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Sermoncropped-angel20of20grief201.jpg podcast, December 22, 2014, from Seminole Heights United Methodist Church, Tampa, FL

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By Matt Horanflying-car

Do you remember when the year 2000 was a really big deal?  Remember all of the stuff that we were supposed to have in the year 2000?  Flying cars.  Cars that drive by themselves.  Phones where you can see the person you’re talking to.  I remember the movie, “2001, A Space Odyssey.”  It’s about a manned mission to Jupiter.  I don’t think we’re too close to that.

Now, maybe those inventions just didn’t pan out.  Too tough to invent, to expensive, etc.  Or, maybe we decided that we just didn’t want that innovation.  I mean, flying cars are a good idea until the kid next door turns 15, gets his learners permit, and starts flying over your house on the way home every day.  (However, one was spotted on Google Earth not long ago.) (more…)