Potted Meat #T

Remember that?  Potted meat, I mean, a pasty substance of indeterminate origin that came in a small can about the size of the can of tuna you just opened for lunch.  This post is going to remind you of that, or I just  did.

Every time I boot the computer a host of "sticky notes" pops up on the screen.  It is a collection of either scrambled eggs or the ruminations of a barely-hinged mind.  Or potted meat.  I am putting them here to save them in one spot, though what I saved them for in the first place eludes me at the moment.  I might want them someday.  Like the junk in the top left-hand drawer in the kitchen cabinet.

If you can't spread a little sunshine, at least don't spread manure-- unless you are a farmer.

He brings his own righteousness to church and leaves with the same thing.

Contemporary worship people, note: if you delete “when sorrows like sea billows,” from “It Is Well,” you’re left with ... a praise song. No poetry, no content.  --Aaron Belz

"There is a fine line between a joyful noise and a horrendous racket."  --Bob Warr


this little slight of mine
I'ma give it to you all the time
i'm gonna lay it on ya
doggone ya

lettuce and tomato sandwich
'cause the meat's in short supply
if you're still hungry eat a turnip
we'll all eat pie by and by.
-----(sung to the tune of "Let us have a little talk with Jesus. . .")

 He is educated way above his intelligence level and he is practicing professionally well beyond his level of competence.  Condition all too common, too frequently encountered these days.
educated beyond your intelligence.
In my reading recently I happened upon a  phrase the author used to describe a  character.  He  wrote, "Lowell was educated beyond his intelligence."

My father used a similar saying.  His comment would have been, "Lowell has more degrees than a thermometer, but not sense enough to pound sand in a rathole."

Why do I bring this up?  Simply this: there is a vast chasm between knowledge and wisdom.

It seems to me that we are living in an age of knowledge in which learning is prized above all else.  That is not entirely a bad thing, but that which we emphasize in the learning process is woefully incomplete and entirely inadequate to the building of individual character such that the society might function smoothly as an integral organism.  Witness the incivility of man to fellowman; the uncivil reactions and the mob mentality of the many who disagree with "the other side."
What we will ultimately witness is the ripping asunder of the society, chaos, anarchy, and who knows what.

(To be continued. . .)