed and afterward married her. The newborn baby became sick. The Prophet Nathan explained to David that the baby’s sickness was a consequence of David’s sins. David prayed earnestly for the child to live, but the baby died on the seventh day. David did not mourn the death of the child. “He explained, “As long as the child was alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me, so that the child may live.’ But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.” Reference: 2 Samuel 12:1-23 MEV
Jesus was not a special agent. He is God. Read John 10:30-38 MEV.
God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three manifestations of the one and only Living God. He is the Creator of the universe.
John White
Rockwall, Texas
John N. White 
I will address just the first tale .
The encounter with the Samaritan woman is regarded as a later interpolation. In other words, a fraud.
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In this age of information, ignorance is a choice. You choose unwisely.
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As you reject evolution methinks such an attitude is the personification of ignorance.
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Atheism is synonymous with ignorance.
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Atheism is the lack of belief in gods.
To assert it is anything else is the epitome of ignorance and in your case, disingenuity.
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Allow this brief grammar lesson.
The prefix of ‘A’ means “not a …”, as in atypical, “not typical”, adiabatic, “not a change in heat”, etc.
Atheist simply means “a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being”
An atheist is not someone who “lacks a belief in God”, but someone who opposes God and those who believe in Him.
In my first three decades of life I lacked a belief in God, but I never opposed Him. I was not an atheist, just someone ignorant of his Creator.
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Sorry, John you are fundamentally wrong.
An atheist lacks belief in gods (plural). Your god, the Canaanite god Yahweh, is no more special than any other, be it Zeus, Odin or Brahma.
I would like more clarity rather refer to my precious comment Thanks.
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Thank you for proving my point, Ark.
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Sorry, John, the only point you have “proven” is your blatent wilfull ignorance. And I am trying to be generous with my word use.
A feature of almost every indoctrinated Christian I have interacted with is to try to label atheism a “religion” or simply reduce it to a position of denial of your god, Yahweh.
This attitude is both asinine and disingenious and suggests the believer, such as yourself, because of a lack of evidence for their beliefs, cannot defend their faith with any integrity.
Poor show!
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Atheism is synonymous with ignorance, Ark.
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Atheism is solely the lack of belief in gods.
Theism, and Christianity in particular, with its belief in supernaturalism, and devotion to the Canaanite deity, Yahweh, is a lot more akin with ignorance. In fact, your continued misunderstanding (wilfull ignorance) strongly suggests this is the case.
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No, atheism is antagonistic to God. Throughout my first 27 years of life, I was indifferent to religion and God. Preachers would describe someone like me as a “hard case.” Conventional evangelism had absolutely no effect on me. The Apostle Paul, one of the authors of the New Testament, was also a “hard case.” For the “hard cases,” God has a very direct approach; He gets up close and personal. Judging from all the atheists I have known, I have come to believe they are people who think they are just animals and when they die, that’s all there is. The reality is we humans are actually spirit beings with human bodies. When human life ends, there are two eternal destinations for our spirits. You can read last words of atheists in Psychology Today, April 4, 2027. My central interests from early childhood have been Earth science: atmospheric, geological, hydrological, etc. The intricacies of nature and nature’s God are astounding. I will never believe the universe “just happened.” The grand designs of nature demonstrate they are the products of a grand designer. I have been an engineer since 1971.
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“No, atheism is antagonistic to God.”
Wrong. Atheism is the lack of belief in gods, your god, Yahweh, and every other so far dreamed up by human.
It would be the height of stupidity, not to mention impossible to be antagonistic toward a made up character. This would be like being antagonistic toward Micky Mouse. An absurd notion.
Perhaps the term you are looking for is Anti-theist? Try the dictionary.
“I have been an engineer since 1971.”
And how long have you been an indoctrinated Christian?
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Good luck with your worldview.
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As atheism is simply the lack of belief in gods, your god, Yahweh and every other so far concocted by humans, and, to my knowledge, we have never discussed any details regarding my worldview exactly what do consider this worldview is and what do you think it encompasses?
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On the day of your death you will have your opportunity to explain your worldview to God, himself.
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Excellent!
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I confess. You have greater faith than my own.
Truly, for someone to believe all life was accidental, despite the evidence of DNA, the periodic table of the elements, the Biblical prophecies coming true today, and the miracle of human biology remaining near 50:50, it takes great faith to believe it’s all accidental and unplanned. I commend your great faith!
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The origin of life is unknown. Period.
Evolution, on the other hand is fact.
I have no “faith”.
Superstitious /supernatural nonsense is the preserve of emotionally insecure, indoctrinated believers, such as yourself. Hence the reason you believe the drivel of the Bible.
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What is the source of the drivel that motivates you to deny the reality of our Creator?
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Complete lack of evidence.
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Interesting.
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Well, you will have an excellent opportunity to prove your atheistic worldview at the moment of your death. I would invite you to tell me how this goes for you, but it will be impossible for you to communicate with me at that late time.
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Tell you what, John, at the moment of your death, presuming you pop off before me, perhaps you could do us both a favour and prove your theistic worldview?
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I don’t have to prove anything. I am not in a contest with any living person, but in a race to the finish line of my life.
Like you, I was just a heathen from my childhood to age 27, not anti-Christian, not an atheist, not anti anything.
I left a position as an engineer with an aerospace company in Norwalk, Connecticut. The job required household moves between states. During the Vietnam War, the company valued my skills. The federal contracts in which I was involved paid me handsomely.
I resigned and moved back to my home state of Texas where I had a firm offer with the Honeywell Corp. in Dallas. But, the day I showed up to begin my new position, I was required to have a physical exam by the company doctor. That doctor told me Honeywell would reject my employment due to high blood pressure and indeed it did. That doctor said to me, “Your boiler is about to burst.”
That summer of 1974, I was now out of work, with two toddlers and a pregnant wife. Over that summer, I began to run low on cash and credit. My wife suggested I read her Bible. Over two weeks I red that Bible until the second Sunday when I experienced a miraculous encounter with Jesus Christ. The next morning my blood pressure was normal and I went to work on September 15, 1974.
To this day, my blood pressure is normal, my four children have given me grandchildren and great grandchildren.
If God had not supernaturally healed me of hypertension, I would not be alive today.
Eternal life is not something one earns. It is a reward for one’s faithfulness to God.
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Great… So you had an emotional episode.
I am sure there are, Mormons, Christadelphians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus etc who have had similar emotional experiences.
Are you going to suggest theirs are fake?
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I understand your worldview that all “religions are the same”. The cardinal difference between Christianity and your favorite cults is a Christian has a personal relationship with the Creator of the Universe through Jesus Christ, a Jew by birth, circumcised as prescribed by Jewish custom and Biblical mandates. There is an appointed time when God will wholly unite all Jews and Christians.
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My worldview does not assert all religions are the same. Far from it, in fact. Unless you are referring to the fact that most include supernatural elements, not least of which would be a creator deity. If thus is what you are referring to then I agree.
I am curious though. What do regard as my “favourite cults”?
I was not aware I had any cults let alone favorite ones.
Could you please explain how, exactly. do you have a “personal relationship” with Yahweh via the Bible character Jesus of Nazareth?
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However, I am curious…for what reason do you consider atheism to be “synonymous with ignorance”?
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I refer you to my previous reply.
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Hi Mr. John White. I too am a native Texan, an 8th-generation Texan with my heritage—stretching back to the 1600’s in southeast France on my maternal side (Waldensians) and the Lorraine-Alsace region of Franco-Germany on my paternal side. Both my parents were dedicated genealogists spending some 25-years collecting, compiling EVERYONE’S story. Also, I was born in Dallas, TX, (Methodist Hospital) near Lake Cliff in Oak Cliff where I grew up, graduating from Stevie Ray Vaughn’s high school, Justin F. Kimball. I am very, very familiar with Rockwall, TX, Lake Ray Hubbard area, and the entire DFW Metroplex. Anyway, that’s a tiny bit of background about me.
I am very curious about your personal background, experiences, education (under-grad and/or post-grad and where you’ve graduated), personal life as far as wife(?), children, grandchildren, etc. I looked and looked and looked for the information about you, but I was completely unable to find anything more deeply personal about yourself.
Care to help me out?
Dwain/aka Professor Taboo 🙂
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Dwain,
I am a self-educated engineer who specializes in automated control systems. In 1971, Norden Systems of Norwalk, Connecticut hired me as a mid pay scale engineer. My gift is technical problem solving. My gifts and skills resolved problems with the A6A DIANE system, the F111 aircraft automation system, in particular the multi-sensor display system, and the C5A Multimode Radar System.
I started my self-education at age 9, learning electron tube theory and practical applications in audio and television products. The A6A Intruder radar systems (two of them) employed tiny electron tubes (duo-triode, CRT displays, klystrons, magnetrons, etc.). Actually, there was no such thing as a tiny magnetron. Early airborne computer systems would be unrecognizable to most people. Several of my grandchildren were homeschooled. I view myself as a homeschooled engineer.
My chief role was supporting our military customers (the USMC, the Air Force Tactical Command, the Air Force Military Airlift Command, and the US Navy). Naturally, my young family and I moved several times. The longest ever out-of-town business trip was a 7-month assignment aboard the USS Constellation in the Tonkin Gulf. The latter gives me a unique unofficial status as a Naval civilian Vietnam War Veteran. There are far too many stories for this era of my life.
I relished my experiences but the major moves and time away from my wife and kids wore on us. For examples, the company moved us to North Carolina. Six months later, assigned me to the aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf where my wife and I were unable to speak to one another for seven months. Our only communications were lots and lots of letters. The company then moved us to Norwalk, Connecticut where I served as a technical writer. The F111 was difficult to keep aloft due to some design deficiencies and challenges to our staff in New Mexico. I was then assigned to the F111 systems. My wife and first two boys were living in hostile Connecticut while I was in New Mexico. The moving around continued until I elected to leave a company for a position in Dallas, Texas. I went from airborne systems to large-scale automation systems for buildings, hospitals, factories, and military bases. Early digital computers were challenging to the people in the construction business. In the construction business, I moved on to a couple of other building control systems companies before starting my own business here in Rockwall in 1986.
I retired some years ago when my key employee, a Texas A&M software engineer planned his retirement. Today, I am invited to resolve significant problems in various buildings. I never advertise. Usually mechanical and control systems contractors find themselves unable to resolve problems and they refer the building owner to me. I enjoy economically resolving problems.
After I left the corporate world where most major projects were plan-spec and low-bid jobs. My business was a design-build firm from day one. I miss those large projects known as ESPC, or energy-saving performance contracts. These were no-bid projects. We would research large government facilities to find energy inefficiencies and propose a no-bid project to the customer. Our designs would dramatically reduce the cost of operations. whereby we would dramatically cut the cost of operations. The customers would pay us out of their budgets and have enough left over funds to do needed improvements and repairs to the facilities. Projects included US Air Force Bases, hospitals, and other organizations. One of my favorite in which my company was the only design-build contractor was a large Texas County that has enjoyed phenomenal savings for several years. Such projects were not only profitable but gave me a lot of self-satisfaction.
Although I never attended a university, I was a frequent speaker to engineering groups. ASHRAE chapters and the Clemson University Continuing Education project were some of my educational opportunities.
I will celebrate my 80th birthday next year.
Is this too much information, Dwain.
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No John, that is not at all TMI or “too much information.” I actually love great detail. I am often told that I am TOO pedantic, TOO detail-oriented, and TOO exploratory and cross-examining. HAH!
Mentally I am very much like my father, 1) a former U.S. Marine Corp, and 2) a mechanical engineer grad from the University of Texas – Austin. He raised me to be super, super detail-oriented and of course he was heavy, HEAVY into all sciences, especially the hyper-advanced mathematics; likely very similar to you, of algebra, calculus, trigonometry, geometry, and many sub-fields of those mathematics, again, similar to you. Advanced mathematics gives us all sorts of facts and truths about the Earth, our Solar System, and our Cosmos. In fact, advanced mathematics has to be one of the most precise truth/fact bearing science, or problem-solving mechanism humanity has ever achieved. It is phenomenal as you can attest. I’m sure you would agree wholeheartedly, yes?
Where my father and I differed in our backgrounds and formal educations, I was much more adventurous and exploring in the Humanities, History, and Bible (Protestant) which led me to Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, the same seminary that R.C. Sproul was part of RTS Orlando in Systematic Theology and would often lecture for us at RTS Jackson. He was also the founder of Ligionier Ministries, if you are familiar with that well-known institution. Sproul and I developed a brief correspondence via letters from 1989–1992 until he passed away. A bit later I enrolled in SMU’s (Southern Methodist University) Master’s Program of Education & Human Development. Unfortunately, I had to stop after 15-months due to my Mom’s severe dementia then Early Alzheimer’s Disease—she lived (then passed Nov. 3, 2025) in Kerrville, TX, where I still reside. I absolutely want to get out of hostile Texas and the rural Hill Country. I need to be around very intelligent people, strangers, acquaintances, and friends. Anyway, moving along…
Fully realizing after some 25-30 years of study, research (self-examining), my 12+ years of higher education & background in church ministry, missions abroad (on 4 of the 6 inhabitable continents), church staff (Deacon & Singles Ministry), my ex-wife being a “preacher’s daughter” and her father being a grad of RTS Jackson, MS, as well I enrolled (online) at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts in their Jewish Antiquity & Second Temple Period Studies for an advanced certificate of study. Why did I do this? Because there are huge, massive gaps of misunderstanding, interpretation, interpolation, exegesis, and many flat out mistakes/errors in the Greek Septuagint. Hellenistic Greeks—who made up ALL of the earliest Apostolic Church Fathers while compiling our modern New Testament and canonizing it back in the 2nd- thru the 4th-century CE, many many decades after Jesus’/Yeshua’s life—and they made many, many mistakes due to Mishnaic Hebraisms and idioms… that quite simply Greeks, Gentiles of the Roman Empire, could not (ever) comprehend. This is why it is profoundly critical to understand how translating from Mishnaic Hebrew to Syro-Aramaic, then into Greek was just horribly ripe with errors worse than a combat minefield! Why? Because Homeland Jews wanted to keep their sacred faith away from Gentiles and the “impure pigs” of Rome. That protection is rampant during Late Second Temple Judaism & Messianism, because death by Roman execution was certain if you divulge everything to Roman authorities.
Furthermore, one MUST ask, Was Jesus/Yeshua a Jew or a Greek? A rhetorical question, I know.
Are there ANY Hebrew testaments in existence or reliably know about to better refine and theologically correct the modern source: the Greek Septuagint? No, there is not.
So all this begs the next question: if the original source (that isn’t really original), the Greek Septuagint is contaminated by Greco-Roman mishaps of ignorance, even in the slightest, what does that make the modern Catholic or Protestant New Testaments?
To put this in terms you’d probably understand John, this is like engineering, building, then deploying a rocket, radar system, airplane, etc., with human test pilots, astronauts, and an ungodly amount of R&D money invested, and sadly your very mineral materials are greatly weakened and badly flawed, and not pure. And so continuing to build, test, fly, deploy over and over and over (over the many centuries and millennia) without overhauling the corrupted minerals will only result in failure after failure after failure due to the bad source. Yes? Another rhetorical question, apologies. 😉
I have another honest question for you John, if you don’t mind…
Given the fact that one human can make MORE mistakes and errors, e.g. in judgement, in a priori circumstances (presuming falsely), when alone without oversight, in solitude and without a credible mentor or educator, as well as a large number of other experts in a field such as all the advanced mathematics you have in your background, can this one human make more mistakes errors in fields they are NOT advanced in, well-studied with/by credible mentors, educators, boards of oversight, etc.? Or… is one human more refined, more highly educated, more experienced—not just academically, but throughout life experiences as Mark Twain wisely alludes to about traveling around the globe as much as possible—when that one human (self-educated) is challenged, made better and more rounded, corrected by wiser, more knowledgeable experts, as in the analogy of “iron sharpens iron” Proverbs 27:17, and most importantly knows how to avoid being only self-consumed inside a small (tiny?) circle of influence, both internally and externally?
You obviously have great credentials in advanced mathematics, science, and analytics or quality-control, BUT what about other areas of life and disciplines? Are you credentialed in Christian theology, Christian exegesis, Greek and Hebrew linguistics, anthropology, Antiquity and the Late Second Temple Period of Jewish Messianism, and more importantly the Greek apotheosis that the Roman Empire was steeped in for many centuries going back to the Greeks and Alexander the Great?
Isn’t being tested, and tested, and tested by a panel, board, or opponents from those who are greatly learned before your time and earlier, and they can correct your mistakes and false conclusions? And isn’t “learning” always evolving over time to be continually refined and pure?
Lastly, on a lesser note, why did you call Connecticut “hostile“? I’m very curious and why?
Thanks John. I look forward to your reply. 🙂
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The city of Norwalk is effectively within the NY City megalopolis. Daily, the nearby Penn Central station flowed with commuters who worked in NY City. The local population featured Italians who somewhat self-segregated, Jews (both devout and otherwise), and Puerto Ricans who were relegated to the lowest social status.
As a Texan, I was astonished by class distinction between business leaders and everyone else. Within the Norden Systems factory, we who dressed in suits and ties were unable to hold conversations with unionized blue-collar employees. My wife and I would explore our community on weekends each time we moved to a new area of the country. My wife’s choice grocer was A&P. On one Friday, she called me at the office, asking me to stop by the A&P to cash a check for $50 to cover our weekend exploration of the world about us. She had already set us up for check cashing there. At the cashier’s window, I presented my check for $50 to be cashed and pulled from my wallet my A&P account card. The gentleman behind the barred window declined to see my card and readily gave me the cash. After my arrival at home, she asked me to go cash a second check, thinking we would need more than $50 in cash. Upon my arrival at home, I removed my tie. Immediately, I returned to the A&P store where I presented the cashier another check for $50. This time was different. He demanded my A&P card and spoke rudely. The only difference was the absence of a tie.
Our rental home on US1 was a two-story old house with a separate garage in the back and a basement. If you are familiar with an old TV show called All In The Family, Archie Bunker’s home, that scene that started each episode was very much like my neighborhood.
A fellow engineer with whom I worked lived on the other side of the mountains, a semi-rural area with a huge yard. His daily commute would often exceed 1-1/2 hours. That part of Connecticut was, to me, like a different state altogether.
My daily custom after dinner was to read my newspaper. One evening, the paper was not at our side door, as it usually was. I was somewhat peeved. Late that evening, around 11:30 PM, I responded to a knock on the side door, the door that was never locked to facilitate the oil delivery man and the utility meter readers. A gentleman few years older than me was there with a rolled newspaper in his hand. He handed the paper to me and turned to leave. I stopped him, asking whey he was delivering my newspaper. His son, our paper boy, had been hit by a car while on his newspaper route earlier that afternoon. The father said the boy’s first words were, “I have to get Mrs. White’s newspaper to her.” My wife is a gifted teacher of children. Each afternoon our paper boy would hand deliver the paper to her, instead of dropping it by the side door. She would talk with him. Her kindness and friendliness captured the boy’s heart. We were able to visit the paper boy in his hospital room. He quickly recovered and resumed his paper route.
Over the years of my time with Norden Systems, my chief duty was logistical support for our military customers. Those assignments were to MCAS Chery Point, NC, (USMC customer), Cannon AFB, NM, (USAF/TAC customer) in Clovis, NM, Altus AFB, Altus OK, (USAF/MAC). My longest out-of-town assignment was the USS Constellation, Tonkin Gulf, (USN customer). Naturally, my wife did not accompany me on the last-mentioned assignment. The Tonkin Gulf assignment endured 7 solid months away from my young family. Our only communications were via USPS snail mail. My days were sometimes 30 hours followed by a 4-hour sleep in my stateroom. Cmdr. Bob Combs knew I was not going to fly off that carrier to return home so he extended my contract a couple of weeks so I could walk off the aircraft carrier. For first three days of my return home were, no opportunity for a shower and a shave. I lost so much body weight that my civilian clothes were too big. My kaki officer uniform was wrinkled. Upon my arrival at the Houston airport, my father-in-law and my wife met me at the gate, neither recognizing me. I insisted that the company move my young family to south Texas where she could be near her mother and my own.
To this day, approaching 80 years of age, I continue to seek knowledge and wisdom.
My focus these days are two-fold: debunking anthropogenic climate warming and promoting the responsibility of Americans to preserve our republican form of government. I now post most often on Substack. Here is a link to my latest article: Celebrating 250 Years: Is The Demise of the United States Inevitable?
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Very calm and measured responses Mr John- loaded with practical facts and history from the only source material that tells it all- warts and all from the monarch of books.
it has been my experience that no amount of facts, evidence, historical certainty, can satisfy a heart bent on willful denial, ie, starting with creation which is obvious, and Romans 1 which tells the WHY this denial thrives.
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Thank you for your comment. I am now posting most of my articles on Substack. Here is a link to my latest post titled “Celebrating 250 Years: Is The Demise of the United States Inevitable?” https://johnwhite960264.substack.com/p/celebrating-250-years-is-the-demise
My subscriptions are free.
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The United States of America has certainly become the nation of shame, flakiness (by our current Administration), and of no true Expertise. And that was lead by one political party over the last 20+ years. Here is a great book from an established expert, similar apparently to you John White:
I highly recommend you read this great book, research, and fact-checking. 🙂
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Quite the narrow-minded and one-sided comment CS, but not surprising. 😊
Question: Have you ever not been a Christian since a young boy and fully experienced and understood most all of the world, which is not Christian? 🙂 Oh, and I expect a completely honest response and before your Creator sir, in case you had other usual intentions.
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