Who Am I?

In a recent journal entry I got to writing about just who I am.Here is some of that:

I am disciple of Jesus Christ, trained in my understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ from scriptures consisting of the New Testament, the Old Testament, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the Pearl of Great Price.
I have been ordained to the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods by my father, and hold the office of Elder in the Melchizedek priesthood, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
I am the son of Andy and Lisa Robertson, still married, and the forth of seven children.
I am as yet unmarried, but hold out hope that I will eventually find a woman willing to marry and be married to me; together to raise a family.

As for employment: I am currently frustratingly unemployed.
In general I can do most anything I am asked to do. There are some things I cannot do, and some I will not do: I will not ask if "you want fries with that", and would rather not answer phones or work a cash register.

What kind of job do I want?
One that will allow me to provide for, support and raise a family.
One that does not demand all my time, energy or effort, so that I have something to give to my family and community.
One where I can use the skills I have to my satisfaction, and help others to do the same.
One where I can learn new skills and things, and help others to do the same.

I am skilled at some methods of image creation, and also skilled at some forms of information distribution.

I can use Maya, and have some past experience with SolidWorks, some self-taught time with Inventor, and some past training with 3dsMax. As with the 2d-platforms, I expect that I can probably figure out any 3d-platform given time, and someone to ask
II can use Autocad and ME-10, and expect I can generally figure out most any other CAD program. can put pencil to paper and create some passable drawings, as well as do the analog of the above digital skills. I have been trained in some life and still-life drawing methods. I am more of a technician than an artist.
I have been trained in many of the fundamentals of animation, 2d and 3d.
I am interested in learning more of script and story writing.
I can type within reason, as well as 10-key.
I can do some field surveying of places and constructs, and mapping.
I can handle inventory, and information, some data processing.
I can use tools, hand and power, and could even use some big machinery with sufficient space and time to figure it out.

I have held jobs (oldest to most recent) as a janitor, quality control checker, a single color silk screen printer, a Mig-welder for a short time, a go-for driver, a clerk, an assistant to a commercial real estate agent, a draftsman in the HVAC and Mechanical disciplines, and some temp work helping the water master for an irrigation canal manage the growth and right-of-ways around the canal.

I am interested in history, both political and family. I have done some genealogy, but most of my own has already been done by others, and I have not yet pursued the threads still open by their work.
I enjoy being outdoors, whether doing manual labor or some form of playing.
I enjoy horse back riding, hiking, camping, target shooting; I aspire to learn archery and rock climbing when I can get the spare money for equipment and instruction.
I despise participating in Team Sports, though I can generally chase a ball when I chose to.

I seek to learn why things work, not just how.
I enjoy reading, and asking questions of people whom I determine actually know something, to learn from them.

What is wanted?

I want to raise a righteous family in the faith and gospel of Jesus Christ.
- To find a righteous woman to marry and be married to
- To have and raise children

I want to help prepare the world for his return and reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. By the way, this is the only political one-world government I feel willing to accept, as I perceive all others to be built on principles of men having power over other men.

I want to use the skills and abilities I have to support myself and my family in a job that is fulfilling, profitable, and of service to my fellow man and to God.
- To do my best at what ever I am given to do
- To not be hindered by my situation

I want to learn new things, and share what I learn. I want to encourage others to do likewise.
- To learn the truth of things, and behave accordingly
- To share good and wholesome activities, in work, in play...

I want to enjoy the world around me and help others do the same.
- by camping, hiking, horseback riding, rock climbing, target shooting...
- farming, hunting, ranching...
- in all other things, being respectful of the world and taking care of it according to the principles of God.

Where are we going, and who's hand basket is this?

I have been listening to book-on-disk The Road To Serfdom, written by Friedrich Hayek, and am concerned by the similarities between what he writes about the socialist thinkers and the ultimately totalitarian regimes of Russia, Germany, and Italy in pre-World War II, and what I see and hear going on today.
The people in charge of the US Government and economy, and European governments and economies, concern me. As does the extreme left-of-center thinking, and radical thinking in general, left or right. What I comprehend about the thinking of the extremes and radicals today is that it is similar to identical to what Hayek catalogs about the thinkers and governments of those then.

The scriptures document that people first are tempted by Pride, Lusts (for any gratification, not just sexual), Power, and Possession;

then they choose these and are disobedient to The Truth and Gospel and the Commandments of God;

they move into unbelief of the Truth and Gospel and Commandments to the point of rejection of the same, setting up other beliefs in their place;

they set up and engage in false traditions based on the replacement beliefs;

they turn to idolatry and other abominable practices, building up secret combinations that promote their pride, lusts, power, and possessions;

this leads to the destruction of their degraded civilization.


Today, the extremes and radicals are seeking for the 4-combo as ends, and cloak this under the shroud of 'social justice' and 'collective salvation'.

They reject the established '-ism's' that had previously done their best to teach the people the truth, gospel and commandments of God, and base this rejection on among other things, the idea that these '-ism's' are corrupted, incomplete, and stifling to the human spirit.

They teach this rejection to their children, and teach as many other people's children as they can, understanding the ideas about knowledge and perceptions and reality. Control the information a person receives, you control their perception of reality.

They set their own power structures up and work to bind all men to their structures, and to stamp out all competitors. Especially the competitor of other churches. For those who have not had the experience of the existence and love of God in their lives, this binding is comparatively easy and even embraced; for those who have, this binding is actively fought against, choosing the liberty of God over the bonds of men.

The power structure becomes a religion unto itself, in competition with the truth and church of God, and engages in a war against its competitor, to the destruction of society.

So who wants to destroy things and people, and who wants to build them up in righteousness?

troubling the troubled.

I have read a few things that have upset and amused me this last week.

One was another local article about the doings of various religious denominations. The comments section again contained posts from all the usual characters, from the fundamentalists anti-religionists to the fundamentalist religionists. If I get too emotionally involved, it stops being amusing.
One of the funny things I see here is that both sides express the same levels of faith, but on opposing viewpoints: the anti-'s expressing the same level of faith in their own beliefs as the pro-'s in their own.

The upsetting article was prompted by a segment that I heard on the Michael Medved Show late last week. He had the author of the article All The Single Ladies on. I went and printed the article and read it.
To forbear from over burdening the reader here, I will simply say that I was stirred up in frustration in comparison to my own unmarried situation; a little bit mystified by the comprehension of some of the hinted at reasoning of why a woman might be unwilling to marry at a given point in time/life; and dumbfounded by the reasoning and ideology that this article points out as existing within society.