Here I am approaching my 60th year on the 15th at 2:45pm, so I'm offering some brain waves as life ebbs and flows through my synaptic channels...some of which show up in the Bobisms column to the right of this post...
1. Can I come up with 60 thoughts?
2. Cigar smoking is one form of aroma therapy.
3. Are we allotted 'x' amount of energy at birth, and slow down at 60 because we ran around so much as kids?
4. Young Earthers should investigate the reliability of carbon-14 dating as so much hooey.
5. Before The Flood, one giant continent was split like an orange, creating the Laurentian Abyssal, so someone should compare minerals along the coastlines of the continents as they exist.
6. "Leviathan" of Job 44 is
really a dragon, not a whale.
7. "Behemoth" of Job 40:15-24 is a brontosaurus.
8. The Marines borrowed "Semper Fidelis" from God, who claimed it long before they existed.
9. In the Army's 'As the Caissons Go Rolling Along," the phrase 'counter marching all about' means they didn't know where they were going.
10. If the Chief End of Man is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever,' then the Secondary End of Man would be only 'to glorify God;' which would explain Hell.
11. When Eve was 'clothed with skins,' did she ask Adam if the outfit 'made her look fat?'
12. The Last Trumpet and Great Shout when Christ returns are designed to ensure
everyone actually shows up on time for the first time in history.
13. If the Mayans were 'smart enough to predict the end of the world,' how did they miss their own extinction?
14. Women with the lightest shades of red hair are usually left handed.
15. GRACE means God's Riches At Christ's Expense.
16. FAITH means Forsaking All, I Trust Him.
17. I actually
told my Mom to throw out my comic books and baseball cards...;p
18. There is no such thing as 'civil' war...it's sole purpose is to be uncivil to the enemy.
19. Keep a few 3 x 5 cards & a pen handy to jot down notes of things to do to avoid forgetting them.
20. God gave you one mouth and two ears; use them proportionately.
21. EVERYBODY but God will eventually fail you.
22. There is at least one recurring sin a Christian wants to 'lose' which God will allow to remain in order to drive said Christian to Him repeatedly.
23. Hispanic explorers stole Florida & the Southwest from Native Americans. Anglo Europeans wrested these lands from
them through wars. Now Hispanics are reclaiming them through immigration, legal or otherwise.
24. Worry is the stupidest sin available; which has absolutely NO positive aspect to it.
25. I have slept roughly as long as Rip Van Winkle.
26. I have accidentally wounded myself to the tune of 25 stitches over the years.
27. Working outside these last 26 years at WTS has cost me 26 yellow jacket/wasp/bumble bee stings; resulting in permanent nerve damage in my right thigh.
28. The things I've built will crumble or burn; the hearts I've touched will be my legacy.
29. Before I die, I would like to see a star-pocked sky, not just the night sky with 40-50 visible that have been typical of my urban environments.
30. Since God neither slumbers nor sleeps, I might as well rest well at night and leave the world in His most capable care.
31. The highest compliment I've ever received was that I was a Jesus-addict.
32. My blog, "Self Indulgent B.S." is my editorial comment on every other blog and the perfect justification of my own.
33. Satan, a former covering angel who thought he could defeat God, must be the stupidest being in creation.
34. Although I've never passed on my DNA, I've got sons and daughters around the world.
35. Creedence Clearwater Revival
still is my favorite rock group.
36. "Old Wives' tales" are often exactly right.
37. When all is said and done, more gets said than done.
38. Someday, when a child asks, "Did those men in great grandfather's stories really live?" as occurs at the end of 'Second Hand Lions,' and is asked about me and my best friend, I hope the reply will be, "Yeah...they REALLY lived!!"
39. Women change their hair styles, men change their facial hair.
40. I wonder just how hungry
was the guy who first ate shrimp.
41. If 'ignorance is bliss,' I frequently am the happiest man you know.
42. If I've learned from my mistakes, my knowledge is encyclopedic.
43. You will get ONE, maybe two, truly close friends in life; cherish and protect them!!
44. Civil War folks of renown called themselves 'instruments in the hand of God.' Was that where 'blowing your own horn' originated?
45. "Go forth and multiply" is the only command of God's that the human race has followed consistently.
46. Hoping is nice...praying works.
47. If you don't laugh at yourself...everyone else will!
48. When you're about to run your head through a stone wall, aim for the mortar joints.
49. Self-inflicted wounds do not merit a purple heart.
50. "Almost" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear warfare.
51. The day before the Fall, Adam was a gardener. The day after, a maintenance man.
52. Pallindromically speaking, I'm always "BOB."
53. Should the cars of Congressmen and talk show hosts have bumper stickers that read, "Multiple Hot Air Bags Inside?"
54. Notice that Apostle Paul said, "I have
learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am." That means he
was not for a while.
55. The easiest New Year's Resolution to keep is one I made decades ago. "I Resolve NEVER to make another New Year's Resolution."
56. If all the folks in Nigeria and elsewhere actually gave me all the money they said they would..
.no, I did not write back...I might be a Trillionaire.
57. What, exactly, constitutes "A Life" that some of us are supposed to "get?"
58. The biorhythm of Country Western music is the most conducive to construction work productivity.
59. When someone gives me that "look that can kill" I simply respond, "Don't look at me in that tone of voice!!"
60. I love being me!!
Last night I came up with a new Bobism on the way back from dinner at a local Chinese restaurant. I forget the exact context, but what I said was, "Accentuate your eccentricities...there are enough boring people around!!"
