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Our Daily Thread 4-23-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1789 U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the country’s first executive mansion.

In 1896 the first Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in NYC.

In 1908 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an act creating the U.S. Army Reserve.

In 1954 Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit his first major-league home run.

And in 2005 the first video was uploaded to YouTube.com.

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Quote of the Day

“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”

George Washington

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Today we have 2  music choices, both with birthdays today. First, Miss Shirley Temple…

Then it’s Mr Orbison’s turn.

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Most of us like YouTube. Since today is an anniversary of sorts for YouTube, here’s a QoD for you.

What’s your favorite use for YouTube, or if you prefer, your favorite video?

Pet’s, music, sermons, funny, movie clip, whatever…  If it’s a video, just post it if you like. 🙂  Tasteful of course. While it may be funny to see someone perform a stupid stunt that ends with bodily injury that you knew was coming because unlike them you thought it thru, it’s still mean to laugh.

Or so I’ve been told. 😯

38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-23-13”

  2. I have spent many a lonely night “Youtubing”. I would start with the lyrics of a song and wander around from there discovering more and more.
    My father was famous for saying that “the monkey chewed tobacca and the goose drank wine….” I never knew where it was from and probably never would have if it hadn’t been for Youtube:

    the clapping song shirley ellis

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  4. I haven’t heard “Animal Crackers” in about 75 years. Elvera says her first movie was a Shirley Temple movie. But she forgot which one.
    My first one, that I remember was a cowboy movie.
    Sometimes I watch a music video. Hank Snow, Eddie Arnold, Anita Carter,of course, with Hank Williams. I think I have linked all of them at some time. I know I linked Anita/Hank and Merle Travis.

    Seems Kim had a very successful trip.
    🙂

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  5. Kim: I assume you’ve seen the Shirley Ellis “Name Game” song that comes up after The Clapping Song. That’s pretty amazing!

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  6. Chas,

    I always liked Shirley Temple. My favorite quote from her is funny and sad at the same time.

    “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

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  8. AJ, that would be a shock for a six year old.
    I used to be amazed that a child that young could be taught to act that way.
    But GD, Becky, was in church plays at that age.
    She used to go around sainging something about “I trouble, I’ve got I trouble….”
    We had video cameras when they were young. For a few years, I would convert the tapes to DVD and put them in their Christmas stockings.

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  11. I use Youtube a lot when I am teaching. Movie or TV scenes that illustrate a point are what I use most. Though, “Redneck Fundamentalist explains the proper place for Christian women” is one I have used many times. It is a cautionary tale on many levels. One is how NOT to use the Word. If you watch it please note that this arrogant preacher is now in jail for seducing a minor.

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  12. Adios – A while back you briefly mentioned something about the biblical roles of husband & wife, & a couple of us asked you to clarify your views, but I don’t think you saw our questions.

    So…what is your view of biblical husband & wife roles?

    Now I have to sign off of here & go take care of my grandson, but I’ll be back later.

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  13. Thanks for the video, Kim — brought back memories of my young teen years — and, yeah, I remember that song. 😉

    Animals are fed, salad is made and packed … Now for coffee!

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  14. Hi Karen,

    Yep, totally missed that question. I got a new laptop and immediately had problems so I have missed a lot.

    And I am not sure I have time for chapter and verse, but I’ll nutshell it for you. God created male and female in His image. Both are created in his image. If we took the time to do an exegesis of the beginning of Genesis it shows that when it was not good for man to be alone God pulled the woman out of the man. Thus the physical, emotional, spiritual “one flesh” when a husband and wife are joined together. And we can easily see that God has a feminine side seen in passages of scripture. But God reveals Himself primarily as Father for very important reasons.

    So men and women are equal, but different. Remember Euclid’s axiom: if two things are equal to the same thing they are equal to each other. Men and women are both equal to the image of God and thus equal. The same holds true for slaves and masters, Jews and Greeks, etc. A good translation of ‘helpmeet’ is ‘corresponds.’ That word help sometimes makes people interpret that as lesser than, but the Hebrew word is ‘ezer,” which is used a whole bunch of times in the OT with God helping Israel. So we could make a case for humility or servanthood, but not subservience.

    Men and women tend to have similar traits to each other. Men are hardwired to provide and protect. Attributes we see in God. Women are hardwired to care and nurture. Also attributes we see in God. In the husband and wife role I think it is not only Biblical, but natural for men to take the lead. I often explain to young married women, that while dating there was this wining and dining period, so to speak, once a man gets married his provide and protect boosters are fired up. This doubles after a baby comes on the scene. So while we may immediately want daddy to change diapers and coo like we do over the new babe, he wants to go out and conquer the world for us. And this is really what we want and need in the long run. One problem with our modern society is we try and make men into women and women into men. I have seen stay at home husbands work, but they do it in a very manly way. And stay at home mothering is much more fitting to our hardwiring.

    Now for that S word. Because men are physically bigger than women, women get their selfish way most by manipulation. Men by intimidation. Though I have seen men manipulate and women intimidate. I think that is why St. Paul says “wives submit yourselves to your own husbands.” And “Husband love your wives.” They are both acts of submission–expressions of the cross–but the shade of difference is found in our gender tendencies. What Paul makes very clear is that these are choices we must make ourselves. The will is of very important in the book of Ephesians. Whenever a person has no choice in their freewill, evil ensues. When women are forced to submit they aren’t submitting at all and the consequence is the loss of identity. God has granted us a freewill. To take away someone’s ability to freely choose is to play God. That is not the idea of Biblical submission. There is a great power in submission whether it is freely chosen by a wife to a husband, by a man to his boss or Christ to His Father on the cross.

    Haha, how’s that for a nutshell?
    –Adios

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  20. OK, now that’s funny. I made my account here as “Cheryl and Misten” so as not to use my last name, and every once in a while it comes up that way, and I have to change my actual user name for this site to “Cheryl.” It looks like I changed it the wrong way last time I was on here.

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  22. Cheryl,

    I thought maybe your dog was posting. 🙂

    Actually I didn’t even notice it at first, just by the picture I figured it was Cheryl.

    If our pets could post, would they use pictures of us in their Avatar? 🙂

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  23. Adios – Thanks for your nutshell. 🙂 And I agree with what you wrote! Maybe what you wrote the last time was a bit cryptic, & so had us wondering.

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  24. AJ. “If our pets could post, would they use pictures of us in their Avatar?”
    Dogs maybe but I think cats would use a picture of themselves.

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  25. One of the things about the issue of same-sex marriage that concerns me is the growing idea that 2 parents are good for a child, but 2 parents of different sexes is not necessary for a child. Outside role models of the missing sex are supposedly good enough.

    I was upset to read idea this theory also accepted by a young Christian woman friend, who studied psychology & sociology in college, with an emphasis on “Family Studies”. She wrote, “I’m afraid I need to strongly disagree that a child NEEDS a male and female influence in the home and that by all means this should be the status quo to seek…This argument unfortunately makes very little sense in the long run.”

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  29. QoD: Cultural research 😀
    Actually, that is probably the most accurate description of what I used YouTube for. I looked up things that I couldn’t get an accurate description of by just reading: music, dance, movie trailers, clips from old television shows, etc.

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  31. I was often compared to Shirley Temple as a child, not because I could sing or dance (I could do neither), but because my hair grew in natural ringlets which resembled Shirley’s classic look. We used to watch her movies on the reel-to-reel movie projector we borrowed from the library (We saw a lot of old classics that way – many of which I still cannot find on DVD). I was most impressed however, by her growing up, not to be another emotionally shattered child actress, but an accomplished diplomat. She called her position as ambassador to Czechoslovakia the best job she ever had, and I don’t doubt that she meant it.

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  32. AJ, when Misten signed up for World’s blog, we tried to get a picture of me on her account, but I couldn’t get gravatar to work. I thought it would be funny if when I signed it I showed my dog, and when she signed in she showed her person. But that didn’t work. Oh well.

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  33. This afternoon I went to Walmart. I got behind someone in the checkout line who must have stories to tell. One of the most interesting “characters” I’ve ever seen. She was in one of those scooter carts they have, and I noticed from the back that she was old (short-cropped gray hair, saggy skin) but had the most earrings I’ve ever seen on an old person, at least four per ear, some of them dangly and some studs. And multiple necklaces. Not little dainty ones, but stones (turquoise) and silver with dangly things and I don’t know what all, but four or five of them. I don’t remember whether I noticed the bracelets initially or not.

    Anyway, she stood when it was time to pay, and I noticed several additional things, including more jewelry. First, the left leg was a prosthesis, one of those modern ones that doesn’t even try to look like a leg. At least one arm had a tattoo (or more than one), but it was really hard to see tattoos because the arms were also covered with bracelets–a watch with turquoise in the band and many, many more big bracelets. Each finger had multiple rings. And the right leg had at least one (maybe two) anklets. The top was just a T-shirt, with shorts and tennies; definitely the jewelry was the featured item, pounds and pounds of it.

    Oh, and did I mention that when the customer stood up, I realized she was a he? The jewelry wasn’t “feminine”; from the side I could see that those earrings had great big medallions and such, and all of it was large stuff (big rings, big bangle bracelets). But I’ve never seen a woman with half that much jewelry, nor imagined a man with that much, even an American Indian (which I don’t think he was).

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  36. By Susan Crabtree
    The Washington Times
    Tuesday, April 23, 2013
    Amid new concerns about the brutality of illegal forms of abortions, President Obama plans to deliver the keynote address at Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s annual fundraising dinner Thursday.
    The theme of the dinner, to be held in Washington, is a “Time for Care,” organizers announced. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said Mr. Obama has done more than any president in history for women’s health and rights so she is delighted to have him help promote the gala dinner with his presence………..

    Read more:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/23/obama-keynote-planned-parenthood-fundraiser/#ixzz2RKh3KKmg

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