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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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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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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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. 
.

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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My ABBA's Bigger Than-- - by DianaDee Osborne

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                                            Facebook followers & Friend requests welcome. DATE of posting:       13 December 2014

PARABLE:  
After finding an address I'd jotted down in my previous 400 pg journal, # 25, I flipped thu pages & read notes from the ALIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL in Ohio this past June 18th.

Found a giant squashed mosquito body in crease between pages 16 & 17... guess that describes part of the experience.. before the drenching rains came! Dug a bit deeper, studied the words of speaker Matt Chandler. He said
about Father God, described in Romans 8:15, 
" 'Abba' is more than just 'Daddy'. 
'Abba' is My dad can beat up your dad!... It's 
Look at  MY Dad -- HE created the Universe! .... It's 
My Dad LOVES me... 
my Dad will TAKE CARE of me
 and PROTECT me!"....... 

Pretty cool scripture study. Glad that mosquito didn't call for God's help.

SO WHAT ??

Psalm 147:  In the middle of telling how HE HEALS THE BROKEN-HEARTED,
God prompts the Psalmist to SUDDENLY write about this Fatherly God:
He counts the number of the stars;

​​He calls them all by name.              Click Here for Scripture Link

That's YOU   if the next verses describe you!  >>
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power;

​​His understanding is infinite.

6 ​​The LORD lifts up the humble

What does LORD God say ??   ROMANS 15:

13   For if you live according to the flesh you will die;
         but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
                                  [WHO FOLLOW HIM as their LORD],
       these are sons of God.  
15  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, 
     but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, 
        “Abba, Father.”  
16  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that
          we are children of God,  
17 and if children, then heirs—
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

From Suffering to Glory

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 

                                       Click Here for Scripture Link
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Highway Billboard Goofs FACEBOOK PARABLE - by DianaDee Osborne

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                                            Facebook followers & Friend requests welcome. DATE of posting:       5 November 2014

PARABLE:  
Travel Trivia: AFTER paying up to $1,000 for graphics co's design & production,
rent is $75-$200 per month for a countryside highway---
or $900-$2,500 for city one.
Whoever installed a NC billboard is probably in BIG trouble (pun intended):
MANY wrinkles.
YET: The message of the creator is EASY to read...
And God tells us the same:
His Grace is sufficient THRU our weakness to get His message through:
Using us even though we're weak, imperfect.

What does LORD God say ??    2nd Corinthians 12:9 
                                                     CLICK HERE FOR SCRIPTURE LINK
 "[God] said unto me, 'My grace is sufficient for thee: 
for My strength is made perfect in weakness.' 
Most gladly therefore will I   [Paul is writing]  rather 
glory in   [be glad, trusting God about]  my infirmities  [lack of skills, IQ, etc]
THAT the power of CHRIST may rest upon me." 

God says something very similar in Ephesians 3:20-21.      SCRIPTURE LINK  
"Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think...."

SO WHAT ??

1.  We canNOT be pride-filled when we remember that what we do is
ONLY by God's power!  It's EXCITING to miss that temptation!
We can far more easily LAUGH at Satan's temptations to be proud 

when we remember that ONLY by God's power are our works & speaking "unwrinkled." 

For His Glory... Verse 21.

2.  God declares that we ARE to be without wrinkles, in His empowering...

Ephesians 5:27, "that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, 

not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, 

but that she should be holy and without blemish."

               (Jude 1:12, "These are SPOTS in your love feasts, 

               while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves.")

THIS IS BASED ON GOD'S COMMANDS in  Leviticus 21 that His sacrifices

be perfect.... - INTERESTING LINK -  and WE are to give ourselves to Him

as our sacrifice...   ROMANS 12:1,

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you 

present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy  [set apart], 

acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Psalm 56:4  

"I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good!"

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Empty Gas Gauge Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       5 November 2014

PARABLE:  
Within 1/2 hr of driving, van gas gauge went from indicating 1/4 full to showing an orange warning light- and the Range indicator saying I had 22 miles left.
Managed to get to a station within 10 miles.
Sure enough, pump showed I'd had only 1/2 gallon left: 13 miles.

I BASICALLY like my van model to get same model after
Snowstorm Tree totaled old van.
But I've always hated this feature that's same as 2010 models...
AND that we can't leave on headlights when we get out &
go to front door in the dark-- The company thinks we're too stupid 
      to know we left the lights on for 30 seconds....  THE LIGHTS GO OFF.

SO WHAT ??

....... The company that makes my van never asks its customers                 
what they do or don't like-- so   the vans Never Improve.  Bad features stay.   

And... I've been in dozens of churches as a traveling visitor:
Only 1 has ever given visitors a form asking 
"What would you suggest we change?" 

And for almost every church: In cold OR hot weather, 
no one stands outside the closed front door to welcome anyone-- 
even minutes before a service....
........ I've literally sat in my van some days at 10:50 for an 11 AM service, fighting the urge to drive away. Once in PA, I did.... So let me here commend a Stafford County VA church that even had greeters waiting *15 minutes after* service started-- telling me as I walked up late, "Welcome Home!"   Thank you, Strong Tower Ministries!: I certainly felt welcomed & comforted as I entered a new place to worship our LORD.

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