Who says you can’t go home again?
It all worked out, so I’m in Evansville with the kids (Christy’s back home – she had to work) and plan on going to Todd’s wedding tonight. It sould be a packed house – with lots of people I haven’t seen in quite some time. I’m almost as excited about seeing old friends as I am about the fact that Todd is getting hitched!
Several weeks ago, I told Aiden that my old Star Wars toys were still at Grandmama’s and Grandpa’s, and we’d get them out the next time we visited. Whenever he would talk to my parents on the phone after that, he would say something about the toys. Fortunately, he was very polite about asking to play with them last night, which makes me happy. I had visions of him walking in the door saying, “Where are the Star Wars toys? Oh, hi, Grandmama,” and walk right past her on his quest to find the hidden treasure. But, he did manage to surprise me. Which is a good thing.
The first toys he got out this morning was the snowspeeder and the probe droid. I guess the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree after all.
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I didn’t go right to sleep last night, so I flipped through the channels, looking for something remotely interesting. I stopped at something about biblical scholarship and analysis of the text of the Bible. I was amazed to discover that my first name is actually in the Bible! That completely proved that the “Bible Code” they were talking about is completely legit. Then, what solidified my belief in the Bible Code’s authenticity is the fact that my middle name is also in the Bible. The very fact that my two given names are found in the Bible proves that there is some type of divine guidance to the authorship of Scripture. Every jot and tittle has to have been dictated by the mouth of God for such an occurence to have taken place. They said something about having software that would be available for the public to purchase. I’m going to run out right now and buy such a helpful product. It will surely strengthen and deepen my faith.
I wonder if they used the Masoretic Text, the Leningrad Text, or some other manuscript. Did they try to use the same matrix system in one of Shakespeare’s works, or maybe something like the Babylonian Talmud? What were the results in something like that?
Faith is the evidence of things unseen. Does such a “code” really prove anything other than some people’s overly enthusiastic attempt to jump to conclusions based on what they want the data to show? Why can’t we let the Bible just speak for itself without a cryptic message? Don’t they think Scripture is powerful enough without the aide of a computer?
Now, if they could find my last name within the Hebrew text, then they’d really have something!
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$3 bonus for the usage “jot and tittle”
And extra $5 bonus if you say, “That’s a very complicated issue.” to avoid talking about something important.
It hurts me. The nerd, it hurts. Poor Aiden. He doens’t have a chance. Star Wars AND NASCAR. You might as well go ahead and enroll him in katate to teach him self denfense. 😉
Well, you know…it is a “complicated issue.” I think they even said that phrase in the show last night. Must be something they teach you in Ph.D. class.
Of course, there was no one from the Hopkins-Harvard axis, so I should have known…
I should have known…
By the way, Luke Skywalker will kick My Little Pony’s hiney any day of the week. It’s toys like that which will require the karate classes.
I’d worry more for Alyson.
That is, if she lives to see three since she so enjoys jumping off tall buildings in a single bound.
I do, however, “affirm your position” about NASCAR.
How much money do I get for that?
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