it’s Spring, what’s your thing?
spring cleaning – got a big cleaning coming up? Any cleaning you do (only) seasonally?
not for the interior. Outside, though, yes. The wonderfulness of Winter in Colorado on a ranch is not doing a damn thing to the property all Winter. Now, it’s time to spread a LOT of manure, check the fencing, put a new mailbox in, stuff like that. you know, I hated doing yard work on my teeny tiny tenth of an acre in town. It seemed stupid to mow and water and fertilize 20 feet by 30 feet. now that I have 5 acres, though, I LOVE working outside. The key is having decent wireless headphones.
reminds me of a game. I game I invented. The Wii yard work!
baseball – juiced up overpaid meatheads? Or, America’s past time?
ha! I made a funny. I wrote these questions, as my editor is likely in the drunk tank again in Commerce City. I think we are supposed to call baseball ‘America’s Pastime’. I typed the question as ‘past time’. Total fruedian slip ‘Sirian slip‘. I am sure baseball was a great pastime, and now that time has passed. I am not against baseball… but nor am I for it. Don’t care. Baseball is like Paris, or the NFC. I am aware it exists, but indifferent about it. HA – another example of google subtext. I went to google a picture of the NFL’s NFC conference, and typed in AFC. Even my formidable and incredible hands could not take the order seriously to look up anything about the NFC.
Council of Nicea – a unifying summit of godly goodness? Or the greatest cover up of all time? Defend your answers, and show your work
I am not a fan. Do you know what it is? Allow me to very briefly explain. For a few hundred years, there was a LOT of versions of Christianity going around. It was admittedly confusing. In 325 ad, a bunch of important people got together and said “listen, we need to simplify and unify the message of Christianity. Doug, for example, has been going down to down explaining that Christ’s message was for you to show him your boobs. We need 1 message, and 1 bible. We aren’t leaving this room until that is done.”
I get that part, and it makes sense. Thanks a lot, Doug. But, mostly it censored everything the pushy guys didn’t like. Mary, for example, was not a marginal player or lowly prostitute following the gang at a distance. She was a very significant figure. It is believed she was likely at least an equal of the men, and a full apostle. She had her own book. A lot of people did, and they cut all that out. Only much much later did we find some of these original censored and ‘satanic’ bibles. The Dead Sea Scrolls was one such find.
the other thing I didn’t like about this it that the council was held in 325. this means LONG LONG LONG after Jesus, and all his people, were dead. So, no one could pipe up and say “actually, Donald, Jesus was fine with Doug doing that whole boobie thing. It was the rest of us who had to put the kibosh on it.”
I have said this before, and I shall explain again. I do believe there was a Jesus. I do believe he was a great and charismatic leader of men. I do not believe he had any magical powers, though. I also do not believe he was the son of god anymore than you or I am. Well… obviously not you. Look at how you are dressed! I believe Jesus was sadly and cruelly executed, and that is story ends there… up on that cross.
Regardless of your beliefs, we do know the Council of Nicea was real, and had real consequences. Please read more about it, from people smarter and less biased than I. Here is the wiki page.
jesus – god’s resurrected son who walked out of that crypt, or charismatic leader and mortal who sadly did die that day on the cross?
Didn’t we just cover this? who writes this dreck?
Tony Romo- was he great? Could he have been? Would you keep him, if you knew you could protect him?
I don’t think he got the chance to be great. I think he might have been great, but was either too fragile, or had shit for an offensive line to protect him. If you say his name 3 times in the mirror, he breaks a collarbone. Sure, he blew a couple really really big plays… but who did that more than Peyton Manning? Being great isn’t easy, and it comes with an epic share of monumental fuck ups along the way.
thing is, football is just murder on the body. I bet he is getting offered the EXACT same amount of money (around ten million is an educated guess) to do tv as he was to play football. In fact, Shannon Sharpe left football when he was playing amazing top notch football. It was a huge surprise when he retired and went to CBS. When a reporter (probably the great Rick Reilly… miss that guy)*** asked him why he walked away, he said “they offered me the same money, and no one is trying to kill me every Sunday anymore.”
you can’t argue with that logic. I’ll tell you what we can, do. Take this opportunity to look at the amazing Jessica Simpson. At the time, she was brilliantly dubbed ‘Yoko Romo’. and maybe since we are on this topic, take a moment out to remind us all how horribly creepy her father was. The man said ‘she’s got double d’s. You can’t keep those puppies down!’. Can you imagine your dad saying that about you?
ok, we started talking about Spring, and then a pretty thoughtful conversation about Jesus, and whether or not the council of Nicea was good old fashioned bullying. How did we end up looking at hot and vapid pictures of Jessica Simpson? My guess is you didn’t come here for Sunday School, did you?
*** Rick Reilly is not dead, he just retired about ten years ago. Find one of his books of columns. He was a sports guy, but with a brilliant wit. Combine Dave Barry and Bill Simmons and you have Rick Reilly
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