can you guys post something funny please?

This was genius!!

I'm actually terrible at poetry, and I was trying to think of a better line to round it out with, but GG obviously came in and showed us how it should be done!

When GPS tells you to go straight, but you can't because there is a lake there:

GPS BATMAN: continue straight ahead

You think: "well, there is a lake here but Batman said to do it so... here goes!"

GPS BATMAN: Oh good citizen! Why did you drive off into a lake?! I'm not real! I can't save you!"

The other day ours actually said (and I kid you not!)
continue straight ahead then turn off the road"
Our kids were ROLLING

to go straight took us under the interstate.
We're used to hearing things like "turn right onto Maple street" or even just "turn right"
nope, it said "turn off the road"
which happened to be an alley and took us in the back lot to where we were going which was quicker and easier.
Usually GPS zig zags us around and out of the way.

I never thought about the sounds being representative of the body part it hits

I haven't had much sleep again

It has to do with choosing quick, simple, and relatively cheap meals. A pot of chili, tacos, spaghetti, breakfast for dinner, make your own subs, one pot pizza.
Leftovers are key. Make extra for dinner and you have lunches all week.

Darn
I thought you were going to have a secret I didn't already know/use

Hi @BillG,

I'm about to nerd out, so please forgive me and feel free to skip over this post if it's too long.

I have often wondered about things like this. Will we just know everything instantly, or will eternity also mean a state of eternal learning? After all, Adam and Eve didn't know everything when they were created in the garden -- or at least, they didn't seem to know the dire consequences of eating from the wrong tree. And we would hope that if they had known, they certainly wouldn't have made the wrong choice.

A quick Google search says there are over 7,000 known languages in use, and apparently that doesn't even include "dead" languages like Latin. Will there just be one universal language in heaven, or will we automatically know all 7,000+ languages? If not, will we be spending our time learning them? Will the people who were gifted as translators on earth still work as translators in heaven? Will there be technology like the things they are coming up with now, offering instant translation in any language?

When Jesus appeared to His disciples after the resurrection, they thought He was a ghost, but to prove to them that He was living, He asked for something to eat -- and He ate a piece of broiled fish (Luke 24.)

Will we eat in heaven? I tend to think so, as Adama and Eve ate before the fall. Will we have refrigerators? Will there be a need for them? Will food go bad in heaven? Will we cook? I'm assuming it won't be over simple camp fires if we do. Will we have some kind of powers where we can automatically cook the food with our minds? Maybe so. But if for some reason, we need machines to cook and store our food, if we have refrigerators on earth that keep track of what we've used, and tell us what we need to buy, how much more advanced will they be in heaven? And will they keep advancing? Or will they already be in a perfect state with no need for further creativty or innovation?

I'm assuming heaven is a big place. If I want to travel from one side of heaven to another to visit a beloved friend, will I be able to transport like in a sci-fi movie? Will there be a need for transportation in heaven, like on earth? If so, who will design the things we need to get from here to there? Or will we be like the angels and just fly to wherever we need to go?

Jesus said that in His Father's house, there are many rooms -- that He will one day take us to to dwell in. Who is building these rooms? God Himself? Will they all be the same? I imagine not. One look at life on earth, and you can tell God likes variety. Will they need updating? Will they be carefully planned out, and the built?

I've read accounts of people who have supposedly visited heaven and while I don't put much stock into them because they can't be verified until we get there, it's been said that people in heaven were doing the same things as people on earth, such as building buildings. I have family members who have designed and had several houses built. Back then, everything was done on paper. Nowadays, they have computer programs that can show you what everything will look like before you've even bought the land. How much more advanced would this be in heaven!

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is when God specifically names two craftsman He wants to work on His temple Bezalel and Oholiab -- Exodus 36) -- because He himself gave them the knowledge of creativity and design in specific areas. Was the knowledge only for their lives on earth, or are they continuing to design in heaven?

I've often wondered what God will use technology-minded people's gifts for in heaven. Maybe they will do something else completely, or maybe there will be a glorified version of "heavenly tech work" that they will continue and add on to once they get there.

I don't know. I've read the Bible through about 7 times and have studied it since childhood, so if I'm missing something, please feel free to point out any passages that might answer these questions.

My Grandpa was from an age where he remembered the first time their house had electricity. He was in high school, and saw the lights on at their home for the very first time as he was approaching the house. Understandably, my Grandpa liked things he was familiar with, and wanted nothing to do with modern technology. (Even though, at the time, electricity was very much modern technology!)

His only phone was one that was attached to the wall with a cord. I myself resisted getting a smart phone for the longest time, until a friend convinced me. Now I find it a necessity. When a family member had an emergency last week, I went to pick up some things they needed and could instantly send pictures of everything they had, allowing my family to choose what they needed on the spot without making a separate trip or dragging them to the store.

Will we have a need for things like phones in heaven, or when we want to communicate with someone, will we somehow automatically be able to telepathically tune in to each other's thoughts? I don't know. And if there IS technology in heaven, what about people like my Grandpa? Will he automatically just want/know how to upgrade, or is he asking God for old-time versions of the things he was familiar with?

I myself like the actual act of typing on a real keyboard. The old-fashioned part of me misses phones with real buttons because I find the tactile sense of pushing a raised button that makes a click to be very therapeutic. I wouldn't mind being able to continue that in heaven.

I realize heaven is going to be far beyond anything we could ever dream or imagine. Perhaps there won't be a need for anything we have on earth, and surely any versions of things here that might exist will surpass anything we could ever think of.

As for me... I wonder how God would react to my request for a simple keyboard and ability to communicate with people through it.

After all, there is always something in most people that wants to hang on to at least a few things from the past that they prefer.

I know there won't be a need for those things in heaven, but I'll be very curious to see how God handles this aspect of humanity, since I'm assuming it might be part of how we were created.

Thank you for your very thought-provoking post!

Also, half my kids eat Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the other half eat Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

A Zonk! most definitely lands on the temple and results in a knockout.

Since Sunday is mysteriously missing from this roster, I'm guessing this is the day your kids go on a fast.

😳😬🤣

Now we know Cameron's REAL secret to saving on groceries! 😎

Actually, we eat out on Sunday. Taco Bell has good deals online and Wendy's usually has good deals.
Simply fasting from something has little value. Fasting in a way to loosen bands and break bonds is greatly pleasing to God.

Superman would not misled you like Batman. Of course, he would tell you to fly across the lake.

your kids eat the days?

...I just realized why Robin's BIFF only had one F He's only working with half the force in his punches that Batman has.

Robin would complete the Batman GPS and interject, "holy bad advice, Batman! There's a lake ahead!"

Or a Penguin alert, "waugh! ...waugh, waugh..."
Or Catwoman, "Somebody say fish? Mee...ow"

Please, somebody! Turn off my nerd mode?

Lol!!

Years ago, my brother and his friend played some video game at our house all weekend -- all day Friday thru all day Sunday -- and they kept doing something in the game that caused the roughest, toughest, manliest of computerized voices to keep announcing, "NODE ACTIVATED!!!"

I would get up in the morning hearing, "NODE ACTIVATED!"

I would be 2 rooms away, and still hear a resounding, "NODE ACTIVATED!!"

Now thanks to @Mem, I'm going to walk around with a voice in my head saying, "NERD ACTIVATED!!!"

Which is oh so fitting for me, but... Do I really need a huge booming voice to remind me of it??!

It's so hot here today my prosthetic leg started sweating.





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humor heals

I have and sometimes use my first desktop that's running windoze xp because it has a full liscensed version of Photoshop with a calibrated monitor. Slow as a snail but the results are super good.