tourettes mutilation eye gouging
I have no idea how this search could lead to my blog, but obviously it did. I’m not as concerned about what this search says about the searcher as I am about what this search says about me. Sure there are bloodthirsty profligates out there, but the fact that they discovered my blog with such a harrowing inquiry is what really disturbs me. It has caused me to reconsider what I’m writing about. Surely if I was blogging on pink fluffy bunnies there would be less to compel a sado-masochist websurfer to check out my blog. On the other hand, I’m not sure I want to attract the type of clientele that searches for “pink fluffy bunnies” either.
Admission is the hardest part. All Lutherans (all Christians for that matter) are weak. It’s the only way to be strong (2 Cor 12:10). This is where the Christian life begins and ends: knowing our weakness and Christ’s strength. So don’t be afraid to be a weak Lutheran (or even a Lutheran). You shouldn’t be weak because your Lutheran. You should be Lutheran because you are weak.
A little bit of omniscience goes a long way
Let’s examine the logic of this statement. Omni means “all/every”. So, yes, a little bit of omni-anything does go a long way. In fact it goes all the way. And since omni is all of a thing, it doesn’t come in portions. So there can be no such thing as an amount of omniscience. You either have it or you don’t. It doesn’t come in degrees. Its like having amounts of perfection. Something can’t be minimally perfect while something else is maximally perfect.
My friend John Meade is a lot of things – a lot of great things — but an artist he is not (unless you consider Septuagint studies art). John will no doubt be known for his contribution to some particular field, but it will not be to any part of the art world. Those who have seen his handwriting know what I mean. Of course there are other forms of art besides visual arts, but don’t look for him on stage at the Met either. To my surprise, there really is an artist named John Meade. He’s a sculpture, I found out. Personally, I think John Meade the non-artist could sculpt about as well as John Meade the artist.
Was this just a mistake on the spelling of “noetic” by some aloof seminary student who has picked up on a few theological buzzwords without an awareness of their meaning? Or maybe it was Christian psychologist who thinks that sin has had a profound effect on nouthetic counseling. Ironically, for a Christian psychologist to explain nouthetic counseling in terms of sin problems makes him/her more of a nouthetic counselor than than a Christian psychologist, since Christian psychologists don’t normally see sin as the root of someone’s problems. I think they might be more inclined to explain nouthetic counselors as those with a chemical imbalance in the brain.
beer baptist history tradition
Have Baptists always been predominately anti-beer? No, not always. Eighteenth-century English Baptists were happy to slug back a few frothy stouts. But in America the common reaction among Baptists has always been more than just anti-drunk; it’s been anti-drink. After all, you can’t get drunk if you don’t ever drink, or so the logic goes. And of course you can’t be overweight if you don’t eat junk food. And you can’t talk too much on your cellphone if you never own one. So clean out the junk food and cancel your cell phone plan.
For more strange googles searches see: Strange Google Searches, More Strange Google Searches, Still More Strange Google Searches
all quite humorous. i get some weird ones too sometimes.
peter
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Ah, I hadn’t looked at your site in a long time, and how refreshing it was to see that you still do my favorite thing(i.e. ’strange searches that lead to chaos’)! I miss you greatly, and Emily and Berkeley (sp) too! The hotel just still isn’t the same with out you!!! Hope to hear from you soon!
What led me to Chaos? I googled: “Is baldness more common among Seminary students?”
Steph,
I know you didn’t find the answer to your question on my blog, but I hope you were able to make use of some of the other things on the site.
I can’t imagine that there have been studies on the baldness of seminary students. It’s hard to think that any research group would be interested. Of course if it could be determined that baldness is more common among seminary students then I wonder if it could be subdivided according to theological views. Revealing things such as “People who favor the theology of Paul Tillich are more prone to baldness than the people who favor the theology of Karl Barth.”