Just sounds...
too much like prosperity gospel..?
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JELLYFISH AND A CLOWNFISH NAMED VOLTAIRE
BE CAREFUL!!! GOT A FRIEND WITH ME HAVING THE LUCKY FIN OF A CLOWNFISH NAMED VOLTAIRE! WE CAN BE VERBALLY AGGRESSIVE.
E = mc3: THE NEED FOR NEGATIVE THEOLOGY
FUSION CUISINE: JESUS, EINSTEIN, and MICKEY MOUSE + INTERNETS (E = mc3) = TAO ~g(ZERO the HERO)d~OG
About Me
- Simply Jim
- Hearing impaired (tendency to appear dumb, dense, and/or aloof), orthodox atheist (believe faith more harmful than doubt), self depreciating sense of humor (confident/not to be confused with low self esteem), ribald sense of humor (satorical/mocking when sensing Condescension), confirmed bachelor (my fate if not my choosing), freakish inclination (unpredictable non-traditionalist opinions), free spirit (nor conformist bohemian) Believe others have said it better...... "Jim! You can be SO SMART, but you can be SO DUMB!" "Jim! You make such a MARTYR of yourself." "He's a nice guy, but...." "You must be from up NORTH!" "You're such a DICK!" "You CRAZY!" "Where the HELL you from?" "Don't QUITE know how to take your personality." My favorite, "You have this... NEED... to be....HONEST!"
Friday, February 27, 2015
Dear Sister Rena and Our Current Pastor Rev. Fish: First United Methodist Church My Hometown of Prescott, Arkansas
Sister Rena,
Having already replied back to your first request asking me removing you from this email list of mine, obviously you do not have much of a brain I'm able working with; dumb, dumb, dumb spelled with a capital "C."
Just know this is known as "negative" theology; nothing more than a different way of saying the same thing.
From now on as the current secretary of First "UNITED" Methodist Church my hometown of Prescott, Arkansas raised the first eighteen years of my life, the most impressionable years of my life, with the help of the very same church my mother still a member; just be the good little secretary you are supposed to be and forward any and all emails receiving from me, as well as all those having already been received from me, to the current pastor of this church. Until you getting the one from me currently in the works addressed specifically for you to do with as you like, even deleting it without reading it if able getting it to you before another restraining order against me I will not care; it's still being uploaded to my blog for any and all curious enough reading it.
Just know this is known as "expressive art" therapy; bipolar meds you could call it.
Hell of a lot cheaper and far, far more effective, than the $20,000 a year out of my own pockets cost for just one of the two meds they are wanting only trying with me; actually nothing more than a list they just start at the top then working their way down. Not only is this twice the cost of my crystal meths addiction at it's peak, not about to take these legal "happy" drugs just so you guys can go back to having good time; not when this wasn't the kind of help I was asking for when having to be the one performing his own drug addiction intervention in the first place.
Sister Rena,
Again...
Until receiving this email addressed directly to you from me, no need me even hearing from anyone else associated with First "UNITED" Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas except our Rev. Fish; whom I'm still waiting for the answers to questions asked specifically of him regarding me and my mother within the last email from me addressed to the First "UNITED" Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas and not... you...Sister Rena!
One last thing Sister Rena, please do read the abbreviated version of the same email I just received from you and the all of the first one responding back to you; now uploaded to my blog by clicking on the following links:
Considering what such a cute wife my mother kept telling me about our Rev. Fish having, and about these two having an adolescent son severly autistic; I really am angry/bitter feeling my hands have been forced into doing this.
Not so much by the likes of our "S.C.C." such as you, but by what I'm believing I'm understanding now being the "ELITISTS", our "UNITED" Methodist with me here in Metro-Atlanta.
They don't care how educated a gay man from Arkansas; he's still a faggot much the same way as my family in Arkansas already believing about Obama; maybe you as well?
Sincerely yours,
James E. Avery, DVM
Thursday, February 26, 2015
GANDHI: YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH FOR THE WORLD?
DIDN'T HE DIE?
OR...
SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
was...
the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable"[3])—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,[4]—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father",[5] "papa"[5][6]) in India.
Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.
Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. Gandhi attempted to practise nonviolence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as the means to both self-purification and social protest.
Gandhi's vision of a free India based on religious pluralism, however, was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India.[7] Eventually, in August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire[7] was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan.[8] As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Eschewing the official celebration of independence in Delhi, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to provide solace. In the months following, he undertook several fasts unto death to promote religious harmony. The last of these, undertaken on 12 January 1948 at age 78,[9] also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.[9] Some Indians thought Gandhi was too accommodating.[9][10] Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest at point-blank range.[10]
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PROLIFIC LIVING: KILLING THE A.N.T.S?
www.prolificliving.com
To avoid risking your sobriety, you need to recognize the most dangerous,
combative ANTs.
Do you consistently focus on the negative aspects of situations and totally ignore the positive?
Do you over generalize by saying things like
“I’ll never be able to stay sober?”
These kinds of statements instil in your mind that you have no control and aren’t able to make changes.
And if you are someone who looks at everything as black and white or good or bad with nothing in between…
this just isn’t reality.
http://drugaddictionandalcoholism.blogspot.com/2013/12/killing-ants-automatic-negative-thoughts.html
"You wanna bet?"
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
FIRST UNITED METHODiST CHURCH MY HOMETOWN OF PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS: RENA THE CHURCH(?)SECRETARY NOT ONCE BUT TWICE!
DELETE MY EMAIL... I CARE NOTHING ABOUT READING ABOUT YOUR LIFE...YOU NEED MENTAL HELP ASAP!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Avery" <jeaverydvm87@att.net>
To: "GODHATESFAGS" <ChosenOfTheLordAndPrecious@wbcstuff.com>
Cc: "Kim Stewart" <kimsteam@hotmail.com>, "katrin lavell" <kattisan@comcast.net>, "Sarah Oh" <abbottanimal@bellsouth.net>, "K Inglesby" <singlesby@hotmail.com>, "Brad Phillips" <brad.phillips@vcamail.com>, "Marie Lance" <bustinash@hotmail.com>, "kristy baranik" <katnippr@hotmail.com>, "Medlock Bridge Animal Hospital" <mbah.vet@gmail.com>, "Eileen Parker" <eileenparker2003@yahoo.com>, "Alice Rogers" <alicer@glennumc.org>, owen@clairmontpres.org, "Sharon Hiers" <sharon@stbartsatlanta.org>, "Charlotte Shirley" <office@central-ucc.org>, "Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts" <bethlp@stmarkumc.org>, "Rev. Joshua M. Noblitt" <jnoblitt@stmarkumc.org>, "Clairmont Baptist Church" <fred@clairmonthills.org>, "Carol Pitts, Ph.D, LMFT, LPC" <cpitts@cccgeorgia.org>, "Mike Ross" <mike@mikeross.com>, "Rev. Josh Amerson" <josha@glennumc.org>, "Rev. Beveryly Elliot" <bev@stbartsatlanta.org>, "Rev. Susan Pinson" <spinson@glennumc.org>, "Rev. Blair Setnor" <blairs@glennumc.org>, "BJ Copelan" <bettyjoc@glennumc.org>, "Sara LaDew" <saral@glennumc.org>, "Mary Paris" <Maryp@glennumc.org>, "Rev. Joseph McBrayer" <jmcbray@gmail.com>, "Mary Hinkel" <hinkelfamily21380@earthlink.net>, "First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas" <Prescottfumc@centurylink.net>, "Patrick Noonan" <Patrick.Noonan@emory.edu>, "Dekalb County Code Enforcer" <codeenforce@co.dekalb.ga.us>, "John Bugge" <engjmb@emory.edu>, "Officer Lorena" <blorena@dekalbcountyga.gov>, "GAVOICE" <editor@thegavoice.com>, "Dyana Bagby" <dbagby@thegavoice.com>, "LSU Association" <info@lsualumni.org>, "Thomas Manns" <tmanns@emory.edu>, "John Harper" <john.c.harper@emory.edu>, "Michael Meeks" <mdmeeks@emory.edu>, "Deborah Schneider" <Dkschneider@dekalbcountyga.gov>, "Jeff Rader" <jrader@dekalbcountyga.gov>, "William "Mac" Thigpen III" <mac@stbartsatlanta.org>, "Mark Dorfman" <mark.dorfman@bluepearlvet.com>, "Laura Smallwood" <lsmallwood@sfvs.com>, "Fred Pitts" <Fred@clairmonthills.org>, "Rev. Jill Evans" <office@emorypresbyterian.org>, "Angel Ashe" <fastframe299@gmail.com>, "Lauren Brown" <lcbrown@dekalbcountyga.gov>, "David Glassco" <david@showmethishouse.com>, "J. Silver, Jr." <jsilver@dekalbcountyga.gov>, "J. Adams, Jr." <jladams@dekalbcountyga.gov>, "Captain Cheryl Elliott" <celliot@emory.edu>, "Bill Britt" <billb@prumc.org>, "Priyanka Krishnamurthy" <pkrish4@emory.edu>, "Lydia O'Neal" <lmoneal@emory.edu>, "trace carman" <tracecarman@hotmail.com>, "Britt Skarda" <bskarda@phumc.com>, "Christian Boone" <cboone@ajc.com>, "Neil Shulman" <nshulma@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 10:48:47 PM
Subject: Atten: Shirly Phelps-Roper
"You think our job is to win souls to Christ. All we do, by getting in their face and putting these signs in front of them and these plain words, is make what's already in their heart come out of their mouth."
Dear Shirley,
I am unable disagreeing with anything you have said within this quote I came across just recently being credited to you. And for some reason since, I'm wanting to meet you. I had already told myself before the Supreme Court issued their ruling with the Synder vs. Phelps case, that I was going to be completely okay with a ruling in your favor; although a (METHODIST) FAG myself. Just another word for homosexual. Having eleven children yourself, can just as easily label you a SOW. That's still a pig ain't it? Even a SWINE.
If right is right, wrong is wrong; then something not quite right, nor completely wrong, has to fall somewhere in between..? And something is telling me when looping into a circle what I thought was a line orignially, there is a chance, although more likely not than so, you and me might have a lot more in common than we both are wanting to believe; at least the way we are seen from the perspective of others.
Sincerely yours,
James E. Avery, DVM
p.s. Could you at least let me know that you have received this email. I'm a bit suspicious my emails are being tampered with. Just too quiet out there..? Feel free using what ever language you like. Will not offend.
Subject: Atten: Shirly Phelps-Roper
"You think our job is to win souls to Christ. All we do, by getting in their face and putting these signs in front of them and these plain words, is make what's already in their heart come out of their mouth."
Dear Shirley,
I am unable disagreeing with anything you have said within this quote I came across just recently being credited to you. And for some reason since, I'm wanting to meet you. I had already told myself before the Supreme Court issued their ruling with the Synder vs. Phelps case, that I was going to be completely okay with a ruling in your favor; although a (METHODIST) FAG myself. Just another word for homosexual. Having eleven children yourself, can just as easily label you a SOW. That's still a pig ain't it? Even a SWINE.
If right is right, wrong is wrong; then something not quite right, nor completely wrong, has to fall somewhere in between..? And something is telling me when looping into a circle what I thought was a line orignially, there is a chance, although more likely not than so, you and me might have a lot more in common than we both are wanting to believe; at least the way we are seen from the perspective of others.
Sincerely yours,
James E. Avery, DVM
p.s. Could you at least let me know that you have received this email. I'm a bit suspicious my emails are being tampered with. Just too quiet out there..? Feel free using what ever language you like. Will not offend.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Indifferent | Define Indifferent at Dictionary.com
indifferent
[in-dif-er-uh nt, -dif-ruh nt]
adjective
1. without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
2. having no bias, prejudice, or preference; impartial; disinterested.
3. neither good nor bad in character or quality; average; routine: an indifferent specimen.
4. not particularly good, important, etc.; unremarkable; unnotable: an indifferent success; an indifferent performance.
5. of only moderate amount, extent, etc.
6. not making a difference, or mattering, one way or the other.
7. immaterial or unimportant.
8. not essential or obligatory, as an observance.
9. making no difference or distinction, as between persons or things:
indifferent justice.
10. neutral in chemical, electric, or magnetic quality.
11. Biology. not differentiated or specialized, as cells or tissues.
noun
12. an ethically or morally indifferent act.
13. a person who is indifferent, especially in matters of religion or politics.
"At different degrees, everything is pathology,
except for indifference."
~(Emil Cioran)
"Every judgement of conscience,
be it right or wrong,
be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent,
is obligatory,
in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
~(Thomas Aquinas)
"Reality is a creation of our excesses."
~(Emil Cioran)~
Sunday, February 22, 2015
DEAR SHIRLEY: PLAIN WORDS?
"You think our job is to win souls to Christ. All we do, by getting in their face and putting these signs in front of them and these plain words, is make what's already in their heart come out of their mouth."
Dear Shirley,
I am unable disagreeing with anything you have said within this quote I came across just recently being credited to you. And for some reason since, I'm wanting to meet you. I had already told myself before the Supreme Court issued their ruling with the Synder vs. Phelps case, that I was going to be completely okay with a ruling in your favor; although a FAG myself. Just another word for homosexual. Having eleven children yourself, can just as easily label you a SOW. That's still a pig ain't it? Even a SWINE.
If right is right, wrong is wrong; then something not quite right, nor completely wrong, has to fall somewhere in between..? And something is telling me when looping into a circle what I thought was a line originally, there is a chance, although more likely not than so, you and me might have a lot more in common than we both are wanting to believe; at least the way we are seen from the perspective of others.
I am an avowed fifty-three year old self-avowed practicing homosexual currently living within the shadows of near-by Emory University. And during the course of my gay lifetime, which would be half my lifetime, I have had sex with over more than a thousand men.
Do not get me wrong. I am not bragging.
Just Simply Jim simply stating a fact as to how his life happened. But I do get a kick out of watching people predictably reacting to me telling them this. Even a crystal meths dealer of mine was appalled upon hearing me telling him this.
"I thought you had a boyfriend...?"
~(Simply Jim: Mature Methodist Crackhead)~
"I DO HAVE A BOYFRIEND!"
~(Drug Dealer)~
"Then you just count that one every day; wasn't bragging here."
~(Simply Jim: With Each Day I Love You More..?)~
Nor am I ashamed of my past.
You learn as you go. And I've learned a lot about the true nature of people, even about my very own family and tribe I thought I at least knew, the hard way that could not have been learned any other way. The same as you have. Through Constructive Confrontations as I like calling it.
I'm not expecting us finding much we agree upon; just thinking a chance the outcome might be somewhat surprising/amusing to the both of us.
Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper (born Shirley Lynn Phelps, October 31, 1957) is an American lawyer and political activist. She is best known as the former spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, an organization known for its highly publicized homophobic public protests conducted under the slogan "God Hates Fags." Phelps has been highly criticized and taunted by the media for her perceived religious fanaticism and poor parenting.
Phelps-Roper practices law for Phelps-Chartered Co., the Phelps family's law firm established by her father in 1964, and is currently licensed to practice before all Kansas courts up through the United States Supreme Court.
Besides her father Fred, Shirley Phelps-Roper has been the most active spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church and answers many of the e-mails sent to the church in a column called "Dear Shirley."
Phelps-Roper and the church have received media coverage for the group's aggressive preaching and controversial campaigns such as the picketing the funerals of AIDS victims with signs such as "God hates fags" and funeral processions for American soldiers killed in combat.
In 2014 it was reported that Phelps-Roper's duties as spokesperson for the Westboro Church had been reduced, and her authority transferred to an all-male board of elders.
Although I label myself a radical atheist as an adult, I'm okay with being labeled a Methodist Fag due to my first eighteen years raised with the help of First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas. As we must first be introduced to God before being aware of God, I have only recently realized that I have always been and forever always will be Methodist til the day I die; no less than Jesus ever stopped being a Jew.
Absolutely refuse being labeled a Christian as it tells you absolutely nothing about anyone.
Though the main purpose of the Priests Rape Boys website is to criticize Catholicism, the WBC also criticizes several mainline Protestant churches on the website, including Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Baptists. The WBC states that
...their preachers have shirked their responsibility to tell people the truth about sin, and instead lie to them about what the Lord their God doth require of them. If these lying, false prophets told people the truth about what God says regarding those who suffer sin upon their neighbor (Lev. 19:17–18), there wouldn't be any butts in the seats when the plate got passed. These preachers are not preachers of righteousness, they are teachers having itching ears (2Tim 4:3), and they absolutely count on the abysmal bible illiteracy of their parishioners ... "Priests rape boys" is indeed an air-tight, three word case against all of the mainline "christian" churches – their preachers and members, without exception. They are all going to Hell!
Although I do not completely agree with the over generalization with the above statement by your church, you did hit it on the nose with our Methodist. They do have "itching ears."
Because of a feud between me and members of Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church located on Emory Campus, I have recently conceptualized my suicide based on my theological orientation. Was wondering, would you and your church be interested in pre-emptively picketing the funeral of TAO~g(SIMPLY JIM: METHODIST FAG THE POLITICAL CATALYST)d~OG at his home.
I do own my home outright.
And there is a sidewalk running down my side of the street as well.
And you are most welcome to picket my home from this sidewalk passing through my property while your van parked in my driveway.
Or you could turn you attention elsewhere?
As the faculty and students are leaving Emory University during later part of the afternoons; can be a good bit of traffic passing by in front of my home. Sometimes backing up on Mason Mill Road down the hill in front of my home due to stoplight at the Clairmont intersection just up the hill.
Sincerely yours,
James E. Avery, DVM
p.s. Could you at least let me know that you have received this email. I'm a bit suspicious my emails are being tampered with. Just too quiet out there..? Feel free using what ever language you like. Will not offend.
ST. MARK UMC February 22, 2015: 1 Peter 3:18-22 and Mark 1:9-15
1 Peter 3:18-22
New International Version
(NIV)
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive,[a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.[b] It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
Mark 1:9-15
New International Version
(NIV)
The Baptism and Testing of Jesus
9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”12 At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, 13 and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted[a] by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.
Jesus Announces the Good News
14 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
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Only went to the Faith Seekers Bible Study Class this morning; them finishing up with the Book of Daniel.
"Rest with God..?"
or
"Enter into God's rest..?"
Did I hear Don Clarke right on this one..?
I swear!
It seems like everything out of that ones mouth irritates the fuck out of me!
"Don! I'm so sorry; but I'm going to have to give this church a bad review. I just attended my first (St. Mark UMC) Crystal Meths Anonymous..."
~(Simply Jim: Mature Methodist Crackhead)~
"Gooooooood."
~(Don Clarke: Methodist)~
"And it only confirmed what I already knew; not going to work."
~(Simply Jim: Radical Atheist The Methodist Fag)~
"Why are you so negative?"
~(Don Clarke: Methodist)~
"Negative theology...ever heard of that one? Just a different way of saying the same thing. 'If I speak to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak to you of heavenly thing?"
~(Simply Jim: One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~
"Sounds like you are preaching to me? I don't listen to people who preach to me..?"
~(Don Clarke: Methodist)~
"OBVIOUSLY NOT HERE...EITHER!"
~(Simply Jim: Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal)~
And before this incident was the very first time we met; me approaching him after having just witnessing my very first Faith Seekers Bible Study Class attending...in action. And this was purely by accident as I was originally there only to check out Rainbow Group.
"Although not using these words ( when boiling it down as the "Reverend Ass" of their Dr. Beth nothing but a "Catholic Fag Hag Paid a Methodist Administer to a Congregation Almost 80% Gay Men" "would call it), she basically told me to go fuck myself."
~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag The Political Catalyse)~
"I didn't need to hear that?"
~(Don Clarke: Methodist)~
So I googled it this evening..?
Hebrews 4:10
King James Version
(KJV)
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
And it came right up!
One of these day I will ask why this class is called the Faith Seekers Class? Do they not already have it? Why would they even want it?
Or is it the exact opposite? After all, it is a very small class.
Going to have to check out the much larger one next time; this Interactive Class..? But why do they not list this class in the church bulletin?
As they were coming out at the same time I was walking by the previous Sunday (arriving too late attending Faith Seekers bible study that morning), I stopped and asked a man wearing a bow tie what kind of class they were coming out of? Topics vary depending on the speakers; that day's topic being
"THE INTERVIEW."
In fact, proudly telling me it was him, the one , having just delivered that mornings presentation.
"THE INTERVIEW."
In fact, proudly telling me it was him, the one , having just delivered that mornings presentation.
"As in...JOB...hunting?"
I asked puzzled.
"Yes,"
he answers back, as if, now uncertain?
Daniel 1
King James Version
(KJV)
1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;
4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
How amusing.
Was already thinking Daniel from the Book of Daniel sounding a whole lot like someone being prepped (corrupted) for an interview..?
And then getting the job!
Wondering now what I've missed between between the first day they studied the Bookof Daniel and the last day studying the Book of Daniel..?
And then getting the job!
Wondering now what I've missed between between the first day they studied the Bookof Daniel and the last day studying the Book of Daniel..?
Christian everywhere as I observe them to be: behaving more like someone driving home from a Christmas party under the influence of alcohol. And they be thinking everything okay because they haven't yet been in an accident themselves; blinded to all the chain reaction accidents they are causing as they continue going along their merrily ways..?
Like I've already said to Rev. Josh Amerson the associate pastor at Glenn Memorial UMC that day we met at Ink and Elm:
"If you guys are going to continue insisting on believing in a God your way, then I have no choice but accepting people halfway around the world believing in God however way they are feeling it necessary, needing, to believe in a God."
And this is where Rev. Josh cocked his head slightly to one side, pursed his lips almost into a smile, both eyebrows and shoulders going up at the same time. Definitely looking as if he was perfectly okay with this/having just scored a point with ...me?
"Including seventy-two virgins waiting for nineteen dead pilots soon to be arriving,"
I quickly added without skipping a beat.
I quickly added without skipping a beat.
Boy did this knock that smirk of his back into it's proper place.
Anyway,
just didn't feel up to attending church service this morning, just getting to the parts differing from Sunday to Sunday; the sermons..?
Anyway,
just didn't feel up to attending church service this morning, just getting to the parts differing from Sunday to Sunday; the sermons..?
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