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The Comedy Styling of Jim Gaffigan
In one of Jim Gaffigan’s stand up comedy routines, he has a bit that I absolutely love.
It goes something like this:
I think Dominos is trying to kill us.
I can’t figure out those Dominos deals.
You can get one large pizza for $15.99 or two large pizzas for a nickel.
“If we get ‘em so fat they can’t leave the house, then they have to call us again.
It’s called the Dominos Effect.
So Simple.”
Quick story: the other night, I completely proved why I will never be a Math genius.
Is there anybody her that is?
The long and the short of it was that Stacy and I got into a discussion regarding something, which is, of itself, irrelevant, but is related to the weight of an object.
The point is, that Stacy refused to give me the specific weight.
She gave me the weight after something had been trimmed off, and the percentage of the excess that had to be trimmed off in order to get to the number she did give me.
So, in my own head, having done literally hundreds of word problems, I am confident that I can work this out mathmatically with simple algebra: considering the variables: we have X which will equal the total weight.
Then we have Y, which is the excess weight.
When you remove 70% of Y, from the total weight X, you should get the end number, which for argument’s sake, we will call 17 pounds.
Here’s what I came up with:
17 = x - 0.7y
Anybody here quick with their math?
Well, I attempted to use a method called “substitutionary equatives” where you solve to one of the two variables, and then proceed to reinsert the equative into the equation for the variable in question.
Like so:
17 + 0.7y = x
Then, understanding that x is equal to everything to the left, doing this:
17 = (17+0.7y)
- 0.7y
And of course, things get wierd and sticky, as this particular equation is not made for an substitutionary solution for an equation, because
17=12+0.7y−0.7y
17=12+0.7y+−0.7y
17=(0.7y+−0.7y)+(12)
17=12
17=12
I even tried it another way...
Let’s solve for y.
Maybe that works better.
Sometimes it does.
17 = x - 0.7y
And this turns into:
Step 1: Flip the equation.
x−0.7y=17
x−0.7y=17
Step 2: Add -x to both sides.
x−0.7y+−x=17+−x
−0.7y=−x+17
Step 3: Divide both sides by -0.7.
−0.7y−0.7=−x+17−0.7
y=1.428571x−24.285714
So, let’s go back to the original equation, and plug this in for y, and see if we can get a good number for X.
17= x - 0.7(1.428571x−24.285714)
And using my stupid method...
Step 1: Simplify both sides of the equation.
17=x−0.7(1.428571x−24.285714)
17=x+(−0.7)(1.428571x)+(−0.7)(−24.285714)(Distribute)
17=x+−1x+17
17=(x+−1x)+(17)(Combine Like Terms)
17=0x+17
17=0x+17
Step 2: Flip the equation.
0x+17=17
Step 3: Subtract 17 from both sides.
0x+17−17=17−17
0x=0
See the issue here?
We do this with so many things in our lives!
We complicate things because they look complicated, or we think we’ve seen a similar problem before and we think we know the solution!
Worse is when we do this with matters of faith.
Turn with me to our Scripture reading for today,
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
A pastor by the name of Ken Weliever wrote in his blog something I want to share with you all about this passage:
The Protestant reformer Martin Luther called it “the gospel in miniature.”
Biblical Commentator William Barclay wrote that it is “the very essence of the Gospel.”
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy stated, “This is the promise that bears hope for the hopeless.”
Gospel preacher, Robert Jackson, entitled it “The greatest sentence ever written.”
Musician Mac Powell said, “It is the Gospel in a nutshell.”
SBC Executive Frank S. Page portrayed it as “Mount Everest of Scripture passages from God’s Word.
Author Max Lucado described it as the “hope diamond of the Bible.”
He goes on to say that it is sometimes called “the golden text of the Bible.”
We all have our favorite passage or passages in Scripture, but this one has been called “Everybody’s text.”
Max Lucado wrote that “is a twenty-six word parade of hope: beginning with God, ending with Life, and urging us to do the same.
Brief enough to write on a napkin or memorize in a moment, yet solid enough to weather two thousand years of storms and questions.
If you know nothing of the Bible, start here.
If you know everything in the Bible, return here.”
An unknown author once broke down this text this way:
“God“ The greatest Lover
The greatest Lover
The greatest Lover
The Father in Heaven.
To Him be all the glory, honor, worship, and praise!
It has to begin with God, the author and finisher of our salvation, and on whose words we put all of our hope and desires upon.
“so loved”…………….The greatest Degree
So many people in this world don’t understand that they are loved.
The concept boggles their mind.
Each of you is beloved by God.
Did you know that?
He loves each of you as if there were only one of you.
If it were not so, He would not have created this world, nor given us a way to get back to Him.
That God’s love is limitless and boundless, and incomprehensible is putting it mildly!
“the world”The greatest Company
We are each made in His image.
Each of us, brothers and sisters.
And like some siblings, we fight.
We argue.
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