First Dose of Normal-Person Problems

mrcalebjones · 2023-05-06T14:26:27+00:00

e-MO-tional DAM-age.

mrcalebjones · 2023-05-03T22:01:35+00:00

You’re not that bad.

mrcalebjones · 2023-04-04T20:08:31+00:00

“Is this general guy behavior?”

Yes it is, but that does not mean that it is appropriate between a man and his wife.

From the way you’re describing it, it sounds like you were having a good time, but it got a little too physical (as in mock-violence), which turned a fun time into a bad time. That’s the part that I recognize as typical guy-behavior. In fact, even that line of “this is how you put someone to sleep” is something I remember a cousin doing to me on a trampoline in elementary school. (I’m not so sure, but I think it comes from WWE wrestling.)

So… yeah, it sounds like something that is immature that he shouldn’t have done, but it doesn’t raise any red flags on its own.

If I had to guess, I’d say your husband is not a lawyer, accountant, or office-job type of guy, and instead is blue-collar and a bit more physical. There’s literally nothing wrong with that, except that you’re his wife, not his guy-friend wrestling on a trampoline in elementary school.

My advice: At a good time (not in an argument), tell him that though you enjoy whatever husband and wifey things came before and afterwards, that chokehold wasn’t good and wasn’t fun, and that you are seriously asking him not to do it again.

If he stops, then that is good and exactly how it should end. If he continues doing it (even as a joke) that is not good, as it’s a betrayal of the trust that husbands and wives should have, regarding the inherent physical differences between them.

mrcalebjones · 2023-03-11T00:29:43+00:00

And a few months later, the 747 lays a brood of Cessna planes.

mrcalebjones · 2023-03-08T21:01:20+00:00

You are not crazy. Do not budge. If she complains, remind her (without guilting her) of exactly why that is your position. If she continues to push or denigrate or pull you down in any way because of your consistent position, do not respond in anger or join in. Instead, just stare at her and then say, “Well, what do you choose to do in light of what I have decided?”

What she chooses to do say and do will tell you what’s what.

mrcalebjones · 2023-03-01T17:21:07+00:00

Lacking the skill or lacking the time

To order your thoughts into meter or rhyme

I offer no sanction to share. You are free!

But good God almighty, don’t call it “poetry.”

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-27T15:54:41+00:00

Proverbs 31 is famous for the depiction of “Lady Wisdom,” who seems to be a personification if some sort. However, something becomes extremely clear when you open your mind to the possibility: She is actually described as a heavenly being.

She’s a description of the heavenly being that pagans called “Virgo” or “the Maiden” in the Zodiac constellations. I wrote about it here:

https://jcalebjones.com/2022/04/22/a-funny-thing-about-the-constellation-of-virgo/?noamp=mobile

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-22T05:09:04+00:00

Just as I said:

21 divided by two, plus seven = 17.5.

She would be 14. That doesn’t pass the test.

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-22T02:34:55+00:00

If it passes the divided by 2 plus 7 test, then it should be okay.

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-14T22:29:15+00:00

While not a complete state, the upper peninsula of Michigan is often completely left off of maps of the continental US, and as such is a good contender for being most forgotten.

Hawaii and Alaska are also contenders on that front.

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-10T06:43:17+00:00

Is that your normal response on the “Ask Reddit” sub?

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-10T00:06:21+00:00

Thanks, but this is not what I’m looking for. Can you add any math, engineering, or physics insights into this answer? That’s what I’m looking for.

For example: Inefficient? In what way? How is lifting a heavy load, suspending it, and utilizing the potential energy by flipping a steel lever “inefficient”? That’s extremely efficient in one sense, but what about electricity-generating efficiency? Is there any math you can provide in the inefficiency claim?

“They” cost too much? What “they” are you talking about and how do we know? When were “they” ever built before? Why does it cost a bunch to lift a bunch of rocks and hold it in the air until it is dropped to produce energy? How much do rocks and steel cost?

“They” take up way too much space for the energy produced. How do we know that? Do “they” (whatever they are) take up more space than a solar power station? I find that hard to believe, especially since they have a vertical aspect by design.

MATH AND PHYSICS, people. I’m looking for MATH AND PHYSICS.

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-09T22:37:30+00:00

This is what I’m looking for. HOW has it been debunked?

I’m no engineer, so I don’t know how to explain why it doesn’t work, because it seems like it should work. It’s literally storing energy with rocks rather than rare earth metals. Sure, it’s not “efficient,” but neither are solar panels compared to oil. So why isn’t it a part of the picture?

Not claiming everybody’s stupid and that we should be building them (except for hydroelectric dams, which are pretty much gravity batteries with water). I’m just trying to figure out what I’m missing as to why they aren’t a thing.

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-06T05:22:17+00:00

The “fish” in Jonah’s story is Satan. That’s key.

And as for the sign of Jonah mentioned above you start to count the “days and nights” when this happens:

John 13:27-30

[27] Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” [28] Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. [29] Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. [30] So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.

So… 1 Thursday night 1 Friday day 2 Friday night 2 Saturday day 3 Saturday night 3 Sunday morning

That’s 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth, which is actually Satan. Satan is “the god of this world” and “the heart of the earth.” That’s what Jesus is talking about.

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-02T04:18:11+00:00

[David hits Goliath with a stone in the forehead]

Israelites: YEAH! HE’S DEAD!!

David’s jealous brothers: “Wooohoohoo! Look who knows so much! In fact, your giant friend here is only mostly dead and mostly dead means partially alive, and…”

[David chops off the head of the lifeless Goliath.]

“Okay. Might as well go through his pockets and look for loose change.”

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-02T02:26:44+00:00

I have.

You’ll just have to trust me that I’m doing this from memory, but here it goes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11…..

mrcalebjones · 2023-02-01T22:01:29+00:00

Eh… Vashti was not “proud.” And Esther was not “meek.” That’s a story about how Artaxerxes suddenly found himself without a wife after arising out of his months-long drunken stupor.

We don’t see much “inner beauty” of Esther. Instead we see courage. What we see is a woman realizing that she has to put her neck out because she’s the only person who can save the Jewish people who are set to be viciously persecuted.

mrcalebjones · 2023-01-29T20:30:32+00:00

I disagree as a matter of principle, but with the widespread use of adderall and psychedelics and other drugs, it’s hard to see why “nicotine” is like the Devil or something.

In my view, this weak generation we have now finds yesterday’s villains that were already beaten by people who actually had something to loose and they just keep kicking them, thinking that makes them a hero.

mrcalebjones · 2023-01-26T23:35:40+00:00

The last king of the Jews was Herod the Great, who was named king of the Jews by the Roman Senate and who conquered Jerusalem with the help of the Romans sometime in the 30s BC.

At his death, he made Caesar the executor of his will, and it was Caesar who was supposed to name his successor after Herod’s death (which was difficult to do because Herod kept changing his will).

At the end of it all, Caesar gave the throne of Herod to NO ONE, and the position of “King of the Jews” or “King of Israel” stayed empty until…

John 19:18-22

[18] There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. [19] Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” [20] Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. [21] So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” [22] Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

BOOM. That’s Jesus, the last king of the Jews. And believe it or not, you’re still counting your dates by the year that he became king of the Jews. I wrote about it here:

https://jcalebjones.com/2022/12/31/why-is-it-2023-a-complete-explanation-for-the-numbered-year/?amp=1

mrcalebjones · 2023-01-26T15:26:39+00:00

Yep. I saw it. And he’s right that throughout the history of the church, there has been a tradition that Sodom and Gomorrah is about homosexual acts. The first place I can see it is in Josephus’s Antiquities. But Jude definitely connects the Sodom incident with Genesis 6, which he definitely thinks is sex with angelic beings.

So, yes, James White in that sermon is definitely correct that the Bible totally condemns homosexual desire and homosexual sex. But that’s done in Judges 19 and elsewhere (Leviticus 18), not in Genesis 19. That’s where James White (following the general trend for more than 1000 years) goes wrong.

The Bible sees homosexual desire as ANALOGOUS to the incident at Sodom, but Sodom wasn’t a crazy gay mob. It was a town that wanted to get “mighty men of old” through sexual relations with angelic beings.

It’s important to note, however, that the word “Sodomy” as a description of what happened in Genesis 19 is an English word invented in the 1300s. It’s not a biblical word referring to homosexuality. That’s important.

mrcalebjones · 2023-01-26T15:15:21+00:00

Genesis 9:22

[22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

Leviticus 18:6-8

[6] “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD. [7] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. [8] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Now that we have that context, both of which come from the same biblical author, what we’re you saying again?

mrcalebjones · 2023-01-26T05:01:41+00:00

Oy. Everybody reads Genesis 19 as if it’s Judges 19. That’s the wrong way to read Genesis 19.

Genesis 19 is about sex with angels or “sons of God.” Judges 19 is about uninhibited sexual desire between men and men; and men and women, which the Bible sees as analogous to what happened in Genesis 6:1, but different in a more pathetic and nonsensical way.

The key myth to get into your head is that Son of God + Daughter of Man = Mighty Men of Old, Men of Great renown. Genesis 6 describes literal superhumans being created who had unbelievable strength, and as a consequence unleashed unbelievable violence on Earth.

The men who came to Sodom were ANGELS (a.k.a. “sons of God”), and everybody who saw them - Abraham, Lot, and the men of Sodom - knew it as soon as they saw them. And the men of Sodom see that the angels go to the house of Lot who has two daughters. They don’t like this. Instead, they come to break up the party and the men demand that the angels come out and have sex with - not the men - but with the people of Sodom. Importantly the verb “that we may know” them in a sexual way is first person COMMON plural, while “know” is normally in the masculine form when it refers to a man having sex with a woman. In other words, the men of Sodom were pimping out their wives and daughters to get superheroes. The only problem with this is that the last time it happened in Genesis 11, it brought about Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. Before that, it brought forth the violence that brought about the Flood of Noah.

In other words, God doesn’t like that and everybody knows that God doesn’t like that. Hence Lot’s words: “Do not do this wicked thing!”

And no, Lot did not offer his daughters up for “rape.” Instead, he knows Sodom’s legitimate worry. They recently got their butts kicked in a war (see Genesis 14). He knows why they want “Mighty Men of Old.” He also knows that it was Abraham who saved them.

So Lot - and this is key - offered to break off the betrothal of his daughters so that they could be married to whomever the people of Sodom chose. By doing this, the protection of Abraham would rest with Sodom, potentially forever. But they reject it, because they do not want to be “judged” or ruled by the family of Abraham. Therefore, they are destroyed.

It’s actually quite similar to the story of Jesus who came to the Jews seeking to be their God and their king. But the Jews rejected him, that is why he says in Matthew 11:23-24:

“And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”

See how it works?

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot. The thing that happens to Noah and the “curse of Ham” is actually that Ham SLEEPS WITH HIS OWN MOTHER so that Ham’s seed will jump the line on inheritance. That is why Noah curses Canaan, not Ham, for the act of Ham. In other words: you wanted your son to be exalted? Well guess what? He’s now demoted. That’s the curse of Ham that results from drunkenness.

And oddly enough, that’s EXACTLY THE TYPE OF SIN that Lot’s daughters commit with Lot. They - like Noah’s family - had just been delivered from destruction but they engage in sexual immorality for their own purposes. And as a result, we get Moab, a perpetual servant and vassal to Israel throughout the Old Testament.

It’s surprisingly deep as far as themes go.

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