God Says, "Curiosity killed the Cat"

 Leo Le Port was talking about hearing aids today and how they are ment to amplify vocal ranges and not meant as high fidelity.  He talked about hearing aids giving medical information about you and can be GPS devices and can memorize the acoustics of a room like a particular auditorium you go to.  Leo says that devices that talk to you like watches, Google glasses and such are the in thing because you can get information just for you that way.   I think we are just too High Tech.  Pretty soon we’ll forget just how to go about a normal day’s living without them.

How we feel about something definitely affects how we talk about it.  I’ll admit that.  We all have our personal biases that affect everything we say.  Hopefully we aren’t letting our own predispositions color the truth of that we are saying too much.   Just to describe the Bible and “Biblical faith” would entail a bias depending on the speaker.  It’s this way for people who talk about anything- - sports, women, Donald Trump.  You can’t even talk about the Creation in the Bible without pointing out, for instance.  That there are waters ABOVE the “firliment” or sky or heavens or what have you.  How is this water held up there?  Did the Bible writer believe that the stars, moon and planets are up there in our atmosphere?  It strikes me that one slogan a Churchman would like is “Curiosity killed the cat” because curiosity seems to be universally a bad thing.  The GOOD thing is unfading trust in this parent figure- - who supposedly is Jehovah, but in reality is the local pastor or perhaps a really overbearing personal friend, who may not be nearly as much as a friend as you think he is.  You see this curiosity in the Adam and Eve story where the serpent tells they one thing and “God” (did he speak as a booming disembodied voice?) tells them another in the Garden of Eden.  Eve and then Adam get curious about the apple tree and whether apples would be good to eat.  Scripture says “They were pleasant to the eyes and good to the taste”.   You will not that the wrath of God did not come down on Eve after she ate the fruit until she gave some to Adam and he ate also.    Of course a way in which God saw curiosity as a bad thing was in the Tower of Babel story where they built some kind of an observatory and God was paranoid because he thought they were trying to find out the secrets of heaven.  So he scattered them by dividing their languages and they scattered.   God apparently doesn’t like cooperation among mankind.  But it’s hard to know.  Because for Cain, it was OK to commit incest with one or more of his sisters, and yet it was a sin not to realize his sacrifice was inferior to his brother Abel’s because Abel’s involved the shedding of sacrificial blood.   Another virtue God is really high on is patience.  When Moses went up to Mt Sinai and stayed there for forty days - - the people grew impatient and sought to take things upon themselves as to who and what “God” was.  Their only vice was that their patience was not infinite, as presumably it was supposed to be.  Other questions come to us.  God seemed less bothered by the fact that Cain had committed murder than he was by the fact he didn’t know about blood sacrifices.  And yet “scattering” was what the people at the Tower of Babel should have done but didn’t.  So you have to write these things down.  Incest is OK but coming together as a people- - bad- - and murder is somewhere in-between.  But just when you think that’s figured out King Soul sought the Lord’s favor in offering up an animal sacrifice before a big battle because the man in charge wasn’t there.  That would be Samuel.  Apparently Saul won the battle but he still did the wrong thing because he didn’t wait for Samuel to offer the sacrifice and he didn’t want to lose the battle.  So apparently “thinking for youself” isn’t high on God’s list.  Apparently unquestioniong obedience to God is high on God’s list.  Abraham slew his son Isaac, or would have, out of such unquestioning obedience.  And yet today is someone gets messages from “God” about anything- - we think they’re a little crazy.   But then we are told God is fed up with animal sacrifices entirely farther on in the old Testament.  We hear “to obey is better than sacrifice”.   That’s fine till we get to the New Testament, and we are told that “works” (or obedience) must take a back seat to Faith in a blood sacrifice.  If you’re a believer you think I’m being silly for nit picking.  But are these points just triffles? 

As you can see we have another rock compilation in the pipeline.  So basically we’re going for the traditional Tuesday morning record release.  We plan to offer a “Free Bonus Album” of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address once he delivers it.  These tend to take about seventy minutes, but maybe because it’s Trump he’ll take longer.  *This is a last minute add-back song on the release date.

RELICS FROM A DIFFERENT AGE   Released February 28^th 2017

Are You Ready To Rock?  (Blue Oyster Cult)

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed  (Almon Brothers)

Prelude / The Temples of Sphyrinx (Rush)

The Last In Line (Ron Dio)

No More Mr. Nice Guy (Alice Cooper)

Silver Spoon (Grace Slick)  from a solo album

Fireworks (Blue Oyster Cult)

The Seven Deadly Words (George Carlen)

Julia Dream (Pink Floyd)

Rock and Roll Radio (Billion Dollar Babies)
Ma, Ma, Ma Belle (Electric Light Orchestra)*

The Deadly Yellow Snow (Frank Zappa)

Another One Bites the Dust (Queen)

Love Hungry Man (AC – DC)

King of the World (Steely Dan)

The front photo is kind of a hospital room setting.  But on the gurneys are not patients but cabbage patches- - only it’s big lettuce and faces in the lettuce of the members of Donald Trump’s cabinet and little girls are all admiring them with great fascination.  A lot of these songs are originally from the “Bush Babies” album but clearly these songs weren’t that marketable in their former state.  There are a few complaints of how the current head hauncho is too keen in re-releases.  On the back is like Iditarod dog race with sled dogs and Governor Christie is spurring them on in the sled from behind with a wild eyed expression on his face.  The dogs are going from left to right off the screen.  And the terrain is very mountainous and there is a big drop off cliff or something to the right and it looks as if the dogs keep going the same direction (to the right) they will all head headlong off the cliff one by one.  On the inside flap are the song listings.  The proposed front photo of the “Free Bonus” disk is the British parliament with parliament members throwing tomatoes at Donald Trump as he tried to make a speech.  There is a little flux here as to what the final format will be.   As of now though we plan to distribute the to be recorded Trump CD in its own jewel box.  Perhaps key quotes from the speech will highlight the back, and commentary will be on the inner flap. 

Kurt Bush won the Daytona 500 just now if you’re curious as it’s coming up on 3:30 and the sun has about set there.  Although the sun was shining after six.   Rene said he was out of aftershave when Bill asked him for some.  An extra bottle popped up in the sink storage area.  Maybe Bill can use that.   Bill gave me two white cigarettes before dinner even before I told him I was smoking my last cigarette.