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I disqualify myself. Read this the other day on the... ONT, wasn't it? Or was it a Hat link?

Math on the blog?

Nein! Nein! Nein!

So, I caught up on comments and there's no nood?

Oh, wait... yes there is...

Read through the morning thread, including Vic news and other features like the ezdog diary.

Read and clicked through on several of the headlines above. Not caught up on comments here yet... but...

Know what sticks with me most? Myrna Loy. Whew. One of MP4's best pic selections. ICYMI:
http://goo.gl/eGZdFT

Howdy, y'all.

Bright, crispy-cool, and clear morning here in NE Oklahoma. Birds are flitting, pecking, chirping. Dog and a couple of the cats went out for a minute, but decided coming back in and snoozing was better. Coffee's brewing. That quiet, peaceful, hope-filled time of day before everything goes chaotically, catastrophically wrong!

Time to call in the dog and shut down the house for the night.

Good to have had a little time to hang out, without the blog equivalent of road rage.

Candy jokes?

Sweetart dreams, y'all.

That was quite a ... terrorific post, Maet. If I hadn't been assured by the SCoaMF that we'd won the war on terror, I might be concerned about the direction of things.

When the likes of the limp-wristed appeaser in chief, the Benghazi b!tch, or the other commie running for the Dem nomination think about bringing down the nation, do they imagine the world in flames and death on a large scale? If they did, would they care? I guess I shouldn't wonder, anyway, because, theirs is a process of "thought" alien to me, and impossible of my comprehension.

Czechmate, y'all!

Easter supper with the kids today - three parts joy, one part trial. "Grown up" is a relative thing.

Decorated eggs with permanent ink markers. Easier to get details than with dyes.

Maybe I'll just keep this nic.

Kooky hate crusaders One Million Moms have set their glassy sights on the new FOX drama "Lucifer," which they claim is "spiritually dangerous."
says someone at LGBTQNation (yeah, well, whatever)
http://bit.ly/1pE8VYU

Funny thing, last night I just watched the latest episode, "A Priest Walks Into a Bar." Actually praiseworthy - I had no idea they would go so far in promoting a spiritual outlook; the Priest's faith and sincerity really gets to the snarky Lucifer character like nothing has so far in the series.

It is true that the comic-book based "Lucifer" show has as little relation to the Iniquitous One as Hogan's Heroes had to do with real concentration camps in WW2, and for some ignorant folk (in either case) it might be confusing, but for what it is, the series has actually hooked me for its approach. Kinda fun as a sci-fi cop show.

Wharrgarbl!!

This is only book-related by tying in with the Gospels, but it's Easter, and later in the thread, and our host announced he was off to church, so... from a comment I made on the ONT:

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Documentary | Jesus and the Shroud of Turin
Daniel Bilodeau / YouTube 51:50
https://youtu.be/XTtDhvk_aw4

I've read about the Shroud for over 40 years, but learned a lot from this, including about biology (flowers & pollen on the Shroud), chemistry (limestone from the tomb), its history, and why the 1980s carbon dating "refutation" was invalid.

It's always tough to watch or read about analysis of the image on the Shroud. Uncontrollable dusty-eyed-ness for those of us who love Jesus.

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Here's an article about the Shroud & facecloth:
Two Old Cloths
Binky, steynian
http://bit.ly/1Rw4Pvp

...If these two relics are original and authentic, they reveal to us a snapshot of two related moments from Good Friday, Jerusalem, most likely on Friday, April 3, A.D. 33. They show us the image of a body which has been tortured, crucified and killed, but a body which did not decay, and which somehow vanished from the burial cloths leaving a very unusual image on the Shroud, by means yet unknown and undiscovered....

Happy Easter back atcha, FenelonSpoke.

Just noticed my hash contains verboten phrase i-m-g, so when quoted back it comes out 7___O - never saw that one before.

Sharkman: ...the four Gospels are by a factor of 100, by far the most well-sourced and proven documents we have from ancient days.

I believe it. Having been raised on snippets of Gospel in church growing up, I was astonished, really, when I finally read them all through for myself at, I think, 19.

As I've said before, I had two reactions: one, Oh, now I get why folks have been so excited about this for all these centuries; and, two, Why didn't anybody tell me about this? Which is funny-ironic, what with my being raised going to church every Sunday, and here in the buckle of the Bible belt with Billy Graham and Oral Roberts on the teevee.

I've read some apocrypha, and that gave me a good appreciation for the committee that selected only M,M,L,& J for the final cut.

That we have these books at all is... kind of a miracle.

Just finished the post and heading into comments.

Most memorable line from the post:

I'm just going to copy and paste the e-mail because I'm lazy...

Yup. Just another jam-packed lazy post today.

Morning, glorious fellow offspring of our Creator!

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Four books, written at four different times, by four different authors, each with a different purpose. Three of them obviously derive from a common source, either one of the canonicals, or more likely another source, lost to us, but each is unique testimony.

(Fundamentalists, look over there, a squirrel!) Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John don't agree with each other in every detail. They may contain some inaccuracies, and legends. They weren't all written for the same purpose. It's likely only Luke was actually written by the author to whom it's attributed, the rest derived by scribes from oral reports or perhaps notes made by Matthew, Mark, and John. Portions may have been lost, interpolated, mistranslated in repeated transcribing over the centuries.

These four short stories are the best records we've got - practically speaking, the only significant historical records - of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

The records themselves may be fuzzy in places, but the witness to Jesus is clear as can be. He shines through. His character, his wisdom, his nobility, and his sacrifice are blindingly clear in all of them, taken together. Like four different camera angles that project a 3-D image.

His claim to being the Son of God is crucial - it's what they killed him over. Then, there's his resurrection. Mary saw him in the Garden, ran as instructed to tell the dubious apostles. She became the first herald of his rising. Some of the boys were the first to question the veracity of her report. Wonderfully, we have the detailed witness of John, who himself ran to the empty tomb. Even the sending of the two brothers to testify to the apostles - straight-up the style Jesus displayed.

The resurrection is not legend, not vague. This is history. That was my impression when I first read them, over forty years ago. It's still my take on those books. The reader is then left to live with that astonishing knowledge.

Well, dang. Just gave Spirit, the old gray female kitty, a dose of medicine. Didn't mind the bit spilled on my pantsleg. But, when she shook her head and some sprayed in my eye, that was a bit much.

Washed my face & flushed my eyes, but I think that's my cue to close the eyes for the night.

Good night, y'all.

Reading upthread:

Mike Hammer #305 Since you probably haven't heard it this year, Gene Autry singing 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail'

http://preview.tinyurl.com/guon33a

Makes plowing through the upthread comments totally worth it

Reading upthread:

mummified ant stuck to the bottom of the glass, generating foam.

Heh.

Humor levels seem to fall off sharply as I approach #200...

Home, shoes kicked off. Working on the rest. Need to pour another glass of vino.

I always seem to get home right after irongrampa logs off. I like that dude.

Puddleglum: Jesus has Risen!!

"He is risen indeed!" (Actually more appropriate response tomorrow, but whatever.)

English words: I've been reading Washington Irving's Sketch Book (slowly) and keeping a notepad nearby to jot down words that are archaic, or (more often) unusual usage or forms. Dozens of words so far. The language was rich but becoming impoverished.

Hi again.

Here's what Milady and I were watching instead of my reading all your lovely comments tonight:

Documentary | Jesus and the Shroud of Turin
Daniel Bilodeau / YouTube 51:50
https://youtu.be/XTtDhvk_aw4

I've read about the Shroud for over 40 years, but learned a lot from this, including about biology (flowers & pollen on the Shroud), chemistry (limestone from the tomb), its history, and why the 1980s carbon dating "refutation" was invalid.

It's always tough to watch or read about analysis of the image on the Shroud. Uncontrollable dusty-eyed-ness for those of us who love Jesus.

♥

Here's an article about the Shroud & facecloth:
Two Old Cloths
Binky, steynian
http://bit.ly/1Rw4Pvp

...If these two relics are original and authentic, they reveal to us a snapshot of two related moments from Good Friday, Jerusalem, most likely on Friday, April 3, A.D. 33. They show us the image of a body which has been tortured, crucified and killed, but a body which did not decay, and which somehow vanished from the burial cloths leaving a very unusual image on the Shroud, by means yet unknown and undiscovered.,,,

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Here's what the Urantia Book "revelation" has to say about the method of dissolution of Jesus' body, which - regardless of what anyone thinks about the "authenticity" of the Urantia Book - is an utterly consistent explanation for the "inexplicable" method of the Shroud image (by angelic request, the "near-instantaneous dissolution" of Jesus' mortal remains):
http://bit.ly/1Rw4Pvp

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Capriciously, here's Jerusalem Report, a mindful cartoon webwork from 2013, imagining reporting on miraculous events one week in Jerusalem, in a kind of steampunk 1st Century, based very loosely on the UB.

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Finally, a thought to consider.

There were maybe one and a half million Jewish pilgrims from all over the Roman Empire and Mesopotamia, in Jerusalem that week, many of whom would return home with tales of the one who was crucified but rose again.

Pretty good politics, that timing.

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tl;dr: Love one another.

* raises hand *

"Present!"

But eating dinner and watching some video. You'll wait for me, right?

BwaW: You were fkn rude and now you are too stupid to admit it. I'm done with you.

Well, I'd ask why you thought my asking was rude, but if you're done with me, no point to it. Maybe someone else can tell me, if anyone sees it? I don't.

After all, the basic answer to my question, "Is there some reason you posted the YouToob link" was, simply, yes, a good reason, and I thank you again for pointing it out, and again I'm sorry for how you took my asking, and took my reply after that. No offense taken or meant on my part.