Finishing up the long Elon Musk biography today. Lots of detail. His 50 years broken down into months at a time. Tesla. SpaceX. Starlink. Twitter. His AI company. His Neuralink and their rival companies are working to perfect chips to be inserted into the brains of the blind, deaf, and handicapped to help them live a more normal life: giving them sight, hearing, and helping them to walk and operate computers and other devices. I am currently working through a focus group on this very subject. Stayed up late last night answering questions on my laptop. The new technology can have dangerous repercussions, especially in this increasingly secular world we live in.
One good thing about reading this Musk biography. Elon knows he has Aspergers, a form of autism that affects the way he relates to people. He’s kinda in a world of his own, like many with autism. While it may negatively effect the way he treats people, the Aspergers helps him focus on solving the complex issues he faces building Teslas and Space X rockets, etc. So the Musk book is helping me better see the world, through Matthew’s eyes, even helps understand myself better.
I’ve heard that a young male doesn’t stop growing and maturing to his mid-20’s, that their brain isn’t completely formed until then. On top of that, I think I’ve heard Denison and Dan Hayes and my Sunday School teacher / JFBC staff member say that these days studies have shown that what used to be emotional maturity for me as an 18 year old now isn’t reached until almost 30 years old for a youngster like Matthew. Ceil had recently mentioned that it seemed like Matthew is finally coming of age, better able to face the real world than previously. Not completely sure why, but like it or not it is tough for kids these days.
After GT at SPdL I moved up to adult choir and the singles department. For a while I dated Jenny, a good Christian girl whose family ran the Blue Bird school bus company in Ft. Valley GA, south of Macon. She was in Atlanta temporarily, and was planning on returning to Ft Valley. For some reason she kept asking me if I wanted to stay in Atlanta. Back then (and still today) I wasn’t good at figuring out why people asked the questions they asked, why they said and did the things they did. I would answer Jenny: “I love it here in Atlanta. I never want to leave”. Took me years to figure out that I could’ve moved to Ft. Valley and gotten a good job at Blue Bird. I’m happy that I stayed in Atlanta.
DENISON: criminology experts tell us that deterrence measures discourage people from committing crimes to the degree they guarantee swift punishment with a severity proportional to the crime committed. The certainty of being caught has proven to be an even more powerful deterrent than the punishment that follows. Our post-Christian society is breaking apart because we no longer consider God to be relevant to our lives or even to exist, so we ignore the moral accountability such faith brings to our lives and our world.
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