Ode to a sleekit, cowrin’, tim’rous chip
April 6th, 2007 by adminThe scent lingers on
But the food’s long since gone
Ahhh! The humble chip.
Went to the site and thought i’d comment
March 18th, 2007 by admin“Note: this is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the May/June 2005 edition
of New Man magazine. Five years ago, my faith in Christ was hanging by a thread.
I loved God, but I hated going to church. Sunday morning would find my body in
The pews, but my heart was elsewhere. I was so desperate I began exploring alternative religions, including Islam. Did I mention I was an elder in my church? “
This is taken from an article I read on the” Church For Men” website. It seems that this man’s faith is as strong as ever, but the need for attending church has dwindled. Can’t God be worshipped anywhere? Did Jesus not say, …. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.
I realise that this doesn’t account for why women’s numbers are down, but to stay on topic for a moment another statistic from this site states:
• This Sunday almost 25 percent of married, churchgoing women will worship without their husbands.
Maybe their husbands are working or have lost their faith. The Sabbath is meant to be kept holy, however, with increasing amounts of personal debt as well as “keeping up with the Jones’s” people seem to be at ease working through Holy days and other traditional holidays in order to gain material comforts - especially in a country like America. I do wonder that if these are reasons for dwindling numbers then using work as an excuse seems a bit weak.
• Midweek activities often draw 70 to 80 percent female participants.
As for midweek activities having a higher attendance from female members rather than male members may be down more to the activities that are on offer and other family commitments. If both parents are out at a church meeting/activity then who will look after the kids? I suppose mid-week activities for all the family would help alleviate that.
• More than 90 percent of American men believe in God, and five out of six call themselves Christians. But only two out of six attend church on a given Sunday. The average man accepts the reality of Jesus Christ, but fails to see any value in going to church.
. See above quote.
• A significant number of churchgoing men attend out of habit, unaffected by what they hear.
This one seems a bit confusing as I would be interested in how the writer of these stats could know that the men attending were unaffected by what they heard and you don’t know what other private Bible study that these men are doing in their own time.
• Why do rival faiths inspire male allegiance, while ours breeds male indifference?
Don’t like the use of the word “rival” but other faiths, and in particular Islam, seem to be more male oriented. The fact that women seem to be subordinate to men or treated as unclean during certain cycles seems to me to be the rantings of a man rather than god. This will only attract men to this way of thinking and make them feel more dominant as it is ordained by god. Maybe this could be clarified by someone more knowledgeable on such matters, but can woman and men worship together in a mosque.
I’d be interested in this gentleman’s findings regarding Judaism and it’s attendance numbers by gender as it is my understanding that the Jewish faith places the mother as of supreme importance, something I agree with, and that it’s the woman that passes the faith not the husband.
Big Al said that your church organises weekends away for the male congregation. Maybe this is something that could be adopted elsewhere rather than trying to organise a night every week, go for less frequent, but better quality of time. Have you noticed that your church has dwindling male attendance?
I’m Bored………………….But that’s not the point of this post.
March 16th, 2007 by adminLadies and gentlemen The Charming Manipulator will be stepping up to hack and slash his way through the interview process. To aid in his, hopefully, successful application he has enlisted the help of of Messers Tom Findlay and Guy Incognito. The former will provide an appropriate professional reference, as is de riguer, while the latter will attempt to sum up the lesser known, but widely implemented findings of the Charming one which are mentioned below:
1. The full stop.
2. The safety dance
3. The word “Herpestensulate”
4. Oxygen
5. Mixing Pesto with a tomato based sauce (i don’t care what my dad says. I invented that!)
And a whole bunch of crazy crap too weird and perverse to mention here. Anyways that’s all for now.
What happens when two Volvos collide?
January 31st, 2007 by adminForget Brainiac Science Abuse (cable tv show), the Charming Manipulator AKA Fotherington Peabody, in conjunction with his sidekick Benny Hanna and sponsored by the makers of Event Horizon ask the most puzzling of scientific conundrums.
For instance, Volvo’s… they’re boxy, safe and built like a brick shit house. Your car hit’s on of these babies, you are gonna come off worse, but what would happen if two Volvo’s collided? we hypothesise the following…..
1. It can’t happen. Due to the fragile nature of the universe, quantum dynamics are in place to act as a buffer that stops anomolous acts of bawbaggery from happening (where volvos are concerned).
2. In the same way that no one knows what happens in the event of an unstoppable force hitting an imovable object, no one really knows what would happen in the event of two volvos colliding.
3. Both cars and drivers remain intact, but are unable to leave their respective vehicles as the area is now crowded with physicists trying to figure out what just happened.
4. On volvo absorbs the other and creates a super volvo with a two-headed driver that is no longer constrained by the laws of time and space.
5. It wouldn’t happen. Volvo cars have a built-in safety feature preventing them from ever colliding (similar to no.1)
But what do my fellow time-travelling moosers think? Also, does anyone think jedimoose top trumps is a good or bad idea?
Is it really wrong to kill?
December 22nd, 2006 by adminSome stuff about why idiots should be dealt with.
Weird universes
December 22nd, 2006 by adminThis stuff is weird