Every small detail you discover about religious beliefs make you think – \”how on earth could any sentient being believe THAT?\” Then you come to the large details, and you wonder how any being higher in the evolutionary scale than slime mould could believe THOSE.
When you have had a bad experience with a snake you see snakes everywhere – a coiled hose on a lawn, a bendy brown stick on a path, a shadow undulating on uneven ground, the movement of a bird in the undergrowth.
The human race is faced with a lot of disasters, current and future – global warming, fundamentalism, terrorism, wars, famines, anti-intellectualism, pollution of air and water. But I am afraid a shortage of prawns (a result of disease) to sell in Australia at Easter 2017 is not one of them. \”FishCo owner John Fragopoulos can\’t find
Saying you are a \”centrist politician\” is like saying you are an agnostic. In both cases there is a failure to recognise that there is no middle position, that you have to actually settle for either reality or nonsense, there is nothing in between.
Forget the \”pub test\” (I mean, seriously, was there actually anyone in the world who would have wanted to have a beer with GW Bush?), use the \”threshold test\”. Try to think of a politician anywhere in the world who you would actually allow to cross the threshold into your home. Give up? Me too.
Whatever the problem – imaginary, real, perceived, short-term, economic, agricultural, tourist, infrastructure, forestry, transport, big, small – the answer, throughout history, has been “kill the animals”.
Exams often tell you more about the examiner than the examinee. Especially those from the \”guess what I am thinking, class\” school of teaching.
With 7, 8, 9 billion people on this small, fragile, planet, it is becoming impossible to be original.
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