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Pastor, author Tony Evans – I wrote Tuesday morning that I was in Augusta, GA for the bicentennial meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention. There had already been a missionary sending service on Sunday evening, a preaching conference Monday afternoon and the first session of convention meetings Monday evening. The Tuesday afternoon session features the convention sermon each year, brought this year by pastor, author, orator and radio/television host Tony Evans from Dallas, Texas. I don’t know the official seating capacity of Warren Baptist Church in Augusta but the attendance Tuesday afternoon exceeded that. I did have a seat in the sanctuary, in a row of chairs put out for the overflow crowd. The room was stuffed and I retreated to the lobby where I found a much more comfortable chair parked in front of a flat screen. A small group of us watched together and listened in to the remote broadcast and each time the crowd in the room broke into applause we could hear that for real. I did step into the back of the sanctuary to take part in the standing ovation at the very end. Anyone can stream individual sessions or the entire 3 day meeting from the GBC website.

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Welcome to the Satur-deja Vu for the week ending November 12th. I realized about three items in that I have an unusual number of food related bits so we’re just going to look at all of those and then see what’s left. Thanksgiving is coming up and Americans celebrate by eating too much, you know, just like every other day. So unfasten the button on your jeans and let’s get to it.

Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes Ice Cream – I realize this breaks my no Christmas until after Thanksgiving rule. In the case of Christmas Tree Cakes they are available for such a limited time that if you wait until December you might not get any. When I find them, and I haven’t yet by the way, I will buy three boxes and two will go in the freezer*. In the meantime I discovered Christmas Tree Cake ice cream might be a suitable replacement if worse comes to worse. It’s vanilla ice cream with red frosting swirls, green candy sprinkles and bit of yellow cake batter thrown in. It takes exactly like Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes. My wife described the flavor as “way too much sugar” which is exactly what Christmas is supposed to taste like.

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Steven Curtis Chapman wins this meme. I don’t know the history of how and when this particular meme got started but I’ve seen dozen of variations in a short period of time. Props to Chapman for either being social media savvy or listening to the young whipper snappers that coached him.

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Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. The on again, off again deal stayed on this time until it went through. Then hours later tweets like this began to appear, denouncing the platform and announcing departures like a commercial airlines flight. I don’t like cancel culture. I don’t like it when conservatives or liberals either one do it. The first time I ate at Chick-fil-A, in the fall of 1990, I didn’t know who owned it nor anything about their family. The politics of the founders had nothing to do with my decision going forward of which chicken restaurant to eat at. Marina Sirtis, Counselor Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation if you don’t know, says she cannot “be a part of anything owned by Elon Musk.” Twitter is a platform we use to reach followers. Leaving a social media platform silencing your own voice, not anyone else’s. Who buys and sells the company is or should be a non-issue, imho. The irony is the reversal that has taken place just in the past 20 or 30 years in our culture. In the late 80’s Clorox pulled their ads from the 30 minute sitcom Cheers. They didn’t want to support (and purchasing commercial time really is support) the attitudes and behaviors prevalent among characters of the show. Similar protests and boycotts happened when The Simpsons premiered. I had an 8th grade teacher that practically ground his teeth while telling us about a Bart Simpson t-shirt he saw that simply said “Underachiever.” We probably all remember the Southern Baptist boycott of Disney in the mid 90’s. Maybe now there is something worth avoiding but it was hard back then for families looking for kid friendly shows and movies to avoid all things Disney across the board. The irony is that today it’s liberals who seek to avoid or silence anyone that doesn’t think, act and speak like they do. The people who used to tell us if it feels good do it and the same people that claim to want the freedom of choice for everyone will turn around and limit your choices if you choose wrongly, by their double standards anyway. Alright, that’s my soapbox for the day. On to other stuff.

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I saw a meme of John Piper in the pulpit, his hands are all over the place, and the caption said “God created coffee for the glory of Christ.” If you are familiar with Piper it kinda’ sounds like something he would say and since it’s about coffee you will probably see the meme first thing Monday morning. I thought I’d do about 10 seconds of research and see if maybe he really said it. The tweet above is real and he linked to this article not written by Piper himself but appearing on his Desiring God website.

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Angela Lansbury has passed at the age of 96. Best known for playing Jessica Fletcher on Murder She Wrote, her film and Broadway career began decades earlier. Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid of Harry Potter fame) has passed at the age of 72. I’m not trying to sound superstitious but it seems like these things usually come in threes. That’s probably a good example of confirmation bias. If another celebrity passes away in the next couple of days I’ll be like “See, comes in threes.” Confirmation bias interprets new events in a way the confirms what you already believe. It may also be perception bias, which is hopefully just what it sounds like.

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The guy on the bike was Steve Jobs. When he was photographed by National Geographic in 1982 he didn’t want to pose standing with his arms cross in front of rows of computer terminals. Props for that, my opinion of him may have just gone up slightly. I tell you what though, the thing about those BMW motorcycles is they have horizontally opposed cylinders. Most American and Japanese motorcycles have two cylinder engines in what’s called a V-twin formation. The engines are pretty well oriented inside the frame. What you see next to Jobs left foot is a cylinder head sticking out farther than anything on the bike, which is just find unless you were to drop the bike and go for a slide. Since he wants to look cool for this picture he is not wearing a jacket, helmet or gloves so the damage done to that cylinder head is probably the least of his worries. The picture was probably taken at a very low shutter speed so he is probably not going as fast as the blurry background wire wheel spokes suggest. Hey kids, remember film? No, probably not. Replace shutter speed with frame rate for comparison.

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Hurricane Ian – There is probably no way you missed this story but it’s not over yet. The death toll in Florida stands at 33 but that number is subject to change and Ian made landfall again on Friday afternoon at Charleston, South Carolina, after regaining hurricane status. Pray for all those who have been and continue to be affected. Word of caution: only donate money through established organizations with a good reputation/history. The American Red Cross and the Salvation Army are good examples and Southern Baptists will be mobilizing their own disaster relief teams in the days and weeks ahead. Think twice about responding to online ads or texting money from your phone; know who you are dealing with. And be patient. Search and rescue is always a priority followed by restoring power and clearing roads. Cleaning up and rebuilding will go on for months to come. Rushing in too quickly will get in the way and slow down some emergency services. The news will move on in a few days to the next breaking story but Puerto Rico, Cuba, Florida and the Carolinas will still need prayer, financial and volunteer support.

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Old School Wordle – Paul Wilkinson reminds us that before Wordle became the hottest thing since the Internet wordles were also known as word clouds or tag clouds. The more frequently a word occurs the more prominently it appears in the wordle. The one above is based on the whole Bible.

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It’s fall y’all. The little bird is telling everyone how cold it is in the morning. You can follow him on Twitter. Meteorologists, who study weather and not meteors for some reason, consider September, October and November to be the fall months. The autumnal equinox is not until September 22nd which most people (and calendars) consider the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere and the first day spring in the southern. My family has already been apple picking and I can tell the weather is changing. It’s almost enough to cause me to wear long sleeves and not go outside barefoot. It’s time for the social media posts to start in about hoodies, furry boots, hot cocoa and bonfires. All your favorite fall activities are centered around trying to keep warm. I understand the appeal of some of those things but fall is a transition season into winter. I don’t get those people. Whether you love winter or not it hates all of us equally, that’s why it is trying to kill us. Refer back to the angry bird in the picture. He gets it.

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