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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

I'm really not *that* interested in the end of days

I've spent about 35 minutes going through my recommendations on Amazon. I'm up to #316. I'm trying to knock out all the stuff they think I'd want because I've bought whatever it is they're basing it on for my dad (books on the old west, sports and cold war type spy stuff). I'm leaving some of the more interesting books on there for future gift ideas. I decided I wanted to broaden my faith by studying Revelation and the Apocrypha. So now I have all sorts of weird books on the end times and Catholicism. Not that I'm not fascinated by Catholicism in general but mostly I wanted to know why they get the Apocrypha and we don't. I couldn't find any one book that said "we left it out of the protestant bible because it had no flow... Too many characters that took away from the progression we needed to move the story along..." Oh but don't fret, I've looked into it and I've got a handle on why it's not in there.

Anyway it's been a long and arduous task trying to get rid of The Secrets of the Real Deadwood off my list but I'm always up for a challenge.

UPDATE:

Ok, so I just noticed something. I bought a book about being a Christian and dating (I believe for my church small group). So now there are not only Christian dating books but books on raising kids. So Amazon had a timeline for me and I haven't lived up to it. I bought the dating book like 6 years ago so I guess they figure I should have been married with children now. I showed them!

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is what a good Catholic I am... I just had to look up Apochrypha...

Sounds like a protestant conspiracty theory to me... maybe you could write a book about it and they'll make it into a movie!

8:51 AM  
Blogger Ann said...

I don't remember hearing about the Apocrypha until college, and I'm Catholic, too. We always seemed to stick to the basic testaments in church, as far as I remember. Huh.

And don't feel bad you're not living up to Amazon's expectations for your life. According to them, we're all failures somehow. I, personally, haven't bought a CD in like 7 years.

10:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Most of my friends growing up were Catholic and they never studied it or anything. I was just curious why it wasn't in our Bible.

So I shouldn't be down on myself just because Amazon thinks I should need parenting books by now?

1:37 PM  
Blogger Ann said...

I think Amazon is run by a bunch of kooks anyway. $8 for M&M's? Insanity.

2:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They charge $8 for M&Ms?

3:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Any update on the lunch with your supervisor?

christy

6:09 PM  

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