That's One Expensive Comic Book!

On Saturday (2/27/10) I read in the PLAIN DEALER that an anonymous buyer at an auction paid $1,075,500 for a 1939 Batman comic book. The title was Detective Comics and the cover has Batman swinging on a rope over houses. A 1938 Action Comic book featuring Superman sold for $1 million.

I can't imagine spending anywhere near that much money for a comic book, can you? I think that is just plain crazy. Throwing money away like that when so many people are in need is hard for me to fathom. If I had $1 million to just spend, I sure wouldn't spend it all on a comic book! I probably would distribute a fair amount among my charities that I support and help some people I know who are struggling financially. Maybe I'd even retire early!

How would you spend an extra $1 million?

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Know God, No Problem Is More Like It

“No god? . . . No problem!” The picture that goes with it is of smiling people wearing Santa Claus hats. This is an ad campaign launched by the American Humanist Association on buses, trains and billboards. I like that they used a small “g” in god because the only true almighty God is spelled with a capital “G.” This, however, is a technicality because I’m sure they mean to include the only true God as well. I read about this in the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER today and just had to comment on it because it sort of got me riled.

The Executive Director of the American Humanist Association was quoted to have said, “To the degree that we are reaching out to the godly, it’s just to say that you can be good without god so their atheist neighbor down the street shouldn’t be vilified as though he is immoral.” The fact is there are many “good” people who are lost and separated from God. No matter how “good” we are, we cannot be good enough to earn eternal life according to God’s word.

Romans 3:23 says “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

John 3:16 summarizes how one can have eternal life best: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son (Jesus) that whosever believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life.”

No mention here of being good because salvation (being saved from the punishment of sin we deserve) is not based on what we do or don’t do, but on our belief in Jesus as our personal Savior who died for us, rose from the dead and wants us to live for Him.

I want others to know Jesus like I do because according to the Bible (God's Word) it is the only way to eternal life. If I’m wrong, I’ve lost nothing. If a person chooses to reject God and they are wrong, they’ve lost their soul. This is why it really bugs me when people who do not know God still insist on trying to get other people not to believe in Him too. What is the point of that? What do they gain by convincing someone else to reject God?

Christmas was first a religious holiday before it became a commercialized secular holiday. It’s a fun holiday that even non-religious people join in celebrating which is fine. I love that the Christmas spirit is contagious and many people join in being kind and generous particularly around Christmas time but the purpose of Christmas has always been to celebrate Jesus taking human form, God himself becoming man to show us what God is like and be the Savior of the world—WOW! I suggest we change the slogan to “Know God? No Problem!”

How do you feel about this ad campaign? Do you think I'm over reacting here?

3 Things I Learned This Week--Part 44

Little House On The Prairie

I learned from reading Prairie Tale that Melissa Gilbert's brother played Willie on Little House On The Prairie and that she had quite a difficult time in real life.

Skunks

(photo from Wikipedia) When Gerard was walking Abby one morning, she found a skunk and went right up to it but fortunately, it ran off without spraying them! I thought, what if they did get sprayed, I wouldn't know what to do to get out the smell. Then yesterday in the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER there was a big article on critters which included how to get out skunk smell according to wildlife-removal.com: Shampoo with a combination of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and liquid dish soap. Flush eyes out with water if sprayed in that area.

Cab Fare

Just a 20 min. drive from downtown to my home cost $35 by cab now! For more detail, see My Terrible Tuesday post.

To to the original Friday Fragment post for more at Half-Past Kissin' Time.

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7 Things I Learned in Week 10 of 2009

Sayings

Anyone hear of the saying, "Perception is reality"? I just learned this one from Gerard last week when he was walking me home from the bus stop on a warmer day than we've been having. He said he thought it was 70 degrees but in fact, according to our outdoor thermometer, it was only in the upper 50s. He also said it felt warmer outside than in the house which we have at 65 degrees. This is when he said "perception is reality" and I said, "I never heard that before, I think you made it up." I guess what we perceive to be true is for us. I'm going to try to perceive it's 80 degrees today!

Sports

The Cleveland Browns traded Kellen Winslow which I am happy about but also Joe Jerovicous which I am not pleased about. He was one on the team who could actually catch the ball!

Our hockey team, the Lake Erie Monsters, is desperately trying to increase their attendance with some special nights. Now they are even inviting dogs to come! On March 22, people are invited to bring their dogs along. Tickets for the dogs are $5, people are $15. Now if they let the dogs on the ice, that would be fun to watch!!

New Blogs I Discovered

I found a really great blog this week called The Kay Way. It's a personal blog about Kay's life, life lessons she learned, and some ranting. The blog is very easy to navigate and looks great! It is not filled with a lot of advertising and she is looking towards becoming a Life Coach. I added it to my favorites and my blog roll. I think if you visit, you will find a lot of interesting things there.

Another blog I found very interesting because of having been my dad's primary caregiver in his old age is Caregiving Daughter written by a woman who invited her mother to move in with her family about a year and a half ago. Her mother has the beginnings of Alzheimer's and the blog is a place for her daughter to vent a little and write about some of her frustrations.

My favorite PLAIN DEALER columnist, Regina Brett is going to start a blog!

Banking

The PLAIN DEALER had an article today rating the stability of banks in Cleveland and I was happy and relieved to see that Dollar Bank, the one we use, was one of the two that got 5 stars! The other one was Third Federal.