Monday Madness

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Answer to the Friday quiz: Shade is the only word that will not form a compound word with at least one of the others.

Sunday Praise

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Friday Quiz

Which word does not belong and why?


Ball, Base, Cannon, Room, Shade, Store, Top, Tree

T.G.I.F.

Answers to last Friday's Quiz: Elvis Presley and Hank Williams
The rest of T.G.I.F. will post with this Friday's Quiz tonight.

I enjoyed the day at Lady of the Lakes Renaissance Faire. It felt good to get home where I could sit in comfort. No need to go for a walk after trudging around for four hours!

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. " ~ C. S. Lewis

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill and C. S. Lewis were contemporaries. They could not have helped knowing of one another. I wonder if they ever met, and how they would have related to one another.

Humor

Saint Peter was watching a woman come up to the Pearly Gates. She would take only a few steps, and then look around in amazement. When she came within speaking distance she said, “Everything is so much better than anyone ever said it would be.”

“That’s what everyone says,” Peter said. “‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him.’ Now there is only one question you need to answer correctly and you can go in. How do you spell “love”?

“Oh, that’s easy,” she said. “L.O.V.E. Why do you pick such an easy word?”

“Because some people spell it, ‘J.E.S.U.S.’ and they not only get in, they get to eat at His table. But you can eat with me at my table.”

About three years later, the subject of being too impulsive was being discussed at the dinner table. She admitted that she had been that way in life, but really wanted to change.

“Guarding the gates has really helped me change.” Peter admitted. “I’m long overdue for a vacation. Will you guard the gates for me while I’m gone and practice being less impulsive?”

So she agreed and the next morning, the first person she saw was the husband she had left behind on earth. She smiled and waved, and he returned the greeting. When he was close enough to talk she asked, “What have you been doing these 3 years without me? I used to do everything for you before I got sick.”

“Well, I’ve managed to get by O.K.,” he said. “You remember that cute little nurse that took care of you, right? Well, we got married, and just a few weeks after the funeral, we won the Powerball Lottery. We both quit our jobs, and we have been world travelers ever since. In fact, we were skiing in the Swiss Alps, when I lost my balance, and went flying through the air. I don’t even remember landing. I just woke up and here I was. What do we do next?”

"Just answer two questions correctly and you can go in," she replied. "Did you learn any foreign words or phrases while traveling?"

"No, should I have?" he asked.

"That's O.K." she said. "Now spell 'arrivederci'."

Wacky Wednesday & A Thought Filled Thursday

This morning (Wednesday) I checked out the little icons that can be seen only when a person is preparing to post a blog. How embarrassing! This fool had all the tools needed to post images and links one click away all the time he was struggling with html code. Well, praise the Lord! Now I know two ways of doing it.

Here is something else to praise the Lord for. I have been existing on a very low heart rate for many years. My normal has been 50 to 52 since moving to Florida. About nine months ago it was 44 at my doctor's office, and it has been averaging that until my last check up. The nurse read 38 per minute there in the office, and the doctor sent me to a specialist. His response was that I need a pace maker.

I mentioned this at our men's Bible study Tuesday and they prayed for me. I spent much of that day researching low heart rate and toxins online, because there is a lot more going on besides a low heart rate. My findings are included in today's Wacky Wednesday.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison." ~ Paul Goodman

Yes sir, Mr Goodman, I will try not to do that, especially the latter for I have already convinced myself and need convince no other.

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others." ~ Lucretius on Taste

'nuff said.

The Week's Best Link

This is my lifetime's best link and healthiest for those who unknowingly have copper toxicity syndrome. Copper takes years to reach the level that triggers many of these symptoms, but in the end it is a killer just as much as acute copper poisoning. I have been trying for years to figure out what is going wrong inside of me and the list of symptoms kept growing. A few matched some of the symptoms of lead, mercury, and aluminum toxicity, but each had symptoms that I did not have. So here is the link to the best on the subject, and if your symptoms match, then it may be your lifetime best link as well.

http://www.drlwilson.com/articles/copper_toxicity_syndrome.htm

A related link is:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002496.htm

More Thoughts to Share

When I was copying information for this article on Wednesday my computer suddenly would not go on line, no mater what I did. Coincidence? I think probably so, but a Big Brother conspiracy theory thought did cross my mind. Why are there no warnings about too much copper on food and supplements containing copper. Nuts, seeds, and grains all have copper in organically usable amounts that require no additional supplementation.

The sea salt that is a novelty addition to some foods contains the biounavailable copper mentioned in the CTS article. It is an inorganic salt of copper with no mineral value, only toxicity. When added to nuts it adds five to six times the copper contained in the nuts. When used to season croutons, it adds twenty times the copper in the wheat flour.

Why has the FDA not banned sea salt in foods? The EPA has banned the use of it in the treatment of effluent prior to releasing it into freshwater lakes. streams, and estuaries. EPA regulations say that only synthetic sea salt without copper may be used in effluent treatment. Save the fish at any expense, but let humans poison themselves. Maybe this will save Social Security if enough older folks die unexplained deaths.

But as soon as enough people begin to realize the risk, sea salt will be off the market without government regulation. The cure for copper buildup is easy, but may take some time. Zinc and exercise. I take it at 25 mg. 4 times a day, plus extra magnesium because they work synergistically in conjunction with each other. Exercise helps work the stored copper out of tissue. Total exhaustion must be ignored but only mild exercise such as walking regularly is needed.

I spent most of Thursday getting my computer repaired so I could get this posted in spite of Big Brother. It is quite late on the East Coast, but it will be there for my Friday readers, which is the biggest readership day each week. Have a good night.

Tuesday

For now this is just Tuesday. Adopt a child month has come to a close. If you considered adoption during October, let me encourage you to pursue it. We who have adopted and found it a good and rewarding experience are often too silent about it. The ones who make all the noise are the ones with the horror stories. I am so glad my first wife and I adopted our son. Ours is an example of an adoption that turned out well.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." ~ Plato

I know there are times when I say too much. May it never be simply because I had to say it, though I am sure there have been times.... I believe most people do both, talk because they have something to say, and because they have to say something. The wisdom comes in knowing which is which and applying it circumspectly.

Humor

Some friends, Letta (rhymes with Rita), Terri, and I were having a chat room discussion on pets when they started telling about their birds.

Terri: "The most we ever had at a time is the 4 cats, 5 dogs....

and then I have a Green Wing Macaw and Cockatoo"

Letta: "I have a Nanday conure. They say they are the loudest of all the conures.

I truly believe that is a fact."

Terri: "Birds are some funny creatures.

"Caesar/ the Cockatoo--- is very loud, but likes to snuggle. When he wants to snuggles he says, 'want to watch TV' (I guess because we snuggle in front of the TV and talk about it or something)

"Vegas/ the Green Wing [Macaw]-- is most amazing, he yells, 'maaawwwmm' when he wants me (think the kids taught him that)....he also tells Caesar to 'shuuuut up' (which he also learned from the kids...lol)"

Ronald *not really having wise words, but feeling like he had to say something*:

"LOL- Watta bird!" [Translation: WOW- What a fool I am].

Terri: "haha.... I love my animals... they are a hoot....

"my dog does a thing we call, raise the roof... she will dance and raise her front paws in the air like she is "raising the roof"....

"the other dog.... if you say, 'High Five' across the room at her, she will run and jump and slap her paw against your hand...

"the cats...well....they are just ornery renegades"

Letta: "Thats funny.

"Bob, tells you 'come here' if you put your hand in his cage, he says 'watcha doin'' and several other things. He mocks the sound of a squeaky door we have, and the sound of my husband cranking the goose-neck trailer up or down.

"He mocks people when they laugh, and he barks like the dogs outside (very convincingly)."

Terri: "haha...

"Have you ever heard an African Grey? I know someone who has one and he sounds exactly like their home phone, their cell ring tones & alarm clock.

"They tell me he plays tricks on them all the time, especially with the alarm clock.
They told me one time, that the husband was out of town and the alarm went off and the bird said, in the husbands voice, '15 more minutes,' (supposedly the husband says that frequently)----and the wife hit the snooze and then remembered her husband was out of town....NOW that would have been freaky..."

That is just about the way my afternoon went with me tossing in a foolish comment every now and then. So now you know the rest of the story, why Plato got top billing two nights in a row in the quotation column. I got an interesting and humorous script for tonight's blog, and they got my promise that I would tell you they won (won what, I will never say). I would say I had the greater win!

This fool will close with a repeat of another quote from last night,

"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." ~William Shakespeare

Monday Madness

Today I located the best link I have seen yet. It is for material written June 15, but there was no new post until October 22, so we shall say it is the best October blog link. You may think it is one of the best ever.

October's Best Link

I Believe This is the Tangle website. It would be worth joining to read this post, even if you never returned, or closed the account immediately after.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

Why is it that just when I am starting to learn how to use html code they replace it with xhtml code?

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." ~ Plato

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~ Unknown — I wish we knew who this quote belongs to; I would like to ask him what the wise man was doing at the bottom of a well.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows. ~Unknown. Unknown restated what Shakespeare wrote earlier:

"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." ~William Shakespeare

There are two kinds of fools in this world. The one the dictionary defines as a jester, or one who does foolish things. The other the Bible describes as a person who has confirmed in his inner being that there is no God, or if there is, he wants no part of him.

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" ~ C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

Sunday Praise

Since there is an extra hour this morning I have decided to put it to use with a Sunday Sermonette. I have decided that along with the time change I will also change that name to the Sunday Mini Sermon.

Humor

A burglar broke into an electronics store one night, and began filling his bag with MP3's, IPODS, and other small expensive items. Suddenly there was a voice, "Jesus is watching you." He quickly doused his flashlight and froze.

After a few minutes of dead silence, he shone the light all around the room and saw no one. So he went back to putting more high tech stuff in his bag. Then he heard "Jesus is watching you," again.

He shone the light in the direction of the voice and saw a parrot. "Was that you?" he whispered. "Of course," said the bird.

"Who do you think you are?" he asked.

"I'm Moses," the parrot said.

"Who would name their bird Moses?" he asked.

The parrot replied, "The same people that named their pit bull Jesus."

The Sunday Mini Sermon

The First Commandment

Exodus 20:2-3 "I AM JEHOVAH, YOUR GOD who has led you out of Egypt [and] out of [the] place of slavery. There are no other gods for you except Me." Deuteronomy 5:6-7 repeats the first command word for word except that the Greek has pro prosopon emou (before My face, or in My sight) in place of plen mou (other than Me, besides Me,or except Me).

Deut. 6:5 explains what should be the motivating force behind obedience to the command, "And you will love the Lord your God with the whole of your heart, and with the whole of your soul, and with the whole of your might."

Because we love God, we follow Him only. Deut 6:14-15 tells what God means by "no other gods". "You may not turn from God to walk in the way of other gods of the nations all around you because your Lord God is passionate with you. You do not want to provoke Lord your God to become angry with you, and destroy you from the face of the earth."

How it hurts God to have His people turn away from Him. We have been told we must be tolerant of other religious beliefs. Is being tolerant the same as approving others gods for worship? It had better never be. 2 Timothy 4:2 says, "Proclaim the Word publicly. Be ready to do this when the time is right as well as when it is not a good time. Refute, admonish, and invite them to come, teaching [them] with patience and perseverance." This is not approving or tolerating other gods.

We are the people of the true and living God. We must show Him honor by keeping His first command in the way He intended.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not." ~ Warren Wiersbe, on A Heart for God