The Upper Room - 2015-03-03

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Only he is good.

1:44 AM

@fredsbend Much of the problem with sex is the smell. It's important to look at things from the point of view of the one that is Jealous. Here is an example: Marge, an over weight not so pretty lady goes to work one day and while she was sitting there Sally, the sexy secretary walks by smelling like sex. Well it has been a while since Marge has gotten any.

- What do you think Marge might do?

@Mawia Who said you are not going to get your drink? It may seem logical that at a church someone would offer you a drink. Yet "How you are going to get your drink" has not been defined neither has "When". It might be next year for all I know, the Lord does things as "He Wants To". Also I did "Hope" that you where going to have a great day. So, whether you had a great day or not was "Your Perspective".

I can hope that every day that you have will be a great day, yet how great your day is will always be limited to "Your Faith".

2:21 AM

@Onlyheisgood. Man you crazy. This is like some off the wall, trolling kind of stuff.

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@fredsbend [read in the voice of big sassy black lady]

@fredsbend How long you been married, Freddy?

3:11 AM

@LCIII [In Samuel L. Jackson]

None ya damn business!

lol

8 years in June

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7:19 AM

@fredsbend Such a question would be closed as opinion based here

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8:43 AM

@Onlyheisgood. Are you a seer?

You sound like as if you are some self proclaimed prophet ?

may I know which denomination you belong to or have created?

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Only he is good.

12:33 PM

@Islam The Yeahso is the prophet. It makes you a liar when you say that Muhammad PBUH was the last prophet. Yeahso still lives. I am part of the Yeah's Body. I tell you many in Christ are Prophets, they just do not know he works through them. I am of the Denomination of the Yeahso. For he says "I am the Vine and you are the branches".

@Mawia This is what I love about Prophecy, As much as you wanted to find error in my saying. The Word is still perfect, and there is nothing false about what I have said. Because it wasn't me that said it ^^, but him who is in me.

There can be no dysfunction to Pure Prophecy, so the power of the fruits of good and evil are destroyed!

So Yeah!

@Islam He's a self proclaimed many things. Unfortunately, most of what he says he makes up and isn't aligned with scripture, so we don't take him too seriously. I suggest you don't either :D.

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@fredsbend You got married really freakin young then, if you're 28. Nice--I like young marriages. I'm 27 going on 4.5 years of marriage. Is your profile pic actually you?

1:44 PM

@LCIII Yeah, that's actually him. Love that smile... (joke)

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Does Elisha speak?

4:20 PM

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Q: Has chat been derailed and should we add a siding?

Sad to say—and mostly due to my own schedule—I haven't been hanging out in The Upper Room as much as I once did. While the lions share of that is is my own choice, lately when I have dropped in there I've observed a trend that I think could be corrected to benefit of all. Quite honestly, the room...

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Stephen Colbert discusses his Catholic faith

5:13 PM

@curiousdannii They have a large share of Truth questions on the site. I still expected better answers. Part of the problem is most of them clearly do not write well in English.

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7:03 PM

@BruceAlderman I love the Colbert Report. Pure gold. This was interesting, but not quite like his show as I was hoping.

I had heard he was Catholic, but he sounds like one of those rare types that is actually involved beyond Sunday Mass.

The article calls the Priest a Reverend. I'm pretty sure the proper title is "Father".

Colbert is apparently succeeding Letterman later this year. I think he'll do well, but this unfortunately means the death of the Colbert Report.

@fredsbend I visited a Tuesday morning Mass a few months ago (not Catholic) and was surprised to see my former camping professor (that's a thing). I would have expected him to be more like New Agey Buddhist or something, but apparently he's a committed Catholic. In class, he mostly talked about his old camping trips and park-ranger jobs, and his karate hobby ("karate" pronounced the proper Japanese way (kah-rah-tay), which sounded funny to me). This story isn't going anywhere... my apologies.

@fredsbend The final episode of the Report aired in December. RIP Fake-Stephen Colbert.

It was ... wandering somewhere ... at least.

@Mr.Bultitude I hope at least that he pulls the character out on the Late Show once in a while.

I might start watching the Late Show.

@fredsbend Maybe when he's interviewing Stewart or Oliver.

@Mr.Bultitude Right. Or anyone from Fox News, or any Republican.

Seinfeld interviews comedians on his show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. But one episode the guest was George Costanza.

7:15 PM

@Mr.Bultitude Netflix limited exposure here. I didn't even know Seinfeld had a show!

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is an American comedy web series by comedian Jerry Seinfeld, distributed by digital network Crackle, that premiered on July 19, 2012. Episodes feature Seinfeld introducing a vintage car selected for a guest comedian, followed by a drive to a pre-selected cafe or restaurant for coffee. Episodes are known to diverge from the format spontaneously, as when Michael Richards implores Seinfeld to take a side street, when Seinfeld returns after coffee with Carl Reiner to join him for dinner with Mel Brooks — or when car trouble inevitably arises. As of January 2015, the...

From the comments on that Colbert article:

> Damn shame his giving up that O'Beckitty character

That's pretty funny.

@Mr.Bultitude I will surely look into this. It sounds fun and interesting.

That's reality TV! None of that junk on MTV.

Does Elisha speak?

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Q: It's a Wonderful Life

Though I'm still new to this site, and don't spend any time in chat really getting to know people, I still feel the effects of the loss of @AffableGeek. @LCIII and I joined this site around the same time, he articulates it very nicely: He was like this site's "cool professor" that everyone wa...

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7:34 PM

After reading this question: meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/4505/… is anyone up for a round of dream interpretation? I had one not long ago that was pretty poignant I think.

7:54 PM

@ShemSeger Did you read my other interpretation here in chat?

I don't have a favorable view of dream interpretation in general. Are you up for that?

This is the dream that I analyzed later

8:34 PM

@fredsbend - Ya I'm up for it. Here's my dream: I was on an ark, identical in appearance to what I recognize as Noah's ark, being pushed across the ocean by a violent storm. I remember being afraid, the waves we breaking over the bow, the ark was getting thrashed by the wind, and the sky was dark and angry. I went into the ark (the interior of which was like a modern cruise ship) and prayed for the storm to stop.

Almost immediately, the winds stopped, the clouds cleared, the sun came out and the water was calm, perfectly calm. I remember coming back out on deck and feeling pleased that my prayers were answered, and admiring the beautiful scene. That feeling suddenly changed when I realized that in the calm, the ark was no long moving, we had come to a complete stop, and weren't going anywhere, we had stopped progressing towards wherever it was we were going. This is when I woke up.

9:26 PM

@curiousdannii Mr. Linguist:

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Q: Could people perceive the color blue in ancient times?

This article claims that no ancient language anywhere in the world had the word for "blue", that for instance Homer described the sea as "wine-dark", and that the color blue has only appeared more recently in languages, more or less at the same time all-over the world. But doesn't bother to say u...

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@ShemSeger I certainly like the implications of the story.

That without the storm the boat will not move.

Very nice.

However, I'm inclined to believe that dreams are mostly amalgamations of what we've recently seen or thought when we were last conscious. What were you doing that day, before the dream?

@fredsbend Don't forget "ate" ;-) And I'd expand to more than a day. Dreams seem to have a way of mucking around in even very old memories for me.

@Caleb Of course, food and drugs go a long way in affecting thoughts. Yes, I agree old prominent memories can play a part in dreams too, but I would bet that you were revisiting those memories recently before dreaming about them.

In general, though, it seems we agree. It's mostly stuff that you were already thinking about.

Or have thought about.

In fact, it is a rare thing that dreams have entirely unique people or places.

A notable example lead to one of the most fascinating books of the last three centuries: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The dream came after I had been praying for guidance. The political climate is affecting the government budget that my current salary comes out of. As a result, my contract is not being renewed. I've been getting the impression that I need to move my family back home, where my old home branch of the church is in dire need of priesthood, but there aren't exactly many job opportunities there.

Supposedly, the author dreamt the entire plot one evening and was so disturbed that he had a rough draft in only two days. I also understand the the rough draft was only slightly changed before heading to press.

@Caleb, I don't recall ever being on an ark before. I'm not that Shem.

9:37 PM

ha! lol

@ShemSeger This sounds like what you want it to be about. The only thing I see related to your dream is that you were praying. But you probably pray regularly.

Tell what you did that day. What kind of things did you think about that have similar elements in the dream.

Did you read Genesis 6-8?

Did you watch Noah (that new movie that has YEC's all up in arms)

Those kinds of things.

Was it raining?

@ShemSeger Aaaa, my mistake. I read too much into the grey hair. Yet all the same I'm hoping you have actually read Genesis, no?

@fredsbend No, the last time my mind was on Noah was when I asked this question: christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/36389/…

rain is a very rare thing here.

I didn't even finish that first paragraph without saying "This is one of Affable Geek's answers". RIP.

Sorry, off-topic.

Ya it was

It was a good one too.

@ShemSeger That wasn't too long ago. About 6 weeks.

9:43 PM

@Caleb

Yes, I've read Genesis, many times.

@ShemSeger This is interesting. A regular lack of rain inevitably makes you think of it often, I would suppose. Dry ground, means no rain. Now you're thinking about rain.

They way you describe the storm stopping reminds me of Jesus on the fish boat.

It's not a lack of rain we're having, it's a lack of snow. bummer ski season this year.

From terrifying rage of the sea to placid passivity.

I'm sorry but I have to go. I'll be back later.

I'll have to do chat more often I think

Why was the ship so Noahide externally, but Princess Cruise internally?

9:47 PM

@Caleb, have you ever read the Book of Moses?

That's classic dream nonsense.

Did you book a cruise? They are lot's of fun.

@fredsbend Right? I didn't get that part either. Maybe I'm too comfortable with where I am right now?

last cruise I was on was my honeymoon. just over 6 years ago.

Maybe you are. But what does that have to do with dreams?

@ShemSeger Sweet. I did a cruise for mine too. Tons of fun and relatively cheap.

@ShemSeger Yes.

relatively cheap? if you're an abstainer like me they're crazy cheap

9:50 PM

@ShemSeger That's where they get you. On the booze.

And some have gambling too.

another thing I don't do.

We don't drink either, so we spent maybe $50 on soda.

I'm a fan of the all you can eat 24hr buffets

That's the best part!

There was like only 10 minutes a day I wasn't stuffing my face with food.

Ok, now I'm thinking of planning another cruise...

9:51 PM

I've been planning another cruise every year since!

Just haven't done it yet. We were really close last year.

Anyway. you kept me another five minutes. Stop sucking my productivity!

The big cost for us is flying to a port, airfare cost more than the cruises do.

I travel a lot already. Points and such can get me there free.

Lucky, well I should probably go javascript something...

You should use jquery ;)

10:51 PM

@fredsbend jQuery?

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