| Author | Message | ||
     Moxnix |
 Picked up my new 1978 R100S Motorsport from the dealer. Proverbs 26:11 | ||
| Moxnix |
 Daily driver mostly lived in a storage garage while I was up in Alaska, overseas, or riding me motorbikes. The sin of petty vanity, displayed in a lust for motorized stuff. | ||
| Moxnix |
>>>42 ~Douglas Adams "So long and thanks for all the fish" is one of the best lines in modern literature, IMnot-soHO.... | ||
| Moxnix |
Recently found myself watching Repo Man, a great movie for having such a low budget. What surprised me was finding out the character of the Los Alamos scientist driving around LA in the Malibu sedan was based on Dr. Sam T. Cohen. Cohen's the chap who invented the neutron bomb, a rather good idea sabotaged by the activist anti-war press weaned on Vietnam and their hatred of all things in offensive warfare. Cohen, a non-practicing jew, wrote the afterword for Babtist minsister Dr. William P. Grady's 2005 work, How Satan Turned America Against God. Woah! Hold on there! Just the title of the book no doubt raises hackles of those thems there who take offense at the mere suggestion there may be a God who loves them. Oh, well. Unlike Islam, no one in Christianity forces them to love back. I digress. Point being, I like Cohen's ideas so much, here's a link to the afterward from the book: http://www.gradypublications.com/pdf/afterword.pdf What's worse, I ordered the book from Amazon, a 972 page work by a former college level teacher. Pages 894 through 972 are Appendices, Endnotes and Bibliography and Index. I'll start reading it, even though the gist of the book is in the title itself and the rest is reasons the author came to his conclusion expressed in that title. No, you'll not get a book report. Nor a book retort. One should never lose their reading skills, discernment skills, or their dictionary. Hopefully, the great horde of unbelievers will ignore this post, this entire thread, and not be offended by lack of references to things Buell in scripture.  The new scanner works great, even on rather tatty and faded Polaroid snapshots from the back of the files from decades ago. I use windows for cropping and a stick for storage. This was my "look like a Pole in Poland" phase, snapped on a train heading East, to guest lecture on "American Life and Culture," back when it was more easily identified. (Message edited by moxnix on April 12, 2012) | ||
| Kyrocket |
"...lack of references to things Buell in scripture." Maybe not Buell specifically but there are motorized references there. God drove Adam and Eve out of Eden in a Fury. Joshua's Triumph was heard throughout the land. Saving lives with loud pipes 2000+ years ago. All the disciples were in one Accord. They were much bigger back then. There may be more, those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. | ||
| Moxnix |
I've seen the first, now you've expanded my repertoire. Thanks. | ||
| Moxnix |
Grumpy! First home game tomorrow against the the Cubs tomorrow. How about an animist victory dance over there for the Cards? | ||
| Whistler |
Isaiah 14:12-15 | ||
| Moxnix |
 My first car in high school. The map in the glove box led to the gate and road to perdition which was wide, well-paved, smartly adorned and well sign-posted. | ||
| Moxnix |
(Message edited by moxnix on April 12, 2012) | ||
| Moxnix |
(Message edited by moxnix on April 12, 2012) | ||
| Moxnix |
 My PA16 Ground Loop Special w/wing covers parked in Fairbanks. Flying in the bush was like riding an offroad motorcycle with a better view. And could be a very religious experience, bringing one closer to God or scaring the hell out of you. | ||
| Whistler |
Nice thing about airplanes, they don't leave any of them up there. | ||
| Dwardo |
My uncle has a PA12 that he and our buddy George (now 102 years old and going strong) completely restored. Before he restored it,it had those huge bush tires on it. What a sweet airplane! | ||
| Moxnix |
PA12, the most practical bushplanes, essentially a Cub with wider rear seat, will lift everything you can put in it. | ||
| Dwardo |
Including my fat a**. Theoretically you can fit two people in the back but they have to be small people and they have to like each other. It sure is slow, though. | ||
| Moxnix |
 My favorite bush plane, Interstate L-6, WW2 observor with huge greenhouse windows. Cold in winter, but it would fly slower than anything else I've ever seen. In winter we'd take out the batteries, which required hand starting on the magneto after pouring warm oil in the engine that was drained after every flight. An updated version became the Arctic Tern. Flying one would wash a person of every inequity (keeping the thread in perspective). | ||
| Blake |
You said "Bush". | ||
| Moxnix |
Good grief! Bringing in a perpetual nuisance religion thread is one thing, but introducing POLITICS into it!?!? Blake, pleeeeeeease don't ban me. Please, please, please don't throw me in the briar patch! Forsake me not. Blot out my transgressions, cleanse me of my inequity, cast me not away from the forum, and I'll not mix metaphors, or politics, with religion. | ||
| 86129squids |
No, WAIT!!! "Hmeehh heheheehehh hhheehehhehh ahhhehehhhh... he said "bush". | ||
| Moxnix |
No one can get your goat if they don't know where it is.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Oddly, sheep can be eaten by most religions that have food laws. ( not all... Jains, for example ) Goats, on the other hand have more restrictions. Mannix, cast me not away from the forum Why bring the Romans into it? Are you a Jupiter worshiper? ( heh, heh, he said bush. ) | ||
| Moxnix |
IIRC, Roman forums were known as a place to kill Christians, so perhaps I should be begging Blake to give me the bum's rush before the lions are loosed. Jupiter, no, never been a worshiper of those 2-stroke Russian bikes (Izh Jupiter 5 350cc with liquid cooling), a most ungodly unit. | ||
| Moxnix |
Drive-by Bible verse toss-out for the day... Amos 9:13-15 "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills, and I will bring my people Israel back from exile. "They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God." | ||
| Aesquire |
No no... the Forums were where the senate argued, the Christians were killed in the arenas. Though...persecution in forums seems a long lived thing.... | ||
| Moxnix |
I sit corrected, thanks, it was remiss. Forums, coliseums, arenas, circuses, senates; nothing new under the sun. | ||
| Moxnix |
 My premise today is (that) the Bible is a record of human history in their relationship to God, as much as it is a source of theology. It even reveals future history all through it, not just in Revelations. I,myself, shy away from "a purpose driven life" and mega churches/congregations. Also the great ••••• and the harlots it begat. I enjoy the language of the AV 1611, but a good Babtist bible in modern language suits my tooth. For anyone seeing the wheels fall off America as the bad increases and the good is attacked and imperiled by the humanists, all the answers are out there for the finding. Faith, emersion babtism, communion. Were it not the answer, and the only answer, our humanist enemies wouldn't spend so much time, energy, money, and emotion trying to crush it. The guy in the fez. Were he to accept Christ, he may still be pushing a cart uphill as he was in this 40 year old picture. Thing is, he would be different. (Message edited by moxnix on April 15, 2012) (Message edited by moxnix on April 15, 2012) | ||
| Whistler |
John 3:5-8 | ||
| Moxnix |
 Serving brother Cuthbert oxnix, in the order of "out-of-order" audio webcasters, waves to the vast throngs of pilgrims on their annual hajj to the mecca of speed. The holy roller on which he is exercising is a German (it's the best!!) Kettler Kettcar, with two speeds, hand brake, and a seat barely adjustable to accommodate normal size adults, let alone aging stretched versions. Top speed is one reason motorized vehicles were created. "understanding of the times...for such a time at this" (I Chronicles 12:32; Esther 4:14). Kettcars have no motor, so operate out of the top speed paradigm.... | ||
| Moxnix |
Born to post..... I may have to run out of old photographs before I cease to babble on, or bother readers out in Babylon. One form of the ascetic Christian life is called foolishness for the sake of Christ. The fool-for-Christ set for himself the task of battling within himself the root of all sin, pride. In order to accomplish this he took on an unusual style of life, appearing as someone bereft of his mental faculties, thus bringing upon himself the ridicule of others. In addition he exposed the evil in the world through metaphorical and symbolic words and actions. He took this ascetic endeavor upon himself in order to humble himself and to also more effectively influence others, since most people respond to the usual ordinary sermon with indifference. The spiritual feat of foolishness for Christ was especially widespread in Russia. --(Excerpted from The Law of God, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY: 1993) There is a rather enjoyable movie on Netflix, genre foreign, language Russian, called The Island. Subtitles, but worth the effort of suffering that may cause. The actor starring was once a top rock & roll star in the Soviet Union. Posting here amongst fellow two-wheeled travelers, palaverers and ham & eggers is either my vanity or my pride. I'm open to suggestions if anyone has another sin to toss in the mix. I'm thinking pride is the biggest problem, and it shall goeth before the fall.... |
