Progress

you remember Sat mornings when you were young? maybe you still are in which case if you don't you must have a very bad memory!

Laurel and Hardy on the TV, No one thought Tom was a bad influence for chasing Jerry up and down and through the walls. and generally trying to splatter the mouse. The mouse always won anyhow. Golly wogs weren't thought to be racist to have on the back of a jar of jam. People actually talked to each other, instead of being always in a rush. Most coke addicts were of the soft drinks kind. You could eat beef without turning into a mad cow. You could have your windows open without hearing obsceneties being bandied around every few mins.

Those days may not have been better in many ways. But they were simpler. life was simpler for everyone. Progress is good in many ways, but not so good in many more. Those days are gone, dead and buried. And I wouldn't want those particular days back. But the simplicity of life in a general way, without the hurly burly always taking place today, IMO was better.

From Dic.com

prog·ress ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prgrs, -rs, prgrs)n.
Movement, as toward a goal; advance.

What have we done to ourselves in the name of progress, huh?
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In the steps of my Bud Doc Martin

WatchWords for the Warfare of Life From Crazy Calvinist

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling." Joseph Addison

"Let us lie down having peace with all men. It is in our best interests to go to sleep, as well as to die, in charity. Those who interact much with the world can scarcely go through a day without something or other happening that is provoking, some affront given to them, some injury done to them. Or at least they think so. When they retire at night and reflect on it, they are apt to magnify the offense. While they are musing on it, the fire burns, their resentments rise and they begin to say "I will do so to him as he hath done to me." (Prov 24:29). Then follows a time of ripening and passion into a rooted malice and meditating revenge.

"Therefore, let wisdom and grace be put to work to extinguish this fire from hell before it gets ahead. Then let this root of bitterness be killed and plucked up. Let the mind be disposed to forgive the injury and think well of, and wish well to him who did it."

"We cannot lie down at peace with God unless we are at peace with men. We cannot pray in faith to be forgiven unless we forgive. Let us therefore study the things that make for peace, the peace of our own spirits, by living, as far as it depends on us, "Peaceably with all men" (Rom. 12:18).

Quotes of Matthew Henry

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No Laughing!!

NO laughing at the penguine please!! IT is NOT funny!!

I wouldn't dream of laughing meself. Click here

Click the play button on the media player console to see
the very sad tale of what happeend to the Penguin.

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Sleep?

Welll after being awake around 36 hours straight, I slept early last nite, expecting to sleep the sleep of the undead, and had all of thhree hours before back pain wokied me up.

So, coffee calls, with heaps of sugar! otherwise, I shall turn into a bigger grouch than this cat before long! My new byword of the day. Thou shalt not like kitties! Example hmmm... maybe my next nic should be crazy cat killer!

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Dying well.

Sometimes

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! Matt Frewer,

Remember how as a kid, besides, chocolate and iced cream, you seem to have a mobid fascination in some respects with death and dying. (I'm assuming this is a general thing..but how would I know?) First movie I remember that dealt with that, tho didnt' see it then, and haven't seen it till this day, as I hate slushy sentimentalism was love story. Tho Ryan O'Neal would also be enough to turn me from watching it! But time passes, life rolls on, and one sees death in friends and family, and you know death and dying isn't *just* something that happens to other people. "Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment" [Heb 9:27] I used to have a plan for the two minute warning if ever nuclear war struck. To sit down, with a coffee in one hand, coke in the other, and a cig in the other. (I don't actually have three hands!) turn some favourite music up loud, and let the world go to oblivion while being normal. not in panic and folly and losing ones head. And sometimes would think about famous peoples last words. Words of reknown that were now commonly known. And ponderize what great brain produced those final words of wisdom. And sometimes this subject for some folks, thru age or desease can be something that people avoid, or if they do its a joking manner to cover up any fears they may have about when the time comes. My gran who was a wonderful human being told me about a tombstone that is apparently stone cold dead true! And have since heard others mention it too, so figure it likely is. But somewhere in this country, there apparently lies someone with this engraved on there tombstone. Man or woman i aint' sure. "Where ever you maybe, let your wind go free, in church or chaple, Let it rattle, Cos thru holding my wind killed me" Now would you want to be remembered as dying while giving the loudest burp in history? I can think of better ways to be remembered. Much much better. And I have no plans to leave for many years, and only ever do anything in my own time, but whatever the state of my body by then, whatever the depth of the pain, to be simply remembered as "Dying well" will do for me. Which when thinking of how death and dying affects many people when the time is close, which will be a statement as opposed to do I did it my way, as East is from West. And people will know, I did it HIS way. apparently there were Socrates last words

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Ponderization for this Day

Why when someone (just for example) gets hit by a bus or a car, do people say "They had an accident" do we think that the destiny of mankind relies on accidents much like the accident of the cosmos and the evolution theory, and there's not a Sovereign God, controlling all things and all of mankinds pasts, presents and futures?

"Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matt 26:39)
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Wise words of Doc Martin

Well, I don't agree with all that Martin Luther taught, but I think he was a great Father of the church, and probably more of a hero of that era of mine than Calvin. Which could be because I know far more about the guy, and his struggles too, which were all very human, and yet, he was the torch that God used to light the Touch paper of the Reformation. And me and my bud, Doc Martin, apparently think much alike in some ways regarding The Monarchy. Or perhaps in his case he was meaning monarchies.

Luther upon Psalm 127 has a notable speech: "I am of that opinion that monarchies would continue longer than they do were it not for that same little pronoun [ego] that same I [myself]"

And I still have to get my info OUT, about the present Queen of England, being an imposter, and she is not entitled to the throne, but I keep procrastinating and then forget! But, I saw a documentary on British National TV about it two or three weeks ago. And waaay, waaay back, she is not of honourable, or legitimate seed, which is a must to be entitled to the throne of England, and it goes way back to Richard III time, so all the Royals since then have been imposters!! I of course, cos of having a Royal disease, exactly the same thing Mad King George did, are looking into my rights to rightfully take back what is mine!!!!! I have already in advance of this event, handed out honorary titles to my friends in America, and the Boston Tea party would never be repeated again!! Lysa, tell me which title you want gel....tis YOURS!!
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Which would you choose?

Answers on a postcard please!

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