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Our Daily Thread 11-1-13

Good Morning!

How can it be November already?

Oh well, at least it’s Friday! 🙂

On this day in 1512 Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.

In 1604 “Othello,” the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.

In 1765 the British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.

In 1800 U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.

In 1861 Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies.

In 1904 The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class.

And in 1949, in Washington, 55 people were killed when a fighter plane hit an airliner.

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Quote of the Day

“I have nothing to say to the nothing that has been said.”

Spencer Perceval

The only British PM to ever be assassinated.

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Today is Michelle Tumes’ birthday.

It’s also Dan Peek’s.

And it’s Lee Ritenour’s too. So “Rio Funk” it is. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

36 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-1-13”

  1. Was up late last night finishing homework after Trick or Treating. Hubby was out of town but called. He was rather unhappy with the teacher for loading up on homework on Halloween. Since this is a Christian school I’m wondering if they are anti Halloween and she did it on purpose discourage the kids from Trick or Treating. There did seem to be more than usual. But I can’t recall any other teacher from this school doing that

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  2. I was just catching up on the thread from yesterday. The comments on trick or treating reminded me of this routine by Peter, Paul and Mary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbD3QLU5o4

    Our family went back and forth about Hallowe’en. My parents, being sensible people, didn’t really see any harm in it, but they kept encountering Christians with strong views on the subject, who spouted what was frankly a lot of nonsense about how evil it was – the Christian urban legend machine works overtime on that holiday. We didn’t go out trick-or-treating, as our rural neighbours were scattered over a wide area, and for several years, our closest neighbours were drug dealers who had pit bulls to guard their property at night.

    Hallowe’en may have pagan origins, but they are Western pagan origins. This year, I am living in a culture with deep roots in animism, and I completely forgot about it being Hallowe’en – it has no significance here. I wondered last weekend, when I was in the city, why all the television stations [which is mostly American programming broadcast out of the Middle East] were playing movies about a) vampires b) zombies and c) monsters. There was nothing in the stores, even in the stores that sell Western products, to commemorate the event – that is probably because most of the products come from England, which celebrates Guy Fawkes day more than Hallowe’en.

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  3. Enjoy your Friday everyone. I am glad that you all are moving your clocks this weekend and will thus be an hour closer to PNG time. That means that Aj will post at 8 in the evening my time, instead of 9pm.

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  4. Good morning everyone, even Jo. 😉
    It’s FRIDAY! You know what that means?
    Busy day, including Lions this afternoon.
    And I have to make football picks.
    So much to do. 😆

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  7. Today is All Saint’s Day. We Baptists don’t recognize it as a special day. But this is the day in which the 95 Thesis were taken from the door of the Wittenberg Chapel and copied and distributed.

    Luther didn’t mean to start a reformation. He wanted to debate.
    As Paul was a “Hebrew of the Hebrews”, Luther was a ‘Catholic of the Catholics”. He was a monk, He got a doctorate from U. of Wittenberg in 1512. His master was John von Staupitz who assigned Luther to teach Psalms, Romans and Galatians.
    Having taught and tried everything to merit salvation, Luther discovered Romans 1:17 “The just shall live by faith”. This changed his life. He became a new creature.

    Luther didn’t immediately understand the logical consequences of this. But, almost accidentally, he was drawn into controversy. In 1517, Pope Leo X sold the Archbishoprick of Manz to Albert of Brandenburg. In order to repay the loan, and allegedly to build St. Peters in Rome, they started selling indulgences.
    Luther, exasperated, set out to debate this, and wrote 95 articles to debate.
    I have/had a book of the documents of the Christian church. I was going to post some of these thesis, but I can’t find the book. I can’t imagine that I would dispose of it. But, since this is November, the month it all started, I might find some of them. It is very enlightening. Luther didn’t mean to start a new church. He just wouldn’t recant.
    It wasn’t really a Reformation, it was a schism. They broke apart.

    Much of my information comes from two books, Here I Stand and The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. I can’t find my Documents of the Christian Church. It has to be somewhere.

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  8. A lot of unintended (and not-so-good) consequences & theological extremes were unleashed in Christianity at large after the Reformation. Even so, thank God for Luther.

    I’m off to take Annie the vet (again), more antibiotics for her most recent wound — it’s small but has become infected judging by the smell that isn’t going away.

    I don’t know if she fights with other cats a lot or what, but she gets a lot of these things — too many. I may have to further restrict her outdoor time altogether, I just can’t keep doing this.

    Happy Friday. I’ve got to do a city election story today. Groan. But looking forward to an extra hour of sleep this weekend.

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  10. Will the person who posted a college football entry at 8:05 this morning please identify yourself? Can’t award a virtual high five to “anonymous”.

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  14. A lot of us protestants do not realize that during the reformation, there was a group of Catholic evangelicals called the Spirituali. Michelangelo was a member. They believed in a personal relationship with Christ and that Christ’s sacrificial death paid for all sin and that the transubstantiation doctrine of the Mass was wrong. Michelangelo had a copy of Luther’s German Bible that had been translated into Italian. He was buried with his Bible. Art Historians believed that Michelangelo’s statues in Julius’s tomb that face eastward rather than at the Altar were a spiritual statement to the papacy that these saints of old, like Moses were facing east looking for the return of Christ rather than looking at the altar, which would have recognized the papacy as having final authority rather than the Scriptures.

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  16. Kim shows up an anonymous while she’s moving.
    Sounds like her to pick USC over Oregon.
    😆

    I notice the cartoon I referred to yesterday is in today’s selections.

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  17. JoeB, some of those people during the middle ages were, indeed, evangelical Christians. Luther had spiritual advisers. After his 1521 “Here I stand” speech, he was kidnapped by his friends and stayed in Wartburg Castle for about three years. There he translated the Bible into German and wrote the hymn “A Mighty Fortress”.

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  19. Anon could be me early in the morning. My Ipad has given up on remembering me at this website, so I claim a woman’s prerogative to be mysterious.

    But that’s not me up above. 🙂

    Thanks for the information Drives Guy; I didn’t know that about Michelangelo.

    And, like you, I, too, thought I was getting birthday wishes. I throw me everytime I see a reference to Michelle.

    But, no, it’s not my birthday, though we are going out to dinner: PCC annual banquet. The speaker is Abby Johnsons, the former PP director who switched sides, finally, in part because of the ministry of pro-life protestors outside her clinic.

    In other news, the newest adorable granddaughter went to the Halloween trunk and treats dressed like a Yule Log, which made everyone laugh.

    If you’ve got an hour, here’s the link to our Youtube interview. I haven’t seen it myself. Too much work today! http://bit.ly/181ekdc

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  20. So if two people claim to be the anonymous, and anonymous wins, then I guess I split the prize. Let’s see, five by two. Hmm, high two-and-a half doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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  21. I was the Anon who posted about the question of two claiming to be Anon above, but I did not post the scores. I am being about as transparent as our current government. 🙂 😦

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  22. If Anonymous wins, we’ll find out who it was.
    I’ll claim that It was me under a psuedonym. 😉

    Michelle, I didn’t see the entire 48 minutes. Fortunately, your was first. I enjoyed that part.

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  27. I won’t be looking at Michelle’s interview or clicking on any videos, just got my highest internet bill ever here. We are charged by the megabyte. Ouch. I will have to be careful with my use.

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  32. Chas, can I borrow some money?

    Today was a bear — after dropping Annie off early at the vet’s, I was heading to the office when I noticed police cars, sirens blaring careening onto the offramp that led to LAX. All of us wound up working on that story today (I had to live tweet one of the news conferences from the newsroom).

    But I’m growing so weary of the overreaction to these things by our bosses — talk about stress as they bark out orders and make everyone run in circles.

    I mean, sure it’s a big story. But it’ll be gone by late tomorrow, too. Oh well.

    Since I still had an election story to write today, I wasn’t able to pick the cat up so she’s stuck staying overnight at the vet’s — and I’m stuck with paying extra for it.

    And my neck and shoulders are on fire.

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  33. Somebody needs a vacation. A nice quiet week or two out on a prairie. Listen to the wind in the pines, the birds gather for migration, the deer herding up for the fall activity, the peaceful voices of children calling out their good nights….Ahhhhhh…..

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  36. Thank you, Solar. Very sobering, and an important reminder that no one is immune to temptation of that sort. Another “There but for the grace of God go I” example.

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