Day 23 - One True Faith, Vague Sci-Fi, Good Eats, and Saint Silver

8:24 AM Mr. Silver

What have you been up to then?  I've mostly been

moderating/commenting with Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue

Gotta get you back into those chats.

8:27 AM Mr. Red

True. Those conversations make my brain hurt. But that can be good, makes you think.

8:28 AM Mr. Silver

After I told them I'm not putting up anymore theological pummeling on the blog, they backed off.

That and it wasn't a fair fight

Mr. Brown was not going to match Mr. Blue's research

And Mr. Blue never had any chance of winning over Mr. Brown 

Religion is a wonderful subject for that

8:33 AM Mr. Red

It is interesting to see a different way of thinking

8:46 AM Mr. Silver

Well, being a mystic, I've got that in spades

8:49 AM Mr. Red

lol - yep

I noticed you never chimed in a whole lot

8:50 AM Mr. Silver

I do if they ask

Lol

8:52 AM Mr. Red

Good plan

8:53 AM Mr. Silver

I recall having to pass this to the pair whenever one of them steamed me over some line like “Christian churches are all essentially the same.” or “At least the all believe the same thing.” or something goofy like that:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations

8:56 AM Mr. Red

WOW
That is something.

8:56 AM Mr. Silver

Yup

8:57 AM Mr. Red

No wonder people are confused when it comes to religion

8:57 AM Mr. Silver

Yes

8:59 AM Mr. Silver

Rather harms the claims of "truth" when there's so many versions. 

And certainly why the Catholic Church keeps talking about everyone getting together

9:03 AM Mr. Red

I’ve always felt that Christian churches are supposed to be promoting the same things - Jesus, and “love one another”
So why bicker over who's right or wrong?

9:03 AM Mr. Silver

Exactly

9:08 AM Mr. Silver

The Christian ecclesiastics fought for centuries about stuff, but they did it on the inside, with people that got some education first and who'd been working for years. 

And were smart enough (if extremely intolerant in their methods) to know that a serious schism was going to result in something like the Wiki list I sent. 

So suppressed such things

9:19 AM Mr. Silver

Ah well...all good things must come to an end.  System became too corrupt, a confessor said the perfect wrong combination of words to Martin Luther...and...

Now "Christianity" has a huge Wiki list

9:38 AM Mr. Silver

More complicated history than that of course

       (I cheer-lead an occasional novel-writing group.  Mr. Red is considering sci-fi.   Mr. Silver)

9:54 AM Mr. Silver

So.  Doing the Mars story then?

10:01 AM Mr. Red

Yeah I still like the idea behind that and there is SO much I could do with it.

10:01 AM Mr. Silver

nod

Ever establish a lead and any other characters?

10:02 AM Mr. Red

Only vaguely

10:12 AM Mr. Silver

Hero - "Hi, I'm new here.  What is this place and who are you?"

Martian Colonist - "Well, this is Mars Base.  And I'm a scientist.  Welcome.  So what were you sent up for?"

    Hero - "Well, I did some illegal stuff.  You know." 

    MC - "I understand.  Me too.  So, got a specialty?"

    Hero - "Just space stuff."

    MC - "Me too!"

10:16 AM Mr. Silver

Hmmm.  Kinda like that

Feels like a “Kids in the Hall” sketch

     (We volunteered to work Memorial Day shifts - Mr. Silver)

11:18 AM Mr. Silver

Well...lunch is over...not bad for part 1

11:18 AM Mr. Red

I don’t get a lunch.
I just want it to be over

11:18 AM Mr. Silver

ewww

Plans after?

11:19 AM Mr. Red

Yeah, in-laws for cookout
having the same food we ALWAYS have
but it beats being here

11:20 AM Mr. Silver

Dare I ask?

   Mr. Red - "Lutefisk and tripe again???"

   In-Laws - "Well, what do you think would be better, Mr. Red?" 

   Mr. Red - "Hamburgers?  Hotdogs?  Barbecue?" 

   (crowd)  - "Ewwwwww"

11:21 AM Mr. Red

lol - no thank God

11:22 AM Mr. Red

Hamburgers, hotdogs and the same noodle salad we always have
my in-laws have no sense of variety at all

11:30 AM Mr. Silver

Can’t you bring something?

Expand their horizons?

"Here...pack of cheddarwursts, some chicken, and a bottle of BBQ sauce."

11:39 AM Mr. Red

We do that, it lets us have some variety even if they don’t want it

11:44 AM Mr. Silver

    In-laws - "What's that!?!" 

    Mr. Red - "A full flank of salmon...now back away from the grill!"

11:44 AM Mr. Red

lol

11:51 AM Mr. Silver

heh...I haven't read about mystics/mysticism in ages, but the earlier conversation got me curious about how people studying the phenomenon define it.

This line is in the Wiki:

Someone shouts at Nasrudin sitting on the opposite bank of a river, "How do I get across?"

"You are across." he replies

hehehe

12:53 PM Mr. Silver

hmmm...wonder if my few years of Catholic school and the thoughts in my noggin can get me on the sainthood track

12:53 PM Mr. Red

I think it would push you in the other direction

12:53 PM Mr. Silver

Nah...Catholicism has 3 paths...mystic is one

12:54 PM Mr. Silver

   Pope - "Got any miracles?" 

   Mr. Silver - "Well, there was the time I miraculously didn't kill my kid for dumping Pepsi on 

                       my  laptop."

12:54 PM Mr. Red

There you go

My kid actually did his work and gets to graduate
That’s a miracle

12:55 PM Mr. Silver

Good!  Well, he'll need to be a hero or martyr or mystic too, though.

Looks like I just need 2 more miracles, a pope in my pocket, and to be dead long enough

12:57 PM Mr. Red

You don’t want to be dead long enough - no fun in that, at least not in this world

12:58 PM Mr. Silver

This world is a shadow

to put it in C.S. Lewis terms

Shadow of a shadow

So "dead" to me here is "alive" to me afterwards

Which, I assume, you can relate to

1:00 PM Mr. Red

yep