And yeah, i want to believe that the common people

throughout the middle ages, knew more latin than what we smart-phone totting moderns give them credit for.  Back then, the roman church was in everyone's business - surely, folks picked up on at least some of the language.  There were even noblemen, who went to scribes, because not all dukes and other landowners, were reasonably literate - these guys knew how to manage their lands, their workforce, lead armies, find water, hunt for food; that's alot.

Oh, and what we were taught in school, was very, VERY heavy on class resentment.  By the way, i heard that Karl Marx was rather workshy.  Could he not have found an office job?  He was quite literate, and would have been able to earn a comfortable salary - with enough left over for savings, and retirement.

  

Anyway, we all know, that scholars, during the medieval period (and after) wrote. - with quill pen and ink horn - lots of pages, in poor light.  How did they manage to write beautiful script - and without spell-check?  They must have been able to organize their thoughts - in their heads.  As for writing supplies, there was no Staples - nor were there back-to-school mark-downs on paper.

But the real basis for my belief is:

Does not the Bible say, that as time goes on, sin compounds itself (like interest upon a payday loan)?  Does not the Scriptures say that Adam was created perfect, then after the fall...  He lived some 930 years; some 2000 years later, Abraham lived (i think) 175 years.  i think Sarah only made it too around 125-ish - oh, and when Pharoah had taken a fancy to her, uhm, she was in her middle 60s.  YES, she was 60+   The couple was 10 years apart in age, and were born some 300 years post-flood.  About 500 years after that, the Hebrews were coming into the promised land.  Joshua was in his 80s, and still a warrior - a mighty one.

So, it makes sense as to why - even in the 1600 and 1700s, people were able to write splendidly, without a keyboard and monitor.  By the way, John Bunyan held down a regular job, before he became a preacher; if i am not mistaken, he fixed old pots (tinker).  Cannot recall, but around that time, maybe a few years/decades after,  there was some other preacher, the son of a cobbler (shoe repair) who learned the Scriptures.

Makes sense, there would be at least a few common people who had somehow learned to read; after all, what does one do, when there's no glu-tube, farce-book, snipe-chat?  Back then, regular people didn't have a lot of spare time, but they had some.  And even while working, there was surely some conversation going on - during those pre-hollywood/superbowl centuries.

One other thing:  back then, you had to have your act together, because there was no welfare bureau, nor was there unemployment insurance - so you didn't want to be a complete jerk in your family/community.

King Saul, a sad account

With the help of Peloubet's Bible Dictionary, was able to get some dates.  Saul became King around 1095; his first born son, Jonathan, was around 20, when the coronation ceremony took place.  While I couldn't find the year of Saul's birth, he was probably around 45 when the crown was placed on his head.  David was born 10 years later, (around 1085).  

Heard a sermon some years ago (John was still alive) where the preacher said that David and Jonathan were close friends, though about 30 years apart.

Meanwhile, King Saul was getting all huffy (and throwing stuff - like javelins) because David was young and successful (and blessed by the Lord).  This drama was going on around 1065 - Saul was in his mid 70s.  

Things got so bad that David had to leave, and was on the run for the next several years.  Meanwhile, Saul was still going out and fighting wars.  In 1056, Saul and his three sons were slain by the Philistines.  Saul was in his early 80s, (and still going to war) Jonathan was probably in his mid 50s.

King David lived 70 years.  At the end of his life, he was in no longer in shape to be out slaying tens of thousands; he couldn't stay warm - in that California-type climate. 

Sounds like stage 4 cancer.

"Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat." 1 King's 1:1

Yay, it worked - copy and paste

 

Bought three dresses - two denim and one a green cotton.

Number one:  real fabric isn't easy to come by.  Number two: gets even harder, if you prefer clothing which covers - down to the ankle.  Both denim dresses are more straight, than (preferable) A-line - heaven forbid, an extra yard or so would be included.  Can't help but  believe, a price increase to accommodate the extra fabric isn't the point.  There's definitely an agenda (Deuteronomy 22:5, ring any bells?).  So both resemble more like sacks.  Whatever... they'll do.

As for the green dress?  Sort of A-line, but the skirt material is crinkle - i.e., thin.  Knew that before writing out the order sheet, and sending the paper check, by snail-mail.  But hey, need some duds.  Like having done with several other dresses, will put in a lining - with cotton purchased from JoAnn's, before they closed.  As for future fabric needs?  Guess will figure something out.

The waist line is cut below the natural waist.  Have noticed that with full-figured (i.e., fat lady) sizes.  It's as if, the .... (see Genesis 19 - oh, and Judges 19) designers want old fat women - who have the audacity, despite whatever extra pounds, to insist upon feminine attire - to appear even fatter.  

As for half-slips, good luck finding those.  Forget A-line, the only cotton ones, available are a complete nasty joke - the punchline includes young slender women.  Those i cut from a skirt pattern, and sew - a hassle, but beats going around...eh, less than layered.  

Oh well, the world is populated by unsaved people...the same people whose master hates beauty, and agree with their handler  that women over 25 - and especially women over size 16 - deserve nothing better than those abominable thin clingy black plastic pants (which hold in body odor).  Go figure...  

Another one of those child-free articles ... is that anything

like covid-free?  But anyway, the article shows this near middle-aged couple going for a walk.  And in the background, (of course) is this some 18-room two-storey house.  The woman had said, in her younger days, she had worked as a nanny - and decided ... nuh-uh, not doing this everyday.

Can't really blame her.  After all, having a kid (at 37)  AND working a full-time job...?  No!  Even if working in your footie-jams is an option, still, you have to work...at least some of those hours.

By the way, her husband (?) though, who knows these days, with so much shacking up going on ...  Anyway, he looks like the type, who would be less than okay with her leaving the workforce.  The mortgage for those eighteen-some rooms (for two) isn't cheap, ya know.

Used to be this area that sprouted nothing but weeds

Now it's grass, but anyway, some years ago,  before having cleared out that mess, still recall looking over those weeds... Wondering, what sort of lovely/useful plants had they once been, in the early days of creation.

"Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;" Genesis 3:18

Looking at a cross section of our planet,

some years ago.  (Shoulda kept that magazine :/ )  The drawing showed, about halfway in - between the lower mantle and the upper core - a boundary of solid rock.  At that depth (some 2,000 miles) the hot temps and pressures squeeze the rock into something like really thick paste.  But the drawing showed some 100 miles of solid rock - which is likely iron, or nickel.  In junior high, the text book said, our earth's interior is about 75% nickel and 25% iron.

But wait a sec, in order for convection to work, there has to be transference of magmas.  How would such move past the barrier?  Bars anyone?  Think of a factory that makes prison bars, loaded willy-nilly onto an eighteen wheel  flatbed.  Some 100 miles of bars, but the "cooling" magmas will move down, displacing the hotter ones to move up - or is it the other way around?  

Anyway, seeing that illustration gave me the willies.  Don't recall whether that was before 2010, (when having realized i was a sinner, and on my way there) or afterward.  Both modern and ancient pagans know, God judges the wicked, and the sentence is eternal, and horrible.  

"I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption,  O LORD my God."  Jonah 2:6

"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18

"As for the earth, out of it cometh bread : and under it is turned up as it were fire." Job 28:5

"That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath." Job 21:30