Saturday, February 21, 2015

Facial Recognition Tech Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

Facial Recognition Tech Parable .... 
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DATE of posting:       21 February 2015

PARABLE:  
For the Tech-Savvy- Enough-To-Be- Paranoid among us (and the "just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I'm wrong" people!) >> an interesting read under Google's Privacy & Terms page; a small bit: (QUOTE) "Beyond facial detection technology, Google also uses facial recognition in certain features. Facial recognition, like the name suggests, can help a computer to compare known faces against a new face and see if there is a probable match or similarity. For example, facial recognition helps users of the Find my Face feature to see suggestions about who they might want to tag in a photo or video they’ve uploaded and would like to share." ... (So Find My Face is actually also Find Their Face...) ...

......  ooohh, and don't forget a journey down "Types of Location Data" >>
 "Implicit location information is information that does not actually tell us
WHERE your device is located, but allows us to infer that you are either interested in the place or that you might BE at the place." ...

SO WHAT ??
... But still: COMPUTERS ARE TRULY A GIFT FROM GOD      
that He can guide us to use powerfully in spreading His Truth         
to any who are seeking... and                                
WILL find if they truly seek   >>  He promises.      
Just because, like about anything, evil thinking people can invent evil uses
does not mean God can't give humble people who ask      (see James 1:5)
the ability to use computer or smart phones or "xxxxx" for good, 
to serve Him & help others....

What does LORD God say ?? 
Ephesians 3:20-21 -- empowering for His glory.

James 1:5-6 -- promised wisdom, to understand what He helps us remember (John 14:26)
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.  But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

SEEK-FIND Bible search promises
(including warnings that God eventually hides His face from those who refuse to listen to Him) are NOT just in the New Testament:
Deuteronomy 4:29                     LINK
Proverbs 8:17                            LINK
Jeremiah 29:13 ( read 11-14)       LINK
Matthew 6:33                                LINK
Matthew 7:7   (easy number to remember)    LINK

Reference:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/pattern-recognition/
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Valentine Blessings Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       16 February 2015

PARABLE:  
Who but a caring, big-hearted God would "heal a laptop" without humans touching it,
after weeks of problems that couldn't be identified?

No... I'm not kidding. Sure, maybe it's "coincidence" that my 4-yr-old portable workhorse that supplements my older Mac home studio workstation and kept crashing for weeks suddenly began working fine 2 months ago: Long enough to call "healed".... We've all had blessings that even those who believe in God would call "coincidence".
But I learned in GEOMETRY: 
You can't prove a line by only 2 points  (dots connected). 
You can stay suspicious of the calculated points if there are only 5 points   (events). 
But if there are 10, 20... 
You have an assured LINE. 

.... Like: when my low mileage van dies exactly at the safest place on road but engine lasts long enough to get UP-hill into a public lot... 


Or my car spins on black ice even at 25 mph, & slowly comes to rest against the
ONLY hill    between 2 deep drop-offs (years ago, but still praising God for miracle!)... 

Or doctors says for some reason he can't do the usual checkup test that worked fine for me last time-- so he has to do a substitute test for plain checkup which shows a softball cyst that the usual test never would have (last August)... 

Hey, there's 4 points right there in my life LINE: .... EVIDENCES of GOD helping.
Way beyond   "luck"    or     "coincidence".                                                                


SO WHAT ??
.... We EACH have a caring, BIG-hearted God as our VALENTINE: 
Not just John 3:16 & 17 assurances of His love... 
or Jonah 4:11 (check THAT book's last line Valentine!) ....    INTRIGUING LINK
.........................  or the many etc's. 
First John 4: "THIS is real love—not that we loved God,                    LINK
but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins." 
(verse 10 ................... .................. ........................ of many).

What does LORD God say ??  
"I LOVE you."  He even cared about the evil people of the land now called MOSUL,
that was described as blood flowing through the streets in Nahum 3.
God LOVES each person. See the end of Jonah. See the end of Matthew.
God weeps over those who reject Him... and thus shall be destroyed.

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

God Creates Seeds Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       15 February 2015

Facebook PARABLE:  
Walked to the deck door as soon as I got up & of course every feeder was empty in this frigid DC area's temp that 'the north' would love to have. Dozens of birds huddled around the squirrel trap... that I've never had the heart to use on the annoying critters, so I put feed *IN* there where little birds happily can eat.

And I LAUGHED. 
Have you ever made a mistake so DUMB that you laughed at it for yrs? 
Journaling in church cemetery in 2013, I watched birds hopping all over seeking food in grass, and thought, Does God guide birds to find food?..
Instant reply... beyond my wisdom!... >>
"Cannot God who created the Universe manage to put some seeds in bird paths, 
yet leaving them the joy of discovery that He DOES provide?"... 

Then God helped me to find a verse in one of my favorite Psalms that
I had not noticed amid my delight that He knows the Name of Each Star-- & thus me!
"He gives food to the wild animals
and feeds the young ravens when they cry."  -- Psalm 147:9      LINK

Which matches Job 38:41 >> "Who provides food for the ravens
when their young cry out to God
and wander about in hunger?"  THE ANSWER, of course, is CREATOR GOD!

SO WHAT ??
Same Question for you & me: CAN GOD JUST MAKE WHAT WE NEED?
.......... why not ??????? .........
GOD can JUST MAKE what I need. __
God PROVIDES for ALL my needs:  
Provides far beyond bird seeds.  __      
LORD help me, remember, please, the
words of this silly but true poem :)          

What does LORD God say ??  Isaiah 46:4:
"Even to your old age,  I  AM    [God],
And even to gray hairs I will carry you!
I have made, and I will bear;
Even I will carry, and will deliver you."
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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Vanity Plates Reveal - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       7 February 2015

Facebook PARABLE:  
I love the puzzles of 'Vanity plates'. With many miles of travel, license plates entertain me when I have to watch vehicles more closely than God's enjoyable scenery. Seldom do I pay attn to the driver, but last week I did:
.
LIV4ME   the car's owner declared. 
Passing the slow car, I glanced over- really expecting to see 
some young teen cautious with a new license, or a 20-something chatting on a phone. Nope. 'Twas a lady at least mid-50s. 
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And I felt      SAD4HER
We're supposed to grow mature-- I've loved getting older's lessons in 
trusting God, with Confidence that doesn't care when people criticize 
(after praying for wisdom of Do They Have a Point?).
.
But where's the JOY in   LIVE4ME  ?     
None, really. That's why many of us love to GIVE gifts: 
JOY in GIV2THM. 2nd Corinthians 3:18... 
True joy as we reflect God. Whose plates could be GAVE2U - or: 
           DIED4U             
SO WHAT ??
Either Jesus is your LORD or you are. No in between. Sad consequences
for all who make the self-centered, wrong choice.
The DUMB choice, since God cares for each of us more than we do for ourselves.

What does LORD God say ??  Matthew 6, Jesus speaking
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ...
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 
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