Bullet Tuesday: Never wrecked any of those vehicles yet

•My new winter coat, bought today, for my regional, ministry employment which will include the North. The groovy 1970's cover (s) are courtesy my late great, Grandma Berreth from Alberta. Very warm blankets. Thanks to the Franklin's for the tip on the coat.
•My 'newish', 2006 Nissan Murano is a very fine, solid truck, but there have been significant issues getting this US vehicle up to standards. I have called BCAA thrice, including freezing outside at Garbage Gut's house, one night.
•One repair is a new motor and transmission for the windshield wipers, which is now completed. The driver's side arm still needs replacing as it somehow became bent.
•Local auto wrecker: Quote: 'Never wrecked any of those vehicles yet'.
•Local Nissan dealer, opining on how the windshield wiper could possibly have been bent in the USA. Quote: 'Hurricane'.
•I like the wrecker exact quote. A good cumulative point for the model quality.
•The second quote, I hope that is not true.

Mortuary...you stab them, we slab them

On the way...

In a snow storm in Langley, while awaiting my truck's windshield wiper transmission motor repair; I heard the following at a local diner (with good burgers, that I walked to), while their phone rang:

Mortuary...you stab them, we slab them.

Bullet Sunday: With John Wee

John Wee says:

Satire und Theology says:

•We should talk about Chuck Manson.

•Good shows = Manson
Cheap shows = Chuck Manson

•Shake and Bake!

•Why do the Canadian women curlers look Uber made-up compared to the Swiss?

•The Second Great Awakening dream team: Charles Finney, Ellen G. White, William Miller, Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell...think about it. 

•I stayed with an English Reverend that stated wherever the Holy Spirit is the Devil is not too far behind.

•I thought I saw Mr. Hooper at church...

•Mr. Cooper, The Kingpin and Garbage Guts were at church today. Guts ate eight pieces of fish at the Christian event in Surrey, Saturday.

•Garbage Guts still has not met this flaming unicorn that Chuckles and Kingpin met, last summer, that he wants to meet. Seven  months and counting.

Care for a haircut (With an axe?)

No way I would risk it.



Better...

How about toenails too?

Pinterest

Yikes: More driving and/or flying lessons required?

More flight knowledge, too...

My attempt at a Rodney Dangerfield type joke

For my employment I recently had to take a personality type of test. My attempt at a Rodney Dangerfield type joke.

Rodney Dangerfield: 'I took a personality test and I failed it.'

Johnny Wee and Chuckles in regard to riches

Alarmy

Both are libertarians of different sorts...

Johnny Wee for months (Paraphrased): Russ, you will be a rich man, soon.

Me: (Thinking) Time will tell.

Me: Chucky, even if I ended up a trillionaire and you were on skid row (or in a skid row, so-called Christian singles meet-up), I would expect you to pay for much of the fast food and stuff, because you are Saint Chuckles.

Chucky: (Thinking) Of course.

An acquaintance attempting to start a theology ministry at church

Vancouver 2017

An acquaintance attempting to start an advanced theology/philosophy ministry at church

Non-exhaustive

Today, an acquaintance friend at church mentioned to me his desire (as a Christian intellectual) to find people within our church plant, willing to commit to an advanced study series on a secondary theological issues, not from the sermon. His topic is Islam.

This acquaintance friend has also mentioned this on occasions months ago. I opined today (non-exhaustively) that although advanced study is good within the Church, and our church, it is going to be very difficult to find committed participants. I suggested he consider multi-church and online.

The people that attend church weekly or less than weekly will often not be willing to commit to further church activity.

The people that attend church several times a week, such as myself (2-3 times) will often be time limited due to church work, paid work and family commitments.

I, for example, attend our church weekly, I assist with a couple of ministries and teaching when requested; I also attend a weekly bible study (Sorry, I prefer the generic term), and also attempt to attend one of our sponsoring churches, which I am member of, on Saturdays, if I am not booked.

My church events and work, plus my website (s) ministry has me with limited time and energy for additional and advanced church study groups. As I informed this acquaintance friend, I am already writing during the week in regard to advanced theological, philosophical and biblical issues, on this website and especially Dr. Russell Norman Murray. This website presents a lighter version of the same type of material. Lighter mainly as in less documented.

I may write in regard to a certain topic, from time to time, for years. Live and learn...

The larger churches and ministries gain support. Smaller, theological and philosophical ministries, not so much.

There is also the problem of intellectual laziness. In a sense this is reasonable, as people, including myself are often too busy to engage mentally with certain ministries.

But on the other hand, sometimes intellectual laziness is an excuse for intellectual dismal, as in (paraphrased) 'I do not know this person or this ministry and therefore I shall not support it'. Well, you could prayerfully take some time and ponder over the person and ministry and find out if support is required  as opposed to assuming it is not.

By the way, that type of dismissal is also often an issue with Christian dating (Sorry, I just had to).

I also reason there is a clique mentality in which certain ministries only wish to support people they reason are like them. A lot like them.

I have a had two local friend's wish to begin a Christian philosophy cafe, and I raised the same negative objections. It is very difficult to get such a venture off the ground without a lot of series ministry clout.

For me, at this time, I am concentrating on my paid work, my website ministry and working within (typical) church ministries.

Bullet Saturday: Sumo just requires eating

•Good and bad news recently. Bad news is that Uncle Chuck spent some time at Hospital. Good news is that apparently he has a very large heart, sort of like a Sumo wrestler heart, or an Incredible Hulk heart.

•Don't make Chucky angry...he might call the Mennonite Supreme Council, otherwise known as the Mennonite Solar Federation and they shall deal with thee.

•Happy to report that Pope Chuckins II will not need a baboon heart. Having attended the Planet of the Apes (once) meeting is already producing enough nightmares for myself, Chuckles and Johnny Wee. Note; The context is hygiene!

•Speaking of Johnny Wee: He sent me a satirical email in regard to assumed rules for Christian dating. Well, of course, keeping with the times, setting in-depth theology, philosophy and common sense aside, this makes a sort of sense: Image is everything! Rules are rules! Chinese should date Chinese, or at least Asian. It does not matter that Johnny Wee is a 'fake Chinese' Anglo with family from English speaking Singapore. Johnny Wee is not six foot tall and should expect to date and marry an Asian shorty.

•Further, big fat white gut means one should date a middle-aged woman that probably does not exercise much, has not exercised much since the 1980's or has never exercised much. It does not matter if one's big fat gut, is more muscle than fat, due to body shape and decades of exercise.

•In light of present Western society: Be too intellectually lazy to even attempt to parse the difference between muscle gut and fat gut. After all, the Japanese Sumo wrestler is the same as the American, McDonald's fatty? I mean of course, like. I mean America is famous for off the street Sumo wrestling competitions.

•In fact I have read that in the USA there are McDonald's fatty versus Burger King fatty, parking lot fatty Sumo wrestling competitions. Everyone 'knows' Sumo wrestling takes no training, just a lot of eating at places like McDonald's and Burger King. Remember, image is everything!

•Remember! Partial dome with Mr. Hooper (Sesame Street) or the Shake n, Bake middle-aged guy from the 1970's, look, equals dating a middle-aged woman with teenaged children and perhaps an angry and/or interfering ex-husband. No exceptions! Image is everything! Social rules are social rules.

Mr. Hooper: Sesame Street

In the video the Shake n' Bake guy meets Mrs. Hooper. What's with the partial dome and bow tie combination look?

A big gut looks good with suspenders according to some Mother's...

Chuck Norris wins World War II