Bunker Exposed!
3/18/07- Lord's Day - After Breakfast. This week most of the men in the community continued the demolition or "deconstruction" work - taking down the house on our neighbors property for the salvage wood. We have totally removed the huge roof and attack, and we have removed close to 1/2 of the house structure. We probably still have a couple of days of work left over there to level the house and get all the wood we can get from it. Hopefully this blessing will help the new folks with their house and cabin building projects.
We also went to an auction in Bangs, Tx. and I got a load of used tools for real cheap.
Also, yesterday - I was taking a walk with little Sarah (3). We went down by the pond and she unwisely decided to run downhill towards the water. She couldn't stop her momentum and ran right into the pond. She cried at first, but by the time I got her back to the cabin she was able to laugh about it. We teased her the rest of the day.
The prognosticators are calling for rain and possibly severe weather to be here on Wednesday and Thursday. We are into severe weather season here in Central Texas. We are hoping to get a bit of our garden in before the rains come - and I am sure we could use some more rain in general.
Hey - some of the joys of being me. I have been called a "Jesuit" at least three times in the last couple of weeks. A group of folks who were booted off the BA.com forum called me a Jesuit for informing them that I wrote one of the most damning exposes of the Jesuits and their influence on modern "christianity". Their position? That is EXACTLY what a Jesuit would do! This is what passes as intelligent thought and incisive argument today. A family that was planning on visiting for Ranchfest suddenly canceled when they determined that I had "attended a Jazz festival" (I had not, though I would love to). Their reason? Jazz is of the devil. When I explained that trying to keep the commandments of God, and to obey Him in His written Word is enough for me without heaping onto it the opinions of men - they informed me that that is exactly what a Jesuit would say... It is "Jesuit casuistry", they claimed, for me to point out that the Bible doesn't say anything about Jazz at all. There are so many different types of Jazz (including Gospel Jazz) that the word doesn't really explain what type of music is being heard at all, but I suppose that traditional Jazz must have been some type of Jesuit plot?
Then yesterday I received an email from a dope-smoking antinomian who once promised me (3 years ago) that I would be "publicly pantsed" (I suppose this means EXPOSED) very, very soon. When I asked him when this public pantsing was going to happen (because I am ever hopeful that someone will come up with something interesting and true with which to accuse me), he explained that it had already happened, and that it had not had the hoped for effect because I had "spun" my "pantsing" with such Jesuitical expertise, that everyone had seen my pantsing as a victory on my part! Apparently my "public pantsing" was when Danielle and I decided to move down here to Central Texas from West Texas. Yep. Apparently the story is (among Antinomian circles) that my father wanted to boot us off our own land, and was successful - except that I "jesuitically" spun the story to make it LOOK LIKE Danielle and I were the ones who decided to move. Yes, it seems that my public pantsing was the decision to trade in a mobile home on 5 acres, for 32 acres in a Christian community with like-minded friends and brethren. The shame. Maybe for my next public pantsing, a couple of hundred more acres will become available nearby, and I will miraculously come up with the money to buy them.
How can I keep it straight?
And you thought the life of an Agrarian farmer was boring...
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
We also went to an auction in Bangs, Tx. and I got a load of used tools for real cheap.
Also, yesterday - I was taking a walk with little Sarah (3). We went down by the pond and she unwisely decided to run downhill towards the water. She couldn't stop her momentum and ran right into the pond. She cried at first, but by the time I got her back to the cabin she was able to laugh about it. We teased her the rest of the day.
The prognosticators are calling for rain and possibly severe weather to be here on Wednesday and Thursday. We are into severe weather season here in Central Texas. We are hoping to get a bit of our garden in before the rains come - and I am sure we could use some more rain in general.
Hey - some of the joys of being me. I have been called a "Jesuit" at least three times in the last couple of weeks. A group of folks who were booted off the BA.com forum called me a Jesuit for informing them that I wrote one of the most damning exposes of the Jesuits and their influence on modern "christianity". Their position? That is EXACTLY what a Jesuit would do! This is what passes as intelligent thought and incisive argument today. A family that was planning on visiting for Ranchfest suddenly canceled when they determined that I had "attended a Jazz festival" (I had not, though I would love to). Their reason? Jazz is of the devil. When I explained that trying to keep the commandments of God, and to obey Him in His written Word is enough for me without heaping onto it the opinions of men - they informed me that that is exactly what a Jesuit would say... It is "Jesuit casuistry", they claimed, for me to point out that the Bible doesn't say anything about Jazz at all. There are so many different types of Jazz (including Gospel Jazz) that the word doesn't really explain what type of music is being heard at all, but I suppose that traditional Jazz must have been some type of Jesuit plot?
Then yesterday I received an email from a dope-smoking antinomian who once promised me (3 years ago) that I would be "publicly pantsed" (I suppose this means EXPOSED) very, very soon. When I asked him when this public pantsing was going to happen (because I am ever hopeful that someone will come up with something interesting and true with which to accuse me), he explained that it had already happened, and that it had not had the hoped for effect because I had "spun" my "pantsing" with such Jesuitical expertise, that everyone had seen my pantsing as a victory on my part! Apparently my "public pantsing" was when Danielle and I decided to move down here to Central Texas from West Texas. Yep. Apparently the story is (among Antinomian circles) that my father wanted to boot us off our own land, and was successful - except that I "jesuitically" spun the story to make it LOOK LIKE Danielle and I were the ones who decided to move. Yes, it seems that my public pantsing was the decision to trade in a mobile home on 5 acres, for 32 acres in a Christian community with like-minded friends and brethren. The shame. Maybe for my next public pantsing, a couple of hundred more acres will become available nearby, and I will miraculously come up with the money to buy them.
How can I keep it straight?
And you thought the life of an Agrarian farmer was boring...
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 3/18/2007 05:20:00 AM
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If you are falsely accused or "exposed" then the accusers are guilty of indecent exposure!
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