Sorry, I don't see it as a business genius move. I'm quite sure that Tesla's lawyers told Elon that taking deposits and not delivering the car would be a scam so he didn't have much of a choice. However pissing away the goodwill of hundreds of thousands of potential customers who were happy to hand him $1000 and wait a year for the car is just plain dumb. Now they've scrapped the early reservations completely - anyone can order the car with a $5000 non-refundable deposit. I hope there are no problems with demand because that latest money grab is starting to sound desperate.

From Dictionary.com:

Pact - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pact?s=t:
1. an agreement, covenant, or compact: We made a pact not to argue any more.
2. an agreement or treaty between two or more nations: a pact between Germany and Italy.

Contract - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/contract?s=t:
1. an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
2. an agreement enforceable by law.
3. the written form of such an agreement.

Notice the word agreement in both definitions.

If somebody says to you, "Don't eat the apple or you will die," and you agree with him, you won't eat the apple, except if you are suicidal.

If another guy comes along later and says, "You won't die if you eat the apple. Rather, you will become smarter," who knows if you agree with him until you tell us, right? But if you tell us by eating the apple rather than using words, and if you give some apple to your spouse who you love and would never hurt by causing his/her death, aren't you eating because you agreed with what the second guy said?

If neither of the guys ever said anything, who knows what you would do and how you would behave. You might eat the apple. You might not. But, no agreement in force.

But when you don't eat the apple because of what the first guy says, it is because you agree with him (agreement, pact, contract).

Agreement/pact/contract with the first Guy:
Action that showed that the agreement/pact/contract with the second guy was in force:

Agreement, bargain, compact, contract all suggest a binding arrangement between two or more parties. Agreement ranges in meaning from mutual understanding to binding obligation. Bargain applies particularly to agreements about buying and selling but also to haggling over terms in an agreement. Compact applies to treaties or alliances between nations or to solemn personal pledges. Contract is used especially in law and business for such agreements as are legally enforceable.

The scripture reference is right in the beginning of Genesis... how Eve was tempted to eat the fruit.

God said don't eat the fruit because you will die.
The serpent (the devil talking through it) said you surely won't die.

Genesis 3:1-5:
The problem started when the woman decided to believe the serpent rather than God. The contract was, essentially, "You believed me, so you get what I say." Since the contract with the devil was a lie, the contract was broken, because the woman did not get what the serpent said. But, the woman got what the contract with God said... death.

So, where is the good and where is the evil? The good is that God didn't want man to die. Rather, He wanted a relationship with mankind. But this relationship barely got started when mankind decided to die, and do away with the relationship. That is the evil.

When you look at the second half of Ezekiel 28, you can see the good that God placed in the devil, and the good reason why He made him this way... and how the devil changed himself from good to evil. Then, in John 8:44 we see when the devil started practicing his evil:
People don't clearly select who their parents are (even though they might in some unknown way). But we are all the children of Adam and Eve, who became children of the devil for a time... until God rescued them by promising the Savior.

The devil's contract with them was broken, because he didn't fulfill his part of the bargain. And the contract with God was completed by mankind making their choice... to die. The death contract is fulfilled in us, who, like our first parents, die.

The new contract with God is to believe the salvation of Jesus that God set in place. Man didn't have the power to make a new contract, but God did, because He still wanted the relationship. And, part of the new contract is God working the saving faith into the hearts those people who are too weak to reject faith. There is essentially no other way to say it. Strong will is strength against God's working faith in the heart... because the will of man still clings to both the devil's broken contract, and God's fulfilled contract of death.

The point of all this is that we will all rise in the resurrection. God's contract of new life overcomes the old contract of death. But since the contract is made to apply by believing - Eve believed the devil regarding the first contract - it will hold true by believing in God for Jesus salvation in the second contract. Those who don't believe God for the second contract will get a final death, the second death, as talked about in the Revelation. And this second death will be a lot more painful and disastrous than the first death when they put you in the ground.

When God created the Earth for us, he gave us a whole lot of freedom. We could do anything we wanted except for the one law... don't eat of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the Garden. The whole Earth was free for us. But then we accepted the info from the serpent/devil as greater than that of God. By doing this, we made a pact with the devil that we would listen to him and obey his rules. In other words, we gave the Earth over to the ownership of the devil, at least as far as we were concerned.

If the devil had been somebody of little power, things might not be the same as they were. But check out the second half of Ezekiel 28 to see the power that God had given the devil. The devil was able, through our willing obedience of him, to effect great corruption in us at the core of our being. The result is that we no longer have any power on our own to turn from the devil.

The influence of the devil over us is so great that, if we use any of our strength to attempt to even believe in Jesus salvation on our own, we turn the Jesus salvation thing into corruption for ourselves. It is only through the working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts (our core being) that Jesus salvation can be worked in us successfully.

Since our corruption is this deep, and since we don't understand how such deep corruption works and what it does, we barely see why death is necessary for us, so that God can remake us in the New Heavens and the New Earth, where corruption can never happen again.

This whole operation is built on:
1. The gift of God to us so that we have life;
2. The various agreements we make, first with God... to have life, then with the devil to corrupt our life, and then with God again to bring us to His new gift of salvation (even though it is God Who effects this second agreement with Him, in our hearts).

None of this is as simple as you make it sound.

Definitely Isaac. There is a lot to read on that around the net, but here is a good motion graphic video for you to take a look at. It sums it up nicely.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348

Actually, the will of mankind is against God. As sinners, we can't understand the way that God thinks in His perfect desiring for us to be holy like He is. We might come close at times. But we never quite understand.

This is why we die. We die so that we can let go of all imperfection. Then, god will take the essence of our spirits/souls, and place them into perfection in the new life in Heaven.

So, yes! All of humanity is against God, even though He has found some of us who are so weak spiritually, that He can work saving faith in us.

What do you think?


From the Bible:

Explanation:

Read more at http://www.patrobertson.com/Teaching/patprophecy.asp.

I would think it would be marvelous if one of the things that the United States insists on is that they make a peace treaty with Israel. We need to tell Syria you are not going to be lobbing shells through your surrogates Hizbollah into northern Israel, but make peace. Then all of a sudden Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel, and now Syria and Iraq would come together under the United States influence.

Wars actually cause an increase in the population. Check the population charts of countries such as Russia and Germany which suffered the most from WW2. There was a sudden spike immediately after the war was over. War is never the solution for anything.

Actually demography experts are not that worried about population increase. They claim that we will never see the 12 billionth person in the world. Over 90% of the world economies have increased last year, slowly but pretty surely the standard of living of the people around the world is getting better. This is a long process but eventually even what we call third world countries will metamorph in societies that resemble western such. This decreases birth rates, there are number of examples to back that up. Overpopulation is not that big of an issue, it will decrease over time.

I'm just fine with vaccines if they are justified based on unbiased information which is completely available to everyone for analysis.  Of course they have to be used only for exactly what they are marketed for and nothing else.

I'm obviously against forced vaccinations, and especially if such programs are forced by pitting one group against another.  I'm telling you, with even a little background in science, just dipping one's toe into the technology exposes that some pretty weird shit is going down.

To my knowledge rabies vaccine use for humans is never done unless one is know or suspected to have been bitten by a rabid animal.  As far as I know it is an expensive and painful procedure involving many shots directly into the abdomen over a period of days.  Maybe there is new technology in use for humans now.  Don't know because I've not researched it.

https://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/

Note when, in the decline of all of these diseases, vaccination was actually put into play.  That's pretty strong proof of their actual impact and effectiveness.  Indeed, looking at the data one could logically conclude that they are 100% snake oil.  I don't believe they are, but they are certainly not the miracle they are marketed to be by the medical/industrial complex.

Nope. It is due to hygiene. There have been many peoples around the world who have always had general life expectancies in the range of 80 to 90 years - Japan, parts of China, some of the Himalayas.

If you take a look, you will see that medicine and hygiene arrived about the same time in Europe and the Americas. It wasn't the medicine. It was the hygiene practices of the medical people.

All you are showing us is that there is something stronger than our best strength to kill each other off. There is no proof that great population has anything to do with the attempts of anyone to save life.

In the 20th century, where there was an extremely great population explosion, we had Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, and many others, who did their best to kill off the world - probably in excess of 200 million died from their attempts. Why would you think that anybody in the Allies nations of WW2 would cause greater population in any way? After all, these nations killed off millions in their attempts to stop Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, and many others, from killing off the world.

In the face of the best attempts of people to kill off the world, we don't have any success. The world keeps going onward, and that without our knowing how or why.

The population explosion shows that the timeline of the world is a lot shorter than standard science suggests. How? By showing that populations grow so fast that, if the world were millions of years old, there would have been standing room only, long ago. But if that seems unlikely, it at least shows that our whole picture of prehistory is really not understood correctly.

What? Nuclear war? I think it is not a solution to the problem, but it adds a problem to many parties, it is good to give rules to all countries and governments to socialize to the family in order to be limited by the number of children, such as a maximum of one family has two children or one child only.

Nuclear war, chemtrails, junkfood.

There are 7.8 billion people in the world today --- and if we think that the statistical data shows too much population of the world, then we would most likely to think that it must be reduced. Well, personally, I think that we could not and should not forcefully decrease those numbers. However, I believe that we can raise an awareness to do almost the same as the other. Hence, it must start within a family. Natural birth control for me is the moset approprite way of decreasing the population growth. This birth control method is a cheap, practical, and 'less immoral' and 'less condemnable' one. And by using this kind of bith control method, we will give the involved persons free to choose and to make a decision whole-heartedly.

Ok. But it's more complicated than that. An argument can be made that we would be able to see something. Find some evidence of aliens. Either them moving around in their spaceships or enveloping every star in dyson spheres or whatever. That's probably what we would do considering our understanding of physics and how the universe works. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/videos this guy has some great videos about all that. But in short you have to consider that for what you said to be true, aliens would need to know a lot of new physics we don't know about. And they would all need to agree we are not worth talking to. Maybe not likely if there are many alien species out there. Also it's not that we wouldn't try to talk to ants if we could. We just don't know how to.

That's the big question now is how we're going to adapt and create a ladder that these people can reasonably climb up. The bottom level of jobs is about to be eliminated again (like factory work was with automation of car manufacturing) and there will have to be another position for these workers to find. Lots of extremely high level jobs are being created, but is there enough room at the bottom when the next wave of automation gets perfected? I am having a hard time imagining how the governments will be able to give them a place to work. Maybe this is why a universal basic income is being discussed again. Pay people just enough to exist, so if they want to turn into vegetables they can, or if they want a challenge, they can go out and find work to take them up to the next level.