Bruce Church has left a new comment on your post "The Burden of Being Wrong Most of the Time":
Speaking of schools closing, the LCMS Concordia seminaries both stay open only thanks to a US federal regulation that allows a school to disburse student loans for however many credit hours they see fit to require for a degree. The Dept of Education could one day say they'll only fund up to the minimum necessary hours for an accredited masters degree, and then the student is on his own for financing the rest of his degree. The LCMS M. Div. students would then have to finance the second half of their degree by themselves, since only the first 72 out of the 137/139 credit hours would be covered. One can see that the seminaries would be in serious existential trouble due to finances and lack of students.
The whole system reeks though, and reminds me of the papacy. The papacy bases its existence on the peculiar interpretation of one verse (Mat 16:18), and the LCMS seminaries base their mutual existence on one govt regulation and that govt's loosey goosey accounting practices. Just as the Antichrist seems not to be concerned about Christ coming back to destroy him, so the seminaries seem unconcerned that the Tea Party may choke off their revenue stream. The profs there probably even voted for Tea Party candidates in the primaries and election:
loosey goosey
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=loosey%20goosey
Town mentioned in linked post:
Comfrey, MN (poplulation 367)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfrey,_Minnesota
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GJ - On March 29, 1998, Comfrey was hit by a strong F4 tornado which damaged or destroyed most of the town.
I remember that, because I become incredibly sleepy when a tornado is near. I simply could not drive the car. I pulled over for a period of time. Soon after we heard on the radio that Comfrey was wiped out by a tornado.
That also happened much earlier near Kalamazoo, when I insisted on pulling over. That time a tornado was just ahead of us. It ravaged the very road we were going to use, so we drove down the street and looked at the damage. I was happy to point out that I saved our lives by being overwhelmed by sleep. When it happened the second time, near Comfrey, I became unbearable.
