I'm a little behind in the five year Bible Bus journey- on Leviticus 23 today and looking forward to Luke.
Today we're talking about one of McGee's favorites; the tabernacle and feasts and he's pretty clear on the idea that there isn't much value in sadness and pious sourfaces in the Church- or is that in the church? He really doesn't go for the point of view I'm more familiar with, that there are so many many people saved and we just don't know it. For him, the elect is pretty small.
Of course being in a culture that ignores Easter and hell it's easy for me to disagree with McGee on certain huge points but at the same time see so much of what he says as vitally important.
Agreeing with him; but admitting that I don't know much about it, McGee makes a point many times that God gave His people feast days and not fast days and it occurred to me how awesome it is that some churches have banquets that are actually good. I think of Betty Calvin and the work she did to bring some real class and genuine caring into events that could have been just superficial edible blather.
Then of course there are churches with huge cafeterias, and food banks- and banquets- and how often are those absolutely un-culinary. I wonder when good food got separated from the Church?
Couldn't there be a culinary connection between good food and Christianity? There sure is a connection with dietary rules with some denominations and there is a connection to obesity- with those whose only cardio is raising their hands or flapping their gums. But I picture fifth Sunday dinners and coconut cream pie and pistachio pudding surprise and fried chicken and their first century equivalents. Where did that tradition go?
Monday, December 26, 2016
Friday, December 23, 2016
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Back to Orlando
Last time I went there it was like coming home and this time it was just like visiting.
Somewhere I'll have a place to hang my hat and feel at home or will I shuttle back and forth?
Meadowgreen Academy is off and rolling.
Somewhere I'll have a place to hang my hat and feel at home or will I shuttle back and forth?
Meadowgreen Academy is off and rolling.
Rogue One
I just watched the latest Star Wars movie and I have one criticism. Hello- yes, it's good enough for you to put in the yellow text sliding into the background at the beginning of the movie. I suppose someone thought that since Darth Vader isn't the main character they had to make this A Star Wars Story instead of just one of the canon. But despite what the makers think, we have a universe of characters and we know some of them interact for various times and then move on. This movie shares some great plot points and fills in gaps; it's not a spin-off, but it's own stand alone story in a larger framework.
The CGI characters annoyed me a little but I wonder if there was more of it than I noticed. Some of it was so obvious but I think they can actually make some scenes completely life-like and probably did.
The CGI characters annoyed me a little but I wonder if there was more of it than I noticed. Some of it was so obvious but I think they can actually make some scenes completely life-like and probably did.
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Rare Footage Of Marilyn Monroe Costume tests "The Misfits" - "I Don't L...
Why do we rush everything so that we can have leisure time? Why don't we make what we do enjoyable.
At Disney I see parents rushing kids so that they can go have a good time. Well, what did the Mom or Dad think the kid was just doing, dawdling or skipping or singing... they were having a good time. But I guess the free and ordinary pleasures aren't as valuable as giving up your whole life so you can take your kids on vacation once a year.
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN TURKEY ART GALLERY FAKERY
So I'm watching all these YouTube videos that tell us how fake the news is. But I wonder at some point whether they ever told the truth?
It would be so easy for a historian to tell me that Cleopatra knew many languages and that Queen Elizabeth spoke to her troops telling them she had the stomach of a king, but with all this video- it seems deliberately fake at a certain point. The Pulse shooting was brought to you by Dunkin Donuts and the Bank of America police shootout happened and now James Bond disguises himself as a police officer and kills the ambassador in the art museum?
What does it say about me that I care more that the pictures behind him might not have been museum quality than whether or not the man is really dead on the floor or if WW3 starts now? Is this the effect of WWW or what?
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Dear Blog
It's been a while. I've whiled away the hours awhile and thought of you often; Mr. Blog.
I wonder why I think of you as a Mister: silent, demanding... unapproving.
You sit here and wait for me, and I think of all the things I want to record here and here is one.
I just saw- well, maybe two weeks ago- all seven Star Wars movies in a row by episode number... Yeah, wasn't that fun. Thanks to Cousin J for making that possible and the good food to go along with it.
I think of the blog as a record of ideas and a diary but I wonder how much trouble I'll have making sense of it in the future.
I wonder why this thing is public since the public doesn't care about it and if it did I'd freak out and change the whole thing....
I wonder why I think of you as a Mister: silent, demanding... unapproving.
You sit here and wait for me, and I think of all the things I want to record here and here is one.
I just saw- well, maybe two weeks ago- all seven Star Wars movies in a row by episode number... Yeah, wasn't that fun. Thanks to Cousin J for making that possible and the good food to go along with it.
I think of the blog as a record of ideas and a diary but I wonder how much trouble I'll have making sense of it in the future.
I wonder why this thing is public since the public doesn't care about it and if it did I'd freak out and change the whole thing....
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Fake News
Thank goodness for the most horrible story ever- Pizzagate.
Whatever part of this is true; it's the worst thing ever- but the fact that everyone is talking about this is very very good.
We've known that people are horrible since each of us was about five years old: we just preferred to categorize horrible people as monsters and witches. But at a certain point each of us has realized that we can be horrible too and that we are horrible sometimes. Some people don't admit this but everyone knows it's true.
I hope there's not a restaurant where one can order such things but we all know these things exist in secret.
People are talking about fake news and regulating it.
Well that's a good idea. Hasn't anyone noticed that official reports come out on Twitter now and bits of stories come out little by little over months and no one notices the discrepancies except for truthers that scream out that no news exists?
There have always been stories and people will always believe some parts of them but it's time to start referencing our sources like we were supposed to do back in high school.
YouTube is great but not everything everybody else says is a lie, you know.
There's been a tipping point where no one listens except to what one already thinks. People just want their ears scratched. So it's actually great that we're talking about the truth.
What's the truth according to a person, or an organization or to a technology? Nobody is listening to phone calls to see if they are full of lies- but the data is being captured to some extent- a greater extent than anyone has time to review? If I have Google to search things with; what do important people have to check up on us?
Whatever part of this is true; it's the worst thing ever- but the fact that everyone is talking about this is very very good.
We've known that people are horrible since each of us was about five years old: we just preferred to categorize horrible people as monsters and witches. But at a certain point each of us has realized that we can be horrible too and that we are horrible sometimes. Some people don't admit this but everyone knows it's true.
I hope there's not a restaurant where one can order such things but we all know these things exist in secret.
People are talking about fake news and regulating it.
Well that's a good idea. Hasn't anyone noticed that official reports come out on Twitter now and bits of stories come out little by little over months and no one notices the discrepancies except for truthers that scream out that no news exists?
There have always been stories and people will always believe some parts of them but it's time to start referencing our sources like we were supposed to do back in high school.
YouTube is great but not everything everybody else says is a lie, you know.
There's been a tipping point where no one listens except to what one already thinks. People just want their ears scratched. So it's actually great that we're talking about the truth.
What's the truth according to a person, or an organization or to a technology? Nobody is listening to phone calls to see if they are full of lies- but the data is being captured to some extent- a greater extent than anyone has time to review? If I have Google to search things with; what do important people have to check up on us?
Friday, December 2, 2016
Hearing in Tongues
I went to a church tonight and after each song the people kept going; improvising hums and tongues and it made me nervous. But I started to think about it and realized that I often hear people talking that don't know what they're saying so what's the difference?
In Germany I dreamt in German- not in real German, but I dreamt I was hearing lots of German sounds that I couldn't understand; which was exactly what was happening when I was awake too.
I suppose it's possible that some people who speak in tongues know exactly what they're saying and that some people that hear them do too. But maybe we're all under the spell of spelling and weakened by the weekend and face morning with mourning. How are the meaning and the sound related?
There sure are a lot of sh sounds in most tongues I've listened to- and lots of repeated syllables. But there are lots of people talking with nothing to say and lots of times when people don't mean what they say and times when people hear something different than what was said.
In Germany I dreamt in German- not in real German, but I dreamt I was hearing lots of German sounds that I couldn't understand; which was exactly what was happening when I was awake too.
I suppose it's possible that some people who speak in tongues know exactly what they're saying and that some people that hear them do too. But maybe we're all under the spell of spelling and weakened by the weekend and face morning with mourning. How are the meaning and the sound related?
There sure are a lot of sh sounds in most tongues I've listened to- and lots of repeated syllables. But there are lots of people talking with nothing to say and lots of times when people don't mean what they say and times when people hear something different than what was said.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Mc and Mac
The inventor of the Big Mac just died and I never met him. I never had any desire to and it didn't occur to me that one person had done that; as opposed to a committee somewhere making choices for a company.
I have been seeing billboards for McD's that seem oddly Christian. They are stating that there is only one Big Mac but there are also three. I haven't heard a pop culture reference to the Trintiy in quite a long time but there it was.
And the day after I try a little Big Mac for the first time; I see that the inventor has died.
Now this may not seem too much of a coincidence, but how many correlations are there and just how odd are they?
The guy dies during the campaign for his creation- the first time anything about it has ever been altered. I don't think McD's has specific campaigns for certain sandwiches unless they are new- but maybe they do. But it is the first time the sandwich has changed and presumably the first time he's died.
I've been watching YouTube videos still. and I use that phrase now to mean basically conspiracy theories. And there are so many ideas that celebrities die either as Illuminati sacrifices or they didn't really die. Don't conspiracy theorists believe that people just die? Why's it always got to be a thing. Sometimes people are old and sometimes people die who aren't old, you know?
So I'm going to McD's here and there every couple days to get out of the house and to get some salt and to get some caffeine- I like Coke, Dr. Pepper, iced tea, iced coffee- and I like to mix them- and I'm pondering why someone would buy a hamburger other than the regular or the McDouble. Why spend so much more for a bigger sandwich? If I did want more- which I don't- it would still make more sense to buy two of those instead of spend double money for less food in one of the bigger sandwiches. no?
Anyway, I'm deciding several times if I want a McGriddle- delicious- a Sausage McMuffin- deliciouw, a biscuit - delicious, or a McDouble. I know I don't want to pay two bucks extra for an egg on the McGriddle or the McMuffin- but which sandwich do I feel like is a common decision for me.
So then they come out with the little Big Mac and I wonder why it's twice as much as a McDouble? What's the difference? I want to figure it out, but the answer doesn't come to me except one has sauce. Won't they just give me some sauce- any type at all- if I just ask? Why are people buying this other sandwich. I just don't know. I asked one worker what the difference was and he had no idea.
I almost asked the manager lady until I was taken aback by realizing she is a man. But hey- I could ask the question to any gender- couldn't I?
So right after I actually try a little Big Mac and still can't explain the difference to my satisfaction, the inventor dies. Well, I think he died Monday, but I ate the sandwich yesterday and heard the news today.
So- he didn't call it a Big Mc because he thought that sounded too weird.
I continue to call the place Mac Donald's or McDono's or Mickey D's- and I noticed that although there are Ms everywhere they don't use the name either as much.
So there you go.
If I am thinking about something too much people die.
What does that say for the YouTube conspiracist?
Obama is Seinfeld is Keanu Reeves is Heath Ledger? Come on. It's not like there is a shortage of people who want to be on tv.
I have been seeing billboards for McD's that seem oddly Christian. They are stating that there is only one Big Mac but there are also three. I haven't heard a pop culture reference to the Trintiy in quite a long time but there it was.
And the day after I try a little Big Mac for the first time; I see that the inventor has died.
Now this may not seem too much of a coincidence, but how many correlations are there and just how odd are they?
The guy dies during the campaign for his creation- the first time anything about it has ever been altered. I don't think McD's has specific campaigns for certain sandwiches unless they are new- but maybe they do. But it is the first time the sandwich has changed and presumably the first time he's died.
I've been watching YouTube videos still. and I use that phrase now to mean basically conspiracy theories. And there are so many ideas that celebrities die either as Illuminati sacrifices or they didn't really die. Don't conspiracy theorists believe that people just die? Why's it always got to be a thing. Sometimes people are old and sometimes people die who aren't old, you know?
So I'm going to McD's here and there every couple days to get out of the house and to get some salt and to get some caffeine- I like Coke, Dr. Pepper, iced tea, iced coffee- and I like to mix them- and I'm pondering why someone would buy a hamburger other than the regular or the McDouble. Why spend so much more for a bigger sandwich? If I did want more- which I don't- it would still make more sense to buy two of those instead of spend double money for less food in one of the bigger sandwiches. no?
Anyway, I'm deciding several times if I want a McGriddle- delicious- a Sausage McMuffin- deliciouw, a biscuit - delicious, or a McDouble. I know I don't want to pay two bucks extra for an egg on the McGriddle or the McMuffin- but which sandwich do I feel like is a common decision for me.
So then they come out with the little Big Mac and I wonder why it's twice as much as a McDouble? What's the difference? I want to figure it out, but the answer doesn't come to me except one has sauce. Won't they just give me some sauce- any type at all- if I just ask? Why are people buying this other sandwich. I just don't know. I asked one worker what the difference was and he had no idea.
I almost asked the manager lady until I was taken aback by realizing she is a man. But hey- I could ask the question to any gender- couldn't I?
So right after I actually try a little Big Mac and still can't explain the difference to my satisfaction, the inventor dies. Well, I think he died Monday, but I ate the sandwich yesterday and heard the news today.
So- he didn't call it a Big Mc because he thought that sounded too weird.
I continue to call the place Mac Donald's or McDono's or Mickey D's- and I noticed that although there are Ms everywhere they don't use the name either as much.
So there you go.
If I am thinking about something too much people die.
What does that say for the YouTube conspiracist?
Obama is Seinfeld is Keanu Reeves is Heath Ledger? Come on. It's not like there is a shortage of people who want to be on tv.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
44 Dunkin Donuts, YouTube and the Future
Now that's a great title. As the 44th Presidency comes to a close, I'm thinking about what I can do during the 45th. I will not be getting a tattoo like Biden and Julia Louis-Dreyfus for any affair such as that and I don't think I share fashion sense with Nancy Pelosi. But I certainly have grown to appreciate DD as in Dunkin Donuts even as I bemoan the fact the KK's Krispy Kremes- leave and everything is great at DD except their donuts.
Anyway...
So I've never lived in the same county as the President before, and I still don't, but I kind of do. I was driving along A1A and I saw a Border Patrol car. I've been in South Florida and Florida for years and I've never seen one. But get the next Prez in here, moaning about immigration, and there you go. Then I saw Palm Beach police cars out and about and along Trump's place and Palm Beach County Sheriff cars all up and down and in the middle of the road. There were some other big sturdy looking cars and people hanging around looking ready and I saw a security box on stilts looking over the corner of Southern and A1A where it could also see the Intracoastal. I wonder what preparations were made on the Ocean side.
It's interesting.
I didn't like in Palm Beach County when Kennedy was coming here, but the legend of Peanut Island was alive and well when I came along.
I couldn't imagine a Trump Presidency or even Candidacy but now I'm getting used to the idea. I think it's better that than riots in the streets. And if there are riots, at least Democrats aren't as good with a gun.
It will be interesting to see what the Electoral College does and who notices. Maybe it will be like the Congressional election and no one will notice; or maybe it will be a hot mess. People- and by that I mean non-reptilian YouTubers, are still whining about Obama staying in office- yet another thing that never occurred to me until they said it. Why would he stay in office?
That's crazy.
Well, lots of things are crazy- for instance, I just typed an apostrophe in the word lots just because it ends with S.
Today there are more connections between Obama and Seinfeld. Really? What's up with that?
Lucy Lawless and Michelle- I mean Michael- aren't they a foot different in height?
Well, anybody can say anything I guess and apparently I'll listen to about anything- but what 45 or DE connections lie in wait for us in the next four years?
Maybe I'll go to Deutschland and Denmark and Denver.
Or not.
Anyway...
So I've never lived in the same county as the President before, and I still don't, but I kind of do. I was driving along A1A and I saw a Border Patrol car. I've been in South Florida and Florida for years and I've never seen one. But get the next Prez in here, moaning about immigration, and there you go. Then I saw Palm Beach police cars out and about and along Trump's place and Palm Beach County Sheriff cars all up and down and in the middle of the road. There were some other big sturdy looking cars and people hanging around looking ready and I saw a security box on stilts looking over the corner of Southern and A1A where it could also see the Intracoastal. I wonder what preparations were made on the Ocean side.
It's interesting.
I didn't like in Palm Beach County when Kennedy was coming here, but the legend of Peanut Island was alive and well when I came along.
I couldn't imagine a Trump Presidency or even Candidacy but now I'm getting used to the idea. I think it's better that than riots in the streets. And if there are riots, at least Democrats aren't as good with a gun.
It will be interesting to see what the Electoral College does and who notices. Maybe it will be like the Congressional election and no one will notice; or maybe it will be a hot mess. People- and by that I mean non-reptilian YouTubers, are still whining about Obama staying in office- yet another thing that never occurred to me until they said it. Why would he stay in office?
That's crazy.
Well, lots of things are crazy- for instance, I just typed an apostrophe in the word lots just because it ends with S.
Today there are more connections between Obama and Seinfeld. Really? What's up with that?
Lucy Lawless and Michelle- I mean Michael- aren't they a foot different in height?
Well, anybody can say anything I guess and apparently I'll listen to about anything- but what 45 or DE connections lie in wait for us in the next four years?
Maybe I'll go to Deutschland and Denmark and Denver.
Or not.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
DD 44 and Diana Ross
So yesterday I had a Dunkin' Donuts croissant with chicken salad and then today I was wanting he same thing; along with iced coffee. I pulled into shop at K Mart but changed my mind and went next door to Dunkin' Donuts. A gentleman was in front of me in line with a bright turquoise jacket and matching shoes. It wasn't until we had waited for a minute or two that I noticed his handbag. It didn't really match. It seemed to take a little while, but when I got my food I went to a table and looked up at CNN to see Diana Ross receiving a Medal of Freedom from Mr. 44 Himself. Talk about timing. Good work, Barry.
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Mmmmm Biscuits
Today I got up at the crack of dawn and went to the beach- wore a sweatshirt because the air was cool- but the water was warm on my feet and went to get a breakfast biscuit.
I've been listening to Christmas music and heard Ella for the first time this year, today.
The line I think is so stupid, even though I love the song, is "logs on the fire... fill me desire." Sorry songwriter, logs do not fill people with desire. You know there is something great about a fire and a fireplace and the glow and the warmth, but it's not the logs. That just sounds ridiculous.
I've been listening to Christmas music and heard Ella for the first time this year, today.
The line I think is so stupid, even though I love the song, is "logs on the fire... fill me desire." Sorry songwriter, logs do not fill people with desire. You know there is something great about a fire and a fireplace and the glow and the warmth, but it's not the logs. That just sounds ridiculous.
Friday, November 18, 2016
So I was wrong
So I was right and I was wrong.
The American people had the opportunity to vote out 88 percent of Congress (I don't know if that is accurate) but instead they concentrated only on the one person in the White House. They didn't really care about the Vices or anyone's vices. They really didn't like either candidate but what they did do was convince themselves that the other half of the country is the problem.
Hello, if we only think about politics once every four years and if we only think about politics as President, we're not going to get much accomplished.
Think about this.
A company spends a year selecting a CEO in a bitter fight blaming every one else in the company for the fact that nobody really likes the CEO. But they don't spend any time trying to be a better employee. They don't spend any time trying to figure out if anybody else in the company is working. They don't do anything to make the company a better place but they just yell at each other about who should be CEO.
Uh.... how much work is that company going to accomplish during a year?
So I didn't think Trump would win but Americans wanted change. They were going to get change no matter what they did- as long as they were/are only concerned about President. The man was going to leave and somebody else was going to step in so why the big deal if all they wanted was someone different.
Well let's talk about some of the things that were different.
The Republicans decided they couldn't keep trading between Bushes and Clintons. Will Bush try again? I still say the sacrificial one is Jeb and the next will be the cute Hispanic one. But we will see.
But back to now. The Republicans didn't support the Republican nominee, who isn't really a Republican.
That's different.
Are the Publicrats not working together on this or are they trying to look like they aren't working together?
There was one given in the race. The President was going to be old.
These people are old.
We could have an old Socialist, and old woman or an old non-politician. There are good reasons to think all of these choices as a change. And there are good reasons to think any of these changes- just like the first Black one who wasn't half Black- weren't going to be much of a change either.
The people in charge knew that the American public wanted change so they gave them three changes to choose from.
And we picked this one?
I was so surprised, and so happy for no good reason.
Is it misogyny? The woman couldn't stray too far from her script or she was criticized, but that ogre couldn't break enough rules. Every time he said something stupid he got more popular. Talk about a scene stealer. The poor politicians didn't have a chance against the reality TV star.
I'm actually very hopeful.
I think a reality TV star can do a good job if he wants to.
I don't think he is nearly as stupid as his statements make him sound. I think he said what he needed to say to get elected. And that's what they all always do. So that, as crazy as he sounded, is actually no change.
But a non-politician is a change. A person famous for something other than politics is a change. Maybe we have a change here.
And maybe not.
The American people had the opportunity to vote out 88 percent of Congress (I don't know if that is accurate) but instead they concentrated only on the one person in the White House. They didn't really care about the Vices or anyone's vices. They really didn't like either candidate but what they did do was convince themselves that the other half of the country is the problem.
Hello, if we only think about politics once every four years and if we only think about politics as President, we're not going to get much accomplished.
Think about this.
A company spends a year selecting a CEO in a bitter fight blaming every one else in the company for the fact that nobody really likes the CEO. But they don't spend any time trying to be a better employee. They don't spend any time trying to figure out if anybody else in the company is working. They don't do anything to make the company a better place but they just yell at each other about who should be CEO.
Uh.... how much work is that company going to accomplish during a year?
So I didn't think Trump would win but Americans wanted change. They were going to get change no matter what they did- as long as they were/are only concerned about President. The man was going to leave and somebody else was going to step in so why the big deal if all they wanted was someone different.
Well let's talk about some of the things that were different.
The Republicans decided they couldn't keep trading between Bushes and Clintons. Will Bush try again? I still say the sacrificial one is Jeb and the next will be the cute Hispanic one. But we will see.
But back to now. The Republicans didn't support the Republican nominee, who isn't really a Republican.
That's different.
Are the Publicrats not working together on this or are they trying to look like they aren't working together?
There was one given in the race. The President was going to be old.
These people are old.
We could have an old Socialist, and old woman or an old non-politician. There are good reasons to think all of these choices as a change. And there are good reasons to think any of these changes- just like the first Black one who wasn't half Black- weren't going to be much of a change either.
The people in charge knew that the American public wanted change so they gave them three changes to choose from.
And we picked this one?
I was so surprised, and so happy for no good reason.
Is it misogyny? The woman couldn't stray too far from her script or she was criticized, but that ogre couldn't break enough rules. Every time he said something stupid he got more popular. Talk about a scene stealer. The poor politicians didn't have a chance against the reality TV star.
I'm actually very hopeful.
I think a reality TV star can do a good job if he wants to.
I don't think he is nearly as stupid as his statements make him sound. I think he said what he needed to say to get elected. And that's what they all always do. So that, as crazy as he sounded, is actually no change.
But a non-politician is a change. A person famous for something other than politics is a change. Maybe we have a change here.
And maybe not.
Monday, November 7, 2016
2 Caesars
Caesar is selected tomorrow but does it matter.
Today on TTB.org and last night at FBO I heard two talk about dual citizenship. We owe something to out country but we're already citizens of the Kingdom of God. So we've got two, according to Uth, and many, according to McGee- responsibilities.
McGee said today- I'm a little behind listening, and he's speaking from years ago- that corruption of the Senate makes him resent paying taxes but he does. What would he say about Trump being proud of not paying taxes and the Clinton Foundation? Are they stealing those Haitians to use in Spirit Cooking? You'd think they'd want ones of a different color- so where do they get those?
Politics is sickening today. I wish McGee could comment on it for me to hear. Is he concerned about it up there?? What do people do up there?
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's has been called the most fundamental statement ever uttered... blah blah blah. But to me it's proof of how Jesus spoke above the heads of his accusers. He knew their intentions and met them where they were. They didn't want a real answer and so they didn't get one. He gave them what they needed, which was higher truth that they may not have even realized until years later. What did those people think who later saw their stories in print? There must have been some who switched sides and recognized themselves in the text later and hoped no one else knew... What did the lady with the alabaster offering know about her fame? Did she hear that it would be worldwide for all time?
It's time to vote and no one is talking about any political body; only individuals. So if they want us to keep Congress, they're doing a good job. It isn't even on the radar that it could basically be replaced.
But what is Caesar's? Does he require a vote? Lately it's clear to me that two big lies I've always believed are suspect if not evil. One is rotting for the rebels. David vs. Goliath is a good example of this, but people overthrowing their government- well there are some bad governments and I can't find a good one, but authority isn't something to be thwarted is it? I always thought it was but isn't it God who sets up and brings down tyrants, not me? I have come to be in an environment that thinks everybody gets a voice. And maybe everybody does, but.... the person who owns half the town maybe should have a louder voice than the traveler passing through on a train. It was terrible how slaves were treated, but the problem wasn't that they couldn't vote. Who wants illiterate people with no hope or stake in a community to vote? The problem isn't voting.
I've been learning lessons from the fish in the tank at the Millenia McDonald's. The bigger ones are given more room but guess what? Bigger fish take up more room. It is smart of the bicyclist to not ride without pausing through crosswalks and intersections. It's not because the bicyclist has the right of way or doesn't. It's because the cyclist knows who will win if there's a contest.
Today on TTB.org and last night at FBO I heard two talk about dual citizenship. We owe something to out country but we're already citizens of the Kingdom of God. So we've got two, according to Uth, and many, according to McGee- responsibilities.
McGee said today- I'm a little behind listening, and he's speaking from years ago- that corruption of the Senate makes him resent paying taxes but he does. What would he say about Trump being proud of not paying taxes and the Clinton Foundation? Are they stealing those Haitians to use in Spirit Cooking? You'd think they'd want ones of a different color- so where do they get those?
Politics is sickening today. I wish McGee could comment on it for me to hear. Is he concerned about it up there?? What do people do up there?
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's has been called the most fundamental statement ever uttered... blah blah blah. But to me it's proof of how Jesus spoke above the heads of his accusers. He knew their intentions and met them where they were. They didn't want a real answer and so they didn't get one. He gave them what they needed, which was higher truth that they may not have even realized until years later. What did those people think who later saw their stories in print? There must have been some who switched sides and recognized themselves in the text later and hoped no one else knew... What did the lady with the alabaster offering know about her fame? Did she hear that it would be worldwide for all time?
It's time to vote and no one is talking about any political body; only individuals. So if they want us to keep Congress, they're doing a good job. It isn't even on the radar that it could basically be replaced.
But what is Caesar's? Does he require a vote? Lately it's clear to me that two big lies I've always believed are suspect if not evil. One is rotting for the rebels. David vs. Goliath is a good example of this, but people overthrowing their government- well there are some bad governments and I can't find a good one, but authority isn't something to be thwarted is it? I always thought it was but isn't it God who sets up and brings down tyrants, not me? I have come to be in an environment that thinks everybody gets a voice. And maybe everybody does, but.... the person who owns half the town maybe should have a louder voice than the traveler passing through on a train. It was terrible how slaves were treated, but the problem wasn't that they couldn't vote. Who wants illiterate people with no hope or stake in a community to vote? The problem isn't voting.
I've been learning lessons from the fish in the tank at the Millenia McDonald's. The bigger ones are given more room but guess what? Bigger fish take up more room. It is smart of the bicyclist to not ride without pausing through crosswalks and intersections. It's not because the bicyclist has the right of way or doesn't. It's because the cyclist knows who will win if there's a contest.
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Apocalypse - A Pox of Lips
There is a warning every day.
YouTube talks about the end of the world all the time. But that's of course the corner of YouTube that YouTube wants to show me based on all my conspiracy theory searches.
I love listening to the alternate media and that's helped me realize that they're really not more partisan than the mainstream media; they just say things more clearly.
Every day the mainstream media pushes its audience either left or right. It's as Martin Luther said. The devil doesn't care which side of the horse one falls off of.
Right now, the right is pretty much a parody and the left likes to be sophisticated. But SRN news tells the world - which is actually just conservative Christians huddled up waiting to die or for the apocalyse - shoot, how do you spell that? Apacalyse Apocolypse apocalypse - that's it! Thank you Google Blogger for your spelling help. Yesterday at the Hall of Presidents- which may never be updated since we may never have another President- Andrew Jackson was quoted by an actor in a presentation headed by Morgan Freeman- that one has to be quite dumb not to know how to spell a word at least two ways.
Was Andrew Jackson- the first governor of Florida- the first non-aristocrat, right after the last of the Founding Fathers- a hero or a racist? Can't we have racist heroes by the way? I think everyone- except for me- is a racist, and can't I be a hero?
The truthism Be Here Now leads me to believe that it's always time for the impending apocalypse. I think of my trip to Israel before the Y2K non-disaster when computers weren't going to be able to figure out how to turn 99 into 2000. I remember huddling up in my house with only a Christmas tree worth looking at- the rest was a Hoarders for Beginners experiment- and watching Australia have no problem and then having no problem.
I was working for the bank industry and yep- we all knew how dependent we were on that system of 1s and 0s that had been taken over by computers but really is the same as Rothschild tabulation. It could have ended at that time. But are there cuneiform tablets or Etch A Sketches or Risk map setups- maybe on marble tables of various colours in the Vatican that are keeping track of us non-electronically? If so, do the abacuses in China match those records in London? Too bad the little upstart records in Libya have been destroyed I suppose- or is that good for us; I mean U.S....
My Mom is ill. I am in the only part of Florida that might be saved from a title wave- or is it the only part of the country that has had the worst mass shooting in U.S. history? Oh wait, it's both.
We're always on the cusp of apocalypse aren't we? And we're always able to huddle back into our own security if we want to. We can fear or we can love. That's always true.
The lecture on Apocalyptic- which adjective ending I still don't understand- was the only lecture I remember missing of my mentor in grad school- Corrine Patton (now Carvalho? What? Carnival Ho- I don't think so....Uh oh.... I remember respect for the text but not the Giver... is that it? Shocked.)
But it wasn't the Apocalypse that day. It was me watching a sick kid who couldn't go to school and me getting paid for it.
I made so much money for doing just what I wanted that year.
And I had no reason to think my life wouldn't continue that way. But it was calm before the storm. Apocalyto; Mel Gibson's life as usual before the end would come. But of course it wasn't the end. I played violin more the year after taking a year off than ever before. I played violin more as a Religion grad student than as a Bachelor of Music Violin Performance candidate. And then I put it down.
Looks like somebody else needs to put something down but there I go again thinking everybody else needs to do something. Of course everybody else needs to do something; that's obvious. But why do I see it? Well, it's a lesson for me, isn't it. Nobody needs someone around who always tells others what to do- maybe that's why I hide here. I don't want to do what I'm not supposed to do.
But maybe I'll start doing what I AM supposed to do.
YouTube talks about the end of the world all the time. But that's of course the corner of YouTube that YouTube wants to show me based on all my conspiracy theory searches.
I love listening to the alternate media and that's helped me realize that they're really not more partisan than the mainstream media; they just say things more clearly.
Every day the mainstream media pushes its audience either left or right. It's as Martin Luther said. The devil doesn't care which side of the horse one falls off of.
Right now, the right is pretty much a parody and the left likes to be sophisticated. But SRN news tells the world - which is actually just conservative Christians huddled up waiting to die or for the apocalyse - shoot, how do you spell that? Apacalyse Apocolypse apocalypse - that's it! Thank you Google Blogger for your spelling help. Yesterday at the Hall of Presidents- which may never be updated since we may never have another President- Andrew Jackson was quoted by an actor in a presentation headed by Morgan Freeman- that one has to be quite dumb not to know how to spell a word at least two ways.
Was Andrew Jackson- the first governor of Florida- the first non-aristocrat, right after the last of the Founding Fathers- a hero or a racist? Can't we have racist heroes by the way? I think everyone- except for me- is a racist, and can't I be a hero?
The truthism Be Here Now leads me to believe that it's always time for the impending apocalypse. I think of my trip to Israel before the Y2K non-disaster when computers weren't going to be able to figure out how to turn 99 into 2000. I remember huddling up in my house with only a Christmas tree worth looking at- the rest was a Hoarders for Beginners experiment- and watching Australia have no problem and then having no problem.
I was working for the bank industry and yep- we all knew how dependent we were on that system of 1s and 0s that had been taken over by computers but really is the same as Rothschild tabulation. It could have ended at that time. But are there cuneiform tablets or Etch A Sketches or Risk map setups- maybe on marble tables of various colours in the Vatican that are keeping track of us non-electronically? If so, do the abacuses in China match those records in London? Too bad the little upstart records in Libya have been destroyed I suppose- or is that good for us; I mean U.S....
My Mom is ill. I am in the only part of Florida that might be saved from a title wave- or is it the only part of the country that has had the worst mass shooting in U.S. history? Oh wait, it's both.
We're always on the cusp of apocalypse aren't we? And we're always able to huddle back into our own security if we want to. We can fear or we can love. That's always true.
The lecture on Apocalyptic- which adjective ending I still don't understand- was the only lecture I remember missing of my mentor in grad school- Corrine Patton (now Carvalho? What? Carnival Ho- I don't think so....Uh oh.... I remember respect for the text but not the Giver... is that it? Shocked.)
But it wasn't the Apocalypse that day. It was me watching a sick kid who couldn't go to school and me getting paid for it.
I made so much money for doing just what I wanted that year.
And I had no reason to think my life wouldn't continue that way. But it was calm before the storm. Apocalyto; Mel Gibson's life as usual before the end would come. But of course it wasn't the end. I played violin more the year after taking a year off than ever before. I played violin more as a Religion grad student than as a Bachelor of Music Violin Performance candidate. And then I put it down.
Looks like somebody else needs to put something down but there I go again thinking everybody else needs to do something. Of course everybody else needs to do something; that's obvious. But why do I see it? Well, it's a lesson for me, isn't it. Nobody needs someone around who always tells others what to do- maybe that's why I hide here. I don't want to do what I'm not supposed to do.
But maybe I'll start doing what I AM supposed to do.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Presidents
Mom has been helping me memorize the order of the Presidents and I'm up to 45, but I have always, except for once had some coaching.
Let's see if I can do it now with no help or if I should keep practicing.
1. George Washington
Mom guessed it right; he has no middle name.
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James A. Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight David Eisenhower
I wish I had instant spell check
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson
37. Richard Milhouse Nixon
38. Gerald R. Ford
39. James Earl Carter
Six James in the list
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan
41. George Herbert Walker Bush
42. William Jefferson Clinton
43. George Walker Bush
44. Barack Husein Obama
45. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Let's see if I can do it now with no help or if I should keep practicing.
1. George Washington
Mom guessed it right; he has no middle name.
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James A. Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight David Eisenhower
I wish I had instant spell check
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson
37. Richard Milhouse Nixon
38. Gerald R. Ford
39. James Earl Carter
Six James in the list
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan
41. George Herbert Walker Bush
42. William Jefferson Clinton
43. George Walker Bush
44. Barack Husein Obama
45. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Griffin Sermon
Mom always had a thing between Griffin and Griffith; trying to remember which was which.
Today the sermon was about one story; two miracles, one interrupting the other, as told by Luke.
Doctor Luke relates the story of Jairus who comes to the Rabbai because his daughter is sick. It's his only daughter and he is probably a bigwig and rich and so forth but when his daughter is sick none of this matters to him and he wants to run for help and he wants Jesus to run to his house and help his daughter.
It's probably one of those times when desperation makes it so that nothing else matters.
My daughter is sick.
You can help her.
Let's go.
Well, Jesus is the Healer and He starts walking. What a relief it must have been for the Dad to see that help is on the way. But that's not all that is on the way.
In a huge crowd of people; each in need of a miracle or two I'm sure- thanks for pointing that out, a woman knows that if she just touches the hem of His garment she will be healed. Of course she has been through many things before. She has had sickness for 12 years and her life-giving blood hasn't oozed out once or month or stayed in to circulate within her- it's flowed constantly, bringing her to the point where she has spent a fortune on doctors and has nothing else to do. She's desperate also, and like Jairus, she has one thing on her mind, too.
Jairus has a daughter who is about 12. This woman has bled for 12 years.
The one who made life is about to heal both of them. But the healing can't come fast enough.
Jesus asks who touched Him. He says He felt the power surge out of him as the woman was healed and He could feel it. I don't think He was asking who touched Him because He didn't know. I think He was asking who touched Him so that she would say it. She had been healed in the crowd while Jesus was brushing up against so many people; and she knew she would be. Jairus probably saw everyone along the way as an obstacle to his own miracle, but Jesus did two.
Today the sermon was about one story; two miracles, one interrupting the other, as told by Luke.
Doctor Luke relates the story of Jairus who comes to the Rabbai because his daughter is sick. It's his only daughter and he is probably a bigwig and rich and so forth but when his daughter is sick none of this matters to him and he wants to run for help and he wants Jesus to run to his house and help his daughter.
It's probably one of those times when desperation makes it so that nothing else matters.
My daughter is sick.
You can help her.
Let's go.
Well, Jesus is the Healer and He starts walking. What a relief it must have been for the Dad to see that help is on the way. But that's not all that is on the way.
In a huge crowd of people; each in need of a miracle or two I'm sure- thanks for pointing that out, a woman knows that if she just touches the hem of His garment she will be healed. Of course she has been through many things before. She has had sickness for 12 years and her life-giving blood hasn't oozed out once or month or stayed in to circulate within her- it's flowed constantly, bringing her to the point where she has spent a fortune on doctors and has nothing else to do. She's desperate also, and like Jairus, she has one thing on her mind, too.
Jairus has a daughter who is about 12. This woman has bled for 12 years.
The one who made life is about to heal both of them. But the healing can't come fast enough.
Jesus asks who touched Him. He says He felt the power surge out of him as the woman was healed and He could feel it. I don't think He was asking who touched Him because He didn't know. I think He was asking who touched Him so that she would say it. She had been healed in the crowd while Jesus was brushing up against so many people; and she knew she would be. Jairus probably saw everyone along the way as an obstacle to his own miracle, but Jesus did two.
Friday, October 14, 2016
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Last Day
So Google tells me it's the last day to register to vote in Georgia.
Since you know; Google, where I am, if I'm registered to vote and who I'd vote for, I wonder why you let me know this. Perhaps you think it's quaint; the idea that you don't already know more about me than I know myself and you're promulgating that idea to make me feel comfortable and search for more things so you'll know more about me.
It does come down to money doesn't it? Or is it control?
I guess Google means it's the last day to register to vote in Georgia if one wishes to choose between the ogre and the undercover witch but maybe it's the last day registration will ever take place there. It is about time for the Indians to take it back over again after those criminals stepped in and ran things for awhile.
Since you know; Google, where I am, if I'm registered to vote and who I'd vote for, I wonder why you let me know this. Perhaps you think it's quaint; the idea that you don't already know more about me than I know myself and you're promulgating that idea to make me feel comfortable and search for more things so you'll know more about me.
It does come down to money doesn't it? Or is it control?
I guess Google means it's the last day to register to vote in Georgia if one wishes to choose between the ogre and the undercover witch but maybe it's the last day registration will ever take place there. It is about time for the Indians to take it back over again after those criminals stepped in and ran things for awhile.
Monday, October 10, 2016
Columbus Day
Apparently that's what today is. So who was this guy and why did so many people care and why has he gone out of favor?
I'm starting to think that everything is political. If you want to see Europeans as superior to AmerIndians than you tout the explorers. If you want to see whiter people as wonderful than those Mediterranean types than you talk about Erik the Red and his son Leif.
Everybody picks somebody they relate to and that's who they remember.
It still bugs me that two continents are named America for Ameriggo who doesn't sound much like it and is some guy who never left the old world. There are lots of things named for Columbus but he doesn't have even one continent.
I'm starting to think that everything is political. If you want to see Europeans as superior to AmerIndians than you tout the explorers. If you want to see whiter people as wonderful than those Mediterranean types than you talk about Erik the Red and his son Leif.
Everybody picks somebody they relate to and that's who they remember.
It still bugs me that two continents are named America for Ameriggo who doesn't sound much like it and is some guy who never left the old world. There are lots of things named for Columbus but he doesn't have even one continent.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Matthew's Gone
In a stunning bunch of nothing, Hurricane Matthew came and went, and might come back. Once Castro accused the United States of making a hurricane cross Cuba three times. This one might cross Florida twice. We watched cowboy movies and ate French Silk ice cream and had bacon and eggs.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
This is My Quest
In thinking of today's blog post, I started thinking of that song from Man of La Mancha. To follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far- to fight for the right, without question or cause- to be willing to march into hell for a glorious cause.
That last line always got me- the nine year old fundamentalist. I didn't see hell as a place that was really bad in which one might march- or into which one might. I saw it as a place people couldn't get out of if they ever went, so not a place one could go into and leave. So it always seemed to me to be a really hard bargain but worth the sacrifice? Nah, I'll pass.
I think of quivering Sancho Panza or whatever his name is, in It's A Small World. Poor guy, trapped in there forever listening to those same chords over and over.
My smoothie today is peanut and coconut and banana and flaxseed. Hmmm.
That last line always got me- the nine year old fundamentalist. I didn't see hell as a place that was really bad in which one might march- or into which one might. I saw it as a place people couldn't get out of if they ever went, so not a place one could go into and leave. So it always seemed to me to be a really hard bargain but worth the sacrifice? Nah, I'll pass.
I think of quivering Sancho Panza or whatever his name is, in It's A Small World. Poor guy, trapped in there forever listening to those same chords over and over.
My smoothie today is peanut and coconut and banana and flaxseed. Hmmm.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Solo
The verse was achingly beautiful. She was nervous I guess but it was sublime. The other people carried on as usual; barely noticing but my heart thumped.
2 smoothies
Cooked kale, flaxseed and carrot
Flaxseed, banana, peanut butter, peanuts, walnuts, coconut
Speaking of cocoanut; I remember when that was one of my spelling words. Our assignment was to look up the words in the dictionary and write out the definitions. Well, I had too much information. My dictionary gave alternate spellings so I chose the ones I wanted and was surprised and amazed when I lost a point for spelling coconut wrong. The worst part was that I never looked at teachers the same way again. I couldn't imagine that my teacher didn't know the alternate spellings of cocoanut.
Maybe that's why I'm such a good teacher. I've realized you don't have to know much.
Flaxseed, banana, peanut butter, peanuts, walnuts, coconut
Speaking of cocoanut; I remember when that was one of my spelling words. Our assignment was to look up the words in the dictionary and write out the definitions. Well, I had too much information. My dictionary gave alternate spellings so I chose the ones I wanted and was surprised and amazed when I lost a point for spelling coconut wrong. The worst part was that I never looked at teachers the same way again. I couldn't imagine that my teacher didn't know the alternate spellings of cocoanut.
Maybe that's why I'm such a good teacher. I've realized you don't have to know much.
Friday, September 16, 2016
Fleshpots
Living in the lap of luxury as I am; and typing this without glasses, I add... I come across the word fleshpot in Dr. J. Vernon McGee's daily preaching to be found at TTB.org; also known as Through the Bible broadcast.
Having live plants at my feet to provide oxygen; a cooling breeze indoors with a little light to type by but plenty of shade; water and lemonade to cool my lips and refresh my spirit... I come across that word again. I know it has to do with luxury but it doesn't sound anything but cannibalistic or at least hedonistic sexually. The internet tells me that the word's popularity spiked around 1850 and is really high right now. Really, come on. It's a biblical term and very few people even realize that the Bible used to be the source of about half of English and new words are added so fast that the percentage is falling.
I don't think I'll take a survey but I bet if I asked 34 people today what a fleshpot is; one old woman would know.
Well that's all for now. I'm living high on the hog in Boynton Beach so I have to go now.
Having live plants at my feet to provide oxygen; a cooling breeze indoors with a little light to type by but plenty of shade; water and lemonade to cool my lips and refresh my spirit... I come across that word again. I know it has to do with luxury but it doesn't sound anything but cannibalistic or at least hedonistic sexually. The internet tells me that the word's popularity spiked around 1850 and is really high right now. Really, come on. It's a biblical term and very few people even realize that the Bible used to be the source of about half of English and new words are added so fast that the percentage is falling.
I don't think I'll take a survey but I bet if I asked 34 people today what a fleshpot is; one old woman would know.
Well that's all for now. I'm living high on the hog in Boynton Beach so I have to go now.
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