The God of Chance

This is Thursday April 9, 2020 after dinner.  The latest news is that California’s peak will not be as high as New York, which still has a higher per capita rate of infection.  The theory now is that California developed a herd immunity last fall when people came in from China and California had an unusually early flu season.  I remember that.  The death rate per testing had continued to rise and is now at 2.8% which us up from a flat two percent a couple weeks back.  The death rate for the country is now sixteen thousand.  Some national official has revised their predicted peak from well over a hundred thousand now down to sixty thousand.  Masks will now be required in Orange county.  ALL parks will be closed on Easter.  Weather wise it’s been raining all day and that will help keep people in.  It’s been raining a lot the past three weeks and we haven’t seen that much of the sun.  At Dallas Rains’ house it peaked out at 49 degrees, which for April is really something.  I haven’t seen the cat at all yesterday or today.  I presume some party has taken her in to have her kittens, perhaps one of the restaurants behind us.  Now they say that fishing season is not canceled, but only delayed here. 

This is Wednesday April 8, 2020.  Let’s get to the important news.  The cat has had her kittens.  Nancy noticed it Monday after dinner.  Yesterday morning Rose confirmed it.  The only time I saw the cat yesterday was when she was darting across the pavement to get out of the rain.  Nancy says she’s been jumping over the fence by the bakery.  She obviously had her kittens there.  But we won’t see them because we can’t get out of here till April 30^th.  And it’s unlikely she will bring them over here.  I haven’t seen the cat at all today.  The last news of the past two days is that masks are mandentory everywhere now and employers have to pay for them if the employee doesn’t have one.  But they stress you can make your own.  This morning we learned that the federal government was giving President Trump intelligence reports on the Corona virus as early as late November of last year and have continued to update him.  The president loves to lie and say he hit from out of the blue and nobody saw it coming.  Today’s death rates are the highest ever but this is to be expected.  However rates in New York have actually declined.  That University of Washington study said that the peak virus attack would be April 17^th and that isn’t far off.  Another report even said April 12^th.   Now they are instituting one way lanes in grocery stores and are also limiting admittance to stores.  These measures will help. 

Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the presidential race so remember this date.  I tried to look up the results of the Wisconsin primary but they said the vote results were being held for a week by court order.  (?) Sanders says he can’t in good conscience continue the race but his name will continue to be on the ballot.   He wants to keep his deligates so that he can influence the party platform.  So he isn’t entirely out of the race.  Joe Biden is the heir designate.  That should make it real easy for him if anyone wants to start campaigning again.  In other news Linda Trip had died at age seventy.  I didn’t know she was so old back in 1998.  She was already in her late forties.  Prime Minister Boris Johnson is making a slow improvement in his health, and never needed that ventilator.  We continue to pray for his recovery. 

As you know there is a popular show about the Multi-verse.  Back in March o 2018 we were talking a lot about the creation of multiple universes and lateral time.  But the unspoken mental thought we had was one of Chance.  Probability.  God can jigger the probabilities to "make" things happen in any universe he wants them to happen in.  So when the creationists talk about low chance and probabilities they are walking into a trap.  Because God is the god of Chance.   Certain things can jigger probabilities other than "God".   For instance not obeying a direct order from God you know came from God can do it.  There are fleeces described in the story of Gidian.   To be fair these should be fleeces with LESS than a fifty percent chance of happening on their own.  Such a fleece occurred to me last Saturday.   I bet God I couldn't remember the name of Leo Laport's daughter even though I knew it for sixteen years.  I knew his son was named Henry.   The period elapsed where I had that mental block and I cashed in on it.  I asked God to as far as physically possible to shorten the time of the reign of this virus and make it go away.  I won that fleece.  And this week we have seen a turn-around in the virus plague figures.  Another way the future can be affected is by superstitions and also witch's spells and incantations.  These "make things happen" because they are actions that "aren't supposed to happen" and because they did happen they engender other things which weren't supposed to happen.   This is part of the theory behind the I Ching and various divinations.  Getting back to March of  2018 we call it a fifth dimensional shift.  These may occur all the time but they really seem strange and I can't prove it.  It raises other questions if they Do occur.  Of course we have had a lot of rain in the past three weeks around here and it's raining this morning.  I haven't yet prayed for the rain to go away.  We are some twenty degrees below our normal highs.  On another subject you're all interested in, I saw the cat jump the fence and she came over here.  Her fur was soaking wet from the rain and I hoped someone would get a towel.  She was meowing her head off for food or whatever.