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Stump the wizard: What’s the last word of the original series?
Well.
Right on.
Stump the wizard: Which Hobbit killed Dumbledore?
Stump the wizard: How many years did Snape live among the White Walkers?
Stump the wizard: Why did Voldemort make it always winter but never Christmas?
Stump the wizard: Which fallen Guardian warned Thrall son of Durotan to get his Orcs out of Lordaeron to escape from the Death Eaters?
Can’t remember what game show it was, but once upon a time the show offered up as its question for a contestant to name as many words as possible in the required time that ended in the letters ‘th’. What the (probably fired) staff forgot that the contestant remembered was that most ordinal numbers end in ‘th’, and the show ended up paying out a lot of prize money that episode.
Not that I can recall.
If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long will it take three chickens to lay three eggs?
You didn’t post the picture. C’mon, show them why the kids were really scared.
If someone’s compiling a Best of 2019, I nominate this.
I want a copy of that booklet! And I deserve one, since I am in Slytherin House.
My memory of the Harry Potter books in particular is coming in handy right now. Maedel wanted to watch the HP movies, so as a prerequisite, we require that she read the book before she watches the movie. To make sure she has actually read them, I have been asking her content questions. “What is professor Lupin’s first name?”, “Who kills Sirius Black?” etc.
I was introduced to the series by the first movie. I had never read them at all, but after that movie I was totally hooked. I have read all the books, including the “textbooks” that Rowling wrote. I am now collecting all the new illustrated editions, in the British editions. I found a wonderful online bookstore who sells them, and has free shipping to the USA.
Nope. That costume was even scarier than the ones you have seen.
I see what you did there. 😁
I have done three or four since for subsequent book release parties, etc. There was Waldron Willowwithe’s Working without a Wand, for instance.
So, were you Ningauble of the Seven Eyes or Sheelba of the Eyeless Face?
Even worse.
I am not cleaning up that bloody and eggy mess.
When I was living in Georgia I got into a few evangelistic situations where my memory really helped me out.
One in particular came to mind in the village of Acura. I was pastoring a small Baptist church and there was a sweet family of farmers there and their daughter, also a Baptist christian, had run away from home to the big city and married a man there. This guy, the Son in Law, they called him. Was very educated and unlike many Georgians had continued to read books after school, in school Georgians read a LOT of books and after they graduate they stop reading and eventually lose the habit until middle age or later.
He was choosing to torment his wife’s family by debunking Baptist Christianity in particular and even Christianity in general. They pleaded with me to help them and even the girl, who had briefly attended one of my youth groups, begged me to talk to her husband. So I did. In most cases apologetics is about strengthening the faith of the believers as opposed to convincing the unbeliever.
So the Son-in-Law gave a big stemwinder of an opening speech about how Baptists are stupid and only foreigners should be Baptist. I did not engage with that I simply asked him a question, “What bothers you so much about Baptist’s beliefs?”
He asked four questions from an Orthodox perspective and each time I answered not with my opinion but with a verse or verses from the Bible that provided answers so clear they needed no further commentary. One example, “The Bible requires certain actions and behaviors to be saved yet Baptist claim it is by faith alone you are saved.” He then explained why that was stupid.
I had my wife read, when I read Georgian I sounded like a kid just learning how to read, Ephesians 2: 4-9
Then he switched from the Orthodox perspective to New Atheist categories: There were seven areas of questions he normally clustered three or four questions that were related together.
For Example: “The Bible never offers any evidence of the resurrection and the literal resurrection was not important to early Christians.” I needed to explain that you see.
1 Corinthians 15: 1-6 was followed by 1 Corinthians 15:12-13
Every question was like that. The Son-in-Law even said at the end “You are good, I guess I need to read the Bible again.”
The family asked me afterward how did I know what his questions would be in advance? I did not know somehow my memory of Scripture just matched up exactly with his questions. It was uncanny to say the least.
Part of the effect was how it looked like I was making so little effort to find answers to his questions. The wife returned to church, her family was encouraged her husband did not believe but stopped making fun of Baptists…I was grateful for a good memory that day.
A golden opportunity to hijack a thread. Anyone up for a big theology fight?
Just kidding.
(Unless people really want to and Arahant doesn’t mind.)
Hey it was just a story about memory man. Just a story about good memory.
Gaffer Gamgee. Dumbledore was standing downwind when the Gaffer pulled a Swalwell.
I thought he was a White Walker? So most of his life, including vacations away from Hogwarts?
He’s an avid cross country skier, and his family doesn’t let him ski on Christmas Day.
The Mandalorian.
I’d say the Lord was working directly through you but I’m an atheist.
I think it was the person I call the Spirit; he was sent after the Lord left earth. But I’m not an atheist.
My personal experience is consistent with the Bible, that the Spirit is what the Army calls “Combat Arms”. Front line, hand-to-hand combat. As crazy as it seems, I actually believe that I know this person and have witnessed him in action, and that’s what I base this on.
I think I understand well why you’re an atheist and I’m not trying to convert you, and don’t think I can. If our places were reversed, you’d not be able to convert me even if you tried. I would say that your mind had fabricated these fantastical mental experiences of yours, having been pre-disposed to create them by exposure to Scripture presented to you as an authority at a vulnerable age.
You need not be a wizard to conjure up a post on December’s theme: “Memories.” Stop by and sign up soon, before the days are all taken!
Great post, and I especially love the above line.
Or Providential.
Nah. Thanks @saintaugustine, but I’m a Catholic who likes to keep my religion transactional.