The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.
Haaaayyy!
Around this time of year I have this little thing I do in the car where I shout out "Haayyy!" seemingly for no reason. The other thing with those hayloads is that bits of hay are alway coming off the back. I often wonder how far such a lorry would need to go in order for the whole load to be lost. Has any mathematical genius got an answer to that one?
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2,756 miles. Give or take.
Nonsense. It's quite easy to calculate. Each lorry holds 20 x 10 x 12 bales = 2400. A bale weighs 130 lb, 3679 pieces of straw to the lb, 478,270 to the bale. Thus 1,147,848,000 straws to the lorry load. A lorry drops on average 1 piece of straw per 10 feet, thus 528 a mile. So in just over 2,173,954 and a half miles the lorry will be empty. That's a more complex way of coming up with a random answer.
No, Tom - your calculation is obviously wrong 'cos the lorry won't last two million miles. Anyway, haven't you ever travelled behind a hay lorry? It drops, on average, nearer 80 pieces of straw every foot, which puts you out by a factor of 800. If you multiple my answer by 800 you get two million, two hundred and four thousand eight hundred miles - quite close to your answer. The remaining 30845.5 miles are just down to your incompetence.
I must be right, 'cos I took 'A'-level maths. (Note carefully the verb in that phrase!)
So what you're saying is it all depends on the rate that the lorry loses hay or straw. By the way can anyone (not a mathematician) explain to me the difference between straw and hay?
Hay is grass etc cut down, dried and destined for fodder. Straw is the stalk of corn.
Also, hay has three letters and begins with 'h', while straw has five letters and ends in 'w'.
Glad to help.
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