Babylonian Exile

I have just been doing some study on the Roman Catholic Church's Babylonian . This is when the popes ruled from Avignon, France from 1309-1377. I have to admit some of these guys were pretty good. Others were well . . . less then good.

Pope Urban V choose the name Urban because all the prior Urbans were made catholic saints. Now that is not really a bad idea of a name. For the record Urban V is not a saint.

Overall he was not bad and tried to reform the cardinals. This was difficult as the cardinals ruled most of the church.

Pursuit of Happyness

What is the DNA of a good story? Something that is compelling, it could (or did happen), an overcoming of a great difficulty.

I have just watched "the Pursuit of Happyness." This is a good movie as far as it goes. I mean the movie is really good. There are just a few gaps in logic.

For example: why did he not get food stamps. With a child he could get them.
Did he not have any friends? I mean for real. I know of four or five people's house where I could crash at.

Why did he sell plasma only once? I mean if you really need money.

Also if you read the wikipedia article on the movie (here) or the actual article on Chris Gardner. You find well . . . not as good as the movie. So the movie is not really that great.

Passover

Monday night starts Passover.

This is such a great time in which we recall Moses leading our people out of Egypt. It is a time in which we recall the plauges of Egypt.

Mostly we recall G-d leading our people.