IN MY ‘NO COMMENT’
bracket. But definitely NOT in my “Oh … WOW!” department—
—go there at your peril. Or better, be prepared to have a few favourite books rewritten … and use some imagination.
THIS ONE IS DEFINITELY
Tag / science
THANKS AGAIN, GOD
FOR YOUR ENDLESS BLESSINGS
“Daily travel permits will be granted to people who live in border towns and cities but with the closure just hours away, the application system was still being developed.
Kevin Mack, the mayor of Albury, a border town on the NSW side, said with an estimated 50,000 car movements across the state line every day “it will be a nightmare for everyone.”
“About a quarter of my staff like me live in NSW, and cross that border every day to come to work,” said Paul Armstrong, who runs a petrol station in Wodonga, a border town on the Victorian side. “I don’t know if they are going to be able to get in.”
Read from source (ODT): CLICK HERE
And the first person to say that ‘Lockdowns are man-made, not of God’ will be severely nominated as a wee bit mentally challenged. (No … forgive me, not “a wee bit”; actually I meant a whole heap.*)
“Well put, Dog! They won’t challenge you, though …”
* Clue: if I do have to spell it out … think of those three unique defining qualities of God, and ‘Prime Causes’.
DAMMIT~!
AGAIN …
All I want before I enter the void is a few good answers. Having sat at the feet of wise men and wimmin for decades I am no closer to any satisfying answers. Research, it seems, is often a form of unclimaxed mental masturbation.
ARK has kindly led us to an equation that might help. (Thanks for that … you’ll keep!) but I no longer do sums myself; I prefer to sit on a log in a forest and ponder. I’ve met a lot of nice rabbits and fantails doing so but am no closer to truth than when I was a lad. More tools are available today, with even fewer answers. Bummer.
Too many unknowns. Too many unanswerables. It’s only when you actually think about stuff you realise that your heroes have feet of clay (thanks for that, Dr Brian Cox … you’ll keep).
So I still think the Zen folks make better sense than many—to paraphrase Basho* and his buddies:
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
And therein lies the answer to all questions.
PS Don’t forget to tip the monkey on your way out…
* I think it was he … the famous haiku; I refer to it often ‘cos it’s the only sense in all of literature. (The frog one, of course …)
Mr GOD? YOUR OPINION,
PLEASE—?
If just one billion is lots … does this mean there may be oodles more (beings) like us (sort of) out there?
If so we’d better be frantically digging nuclear-bomb shelters all over the place for when the buggers finally do arrive.
Flat Earther?
You might find this worthy of a look …
AS A BELIEVER, VERY DEVOUT
IN HUMAN RIGHTS
being inalienable etc etc … this guy (see quote below) who is “up to his neck in learning yet devoid of knowledge” disturbs me. He brandishes the plumage of a ‘One World Government’ enthusiast; which in the position he holds is not good—as an educator in a respected university he should be objective. I find him objectionable.
A quote—
Much future damage caused by climate change cannot now be avoided. But wise policy-making can still limit the impact of this impending disaster – if all nation-states take the challenge seriously. As Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has remarked, “We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.”
In my humble opinion Miss Greta comes across as emotionally disturbed, an immature child still lacking common courtesies. I see her as a cleverly manipulated glove puppet; who once her usefulness has passed its ‘use by’ date will be pensioned off to a nice sinecure somewhere deep within the (so called) United Nations.
EDUCATION
Should be fact-based and objective. There is a crisis, granted … but it is a crisis of Reality. Poorly educated voters cast on emotion, not content; so sadly our realities are ruled by feelings rather than facts. By beliefs, in fact. The loudest screechers in our ‘democracies’ will win … after which might makes its own right, no?
TO MASK, OR NOT TO
MASK?
That is the question—whether ’tis nobler of the conscience to go with the flow, or by not masking … offend folks?
Hey—don’t ask me! It’s well past my brekky time, so I’m off for a nibble. Plough through this then ask your own good self (and may flights of angles sing thee to thy wotever).
“If masks are not used appropriately, and not combined with meticulous hand hygiene, there is a theoretical risk of increased infection risk through self-contamination.”
In any case, any potential benefits of wearing masks were likely to be less effective than washing hands or physical distancing. Some say. Your call, though.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/should-we-wear-masks
LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERTS,
I JUST STAY A
CYNIC.
Here’s your snippet:
Why? Read on and be endarkened …
from: CLICK HERE / ME
Why? Experience. (Not education, sheesh~!) We dogs go by what we can see, bite, scratch, chomp, or chew … although in my years I’ve witnessed meteors in many places, I’ve never seen one quite like the above. But I guess space stuff followeth the thnowflake thyndrome, no?
“Mr Argus, Sir—?”
“Yes, Little Ollivia?”
“Why are you lithping, thir?”
(Hah. Knew I’d catch someone—)
“Because that’s what you do when talking so religious folks can understand, child; you know, ya godda be a bit biblical.”
“Oh Thir, thereth no hope you … oopth …”
SCIENCE v. GOD
SCIENCE MIGHT LOSE?
I doubt it—but catchy headline, huh?
GOD, I FEAR
is just too unbelievable. Ah, but Science! Yes! In Sci we trust—
“That strange finding was made in 2016. Since then, all sorts of suggestions rooted in known physics have been put forward to account for the perplexing signal, and all have been ruled out. What’s left is shocking in its implications. Explaining this signal requires the existence of a topsy-turvy universe created in the same big bang as our own and existing in parallel with it. In this mirror world, positive is negative, left is right and time runs backwards … but it might just be true.”
—whether it makes sense or not. A frocked priest with his vials of holy blood (and enough discovered splinters of The True Cross to rebuild a fleet of Arks) reeks of superstition. But a white-coated scientist with his/her little test tube filled with God knows wot quite often also reeks.
My own notions of Time are politely ignored when presented, but prestigious outlets like ‘New Scientist’ attract debate? Okay then (puts on white coat): there are unseen unfelt parallel inverses intersecting ours where time runs backwards and Gods create more parallel universes out of test tubes every second? (Brrrr.)
That was hyperbole and you know it. Sarcasm too.
BUT I MUST ADMIT
that I do like the notion of time running backwards. Yourself?
“Don’t fret. I was pregnant—but in a few less not-minutes I shan’t be.”
OH, WOW—
—THEM BUGS DON’T
stand a chance. (Dare I say it? Not a hope in hell …)
Your quote:
“I’m praying — I’m a Catholic — to make sure everybody’s fine,” Dewhurst said.
from: CLICK HERE
Ennit gorgeous? But, am I sometimes a little too subtle? Normally I’d leave it there, the post finished after the word “said” above.
I usually leave it to you good folks to find any contradictions in the nice lady’s “Lord” (aka Jesus, God) with all His infinite compassions and kindnesses and sweetness etc etc versus the Corona Bug (and leprosy, napalm, polio, toothache, cancer, and so on ad nauseam (pun intentional if you missed it) (weak, but hey—I’m locked down over here in Kiwiland. Woddya expect?)
En passant:
I believe the deer shooting season here is being cancelled—but the war on ducks will be going ahead as usual. Or it could be the other way ’round; I just stay away from risky territories and if in the bush or trees make sure I’m loudly whistling—very very loudly. Anyway, I’m hoping that under the terms of the ‘lockdown’ they won’t be allowed to shoot me. We’ll see …
It could explain why kiwis make the world’s best sentries—
“Halt—”
BANG!
“—who went there?”
And the beat goes onnnnnn. Oh, yes, and by the way—
Thank you Jesus (and your loving Daddy) for Your Corona Virus … which couldn’t have done it without You. (The bubonic plague sends its regards too.)
CASSANDRIC 