But it’s true enough I suppose. The Church of England has been full of whack-a-doodles and hoople heads for at least 50 years. I generally tend to avoid denominational disagreements over church canon and ecclesiastical differences. God doesn’t talk to me so whadda I know? In their defence… I think I heard the Church of England is in revolt. Congregations have split away from the clowns and now have their own branch and denominations that reject the corrupt leaders. All the frootier denominations are fractionating now.
There’s a blurb in the Bible where Moses can’t turn his back on the jews for longer than 5 seconds or they start building idols and worshiping them. In his place… I’d have asked my Maker to flood those assholes again, HAR HAR HAR!
Along the same vein, I remember reading a paper from a period scholar that was hacked right off with Martin Luther and his printing presses. Luther could have newly translated bibles in everyone’s hands in a mere few months!!! And every poisoned mind could use them to come up with poisoned faith and spread it the same way. Martin is regarded as one of the good guys by our church…but this guy had a point too. If you cast pearls before swine… the pig will sometimes wear them… And today? We do it at the speed of light.
Schisms are supposedly driven by greed but I wonder? The pattern is always the same with woke churches. The old clerics are driven off, at least half the congregation goes with them … and the new churches eventually close the doors. What do the clowns get out of it? Our little chapel out in the country has a few refugees from other denominations and they have to travel a fair ways to get there. How do we fix this? I’m asking because I gave up. I couldn’t hold my own family together. So whadda I know?
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I was rummaging in my plunder the other day and came up with a couple of GPS handhelds. One still works. These days I really don’t need a GPS. But back in the day when I was camping, hunting and fishing in the back country… I relied on them. Quads can travel further in a half hour than you can walk in a day.
Do people even use GPS handhelds anymore…? The kids all seem to be wearing computer watches or using cell phones these days. I’m going back to the compass. Nowadays I don’t go far enough to justify GPS technologies… all I need is a land mark and magnetic north…and I generally can figure out where I am and where I need to go.
I hope you all are spiritually and geographically oriented this Easter too? Spare a thought for your Maker and keep your kids close. Don’t let them wander off. It is far, far too easy to lose them in these chaotic times.
Thanks for stopping by - and have a blessed Easter.
You BETTER hope I’m going soft in my old age, you old fart!!!
I’m still hopping mad about all the rude jokes and rotten things you’ve said at my expense! If I ever get hold of you, you, the Village Hemhorroid and the other old senior delinquents will get the very hell of it!!!
It will be a Grumpy Old Man fight of biblical proportions!!! 🤬
On the Lt thingo. When I was DS at basic we got a new Lt infantry as platoon CO. What a complete cluster F. Hopefully he learned a thing or 2 over the years, but he was a lost little puppy trying to teach recruits. Probably why he was sent there in the first place. No one wanted to deal with him in the battalion so they got him out of the way for awhile. Nothing against Lt's as they are future Capts and Sr Officers but it was a scary time for me.
On the church thingo. I have learned this over many years of fear and trembling..... it doesn't matter what is going on in the church. What matters is what is going on in your heart. If the church doesn't follow the "Jesus is everything" philosophy then get out and find another church. If you do stay, stay with the knowledge that those around you are just as flawed as we are and God wants us to learn to love them even the ones you wanna throw into the ocean with a millstone around their neck. Female church leader, Rock music, hymns, kneel to pray, stand to pray, lift hands, cross hands. It doesn't matter. You live as God is showing you in your own heart. I cannot, any longer, in all good conscience, look at how someone else acts or what they believe, because I am not worthy of Heaven because of ANYTHING I did or will do. I accept and believe in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for me and He takes care of the rest. A load off my shoulders I can tell you when I don't have to perform for God any longer, I just have to follow and believe as best I can. Do good when you can. Love when it's hard. and follow the King wherever He leads. Sermon over
The church is not the faith. As for me, the Bible says what it means, and means what it says. And I think a lot of people are deliberately misinterpreting what it means in order to further their own failures and wants. I have enough of those of my own and have no interest in being lectured and hectored by twerps that are in obvious opposition to biblical doctrine as I see it. I am no theological scholar, but I will get up and walk away from people that have no interest in legitimizing obviously sinful conduct and dogma.
I bought a middle of the range Garmin after watching this vidya from T-Rex arms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUEZK_qmd_g . If the grid goes down, and the mobile phones with it, 99% of pholks will be phucked around here. I have every map that I can get loaded into it. Food for thawt fellas.
Re GPS, I saw that same TRex video and I, too, got a handheld Garmin after seeing it. Smart phones can do all that too but I have too many experiences seeing something go wrong with using one, especially when the smart phone is in a remote place and loses its data connection. Yes, you can download maps ahead of time with most of the smart phone apps but you have to do that ahead of time and for me at least I can't rely on that. The little Garmin eTrex looks like a throwback to early 2000s tech but it's simple and works reliably offline. I got into doing map and compass old style land navigation and like that, but most of us are going to have to work at it over a long time to get good enough to be able to rely on that alone. Stick a GPS or a smart phone in your pocket and use that to supplement the paper map and compass
In 2009 I learned the hard way Google maps drops its bundle if you lose connectivity. Never again. I knew roughly where I was and I would have been fine as long as didn’t get injured, but would definitely have had to spend the night. No big deal - plenty of water nearby. No-one knew where I was, or when I’d be back. Im fairly experienced & comfortable in the bush, and this made me complacent. It was a new spot in an area I’d visited a few times before. Google maps dropped its pants and I was genuinely bamboozled. Id followed a series of creek lines that all joined into a herringbone pattern and couldn’t work out which one led to my car. A couple of trail bike riders came along and I flagged them down - they dropped me back at my car. I now use several GPS apps on my phone as well as my GPS and a paper map. I carry a PLB and make sure SOMEONE knows when I’ll be back.
We also used to have Sydways & Melways atlases in our cars - they’re all online now, but they’d be bloody helpful - even a state atlas would be nice if the power grid fails. The local roads are all still the same, but they’d big major highways change where they pass through the inner city & I never go there.
i have been all over northern Nevada and Utah as a youth 50yrs ago and never needed anything like that or a compass, we could see where we were going a week before we got there. been living in the deep south for 40 yrs now and you honestly can't geta mile from at least a logging road around here. GPS is good for newbies.
Up here I hunt in bush country. The boreal forests are criss crossed with seismic lines, logging cut lines and oil lease roads. Even with GPS… you gotta be somewhat on the ball and generally located and oriented in case the unit fails.
I have no sense of direction, so I use GPS all the time. When I lived out in South Dakota, I've heard experienced hunters say that a person can get into the Badlands and get to a point where he doesn't trust his compass, map, or GPS. They follow the GPS and get out.
As for church, and I'm assuming a non-denominational Christian church, we are all sinners. Various things can divide a church; music, a new pastor or elder, or geography to name just a few. Greed can certainly divide a church, and pride is another factor. I've seen all this and in one case had it done to me - pride to the point of hubris, and arrogance by an elder who would be king.
So, all that and more, but woke? Woke is following the evil one and rejecting our Lord Jesus. Suppose a few new people show up at church, and each has a problem. One drinks, another cheats on his wife, a third is homosexual. All these people are welcome, but you are not allowed to attend services if you're drunk, or come with your mistress on your arm, or display homosexual behavior. For all we know these people may be working on their sin to eliminate it. And that's what I believe.
Is this the kinder and gentle Filthie? You are scaring me...
ReplyDeleteYou BETTER hope I’m going soft in my old age, you old fart!!!
DeleteI’m still hopping mad about all the rude jokes and rotten things you’ve said at my expense! If I ever get hold of you, you, the Village Hemhorroid and the other old senior delinquents will get the very hell of it!!!
It will be a Grumpy Old Man fight of biblical proportions!!!
🤬
i pray that you have a Blessed and Joyous Easter as well, kind Sir. Glad you're back.
ReplyDeleteThanks, A! 😊👍
DeleteOn the Lt thingo. When I was DS at basic we got a new Lt infantry as platoon CO. What a complete cluster F.
ReplyDeleteHopefully he learned a thing or 2 over the years, but he was a lost little puppy trying to teach recruits.
Probably why he was sent there in the first place. No one wanted to deal with him in the battalion so they got him out of the way for awhile. Nothing against Lt's as they are future Capts and Sr Officers but it was a scary time for me.
Unfortunately merit based advancement has been a problem for western militaries for a long, LONG time…
DeleteOn the church thingo. I have learned this over many years of fear and trembling..... it doesn't matter what is going on in the church.
ReplyDeleteWhat matters is what is going on in your heart.
If the church doesn't follow the "Jesus is everything" philosophy then get out and find another church. If you do stay, stay with the knowledge that those around you are just as flawed as we are and God wants us to learn to love them even the ones you wanna throw into the ocean with a millstone around their neck.
Female church leader, Rock music, hymns, kneel to pray, stand to pray, lift hands, cross hands. It doesn't matter. You live as God is showing you in your own heart.
I cannot, any longer, in all good conscience, look at how someone else acts or what they believe, because I am not worthy of Heaven because of ANYTHING I did or will do. I accept and believe in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for me and He takes care of the rest. A load off my shoulders I can tell you when I don't have to perform for God any longer, I just have to follow and believe as best I can.
Do good when you can. Love when it's hard. and follow the King wherever He leads.
Sermon over
Yep.
DeleteThe church is not the faith. As for me, the Bible says what it means, and means what it says. And I think a lot of people are deliberately misinterpreting what it means in order to further their own failures and wants. I have enough of those of my own and have no interest in being lectured and hectored by twerps that are in obvious opposition to biblical doctrine as I see it.
I am no theological scholar, but I will get up and walk away from people that have no interest in legitimizing obviously sinful conduct and dogma.
I bought a middle of the range Garmin after watching this vidya from T-Rex arms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUEZK_qmd_g . If the grid goes down, and the mobile phones with it, 99% of pholks will be phucked around here. I have every map that I can get loaded into it. Food for thawt fellas.
ReplyDeleteRe GPS, I saw that same TRex video and I, too, got a handheld Garmin after seeing it. Smart phones can do all that too but I have too many experiences seeing something go wrong with using one, especially when the smart phone is in a remote place and loses its data connection. Yes, you can download maps ahead of time with most of the smart phone apps but you have to do that ahead of time and for me at least I can't rely on that. The little Garmin eTrex looks like a throwback to early 2000s tech but it's simple and works reliably offline.
DeleteI got into doing map and compass old style land navigation and like that, but most of us are going to have to work at it over a long time to get good enough to be able to rely on that alone. Stick a GPS or a smart phone in your pocket and use that to supplement the paper map and compass
In 2009 I learned the hard way Google maps drops its bundle if you lose connectivity. Never again. I knew roughly where I was and I would have been fine as long as didn’t get injured, but would definitely have had to spend the night. No big deal - plenty of water nearby. No-one knew where I was, or when I’d be back. Im fairly experienced & comfortable in the bush, and this made me complacent. It was a new spot in an area I’d visited a few times before. Google maps dropped its pants and I was genuinely bamboozled. Id followed a series of creek lines that all joined into a herringbone pattern and couldn’t work out which one led to my car. A couple of trail bike riders came along and I flagged them down - they dropped me back at my car. I now use several GPS apps on my phone as well as my GPS and a paper map. I carry a PLB and make sure SOMEONE knows when I’ll be back.
DeleteWe also used to have Sydways & Melways atlases in our cars - they’re all online now, but they’d be bloody helpful - even a state atlas would be nice if the power grid fails. The local roads are all still the same, but they’d big major highways change where they pass through the inner city & I never go there.
i have been all over northern Nevada and Utah as a youth 50yrs ago and never needed anything like that or a compass, we could see where we were going a week before we got there. been living in the deep south for 40 yrs now and you honestly can't geta mile from at least a logging road around here. GPS is good for newbies.
ReplyDeleteUp here I hunt in bush country. The boreal forests are criss crossed with seismic lines, logging cut lines and oil lease roads. Even with GPS… you gotta be somewhat on the ball and generally located and oriented in case the unit fails.
DeleteI have no sense of direction, so I use GPS all the time. When I lived out in South Dakota, I've heard experienced hunters say that a person can get into the Badlands and get to a point where he doesn't trust his compass, map, or GPS. They follow the GPS and get out.
ReplyDeleteAs for church, and I'm assuming a non-denominational Christian church, we are all sinners. Various things can divide a church; music, a new pastor or elder, or geography to name just a few. Greed can certainly divide a church, and pride is another factor. I've seen all this and in one case had it done to me - pride to the point of hubris, and arrogance by an elder who would be king.
So, all that and more, but woke? Woke is following the evil one and rejecting our Lord Jesus. Suppose a few new people show up at church, and each has a problem. One drinks, another cheats on his wife, a third is homosexual. All these people are welcome, but you are not allowed to attend services if you're drunk, or come with your mistress on your arm, or display homosexual behavior. For all we know these people may be working on their sin to eliminate it. And that's what I believe.
That is a great way to look at it WL - as long as we are GENUINELY working on ourselves.
DeleteHE IS RISEN.