Posts made by cteavin

Saw this and thought of you.

“The question should not be "What would Jesus do?" but rather, more dangerously, "What would Jesus have me do?" The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.”
–Peter Gomes

Reverand Peter J. Gomes came to mind a moment ago after reading another post. You will find no bigger athiest than me but while he was alive I often downloaded his sermons. His message was always uplifting. I was shocked to discover after he died that he was openly gay.

He's very much worth looking for on YouTube when you need that little bit of inspiration to be a better person. His books are also very good.

Christianity has died in the hands of Evangelicals. Evangelicalism ceased being a religious faith tradition following Jesus’ teachings concerning justice for the betterment of humanity when it made a Faustian bargain for the sake of political influence. The beauty of the gospel message — of love, of peace and of fraternity — has been murdered by the ambitions of…

That's the general tenor of the article. The gist is that Christianity died when Christians made it political. Does this ring true to you? Do you agree with any of his supports? Personally, I think he went a little to far in generalizing but the Peter J. Gomes school of Christ has largely died.

The rest of the article is here.

https://baptistnews.com/article/death-christianity-u-s/#.Wgw2b7aB01_

Top Secret Man by Plastics

Youtube Video

I like both! If I had to chosse one to listen to again I'd chose the first.

Fantastic Plastic Lover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Hvp1Z10TI

or

Top Secret Man (by the Plastics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi5un_z6A9M

Um, when I've not risen to the occasion they kinda hang low.

TPBM can come two or three times in a row.

Funny you should say that. When I was in the bath this morning I was playfully thinking where I could put the camera.

You should tell us where your flex video is online.

How did you know.  :afr:

It's a printer/scanner combo. True, I never use the scanner for documents or paper but it has a film scanner that I do use. I should upload some of my autumn photos here…

TPBM has a tech fetish/is a tech hoarder.

If I have to actually go to the caves, Pollock. If they bring them to the museum, the cave paintings.

(Any) museum of modern art or (any) museum of contemporary art?

Yeah, I fell off the wagon, so to speak. It's winter. I'm eating too much fresh baked bread, not pancakes.  :blownose:

You should stop smoking/vapping.

@Frederick:

Second, this shoplifting happened while Trump was in China.  Had it not, Trump would never have been sucked into the case.
Third, I'm sure that some reporter brought up the incident to Trump.  Trump was then OBLIGATED to mention it to Xi.. and Xi was OBLIGATED to let them off as a gesture of courtesy.

I agree with Fred on the bolded.

Given the nature of the tour POTUS was taking, there was no other way to proceed. Personally, I think they should have been sent to Chinese prison in accordance with the law. If you're so disrespectful of another country that you decided to break their laws while there, you should be subject to their penalties. Also, they should lose their places on the UCLA basketball team. Others will justify this by justifying it through their stereotypes of Chinese people and the Chinese government. Others will say they were targeted because they are black.

On an aside, this morning one of Japan's top sumo players did some kind of violent action yesterday (I haven't read the details, yet.) He took responsibility and stepped down. THAT is what those basketball players should do. They are, for better or worse, role models. They broke the law. They'll most likely deny the charges or play the victim and so teach another generation the worst ways to act. Their supporters will use preexisting stereotypes of the Chinese and/or the Chinese government to support their justification; others will say the bb players were targeted because they're black.

@Frederick:

You have 5 dots…  but I was replying to DENE - who has but one.   One dot does not make a person bad.

But five does, eh? (lol)

@Frederick:

The "top"?   I don't know what you mean by the "top". 
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I think they got rid of Colon because his skills were slipping.  He may have intentionally decided to make himself as radical and absurd as possible to get attention and play the martyred "race card" to try and save his career that was going down the drain.

Sorry, that should have been TOPIC.

You might be right about him. It's an interesting take nonetheless. As far as sports go, unless I think he's handsome, I won't have any interest.  ;D

@Frederick:

Actually, you don't have a red LINE.. you have one red dot.  That is no big deal.  The longer the red or green line, the more significant it is.   I bet if you posted some more messages, you would go green.

Hmm, we are seeing two very different things. I see five dots. And, I just checked, I got two positive reputations today, too.

@warpaint:

I do training specifically for bodybuilding. So not much calistenics. Machines + Free weights. I don't care about the flexibility and mobility for now I want to buff up. But I really would use some stretching, yoga and calisthenic probably. I'm really not flexible and pretty tense all around.

Come, I'll give you a massage after.  :hug:

@Frederick:

BBC is fine, but NPR?  They have been the fuel for left wing psychos for decades.

NPR? Left-wing? I listen to some of their podcasts and have never had that impression. Oh, bloody hell, I think you're right. I'm thinking PBS. PBS is solid, imo.

I do like To The Best Of Our Knowledge and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, though. They're on NPR.

@Frederick:

We can quibble if you like but anyone coming through the forums who read the original post won't comes away with "clearly". My evidence? 31 people, as of now, have looked at this post and only four have posted and only you, R, have asked a legitimate question worthy of debate.

Its so absurd that Colon Crapondick would wind up as the "Man Of The Year" of GQ that I can't conceive of anybody supporting that.  But then again…  half the country is in love with crooked Hillary Clinton, and I can't conceive of anybody supporting that monster either.

I have no interest in the top or I'd read it and engage. To me, he made a choice and is paying for it. I do hope he doesn't get signed and I hope I don't have to look at him anymore – VERY not my type.

Which one lets me continue to live in the Matrix? Seeing what's in Zion, I'd chose to remain hooked into the system.

Keanu Reeves when he was Bill and Ted age, or Keanu Reeves now?

That's a good idea, I should.

You should listen to more classical music.

Is that a cultural thing, or are you referring the movie from this year?  :cheesy2:

I'm going to say no to both.

TPBM watches the British TV show QI (if you aren't you're missing out).