While driving outside the city limits of Mineral Wells I forgot some of my small town etiquette – when you pass someone you gently wave without taking your hand off the steering wheel.
For a country that was founded on freeing ourselves from the British monarchy, we sure give them a lot of star attention.
What was my first thought about the royal birth? If ‘Night Court’ was still on the air, would Markie Post’s character, Christine Sullivan, still have an obsession with the royal family?
I find the bit of rushing to Twitter to create a fake account, like for the royal baby, quite tiresome.
I wonder if I’ll live long enough to see the new prince become king.
I thought Six Flags had a death on the old Cliff Hanger ride. I asked that question about six years ago and Barry commented thinking it kind of rung a bell. Wow, that as six years ago?. Man, we’ve been doing this blog thing for a while.
Bob Sturm stated that when he was a student at Liberty, they had bed checks on Sunday morning to make sure you weren’t in your room because you needed to be at church.
Last night Stephen Colbert had an author who went an entire year without looking at her reflection. Here’s an article about her and the experience. I wonder if that’s harder for a girl or a guy. I know girls worry about makeup and complexion, but it would be hard for a guy to shave his face without looking at his reflection, at least it would for me.
I’d love to check out San Diego Comic Con for at least a day.
Four or five year ago I wrote about how I always thought the terms Evangelical Christian and protestant were interchangeable until I read an article that made me research the subject. It was actually an article stating that President George W. Bush was an Evangelical, when in fact, as a Methodist, he’s part of the Mainline church. That discovery lead me to do a lot of research into church history and denominational differences. Well, recently a similar discovery happened. I always thought there was only one Christian church for the longest time, the Catholic church. And it wasn’t until Martin Luther hung the ninety-five theses on a door that the Christian church split into two, the Catholic and protestant churches. I was wrong. This is what I found out over the weekend, and please excuse the over simplification summary as I’m trying to keep it this short and not boring with too many details.
The Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of all of Rome. He felt Christianity needed a consensus of belief, so he call together the Council of Nicaea in the year 325, and from it, we have the Nicene Creed, which basically defines what it takes to be a Christian.
At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Pope Leo was the bishop of Rome and was acclaimed as “speaking with the voice of St Peter” which gave Rome supreme authority. Pope Leo reexamined the nature of Christ, which lead to a revision of the Nicene Creed, and caused the church to have it’s first split, often referred to as the Great Schism, or East-West Schism. His revision stated the Father and the Son became the source from which the Holy Spirit proceeds, basically messing with the trinity. And this is what the Western church, the Catholic church followed. The Eastern Church, or the Greek church, stuck with the original creed, and that’s how we have the Eastern or Greek Orthodox Church. At this point, the Christian church was in two pieces.
In 1517 the Great Divide, the Reformation, happens to the Catholic church because of a monk named Martin Luther and Protestantism was born. Protestants believed everyone, not just the priest could read and interpret the Bible. Basically, they just focused on the Bible and the sacraments of communion and baptism with no formal church hierarchy. They even got so uptight about it they started to destroy stained glass and statues in churches. By some reports there are over 8,000 protestant denominations and perhaps that diversity is one reason Christianity is so widespread.
The Catholic church was once again divided in 1534 when Henry VII started the Church of England for two reasons. Most folks only know of the divorce, but it also because Hank wanted a separation of church and state.
I bet a lot of folks are going to beat me up over my arm chair church history lesson.
I freely admit I don’t know when to capitalize “evangelical”. I researched it and came back even more confused.
If your familiar with the Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers, I think you see how Martin Luther was born at the right time for his message to become widespread and for him to become legendary, as the printing press just came to be and put into use which made the Bible affordable and plentiful.
A friend and loyal BoN reader donated a kidney to his mother-in-law , which made him a hero and a real man in my book, so I decided to visit him as he was recovering. Surprisingly he’s recovering quite well, much faster than I did after my sinus surgery, and most of the kidney removal was done microscopically. I could only imagine what his wife was going through having both her mother and husband in surgery at the same time. Thankfully the recipient is recovering quite well, is no longer on dialysis, and getting use to urinating on a somewhat frequent basis again. I found it interesting that the doctors didn’t remove any of her kidneys, so now she’s walking around with a trio of kidneys.
The patients were recovering in Fort Worth, and on my way to the visit yesterday I got a text from my cousin who I haven’t seen in about eleven years. Believe it or not, my native Californian born cuz moved from his home of Las Vegas of about the past eight years to my small home town of Mineral Wells, Texas for a “simpler” life. We met at Montana’s in Weatherford, a place I always wanted to try. The company was great, but the food was mediocre.
There’s something special leaving Fort Worth going west. The moment you leave “the city” you hit some beautiful pastures, rolling hills, and yesterday, some bright blue skies and cotton ball clouds. As a kid all that scenery was boring, but now I miss it quite a bit.
After eating lunch with my cousin I tried to visit a friend outside the city limits of Mineral Wells, and that’s where I found the U2 Ranch. Funny thing, but I was listening to U2 when I spotted that thing. But then again, I listen to a lot of U2.
WifeGeeding has been getting on my for turning the radio up in the car when I find a catch song channel surfing, limiting my free spirit ways and my singing along. Yesterday was a little liberating driving by myself as I cranked up the radio and sung at the top of my lungs.
That Six Flags death is creepy and no one has actually confirmed where she fell off the ride. But I think everyone that’s been to Six Flags has felt uncomfortable of the pubescent bored teens operating the rides. And that’s what’s scary, it’s been reported that she actually told a worker that her safety bar didin’t seem right.
Usually around the start of Cowboys training camp I get a little excited, but there’s no excitement this year. It could be a sign of aging, or acceptance of mediocrity, or both. I did see Jerry on Hanen and the man from Arkansas really didn’t look well, he was chubby and pale. Hansen was surprisingly easy on him.
For the heck of it I decided to watch NBC5 news on Saturday night and I caught anchor Amanda Guerra with a slip of the tongue when she called field reporter Chris Van Horne as “Chris Van Horney”. Her bio page does say she’s a Sooner, so I guess we have to cut her a little slack. And yes, I’m letting my fondness for UT cloud my judgement on this one.
I wish my television had an app that would edit parts of the local news in which they show comments from Twitter and Facebook.
I tuned out of wrestling the moment the greatest wrestling move, the Iron Claw, stopped being used.
There’s actually more I wanted to write for today, but I think I’ll just save it for later. I think if I put too much stuff on one Bag of Randomness you’ll just tune out, if you haven’t already.
