The World Is Tilted - Issues 2006 - MSNBC.com

This is a fantastic article. Read every word and be afraid.

Phone Home

Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Asks Canadian Parliament To Hold Hearings On Relations With Alien "Et" Civilizations

Is this a real article? Did these people actually say these things? "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head." Holy cow.

Questions:

• Are these people completely crazy?
• Why are the ET's always qualified as 'ethical'?
• Do these people have a different tactic for dealing with 'unethical' ET's?
• What IS an ethical ET?
• Is it unethical for ET's to stick mind probes in our anuses (I'm setting up a joke there; feel free to have fun with it)?
• If it is unethical for other species to stick probes in our anuses, are we unethical in the way we deal with other species? That's not exactly a joke, what about how farmers run around sticking their whole arm up their cattle's anuses?
• The article includes the following sentence:
• Vancouver-based Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), whose International Director headed a proposed 1977 Extraterrestrial Communication Study for the White House of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who himself has publicly reported a 1969 Close Encounter of the First Kind with a UFO, filed the original request for Canadian Parliament hearings.
• Who had the close encounter, the international director or Jimmy Carter?
• Wouldn't it explain a great many things if Jimmy Carter had been abducted and molested by aliens? I KNOW he has had plenty of things in his anus, including his head. A mind probe would surely fit up there as well.
• Are these people completely crazy?

Black Mountain

I was just searching for a free e-card. I Googled over to bluemountain.com. I didn't use their service, but I did leave this comment.

HA HA HA!!!

PAY for online cards! That's the best laugh of the day. That's awesome! I think I pooped myself I laughed so hard.

Well, I guess I'll just have to pay the money and join. No sense in using one of the million free services out there. Great business model. You must be very proud.

Discouraging

Today I was almost done with my run when the music player decided to play "The Long and Winding Road" by The Beatles followed by "World of Pain" by Cream.

One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church

I have, for a long while, maintained a fascination with the Catholic Church. In high school and college I enjoyed an occasional trip to a Catholic mass. I loved going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. A couple of weeks ago Mary and I went down to Germantown in Nashville for Octoberfest. Before consuming a gallon or so of beer, we entered the Catholic church there and sat for a while. A really nice guy explained some of the statues to us. He explained that a depiction of a saint can be identified by the articles that he/she carries. For instance, Saint Peter (the Apostle and first Pope) often holds a key and a book. The key is the 'key to the church' that he posesses as the first Pope and the book represents the fact that he wrote a book that is accepted in the Holy Cannon.

When we were in London a few weeks ago I saw the saints on Westminster Abbey

and thought that I would like to know who each of them is. I just started doing some digging. It is so fascinating. Check out this article on Saint Peter. What do you think of the titles, "the first pope, Prince of the Apostles, and founder, with St. Paul, of the see of Rome." Does that make you bristle? I love it!

Check out Saint Paul. What do you think about him going "... to Jerusalem to see Peter and pay his homage to the head of the Church."

How about this article. Check out the section titled "A Saint for the 21st Century". I really like this language. I particularly like:
"Each generation needs to hear God saying "this is what I care about" - "this is what I find important". One of the ways God does this is through the persons God calls to sainthood."

Isn't that true? How ironic that protestants often criticizes the Catholic Church as being archaic. When, in fact, that is so relevant. I feel like we get too stuck in the first century that we refuse to listen to what God is saying today. He's still talking, isn't He!?!

This WikiPedia article, I think, is a bit cheeky about the Great Schism, but is an interesting read as well.