Human thoughts are the real danger

By Bruce Knipp

Published: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 07:34 PM.

To the editor:

I’d like to explore a piece of history with you — a time that changed the world forever and still excites to this very day. It took place over seven decades ago, and its effect on the human race still casts a foreshadow of impending doom over the world.

It started with an idea, a thought exploring what had never been. An idea that seemed more important than the reality of what could be, what would be, or what should have been. On July 16, 1945, at place code-named Trinity, the world was changed forever.

In the light of a thousand suns, the world heard the words, “I am death, the destroyer of worlds.”

We now have nine nations, going on 10, with nuclear weapons — and this could really get out of control.

There is a saying, “Once the genie is out, you can’t put him back in the bottle.” In other words, once you invent something, you can’t un-invent it.

But there may be a solution. The solution would be to replace them with something else, or make them obsolete, too expensive to maintain or make.

That’s easier said than done. It is beginning to look like the most dangerous things in the world are human thoughts. It seems that everything that ever was started with a thought — an idea, invisible pieces of information entering the mind from sources unknown.

Bruce Knipp

Jacksonville

No Special reason

So yesterday was Valentine's day, and as I sat here at my computer and watched and
read all the good wishes people that I know had for each other. Even watched a coworker
get engaged on Facebook, ( good stuff Chris ) My own memories started to flow of
times passed. As I looked down under my printer stand I saw a old card my wife had
given me some years ago it wasn't a Valentine card, it was a  no special reason card.
She wrote, Hi honey I haven't gotten you a no special reason card for a long time. I
love you more today then yesterday! So in a strange way I did get a card from the
other side on Valentine's day      

Communications

There is this communications device I have used over the years on occasion, but I
must confess I've used it a lot over this last year, like everyday. Even though this
device has been around since the beginning of our time on this earth, it still
works, it seems to transmit using a little electrical and chemical components from
the brain stimulated by the mind.
The distances it can travel is in dispute, some say it covers trillions of miles in seconds
while others say it only has to travel a few feet, through time and space to a different
dimension. We use this device to ask for help in our lives  and other peoples lives. If
you are not sure how it all works, I would highly recommend as a last resort to always
read the instruction  manual. The communications device is called prayer, the instruction
manual, would be the Bible. Enough Said.

      





   

A Love Story

After the death of a spouse you find yourself going through stuff tucked away in
closets and dark corners, underneath stuff that was being saved because one of
you thought it was important and had a sentimental value. So today I was doing
just that and came across a loose leave note book Natalie had of all her posts
she had when she had a web page. And so I'd like to share with you, two posts
made so may years ago, A LOVE STORY that never ended.

I posted this on Marine web site I used to go, Natalie coped it and put it on her
web page. 5th anniversary Sept 12, 1998
Today, five years ago, I married my wife Natalie. We have been together 10 and
married for 5 years, I have been blessed, she loves me for who I am, even when I
don't know who I am. It is said love makes the world go round, Natalie makes my
world go around. There are times I ask myself why me? this marriage is almost too
good to be true. We don't know where the future will be, but you will find us
walking into it, hand in hand, and loving each other and counting our blessings.
Loving the good times and supporting each other through the bad times. Five years
have gone by to fast. The point is, without her I am nothing, and with her, I am
everything !

Natalie post this on her web page 9/12/99 My darling Bruce, last year you really got
to me with your post. We have a great thing going on here, Honey, and I love you
more each day. You said that you did not know where the future would take us but I
do know that 11 years ago I had no future until you my wonderful friend came along
and quite literally saved my life.
You got me back to mom before she passed away and for that I cherish you. You also
gave me the chance to know my brother Dave and to better understand him.
We have been through some really rough times and yet the times I remember are the
good times, the quiet times, the ones when we were alone in our love.
We have often said we wished we could have a longer time together but when we were
younger(LOL) we would not have appreciated each other as we do now. We have both
grown together and God willing will continue to do so. I love you Bruce and will always
need you near me. You are my love my friend & my life.

                           TODAY   TOMORROW   & FOREVER  
  
    
  

The Kiss

 It's been around 38 days since I lost my wife Natalie, to some she was a mother, to others
she was a best friend, to me she was my best friend and soul mate. We were together over
twenty years, and in that time we rarely had a harsh word between us. She was always doing
something for me all the time, people would tell me how much she loved me, hell I new that,
it was no secret how we felt toward each other. Natalie had this thing she started from the
first time we started going together, lets call it Natalie's rule, we would never part for the day
without a kiss, on arriving back home a kiss, when we went to bed a kiss, even if I went to
bed before her, she'd wake me up for that kiss, and of course there was the morning kiss.
On the day she passed, she drove me to work and before I left the car as always there was
that kiss, I remember that kiss, she had on dark lipstick, I gave her a peck on the lips and
then one more and got out of the car, and that was the last time I saw her alive. A long time
ago when I met Natalie's mother she asked me to take care of her, I promised I would,
the truth is through the good and bad times we took care of each other. She always said
that she wanted to die before me, because she didn't want to be left alone without me.
Well I tell you being left here alone without her is really hard, at times the grief is almost
more then I can handle. I can remember the first time we kissed and where, and now
the last time, life as come full circle.


              

Change

Change is this slow moving thing that takes away all that once was, and relegates it to
an obscure place in time where our past history resides. Change is like a vine that slowly
creeps into every void and changes the familiar to the unfamiliar, as we try to adapt to the
new, while still holding on to the past.  

    
     
     

The Storytellers

Once upon a time and long ago there was this magic box that stood in our living rooms.
Some of these boxes came in different sizes, many looked like fine furniture with
numbered dials and lighted back grounds while others were not as fine and a little smaller,
and to us, they were magical transportation devices, known as radios. Oh, I know we
still have radios today, but the different between them was the element that the listener
would have to provide, and that was called imagination. For imagination was the key to
the great stories that were being told, that took us from the living rooms to places that did
or didn't exist. In just seconds you could be transported anywhere in the world and even
places out of this world and back, by the use of your imagination, radio became a visual
medium seeing pictures in your minds eye, you might say it was a kind of time machine.
Albert Einstein said "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming
attractions." Remembering that imagination can make the impossible, possible.
Carl Sagan said "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it
we go nowhere." And so from the days before the written word, to the days of the digital
word, it seems that storytelling and imagination still live on at Sirius XM, Classic shows
from the golden age of radio, but on a much smaller scale. You would think by now that
radio would be just a memory from the past, but here it is, still hang on. Kind of like the
sandal, Roman armies wore them to conquer the known world, and we still wear them
today, to conquer the nearest mall.