Yeah - indeed “pre-cast out” Adam and Eve would give “Open Carry” a new meaning. They could hardly do any sort of concealed carry, right? That would have to wait for God’s animal skins, and one doubts God would have sewn in any holsters for them.
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Dank Christian Memes
An Anglican priest and a couple of other guys review “dank Christian memes.”
Pretty funny, and the priest has some insightful comments.
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Good to see you again, @beaglelady. One of my rare contributions:
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The whole end of the decade controversy has been resolved:
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In this morning’s NYT ‘Briefing’:
When to start (and end) a decade
Over the past few weeks, The Times has published many an articlemarking the end of the decade. However, several readers have written us arguing passionately that the decade has another year to go.
In the sixth century, a Christian scholar named Dionysius Exiguusinvented the anno Domini numbering system, in which 1 A.D. was supposed to indicate the year of Jesus’ birth. There was no year zero, so the beginning of the first decade of the Common Era started with 1 and ended with 10.
Ringing in the new year — and maybe a new decade — in Ahmedabad, India. Sam Panthaky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Like language, time is socially constructed. People celebrated the end of the century in 2000 because the dramatic change in numerals served as a convenient marker, and also because humans are drawn to round numbers. But the first year in the third millennium is — technically — 2001. That being said, someone born in 2000 was not alive in the ’90s.
[My emphasis 
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Maybe Noah was one of those “more progressive” people in his day.
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Ha! We have a book with this picture in it – I just pulled it out of our “to donate” heap and am now a little confused about what’s implied with the picture on the lower left in comparison with this one.
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A sex change! No end of surprises from Noah!
[or maybe it’s a lion cub. After all, the song I know says that after learning their “birds and beesees, beesees” the animals, they left the ark “by threesees, threesees”.]
Just based on the bit of text we can see in your picture, it makes it sound like God got into a bit of a “cleaning mood” and decided to do some dishes or something.
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I guess it was just a lioness that needed a haircut. 
But yeah, the text has some odd and/or lazy choices of words and phrases… one of the reasons it’s on the “donate” pile.
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Love it. 
If nothing else, surely ones petunias should be sacred.
Frustrating right now because I’m used to leaving the dogs in the yard when we go to the Y. But with lots of rich amended soil recently added, they will mine it for snacks given any opportunity. So I am having to be creative. I surely do miss trusting in Dog.
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Some Scripture for Epiphany:
Is 60:1-6 (NIV)
Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
Lift up your eyes and look about you:
All assemble and come to you;
your sons come from afar,
and your daughters are carried on the hip.
Then you will look and be radiant,
your heart will throb and swell with joy;
the wealth on the seas will be brought to you,
to you the riches of the nations will come.
Herds of camels will cover your land,
young camels of Midian and Ephah.
And all from Sheba will come,
bearing gold and incense
and proclaiming the praise of the Lord.
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@Beaglelady will be glad to hear that I’ve gotten the first dog of my life (my parents didn’t get us a dog in Africa, as we were in a drought stricken area and they didn’t feel right buying food for a dog when people were malnourished; also Muslims of the area thought dogs as unclean, and they didn’t want to offend any of our truly wonderful, gentle neighbors). He’s a mutt from the Humane Society–a mix of lab and border collie, about 8 months old now. He is great for my son–both for love and responsibility. However, I had always thought that “my dog ate my homework” was a joke–they really do eat your homework! (and poop on it, too).
I’m grateful for the experience–just took him out for a long walk–he’s tired out.
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Good to hear, Randy!
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Yep happy for all concerned. Reminds me of two most important things Tom Robbins knows as recorded in his Still Life With Woodpecker novel. I hope the second one turns out to be true for you.
The romance of new love, the romance of solitude, the romance of objecthood, the romance of ancient pyramids and distant stars are means of making contact with the mystery. When it comes to perpetuating it, however, I got no advice. But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know:
- Everything is part of it.
- It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
May the new puppy help you fill the hole in your childhood.
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