Danny ChaiA couple interesting stats via TMQ: After four seasons, Eli Manning is 36-28 as a starter and has a Super Bowl ring; after four seasons, Peyton Manning was 32-32 as a starter and lacked a playoff victory.
Also, the regular-season NFL passing yardage leader has *never* gone on to win the Super Bowl in the same season. That’s shocking and fascinating.
One thing that drives me crazy – when I dislodge a booger, but lose it inside my nose, with no idea where it went. TMI.
A couple notes on Revelation, our latest G3 reading. 13:18 in the ESV states: “This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.” [f]. The [f] refers to a footnote, which says: “Some manuscripts 616”. I’ve read this elsewhere as well, with people claiming that the number of the second beast is really 616 and that most people have it wrong. Good gravy, kind of a crucial thing to be unclear about. Or maybe not.
When I was younger, our (Korean) church met at the premises of another church, as Korean churches who couldn’t afford their own facilities commonly did. The host church had a library I occasionally visited, and it included a few Christian-themed comic books, some of them inexplicably featuring the characters from the Archie comics. One of those comic books dealt with Revelation, and it included an interpretation of Revelation 9, saying that it refers to helicopters, and duly praising the Bible for prophesying helicopters centuries ago. I have never forgotten that. And to be honest, I still find it an intriguing interpretation. The passage in question:
Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth…. In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
Is that not intriguing? Is that even a common interpretation? Maybe it is and I just don’t know; I’m embarrassingly ignorant about interpretations of Revelation. I dunno, it fits how someone who has never seen technology might describe a helicopter, with gleaming metal, spinning blades that look like hair, sounding like many horses. I’m not sure if the interpretation of this passage is important; I just find it interesting.
In other news, Abby has digressed in her counting – it’s now 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10. And every time she farts, she mentions pangoo pangoo and Uncle Peter.