Rowland Croucher
Riddles etc.
Employee: My wife says I should ask you for a raise. Employer: I’ll ask my wife if I can give you one. *** Why did the farmer receive an award ? Because he was outstanding in his field! *** Grandma: Were you a good girl at church today missy? Missy : Yes I was. When […]
Agnosticism
From Wallace Arthur’s Creatures of Accident (2006), chapter 20, “Big Questions”, pages 231, 232. …But with regard to realms which, by definition, permit no examination and thus provide no evidence, I find nothing to guide me. I see no more reason for a rational scientist to be a committed atheist than to be a committed […]
Sexuality and its Expression: With Special Reference to Homosexuality
Graham A Cole reprinted from Pressure Points: Papers presented to the EFAC Australia Consultation, 27-30 July 1993 For the purposes of this paper, sexuality is defined as that complexity of thoughts, feelings, bodily changes and behaviours that surround the human capacity for one flesh union and which is grounded in human biology.1 So defined, sexuality […]
Puns for the Educated
Puns, For the Educated Mind ————————- 1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian . 3. She was only a whisky maker, […]
Ramblings of a Retired Mind
I was thinking about how a status symbol of today is those cell phones that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse.. I can’t afford one. So, I’m wearing my garage door opener. I also made a cover for my hearing aid and now I have what they call blue teeth, I think. You […]
Institutions
My Facebook status today: In a Masters’ degree (social psychology) I learned that all institutions are inherently degenerative (RKMerton); the evil in institutions is greater than the sum of the evil of the individuals within them (RNiebuhr). So how do pre-institutional …’people movements’ stay focussed/healthy? Not by institutional control, but by listening to prophets (mavericks […]
ISAIAH 53
A. PRELIMINARY ISSUES Before engaging in an examination of Isaiah 53 itself, some preliminary issues must be considered. First is the issue of circular reasoning. Even if we interpret the chapter as the Christians do (forgetting for a minute the mistranslations and distortions of context which will be noted below), the most that could be […]
Stress and Burnout
Recently a friend said he was experiencing “burnout.” I offered my genuine concern, listened, and commited to continue to pray for him. His obvious pain and our conversation motivated me to do some research on this subject, and I soon discovered how uninformed I was about burnout. I quickly learned that I had confused burnout […]
Housework – fridge magnets
“Dull women have immaculate houses” “A mind is a terrible thing to waste on housework”
Saddest Country & Western Song?
The saddest country&western song ever recorded, or one of them, has got to be “The Water Lily”, by Tom T. Hall. It’s taken from a poem by Australian poet, Henry Lawson (1867-1922): The Water Lily A lonely young wife In her dreaming discerns A lily-decked pool With a border of ferns, And a beautiful child, […]
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