TTB.org- Cooking and the Church

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? 

The Targeting of Conspiracy Research - The David Icke Videocast

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.

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.

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?

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....

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? 

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.

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.