What we all need from time to time.

The words life skills. It became almost a business for some in the 80s plus 90s. Assertiveness was great money maker for some. Counselling was another life skills we all required.But cost of being then counselled to clear any perpetual baggage  proved to costly. So the basic counselling skills along with the advanced counselling skills. Well they got transferred to active listening route.

Listening a good listening, it's what we all need from time to time.

It was honest statement about the oppression system in Iran.

 

So in my home town

Simple

Polite 

Controlled

Relevant

Informative

 Something that even didn't wish to know this Protest was not intrusive or aggressive. It was honest statement about the oppression system in Iran. Evil Khamenei regime and the terror it is using. So lets pray for a regime change in Persian continent and soon. Amen let it be so.

Shortening winters day …well its not.

Today's a bit quiet as we feel again the frosty bite of another chill in this `too long a winter`, young nephews gone to school clutching a Valentine posse for his new school crush not sure how that will be received.

 Life can feel pretty tough. Money can be tight. Doors can feel closed. So if we can really should try make the table we sit, eat our food around a little bit bigger with place for another. its really that simple. So its up to us, try to be kind.

In winter's loaded garment keenly blows
And turns her back on sudden falling snows,
To go where gravel pathways creep between
Arches of evergreen that scarce let through
A single feather of the driving storm;
And in the bitterest day that ever blew
The walk will find some places still and warm
Where dead leaves rustle sweet and give alarm
To little birds that flirt and start away.

Come to understand that we can easily be bullied by even old female folk. Yes that old statement the Church folk gang. So it started simple innocent enough, "my brother tied to strangle me, after we had thrown water over each other".

This led to firstly view that the brother had become held by a demon then quickly became issue identified with old 600 year old building no longer holding sacred people nor sacred position. We do that. We do that real well. Slaughter others who do not agree with our view you see every action which is unkind or even disturbing doesn't mean its posed of devil. We can be unkind unthoughtful lack concern for others. 

We have something in the faith of following Jesus that is greater than that in the world. Better then wicked ways of economic grabbing spoilers the political elite or simply very awful neighbour. We have to share this faith journey because we have something bigger plus better. Kingdom values of Jesus. Perhaps l am as guilty as the next person of not recalling there is something bigger better waiting in the Life after Life after death.

Yeah l know still getting my head around what the early Christian followers of Jesus accepted there is LIFE after LIFE after death. YOU see LIFE is about connection about being kind to others as best as you can. Also about connecting with others who do not agree with, either like nor accept. Hell bent on sending others to hotbed concentration camp which they decide who gets there. Yeah sometimes gotta eat with them at same table.

Focus.

In the silence....find your focus......slowly something we do not do enough.....observe image's coulers...can l repeat them carefully can this individual transfer that image as l slow down....

Should l become more aware of my own being. I should become aware of my breathing...the pace of LIFE living presently. . . .Focus...all that other stuff is becoming processed.

Little excerise in becoming more focused. Like a mind gym game.

It's been the longest winter without you.

After "seemingly incessant rainfall" in recent weeks, temperatures are set to take a tumble again. The Met Office has issued a snow and ice warning for parts of East Yorkshire as colder conditions move in later this week.

Art inspires a bloke like myself whose grown up mostly in a position of powerlessness working among vulnerable, young, blighted areas. Impoverished following a religion called Christianity. 

Yet in Art see beauty.

In art see inspiration.

In art feel challenged.

In Art all Art as l know this subject see the creator.

Like when l have my days away. Go into God's great big Cathedral called Nature feel the Silence. Gain my focus feel different like the cold chill wrap up against

Sense of liberation when walked for one hour in this place often by the coast. A cruel windswept stormy cold wintry experience it's been since November. Still today and tomorrow it remains bitingly cold, wet, uncomfortable. 

But we will walk in nature. We will be inspired by Art. Enjoy you (like me), in some form have access to both. Enjoy.

" Definitely is a friend,”.....Sorry pet its not

When you don't communicate tend to feel undervalued. further start to cut yourself off and away from others. Young people we have been informed started to make an... AI BOT.. so they can get affirmation.

Apparently you can model such devices on your mobile communication so that can get the type of response you require, Government along with third sector results are informing us that chatbots are fulfilling demand unmet communication services.

Well that means talking to each other and engaging with conversations that are honest, open, plus bring into the discord silences. The looking at each other further when required stating unfavorable Reponses. While also been stated that (Young people plus children) find providers lacking in empathy. The supposed privacy of the chatbot is another key factor in driving use by YPC.  

 "Definitely is a friend”...No am afraid it is not, in fact its not even real. Witness more and more as the cutback of all services to Young people and children are cut down further not provided. We discover that the group are seeking support in dangerous plus unreal networks. Further this cohort of YPC are becoming detached. So protest is not thought through. Truth is no longer a presence. Silence not considered.

Services are given up on.
Use of common sense is a skill not required.
Funders communicate to provider's of services, as they are seeing lack of users this is a reason to postpone then, end the service.

 ‘Hey bestie, I need some advice’. This generated response will communicate to you in the way you have tailored its response. See this in music used in gyms, choices in supermarkets, BOTS industry responses to consumers issues. AI, its a concern plus very dangerous that making LIFE like a fairytale. Despite no longer being a face to face youth worker, pastorally already know a number of young adults who  feel now trapped. 

Holding a conversation is not a skill. it becomes something we should grow more skilled when we develop and grow. 

 When a chatbot’s advice is a matter of life or death, how can we leave AI to the free market wild west?

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Not a surprise that some are turning to technology for help. We have to do better for our children, especially those most at risk. They need a human not a bot.”

 British newspaper article `The Guardian`. Gaby Hinsliffe.

ANOTHER AGAIN INQUIRY.

Another inquiry has uncovered deeply disturbing evidence of attempted widespread trafficking of abused young girls to Pakistan and elsewhere.
MP. have asked the Home Secretary to launch an immediate state investigation into reports of such trafficking.

We just don`t seam to move forward our lack of response to the vulnerable and support for children has worsened since the new millennium.

The Political elite have a culture that needs changing from the bottom roots. It's infected with illness that self centered. Sense of entitlement which allows those in parliament to ignore requests not just, not correct and behave towards oppressed groups without compassionate and common sense.

The questions l have are more around why haven't they protected young girls?

Why haven't many supported Maggie Owen and Sammy Woodhouse?

Why has evil even been protected?

What spiritual forces are at work among the political ?