Over Population

Coruscant, a world of one city. Ever wonder what the population would be? I heard a television preacher once say that all the people in the world, if you put them into the nuclear family of four, could fit in Texas with nice size home lots. I thought this was absurd and wondered how he could get away with such crap. I realized it wouldn't even be that hard to check. What an idiot?

Yeah, who's an idiot. Texas is 268,601 mi². At the time there were 6 billion people on earth. So if you make that into 1.5 billion families of four and divide that into the space you end up with around 5,000 ft² or a lot 40ft wide by 125 feet deep; a normal sized lot these day in any city.

Texas takes up about 1.9% of earth's habitable land which is only 12.5% of all of earth's surface. So when you begin to think about it over population is a lot of bunk. There are area's that are extremely dense like New York; in fact Monaco is the most densely populated area with 43,000 people per square mile. If you brought that type of density to Texas you could fit 11.5 billion people there. New York is also very high with 26,403 per square mile. Again, applying that to Texas you're at 7 billion. I'm not arguing that the assets are distributed evenly, just that there is an amazing amount of land and the highly publicized "overpopulation" in the early part of my life I hardly hear anymore. Perhaps because it was all a bunch of lies to scare people but easily debunked. Every few years there's a new one to scare people again but eventually fades. Satan benefits by keeping people in a state of panic; that's what's real and constant.

I have a load of items to post but haven't made the time. I'm surprised how quickly time has gone by noting the last posting date. Transitioning from Canada to the US requires significant amounts of energy so when I'm not doing that, I'm doing nothing.

With regards to the move, I have come to the conclusion that the sole purpose of the relocation is to ensure my continued growth in faith. I believe the majority of the impact has already occured and my perspectives have been painfully yet fruitfully realigned. The process is very similar to what I underwent while leaving Honda. The major difference being that I've gone through it before. So the shock of the root ripping of previously hidden securities is somewhat muted but only in the long term realization (from experience) that I will be cared for. I wore clothes to work today and have enough money for a Sub, so what's my problem.

Like Abraham, whose hand was stayed by an angel on the downstroke to knifing his son, the result is not as important as the attitude. Rees Howells had a similar experience when he wanted to heal a woman who was dying. The Holy Spirit told him no probs, but you will lose your life in the process. Not the answer he was looking for. He struggled greatly until he came to the conclusion that he would proceed. He layed hands on the woman and healed her, yet no harm came to himself. In later reflection he realized the process gave him the attitude that was required to be an intercessor. He really had to be willing to stand between death and the woman. And it really wasn't so that God would know; it was so that he would know. That opened the door in his soul so that the power would flow in honour. (will spell that honor next week)

P.S.
Crappy laptop crashed while generating this post. The recently added 'auto draft' mode kicked in so when I booted back, the majority of my text was in a draft post. Very cool.