tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234366422024-03-13T11:23:20.445-04:00Puddleglum's WigwamJason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.comBlogger732125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-1410119793453070562014-09-11T13:29:00.002-04:002014-09-11T13:29:36.946-04:00Earlier Today<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">I may not know the answer to the meaning of life but I am fairly certain it has nothing to do with running on the Morgantown rail-trail system on a hot September night whilst enduring gnats and burka-wearing women giving you the evil eye because you're running on HER side of the dirt. It MAY involve the Gravitational Time Dilation Effect coupled with an eternity's worth of baked pasticcio and a significant lack of selfish burka-wearing trail hogs, but scripture is notoriously silent on these details</span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-9809358547857984302014-09-11T13:28:00.002-04:002014-09-11T13:28:54.186-04:00<span class="userContent">You gotta love religious diploma mill 'doctors' because apparently studying to show yourself approved isn't necessary for fleecing sheep. </span><br />
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Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-89537660496549799362014-09-11T13:25:00.000-04:002014-09-11T13:25:17.637-04:00<span class="userContent">Some things are not right in the world.<br /> <br /> Like when you discover your ‘doctor’ got his ‘doctorate’ by listening to Dr. Suess’ hit twenty-five CD collection (three monthly payments of $39.99) and wrote his six-page dissertation on ‘How to Harness Your Inner Horton to Maximize Hearing Hoos.’ <br /> <br /> I must admit. He dresses nice…real nice. And that is important because sometimes we need beauty in a fallen world.</span> <br />
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Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-46523775602930517662014-09-11T13:24:00.001-04:002014-09-11T13:24:00.320-04:00Persecution<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">If you're being persecuted for the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is a good thing and you will have treasures in heaven. If you're being persecuted for the Gospel of Mammon that is a bad thing...especially if you insist on wearing stripes with plaid.</span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-29221888616622015972014-08-05T19:40:00.003-04:002014-08-05T19:40:20.367-04:00Book RecommendationThis is an excellent book that should be on everybody's bookshelf. <br />
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One reviewer on Amazon.com wrote,<br />
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"The back of the book contains Scripture references in three categories which relate to the topic: abundance, giving, and faith. A quote I found particularly helpful was from a pastor not identified who said, "many people miss the supernatural because they are looking for the spectacular." This book is practical. It isn't flashy. It's designed for doers. It shows how to put God's principle to work."<br />
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Following the principles in this book (they're nothing new really) will help you avoid a life of misery. Being poor may sound romantic, but believe me, it's not.<br />
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This is not some half-baked 30-page booklet from a 'doctor in theology' from Yippee Wahoo Praise God and Jesus (unaccredited) U. These guys know what they're talking about. If you're looking for inspirational quotes from some goofy prosperity preacher who tells gold, diamonds, jewels, and money to come to him in 16th-century English...keep looking. Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-8707250849832951552014-06-22T07:49:00.002-04:002014-06-22T07:49:27.345-04:00PerspectiveSometimes people wonder why Jesus never talked about hockey. I think the main reason was soccer and baseball were always more popular in Mexico.<br />
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Perspective.Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-57392666745067919622014-06-01T19:53:00.003-04:002014-06-01T19:53:54.634-04:00Tropicalness<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed">
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Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-22012006832561112362014-04-12T20:10:00.001-04:002014-04-12T20:10:41.848-04:00For Sale<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Dear Friends,</span><br />
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<span> She...does...not...know...it..</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>.is...for ...sale!<br /> <br />
Ideally the new owner will live out-of-town in a telephone-pole free area with little chance of seeing one of those pesky 'Lost Dog' signs.<br /> <br />
Cash only or trade for a case of Dr. Pepper.</span><br />Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-6405569261385216372014-04-12T20:09:00.002-04:002014-04-12T20:09:55.066-04:00<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Friday Filosophy: If people define a situation as real, it is real in its consequences.<br /> <br /> Unfortunately, reality is sometimes frequently inaccurate. <br /> <br /> This is useful to know when dealing with the mentally ill and should also help you cope with facts that aren’t terribly congruent with everybody else’s unique social construction of reality.<br /> <br /> Someone once said, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is <span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">he.”<br /> <br /> This is truer than true since, if you think about it, nobody is youer than you. For when you try to be youer than you, merely thinking about being youer than you can only make you…youer than you…in the most profound sense.<br /> <br /> This is not always easy.<br /> <br /> For example. <br /> <br /> Once, I tried very very hard to put the Conceivable Means Achievable theory to practical use. I envisioned myself as a chicken (I’ve always wanted to have wings.) Two weeks later my therapist told my mom to cut this nonsense out. Mom said, “She’d think about it, but we needed the eggs.”</span></span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-10861111205083969722014-04-12T20:08:00.001-04:002014-04-12T20:08:57.741-04:00Clarence<span class="userContent"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed">
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I have no prescriptive aphorisms to guide your parched and weary souls today. Nothing to surround you with butterflies and sunshine...since you've already heard everything that has been said about everything under the sun about a thousand times in the most artsy and poetical way possible. <br /> <br /> So I leave you with this...silence. <br /> <br /> Silence? <br /> <br /> Yes! Silence is golden. It's also the best response to give those natty Jehovah Witnesses when they come pedaling to your casa and make you say snide things like, "Is your favorite band The Doors?"Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-39922828274504183932014-03-16T18:31:00.001-04:002014-03-16T18:31:20.862-04:00Ha<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">The most intellectual joke ever:<br /> </span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><br /> Another roman walks into the bar holding two fingers in the air and shouts, “5 beers please!”</span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-12436594066136344622014-03-16T18:29:00.002-04:002014-03-16T18:29:38.917-04:00Running<span class="userContent">Pittsburgh Marathon training. 49 days and counting. Donated half a pint of blood via blisters. Today was not easy.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Greedy people would be forced to eat zuchini before it rots, healthiness would become fashionable, and whirled peas would finally be realized.</span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-11786231306463877602014-01-20T13:11:00.001-05:002014-01-20T13:11:21.938-05:00Sometimes...
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One of the saddest sites in the world today is seeing people tricked into believing Dr. Topper is equal to Dr. Pepper.<br /> <br /> Not so.<br /> <br /> “Doctor” Topper is deluded in thinking his soda is on par with the bona fide Doctor. Calling oneself doctor with the thinking you’ll gain an air of authority with the cola-seeking masses is the height of arrogance. Mister Topper would do well to repent of his false fizziness label, quit misleading people, and put forth an earnest effort to earn his <span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">doctorate in carbonation if this is his heart’s desire.<br /> <br /> Dr. Pepper spent years studying kola extracts, brain tonic theories, and pepsinology…perfecting his craft of mixing those 23 mysterious ingredients in just the right amounts. Topper thinks he can mix carmel E150d, carbonated water, and sugar and pawn it off as a legitimate substitute.<br /> <br /> Bad Topper!<br /> <br /> Smack! Smack!<br /> <br /> Don’t be misled gentle readers. For surely it has been said in the last days men will believe lies and heap onto themselves false beverages which twinkle the eyes with zest and highly-flavored substitutes. <br /> <br /> Remember your creed folks:<br /> <br /> 'I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper,<br /> She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper,<br /> Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?<br /> Be a Pepper. Drink Dr Pepper.'<br /> <br /> Don’t even get me started on “Dr.” Thunder...<br /> <br /> Here are a few false peppers to add to your blacklist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It never pays to debate a cryptozoologist, even if the
expert has a ‘doctor’s degree’ from a cutting-edge cryptozoological research
center…one accredited by the Society of Supranormal Research…and located
somewhere deep in the heart of the mysterious Bayou.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I enjoy reading about Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster
sightings. I also enjoy reading about the adventures of Frodo Baggins. But, after
a hundred years of alleged sightings, mysterious footprints, and unexplained
ripples, one should expect to see some actual footage of the beasts. Yes-some
actual documentation would be good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Note: documentation is not a letter from one Mary Beth Clara
Lee Sara Bell who writes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I jest know’d it was the monster. I seeeeeeen it wit my own
eyes and Glory be, I’ll never be a doubter agin!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is not evidence. To do so is insulting to bona fide
researchers and English teachers everywhere. What this IS evidence of is a
poorly misguided soul who needs to get out of the trailer park more often.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Extinct Icthyosaurs and hirsute humanoids make great stories
and entertain the masses until tears flow and emotions run high. But sometimes wanting
to believe in cryptozoans, and sometimes even seeing cryptozoans through your
mind’s eye during an altered state of consciousness, does not mean your belief
is congruent with Reality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Reality is consistent, it doesn’t change. When one’s belief
system fails to reflect Reality, it doesn’t mean the facts are wrong. It means
the belief system is flawed and should be examined closely to discover why
nothing ever happens the way one think it should happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here are some cryptozoologists performing research.</span></div>
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When a person has completed 40 revolutions around the sun, and is a member of the planet called Earth, the phenomenon known as ‘dating’ (sometimes called wooing or courting) then refers to the process of comparing the ratio of radioactive c<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">arbon isotopes to the regular carbon isotopes in the chance that one can find out the birthday of whatever it is you’re interested in celebrating the birthday of.<br /> <br /> Yes, English majors, that last sentence ended in a preposition.<br /> <br /> Wooing, after the 22,459th turn of Earth, is the sound one makes when climbing a large hill. As in,<br /> <br /> “Cough, cough, cough, woo!”<br /> <br /> In some cultures this is a mantra old maids and monks chant as a coming-of-age ritual.<br /> <br /> Courting is half-court basketball with a lowered rim and dubious dribbling skills. You’ll often see guys wooing invisible women during pick-up games. These invisible gals are called ‘woo-men’ and can never EVER be captured, sort of like the mythical Atalanta who ran away from all her suitors until that one fellow cheated by rolling shiny golden apples past her hoping to win her heart. Apparently this worked and they lived happily ever after until somebody decided they were mythical creatures and wrote them out of the history and phone books.<br /> <br /> I tried, seriously, to do the wooing thing by tossing hand-painted M and Ms on the trail this morning. But they froze in mid-air and had the effect of small, extremely cold, rocks and frightened poor Miss Muffet (or whatever her name is) away.<br /><br /> Here are two creatures practicing amphibial mantras.</span></div>
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<br /></span> Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-48811126474413979392013-11-20T21:15:00.001-05:002013-11-20T21:15:34.504-05:00<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Thank Goodness it’s Friday…payday for some people. <br /> <br /> If you’re a Christian businessman who pays your employees today, let me encourage you to PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES. <br /> <br /> This will make Jesus hA-ppy. <br /><br /> Some of you may have big week-end plans which involve repeating the word shunda-hai over and over again like some kind of Buddhist mantra, which is fine, but make certain you hand out the paychecks. <br /> <br /> I<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">t would strange for somebody who is blessed and highly flavored and experiencing the most bountiful and abundant blessings of the Creator of the Universe to do otherwise. Don't cha think?<br /> <br /> Don’t make me start quoting scripture verses again. <br /> <br /> Have a nice day everyone!</span></span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-22352326983458719042013-11-20T21:14:00.005-05:002013-11-20T21:14:51.986-05:00<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">I do not believe in reincarnation, but if I DID believe in reincarnation, I STILL would not believe in reincarnation.</span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-78145565878020441982013-11-20T21:14:00.002-05:002013-11-20T21:14:08.475-05:00<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">"When you're right you're right, and when you're wrong you're wrong. But when you are right you are never ever wrong." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Plato, who said, “the unexamined life is not worth
living”, apparently never read Solomon et al who wrote, “everything is
meaningless” . . . after examining HIS life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It isn’t known when Solomon wrote this before or
after getting married. But you’d think after the 700<sup>th</sup> marriage he’d
have added an appendix to his ‘Meaningless Philosophy.’ And as far as history
is known, no appendix or amendment has been discovered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Examine your life, but not TOO closely. And in the
meantime…get a hobby. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23436642.post-23272042839642150592013-10-15T09:39:00.001-04:002013-10-15T09:39:30.984-04:00Grammar Lesson<span class="userContent">OK folks. Pay attention. A hypocrite is a person who engages in the same behaviors he condemns others for. Hippocrites was the father of modern medicine and died a long time ago. A hippo crypt is a really big hole for dead hippos. Hippos are not hypocrites, nor was Hippocrites a hypocrite. Hippocrites was a Greek. Some hippos are Greek, but most are Tanzanian. Some Tanzanians are hypocrites and very few are physicians...although some may be called Hippocrites. There are no hippo crypts in Greece...these are mostly found in Tanzania along with the non-Greek hippos. If there is a Tanzanian hippo called Hippocrites who teaches young hippos the finer points of molar care, this is sheer coincidence.</span>Jason Michael Shuttlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05641164127688746568noreply@blogger.com0