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"November 8, 2018"    [image:1971183-33%} Prompt: "Let's talk about the approaching holiday season, do you have family traditions, social commitments or do you do your best to avoid it all because of the commercialized aspect?"I use to avoid the holidays like a plague because the holidays, with the exception of Thanksgiving, are basically Catholic compromises with paganism. Christmas for instance has been celebrated for several thousand years as the winter solstice. Believers felt that their idol died in December and that was why everything was so bleak and the days so short. The sun was dying. Therefore their worship at the winter solstice encouraged the god and it came back. When Christianity came on the scene these celebrations stopped. People who were pagan wanted to revert to paganism due to their wishes to continue the celebrations. Who doesn't like a feast? So the church created a special mass called the Christ Mass, which has since become Christmas. Therefore I don't like Christmas but my church has outvoted me. My church, the Salvation Army, also depends on Christmas as most of our funding for social programs comes from the red kettles, which actually start tomorrow! So go out and stuff your spare change in a kettle and I promise not to be too hard on Christmas.  "Prompt: "Books are the movies of the mind." Sue Grafton Do you agree with this quote?"The short answer would be yes. I agree. The reason I agree is because when I read I escape to whatever scene is taking place as I read. I feel the characters feelings and see the world through their eyes. Some may call that the practice of empathy but to me it is just the experience unfolding as the author describes it. So yes, books are the movies of the mind, particularly the author's mind.    |
| "November 7, 2018" "Prompt: There are two kind of writers: plotters and pantsers. Plotters outline, planning their beginning, middle and ending. Pantsers don't write first drafts. They fly by the seat of their pants. Are you a plotter or a pantser?" I must be a "pantser" because I have never followed an outline. I had to follow an outline for an English 101 composition course once and barely passed. I think I got a B but if the instructor had not insisted I follow an outline I could have done much better. There were points I could have made that would have enhanced the final draft but I had to omit them for sake of following the outline. Outlines are for wimps! No I'm sure they serve a purpose. I just don't like the restraints they impose. Prompt: "In a modern world where magic exists, you are a retail employee at a store that sells magical items. Tells us some of your customer experiences."I was a real customer in a real magic store once. Does that count? It was several years ago when I took this notion that magic probably really did exist in the form of telepathy and other such powers. I have always believed in the power of the mind and am myself one who has experienced the presence of "spirits". I believe most "hauntings" are the product of psychic energy that is left behind by humans. This energy can be perceived by some in the form of psychic powers. I believed that if I could somehow develop my own gifts I may be able to capitalize on it and perhaps make a discovery that could change the world. I began my search by studying witchcraft, not as a religion but as a science. I thought it was absolutely real because even the Bible says so. However I became convinced that I was sinning against God because the Bible also strongly prohibits witchcraft due to the idolatry involved. So I dropped it. However I met a lady who ran a store specializing in magic elixirs and such. It turned out they were basically various recipes for home brewed beer and wine. It was still interesting because she firmly believed it was the spells that made it all come together. |
| "November 6, 2018" "Prompt: Write about Emptiness" Emptiness is that feeling you get when you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. It's a feeling of nothingness. Life has little or no meaning to you. Life is just something you have to endure; something that begins nowhere and goes nowhere. I am so glad that I am a Christian. Even if the atheists are right and Jesus is a hoax at least I feel like my life has meaning. I'm not the result of some colossal dice shoot. My life is not going to simply end and have no more significance than the little bit of meaning I can apply to it while living. I am a child of the Most High God and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. I have heaven and everything in it waiting for me. My God owns everything in this universe and He's giving it all to me. I no longer know emptiness! "Prompt: If you could choose a celebrity or a movie star as your neighbor, who would you choose? What makes that person so special for you?"Yes, I know this is the prompt from November 5. I'm running behind and in my haste to catch up I reversed them! Anyway if I had a celebrity for a neighbor I would like it to be Mel Gibson. He stood up for his convictions and produced "Passion of the Christ" even when he was told that he would never get another Hollywood contract if he did. He poured millions of his own dollars into the blockbuster because Hollywood would not produce it. I may not agree with all of Mel's theology but I agree with his convictions. Any man that stands up for what he believes is right can be a neighbor of mine! |
| "November 5, 2018" "Prompt: Information Do you like being informed about everything there is, and what do people mean by “too-much-information”? And how much Information Is too much information?" Today is the first break I have had since Saturday so I'm playing "catch-up" on my blog. I have been busy delving through a ton of information to put together two papers that I had due at Marshall University. One was a 15 page Comparative Politics paper and the other a 3 page book review. I like to get my work done early so I had several books to read as well. The papers are all wrote and I am on information overload so yes, I believe there can be too much information. It is especially too much information when people go to telling you sordid details about their lives, which happens quite a bit since I am a preacher. "Prompt: What are you thankful for? Why?"What a poignant question to ask a preacher! I am of course grateful that God loved me enough to sacrifice His own Son to save my soul! Of course God knew that Jesus was not going to stay dead but the very idea that He would instrument such a plan sends chills to my bones and joy to my heart. I am also grateful for the Holy Spirit who has changed me from a drug addict who would have thrown my own mother to the wolves if I thought it would get my next run into a preacher who loves everybody and anybody. What a drastic change! It would never have been possible without Jesus. I am indeed grateful! |
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