Close to Home by John McPherson for July 12, 2023

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    ronaldspence  over 1 year ago

    I hate when the leader breaks wind, it makes my eyes water!

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    Dobie  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Hmmm… God jokes, goose jokes or breakin’ wind jokes. Choices…

    Geese… a.k.a Canadian Attack Chickens.

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    The Orange Mailman  over 1 year ago

    This brings out an interesting point concerning the character of God. He typically does not “mansplain” or over explain things, but rather leaves the majority of things as a mystery for us to discover, see Job beginning in 38:4 for some classic examples. It’s only when things get so bad as we turn to self destruction that He intervenes.

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    Superhawk  over 1 year ago

    I thought that when the lead goose ‘breaks the wind’, that is when the other geese spread out from behind him.

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    Kaputnik  over 1 year ago

    Just because he’s omniscient, he thinks he knows everthing…

    Um, wait.

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    jango  over 1 year ago

    Be carelful there, bud. That halo might get dimmed!

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    gammaguy  over 1 year ago

    He’s describing the effect of the wake. Does that mean that He’s “woke”?

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    Lee26 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Can’t wait to get to Heaven so that I’ve be able to walk on water…….vapor.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’d really appreciate a bit of godsplaining about the source and purpose of the platypuses.

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    basspro  over 1 year ago

    That’s funny because when I break wind everyone runs.

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    David_the_CAD  over 1 year ago

    “When you do things right, people will wonder if you did anything at all.”

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    rhpii  over 1 year ago

    And here I thought Breaking Wind had a whole different meaning as do most of the other commentators here :-)

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    PoodleGroomer  over 1 year ago

    He said, “breaks wind”. snerk

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    geese28  over 1 year ago

    Yeah but will you listen? Lol

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    God: I heard that!

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    mckeonfuneralhomebx  over 1 year ago

    Has anyone ever contemplated the realm of Heaven? They never show Heaven with the streets paved of Gold, or all the Mansions that everyone will get. Lets not even think about the 99 virgins. Every single religion comes from Faith! Every Faith comes from a Story. A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain. Lets look at the Bible.God can not be overridden.God created Man and woman who had 2 boys. Incest is forbidden. These 4 populated the earth? (some will say the devil made people) that would override God.Noah built a ship big enough to house 2 of every animal and captured all these animals within days and they sailed for 40 days and nights. What did the animals eat? 15 Billion Years ago there was nothing, Yet there was GOD!What happened to all the Greek and Roman Gods? There are five key elements to every story: plot, setting, characters, point of view, and conflict. Whether your children realize it or not, they naturally include all these elements when they’re telling a story to their families or their best friend, but once the person who hears it tells it, it always grows= Stories of the Bible!Now I know people are going to send me Chapter and verse, but keep in mind those were discussed long before the written word. The language they were written in has been translated over and over again, sometimes there are no words for translation, so we stick something in, which brings us to my last paragraph. I can promise you anything in death, who will hold me to it?

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And they take turns at the front like bicyclists.

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    ekke  over 1 year ago

    The leading goose breaks wind, and the following geese stay well to the side …

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    patrickschreiber1951  over 1 year ago

    Sorry, god doesn’t intervene because he doesn’t exist. We are responsible for our actions, not a myth.

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    cuzinron47  over 1 year ago

    They’ll do that when the lead goose had chili burritos.

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    norphos  over 1 year ago

    I doubt that the Almighty needs to wear glasses.

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    dbrucepm  over 1 year ago

    Geese fly in “v” formation but one side is always longer than the other. Do you know why? Because there are more geese on that side.

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    scpandich  over 1 year ago

    This reminds me of an episode of Supernatural where Sam and Dean are talking to Chuck, aka God, about his flailing effort to have a conciliatory talk with his problem child, Lucifer:

    Sam: “Could you try being a little lest lordly?”

    Chuck (confused): “But… I’m The Lord.”

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