Diane Paulson

I apologize for the previous offensive image

Diane Paulson

anyway, Jesus was a troublemaker in trouble with the authorities and even though I think Christmas as such is a travesty, I do identify with him even though he was born in the Spring, as I was, 

Diane Paulson

Gregg, the book of Enoch sounds intriguing I'd like to look it up.. do you have a link? thanks

Gregg Wilson

Diane,

I am not religious in the sense that I don't believe anything. I know or I don't know. I study various old texts out of curiosity. I do think that predecessors established humans as a species on this planet ("We will make them in our image").  If you wish to call this "God", I don't care. However a God who created the Universe is silly.

There are several interpretations of the Book of Enoch. However, you have to be careful about these interpretations. I think you are showing critical faculty. I have absolutely no opinion about Jesus.

Diane Paulson

thanks gregg, I will look it up

here's a song about(the birth of Jesus) called the ANTI CAROL: by folk singer Frankie Armstrong :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo3jLbJ_DpQ

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

I have enjoyed knowing where classmates are living, what they have done since high school, and any photos.  Messaging of past advertisements and photographs that Bill and others have been posting jog the memory of times gone by.  Thank you to those that have shared those memories with us all.

Linda Johnson (Martin)

Diane...you have offended many and that's what you wanted to do.  Your postings are inappropriate and unwanted on this website. And posting a picture of a Mother giving birth, which is a sacred,moment, is unconscionable.  

Diane Paulson

I have to wonder how Jesus would feel about the activity in his name at say, Frederick and Nelson dept store etc:

Jesus Clears the Temple Courts

13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”[a]

18 The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

Diane Paulson

Gary Korsgaard

Diane,

We have had one person removed from the use of this website because of unwanted and inappropriate postings. More of this and you will be the second.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Gary.....Thank you!

Karen Buck (White)

Gary,

A big "Thanks" from me also. Excessive rants are not wanted. Updates on classmates whereabouts, health, hobbies, etc. are very much appreciated.  

Diane Paulson

 If anyone wants to read a poem I wrote about Highline, I posted it on my Profile.

Tim Jones (Jones)

Diane,

You mentioned you were going to get and read Anne Serling's book, 

As I Knew Him, My Dad, Rod Serling.

Have you read it and if so, can you give us a synopsis? 

Rod is one of my mentors. Haven't read the book, yet, but still planning to. 

Tim 

Sterling Sloan

about dain paulsons jeuss birth develery

Bill Engelhardt

Ronald Goodmansen

Good laugh to end 2021.  Thanks Bill.

Bill Engelhardt

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Bill, I appreciate all your posts.  They bring back a lot of very fond memories.  Keep sending them.  Happy New Year, fellow Pirates from sunny Florida!

Tim Jones (Jones)

Wow! Another New Year! 2022!  A big number for us Boomers. Still snow and ice here. Had a foot of snow earlier in the week. Quite a  bit for the Pacific Northwest. 

Up over the boarder there is even more snow, You'd think they'd be used to it by now. 

Attached very short video of the Canadian RCMP doing what they do best! 

Try this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4baX8NfOEP0

We Boomers are a unique subset of humanity. Born right after the most tumultuous event in human history. I was born February 9th. 46.  If you back-up nine months to the day, is VE DAY.. 'V' as in Victory. 'E' as in Europe.  The day Germany surrendered. Must have been one hell-of-a-party!  I've asked myself, why me? Why then?  Why Burien? 

We as a subgroup have a unique perspective on the human experience. We don't have to look back too far to see the worst human beings have to offer.  The flip-side of that coin is that we grew up in what is probably the best that the human race has to offer a large subset of people.  If you've traveled the world, you know what I'm talking about.

Some of the younger generations are critical of the Boomers. Perhaps we have not payed close attention to environmental issues? We've known about climate change since we were in grade school. That clip at the beginning of the movie Planet of the Humans was shot in 1958. You and I no doubt saw the educational movie that clip is from in 9th grade science class.  I know I did. 

At 75, about to turn 76, I do a lot of soul-searching.. A lot of reminising about those wonderfully simple days. I'm hoping 2022 is a good year for you all and we can put Covid in our wake...... I'll leave you with this quote:

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born"                                                                                                                                                          Carl Jung

Happy New Year!!

Tim

Diane Paulson

Hi Tim,

yes I did get the Rod Serling bio and the 1956 movie Patterns, both from the library... I watched the movie as I like the old bw movies from that era, altho did not totally relate to the Boardroom competition. And I read part of the book but didn't get into it , too many other books right now. But probably there is something about his life I'd like to know more about: the whole concept of the Twilight Zone is very cool I think: to show the presumed underside of reality. Yes, of course it's just a story, but it makes you think, no?

Diane Paulson

Hi Bill, 

Thanks for the laughs. He really has his DuckFace down pat... do you think he thinks he's really a duck? 

Also I copied your photo with the masks from 1918 to my Facebook page : I bring it out when people start complaining about the GOVT making us wear them. (Do you have a secret Url to access newspaper photos from years past?)

Bill Engelhardt

It's 2022! Sun is out...snow's melting...and in Olympia it's a balmy 39. (Low tonite 33.)

Time to break out the shorts and t-shirts. Spring MUST be near. 

Diane Paulson

Hi Sterling Sloan, 

Sorry if the image of Mary giving birth was a bit shocking. I took it off. Guess I'm used to a rougher crowd. I've been doing some writing also, not sci fi, altho I used to read a lot of sci fi. 

Diane Paulson