G&L

 https://www.crossway.org/articles/a-tender-friend-is-knocking-at-the-door-and-we-only-have-one-job/?utm_source=Crossway+Marketing&utm_campaign=1dc277088f-20251205+Gen-ATenderFriendIsKnockingattheDoor&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-1dc277088f-528178872&mc_cid=1dc277088f&mc_eid=80232d4943

Was thinking I could find some information here.  Like, what am I lacking to feel closer to God and a not-quite-so-burdensome way of attaining it.  This article is of no help.  It says my "one job" is to "let" Him be my friend.  Wtfh does that mean???

Gty makes a valid point.  The Bible makes it very clear that the job of a Christian is to repent and believe.  I have so much shit covering my heart from 35+/- years of intense lust that I have no business seeking an easier/easy way out of it.

Prayer like Ezra's

 In my BSF meeting last night we went over Ezra chapters 9 and 10.  The prayer of Ezra in chapter 10 I felt was rather relatable.

I decided to adapt it for the time we live in.

O, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for my iniquities have risen higher than my head, and my guilt has mounted up to the heavens. From days of old to this day man has been in great guilt. And for such trespasses as mine, men have been given into the hands of kings, to the slaughter, to captivity, to chaos, and unto utter shame.

But Your favor has been shown by the ransom paid by Jesus The Christ, to leave mankind a remnant and to give peace, a secure hold within Your holiness, that You may brighten eyes and grant reviving from slavery.

May I thirst for repentance, and find refuge in Your salvation.

Bulletproof heart

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22574570-unoffendable

This is such BS.  I know I've never felt angry with perfect wisdom and measure, and **harboring** anger is never righteous, but I'm pretty sure obtaining a bulletproof heart is just not going to happen.  It's a fruitless pursuit.  The Bible never says never be angry.  It does say "No murdering", but the original old testament readers of that text would not have equated being angry with murder.  The sentencing God issues for murder in the ot -- the death penalty -- does not carry over to people who call their fellow kinsman "fool".  The point Jesus was making in Matthew ch5 about murder/anger was not that they are the same thing.  The point He was making is that WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES.  Obviously, **actual** bloodshed is far worse than calling a fellow churchgoer a heathen. After the "beatitudes", Jesus is telling people about the kind of righteousness they should be thirsty and hungry for.  Jesus will give you peace that overcomes anger in accordance with your hunger for it, but getting angry for a moment or two is not something we need to eradicate.  

"Get angry

but do not sin."

If you can't keep from falsely accusing your adversary or saying stupid shit, or flying off the handle, then obviously you really should just not get angry if there's anything you can do to help it.  But I know there's times I've gotten angry and I dealt with it appropriately.  Maybe not with utter perfection.  Maybe if I ever get a grip on my idolatry, gluttony and laziness etc, I might care more about at least coming closer to perfection in the ways I deal with my anger but I am not going to be unoffendable.  I'm not specifically interested in trying to be offended, but I don't know how a person living on this planet is even legally allowed to pursue being unofendedable and actually succeeding.  If David had committed to that, then Nathan's analogy about David's own sin would have been useless.  And if you look at the text, Nathan wasn't just some neutral party in the whole thing either. 

Such large laughs, such small repetition

 I really appreciate a good laugh.  There's a lot of movies I could have over flooding living quarters with just out of gratitude for the laughs they provide.

Death At A Funeral 2005. If you haven't seen this, maybe give it a try.  It doesn't seem like it was very well received by audiences.  I thought it was a blast.  Ymmv

Spy 2016 I had fairly high hopes for GHOSTBUSTERS after seeing this feature from Paul Feig.  Unfortunately the GB remake recalled an earlier movie from Feig-- The Heat.  This movie was comedy dynamite tho.  

Vacation 2016 - Very raunchy, so my peeps from church might want to steer clear of it...  Funny is funny tho (imo).

Liar Liar 1997 it seems like just about everyone by now has seen this movie.  I've just about over-watched it despite it having been years since I last saw it.

Dirty Work 1997 I almost forgot about this one.  This is just all out gonzo funny.  

Drawing a blank.  There's probably at least a few more I could include here.  Groundhog Day is more of a philosophical feel-good movie than a riotous comedy.  What About Bob was similar even tho it was a little more eerie. 

I might update this in a few hours....or something... Might..

AS-IS

I keep seeing people use this phrase to describe their merchandise on sites like eBay.  And I keep having to wonder WHAT the heck is the point in saying that?  How ELSE would you sell an item??  As it ISN'T?  ???

Mind your scrimulous cotton candy!

 https://genius.com/Nirvana-beeswax-lyrics#about

This song always cracks me up.  I can't make out half of what he sang, but the phrase "cotton candy" is intelligible enough...   It always sounds to my ears like he was referencing some kind of deranged anthromorphed cotton candy.  The actual lyrics are not much less disturbing...

budgeting awaah!

 Really unfortunate that so many people who are actually dealing with the pressures of the labor market can barely if at all afford to live.

That being said, I have had some difficulty getting my financials straightened out.
I have a ton of debt I'm really hoping I can get straightened out in December.  And then, aside from the mountain of credit card debt I absent mindedly accumulated ---     ://        -----      I'll be on my way to a fresh start -- hopefully -- in January.  It's nice to have something tangible to look forward to as well.

Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999) is being re-released on Blu ray this coming January.  It came out in a limited edition pack about a year ago, and boy was it limited.  It's like $100 to buy it used.  Thing is, I bought it, and the cover art just looks stupid.  I have it on DVD and the cover art is pitch perfect.  This time Paramount is using the original cover-art instead of this pink purply design they used with the first blu ray issuance.  So it'll be cool to have that.  It's one of my favorite movies, probably because it resonates with how I'd feel just working at Kroger or whatever....  Feeling like the life is being sucked out of me, just constantly approaching a black hole.  I don't know what the deal with that is.  I guess I'm just spoiled.  That small amount of time of being a 4y/o was too sweet to give up.  I guess.  I don't know how to explain it.

Anyway...
The Blu ray (it's actually a 4K disc, but whatever) is $33 with shipping.  And then I like to pay for Pandora because I can get access to full length albums that I don't actually have on CD yet/anymore....   And their custom radio feature is unparallelled.  Always good to show support for a job well done.  And it's only $11/mo.  1 CD costs more than that (!)  And I'd like to continue my HBO Max subscription.  It's a good time to be a subscriber.  They've got several things they've released recently and then there's more otw.
Beyond that, I'll have $30 that I don't have anything I specially NEED to do anything with, although I suppose I could start chipping away at the couple thousand dollars of debt I've amassed from my gelatinous mass of credit card usage.... :/  I think it'd be better spent giving to God's work.  Probably just give to Samaritan's Purse, because they do the work of The Salvation Army and Bible translators simultaneously in a variety of ways.

frrrr

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=6c980af49addddf3431148719fa2dc7bf889e4572d807098d1aa085d3200eb0aJmltdHM9MTc2MzA3ODQwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=17576d6e-2b11-6c93-278a-7bcf2a3c6de4&psq=what+does+it+mean+for+a+tongue+to+bid+someone+thence+depart%3f&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9ncmFjZWZvcnRoZW1hc3Nlcy5vcmcvMjAxNi8wOS8xMy9uby10b25ndWUtY2FuLWJpZC1tZS10aGVuY2UtZGVwYXJ0Lw

"Why is this important as we go through Mark’s gospel? I think this hymn especially, gives us a perspective on who Jesus is and why Mark has as an overriding theme, Jesus, The Son Of God."

How about just read Mark?  If you want a perspective of Jesus, wouldn't Jesus' words be sufficient?

I found this while looking up what "No tongue can bid me thence depart" means.  What the hell does "bid thence depart" mean?  There's nothing glorious about speaking gobbleygook. Doesn't mean squat that it USED TO NOT be gobblegook.  NO TONGUE SPEAKS LIKE THAT.  The past is dead.  Not even its' memories remain.  Nobody from 1863 is alive today.  That has been the case for over half a century.  Unless we're all going to be speaking gibberish in Heaven, speaking Secret Handshake English is in no way glorious, and, in fact, it is the exact opposite.  Someone who's never been to church walks in the door, he has to practically learn a new language, HOW is that necessary or beneficial???

This is actually a rather small issue for the church at large to address.  There's bigger ones.  But I don't think anything but The Holy Spirit Himself can change the bigger issues.  And I don't think I have enough of The Spirit indwelling in me to really say anything of note on the bigger issues.

  I don't have a problem with the hymns.  They are good reminders of the truths of Scripture.  

But this asinine attitude like we're desecrating a grave or something by tweaking the words so that a modern ear can actually understand it without taking up a second job as a linguistic archeologist is an impediment.  Of all the times people had to type out the words on a piece of paper, for people that understand this Dead speak and ALSO, just so happen, to know the way that people speak today, to at least propose some changes, by now we'd have something that was once just as glorious as "No tongue can bid me thence depart", and it probably wouldn't have taken that long to develop. We'd have had it a long time ago, probably by the time I was born if people had started undertaking it by the 1940s or somewhere around there.  Instead, it's now cemented by a somewhat popular worship band, in the year 1997 no less, when that phrase had already been antiquated for at least a third of a century.

interesting imo -----

 haven't posted on here in awhile.  I don't really know why.  I thought about posting on here a few times but then by the time it occurs to me, whatever prompted the notion fizzles out...

Anyway...  stumbled on this....I honestly don't recall the movie sounding this bad.  What's even more laughable is the "Hasbro Cinematic Universe"  For crying out loud....

15 Box Office Flops Everyone Saw Coming

'Battleship' (2012)

Who hasn’t played the game Battleship and thought, “What if this were a two-hour movie instead?” Universal Pictures heard those cries and gifted audiences everywhere with the sci-fi action extravaganza Battleship. In the film, war games for a naval fleet take on deadly stakes when an alien invasion interrupts the planned exhibition. After several ships are contained within an energy field, the trapped soldiers will need to fight for their lives.

A movie based on a board game was met with more than a few chuckles, even with the cult-classic Clue as proof it can be done. However, a bloated budget that came in somewhere at an estimated $220 million made turning a profit a near-impossible feat for Universal, especially with a $65 million take-home domestically. Battleship’s failure turned out more disastrous than even its critics were expecting, sinking Universal’s planned Hasbro Cinematic Universe. So, depending on your tastes, this story possibly has a happy ending. —Brad LaCour

The best of Phil Collins

 

1. In The Air Tonight
2. You Know What I Mean
3. I Missed Again
4. If Leaving Me Is Easy
5. Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
6. Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning
7. Against All Odds
8. Easy Lover
9. I Like The Way
10. One More Night
11. All Of My Life
12. Heat On The Street
13. I Wish It Would Rain Down
14. Another Day In Paradise
15. Everyday
16. Testify

This actually is one disc's worth of music.

I feel pretty pumped about this.  I used to have the darndest time imagining what a best of Phil Collins would look like.

I didn't put much from NO JACKET REQUIRED or BOTH SIDES because those albums are solid gold on their own.  There's not really anything you can easily excise from those albums.  I mean, sure, not every song is equally shiny, but I just think those two albums are pretty weighty overall compared to most of his albums.  FACE VALUE doesn't have any downright bad songs, but there's points in the album that are indeed weaker than others.  Rhino/WEA (or whatever...) surely isn't going to be pressing this on CD, so I figure I can pretend the majority of people agree with me.  It seems like the people that don't probably just don't like BOTH SIDES, but nonetheless would still agree that NO JACKET REQUIRED is staying in their record collection (or whatever it's called nowadays.......)

BTW, 40th anniversary edtion of NO JACKET REQUIRED is coming to blu ray.  Super exciting, but for some weird reason track 11 "We Said Hello Goodbye" is not included.  I'm tempted to just ignore it.