Ajax Dinner Party

Lucky in love

Lucky in love unlucky at cards, thats how the saying goes isn't it. Well i would have to say i have been real lucky in love and well at cards I just don't win much and if I do win then i spend it.

St. Peter (Simone of Galilee)

St. Peter (Simone of Galilee)

There is no one substantial fact that I can put forward that St. Peter is buried in Rome. Under St. Peter Basilica. Nor can I prove that he was crucified there.

All I can do is follow the research of those biblical scholars that have spent century’s research this. I can also assure you that I have spent over three hours research this afternoon on this.

The most important point I can make to prove that peter did live in Rome is Peter 5:13. In this he makes a cryptic reference to Babylon at the time of the early Christians ( I use the term Christians as there was no real church but just Christians at this time) Babylon was a cryptic term for Rome. So it is most likely that Peter was residing in Rome at this time.

I have no doubt that St. Peter was martyred, and hence since he can be placed in Rome then I accept this as you do you faith. I don’t know if he was crucified upside down, but by the time of his death I can be sure that It was ordered by Nero. (Rain AD 54–68)

As to the place of his burial, I can not put any hard evidence to this, I point out for some reason the empire Constantine I Died 337AD commissioned a basilica on Vatican hill, This basilica could have been built with greater ease to the south this site but it may have been built on the Vatican hill as there was a small Aedicula there that could have marked his place of interment or the place of his crucifixion. On the other hand there is some evidence to say to his remains and those of Paul where placed Ad Catacumbas, but then again there is a belief that his remains where never collected after his crucifixion.

There where a box of bones recovered from under the alter in St. Peters in 1939 that is believed to be his but there is no evidence as yet to support this.

I accept Peter as the first Pope simply as he was chosen by Christ to be so. At this time there was only one church and it the universal Christian church hence a Catholic Church

Stephen

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Comfort

Ajax seems to like his comfort, but I can not see how the tissue box can make a good pillow.
Stephen

Big Blog is down

My Bigblog is down so I will only be posting to this account for the foreseeable future.
I have had bigpond up to the eyeballs .
SgW

Questioning Your Faith.

Questioning Your Faith.

Should you question you faith or to be more correct your beliefs. I find it an important part of life to question all things in my life from my love of my wife and children and there feelings for me to the simplest things like the price of eggs. In this way I find meaning in things and understanding that my make me wonder why I believe in something to strengthening my faith in life or God, or benefit of eggs for breakfast weighed up against disadvantage this my have on my cholesterol levels.

By asking the question of your self is this right or is there a God you may come to a better understanding of why you believe there is a good or that his teaching are right for you, then you may find that his teaching are wrong and then you must question the ethics and morality you live by.

If there is no God then way is all law based on the Ten Commandments and then way is it wrong to steal or covert via neighbors wife or even to kill.

Then if there is a God, why are these things wrong, in particular to kill as would you not be doing god by sending someone to paradise?

Stephen

Baby Bounus

Baby bonus

There seems to be some idea out there that I do not support the baby bonus, that is wrong I think that the baby bonus was one of the best thing that the Howard Government did in there time in power it actually for the first time in my life pushed the natural Australian population growth above ZPG, by natural I mean the growth by births over deaths not including immigration.
I do believe that it should be indexed and in the case of single mother under 18 paid in vouchers so that the money actually finds its way to the child benefit. I can not see that a couple earning $150,000 a year are poor in fact they are upper middle class and in the top 15% of the pay bracket. In fact to a couple on $150,000 a year the $5,000 is less then 2 weeks wages. If you are on $150,000 a year and are finding it hard then you need to look at the debt you are servicing and down size as you are living beyond your means.
I have made my thoughts on maternity leave is that it is an excellent thing and should apply to both parents or which ever parent decides to stay home and care for the child.
I truly believe that anything that can keep one parent home raising the kids is good for the country and for the family unit it self. In last 30 year we have tried to change what the humane race has done for thousands of years in parenting and all we have to do is look at the problem of the modern world and kids that are in trouble all the time to see that we have made a major mistake in this. I am not say it has to be a women so please don’t think I believe that women should be bare foot and pregnant, as I do not think that. I think is just as good for a man to be the one who stays home and looks after the children I have done this and worked part time while doing it and at other times my wife has stayed home and worked part time but always the kids have a a form of adult supervision in one of us or there Grandmother being with them.
The family unit is the most important thing we have and it should be nurtured and respected.
Stephen

Petrol

I think it might be the age I am, or it could be that I just think in imperial measures but I always convert the price of petrol from litres to gallons so a $1.60 is $6.10 a gallon, my first car used to cost $5 to fill with petrol. Those of you that read my blog on a regular basses know that I believe that we have to live with these prices and that when you buy your next car factor in that petrol will be at lest $1 a litre more and now I am thinking you may need to factor a rise over the life of your car of $2 a litre.

If you are falcon or comerdor driver then start to think how big a car you need because you will feel the pain of petrol prices and to be honest start to think about the fact that the petrol will run out in 30 years and all we have at the moment are stop gap measures but not replacement for the inturnal combustion engine.

I feel sorry for the peple who actually need a 4wd, not those that have one in the city and waste petrol and demage the roads, to be honest I think the urban cowboys or should I say the urban cowgirls should be taxed off the road. You drive your tanks down to sip you latte and talk about environmental issues, you hypocrites.

SgW.

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Paid Marternity Lieve

Paid Maternity Leave

I have just read a post by Jeff in regard to payed maternity leaver, he left no place for comment so I will make mine here on my blog.
First off is it not the plan of Dad Rudd and his Government that this maternity leave will be payed for through some form of tax and not by business both large and small, and is it not a fact that we are well behind the rest of the industrialized world in not having some form of paid maternity leave. So Jeff what is the problem your small business will not have to pay for your staff to take this off and it will mean for a year anyway that there are less children in child care which can only be a good thing and there will be ties built between children and there parents , which is something that our society is lacking now and will be to our detriment in the future if we do not reverse this trend.
SgW

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Have a look at these Photos on my BigBlog
Stephen

Cold Morning Thoughts

Cold Morning Thoughts

I read with interest Doug’s post over the weekend and it got me thinking as I am want to do about God and religion in general terms. It always seems to come back to a point with me and an understanding of faith, if faith works for you then it is a good thing. You can replace faith with belief if you like here as some people may not believe in God yet may have a strong belief in their ethics and morality as well of that of the over all world to bring about the right out come, in the end.

A good Muslim is as good a man as a good Christian. As a good person is just that a good person, and you would find that all good people believe in much the same things.

I find that good people support charities that maybe of a religious nature with out holding any religious belief them selves. They can see the good that is done by groups like the salvo’s and St. Vinnies and they’re for help them in their work. I do not think that a good person should look for glory for his giving it should be done a humble way and with no expectation of recognition of what has been given or of self-praise of what the person has done. If this looked for then you are not helping but just trying to bring glory on yourself.

You can follow the teaching of Christ in your every day life without a belief in God at all and may not even know you are doing so, or you can appear at you church each Sunday or at the temple or where ever you worship God and not following the true teaching of Christ, Mohammed or whomever. If you are this person then just do not go.

Men not God have corrupted religion over the centuries, but there have also been good men who have lifted it high and served not just God but mankind well. Religion should be judged by the works of these men and not by those who have not served God and mankind but them selves.

(I have used the term man here for mankind; I am not pc and will not be so.)

Stephen.

Doctor Idiot

The doctor offers 5 cents a litre off and will take 1.5 billion out of the treasury coffers to save a motorist around $3.50, you would think a doctor would rather see this money go into the stuffed hospital system. People need to get used to the price of petrol it is going to get more expensive and there is going to be a lot less of it and in 30 years there will be none.

Doctor, doctor give the kids Alco pops to get them hocked on booze and sell it to them cheap so they can binge it down, Brendan maybe you should drop the price of smokes back to under $5 a pack and introduce $1 Schooners.

Don’t forget to block supply and lets have another election, we don’t need!

Thanks Doctor Idiot and the dumb and dumber, rich boys club.

Stephen The Red!

New Ride

Here we go I get to take the vacum for a ride tomorrow nothing like my VTR but hey it has to be done but I don't know if anything can save the carpet in my backroom, but this baby could suck the hair off of Tim.

Have been sitting here just getting comfortable with this PC thing and thinking g it is good not to have to worry about what is or isn't compatable. (loaded this phot straight up)

Listening to some jazz and having a veg out. nice way to be.

Stephen OPI

Bye Bye Mac

Sunday, 11 May 2008

Francis had no bandwidth in his room with the Acer, seem the cheap wireless connection just was just not strong enough up there so I now have the Acer back in the living room and he has the Imac up in his room as it flys on the wireless network and I can connected the Acer by Ethernet in the living room does not worry me so much using a PC but I miss the simplicity of my Mac but not the problems I have been having with it.

Took me all day to set it up again the way I like it it had so many problems and had not had a good clean out since I gave it to him 12 months ago. I have done a clean install of the original software and then added Photoshop elements for photos and pulled all the files off my ipod on to here. Then loaded WOW which turned out to be the biggest job of them all, it took 3 hours to get right.

I was in bed at half nine but as usual I am back up now to the wee hours not able to sleep and of course the old mate the nightmares were there to get me no us laying there worrying about them, just get up and oing something to get over it.

SgW

Turbo and Potato

I have been promising to put this up for a while now so here it is.

Stephen

Ajax small brain

When Ajax is not getting any attention he just shuts down like a computer going to sleep. Small dog small brain.
Stephen

Toadstools?

Toadstools right? I don’t know much about these things but am assuming that these are toadstools; I really just took them for the sake of the photos, as they look cool.

Stephen

Size Matters

Look how small cameras have got and this little camera does all my SLR did. The ipod not only stores all my music and movies but also my photos address book and I use it as a portable hard drive.

The blue pen oh that keeps me alive.

look out John Holmes, big is not always better.

Stephen

My 2 Bobs Worth

My 2 bobs worth

I haven't left bigblog but I have another blog, which I post the same as I post here to. The biggest problem I have on bigblog is not the chatters but it is so dam Mac unfriendly. Yes I know I am one of the strange 10%who us Apple computers but I photography and this is by far the best format for working with pictures and to be honest my Mac just works. Except on bigblog when I want to upload a picture I have to use a PC lucky I have a PC laptop or I would be buggered.

I have been with bigpond since 1999 and using Macs since 2000, when I went from dial up to broadband, Telstra in there wisdom sent a tech out to do the install after an hour of him buggering around I had to do it for him in five minutes. This is what bigpond call Mac support.

The chatter piss me off I can’t think of another term for it because to be honest I would like to put there mobile phones where the sun don’t shine, but I believe that Telstra knows dam well what they are doing and they like it, all those extra dollars for the three amigos.

Why are the blogs so slow to load and that is if they work at all. I am using a very fast cable connection and it took Tim’s page 2 minutes to load a little while ago at 2 in the morning when I am the only one in the house on line.

Now I will post this and because it is the early hours of the morning I am likely to get hit by the chatters.

Stephen

Pork Sandwich

We had roast pork for dinner last night with baked spuds and assorted other veg, yum it was nice.
Today I had pork and apple sauce sandwiches for lunch and man that was heaven on earth, this is something from my childhood and when we would come to Sydney for the Royal Easter Show each year I would always have a roast pork roll with apple sauce and gravy. It is one of the foods that give you a warn fuzzy feeling inside, and on a cold day here in downtown Ashfield it felt even better after the sandwiches went in the microwave and came out warm and fresh.
Stephen

I Hate Shoes

I hate shoes, always have never liked wearing them and if i had to would always prefer a boot or a slip on, why am I posting about this well it winter and it is cold and I have have been wearing slippers around the house and no matter what you think there still a shoe. Maybe it is the fact that I have flat feet i mean like a flat peace of bread, no arch at all, that could be why I don't like shoes.
When I was driving a cab my shoes lived under the drivers seat most of the time and I would put them on if I had to get out of the cab, always drove in socks, this was good since I would be at the wheel for 12 hours at a time. When i got home off with the shoes and off with the socks I like naked feet. so right now under desk there are 10 naked pink toes and there worm because I am close to the fire.
SgW

Jedda and Turbo

Another day in dog or cats life

Diabetic and Quarter Pounder

Diabetic and Quarter Pounder

I just logged on to my bigblog and the banner add at the top of the blog is for the Golden Arches Quarter Pounder! Great add for a diabetic bloggers blog of fog since the fog is thanks in part to the big M's sugar infested food, that I spent 22 years eating while driving a harry nab. To be honest I always preferred the Mc Feast, but the quarter pounder was easer to eat while driving. Mc feast mmmmmm.

Stephen

A fat and fogy old fart today.  

Diversity

Diversity
I talk to an atheist (sorry Tim you miss out on the capital), a Jew, a Pagan, two girls in South Australia, a born again Christian and a crazy woman somewhere in Nth Queensland who lives on a boat and take pictures of cars, and then there is me a sometimes practicing sometime lapsed catholic. What I am getting at is we are a pretty diverse lot we of the big blog.
We all agree on something’s and on other we do not but we seem to have the tolerance to all get on with each other and respect and look forward to our views on anything from God to the local school building plan. We write of our wants our beliefs and the things that we don’t even speak of to our loved ones about, interesting isn’t it that bloging can be so open and therapeutic.
We all suffer the chatters, may there mobiles melt in there teenage hands.
Still old, still fat, but the beard is gone.
Stephen