Tag: ZOOM

Tik Tok on the block. Hey, Zoom, Bring home those jobs?

Tik Tok, which Trump planned to ban from the U.S., will be bought by Microsoft (WSJ, Aug.1). Concern is about the collection of data on U.S.users by the Communist Party.  What about Zoom?

Will Zoom be next on Trump’s hit list?      Zoom employs over 700 employees in R&D centers across China and routes all  its streams through Chinese servers.  Can  the Chinese Communist Party look at anything that anyone posts on Zoom from  anywhere? Recently, Zoom hired a former top official for Trump to manage concerns about privacy.

Zoom states that  it offers end-to-end encryption (ETEE)  for both paid and free users.  That should mean that the Chinese Communist Party can’t see user’s data. Zoom has put considerable effort into improving privacy for all users.  Free users will provide a phone number to ensure that they are who they are.

Aptos Psychologist:  It’s  time to de-couple the USA from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).    The ‘globalization’ efforts  of the Clinton and Obama years  reaching out to China  resulted in the loss of about 1/3 of USA manufacturing jobs.  China got richer and America became poorer due to globalization.  And now the USA is too dependent on China — run by the Chinese Communist Party –  for things we should manufacture for ourselves. Like drugs.

The USA economy was booming until the Covid-19  pandemic struck.  In early 2000, the Chinese Communist Party exported Covid-19,  a deadly  virus  manufactured  in a Chinese research lab,   to the world.  In California, Gov. Newsom, a Democrat govenor,  recently bought half a million masks from China as he continues to keep California’s economy shut-down. First China wrecks havoc on the world’s economy and then it makes a profit selling  masks to California.

It’s time for Trump and Congress to say enough is enough.  Bring jobs back to America. 

Say this message to Nike, Apple and also to Zoom.  Apple recently complied with the Chinese Communist Party  by taking down thousands of foreign made video games.    There’s reports that Nike’s shoes are made with slave labor.  

written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com     8/1/2000

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Are you ‘church’ alone, in ZOOM reality, a building & does it even matter?

What’s a “church” & does it even matter?

The minister of Trinity Covenant in Aptos, CA  typically discusses books which he has read  and today was no exception.

The book mentioned  today   is Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. A best seller  on Amazon — for $10.21 in paperback and $12.99 on electronic Kindle –  Into the Wild is  about a young man who gives  up everything he owns, lives a life of non-attachment and four months later he poisons himself and  then starves to death in Alaska. His body was found.  He had  kept a journal.   One of his last journal entries was  “Happiness is only real when shared.”   

Christopher McCandless, the young man who sought non-attachment and died on the slopes of Alaska,    realized  belatedly that sharing and happiness are intertwined.

So is a church about sharing? Yes.   Christians know that Communion / aka Mass  is sharing bread and wine as the body of Christ.  And there’s  other kinds of sharing –  the word of God, sharing prayers for others and sharing  lots of smiles and also   tears.

A   bit of what people heard in the sermon:    “Spirit is the word for wind…..”   “Fire comes down when God makes a new place of worship…. “  “God pours Himself in with baptism….”

Take away what a church is?    An  attempt:   A church is a  gathering of Christians in physical space  (not ZOOM virtual reality)  which is at the same time  both a  specific   and  a  catholic  gathering    Analogy:    Think of light — which is both a wave and a particle.   Likewise a church is both a  particular physical gathering  and not a not  particular world wide gathering.

So, what’s your attempt to define “church”?

What is shared in the picture taken at Trinity Covenant on Pentacost Sunday, May 31, 2020?    The minister,Troy Martin,  invites with the words “Come together to eat” 1 Corinthians 11:33.  Together in one place people share.

Interested?  Want to share?   The Trinity Covenant  service  is at 10:00 am on Sundays at physical location of  1040 Bonita Drive, Aptos, CA.    The building is  just off highway #1 near the Seascape exit.

You can also tune in on ZOOM.    Go for the real thing, I say.

There’s heaps of  well  behaved kids.  Amazing kids!  Just a little  popery!   

written by Cameron Jackson   drcameronjackson@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ZOOM & Tune In at Resurrection Church 11 am Friday for Holy Hour

Stations of the Cross 

How to use ZOOM easy!   Try it out!   This is an invite from Resurrection Church in Aptos for their Holy Hour  4/3/2000:

“We invite you to join us tomorrow morning (Friday) at 11 am for our live-stream Holy Hour (Exposition and Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament) and Stations of the Cross with Women on The Way of the Cross.

“It will also be recorded and be put on our website so you can watch and pray at your convenience if you can’t join us at 11 am.

“To join the Holy Hour, click this link a little before 11 am on Friday morning: Resurrection Holy Hour   If asked, enter Meeting ID # 263-332-736 (no dashes).

If you’ve downloaded the app to your phone or tablet, simply select “Join a Meeting” and enter the Meeting ID# 263-332-736 (no dashes).

If you wish to join by any telephone to listen to the Holy Hour, call 1-669-900-6833 (a San Jose number) and when prompted, Meeting ID # 263-332-736 (no dashes).

Click this link to view and/or download the worship aid for the Holy Hour. Holy Hour Worship Aid

If you don’t want to print it out, you can open it in one window and still have the video stream open in another window, then you can look at the worship aid when needed.

For those of you who are new to Zoom, please read the instructions below to help you with the proper “Zoom Etiquette” for being a good “Zoom Neighbor”!

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