Satire
My apologies to Phil B and others who commented on the Fake News Friday post. It was intended to be satire. Phil B does make a good point, though. In some jurisdictions prosecutors will use any detail to make their case; examples include the color of your gun, bumper stickers on your vehicle and your posts on social media. In other, saner jurisdictions (Polk County, Florida comes to mind), the prosecutor is more likely to stick with the demonstrable evidence immediately before and during the event.
Hate Crime in West Bloomfield, Michigan
It was reported that a truck "filled with explosives" rammed into a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township. The armed driver later died of a self-inflicted wound. Fortunately for his intended targets, the perp was unable to exit the vehicle due to the doors being wedged shut during the crash-entry.
The truck caught fire at some point which totally sucked for the driver...trapped in the cab with containers of liquid gasoline and explosives.
Kudos to the security team for keeping the perp too busy to figure out how to exit his vehicle through the side windows and continue his attack.
Kudos to the investigation team who traced back the purchase records on the explosives.
A fragment of data on mutation rate of ancient, written texts
A reader who identified himself as Recent Lurker asked about drift in written text over time in the post about "Turn the other cheek".
This is one of those cases where looking at a work that is not the Bible is useful because it blanks-out the emotional energy in the question.
There has been peer-reviewed research on that very question on the works of Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Like the Bible, it first propagated via oral tradition, then a combination of oral tradition supplemented by hand-transcribed written text and finally almost solely by written text.
The papyri reveal a transmissional watershed in the 2nd century B.C., a sort of textual standardization, delimiting the contours of the text inasmuch as it stabilized the number and sequence of verses and quite drastically cut down current variants. Just what kind of intervention this reflects is unclear. Thereafter the text continued to move in a constant state of flux, but a less volatile one; variants were multitudinous but minor, accretion was virtually confined to simple one-line additions, losses were strictly local and ephemeral.
The text was much copied (the Iliad always more than the Odyssey) collation was fairly wide-spread (protecting against loss and disseminating accrual), and we have substantial pieces of manuscripts from every century down to the 7th: much activity, little change. Passage through the bottle-neck to the 9th and 10th centuries seems to have entailed overall relatively little loss of what had been current in the Roman period; the medieval tradition is a direct continuation of the ancient, inevitably attenuated but in its totality showing unusually good catchment of ancient readings (better for the Iliad than for the Odyssey),promiscuously distributed.
Before we proceed further with its shifting constitution, a few words are in order on the changing nature of its physical form. Modem readers, and even post-modern ones, read texts which present them with a succession of words and of sentences. Readers in the 3rd century B.C. faced merely a succession of letters, uninterrupted except by verse-termini Source
For Leigh and her masonry stove
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However, this young lady in Ukraine appears to be very grateful for the "house" that her brothers built for her on the family compound and the wood-stove that one of them fabricated out of sheet metal and the masonry "mass" another one built to calm down the temperature swings.
In this video, the young lady is painting, free-hand, a design she saw on her phone (Pinterest?). She is clearly looking at her phone for reference at the 2:35 mark. Nothing wrong with that.
If I had to guess, I would estimate that it has a footprint of about 12' wide by less than 15' long.
I love the handpainting on the stove. I love the aesthetic value it adds. I've seen some interesting things done with those stoves. The older European ones are covered with decorative tiles. Then there are the ones made of cob that people sculpt into shapes, such as dragons. Very fun.
ReplyDeleteAlso, good points about ancient texts and how modern minds interpret them. I often wonder how much meaning we lose through cultural misinterpretation.
We are much less agrarian than we were even 100 years ago. Even the concept of "Shepherd" changed drastically. Back-in-the-day, everybody knew that shepherds were ferocious protectors who fended off carnivores and two-legged predators. They were nobody to trifle with. Now...in the minds of most urban people, shepherds are soy-boy, latte-sipping , dreamy-eyed simps.
DeleteVery true, Shepards armed with sticks, knives, a sling and maybe a crude spear defended the sheep from Apex Predators.
DeleteThe proverb 21:9 9Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Is about the facts that land was expensive and poor folks often rented a bit of someone's flat roof for their own crude hut. The modern version of the Van by the river.
But I am assured the God that sent His sone to die for the blood sacrifice for our sins manages to get HIS Message through loud and Clear.
Ever ponder the Prayer of Agar? It's interesting.
All worth pondering but SNIP
I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.
4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
Whose hands have gathered up the wind?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is the name of his son?
Surely you know!
5 “Every word of God is flawless;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
6 Do not add to his words,
or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
The Name of HIS son. What a interesting thought of that era, not so as WE know of the life of Christ, Agar didn't.
BTW Joe any details on how they added mass to a sheet iron stove? Sounds interesting, also about details of her shelter would be nice.
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