Goodnight, sweetheart.

(sob)

no
happy trails till we meet again

I dislike hit counters and stats shit and search engines. I vi thru my logs, up close and personal, using intuition and generalization grounded in quick and dirty regex searches.

I generally ignore my logs, although I did look at rhe songs when I had them posted (and was amazed that some had been downloaded *20* times - more are on the way, I'm sure, really).

I also have entered 'the trap' more than once, 'cuz it makes me smile.

As previously discussed in these pages, logs and stats are part of the fun for me. But mostly it's all getting less and less fun, all of it, in a feet-per-second-per-second accelerating freefall.

Just one thing I gotta know: Who is that using Shaw Cable? I'm stymied.

keep working..we like your stuff.
and the shaw cable...could be us up in b.c.

Ahem:
WordWeb thesaurus/dictionary aside:
  Noun: monstrance

Wait. I'm wrong. receptacle = vessel

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This
is
a
TRAP!

Trap?

No, just a little commentary on the spottiness and overall banality of my entries here.

Then again, you might be on to something...

Better the banality of everyday existence than shrill & constant harping on current events.

This all reminds me of a poem.

One last parting shot (which I fully expect to be removed or edited). I thank the mysterious person who complimented me on my leaving my name, however, they forgot to leave theirs (Luke 6: 41-42) so I will just have to call her, "Missy" (for mysterious). Missy, I think you meant to say "His mind is already made up, and he obviously doesn't have an understanding of how sinister things can be for a woman underneath his ***misspelled**** (Don't you mean misplaced, Missy?) fundamentalist-christian platitudes."

Since you are the expert on the Scriptures after your 12 years please explain why you couldn't realize that what your teachers were teaching and what was written in the Scriptures were two different things (Acts 17:10-11)? I saw people who slept through 4 years of school and now those people are called doctors. Just because you put in your time doesn't mean you know anything about the Scriptures.

You had your opportunity to explain "the sinister" to me but instead you took us on a wild goose chase trying to sound profound. May have fooled the superficial people who would believe that "Fascinating Womanhood" (both for and against) was straight out of the Scriptures.

By the way these are not my doctrines but God's doctrines. The Scriptures talk about the proper hierachy for men and women. It goes as such: God ( the head), Christ, man and then woman ( 1 Corinthians 11:3). Now you understand why the feminists hate God and godly men because God has seen fit to place women under the charge of godly men, not the effeminate men or women haters that prey on the women of today.
I guess if you would rather have the ungodly men then don't complain how they treat/abuse you. You could seek a godly husband. God commands His godly men to honor their wives: You husbands likewise, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker vessel, since she is a woman; grant her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7

If you would read the Scriptures you would see that 99% of the churches (including your PRIVATE school) don't match the definition of Christianity. Since you didn't understand the Scriptures, then you wouldn't be able to spot the fakes. That is why they have experts appraise diamonds because they know and understand diamonds and hence can determine which is valuble and which is fake. The imposters of Christianity are the ones who steal from their parish, are adulterers, child molesters or just the plain liars about the Scriptures (1 Cor 6: 9-11). Now you know why Missy is seeking foreign gods because the fakes taught nothing about the One True God. That is why Missy is so unhappy in life and her relationships with men. The more she follows the doctrines of men the more unhappy she becomes. Yet pride prevents her from admitting her error and seeking God. You see Missy worships the false god "I". "I" is found at the beginning of idol and in the middle of pride.

Finally, I would like to thank Missy for the blessing. What blessing you ask? The blessing from painting me with the same brush as the fakes:
Blessed are you when men hate you, and osctracize you, and cast insults at you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man. Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets. Luke 6: 22-23

These words will come to mind at the time of your next broken relationship.

So ends the lesson (final posting) from an unworthy servant of the One True God,

Terry Dean, Nemmers

Your comments won't be removed or edited, as you seemed to hope they would be. I think that there's always going to be plenty that offends you enough to fuel the fires of your smug self-satisfaction, no matter how narrowly blindered your field of vision is. You don't need to bait me so crassly.

Me? I'm the mysterious person you called "Missy." I'm the person you said is "so unhappy in life and her relationships with men." This is my website - which is why I sign my comments as "your host" - and I did forget to dispense with that jocular tradition and use my name... which is not a secret. My name is Mark Piepkorn; same last name as renowned Christian scholar Carl Piepkorn. No relation, though... it's just the supreme being showing you a little of that famous sense of humor. And for what it's worth, I'm happily married to a woman I don't subjugate.

Although "misplaced" is also apropos, as you suggest, I wrote "misspelled" and that's what I meant. You read the bible literally; try giving me the same courtesy. And try using a spellchecker, too; it's easy, and maybe it'll help the people you're trying to reach take you a little more seriously.

You might also try to tone down your heavy-handed self-righteousness. You were utterly off base about me, yet you spoke with complete conviction... as if you knew everything about me, when in fact your most basic assumptions were entirely wrong. You fell terribly short in that particular leap of faith. In the face of such egregious error, why would anyone think you know what you're talking about on any topic?

You wrote, about me: "Since you are the expert on the Scriptures..." Uh-uh. Unlike you, I'm not trying to pass myself off as an expert. I was relating the primary basis of my relevant experience and knowledge. And I'm not trying to say that I know the mind of anybody's god, as you claim you do by your words. That absolutely stuns me. Doesn't that make you that very thing? Is that what you think you are? God?

How many sects of Christianity are there? How many of them base their beliefs on the Christian bible? How is it that you presume to have a stronger link to the mind and heart of divinity than anybody else? Why do you think that you're in a position to judge others - particularly when it's expressly forbidden by your faith?

You wrote, "If you would read the Scriptures you would see that 99% of the churches (including your PRIVATE school) don't match the definition of Christianity."

Bad news, Terry: you haven't done anything to show me that you match the definition of Christianity, either.

Terry wrote, "You see Missy worships the false god 'I'. 'I' is found at the beginning of idol and in the middle of pride." Terry's point, hardly worthy of ridicule to begin with, is quickly obscured when it's noted that "I" is also the first letter in the transliteration of the name Jehova from its original Hebrew. Holy men of God spake and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. Some translators, though, use JHVH, while still others use YHVH.

Uh-oh... you mean the Christian bible wasn't originally written in English? You mean to tell me it was written by about 50 different people over more than 1500 years (starting more than a thousand years before the Christian era) in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek? That there's only one original biblical book actually extant, and biblical scholars acknowledge that some English-language bibles are translations of translations of revisions of revisions of revisions of material often rooted in centuries-old oral tradition? Well, good thing there's never been any errors in any of those goings-on. Uh-oh, you mean there's been errors in translations? Well, that doesn't mean anything because it's not the words on the page that are important, it's the... uh-oh, that negates just about everything Terry's said. Nuts.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracise you, and cast insults at you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

Clearly this exchange of sexism ideas is a personal thing. We should leave Jesus out of it, so to speak; at least as an excuse, or a weapon.

KV - same private schools as Mark, different outcome; same Bible as Terry, different assumptions. Trust me, everything can be disproven, everybody's everything is a lie. We are 100% fallible. We are mules and the truth is our carrot and the string on the carrot is yellow yarn tied to the stick in the Master's hand. Master holds no whip, only The Truth On A Stick. It is like the invisible dog that was so popular back in a day. The carrot is not to deceive or manipulate or tease; it's just that we "can't handle the truth." It is held out so we can see it, so we at least know it's there. And whether we're told or we figure it out on our own, we know the flame in the middle of the idea of the truth is love.

Maybe you think, "What's wrong with you, you passive motherf___er?"
Maybe that reserves a place for me in the pleasant hereafter, maybe not; it-is-not-for-me-to-say.

I do not beat my wife, but I am more often than not, I think, in little ways, unpleasant. I'll try harder.

Love,
Dazy Po

But, why? Why, when you find biology so distasteful?

A change of heart?