Japanese television is all about game shows and they come up with some wild ones! Bizarre and often humiliating costumes seem to be a requirement. In this clip the contestants play soccer wearing binoculars. I have no idea what the guy in the rabbit ears is all about. And catch the guy down on his hands and knees over on the sideline. Huh?
Japanese Binocular Football
I had a paintbrush in my hands by 7:00 a.m. and worked until 2:30. Got one bedroom and one bathroom done. Tomorrow afternoon I'll do the same for another bed & bath. Next week I'll do the kitchen.
This is the house where I picked up 120 volts through a wire that shouldn't have had any juice in it. At my recommendation he called an electrician who was there this morning. The good news is that the problem had nothing to do with work I did on this circuit last fall. Someone who worked on this circuit years ago had wired a switch improperly so that even though the switch was in the off position there was still power in the black (positive) wire.
Do you remember that feeling in adolescence? The one where you sensed that everyone else was operating under an agreed upon set of social rules and you had somehow missed one of them? Something happened at school or in your youth group, some kind of exchange or event, and it left you with this nagging sense that you'd violated one of those standards of behavior. But you didn't know what you'd done wrong. And if you don't know what you've done wrong, how do you fix it. Worse, how do you know you won't do it again? But nobody is going to tell you what you did wrong.
Remember that?
On Tuesday Christ and the disciples spent almost the entire day at the Temple. The day began with an extended conflict between Christ and the religious leaders. He delivered three parables about the unresponsiveness of the spiritual leaders - the two sons, the wedding feast and the vineyard owner. Following that, first the Pharisees and then the Sadducees came to Christ with a question they were sure would trip him up and discredit him before the people, but in each case he turned the question back on them. Then he asked his own: "Who is the Messiah?" Their inability to answer trapped them.
A Pharisee asked Christ which was the greatest commandment, again in an effort to trap him. Christ answered that it was to love God completely and one's neighbor as himself.
Christ then delivered what we now call "The Seven Woes" against the false teaching and hypocrisy of the Pharisees.
At the end of the day Christ and the disciples left Jerusalem and headed east, down the Kidron Valley and up the other side toward the village of Bethany where they were staying. As they reached the summit of the east side of the valley, an area called The Mount of Olives, they turned to look back at the city. In response to a question from the disciple,s Christ gave them what we call The Olivet Discourse that lays out the agenda for Israel during the Tribulation and the Second Coming. Following that he gives them five parables on the theme of readiness for Christ's return.
As they leave the Mount of Olives to go on into Bethany, Judas leaves the group and heads back into Jerusalem where he meets with the Pharisees to arrange his betrayal of Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
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