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Yesterday was pretty much of a bust when it comes to having unusual experiences. I stayed at home all day. My brother and I went out for our walk last night, but his shoes didn't fit right and he had to stop to get right with that before he blistered his heel. So, the night didn't produce any real change either.
The only television I get is over-the-air reception with a ancient antenna. It provides more actual content than analog TV and I can get weather reports on three different simulcast channels 7/24. There are a couple of stations that play old movies that weren't available before.
My problem with TV these days is that I don't like police, lawyer, or hospital shows where everything that happens is some big emergency. That doesn't leave much. I watch documentaries and travel shows on PBS a lot, but they're rerun so many times my choices are usually some program I've already seen several times or twenty. Many of these shows are so old the actors have all died of old age.
There is a series of documentaries about early Christianity playing now that posture a fight between Paul and Peter over how Jewish converts to Christianity have to become. It's interesting in a way I haven't been exposed to. They supposedly argued in Rome about whether the early Christian converts had to accept circumcision and the kosher diet.
Peter apparently stated that complete immersion baptism could replace circumcision, and the kosher diet didn't have to be strictly observed by the new converts. Paul couldn't get off requiring the kosher diet, and he lost the argument with Peter and slunk out of Rome bearing shame.
This documentary is the first time I've heard that the early Christians had to become Jewish first. Apparently, converting to Judaism was a real barrier for some people who were attracted to the message of the Jesus stories. It's beginning to look like the argument over the requirements for becoming a Christian was the motivation for the Roman Church which eventually dominated the other opinions.
The exposure of these arguments that formulated the beginning of Christianity cannot possibly be good for Christianity. They are stupid, prejudicial, petty crapola, and when it's laid out with all the technological doodads that video can make believable then it weakens an already vulnerable belief system.
It's no different than the Muslims still living by the stone-age prophets as if two atom bombs hadn't been exploded in Japan sixty-five years ago, and there are no drones in Pakistan piloted by people sitting in America. All it would take is three hydrogen bombs.
One for Rome, one for Mecca, and one for Jerusalem, and the stone-age desert religions would be kaput! I don't recommend it, but I think it may happen, and in my own life time. Maybe I'm fooling myself, but things are hotting up to the boiling point.
I think it is more likely that those three hydrogen bombs will fall on Washington, Moscow, and Beijing, thus giving the rest of the world a break if they can survive the initial onslaught. None of these hot spots are in the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe it's time to move to Australia.
Personally, I don't think I can come out ahead if nations start flinging nuclear weapons at each other. I live halfway between the biggest Army base in the world and the biggest Marine base in the world, and the missile aimers probably already got plans for taking them both out by shooting their missiles at my house. Bummer, man, but a quick death for sure.
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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.
