Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

[Joe Biden 2020]

What do you mean by "visions"?

Visions/dreams, same thing.

[Joe Biden 2020]

What do you mean by "visions"?

Visions/dreams, same thing.

I guess I'm just curious if these visions/dreams exclusively happen while you're asleep, or while you're awake as well.

Whenever God speaks.  Could be while awake, could be while sleeping.

[Joe Biden 2020]

What do you mean by "visions"?

Visions/dreams, same thing.

I guess I'm just curious if these visions/dreams exclusively happen while you're asleep, or while you're awake as well.

Whenever God speaks.  Could be while awake, could be while sleeping.

I'm still not entirely sure what you mean by God "speaking." As someone who God does not speak to, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Do you hear a disembodied voice saying words to you? Do you see Him?

It is very hard to describe, so I'll do the best I can.  It can come in many forms, either an undeniable feeling, or a thought that just won't leave your mind, or the words or advice of a trusted friend or family member.  It is not God Himself who speaks as I speak to another person, although He reserves the right to do that.  Since it's not necessarily first-person audible, we have to match up what we hear with the Bible.  God will never go against the Bible, because He authored the Bible.  If the Bible condemns it in any way, throw it out.  If the Bible does not condemn it, it is a good bet that it probably came from God.  That's what I have done everytime.  Now, I will admit, sometimes I misread a couple things and ended up eating my words, but for the most part, I am careful to match up what I hear, feel, or think with the Bible to make sure it is not my flesh talking.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Good evening, folks.  I am posting for the first time on Luke Skywalker (my new laptop)!

[Joe Biden 2020]

What was your old computer named?

Captain Spock.

My desktop is Admiral James T. Kirk.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Good evening, folks.  I am posting for the first time on Luke Skywalker (my new laptop)!

Jabba was taken?

No, I just drafted Luke first!

[Joe Biden 2020]

Not that anyone cares, but my cousins are safe and sound at their house in Cameroon.

[Joe Biden 2020]

What was your old computer named?

Captain Spock.

My desktop is Admiral James T. Kirk.

Are you more of a movie fan than the TV show? I ask because you used the characters' higher ranks from the films.

I do like the Star Trek TOS films more than the TV shows.  Especially Star Trek II, III, and IV where Kirk's rank was Admiral.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Not that anyone cares, but my cousins are safe and sound at their house in Cameroon.

Will they be following the Africa Cup of Nations next month?

I highly doubt it.  Now, if I were there, I might have indulged.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Good evening, folks.  I am posting for the first time on Luke Skywalker (my new laptop)!

Jabba was taken?

No, I just drafted Luke first!

Well try to not lay about like a Hutt and use it to be productive.

I'm planning on using it as my main finance hub.  I am going to invest in the latest edition of Quicken in the next few days, maybe tomorrow after church.  It will not be plagued with porn.

[Joe Biden 2020]

bushie is it true that your parents' church is less conservative than yours?

If anything, they may be slightly more conservative.

[Joe Biden 2020]

things ive learned over the last few pages:

1. only southern baptists go to heaven

2.  bushie still spends money for no good reason.

Nowhere have I ever said or implied that only Southern Baptists go to heaven.  The only requirement to go to heaven is that one admits to God they're a sinner, believes that Jesus died on the cross for their sin, and ask Him to come into their hearts and save them.  That's it.  Pure and simple.  Anybody can do that, not just Southern Baptists.  I have many friends who are Methodist, Nazarene, Catholic, and other denominations, and the entry requirement into heaven is the same across the board.

[Joe Biden 2020]

^ So then ultimately what is the point of having any kind of denominations?  Why not attend a Catholic mass?

I agree, denominations are stupid and won't be recognized in heaven.  I can worship with anybody as long as they believe the fundamental things I mentioned the previous post.  I believe Catholics are just another denomination, not a separate division.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Yet just a few seasons ago, he was saying that he would never attend a Pentecostal church because of doctrinal differences. I believe ODF has also stayed that he would not even allow a Mormon to enter his home.

Pentecostals do have fundamental differences I don't like.  Also, Mormons are not Christians.  They are a separate religion.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Yet just a few seasons ago, he was saying that he would never attend a Pentecostal church because of doctrinal differences. I believe ODF has also stayed that he would not even allow a Mormon to enter his home.

Pentecostals do have fundamental differences I don't like.  Also, Mormons are not Christians.  They are a separate religion.

You can't pick and choose which denominations are Christians. If they view themselves as a Christian denomination, they're Christians, simple as that.

You have it backward.  It doesn't matter what somebody thinks.  It only matters what God thinks.  Why can't people understand that?

[Joe Biden 2020]

I finally have more respectable New Year's Eve plans.  24 hours ago, one of my best friends from high school invited me over to her house in Choctaw at 1730 Wednesday to ring in 2015 with her and her family.  We'll probably play some games and watch New Year's Rockin' Eve.  I won't have to spend New Year's Eve alone!!

[Joe Biden 2020]

I finally have more respectable New Year's Eve plans.  24 hours ago, one of my best friends from high school invited me over to her house in Choctaw at 1730 Wednesday to ring in 2015 with her and her family.  We'll probably play some games and watch New Year's Rockin' Eve.  I won't have to spend New Year's Eve alone!!

!!!

I'm not sure many people on this forum would attend with me since there will be no fermented beverages.  They have three kids, the older two are non-verbal autistic, so alcohol in the house would be a bad idea.  The parents want to set a responsible example to them.  Especially since I still have to drive 3 miles home at 0030.  I would love some wine, but I can't/don't want to stay the night there, so I'd better be a good boy and leave the wine alone!

[Joe Biden 2020]

if so, how do they react?

don't ask bushie to gauge the reaction of another human being to his antics. this is a guy who has no idea his boss hates him until the second he gets fired.

Who was the Atlas guy that visited ODF?  I want to know what that was like. 

That was tmthforu94.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I am home from a really good day at work.

This will be an early night for me as I'll probably go to bed around 2130 and get up at 0315 in the morning to watch the clock strike midnight in Kiritimati and Samoa.  I will then go about my New Year's Eve celebrations like I had previously mentioned before Christmas.  I will work from 0800-1400 tomorrow and will go to my New Year's party at 1730 and stay until 0030.  I'll probably go to bed around 0200 or 0230 Thursday morning after all of the lower 48 has entered 2015.  I will be awake for 23 straight hours, but I've done that many times before.  That's another reason why I don't want to drink tomorrow night.  I'll be fatigued enough as it is, I don't want to pass out like a bum on their living room floor from being too relaxed...

[Joe Biden 2020]

2015 has been born in Kiritimati and Samoa!!!  Up next, Chatham Islands (0415 in Oklahoma) and New Zealand (0500 in Oklahoma)

[Joe Biden 2020]

Another time zone is about to jump. I can picture Bushie, giddy with excitement as he presses his browser's refresh button over and over.

At the time of your post, Bangladesh was about to jump.  Now, we're waiting on Iran at 1430 and Kenya at 1500.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Grumps,

Part of this is we're still in the Christmas/New Year's holiday mode.  I lose four hours today, but Friday is in anticipation of some freezing rain and/or sleet that is supposed to hit.  Half of us live 30+ miles from work and since we don't have any work that is pressing for Friday, he gave us the option and everybody chose the day off.  We do have work coming in, but all of it can wait until Monday.  I'll get back to normal on Monday.  There are no more company holidays until Memorial Day, so we should be able to string together several 40 hour weeks back-to-back.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Nobody seems to be in the New Years spirit this year outside of ODF. Probably because it's a Wednesday.

Christmas and New Year's do fall on terrible days this year for most workers.  Terrible in that they are not connected directly to a weekend.  With the holidays on Tuesday or Thursday, though, it is normally fairly simple to take the adjoining Monday or Friday off and make it a long weekend.  The worst day for it to fall on is Wednesday when there are two days between that and the weekend on either side.  Case in point: 2013.  I was fortunate in that I was in school so I had three weeks off.  Christmas 2015 and New Year's 2016 will both be on Friday, so that's a nearly automatic three day weekend.  Christmas 2016 and New Year's 2017 will fall on Sunday, so most people would have Monday off as the official observances of the holidays.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I just had to do something I didn't want to do - take a 90 minute nap.  I was starting to feel a little droopy about 1430, so I decided to lay down until 1605.  In doing so, I had to miss the grand entrance of Kenya and Israel.  Never fear, though, I'm awake in plenty of time to watch my cousins in Cameroon ring in the new year, then I'll be at the party for everybody from London to Oklahoma City and be back home for Albuquerque and Las Vegas.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It sounds like an extreme example for an entire office but long commutes like that aren't uncommon for the west.

OKC does sound horrifically big, though. ABQ is kind of bad but OKC's square mileage for its population just sounds like a terrible waste of space.

We're starting to fill in the empty gaps quite nicely.  A spread out city is good, though, as that means more elbow room.  We're not invading each other's space too often unless we're mingling in Bricktown or Downtown or at a Thunder game.