Posted on 01/12/2019 11:15:40 AM PST by OddLane
A classic, increasingly relevant, tune sung by Ray Stevens.
Since Jesus created time, I doubt he has need of a man-made Gizmo. Folks need to ask relevant questions or else accept coming off as ignorant and condescending.
John 1:1 etc.
One of the 2 main psalms we have printed at the front of our church.
For me, growing up before cell phones means that wearing a watch is such a habit that I feel not properly dressed if I do not have one on my wrist. And yes, I do use my watch to tell time instead of fishing my cell phone out of my pocket.
For me, growing up before cell phones means that wearing a watch is such a habit that I feel not properly dressed if I do not have one on my wrist. And yes, I do use my watch to tell time instead of fishing my cell phone out of my pocket.
I also grew up before cell phones and usually wore watches, but the band on my last $20 Casio broke three or four years ago and I’ve yet to replace it. Probably won’t. Was never into expensive watches.
I haven’t worn a watch in probably 8 or 10 years.
47 myself.
When XM isn’t playing anything I want, I bluetooth off the phone a lot.
On the go photos/video and GPS are about the only other things.
The folks who love money more than people have bad theology as well. There is no such thing as a Christian leader who can live a DEFEATED life - (You may see flying around on private jets as a Winner life, but that is the world’s thinking)
I have heard the health-N-wealth preachers say “Jesus was RICH”. They point to the fact that Judas was his “accountant” and carried a bag of money around with him. They have not read their bibles I guess when Jesus commanded a disciple to look in the bag for money to buy food and there was not enough for the crowd.
“It is harder for a rich man to enter heaven than a camel to go through the eye of a needle”.
I have a feeling the answer is yes. I’ve been revamping my wardrobe recently and spending some time on the style forums and there is tons of interest in watches by the twenty and thirty somethings. The fashion industry still promotes the wristwatch as an essential accessory and they seem to have accepted that premise. There also has been a big increase in the number of inexpensive (like $200 - $500) but high quality mechanical watches over the last few years or maybe decade, which seems to show that an entry level market exists, presumably made up of younger buyers.
https://www.ft.com/content/beeab33e-1dd6-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c
There’s a stat in this article that says something like 60% of millennials just use their phone instead of wearing a watch. And I can believe this is true on a day to day basis, since strictly speaking the watch is now redundant. But a watch is about more than telling time and I suspect that most millennials still like having a decent watch in their wardrobe for at least some occasions.
The trained mind does not need a watch. Watches are a confidence trick invented by the Swiss - Chuin.
It also apparently causes you to routinely crush ideas of things suggested by circumstance. This is a bad problem today. Our new physical-science, personless intellectualism often gives very short shrift to the meaning of the way God and other entities behave in the bible.
Your opinion.
I believe it keeps me from becoming a false teacher.
I have a 1992 Oyster Perpetual Datejust that I bought in 1994 new. Wore it on occasion, but was wearing it less and less as worked around areas of high voltage more and more. Finally asked a female friend if she wanted to wear for a couple of years. I guess females wearing men’s watches is becoming more popular. Took it to a place I had it cleaned (only time since I bought), they knocked two links out of the band and it fits her fine. So for now it’s “on loan” (ha ha).
It also keeps you from going down the lane of “could this be true? what support is there for the idea if it doesn’t slam it in your face with words?” This is how, for example, the Trinity is universally agreed in all orthodox confessions.
This isn’t a mere “my opinion.” I offer tangibly backed up evidence.
You need to avoid the “fallacy of the excluded middle.”
For there are also falsenesses of omission as well as of commission. Otherwise why bother teaching “the faith” at all. Hand out bibles and say “here, now you do the work.”
Also, there is a minor definition of “sing” along the lines of “recount or celebrate in a work of literature, especially poetry.” We use it today as to say things like “Ralph sang the praises of his new car” when musically Ralph cannot carry a tune.
Drilling down into these possibilities is something that honest people studying and living the Lord’s word also do. But it takes a mind that is reticent to reject a hypothesis until it is thoroughly tested. Knee jerkers will be shallow.
My capacity to take you seriously has been greatly reduced as you pretend your Biblical comprehension while dealing backhanded critique in an honest discussion.
Good night HTRN.
I’m no watch expert but I can google stuff, and apparently the Oyster Perpetual series was introduced back in the 1940s. It is a classic Rolex design that has kept its relatively small case diameter through the decades (although it has varied somewhat). We are currently in an era of absurdly huge watches. So an Oyster Perpetual of ‘90s vintage will look appropriate — in a relative way — on a woman these days. That may be a factor in your female friend’s interest in the watch. I will add that the pendulum seems to have begun swinging back towards more normal watches sizes.
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