Yesterday, Jonathon Norman insulted me in a unique way:
john, i think your thoughts reflect a poor if any sense of ecclessiology.
This marks the first time in my life that anyone has dared to degrade my ecclesiology. So I had to go look the word up since I don't have a copy of Jonathon's Theological Word-of-the-Day Calendar. It means: "The study of the Christian church, its structure, order, practices, and hierarchy."
Presumably Jonathon is also writing normatively of what the purpose and mission of the church should be. And that I am in violation of it.
Now normally I would be inclined to respond as Admiral Kirk did in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home when attacked with an unfamiliar put-down by a San Francisco cab driver: "Well, double dumb ass on you!"
But I have decided to return words of kindness instead. Here goes:
Jonathon, your euchology rocks da house!
Gavin, I love your theogony! It is foshizzle!
Joel, the world would be less of a beautiful place without your pneumetology.
Andy, your hamartiology makes me scream with girlish glee.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
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great more words i have to look up! dictionary.com & wikipedia.org are my most frequented sites now
yo trizzle is hanging out of my pazzile little izzlebizzlel!!!
i was going to retrack what i said yesterday morning; and i did in my head while taking a shower, thinking to myself- "self, damn you were hard on rabbit john." so now i take it back, it was much harsher than it should have been.
please accept my apology john and next year, can we go trick or treating together?
Absolutely no apology is necessary, Jonathon. I have a very thick skin.
It's nice to know that you think of me when you're in the shower, lathering yourself.
John,
I was fully clothed when I dug into the recesses of my mind to dredge up the remnants of my seminary Greek and realize that you were referring to my thoughts about sin. Needless to say, had I been lathering myself at the time, we would be talking about a whole nother kind of hamartia.
Yo,
Andy B.
Dude, you quoted Star Trek authoritatively. Nerd.
Although I suppose at least it was an even numbered movie.
Jeff, I knew that if I said 'Captain Kirk' instead of the rank that the character held at the time, then more people would recognize the name, but that you would call me on the error.
i am highly disturbed now.. laughing but disturbed. could have done with out all this soap talk!
&:~)
"I knew that if I said 'Captain Kirk' instead of the rank that the character held at the time..."
Well he was busted down to Captain at the end of the movie for stuff he did in Trek III.
Uhhh...
I mean I don't know anything about these ranks of which you speak. I am young and virile and have been too busy shooting large smelly guns to know about the minutae of Trek continuity. Yeah thats the ticket.
Embrace your geekdom, Jeff. It is not a sin. It is the way that God made you.
John, if you ever meet me in person you will realize how fully I have embraced my geekdom. I even played Supermunchkin over lunch with a bunch of my fellow geek coworkers today.
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