Judi S.

Have a great week everyone!

Sorry for delay in posting today.

The Russian navy has decided not to mess with Irish fishermen. Some Irish wit said that we would consider invading Russia if they did not but we decided not to as they have a standing army of more than 1 million soldiers with another 2 million active reservists. There is no way we…[Read more]

When people behave in a needlessly selfish way: when they are greedy, dominant, cruel etc. then this results in a less than optimum outcome.

Or it results in the optimum outcome achievable given the circumstances.

The word “needlessly” is not necessary because people do act in selfish ways. By that I mean they act to achieve their own int…[Read more]

Ideal standards are virtuous performance of one’s work in carrying out the task.

Yes, Simon but only in an ideal world. In the mundane routine of everyday life most people carry out tasks to serve their own personal interest or the interests of people they share their lives with. Those people in turn reciprocate with acts of their own. I admit a…[Read more]

I do enjoy stories like the pastor in Chattanooga. All praise to the Chili. He is certainly in an ungodly place now that he has disobeyed Leviticus 19:28 which commands that “You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you”. This is not a command by some local yokel but an order from the Lord himself. It…[Read more]

If there were two sets of circumstances, with everything the same, and something needed fixing – if one person did their job well (living up to ideal standards) then the results are very likely to be better than if the other person did their job poorly (not living up to ideal standards).

To take that to its logical conclusion; if everyone e…[Read more]

@ Simon – All other things being equal, higher quality cooperation would be expected to lead to higher quality results.

In real world practical application or in theory? Could you further expand on that statement please. What “other things”?

@Simon – “if we cooperate ideally, we can expect good practical, social and moral consequences.  To cooperate ideally requires a conscientious and prosocial attitude”.

To me that line sounds very much like what Pangloss may have said in Candide and would have being delightful to Leibniz. You could end up with the best of all possible worlds…[Read more]

@Autumn – I think we could substitute “Canada” in the link with any of several other countries and the story would read much the same. I also think that Covid has helped by giving many of those with only one foot in a church the time and space to think independently about their beliefs. The Church can only survive by the constant iterations of the…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

Down on the fronkey farm I have a few freaky friends called Freelwheelinn’ Franklin Freek and his two brothers Phineas T. Phreak and Fat Freddy Freekowtski, along with their good for nothing cat. They can do no wrong in my book so I keep them on as freaky farmers. I once heard them plotting to hijack a pizza van but it never happened as they had t…[Read more]

Whenever I hear government experts or “Drug Czars” talking about the “war of drugs” I just laugh. The international drug smugglers probably respond with “Is there really? We hardly noticed”.

Just to edit my last comment on the woman who died after deliberately catching Covid. Yes, it is a bizarre story. But she was still an anti-vaxxer and after 2 years of a pandemic anyone who refuses to get vaccinated and then contracts a severe infection has also done so deliberately. These are the consequences of inaction.

But Simon it is not bizarre. I have sent the story to SAV where reading posts for 10 minutes will make you question if these people are the same species as us. They all seem to have legions of prayer warriors to call upon but their god keeps saying “No” and won’t even refund them the time they wasted beseeching him for help. Just even read this one!