Thank you for that wonderful introduction Brother Phil. As your guest
speaker this morning, I say morning because the east coast is now early
morning, anyway I'd like to call your attention to the  offering hat, the
very one I had on when I decided to fish from the bottom of the lake and
which I will use to buy a more stable boat upon its return to me filled
with all your wonderful love offerings. With such offerings as this I can
continue to do the Lord's work in fleshing out such little  misguided
secrets as we've seen in Brother Phil here. Ask him though, he feels much
more a cleaner man with this big secret off his head, very much similar to
his hair now that I think of it... I digress. Well anyway Thanks to Brother
John for paving the way for me me to be here today and pass that huge huge
hat around.I feel the Lord telling me that some of you have held back from
giving to him over this past year and now is the time to bring that guilt
out in the open in a tangible way, all in one sum. never mind if the hat
seems to not contain all you have, an extra zero or two to the left of the
decimal takes up no more room. What is important is to flush out that devil
form your wallets and purses and do not let him tell you such lies like...
"Who is this guy? Who does he think he is asking for my money? Haven't you
given enough?" and so on. Lies, lies lies they are all lies from the pit
and just take a step of faith and . Now as the hat is being passed about
we'll listen to a secular, but very appropriate song by the brothers of the
secular band Pink Floyd entitled "Money". Thank you and don't forget to
overcome that nasty devil right now, right here... you may not have another
opportunity in life to secure God's blessing on it.

Oh Brother Brad



At 10:30 PM 12/17/2004, you wrote:
>Well, Since Brad tried playing the fourth personage of the Trinity with his
>conviction bit about keeping secrets from the family and all, for Pete sake.
>You'd think he was preaching a Sunday sermon or something trying to make me
>feel guilty and all.  The next thing you know, Brad will be taking up
>offerings so he can buy a bigger boat.  Below is the review old brother John
>was talking about which he read on another list.
>
>I was able to begin using my Christmas present early for one
>simple reason.  I was home when Federal Express delivered it and
>my wife was gone.  I knew what it was, or was pretty certain I
>knew, and so I opened it while she was gone and began using it.
>No.  She wasn't happy.  It was my Christmas present anyway so
>what's the beef?  What was it, you ask?  It was a set of Bose
>headphones you have heard advertised so I thought I would report
>on these 300 dollar headphones just in case you were thinking
>about getting them for Christmas.  Are they worth it, is the first
>question you are asking.  Of course not.  Nothing Bose sells is
>worth what they charge for it and we own one Bose small radio and
>that big thousand dollar hummer called the Bose Acoustic Wave
>Radio.  Yes, they all sound wonderful.  Yes, I have compared them
>to other systems I have and I do believe they sound better.  No, I
>don't believe they are worth nearly what they ask for them and the
>same goes for the noise canceling headphones.  However, you put
>these headphones on as a blind person, and it drives you crazy
>until you turn some music or sound on.  Why?  Because, you can't
>hardly hear a thing with them on.  The pads are as soft as, well,
>I won't say it, but they are soft.  Mind you, they aren't as good
>as sex but few things are.  Come to think of it, nothing is but I
>digress.  This also depends highly on your age, of course, but
>again I digress.  No, there is only one tiny, little, itty bitty
>switch on the wire which plugs into the headset.  This switch is
>used for double the volume based upon the type of output you are
>plugged into.  It comes with a very fancy, zippered, sturdy,
>carrying case but I have never carried headphones in a carrying
>case in my entire life.  It is a fancy carrying case, however, and
>you can store the cables inside the zipper case, too.  It comes
>complete with extra adapters for various jack sizes and an extra
>extension cable incase you want to sit 400 feet away from the
>sound source to which you are plugged into.  I hate wires.  I also
>got the free, if you want to call it that, little battery powered
>CD player and I like it quite a lot.  It uses two double A
>batteries.  The headset, by the way, runs on a single double A
>battery.  Yes, all batteries are included.  For 300 dollars, I
>should hope so.  The CD player is very user friendly for the blind
>user, that is, and you can select mixed songs, that is, at random,
>repeat the same song, no skip mode, very handy of course with a
>portable CD player, and start over again automatically.  There's
>one other menu setting but I forget what that is right now.  you
>can also pick nothing.  Less than correct grammar but those are
>the choices.  No, unfortunately, for your 300 dollars, you don't
>get a stupid carrying case for the portable CD player.  Beats me
>as to why.  Are they better than the forty dollar models of
>headphones at Radio Shack?  Well, yes, I think so.  The plus here,
>of course, is the noise canceling feature which is built in.  No,
>you cannot control the noise canceling feature, unless, of course,
>I have somehow overlooked something.  If you own the CC Radio Plus
>from C Crane, the jack for the headphones on FM is in stereo.
>That's nice so the Bose headphones sound very nice with the CC
>Radio Plus.  Keep in mind, absolutely nothing that Bose makes is
>fancy with lots of bells and whistles.  this is, I have been told,
>for the benefit of the elderly, a category I am rapidly fitting
>into, so they don't have to get things to confused for the
>decrepid users.  Come to think of it, I do fall into that category
>right now.  It all sounds good, of course, but for the price you
>pay, it should sound good.  Would I call these headphones
>professional?  I think so, but that is largely based upon the
>price.  I am dead serious when I say that it drives you crazy to
>wear the headphones without any music turned on.  I can hardly
>hear my own talking watch speak unless I hold it up to my ear.
>With music or sound playing, I cannot hear anything but what I'm
>listening to.  My grand son came out the other day and had to tap
>me on the knee because I flat out could not hear his voice.  Oh,
>yes, they are super comfortable to wear.  If you buy these extra
>expensive headphones, however, and are expecting all sorts of nice
>do dads, like individual volume controls, base and treble
>controls, levers and switches and buttons, and a fifteen button
>equalizer you can diddle around with, forget buying the headphones
>from Bose.  If you like music, and if you want super quiet luxury,
>and if you want to brag to your friends that you own a 300 dollar
>pair of headphones, then I recommend you buy them.  If you don't
>feel the necessity of bragging to your friends, spend the 300
>dollars on a bottle of Viagra instead.  One final word of advice.
>Don't leave the headphones any place where your dog can get to
>them in order to chew them up.
>
>Phil.