ABBA and the Antichrist
Like Todd, I've been having trouble sleeping lately. Musical trouble. You're all very fortunate I don't have more time to blog, because this last week you would have endured not just a post about the song Mamacita, ¿Dondé está Santa Claus? (six nights ago), but also one on Calling Occupants of Interplantary Craft (two nights ago) and Super Trouper (earlier this week). I wish I were joking.
(Baby would like you to reflect at this point on what she has to endure living with someone who can't keep these musical gems to himself, lacking the part of his brain that would keep him from singing every song that gets stuck in his head.)
You're lucky I have work, planning our trip to Austin, watching Zapp videos, doing homework, and going to class to occupy my time.
Did you know that the word "antichrist" doesn't appear in the book of Revelation? In fact, it only shows up in 1 and 2 John, and neither passage refers to "the" antichrist as a single or specific person. 2 John 7 says "Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist!" (NRSV). It appears to refer to people who were in the church, but who had started spreading the heretical view that Jesus was purely a spirit, and didn't have a physical body -- he only seemed to. 1 John 2 has the other three instances of the word, including one plural (1 Jn 2:18: "As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come.") There are many references in the gospels and Revelation (and the one on 2 Thess. that Andy is so fond of) to possible end-times figures who are either false messiahs or political rulers who set themselves up for worship, but the term antichrist is never used for such a person.
But if I read it in a Left Behind Series book, it must be true, right?
I like the potentially threatening tone of "you're all very fortunate I don't have more time to blog."
I hadn't heard Super Trouper, but speaking of ABBA and threatening, you need to get Frida's "I Know There's Something Going On". Here's the YouTube link for your convenience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uA2zAteIhA
i have the same problem. seth hates it. i sing the theme from "my neighbor totoro" often, which is the most catchy/annoying song imaginable due to its repetition.
luckily, munchkin (and to a small extent baby) have arkay to share real musical gems with them. and what i really mean is teaching munchkin to dance to the smiths' 'this charming man'. i just hope when she goes to prom in sixteen or so years she doesn't expect her date to throw her directly from the dance floor onto a down-comforted mattress when she gets tired of dancing and turns into a sack of potatoes. and as far as Revelation goes, yes, i did know that and i still think dispensationalism should be used synonymously with the phrase 'silly silly haha'.