Oh.  I see.  Nope, I'll definitely steer clear of it.  Enough of that going on all around me.  Why pay the ticket price when you can see it for real all around?

   

   

   

Sure sorry to hear about your friend, Shemaya.

Are you saying her visit to a Wicca website might have led to her suicide?

Suicide is not covered in life-insurance policies.

It IS the taking of a life (your own).  So, in a sense, it IS murder.

   

If Satan could have his way, don't you think he'd want us all to kill ourselves?

And if it is something Satan wants, wouldn't that mean it's anti-God?

'Sure seems so to me.

Plus, isn't suicide a lack of faith, in God?  How do I know He isn't about to literally intervene?

And, isn't that sort of the lesson in that Jimmy Stewart film, "It's a Wonderful Life"?  Wasn't Bailey there about to jump, when Clarence the angel beats him to it?  And he ends up saving the angel, instead of killing himself?

On the other hand, accounts I've read of Pearl Harbor, say a sailor on one of the sinking ships, covered in fuel oil and burning alive, begged comrades to kill him......

   

[THAT YOU CAN USE]

This is for trivia THAT YOU CAN USE(please note the emphasis -  )


For instance, in the current trend to outlaw from public places any mention of God, I noticed in this week's U.S. News magazine, in the column by John Leo, that...


"...'goodbye' evolved from 'God be with you'"

So that means we'll have to outlaw people from saying "Goodbye" in public places.  


 

hehe.  Yeah, one of those holidays (known as pssst - *Christmas*).  


   


So, what's Spanglish 'bout; has it been out long?

Thank you, Durango!

Nice thoughts, over coffee.  

What about a 12-year old?



   


   (just kidding)  

   

A new soldier is about to make his first parachute jump.

"After you jump, count to ten and yank the cord," says the instructor.  "If your chute doesn't open, yank the second cord.  That's your emergency chute.

"When you land, a truck'll be by to pick you up."

The time came to jump.  "Alright, jump!"

Out sails the soldier, down, down down, counting to ten. He yanks on the cord.  Nothing happens.

He yanks on the second cord.  Nothing happens.

He says to himself, "Oh, I guess this means the truck won't be there either."


   

Dat mean ole penguin.

Pushing his buddy in like dat.


   


(Hey gang, I like the way DW spells transfer - transfure!! -- hehe, dats a real knee-slapper!)

   

     

Is dat sincereheart??    


She looks postively bored.  


   

*sigh*  another new face at bible study.


   

I'm not sure how planning and working towards a career shows a lack of faith in Jesus.

Hmm.  Maybe.

But I was just thinking all of the realities that one is looking at in terms of the Bible, are "head" realities.

That is, everything that the Bible talks about, OT or NT, concerns how we think.

Not what we think.

Careers, skills and professions, are all about "what" we think - how much do you know, and how you apply what you know.

But aren't necessarily at all about how one thinks.

The Bible, and I think now, all of what Jesus teaches, and the NT, is about how we think.

That's why I say there are different realities.

That's where in your statement is the departure:

 The reality is that if you want to be a doctor or teacher (or any other profession requiring a college degree), you have to plan and work towards a goal.  

You say there is "...the reality", implying one reality.

And it's treated de facto, a foregone conclusion, ipso facto, or, "the fact speaks for itself".

When in truth it's only one reality.

Yes, it addresses the tangible, physical world in which we live - a linear approach.  If you want to heal an open wound, you go through the  linear steps of learning how to suture a wound.

All of man's learning is linear.  A "career" is linear.  You advance in it, one step at a time, linearly.

Faith in Jesus Christ bypasses all of that.  Or, rather, it doesn't even get to it in the first place.

That's why Jesus says to complete strangers, "Follow me".  And fishermen leave their livlihood, their business, their "careers", spontaneously.

Because following Jesus is non-linear.  There is no step-by-step sequence.  

That's the "liberty" (for freedom Christ has set you free...Galatians 5:1) we have in Christ Jesus.

I'm not saying that it's wrong.

I don't think Jesus was saying it's wrong to be a fisherman.

Or that it was wrong to make a business of fishing.

I'm pointing out differences, though, perhaps.

I was just thinking how empty all the news is, though.


And our reactions to it.

We hear "news"; if it's relevant to us, like the bitterly cold temperatures cris refers to(it was seven below zero where I live), then we respond accordingly - if we can.  In my case I minimize going out; if I do, I wear extra clothes, etc.

But all news is only concerned with how we react to it.  It doesn't do anything for us.  All it does is garner a reaction.

The good news of faith in Jesus is very different.

Golf.

Not playing it.

Watching it.

I love to watch golf - on tv.

It's very meditative.