It’s been pretty obvious to me since I seriously spent four years reading the words of Jesus that his teaching have strong socialist roots. So, why are so many who claim to be Christian against any form of socialism? Just say that word and they go into the immediate attack mode. That is just another of a long list of things I don’t understand about … Continue reading Jesus Was A Socialist
“Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy” Henry Kissinger When I came across this quote its author surprised me. I never took Henry Kissinger as having a funny bone in his body. 🥸 Continue reading Fraternizing With The Enemy…
With this picture, I want to celebrate the Rat Rod. Much of my 2018 adventures were to go to numerous car shows around the country. The one in Des Moines was probably the biggest. There were thousands of cars there, but I kinda think this was one of my favorites. Rat Rods are usually built by the owner who builds them on the weekends. Continue reading Rat Rods
I have used the phrase in the title of this post on numerous occasions. Most people, except maybe my wife, think of me as an intelligent person. I was kinda shocked when I learned that my IQ was 136, which puts me in the top 1%, but I guess that is another story. 🥸 Anyway after a lengthy pause I end the phrase … … … Continue reading Just Stories – I Went To Harvard, Yale, and MIT…
Anyone who comes to this blog via the WordPress reader or similar tool probably doesn’t know that I am taking RJsView in a different direction. I am narrowing its focus but broadening it coverage. I know that makes no sense, but that is just who I am. It is going to be more focused on my life and times and the lessons it has taught … Continue reading About Living Life On The Margins
This week we will concentrate on two major costs in the family budget in the US and compare how much Sweden pays for the same thing. Medical Care In the USThe average cost per family for a year of health insurance is $15,400.The average out-of-pocket annual household expense is $5,000.Medicine alone accounts for about $1,400 per person per year.The total US medical costs per person … Continue reading InDepth – Sweden – Post #3: Medical Care, Transportation
I get many of my ideas for posts here on RJsCorner and RedLetterLiving from my friends at ProgressiveChristianity.org This is one of those posts. I don’t know if the book The Power Of Positive Thinking is still popular, I kinda doubt it be I am certain that other authors have jumped into the venue of Positive Thinking. Like everything else in life, thinking positively can … Continue reading When Positive Thinking Can Be Negative
For this Revisit Wednesday I bring you a post from June 2012 about a topic that I have always had trouble with and that is that women are supposed to know their place. “Knowing your place” has throughout history been a tactic to keep segments of society subservient to the ruling class. The very idea bugs me to my core. *****************June 2012 *********************** 1 Timothy … Continue reading Women Be Quiet!!!
I’ve really really tried, but I have just run out of patience for reading a 200+ page books, or maybe it is time I have run out of.🧐 I will admit that I have never been a novel reader. Almost every book I have read in the last 40 years has been about history, religion, or government/politics. Long fictional novels has never been my venue. … Continue reading I’ve Really Tried… But I Just Have No Patience For…
I have always been a dreamer and a person who constantly looks to the future. When I was a very young boy I would go out into the backyard of our 1950s $14,000 tract home and lay on the dewy grass and look at the stars and dream about my future. It seems like there were a lot more stars on those nights than I … Continue reading Roads Not Taken
I wonder how long President Biden will hold out the olive branch to the GOP? He has been around for a long time so he knows the history of trying to get them to the “compromise” table. I like the comparison of this exercise to the Peanuts cartoon strip of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown, she always pulls it away just as he … Continue reading Unity, But at What Cost?
I know from personal experiences that saying you doubt something in your church can get you in some pretty serious trouble. I will make a bold statement for you. I am sure you have doubts, probably even serious doubts, about what you are told to be facts in your church too. Even Mother Theresa had them so don’t even bother to deny it! But, all … Continue reading Doubts are seldom allowed In The Church…
A person who drives ten miles to buy a lottery ticket is three times more likely to die in a car accident than winning the lottery. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know . No one thinks of the odds when buying lottery tickets, so this piece of trivia goes in one ear and out the other without touching any … Continue reading Three Times More Likely…
When I came across this building, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It is actually a mural painted on the side of a building in Old Town Quebec. And it was not the only one. The green fence is real, everything else is a painting. Continue reading Creativity – Canadian Style
This post is mainly about how you view your world. I will use myself and my wife as examples of two different approaches. I embrace change whenever I find it. In fact, I get down right bored when change doesn’t come around frequently enough. When change doesn’t, I create some for myself. This pandemic, which I pray will mostly be over in a few more … Continue reading Nerve Racking vs Exciting – A Matter of View
For this Revisit Wednesday I want to go to a post I wrote here over 12 years ago. It was the first time I seriously looked at the idea of Jubilee, but it would not be the last. I know from personal experience that the idea of giving someone something that they haven’t earned is much against what many white evangelicals believe. I can still … Continue reading Jubilee – Revisited
When I graduated from college in 1970, it was the first time I could really watch television. We got our first TV in the late 1950s but at that time there was very little on it for an almost-teenager. There was Howdy Doody and the Musketeers for younger kids, but those really didn’t appeal to me. Dad certainly enjoyed his westerns, and we seldom missed … Continue reading Life Stories – I ❤️ MTM
One of my triology of mottos for RJsCorner is Think For Yourself It basically defines who I am and who I want to be. When the crowd is all going one way I think to myself “I wonder what kind of opportunities does the other path have?” That makes me a contrarian, and I am proud of that fact. There is No possibility that I … Continue reading Think For Yourself – A Very Foreign Idea…
I seem to lay almost all our present day problems on the MAGA cult and particularly those who are evangelicals among them. I realize that is just too easy to do. It is painting with too broad a brush. Saying they all think alike is like saying all progressives have the same priorities, and I know for a fact that is far from the case. … Continue reading Lazy Minds or Stifled Minds?
Of course, everything I say here at RedLetterLiving is my opinion, but sometimes it seems particularly necessary to make that declaration. Since I am going to compare some religious establishments on the post, this is one of those times As a little bio for this post, I give you a quick history of my six stages of Christian life: I was baptized into the Catholic … Continue reading The Church Needs Shame…
The human body contains trillions of microorganisms i.e bacteria outnumbering human cells by ten to one. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know – The Knowledge Encyclopedia Kinda scary to think that we have more bacteria in our bodies than cells. 😖 Perhaps my weakest subject is biology. I don’t think I have ever had a class in the subject. … Continue reading Trillions Of Microorganisms
This post originated on my blog at RedLetterLiving, but I think it will get the broader attention here that it deserves. Anyone who has read many of my words over at RedLetterLiving knows that I don’t have a very positive attitude of much of what is found in the Old Testament. That part of the Bible is about Jewish history and the myths associated with … Continue reading Tree of the knowledge
With this post, I want to point you to one of my life stories at one of my other blogs. You might think it is strange, but a dormitory cafeteria gets much credit for who I am today. Click on the picture to see the story. Continue reading What Made Me A Man
A dormitory cafeteria was a prime reason I became a “man”. I know in my day and very likely today, that is not the usual statement to describe a dormitory cafeteria. It is usually described as “blah”, “bland”, “despicable”, or often much worse. 🤬 Of course this demands a life story, so that is why you are here. I was naive country boy who was … Continue reading Life Stories – The Dormitory Cafeteria
I know the title of this post seems out of character for me since I believe that the press is one of the most important things that keeps our democracy together. So, why would I want it muzzled? The basic problem as I see it is that the meaning of “press” has just become too wide and without any accountability. Let’s look at a few … Continue reading Muzzle The Press
I originally wrote this post for my daily blog over at RJsCorner but thought it is also very applicable here as well. Anyone who has read many of my words here know that I don’t have a very positive attitude of much of what is found in the Old Testament. That part of the Bible is about Jewish history and the myths associated with those … Continue reading The Tree Of Knowledge
The human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy even though it’s only 2% of the body’s total weight. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know I suspect that some of us use a lot more or a lot less than 20%. I kinda think that those of us who don’t have much hair on top of our heads is … Continue reading Hot Heads
I very much try to keep all my posts here at RJsCorner to 500 words or less. I know your time is valuable, so I don’t want to take up too much of it. But, I have lots of topics in my post queue that simply can’t be handled in one 500-word post. For that reason, I am implementing an InDepth Friday series of sequential … Continue reading InDepth Friday – Introduction
Going forward Thursdays here at RJsCorner will be used to direct you to my favorite post of the week at my other three blogs. Check them out if you have a couple of minutes. Just click on the spotlight graphics below to read it: @ RJsView.net Continue reading Spotlight Thursday
November 12, 2009 I found an interesting book a while back by Phyllis Tickle entitled “The Words of Jesus”. Phyllis Tickle is the founding editor at Publishers Weekly and is author of more than two dozen book about Christianity. In this book she attempts to take the red letters found in the Gospel accounts and separate them from the surrounding text. She does this, among … Continue reading The Words of Jesus
Jeff Bezos was the master of entrepreneurship of the first two decades of this new century. He managed to put together a logistics system that was totally unheard of before him. To move from being a small online book store to overtaking Walmart as the top retailer in the world was a BIG accomplishment. Being an information technology guy myself, I was rather proud of … Continue reading The Most Important Life Lesson To Pass On
This is another of my abstract realism photos that I’m kinda proud of. It looks like an abstract, but it is totally real. It was taken in 2000 during our last visit to Central Park before our relocation back to the Midwest. Continue reading Central Park – NYC
I know that there are many out there that still believe that “government is the problem”, but I will again try to convince you that without our government many of the things that we deem essential today would like not have happened. If that argument won’t appease you, then I will try to convince you that government is where the “people’s business” has to happen. … Continue reading Government Is A Premier Entrepreneur
Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan made the comment “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” I didn’t agree with that then but by adding two words I agree with it now. My slightly revised quote is The lack of government is the problem When government loses its role of doing the “people’s business” it becomes a major problem. When that … Continue reading Government Wasn’t The Problem
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