This week has passed very quickly and today is Good Friday. A sad rainy day which befits this special day in Holy Week. As a child and as an adult I found this to be the day that I truly understood the loss of Jesus to the people of his time and place but what He left behind is the Christian Church and His eternal gifts to us that have passed to us down through the ages in our worship. Remembering always the two commandments which He brought to us - Love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. The word love transcends the earthly meaning but perhaps it captures it perfectly - respect, consideration and dedication to peace so that all who dwell in this earth can have peace.
Yesterday was a food shopping day and all completed with three stops in all. We are ready for Easter Weekend. Sweet and sour chicken will be our dinner on Easter Sunday. Today we had pizza - a treat for a busy day along with a cabbage stir fry.
My blood test results for the Ontario Health Study came in and match last years results of my annual medical exactly actually. That works in my favour as consistency at my age is a good thing. My yearly checkup will be soon actually. The year has passed very quickly. I am pleased to be in the Ontario Health Study. When I saw the writeup I thought what a perfect idea given the number of people who are over 70 years of age now in Ontario - a great study group for sure. This opportunity was created by the Baby Boom following the Second World War and commenced with the beginning of 1946. I was actually a very small group born after the war ended and before the Baby Boomers. We were labelled the quiet generation and we have proceeded through life ahead of the Baby Boomers but watching this enormous group behind us as they altered life for all of us by their huge numbers - their effect on the system measurable.
The Good Friday Service will be on YouTube at 12 noon today and always memories of Good Friday Services past flash through my mind. But perhaps most in my mind is my first Good Friday Service at my Anglican Church after the Church Secretary hired to replace me (I was a volunteer secretary) at Edward's United Church. I did feel it was somewhat inappropriate for me to attend my Church during this time of volunteerism so did not but after I was replaced I went to the early service regularly for a number of years until we started going to Dominion Chalmers in the latter part of the mid 1990s. Although I went thinking it would be good for Edward (and it was the minister took a few minutes every week and chatted with him which was very meaningful for Edward) since his brother had just passed away and his mother was not well and they were all of his birth family that he had known all of his life; the sermons of this very knowledgeable United Church Minister on the early Christian Fathers of the Church were absolutely excellent. It was a perfect United Church for me for sure very like the one that my Uncle (and his wife my Aunt) and Grandmother attended in my home town. I felt very much at home in that Church although when that minister retired a few years later (we were actually just going to go for a few weeks during this special set of sermons) we moved on to my Church (Christ Church Cathedral (Anglican) Ottawa) as Edward wanted to thank me for attending his United Church for the nearly twenty years that I had gone with him there. That did surprise me actually although Edward still returned to the local United Church for special services and the Ladies Group there prepared lunches for his Gene-O-Rama days that he organized through the years.
Going down memory lane is good for the soul I think as one sorts through one's life. The time to come is unknown but the time past is 80.5 years now and one needs to sort one's mind on occasion. I sort it best with my fingers on my keyboard as that is how I mostly speak. I am not a very communicable person in actual fact.
Amazing sometimes that I worked for so many years but I was well trained to do such things. It is the training that is placed on our children that will fit them for life. That is the task of our teachers more than anything else to teach them how to be managers along with all the tools of education that are now at their fingertips to pass on to children. They will need those skills because entry level will be AI and the skill of managing AI is what they must obtain through their education. I continue with my thought that no child should be accepted into kindergarten (including junior kindergarten) unless they speak the language in the classroom at the level of the children that are there. No teacher should have to catch up children who do not speak the language - they should be in a class where the skill of the used language is taught until they are ready to attend regular school - they waste a teacher's time. It is the responsibility of parent's to ensure that their children can communicate effectively at their age level when it is time to go to regular school.
AI becomes as effective as their managers and indeed one will not see a shrinking work force but rather a workforce which must manage an ever growing number of AI units in our lives. Children must see themselves as managers rather than as workers; AI will always need managers and as their duties increase so does the managerial level increase to ensure that all aspects of AI are controlled strictly and securely. People talking about a smaller workforce are scare mongers really and cause depression amongst our young people. The youth must continue to become as educated as they can manage so as to be that managerial level within our society that will be created by this entry level of AI into our lives. That is the way that AI can best be managed and the scare mongers need to contemplate what they are saying because they are not seeing the future as it will be where managers will have new jobs that we have never even thought about yet as this new methodology enters into the work force. If it isn't there then AI will be caught up in a very wasteful state as they will not be capable of intuitive and constructive thought but simply recall what is in their memory system (effective or ineffective) and they will not be capable of sorting and understanding the difference. One can sharpen this simply by learning but always the need for managerial level remains to keep the system efficient and prosperous especially so that AI is not caught up in a loop much like the loops of early programming in my day that cluttered up a computer program until it was located and fixed. Education is the key.
Off my soapbox and on to the day. Tea all drank and now solitaire puzzles.
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