Ran across a photo of a lovely couple who might have spawned part of me.
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First!….at least on THIS thread. 😉
It’s finally the weekend.
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I wonder where ole Katfish is off to this weekend? We’re off to the deer camp, first time since the spring and with all the rain, I’m sure it’s a jungle up there, our work is going to be cut out for us.
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I love the picture but had not heard of “Shortridge” I Googled this;The Louis Shotridge Digital Archive.
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Good morning Hamsters. A brilliant crescent Moon on her way to bed shines on the soggy moors of the Brazos at 6, coolish 73 and damp but not mugly, daylight peeks between the clouds at 7, no breeze yet, and the puddles have soaked in. Since last Saturday we have been graced by 7.2″ of much needed rain. Thank you, Lord. All creatures great and small appreciate it.
That’s a handsome couple in the OC picture.
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Training day in Conroe today – then another HERO to adopt in Spring tomorrow
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I been talkin to myself on yesterday’s thread. lol
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#6 GJT, I just read your post from yesterday. Oh and GJT was FIRST this AM just before the weekend thread showed up. 😉
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lol, normally if the day or weekend’s thread is not up yet its gonna be a little while so I just rambled away. 😀
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If someone reports a lost airliner, he’s circling around over Waller County flying low.
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The unraveling of Scott Walker’s attackers is getting pretty interesting.
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/09/20/whistleblower-cop-in-scott-walker-accusations-paying-a-heavy-price/ -
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Pyro, I’m a bit confused as this photographer and the pic are identified as Tlingit, an Alaskan tribe, in 1912. I thought you were from Oklahoma? The timeline doesn’t seem realistic for this attractive couple to be your ancestors. -
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Sounds like Wisconsin has some run-amok district attorneys and henchmen, like our bunch of jakelegs operating in Austin/Travis County. -
Should we be proud of this Texican or concerned? This is highlight reel material right up there with winning the iron man competition I would think.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/us/politics/intruder-gets-through-white-house-doors-before-arrest.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed&_r=0 -
I see the always classy Jameis Winston is all over the sports news again makin’ the ‘Noles proud.
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If someone reports a lost airliner, he’s circling around over Waller County flying low.
Malaysia Air markings?
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#11 mh42
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Taxpayer-funded storyline: Lecherous old man quits his job because they didn’t embrace global warming, abandons his family, runs off with a 15 year old girl, and kidnaps children in order to get the world to act on climate change. I’m shocked this musical didn’t succeed.
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#17: What is truly shocking is that we accept this as normal D controlled gov’t behavior. The perps of this disaster should be in prison for:
* misappropriation of govt funds
* Using gov’t office to further partisan political objectives
* gross violation of basic constitutional principles.Imagine the lefty hyperventillation if an R admin allowed a musical promoting traditional Judeo-Christian nuclear family values to be produced on the govt dime. . .
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#17 Hammy
The National SCIENCE Foundation funding goofball plays?
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I sat down today at work with the full length video of the Texas Gubner’s debate running in the background. I shut it off after about 10 minutes. Listening to this woman speak is about as enjoyable as Chinese math.
Not only is what she says merely talking points drivel, the delivery is about as exciting as wet toilet paper and gives the appearance of an equal amount of intelligence. I used to think that she was actually running so that she can get hired as an MSNBC “Political Contributor”, but I think even they will think twice about hiring someone with the video presence of an orange left out in the sun too long. Too bad for her Al Gore’s TV network is kaput.
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If we had some ham we could have…………………………….
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It occurs to me to wonder why/how Indian men never have facial hair. Are they clean-shaven or do they not grow beards? I’m sure someone will remind me that google is my friend. If I don’t see an answer here after I get some lunch going, I’ll look it up myself.
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Well, I discovered that Princess Leia was descended from Hopi Indians. Scroll down to the women’s hairstyles and you’ll see her gramma second from the right.
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historically almost all natives on the North American continent plucked out all their facial hair (women as well as men), using clam shells as tweezers, later using metal tweezers obtained in trade.
In general, Native Americans have little or no body hair and their facial hair is generally sparse. Historically, plucking out this facial growth was part of everyday grooming.
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Now here’s an interesting comment I found while noodling around in FB:
There is no such thing as “America at large”. The “average” American is a person with one testicle.
Or you could add, a person with one ovary.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/09/johns-hopkins-study-huge-gulf-between-d-c-political-class-and-the-rest-of-america/ -
Regarding the Latino who jumped the White House fence and made it inside:
Shouldn’t he be allowed to stay there and bring his extended family with him once he made it in?
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El Gordo says:
SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 AT 2:02 PM
Regarding the Latino who jumped the White House fence and made it inside:Shouldn’t he be allowed to stay there and bring his extended family with him once he made it in?
Gonna steal that one.
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I forgot to ask Pyro: are you still “shaving” with clamshell tweezers?
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I don’t know about WB but if I shave right out of the shower I don’t even need shaving cream. Except my head. That’s gotta be lathered up.
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I am so sick and tired of football controversies. Good grief it is like pulling a hemorrhoid out with tweezers listening to the constant drone of self righteous crappola. If i hear of one more person describing how they “beat” their kid or how they were “beat” or one more woman decide to air out her hatred for her Dad/boyfriend/husband abusing her I am gonna go postal.
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I gave up on football a long time ago. If it weren’t for the gamblers, their TV ratings would be in the tank. The officials now determine winners and losers rather than the players, so it’s rigged all the way around. Just another government plot to see if they can get people to stand in line for a hot dog or a beer or something.
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#32
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Gordo that West Texas air is good for you.
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I think that eastern euro nurse used clamshell tweezers to shave me.
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Roger Goodell just announced that as part of his groveling campaign all football fields will be pink next month.
Also all uniforms will be pink and they will play touch instead of tackle.
Porky Pig and Pink Panther cartoons will be broadcast on the jumbotrons at halftime and pink lemonade will be the only beverage served for all games.
Referees will have to wear pink ballerina tutus. No penalties will be called and if a player, let’s say is caught holding, he will have to sit out three minutes for holding counseling.
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I had a catechist meeting this morning. Bad news for me.
I’ve spent countless hours scouring my textbook and putting together lessons by topic and arranged my lessons around our liturgical calendar. I put a lesson on the Eucharist during Holy Week. The liturgical calendar is covered at the beginning of the year so I can show how our future lessons refer back to our cycle of spiritual events during the year. My tour of the church is held towards the end of the year so that I can tie all the things we’ve learned during the year together as I point out the elements of the church.
I was told this morning that I have to basically throw all of that out and go chapter by chapter from the book. Not only does that mean that I have to throw out almost everything I’ve done to create a class that works, I have to create a whole new curriculum that I fear will be watered down from what I’m teaching now. Plus – I’m required to teach a sexuality class that has no space in the calendar that my DRE has given me.
Sucks to be me right about now.
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#29 mh42
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I think that eastern euro nurse used clamshell tweezers to shave me.
Lucky for you she wasn’t from Brazil.
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#38: Resistance is futile.
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T’ings not lookin’ too good for the Gators right now.
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They was doing ok a while ago but let it get out of hand.
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The Aggies need to all be arrested for murder.
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I am from the branch from whence sprang the legend of Sasquatch.
Yabbut what about the clamshell tweezers? Yes? or No? Oh Hairy One.
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Oh and tell the truth: Did you ever hear of clamshell tweezers before?
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I think that eastern euro nurse used clamshell tweezers to shave me.
Lucky for you she wasn’t from Brazil.
Now that right there is funny, I don’t care who you are. . . .
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Along the Amazon, the locals/natives use pirahanna jaws as scissors to cut hair. .
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#37 TT
A fairly major intersection less than 1/2 mi from my house is bordered by 2 large undeveloped lots. One is fully wooded and tended by Mother Nature, which means a lot of stuff dies up in there during droughts. This was maybe 10 years ago: a car stopped for the traffic light was creamed by a huge dead tree that fell into the street, killing a child sitting in the back seat. I never heard that there was any penalty assessed, but the trees there still die during droughts. -
Tedtam, my dear, you have been teaching this class for quite a while now, so I am wondering how you could not know the degree to which you could write your own lesson plan. You have mentioned several times not getting along with some officials at your church, but are you coping with a new “boss” this time? Sorry it blew up, because it does sound like your plan is better. 🙁
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Hi gang, just got through mowing the back 40 front 160 and repairing the bridge across the creek and DAYAAM it has been HOT, getting ready to take a cold Navy shower, son-in-law got the first 5 gallons and I’m guessing that I may be third in the line-up. The good news is that the young guns have taken up a lot of my slack, even started the fire and cranked up the generator for the AC, you can already hang meat in the cabin. Don’t tell anyone but I may be getting old. 😉
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Oh and it is real dry up here, we got a lot of rain this summer just not lately.
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the bestest closest shave I have ever experienced is with a good old fashioned straight razor. Don’t skimp on the shaving soap.
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Ever since I started to shave, it has always been in the shower, by touch – no mirror. I have a full beard now but I still shave the neck.
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#26 mharper42
The snarky one testicle remark in the comments to that post obviously comes from some dimwit who never had a biology course. That person’s number of brain cells is in question. Ovaries and testes are redundant organs. All you need is one functioning well. Solo ovaries produce eggs, solo testes produce sperm, and unless things have changed radically in the past day or so, it only takes one of each to reproduce.
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Adee, I don’t think that was snark. If you average in all the men and all the wimminz together, the “average” “person” has 1 testicle. I don’t think they were saying the men are only half what they should be.
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Oh and tell the truth: Did you ever hear of clamshell tweezers before?
Yes but clams are sorta exotic animals north of the Red River and west of the Mississippi.
On a side note, did you know the tribes along the East Coast never ate clams?
On account of they didn’t have linguine.
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More on the White House fence jumper: Someone has started a petition to allow he and his family to move in.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/20/petition-urges-obama-to-let-border-jumper-stay-in-white-house/ -
#57 Pyro
north of the Red River and west of the Mississippi.
So you ARE from Oklahoma and not a member of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska?
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Check yer geography.
Like I said, we’re everywhere.
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Good morning Hamsters. Hot yesterday afternoon but fortunately we’re down to a reasonable 73 at 6, heavy dew from the deluge, mist begins rising as daylight moves in. Weathervane points almost due north but no breeze has stirred thus far. Monday is supposed to bring cool and dry, and Tuesday brings Fall and the Equinox. Ready for that.
Ragweed and elm pollen out here on the moors is pretty heavy, noses drippy, eyes itchy, sneezes frequent. The coming northerly breeze will stir things up again for man and beast. Cameo’s allergies are going strong again, only briefly relieved by the rains. She’s on medication that makes her comfortable. One of our horse vets who moved here from Montana and never had sinus or allergy problems has them now. He and Cameo get them at the same time, she being outside all day and he being outside a good hunk of the day. The ragweed crop out here was very hearty.
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I’m gonna shop online all day today until I can get rid of the Squatty Potty ads. Anyone need anything?
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Cousin-in-law and his bride follow the Texans around on a few road trips every year just because. They are up in New York now, went to a Yankees game yesterday. I’m jealous.
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I need one of those Tilter Table things like TT showed us last year. -
I used to have as a goal to go watch every major league team in their home cities. The farthest I ever got was a Cincinnati Reds game, LA Dodgers in LA and the Seattle Mariners when they were still in the Kingdome. Could have went to the old Yankee Stadium going on a business trip with Sweetie many years back but they weren’t in town.
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#64
Not sure ads with wimmins hanging like bats are much better. 😀
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Not sure ads with wimmins hanging like bats are much better.
I just had this vision of Debbie Schultz and Rachel Maddow in a midget wrestler porn movie.
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perv
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perv
In some circles that would be considered fine art depicting the wimminz struggle against domineering males of the species.
It would be perverted if I included Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie ODonnel or Barbara Streisand
/Get that vision out of your brain 🙂
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Yummmm Wendy Davis in a tube top and daisy dukes hanging upside down on one of those tilting machines. Whoohoo………..
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#70: While being caned into oblivion for her outrageous lies and hostility towards any and everything good and decent.
/I don’t much care for that female
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I suppose I could entertain the possibility of imagining a lewd Wendy film. But it would have to include a sock in her mouth.
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I actually spent the entire day yesterday not in bed. There may be a light at the end of the tunnel.
And discovered an hour ago that four and a half days is my limit on going without a fermented beverage.
After drinking that fermented beverage, surprisingly, my eyes are not weeping from allergies for the first time in five days too.
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Dang I leave for one day—ONE. DAY.
And this place turns into an S & M discussion site.
I don’t know if that scares me more or the fact that all of a sudden I’m the responsible adult.
OK. A thoughtful essay may be in order here.
Sheesh.
I’ve got to find a different way to commemorate Unification Day than hanging out in Alliance bars.
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I was at church helping with registration this morning. I talked with the instructor for the second year of confirmation prep, and I hear there was a contentious meeting with the pastor last night. From what I heard from several folks this morning, it seems he’s blaming the declining numbers in faith formation on the teachers not teaching the curriculum. Confirmation II doesn’t even have a text, and I gather they’re searching for one now. That instructor is like me- he’s developed a program over the years that is even more firm than mine, and now he’s being told to trash it and teach from a book.
Books are boring. I teach from the text, but I pick and choose the pages that tie together and fit our spiritual calendar. From what I’m being told to do, I can be discussing the resurrection during Advent, for cripes sakes. I have to look at the schedule, but when I’m told to take each chapter in order…that could very well be the case.
CII instructor is telling me to hang in there, that they’re all in prayer. I was talking loudly enough for other ears to hear this morning, saying things like “I can’t teach stupid. If I have to teach the book, I’m going to be frustrated. The kids will be bored. I’d rather quit than water down my class.” I meant every word. if I can’t make this work, I’ll walk. I don’t need to be handcuffed doing something that I’d rather be passionate about. And I have real issues with pretending my students are less than they are capable of being. If I have to dribble our faith to them by the teaspoon rather than by handing them a bucket, we’re all going to be bored to tears.
And I’m being told that some of this is because were complaining that their students “weren’t learning anything,” but none of the complaints were from my class. Father is forgetting the huge impact – or lack thereof – that parents have when it comes to impressing upon their progeny the importance of knowing their faith. If the parents don’t care, their children will learn not to care.
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#75 Tedtam:
Speaking from personal experience, there are few things worse that someone who is NOT teaching (and delivering a homily from the pulpit is not teaching) trying to direct someone who IS teaching.
Here’s a suggestion – offer to have the pastor come in and teach the class for a couple of weeks – to “show you how it’s done”. That will probably end the issue.
If not offer to step down as teacher. You won’t be happy if you’re hamstrung and you won’t be effective.
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Here’s a suggestion – offer to have the pastor come in and teach the class for a couple of weeks – to “show you how it’s done”. That will probably end the issue.
With Tedtam no longer teaching.
I say stick to it Tedtam and do what your spirit tells you to do. Stand your ground.
If not offer to step down as teacher. You won’t be happy if you’re hamstrung and you won’t be effective.
that never works. People in power always believe there is another in line to replace the one quitting. At the end he is there and you are gone. A hollow victory.
i am curious as how the good revrund came to his conclusions. Most importantly though, pray for your pastor. He is the head of that congregation as ordained by God.
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I’m gonna shop online all day today until I can get rid of the Squatty Potty ads. Anyone need anything?
Yep, THIS popped on Drudge today?!?! How do they do that? I’ve NEVER ordered them on-line, but they’re my favorite, I love them…..I probably grabbed a picture at some time or another.
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TT: A well written letter to the pastor’s boss may be in order. I would think that it should include pertinent details/questions like:
* Shouldn’t the text book be organized in the same way that the liturgical year is?
* Shouldn’t the teachers (who are not paid) have some flexibility as to how to present the material, particularly so that they can address issues that arise in thier individual classes?
* Why is it that those who do not teach are telling those who do how to do it?It seems like a petty power struggle there where someone who has never had any real power or responsibility is finally in a position to exert some influence and it is going to thier head(s). It is a common problem in homowners associations. Power struggles like this damage all that they touch.
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Roll Tide! 😉
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Sigh, no joy in Houston or in Green Bay this afternoon.
TT, I agree with Fat Albert’s thoughts on the matter. Life is too precious to become stuck in the mud in this situation. And if you resign, do take every smidgen of course notes with you, as they are your creation.
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Send the pastor’s boss a sample of your notes and how they follow the church calendar so that he can see what garbage the official copy is by comparison to yours.
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the official copy is approved…………. Tedtam ain’t.
Real difficult to fight that.
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the official copy is approved…………. Tedtam ain’t.
Crap is still crap and the only way to expose it is to show what is should look like.
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Yeah………..right. And we are talking about a religious organization with a bureaucracy that goes all the way to the Vatican.
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Squawk – I would never advocate threatening to quit as a way of forcing the Pastor to change his mind. I think that’s dishonest and manipulative, I also think it’s being disrespectful to a person who is in a place of spiritual authority.
I do think it’s appropriate to let him know that you can’t continue to teach under conditions that you believe will compromise the effectiveness of your work. No threat, simply an admission of fact.
Life is short and often difficult – church is where we go for rest, solace, strength and support. If it becomes just one more pain in the butt, then it can threaten your spiritual walk and relationship with the Savior. And, you can’t minister to others if you are fighting for yourself. Better to walk away in peace than risk dis-unity in the body.
Most importantly though, pray for your pastor. He is the head of that congregation as ordained by God.
Amen and amen!!!
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#85 squack
You’re right (quick! Record this date!).Holy Mother Church is the most conservative organization ever invented. We could argue all day how good or bad that might be, but for the present, it’s simply how things stand.
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fat albert
I have seen joy expressed in tedtam’s posts about what she does. I do not want a temporal moment of anguish cause her to leave what is quite possibly her higher calling.I totally disagree that she will not be happy. It is through adversities that spiritual growth usually occurs. I say do not quit till the miracle occurs. When I was an immature butthead I left a lot of good positions because I WAS full of self. I did not even cursorily acknowledge their rightful positions. They are still their and I am gone.
That is all I am saying. Invite the pastor to teach and she is gone. Resigns because she does not think she will be happy. I really doubt that is what it would take to make her happy..
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bunsonburner
#87Glad you saw I was not being snarky.
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Man what a finish! – Seattle vs Denver game.
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I am a battered old veteran of church wars.
I think Ms. Tedtam is too.
Each of you have made cogent points.
Sometimes you do have to stand your ground. Sometimes you have to walk away. Sometimes taking no action is the best action.
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Sounds like Shannon is well into his road to recovery.
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Shannon: Like this???
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Before I saw my brother’s comments, my own reaction to Tedtam’s dilemma is to simply stand your ground.
Don’t back back away. Don’t push back. Just stake out where you stand. If this is what you believe with all your heart and mind, the last thing you want to do is yield to some pompous, falsely pious clown.
The realms of the religious world are full of fools, jackasses, con artistes, weak sisters and occasional criminals. It should be no surprise to any cogent human being since the field is ripe with opportunity.
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Don’t get me wrong. I love my rabbi and I have known priests and clerics whom I hold in the highest esteem.
But I also am immersed in some fairly intense battles right now, both within and without my congregation, and while I refuse to surrender to cynicism, I recognize the fragile and permeable surfaces of the human character.
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Thanks for the thoughts. I don’t want to walk away from (1) something that I love, and (2) something that is desperately needed in our parish. I just don’t know that I can do something halfway and be happy. It’s been opined that an old seminary friend of our pastor’s is the impetus for this sudden change in modus operandi.
Adversity is where growth can happen, but I have enough stress in my life, and now that HOUSEGUEST IS BACK!!! that level just went up. For example, I left this afternoon to see my momma and go work out, to return and find that Hubby and Houseguest put a plastic cutting board in the oven while warming up the brisket. It is now slightly concave and has a new lip on one side where it rested against the edge of the pan in which it was sitting.
So, really, do I try to dumb things down? It’ll be like putting hobbles on my ankles when I’m trying to run a 100 yard dash.
Need to do some thinking. I hate to run out on the kids, but I know I won’t be happy compromising my efforts. It will be very frustrating.
Perhaps a miracle will occur and I’ll find a way to sneak in my additional materials and still keep the students engaged.
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Need to do some thinking.
PRAY for wisdom.
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, (and Tedtams) and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. -
Tedtam, maybe you can lock all of the men out of the house, if you have to go out for errands.
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Tedtam, I’m with mharper42 on that locking up the house idea. 🙂
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Having watched Agatha Christie this evening, it occurs to me that the old dispensary nurse might be a source of ideas for solving your houseguest problem.
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TT – why not simply offer your course outside the formal structure of the church, available to any and all who wish to participate. Point out that church may offer some similar programs, but people are free to choose. Nothing can stop you from offering your own seminars, lectures, or whatever. One of the old AA sayings is that all it takes to start a new group is a resentment and a coffee pot – why not the same here?
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No one is going to send their children to a confirmation class that lacks the imprimatur of the church.
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