Monday, December 28, 2020

so many

Sentiments wishing this year over.   Uh... Do viruses or moderate to severe dumbassness know what day it is?

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Way FM

We need a little Christmas now

107.9

Pretty sure this is the station that had 24-hour Christmas music and has now returned to stuff from 20 years ago. I think that's a good marketing scheme, because there are probably a lot of people who are ready to return to regular programming and leave Christmas music behind, who are used to having it on 107.9 for Christmas music! So maybe they've earned themselves some year-round listeners.

Michael Tyler

Feels like Joy. I don't remember it before, wonder if it's new this year or last. Or if I just don't remember itSounds like those types of songs that are trying to be simple for Christmas but don't have the soaring melodies of carols. Or the cutting edge rock and roll that has become retro. So, not It came upon him midnight clear, not the easy jazzness of winter wonderland or let it snow or chestnuts, and not Rock around The Christmas Tree or Mariah Carey or Ronettes.

it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I've heard this one a lot this year. This old fashioned version, maybe Bing Crosby. But of course Johnny Mathis and Dionne Warwick and a few others. I don't know if the one that I've heard the most often from my childhood was played this year or not.  Hard to hear this after Christmas and on the Christian radio station but nobody thinks about this as much as I do. Followed up by Night before Christmas by some Christian singer.  Excuse me, some singer of Christian music.

The First Noel

Josh Groban and Faith Hill, this arrangement has problems with the difference between the straight melody and the grace notes, with excellent phrasing and excellent work between the two of them here and there. Maybe they should not dramatic it up until a little later in the song? I don't know, their styles are certainly different but I don't know why that should be a problem. Rather that might be the point.  Choir in the background and that part where it goes down when it just should have gone up is very interesting. I'd like to see what else this arranger has done with those interesting choices under their belt. Then I Wonder Where I Wander with a choir.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Bing Crosby

One current relevant thing, which is White Christmas from the man who was the premier star of the 30s and 40s. Vanessa Williams some children see him. Would that be one of the last Christmas songs this season?

Friday, December 25, 2020

sky stripes

They would have day off, but there's tons of straight lines in the clouds.

Christmas Auld Lang Syne

A Pat Benatar song about Christmas in America that includes in God We Trust which will never change she says, and a Jim Croce which must be an original. They said it became a hit after his death. Because of Christamas Day, but they just said Christmas, which I think makes it a little less revolting.

and the winners are

Sleigh ride and winter wonderland fact, I just heard Amy Grant's Winter Wonderland followed immediately by Michael bublé's.

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Breath of Heaven

today is free McFlurry day

So all over the country people are noticing that McDonald's ice cream machines are broken. Or, that the staff didn't bother to turn it on. They're such a pain to clean, I understand.

those square codes

I hate it when the kids tell me that the phone is upside down when the square coat doesn't work. It can be in any direction. But they just think I'm a boomer.

at the Birds McDonald's

Boynton Beach and Military Trail there are maybe 60 Ibis and one rosy at spoonbill with a wood stork right next to him and seven or eight other wood storks in the area.

day before yesterday

Neighbors in D aren't home, and I have my outdoor chairs really close to their front door. There's a bright green iguana over in front of my door, kind of far away, but getting closer. Finally I just get up and go in my house but I can see that he's gone all the way up to the neighbor's door and bumped it with his head. it was like he didn't see it and he was trying to walk through the doorway. He wasn't moving fast like he was upset or mad and he wasn't moving slow like he was in a daze. I thought they had good eyesight but he clearly didn't think I was something he should stay away from or that is stationary door with something he couldn't walk through.

about time

Some more Amy Grant Grown Up Christmas List

Monday, December 21, 2020

simultaneous sky stripes

Two planes, medium height, both headed from east to west a little south of Lantana.

Duet

Andrea Bocelli and Mary j Blige Some Children See Him remains a favorite.  Also good to hear Harry Connick, I thought he had been eclipsed by the bubble man.

Mary j Blige

When I first heard Mary j Blige's Christmas album, I really liked it.  Similar to Lorrie Morgan's Christmas album it was a nice blend of what we knew they could already do plus with the little branching out. Full orchestra and a nice selection of choices. The ads for Tiffany featuring Mary j Blige and models engaged in Portuguese action, you know, lisbon?  Were quite annoying this year with the song favorite things. But I'm glad she got some play. And now I hear her on the radio Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.  it's nice, but I don't know if it's the best choice for a single. Makes me want to listen to the whole thing again. but for having been released a while ago, it's nice to finally hear some of it on the radio.

Sunday, December 20, 2020

what

A miserable song if you're just going to do it with a choir. If you take turns, it's good if you can watch it in person like with kids. Otherwise, no and no.

I think this is the third 12 days of Christmas I've heard

If you count the one that was for satire that included welfare checks, unplanned pregnancies and five cans of pork and beans

Saturday, December 19, 2020

enjoying the piano

On King Cole's Chestnuts. Merry Christmas from one to 92, and you.

The Little Drummer Boy

Not as popular as some other Christmases, I think this is theTV version with those awesome sopranos.

Christmas Time is Here

John Legend. I like how jazzy it is, I heard it on Dick Robinson's 100.3. I don't remember hearing it before, but it's 2 years old?  At first I thought it was retro but I guessed that it was his voice.

Friday, December 18, 2020

recently

I said that the ghetto McDonald's was no longer ghetto {period} but here I am listening to them screaming at each other in the kitchen.
100.3 just played Diana Ross from lady sings the blues something or other.  Instantly recognizable but somehow versatile.

100.3

Nice mix of Christmas jazzy tunes, just heard Santa Claus is Coming to Town with some scats and then return to June Christy and Julie London and so forth.

Faith Hill

Where are you christmas, also saw that it was on Dolly Parton's playlist. For iheartradio.

Thursday, December 17, 2020

sky stripes

West of congress, diagonals up and down the sky.  North and south of Lake Worth Road

Monday, December 14, 2020

online risk

I just played a game with two people from Jordan, another person's United States, and a person from United Kingdom.  I wonder if the two people from Jordan are working in tandem. I think that's what people do, play games together online in teams.

community check-in

The McDonald's right next to the West Palm Beach Lake Worth border on Dixie, where I got my free meals once a week from Val, is next to a shopping center that's being redone. World Thrift, keeps that shopping center a quarter full sometimes so it's very interesting to see the development and how many stores will end up in that plaza.  At the moment there's Latinos hair salon which looks closed, and some empty storefronts and a church and one or two other businesses. It looks like the family Dollar is open so I guess they're going to get a grocery store. Once the remodeling is done, Family Dollar will really benefit.

more firsts

Saw my first Lake Worth Beach city sign, which is brightly color blocked like those purple Disney traffic signs on Dixie near 15th or L.  I also heard o tannenbaum for the first time this year and that creepy ending of Carol of the Bells with a choir that sounds like medieval torture music mixed with Conan the barbarian Carmina burana at the end.

Sunday, December 13, 2020

first this year

Hadn't heard Mary Did You Know till Nate singing at church today, and then a nice retro version of Jingle Bells, sounded like Lorrie Morgan for a minute but then I thought it was Brenda Lee a little older than when she did Rock around The Christmas tree.  1964 vs 1960

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

I just saw the sweetest thing

This woman, too old to be working, was running to catch the bus and the bus stopped quite a bit away is from the stop to let her on. Cresthaven near Military.

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

is that me singing into the fan?

Heard O Holy Night by Josh Groban a couple times.

more sky stripes today

This time, starting in Boynton and heading southward

Vanessa Williams

Do You Hear What I Hear?

it's a beautiful day

An Epcot or Italy day, crisp and blue sky. And sky stripes headed back and forth a little south of here, maybe Delray headed east and west Criss crossing the sky.

Monday, December 7, 2020

finally

The other day I heard Mariah Carey sing please come home for Christmas and now, finally her signature all I want For Christmas is You.

ghetto McDonald's

It's gone, and it's run by a better company, but it's boring now. I like the self-water kiosks, and I kind of like the retro decorations, but the whole thing is a gray beige color which me and up looking dirty, but right now it's just boring. Almost zebra print bench which is used in lots of them, it's not boring, but it is ugly. There's no color. I think maybe they should put a few logos on the wall.

Hanukkah Song

Nice to hear on the radio for several reasons, so many people in this area who celebrate plus it's a funny song which is unique, plus it's live. I don't really like his voice because he's not trying. But it's funny to have adlib lyrics. I wonder if this was before the OJ Simpson trial? Because he and Tom Cruise are used as an example of non-jews.1995 vs 2008

Sunday, December 6, 2020

great palm tree lights

Between Boynton and Boca which reminds me of old times, two Christmases ago singing at Ed's church.

Mac Powell

A child a child

chestnuts

First hearing of Nat King Cole's chestnuts, but not the first Nat King Cole and not the first chestnuts. Reminds me of when I asked my mom if reindeer really know how to fly?

Black Box

The theater company is gone, but I am with Christ Fellowship.

it's that time again

Silver Bells

Anne Murray's version?  I heard another version last week. Barry Nanilow walking in a Winter Wonderland.  I don't remember this one.  Menards in Spanish Christmas carols,. A Little drummer boy mixed with gloria in excelsis deo. Ends with the phrase have yourself a Merry Little Christmas followed by my first Avalon of the year. Jesus born on this day king of all Nations behold the Lamb of God..

Whitney Houston

Finally hearing her version of Do You Hear What I Hear.  This time, I noticed the awesome choir behind her.

Saturday, December 5, 2020

I was just thinking

yesterday, that I hadn't heard Mariah Carey this Christmas. And now I see that Apple has a special with her playing the Queen of Christmas, so did they do it on purpose so we won't get sick of her until the special, and then play her song a whole bunch to get us wanting to watch it?

Friday, December 4, 2020

Behold Him

Another Francesca Battistelli!
He's Here!  You're here by Francesca Battistelli  And Nat King Cole Come all Ye Faithful, thankfully short

Thursday, December 3, 2020

lots of Christmas lights

news to me

Rocking around the Christmas tree, sounds like The ronettes maybe? and The first Noel period don't think I've heard this version before with a great female singer, and a boring background. 

hallelujah

surprised to hear the opening strains of handles how do you chorus right after Bobby Helms which was right after Mathis Winter wonderland but even more surprised to hear that it's an instrumental period full orchestra, no chorus.

air supply

I wonder when they did sleigh ride? I like it. Was it after all their hits?Followed by Andy Williams it's the holiday season.

today it actually is cold outside

First Celine Dion of the season, so this is christmas. She doesn't want a year with any fear also.

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

home for the holidays

No matter how far away you roam.  So after hearing Bobby Helms a couple more times, I'm wondering if people actually had a square called Jingle Bell Square.  If they use it on other holidays, do they change the name?

Taylor Swift

Santa baby sounds good with those country accents of guitar mostly. Reminds me that they should say, I really do believe in you, let's see if you believe in me too. Followed by Bobby Helms and another version of Chestnuts.

oh holy night

This was mercyme's version. I think one thing that might make it better, is if they don't bring in those drums until the Fall on your knees part. He's a great vocalist, but that background doesn't really fit but maybe it would be a good contrast if it wasn't there the whole time period.

Dean Martin

Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer.  I like this one, I don't remember the male choir in the background. Drums with the brushes, and tinkling piano. Maybe I was distracted by the German.

Monday, November 30, 2020

Joy to the World

Amy Grant and Eartha Kitt again it's the most wonderful time of the year and Santa Baby

oh, come O come Emmanuel

With choir and full orchestra, the rejoice rejoice doesn't sound so delorious.

Sunday, November 29, 2020

silent night

I came in the middle of it, so missed some of the narration. Sounds like a good congregation caught mid worship, and I definitely would like to hear it again to catch the narration.  I remember hearing the version that was done at John I Leonard, with a solo that was a little soul or jazzy, under the direction of Mr Johansson or Mr j. That was a revelation.  We did it again at least once under Kendall Kline.  

it came upon the midnight clear

I think it's new to me, but a version with some kind of bongos and a children's choir period what a great song. Adaptable to any style.
McD's snowflake with coffee beans
Looks like they've been doing it all day and they're still going, pretty low to the ground period

sky stripes

Up and down Boynton Beach close to Lantana. And then further north over Lantana and Lake Worth west of 95 and across the sky east to west criss-crossing.  Straight up, from over the beach also.

Friday, November 27, 2020

Dean Martin

Let it Snow with the perfect background

Feliz navidad three times so far

Elvis Presley Here Comes Santa Claus
https://youtu.be/1CzJh8tJzyM.  Trump Thanksgiving Day Address, Massive Fraud so hard to concede, but time isn't on our side.  You know I will leave if I have to, and "Don't talk to me like that, I am the President of the United States.

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Frankly

I didn't grow up with Frank Sinatra singing Christmas carols for me. But listening to his kids from one to 92, I like it. This is my first Frank Sinatra of the season, and he's definitely laid back, but I surely like Frank Sinatra better now than I used to.  This one has a beautiful old-fashioned choir in the background.  And when will we ever hear that today, unless you're watching a Disney classic? Or unless it's Christmas time?  Then, it's not Whitney and not Vanessa, but somebody else singing Do You Hear What I Hear.  I like it except for the stah, a stah, dancing in the night, and shouldn't Whitney and Vanessa have a standard?  Chuck Berry Run Run Rudolph is next and I didn't grow up with him either. It's a little harsh and repetitive. But nothing wrong with it. The guitar solo is good though,.followed by one of those disco orchestra's God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, the intro, which is actually Carol of the Bells. And the bells and the bells and the bells and more Bells

first

Bobby Helms, jingle Bell Rock and Lindsey Stirling violinist Carol of the Bells

I'm okay.

maybe because I'm just about to sign a legal form so that they can use my footage in a new film, Karen Carpenter sounds good right now. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas she says.interesting that I met the composer at Johnnie Leonard in Kendall clients class. I wonder how many people remember that and if they remember more details than I do.

those who follow my blog

will remember a time, when I wrote about birds leading us to good places. Because birds can fly, if we follow them we'll end up in places where they like. So if they know a better place, we can see where a better place is by following them. But yesterday it occurred to me, driving along 95 and seeing a beautiful bird flying ahead, that maybe they just go around pooping on everything they find and then fly off like natural litterers. GBH we'd say, and canoe around the bend, to find the bird gone ahead of us.  It was all very Disney. But they didn't bring us anything.  No pearls to accent the dress, no apples to bake into a pie. No food from any ravens.  But the great blue heron had been there first and left his mark ahead of us. Peace.  Like a river.

the same people

who are worried about covid, are also worried about overpopulation so why are they so scared? It sounds like a win-win.

Monday, November 23, 2020

Andy Williams

Still sounds great with those scary ghost stories and tales of the glories, even though he could kill his wife's lover or whatever.

White Christmas

I never thought it would happen, but it must be a harbinger of the apocalypse.  I just heard White Christmas for the first time this year and Bing Crosby was singing too slowly. My brain has changed.  It must be the cell phone. It's changed me more than I realized. But then, Karen Carpenter was sending too slowly too, and it wasn't just "I wish I were" and logs on the fire that did not fill me with desire, so perhaps it's my current mood.so when Paul McCartney sings out of tune Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time, there you go.

McDonald's you don't understand

People used to feel comfortable coming to McDonald's just to use the restroom. McDonald's located next to interstates, have big drop in customer bases.  But you're taking out all the shitters, and putting only one in each gender's bathroom. What you need, is an immaculately clean restroom, constantly available, and dollar items quickly purchasable. But instead, you're locking bathroom doors and locating  in ghetto areas. Wrong.

spirits

Didn't fall the way they do after a play. I did The Praetorian yesterday, filming in Stuart, or rather Palm Bay at the macaw rescue shangri-la.  I was told not supposed to picture, but I'm tempted.

you know what else is repetitive?

the background singers singing on Blue Christmas. Just heard my first Elvis Presley on the same station with Carol of the bells.

up on the housetop

Second time. I can't even tell if it's the same version. This one has jaunty instrumentals and it kind of sounds like Gene Autry. I don't recognize this ending though. First Marina Lane roanoke.  No. That was first Ringa linga linga linga ding dong ding, Ronettes.  By the way, Carol of Bells is very repetitive, and now I've heard three or four versions.

I just saw my first inflatables of the season.

Couldn't even tell if it was Frosty or Rudolph or what it was, but just lying there lifeless and airless.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer

First hearing of Burl Ives singing this song. This story is a triumph for modern storytelling.. there's always tomorrow, is up there with Over the rainbow being fraught with possibilities somewhere. I think it started out as an advertising campaign, but in terms of claymation it is a masterpiece. Having the soundtrack since I was tiny, I noticed immediately that one side had vocals and one side was instrumental. And this was part of my love affair with Christmas orchestras. I used to think that side was so boring, but now I live Christmas because I get to hear violins.

https://youtu.be/D8z7h1LtUkU

The Hill- Panel: Will Biden's Cabinet Choices Ensure Trum...

so what's changed

I remember a time when water was free, and then a time when people paid for it and carried it around with them constantly. I remember a time when phones were just in homes so when you called and nobody answered you figured they were maybe not home. Now it's getting to the point where people think you hate them when you don't answer. As if you couldn't possibly be doing anything else period so what are the types of things people do while they're on the phone, I don't want to know but it reminds me of that song that said in the middle of making love we noticed the time we both got nervous cuz it's way after 9:00. And I thought, these people are engaged in a list of activity because they're bored at home and now they're bored in the middle of this song too. Personally, I left my phone at my aunt's once and didn't notice for a while. Now I would probably notice in 10 minutes max. So as I said in my computer classes, the phone has changed us more than we have changed technology. I want to see a cartoon, where Alexander Graham Bell or somebody who's inventing the phone, says hey great period now we can have p*** with us 24/7. Because that's the end result, but I don't think anybody saw that coming. I don't think anybody saw anybody coming. Generally speaking. People are interpreting this mask thing completely differently. Lots of people have them hanging below their chin.  That's interesting, because if the virus was on their mask, they're putting it very close to their mouth now. And then there are other people who don't have it cover their nose. I suppose they're also breathing through their nose? And then lots of people don't wear them at all. I just look around, and if I see somebody with a mask on I know it'll make them feel better for me to have my mask on. I guess you could interpret that as an infringement upon my personal liberties. But it's kind of like me wearing clothes when I'm out. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing when I'm alone. I don't feel oppressed by that. I noticed that the YouTube algorithm does not give me videos about politics from 2 days or less ago. So I've been searching for videos that posted the last hour in the last day. but if it's trying to get me to watch videos, which we think algorithms do, wouldn't it give me the latest things first since I've done the same operation for I don't know, 2 weeks? so it does come to mind again, if the algorithm is slanted, which is dumb. Because of course everything is slanted, but the question is in which way is the algorithm slanted. If we go with the hypothesis that Trump just wants attention, then that would make sense with the current state of affairs. Him being crazy doesn't make sense, because crazy people don't succeed. And being a genius playing 4D chess makes sense, but it's much more likely that he just wants attention all the time.  Clearly Democrats cheap, and nobody's talking about it, but of course Republicans cheat. Duh. with apocalyptic visions on both sides, there's more cheating this year than most of the years. But to what extent? Of course computers can be used to cheat, but were they and how would we prove that?

Sunday, November 22, 2020

retro or throwback

Four Christmas songs the way I like them, where you can't really tell what decade they're from. Baby it's cold outside, which if I remember was controversial last year.  I still think duets are my favorite thing, and there's so many versions of this one that it's hard to judge them all.  Good orchestrations behind them, which is one reason I love Christmas, because when else can you hear an orchestra in a pop music setting?it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas from Dionne Warwick and Rock around The Christmas Tree by Amy Grant which is only the second Amy Grant I've heard I think, and a great let it snow with some melodic changes and a male singer.  I couldn't tell who it was. But he did what Ella does which was keep everything the same except change the melody and I've heard a couple of those Trans-Siberian orchestra Mannheim steamroller songs, most commonly Carol of the bells.

Saturday, November 21, 2020

https://youtu.be/H0h6sRuC8bQ

CNN did not air the press conference yesterday, but they called it bananas. If I understood Scott Adams correctly, they pronounced it as bananas before it had even aired.  Here is the link to Rudy Giuliani's YouTube channel. It's interesting how YouTube and Twitter etc let people talk directly to their audience and people of a certain age still filter their news through the alphabet stations.  Both sides claim that big tech is censoring them.  Are they both right? I wish this division would cause a new group of people to take office at the local level all across the country. If we just took all the things we agreed on and did those, we would make some progress.

Friday, November 20, 2020

Yoko and those out of tune kids

They let the song play till the end, and I don't think I heard that in a long time.  I like it when the kids say happy christmas. there's some decorations up here at Pine Point Villas, and I saw another Christmas tree stand today.  The lyric, I hope it's a good one without any fear is troubling. Yes it rhymes, but an entire year without any fear? maybe a year without much fear, or year not characterized by fear but a whole year without any fear hello? I wonder if Yoko really slept with hillary. it seems to me, that Hillary didn't do anything that she could get caught at until she said the word deplorables. A life of calculation if you ask me.

two things

I was watching this documentary about brethrenarism, and one of the featured breatharians said that McDonald's was a place of infinite love or vortex of something or other and that the only food you can ever eat is Diet Coke and Quarter Pounders with cheese. So of course I believe that too, except I would add iced coffee.  And secondly here in McDonald's, an ugly man and his cute kid, came to the door,  opened the door and realized simultaneously that they needed to go back to the car to get a mask so walked in tandem to the car each opening their respective door to get their mask and walk back in. I don't know why it was notable except that it was cute that they were completely different in size but walking in tandem, with the same expression. the kid is here now, enjoying the vortex of love that is McDonald's.
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Christmas bluegrass

CD I got from The bargain bin at Old Time Pottery. like all bluegrass, I love the instrumentals and may or may not love the vocals.

McD's

Usually it seems like people don't notice McDonald's prices. but every once in a while somebody who doesn't eat here very often, comments on how fast food is very expensive. And then of course I want to point out that there's a dollar menu. I mean really you could order three cheeseburgers for the price of one bigger one, or maybe more. And you can always add extras pickles and onions if you think that'll help your hunger craving, and those are free. But let's face it, everybody eats too much. Anyway so I ordered something different and the price was higher than I expected, so I had the cashier read the prices out to me individually because the total seemed too high. And lo and behold, somebody after me was confused about their price as well.  It really doesn't happen very often at all, and additionally, this was the second time I've heard somebody order a cheeseburger without cheese. He ordered three cheeseburgers one of them without cheese!

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

end of a road trip

Well, I just got back into the state from a thousand Mile journey and noticed two sets of Christmas lights. One has palm trees at the entrance of a plaza and lots of other stuff, and one was a shopping center and I don't think they're done.  Oh wait, all I did was travel 3 miles away but since the time changed 5:30 in the afternoon seems like 9:30 p.m. after a thousand Mile road trip.

Monday, November 16, 2020

Let it Snow

The Drifters White Christmas. They sound great, but that's not always makes me grimace.  

first Amy grant?

One of the first ones I ever heard, winter wonderland. seated by an I'll Be home for Christmas by someone else, with a little bit of gymnastical cleaning but not bad.

Friday, November 13, 2020

Burl Ives and Tony Bennett

Have a Holly
Have Yourself

more

Madonna Santa Baby, and a few Bublé.

Al jarreau

A surprise to hear him so early in the season. Notes for me Christmas song Santa's on his way

have yourself a Merry Little christmas.

Sounds like it's from the 80s or 90s, but who knows. This version grew on me, as she decided to get softer with the high notes. And the instrumental behind her is interesting; the drums there for a minute, and of course, the strings. Cool trumpet cadence at the end. So far I've heard Michael's Santa Claus is coming to town and I Saw Mommy kissing Santa claus. Tickle tickle.

Andy Williams

Finally exclamation he doesn't disappoint. It's the most wonderful Time of the year.

Eurythmics

Winter wonderland

Do you hear what I hear, from back when men could really sing.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Holly Christmas

Just heard Burl Ives and that reminds me Holly Dolly Christmas was released.  Eartha Kitt   Santa Baby and Johnny Mathis   it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Jose Feliciano too, so I guess like eggnog, I'm done once for the entire season. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, though.

red racer video

Another conservative banned from youtube.  I never heard him say anything mean. His theories were big but he always said that he didn't want to hurt anybody and that maybe there was evidence for this, not as if we know it's true.

last Christmas last Christmas

George Michael giving his heart away, which surely would kill him, right around Christmas Day or is it the very next day that he gave it away? Or was it the day before? I guess tomorrow is only a day away.

finally

Johnny Mathis we need a little Christmas now and Brenda Lee rocking around the Christmas tree

Christmas music

I heard a retro Skeigh Ride with synthesizer and maybe actual strings, I don't think I've heard that version before. And I heard a most wonderful time of the year seen her who sounded somewhat like Johnny Mathis but not in a bad way. And I saw the Hershey's kiss red green and silver sounding like handbells in the shape of a Christmas tree commercial. So, the season has begun. Before that I saw promptings to watch Amy Grant's duet, the Christmas Waltz. And z88.3 asked me to vote on Christmas songs.

Dr. Steve Turley

Lots of scenarios for T to win and only need one or two.
https://youtu.be/oF41PC8vA5Q

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

America Uncovered

https://youtu.be/pEslMIlbAi8
Another map that mysteriously does not have Alaska colored red.

Frank Tufano

https://youtu.be/csVvSw3jmng

Media convincing the public Biden won.
https://youtu.be/8wKQRfphusU
PocketsOfTheFuture
More uncalled Alaska map.  CNN and NBC.  Huffington Post says 290 something, CNN says 279 to 214.

NTD

https://youtu.be/jjMHEGgye04
Never heard of them, but they're using the same map problem that Taylor Marshall just showed as well. For some reason, United States maps of the election don't have Alaska colored in. But no one has mentioned that there's any problem with Alaska. NTD won't call the election yet and Taylor just said that two more states are back in play. Even according to CNN.

Monday, November 9, 2020

Eric Metaxas

Too many irregularities
https://youtu.be/Zco_Y0o55jk
Six states challenged
https://youtu.be/TjnCFzQFojs
Church Militant says it's not over.

Sid Roth

It's Supernatural.  Hasn't given up on the election.

The Praetorian

https://youtu.be/yEgcoBlfwbM

Frank Romanek says it's not over.

how things stand

https://youtu.be/HW1W-GD_z5c

Doreen Dotan says Trump won summarily, but can't collect the prize due to Christian pride. She says that he will tramp after a great humiliation. I am wondering how much one can even have in the press. And thinking of the time, when every public figure will have photos of their youth held against them.  As of yesterday, Taylor R. Marshall ssid Trump won and was outlining a path for getting Pennsylvania.  This morning, Scott Adams said, that the rampant fraud will be exposed, but he doesn't know when or if it will be enough or if he is reelected, if Trump should resign. Now I need to see what Mother Miriam says.  Hudna1 tells us how even in Los Angeles, Trump won.  I find that hard to believe, yet see the parades in Beverly Hills, thanks to Girltown and others.  Bruce, my personal friend who I thought would never give up, who saw Trump reelected and shot has resigned himself to a Biden in victory.  I was wrong about Trump getting elected and I was wrong about Obama getting reelected and I was wrong about Obama getting elected the first time but I really think Trump is going to stay in the White House legally. Knowing full well that I'm not good at predicting these things. It's stupid to say there was no fraud. The question is how much on each side, and was it in the states that matter to the extent that matters. And when we have two presidents because half the country won't accept it? But amazingly, I think Trump is going to play by the rules and win by the rules and I say that knowing full well that he is a cheater.

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Sunday, October 25, 2020

automatic mirror

I just saw somebody get out of their car and the car automatically pushed the mirror in closer to the body of the car, so that anybody parking wouldn't accidentally hit the mirror. I never noticed that before. I'm used to cars beeping when you push the lock button and I remember I had a car that locked automatically when she close the door and of course some cars turn the lights off after a couple seconds, and some cars turn the radio off and I think all cars turn the air conditioning off when you shut off the motor. What else can they do for us?

Nobody

Has a problem with The Wind sounding like Michael.

Music Genres and Sound-a-Likes

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Songs you originally thought were by someone else

Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds ~ Don't Pull Your Love (Elvis Presley)

Queen ~ Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Elvis Presley)

Van Morrison ~ Brown Eyed Girl (Rolling Stones)

New Edition ~ Candy Girl (Jackson 5)

Gap Band ~ Burn Rubber (Stevie Wonder)

Guy ~ Groove Me (Gap Band)

Ready For The World ~ Oh Shiela (Jesse Johnson)

Divine Sounds ~ What People Do For Money (Run-DMC)

Fontella Bass ~ Rescue Me (Aretha Franklin)

Tom Browne feat. Toni Smith ~ Funkin' For Jamaica (Rufus & Chaka Khan)

Colonel Abrams ~ I'm Not Gonna Let You (Teddy Pendergrass)

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton

French Vanilla Iced Coffee, Extra Cream, Light Ice

Extra Onions and Ketchup

Friday, October 16, 2020

well I might have to backtrack

The JonnyBaak video does include concept art, but who knows when that concept art was from. The voiceover says that only art and the novel we'lre brought to Charlton Heston, but the accompanying visuals of Heston and the rest looking at the primitive 3D model ape village after the concept art, were probably chosen as visuals for the public and may not be documentarily important. Those concept art paintings could have been done at any time.

planet of the apes

Proof that from the beginning, the prince that Arthur Jacob brought to Charlton Heston included the ape society as the ultimately realized, primitive one and not the technologically Superior one that is said to have been scrapped. All he had at the time were those drawings and the novel.

JonnyBaak - Everything you need to know about Planet of the Apes (1968)

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Pool Wokers

Trying so hard on this call to be woke.  55 thousand signed up for the conference call, 22 thousand called in, halfway through 15 thousand still on the call.  They want to make sure that if a trans person had a different signature, it's okay.  If someone is signing their name in a new language.... Huh?

Friday, October 9, 2020

Moochelle

Every time I see him telling me to vote, I think he's saying, we have to vote early and we have to vote often.

Friday, October 2, 2020

covid

Why I think about possibilities that could never happen... But everybody does.  But today I hear that T diagnosed with Covid and how many times have I thought Biden might get it, or say he might get it to avoid the debates or say he got it so that he doesn't have to campaign but here we are with the other guy getting it.  Once again, something that's normal for the other person just seems impossible for Trump.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Western Australia and Western US

Australia and the US started on the East Coasts and took over westward, meaning bigger states in the West, western halves dry?  So maybe Australia looks like what the US would, if it was further underneath the water.  Tasmania as remnant of Florida.  Likewise Caribbean parallels to shapes of islands in Pacific.  Bahamas like Philippines, but those two areas the opposite.  Only Cuba showing now, since lower than Indonesia, higher up so much bigger.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

sky stripe

Big sky stripe with a thin one right alongside it over Lake Worth near Job road.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

can't believe I never noticed

The uary months are in a row. And the ber months ago in a row.  So we have a short season of one and a longer season of the other.
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Sunday, September 13, 2020

census crepe

Curtain closed in window which I assume means somebody was inside and they closed the curtain. Second contact refusal by respondant.  Third not interested does not want to be bothered. Fourth refusal by respondant. Fit not interested does not want to be bothered.  Next, don't want to do it.

Friday, August 14, 2020

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Delray Beach is so weird

Swinton is a major Street and it goes through neighborhoods and then becomes like the main road through some sleepy Georgia town. It's hard to think, that we're in the middle of a Broward, Palm Beach, Dade metropolis. I just saw a sign, before I meandered past the playhouse and the parks and back to major streets after going through what looks like people's driveways,, a sign  that said something like it is unlawful do you have your radio on loud. Okay. And then Seacrest is reachable through what looks like dead ends and then it looks the same as Swinton.  I don't think other north south routes, like Dixie and A1A and Federal and Congress and Jog and Military and 441 seem so haphazard.  Not sure what the characterizing differences are, but on Swinton and Seacrest they include major commercial intersections with tiny office buildings and houses on the corners. Right now I'm at the water tower and the Shrine or Temple at Woolbright.  Lesley and Smashburger and the crowds are gone.  McD's is still here.

sky stripes

P a couple of them heading north and south close to the ground and close to each other parallel, I think it was around 10:30 or 11:30.

job

Is it job, or Job?  As in biblical book of Job...  Not knowing the appropriateness of venting versus letting it go, I kind of want to make a list of all the times the census has led me to dead ends in my search for part-time temporary employment. I called them many times just to arrange an interview and this was months ago over the course of a month or so and then recently over the course of a week or so. When I reply to numbers that call me, I get voicemails that are not set up and when I call numbers that I'm told to call, I get voicemails that are not set up or people who don't know what I'm talking about. Today I'm scheduled for a training, the same training I successfully completed yesterday and the same training that I unsuccessfully completed, driving to the locations and being told to wait awhile and then being told to leave. I think I'm going to go to the training today, which will be the fourth time for this one training and for which I don't need to go, I think, because I did it yesterday. But since I got an email and a text I think I'm just going to go. and I'm going to see if maybe they want me to do this training a fifth time after today.

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Acts 2

J Vernon McGee in Acts 2:14-47, says the count is the only accurate one of any campaign!  Is there no other listed?

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Acts wraps it up

Gospel parallels can point to four stories that don't agree.  But Acts assumes all four?  Or just Luke?  When was Acts written?  Does Acts reference any other gospels?  If there are any Worth considering, or all polemic and late?  What is the deal with destruction of texts?  What was early but still missing?  Lost to the hands of time, or lost at the hands of revisionists?

Women in the church

Must add to the discussion Joel 2 and Acts 2 where handmaidens and daughters will have important roles. One argument would be that they should be doing those things now, regardless of what they should have been doing in the past.

Monday, August 3, 2020

Dr. Immanuel. hydro... advocate

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158813403874180&id=789294179&sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=i

Sunday, August 2, 2020

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Acts wraps it up

Gospel parallels can point to four stories that don't agree.  But Acts assumes all four?  Or just Luke?  When was Acts written?  Does Acts reference any other gospels?  If there are any Worth considering, or all polemic and late?  What is the deal with destruction of texts?  What was early but still missing?  Lost to the hands of time, or lost at the hands of revisionists?

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Gospels Ends

Matthew - Resurrection
Mark - Ascension
Luke - Holy Spirit on the way
John - 2nd coming on the way


Starting Acts

Gospels sequel, more specifically, Luke's sequel.  So I wonder about the order.  Shouldn't they touch, without John in between?  The belief that Mark must be first and John must be last has merit because we like to place things from simple to complex, or straightforward to esoteric.  But we all know ancient things which are complicated.  Clearly the "In the beginning" of John should be in the beginning of N.T. even without the hugely important Genesis correlation.  So not MMLJ, which connects Malachi to John the Baptist, but J then M or M, Luke and Acts, which connects before time to 2000 years ago, and parallels Hebrew Bible.  But which M is second book and which third?

Saturday, July 25, 2020

sky stripe

Very short one over Lantana, near Dixie.

Lake Worth Beach

I just saw another place where the name Lake Worth Beach has replaced the name Lake Worth. It's that place where I earlier saw it happen, which was on the sign by the building where I graduated from kindergarten. They had a digital sign and now they have a new digital sign. But they also have that creepy kid head from Lake Worth Beach beach.  Part of that mural with the evil Mickey balloon, which I am convinced is symbolic of something terrible. That place with itss underground tunnel and the smell of sandy Florida water has always been noticeable to me, even when I enjoyed going through the tunnel. Of course if it could be confirmation bias but something's creepy about that artwork.

Friday, July 24, 2020

Today

I am thinking about the phrase 'In my day" which has always bugged me big time.  I want to say, hey, you are alive so today is your day as much as it is anyone else's.

Reminds me of a computer student of mine at the lieberry, so vibrant and fun, seemed so smart and together, a little older than me, who said something about no longer being important or something and said let them have it, we were young once.

sky stripe

Lower than I've ever seen, overhead east to west, yesterday afternoon.

30 Year Raw Vegan Predicted Pandemic 4 Years Ago -John Rose

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Saturday, July 4, 2020

New at Chipotle

Queso Blanco, haven't tried.  Replaced old yellow stuff I liked but not everyone did..  New juices, only tried lemonade w my Coke.  Turmeric in it.

Chipotle

I forgot how good....

Barbacoa, sofritas, sour cream, lettuce, corn, hot salsa, green salsa, fresh salsa, cheese, brown rice, pinto beans, and a little bit of Amy's favorite.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

when

Someone, like many people today on the left, feel sorry for another group, and can't handle when bad things happen to them, but don't care if bad things happen to people like themselves, it's because they secretly don't value that other group in the same way. It's exactly why we don't like to see animals killed in movies, but we don't care if we see people killed in movies. Virtue signaling, and feeling guilty for doing nothing, but maybe something our ancestors might have done, we're having something that somebody else doesn't have, is all about making ourselves feel good and has nothing to do with the group we think is oppressed. Last night, someone chose as their subject, black people. But then we had to have a discussion if that meant Asians and it was decided that as long as we didn't include normal white Europeans we were doing a good thing. Because of course, the speaker is a normal white European and considers themselves normal, but considers other people unnormal. This is not a good thing, feeling sorry for people doesn't help them any more than being sad when an animal dies in a movie helps animals.

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

so sad

To live in a world where 1% of everything drives your thinking.

The news is despicable

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Luke 1

Contrast between John the Baptist healing families, and Jesus dividing families. Hearts of the sons toward fathers versus who is my mother? Who are my brothers?

Thursday, June 11, 2020

surprised I

Didn't figure this out sooner. But with the social distancing, it's now rude to hold the door open for someone.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Luke chapter 1

Writing to Theophilus, the author clearly states that there are many accounts of  Jesus' life. As I wafe back into biblical scholarship, I noticed once again, that critics seem to think and if it's old it's worthwhile. So if there is a gospel discovered that's as old as the canonical Gospels, it's somehow worthwhile. Yet, at the same time, there aren't any gospels that age that survive. So on the one hand, they want to discount them because they are not close enough to the events, but they also want to discount them, because there are accounts that are later?

Pockets of the Future - Wow Bill Gates doesn't want to Microchip you he wants to Tattoo You Instead

Ethnic Gnosticism | Voddie Baucham - Founders Ministries

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

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Lake Clarke Shores

Tons of police vehicles, maybe sheriff, lining the entrance to Forest Hill boulevard 95 in preparation for tonight's peaceful protest. George Floyd inspired. One white and one black officer play fighting and the car is just sitting there waiting for tonight.

134 over 85, 67

Monday, June 1, 2020

Cletha How Why Where

You see, half the country tried to make everything go their way. and the other half, try to make everything go their own way. So they all ended up lying and they all ended up lying all the time. And we call those Publicrats. And I thought they were different from one another. But today we can tell that they're exactly the same. You see, they either thought they were good, or they thought they were bad. They either thought they were left, or they thought they were right. They either thought they were right, where they thought they were wrong. So already it's confusing isn't it? Because how can anything be right and left? Or right but wrong? But that's the part they didn't understand and they were willing to die to believe it. So the coasts became the black part of the Oreo. And we became the best part, the gooey white middle.  And everybody knows now about Oreo, but back then they were pieces of the coasts mixed in with the middle and that mattered. Because it mattered a lot where you were. So New York, in LA or the beginnings of the coasts, the beginnings of the black part. And Chicago, and Miami, and Minneapolis and Austin, had to be removed, like a cancer because unlike today, they couldn't just be moved. They had to be removed. Because placement was important. Geography was important. You couldn't just be somewhere and then tomorrow be somewhere else. The blue parts couldn't live with the red parts. The liberal parts couldn't live anywhere near the ramparts. People couldn't be both. People had to choose.

Cletha History

So since you couldn't go talk to people, you didn't know what they really meant. And you didn't know what they really said. You had to rely on what other people said they meant. And you had to rely on what other people said they meant. And Publicrats pretended like they knew everything. But they
 didn't know anything. So that's why we became Oreo. We started out as the United States, but then we became Oreo. I can't really describe the United States to you because it was so far gone by the time I got here. But I can try. You see, there wasn't this country made up of two countries. There was this one bigger country which contained the coasts and contained the middle. And you know how we are the gooey middle? And the best part? Well, it wasn't like that back then. The krusty coasts thought they were the best. They were richer, and they thought they were smarter. And they called us the fly over States and they were right.

Cletha When Time

So, it was weirder than that. But I'm trying to make it simple. You can only talk to people who were alive. So, you know how you did your book report on Napoleon? You couldn't just go talk to Napoleon. And it's not like he was busy like yesterday. And it's not like the reception wasn't good like it was this morning. They're just really wasn't a Napoleon because he had been dead for like 500 years or maybe a thousand years or maybe 2,000. Nobody knew history unless they looked it up, and even if they looked it up, they couldn't just find somebody because even if they did, there is no way to translate that language, and no way to talk to somebody who wasn't really there.

Cletha Who Identity

It's going to sound crazy, but Cletha, people only knew a few people. You couldn't talk to people except the people who were right where you were. and you couldn't talk to people unless you understood their language. And that wasn't that much of a big deal, because you only ever saw people who spoke your own language. Oh, that's really too hard to understand isn't it? Let me try to be simpler. Many people spoke only one language. And that wasn't that much of a problem in their own City. And it wasn't a problem at all in their own house. But I guess what I'm trying to understand and I don't understand, there's no way I can explain it to you, who is grown up in a different world. But we pretty much couldn't talk to people who weren't in our own country because everybody outside of our own country spoke a different language. So even if we could go there, which was really hard, if we did get there they didn't know what we were talking about. And we had to use words. But even if we used words, we didn't share the same words. So they were kind of like completely foreign to us. Kind of like a duck trying to talk to a dog. Or even worse, like a duck seeing a dog for the first time and having nothing, and no idea how to communicate at all.

Cletha Geography Where

So where, used to be pretty important. Before phones, where was really important. like so important that you can't even imagine it. Like so important, that I can't even imagine it. People couldn't talk to people unless they were right in front of them. People couldn't go visit people unless they were close enough to walk. And people were so unhealthy, that they couldn't walk far. So you pretty much could only deal with people in your own place. Maybe in your own home.

Cletha

You see, the best way to understand anything is to ask when, why, who, and how. Oh wait. I forgot about where. Maybe we should start there. Where is pretty important, but we couldn't even decide on that. You see, some people really thought that the Earth was a ball. And some people really thought that the Earth was flat. And until we got that sorted out, there wasn't really much that people agreed on. Even though everybody knows the answer now.

Cletha

You won't believe me Cletha, but even though a lot has changed it wasn't very long ago so I remember. Before the Oreo, when words weren't expensive and some people used a lot of them, there wasn't one health system. It's hard to understand now, but some doctors didn't understand nutrition. And some other doctors, didn't understand medicine. Well, that's an oversimplification. They've always been people who understood herbs. but some people didn't understand that medicines were made from herbs.  But even that's an oversimplification. So we have to back up. We have to go back.

Social Distancing

I want to scream

Nutrition is a wash. Nobody knows what anybody else should eat. However, it is so obvious that if you're really big you need to eat less. Let's see, there's a container and stuff goes into it and the container gets bigger and bigger and yes, stuff comes out of the container but stuff keeps going in and said container gets bigger and bigger... well now, maybe we need to put less in a container if we don't want to keep getting bigger. And it's so simple.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Mark 8

Take me out of town and take my hand, and use the spit to heal my eyes so that I can see the forest. I won't tell anyone.

people

The coronavirus scare, is making people crazy. I know because I'm one of them. I'm pretty sure I heard just maybe kinda sorta somebody say that restaurants should be open, but not Chinese restaurants.

graduation day 1972 with Wendy

finally

Grunge never reports enough details

Were Inge and Marilyn exchanging secrets for MK and Paperclip?  What would Addison's disclosure have done for his legacy?  Were all these affairs not even affairs?  Always suspect that all spies are horndogs.

I did it

I saw the first official sign that says lake Worth Beach instead of lake Worth.it's on City Hall, where I graduated from kindergarten in 1972.

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

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Details About JFK That Have Come Out Since He Died

I don't know

Who started it. But if we make a list of all the things the mainstream media has said about Trump and all the things he has said who is worse? They both use repetition to persuade. But he is only one person. Millions of people are doing what he is doing but blaming him for what they are saying themselves

obviously

Because that scholar never told their kid the sky was blue.... and the kid showed no signs of figuring it out, the concept is advanced.  Not like "blue sky" isn't everywhere in kid culture or anything... 

Old Norse Had a Word for Blue

the pieces that blue is somehow sophisticated

In the development of language is still fascinating to me.  In this video, Jackson Crawford says that English characterizes color into 11 groups; red orange yellow green blue purple gray pink brown black and white. Whereas in one understanding of Norse, yellow and orange are grouped with red an indigo and purple are kinds of blue.

blue

In a similar fashion the sky is sometimes said to be 'bronze' in the Iliad, this does not mean the sky was a different colour in Ancient Greece, simply that the sky was very bright. The Greek mind also connected images by meaning as well as shade, thereby calling the sea 'wine dark' because it is a dark liquid.

Monday, May 25, 2020

Dennis Wilson

A story of California Dreamin that couldn't last. So much there to unravel. I didn't know Fleetwood Mac was in LA. When the con theorists talk about Hollywood, they mean much more than the movie system.

Daze with Jordan the Lion

https://youtu.be/YBN824Qw_eo

Pacific Ocean Blue

New album to explore. As Jordan the Lion says, who knows what music is rolling around inside of you. A little window into California which seems to be redeemed from a terrible family into a saved one. Interesting how the Phillips and Wilson and Baldwin families illustrate something for us. California is about the only United States place I haven't been to at all. And it's interesting how some of it is like Florida and some of it is completely different. I wonder if the Hollywood scene in Florida had matured how my life would be different now.

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Mark spit

Right when saying that will comes out of a man will not defile him, Jesus uses spit to heal someone. is this the only instance of spit being positive? Instead of causing someone to be defiled does God incarnate's spit change the world from being concerned about washing hands and such into getting the inner world right?

I don't think

That is two people died on the same day, or let me say born and died in the same year.

Ranking the best people in history

https://youtu.be/nJAta014H0E

J J McCollough

speaking of leaving things undone

Was Mother Teresa really born in Yugoslavia? It's very possible that the borders changed, but I don't think so. I think she was born in Albania. And how refreshing to hear of her as aesthetically challenged. Because of course as the author says, that certainly makes her more ascetic doesn't it? Of course there's a whole movement devoted to showing how cruel she was. But I think that's just a project made certain by our age which is filled with facts, that are all weaponized, too much time on our hands, and the necessity of destroying anything that's popular.  It's true that Americans really like their presidents. I don't really think about it, but I think that this contest showed that very clearly.  In my trivia group, the two non-americans are into this as well, but of course, they are Americans now. So that just says something about me doesn't it?

Friday, May 22, 2020

Mark 6

Another healing chapter with only a little healing in the hometown but great success nationally to the point that the king takes notice.  I remember being annoyed with scholars who conflate both miraculous feedings of the crowds. Like Matthew and Mark didn't notice that already put the story in so they just did it again.

Turning Point

In one place told not to tell and in the other stay behind in order to tell.

Mark 5

The poor guy cutting themselves with stones exchanged forever one life of local infamy and wants to leave. But his importance is his story. The others, just want no part of it. In the face of a miracle they just go back to their business. What else do you do when 2,000 swine are lost? The main character wants to change everything and the others just want to go back to normal. But what did they say the day before this miracle? Oh that poor guy, I wish he was better. Yeah, I knew his mother, it's hard to believe he lives like that. Oh how I wish we could do something for him. But I think they just didn't want him to go too high but remain a little worse off than they were. And once his life changed, they had no use for him.

Friday, May 8, 2020

I wonder

if Dr. Richard Carrier and all those other scholars; a few of whom I have known, would benefit from studying the gospels as myth: as if it doesn't matter whether it's historical, but try out the morality. But maybe that's what he's already doing, and maybe this is the approach Bert Ehrman needs to take.I guess it depends on whether you grew up thinking the Bible was literal or not.

Thursday, May 7, 2020

today I'm thinking

of someone who told me that when she got glasses, she looked up at the trees and noticed, for the first time, that she could see individual leaves.

We don't see what we don't see can you imagine, just thinking that nobody else can see them, just because you can't?

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier

Not my business but, these two gentlemen Pick-A-Part the texts, to fit their own agendas. Everybody else does this too, but one, does it say that he can sleep with the whole neighborhood, and the other does it, so that he can be smarter than his former friends.



As I dive back into biblical scholarship, there are two issues on my mind. Firstly, there is the issue that makes no sense when people dismiss the Bible but believe everything that's not in the Bible from the same time, even though all that stuff is filled with miracles. Carrier certainly doesn't do that, but I think almost everybody else does. Not that I would know, that must be an overstatement. What's more common, is to dismiss everything miraculous, and say look this isn't historical. Well, if you take out all the miraculous, to prove that were there were no miracles, what have you accomplished there? I suppose I could remove the main character from any novel and guess what? The novel would be quite different. What people have not come to terms with, is that either the miracles happened, or that the supposed miracle workers wanted it to look like miracles happened. So either Jesus was a miracle worker or he was pretending to be a miracle worker. It's ridiculous, to try to go back to an original source as if an original is important. Well, of course an original is important, but what I mean is, why do I want to know what phrase of the song appeared to the songwriter first? Why do I want to know which note was first sung by which member of a songwriting team? Why does it matter, which of two miracles came to mind first before they were combined into a passage that speaks of both miracles?

Thursday, April 16, 2020

In part 2, of this video about David Koresh, the author says something very interesting. I don't think I've heard this before. She says that music makes words sound more meaningful.

Stephanie Harlowe

https://youtu.be/ZfbULEdUjTY

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Here

we are in the middle of the quiet world emergency.  I heard one siren for about three seconds this afternoon.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

MATTHEW 12 CONTINUED

Casting out of a devil in front of the generation of devils. Contrast of present with coming holy ghost age and contrast of earthly family vs spiritual family.  Previous finders, Nineveh and Sheba better than current doubters looking for a sign.

Monday, April 6, 2020

Peter the autistic

I think of autism as a modern thing. And that's probably just because it's growing. I once read that somebody said, that autism and I think they meant the whole spectrum, is the next step in human evolution. And I suppose empaths we see value in that because we don't want to be bogged down by the emotions of others and hiding in a corner for the rest of our lives. Be that as it may, autism is probably something that's been around forever but I've never thought of it before. Reading two accounts of Peter I think maybe he was autistic. When the other disciples dismiss the woman's tale of an Angel saying that Jesus isn't here at the tomb but risen, he just jumps up to go look. And at the foot washing scene Peter refuses at first but then when Jesus said he needs to be washed he exclaims that he wants all of them to be washed. So there's a change in desire based on interpreting the words as literal. Rather people would just say okay go ahead, Peter wants it all once he realizes its importance.

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Matthew 12

Sabbath speech and miracle, withered hand.  Healed told again to be quiet.

Matthew 11

Jesus' mission compared to John the Baptist.

Matthew 10 continued

Explanation of Disciples' mission, deeper.  Jesus comes with a sword.

Friday, April 3, 2020

two ambulances

It's Thursday April 3rd 3 p.m. and I've heard two ambulances today. Since the international crisis has commenced this is the first.

Matthew 10

Disciples list and speech

Matthew 9 continued

On the way to the rulers house to heal his daughter, the woman with the issue of blood, two blind men, a devil who is dumb, rising opposition and I wish for Laborers.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Power to forgive sins on Earth

Matthew 9:1 through 17

Palsy healing an explanation of forgiveness of sins, calling of Matthew, and foretelling of a new way.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Matthew 8

A leper, Centurian's daughter, waves, demons.  Can't avoid fame. 

Slaves?

The seminal event is the Exodus; the freeing of the slaves.  Yet, when Jesus tells the religious leaders that they are sons of the devil, they say that their people have never been slaves.  There is some kind of genealogical idea behind the text that I don't know about.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Matthew 7

Behavior and attitude.  End of the Sermon.

Verily verily

At this point, for most people in the world, King James might be more trouble than it's worth, but in King James, there are plenty of verilies in Matthew Mark and Luke but only John has verily verily. I don't know Greek, and I don't know John, but I bet he doesn't like it.

John the Baptist

In Mark, the ancient Baptist is a bridge for Christ to be known in Judea and Jerusalem, but Matthew, the more Jewish writer, includes the Gentile preaching to the Decapolis and Syria in his narrative; right here in the early Ministry.  I don't think Matthew mentions Jerusalem until the Temptation.  Topic for study- how does each Gospel view Jerusalem.

sky stripes

Whenever I see one, I think well it could just be the things I've seen since youth. But when I was small oh, I looked into the sky a lot. And when I saw a skystrike, a stripe that is, it was odd to me. And these days, I see tic tac toe across the sky and I certainly would have noticed that as a child. The sky stripe and I saw this morning has completely blown away into something I would never recognize as a stripe. So there could be many more of these done at night and I would have no idea.

sky stripe

Real low, and real close to here it must have it must have been sprayed about an hour ago and it's only 6:45 east to west

Matthew 6

How to feel about doing good; giving, praying, fasting, and then we're general things about how to feel about life in general with planning and outlook.  Continuing The Sermon on the Mount, including the Lord's Prayer.

thought

Why Easter?

The daily devotional just gave me a thought. It said that Jesus is the only man who chose to be born.



Anyways thought, which is seeped into mainstream, it's very common that people say that we have chosen to come to Earth and then after that we will choose to come back or that we've chosen our parents.



Steeped in Christianity I just can't get behind that belief. Knowing the amount of control I have over this life kiss me no confidence that after death I will somehow control my very existence or that before this life, I somehow controlled it.



So it is startling to me to think how arrogant that thought is when contrasted with what Jesus did. And there's so many sin consequences of thinking we are like Jesus, and that's just a really clear expression of that belief.



Pride, pure and simple.

Matthew 5 continued

What to do in order to follow Law and Prophets concerning people.

Monday, March 30, 2020

Matthew 5th chapter

Sermon about the blessed.  Declares intention to fulfill the law and the prophets when followers do more than follow those two things.

Matthew 4th chapter

Wilderness fasting and temptation. Here Jesus claims to be God simply by saying that God shouldn't be tempted. Jesus goes from the wilderness to the Pinnacle of the Temple, then to a high mountain, to Galilee, Nazareth to Capernaum, gathers disciples two by two and is famous throughout Syria including Jerusalem and the decapolis.

Matthew 3rd chapter

John the Baptist preachers that there's more to it than being a son of Abraham. Since they can be made from stones. Jesus goes from Galilee to Jordan for his baptism.

Matthew 2nd chapter

More dreams, this time for the wise men as well as Joseph to avoid Herod.  From Bethlehem to Egypt to Nazareth.

Matthew first chapter

Matthew 1 - Genealogy from Abraham
14 generations to David then 14 generations to Babylon, then 14 generations to Christ; ending with the Virgin birth after a dream, called his name Jesus.



Saturday, March 28, 2020

and

There's a sign that they are going to close the pool on March 30th.

what

So just now, a little before 9 a clock I witnessed the loudest anybody's been at the pool parrot Pine Point Villas ever. There's this social distancing thing going on, but here, for the first time, there's a party at the pool.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Scrbble

Only wanting to do electric things.

Crayons, books, exercise and cleaning opportunities untouched.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Patrick's Day

I think this is the second time in life, that I've left the house without realizing it is Saint Patrick's Day.              This time, in the midst of coronavirus nonsense.               I remember telling a non-Christian, that st. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. And I wonder why I mentioned it. There's something about Western tradition, but I can't put my finger on it.

surprised

That more conspiracy theorists aren't using the name Corona as in crown to connect the royals to this virus. But of course, since the internet is nearly boundless, maybe YouTube is just keeping me away from such things. Or my laziness. Set time on Lee looking there.