2004 October

Oct 08

Sayedna,
Its written both in Proverbs and Romans “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.” Is the converse true meaning that if I dump coals on my enemy’s head it would be the same as feeding him and giving him drink. Because I sort of tossed a lit barbecue at my neighbor and was wondering if I needed to confess it.

Your Grace,
I know as Christians we should not do anything that supports the homosexual lifestyle or culture, so are we not allowed to wear anything by gay fashion designers? Like the way the jews control the media, gays control the fashion industry. We can’t go naked so what are we to do?

Your Grace,
My mother still hits me and yells at me like I was still five years old. This is very humiliating and embarrassing, especially when it happens in front of my grandchildren and their spouses. She won’t listen to me when I try to tell her how this makes me feel, maybe because she’s partially deaf. What can I do so I can live my twilight years in peace?

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Oct 06

“In heaven there is no beer, thats why we drink it here.”

– from an Irish Drinking Song

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Oct 05

1285 – Philip III of France died of the plague.
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1796 – Spain declared war on Britain in the Napoleonic Wars.
1813 – Tecumseh Native American leader dies.
1859 – An arsonist sets fire inside New York City’s iron and glass Crystal Palace, the most presitigious museum in the U.S. at the time. It burns to the ground, causing $2M damage and destroying thousands of priceless artifacts.
1864 – Calcutta, India almost totally destroyed by a cyclone – 60,000 die
1864 – Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing the South
1877 – After marching for more than 1,400 miles and confronting 2,000 US soldiers along the way, Chief Joseph surrendered with starving remnant of Nez Perce people.
1892 – The Dalton Gang are all killed.
1930 – The British airship R101 crashed on its first flight at Allonne, near Beauvais, France, killing 48 of its 54 passengers.
1942 – German engineer Herman Graebe witnesses a Nazi mass execution in the Ukraine.
1942 – America’s ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’, George M. Cohan, died at age 64.
1954 – Blaming “conflicting career demands” for the breakup of their 9-month marriage, screen actress Marilyn Monroe filed suit for divorce in Santa Monica, California, against baseball star Joe DiMaggio on grounds of mental cruelty
1954 – Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1970 – Anwar Sadat was nominated to succeed Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt.
1972 – Herbert Mullin first kills, to prevent earthquakes
1974
1986 – Iran-Contra Scandal breaks.
1989 – Former evengelist, Jim Bakker, was convicted by a jury in Norfolk, VA
1991 – Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch (with Loleatta Holloway) hit number one
1994 – Almost 50 members of the Order of the Solar Temple sect died in two suicide fires in Switzerland.
1998 – Infamous David Letterman stalker, Margaret Ray, age 46, committed suicide by kneeling in front of a train in Colorado.
1999 – In a move reminiscent of a strange combination of Nazi crimes committed against Gypsies and the postwar construction of the Berlin Wall, the town of Usti nad Labem in the Czech Republic begins construction of a wall to separate a portion of its Gypsy population away from more respectable folks.

October 5th is the United States most popular birth date. It seems that on average more people are born on this day than any other.an average of 12,576 people are born each year on the 5th of October and that some 968,000 Americans celebrate this day annually. It is nine monyhs after New Years Day.

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Oct 04
  • When abouna is at home washing dishes does he have a deacon stand beside him saying “shere pistavros” after he cleans each dish?
  • Do abounas put curlers in their beards when they sleep?
  • Is there a secret group of designers who determine the latest in trends (i.e. sleeve lengths, saints pictures on tonia, patrachelion with/out tassles etc) for deacon tunics?
  • What happens if your patron saint doesn’t like you?
  • Wouldn’t communion be Atkins friendly since its Christ’s flesh and blood, i.e. high protein?
  • Would you be an anchorite if went for a walk in the desert one day and got lost for a few years?
  • Is it normal for your father of confession to stop seeing because he claims you are bad for his spiritual life?
  • Do the plant which grow in the area that the baptismal water drain be considered Christian?
  • What if Coptic is the language of heaven?
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