JELLYFISH AND A CLOWNFISH NAMED VOLTAIRE

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

E = mc3: THE NEED FOR NEGATIVE THEOLOGY
FUSION CUISINE: JESUS, EINSTEIN, and MICKEY MOUSE + INTERNETS (E = mc3) = TAO ~g(ZERO the HERO)d~OG

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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!"

Monday, April 27, 2015

Emory Wesley Fellowship: Rev. Joseph McBrayer, Director and Campus Minister


Rev. Joseph McBrayer,
Director & Campus Minister

I’m beginning my 6th year as the United Methodist Campus Minister at Emory University. I’m a provisional deacon in the North Ga UMC. I have a Forestry Degree from Auburn University, an MDiv from Candler School of Theology, and am working on a Doctor of Ministry at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. I enjoy playing guitar/singing, hiking, soccer, frisbee, Macintosh computers, technology, photography/video, asking questions, AND learning.

My wife & I have lived near Emory for the past 8 years. She’s a social worker and does amazing work with Refugees here in Atlanta and we are proud parents to a beautiful baby girl. I write about Music, Media, Technology, & Theology at http://jmcbray.wordpress.com. You can find me on Facebook, follow me on twitter @jmcbray, email me at jmcbray@gmail.com, call 404.727.6278 (office), or drop by my office.










UNITED ME CAMPUS

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Retirement Reception for Betty Jo Copelan BJ has faithfully served Glenn for sixteen years as the Church Business Administrator. She will retire on April 30 and the Staff Parish Relations Committee would like to provide members an opportunity to show their gratitude and appreciation for BJ’s service. A reception will be held on Wednesday, April 29, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the Parlor. All are welcome to drop-in with well wishes. If you would like to make a Love Offering to BJ, please send your gifts to Mary Paris by April 25 with “Gift for BJ” on the “for” line of your check.                        

Saturday, April 25, 2015

The Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Economics of Morality, By Dillon Bowen | Practical Ethics

The Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Economics of Morality, By Dillon Bowen | Practical Ethics: To illustrate this point, try adding these two groups of dots:


Unless you’re an autistic savant, you probably can’t do it without counting each one individually. This is because the brain has limited capacity to represent quantity concretely. We can hold only about seven objects in working memory at a time. Now try the equivalent math problem where the dots are represented abstractly as Arabic numerals:

100 + 100

Easy.

Just as symbolic representations of quantity allow us to do math with numbers greater than 7, learning to represent suffering and happiness symbolically will allow us to better care about people who live beyond our borders and beyond our lifetimes. We are probably all familiar with the received wisdom that people ought to be treated as individuals, not statistics. I think this ‘wisdom’ is fundamentally wrong. Our brains simply lack the capacity to empathize with every individual in the world. If we are to properly care about everyone, we need to think of human well-being as a statistical measure of happiness and suffering.

We don’t need to be able to intuitively conceptualize large quantities of things in order to do math, and we don’t need to be able to empathize with the suffering of large quantities of people in order to care about them. Instead of understanding the pain of individuals, we should make an effort to understand abstractly the pain of the masses. This is the key to discovering and overcoming our moral biases. We need to recognize the immense amount of suffering in the world today, as well as the vast potential for happiness in the future, and take it as our mission to make the world as happy a place as it can possibly be.






Friday, April 24, 2015

Flagging dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia











   Flagging dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The art of flagging dance, often called flag spinning, flag dancing, or rag spinning, but more commonly referred to as flagging, is the undulation, spinning and waving of flags in a rhythmic fashion to music. Practitioners of this form of performance art and dance are usually referred to as "flaggers" and "flag dancers".

The added weights to the otherwise loose fabric made it possible for the new flaggers to spin and move the fabric through the air in ways similar to fan dancing, but with the added maneuverability of a very flexible material. Flags used by these new flaggers can be of almost any fabric, but silk, organza and lamé are preponderant, with silk being the most favored. Silk flags are usually dyed in vibrant, ultraviolet fluorescent colors, creating an almost hypnotic spectacle when waved rhythmically to music.

Note that this type of flagging, while similar, is distinct from the waving of flags on poles or rods as one would encounter in a color guard unit of a high school or in the military.

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EMORY UNIVERSITY: SEASONED PROFESSIONAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS..?





Creamed eggs on toast is a breakfast dish in the United States.[1] It consists of toast or biscuits covered in a gravy[2] made from bechamel sauce and chopped hard-boiled eggs. The gravy is often flavored with various seasonings, such as black pepper, garlic powder, celery salt, Worcestershire sauce, sherry, chopped parsley and/or chopped chives. The Joy of Cooking recommends making the bechamel with 1⁄2 cream and 1⁄2 chicken stock and adding capers or chopped pickle.[3] As with many other dishes covered in light-colored sauce, a sprinkle of paprika or cayenne is often added as decoration.

The dish is often used as a way to use up leftovers, common additions include chopped ham, veal, chicken, lobster, cooked asparagus and peas.[4]

Variations include Eggs Goldenrod, made by reserving the yolks and sprinkling them over the dish after the cream sauce has been poured on the toast,[5] and Eggs à la Bechamel, substituting croutons fried in butter for the toast and poached or soft boiled eggs for the hard-boiled eggs.[6] In this case, the cooked eggs are placed on the croutons and the sauce poured over both.

In many families this dish has become a traditional Easter brunch fare. The tradition starts with everyone donating two eggs from their basket. Many times the white gravy will have remnants of pink or blue or green from the colored eggs which will add to this festive dish. The recipe was first discovered in Fanny Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book in 1896.


  Snowballing or snowdropping[1] is the human sexual practice in which one person takes someone else's semen into his or her mouth and then passes it to the mouth of the other, usually through kissing.[2][3][4][5]
The term was originally used only by gay and bisexual men.[1] Researchers who surveyed over 1,200 gay or bisexual men at New York LGBT community events in 2004 found that around 20% said they had engaged in snowballing at least once.[6] In heterosexual couples, a woman who has performed fellatio may afterwards return the semen to her partner's mouth, mixed with saliva; the couple or other partners may then exchange the fluid several times, causing its volume to increase (hence "snowballing").[4][5] Many heterosexual men are uncomfortable with the practice.[4][5]


A somewhat similar practice in heterosexual pornography is cum swapping, in which a woman passes semen from her mouth into that of another woman.





Another Wagner swings into Emory
Debbie Wagner owes her marriage to creamed eggs.

That was part of the menu at Bob and Bernice Wagner's house on Easter Monday, 1970. Their middle son Jim, a high school junior, wasn't such a big fan of the dish, so he asked his older brother Rob if he could accompany him out to dinner that night. Rob had a date with the girl he was seeing, Kathy Kelley.

Rob agreed, but on one condition: That he could invite Kathy's younger sister, Debbie, a sophomore. That double date at a Silver Spring, Md., pizza parlor was Jim Wagner and Debbie Kelley's first. They continued throughout high school--nights out after football games, junior and senior proms, and countless more.

"Then I followed him to college," said the former Debbie Kelley, who married Jim on July 31, 1976, two months after she graduated from the University of Delaware. Jim graduated in 1975.

"But if my children did something like that ...." She didn't finish the thought as her voice trailed off into laughter. Debbie laughs easily and positive energy permeates everything she says, especially when she discusses her family. Obviously the Wagners' marriage is based on more than creamed eggs--vibrant personalities, devotion to faith and family, and a strong sense of partnership--although every relationship needs a catalyst.

EMORY REPORT

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When first time reading the Emory Report about the President of Emory's wife,
I swear,
though it sounded as if "Our Little Debbie Snack cakes" was snowballing our James!

Wasn't until later, when coming across the same article again, that I learned it was his mother instead.

That recipe sure sounds like an insider's joke our women are playing back on our menfolks;  same as I'm already thinking, when hearing, about the "seventy-two virgins" waiting for "nineteen dead pilots" soon to be arriving.

The Muslim women have got to be in on this joke; maybe even the ones having thought it up...first?  

Americans, as I now know them to be, certainly are stupid enough falling for it!  

What Muslim man would be stupid...ENOUGH... risking losing their perpetual erections 
PREMATURELY
at 
the hands of a pissed off Muslim woman... 
THEIR MOTHERS?!

LOL

As an afterthought,  
were these nineteen dead pilots actually to be met by seventy-two virgins waiting for them when arriving; 
what if, even when in all her rejuvenated youthfulness, all seventy-two looks exactly like their...
MOTHERS?!

What does one do with a perpetual erection in a situation like this?


Certainly can't be seen out in public with it..?








Would you still do her?