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?