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The temperature got up to 60° (15.55° C) today. I've had the outside door open since about 10 'clock this morning. I feel lazy just like I got spring fever, but true spring fever is another three months away. I've hardly moved all day long. I did do some vacuuming downstairs in my kitchen. The coffee grounds from using the GE percolator I bought a few months back somehow gets all over the floor when I'm dumping the dregs.
The reason I bought this expensive (for me) percolator was that the glass pots that come with the Mister Coffee drip systems break too easy, and the replacement glass canister is almost as expensive as a completely new coffee pot.
I haven't used a percolator for a couple of decades now. I didn't remember what the coffee tasted like when it's percolated as opposed to when it's made by the drip method. I like the taste of the drip method. It really was the glass pots that finally got on my nerves. The percolated coffee tastes just as good. Cleaning up to fix a new pot takes longer and I have to get my hands wet. Not good when the temperature is cold. Dumping the old grounds and washing the metal filter is more tedious than just dumping the grounds filter and all in one fell swoop.
The e-mail discussion group I subscribe to about the Gospel of Thomas seems to be going through another series of evangelical christians showing up on the list pretending to be interested in the Gnostic Gospels. It happens two or three times a year. The Thomas group's scholar's list is said to shut these people out by moderators, but the non-scholars group I participate in lets them stay as long as they can stand it. Usually, not too long. A couple of months, then they can't take it anymore.
My attitude on the list has changed a lot since I first subscribed nearly ten years ago. Since I don't believe in a historical Jesus, but rather a docetic spirit that can't become human, that fact alone creates hassles with the conventional religion outlook. The people who think there really was a physical Jesus look at these old writings completely different than me and some others do. They write about the history of the period and I could care less except for the Jesus stories as metaphors.
The metaphors are or seem to be the same metaphors I've studied in other holy books. Relating and associating them one with the other is kind of the fun I have discussion the Gospel of Thomas with the other members. Sometime that actually happens. It's not important for the other to agree with my interpretations or from my perspective, that they agree with me. The pseudo scholars usually don't. They're basing their interpretation on other people's experiences. Usually dead people who haven't been around for thousands of years.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
