Thy Plague Doctor

What, and miss Sunday School?  Been out in the sun today, Reg?

Sounds like I should take the rest of the day off!

Nice!  Actually I was quite impressed with the new Irish prime minister, the youngest ever pm. Oh yes, and he’s openly gay.  I love your Canadian pm, he’s pretty cool too:)

That’s great, Andrew. Thanks for your clarifications, which now make more sense to me.

Most of the time, laws are made to deal with realistic possibilities.  Your problem is so unlikely to be a frequent one, the judges would have to apply whatever law was closest to what they wanted.  This means in different states, you’d have different charges for the same act, depending on what law was available to apply.

Since the USA is so e…[Read more]

Andrew, thanks for that.  If the description is simply a personal model, then have at it.  For me,  I can’t get from ‘evolution’ to ‘mistake’.

Where you’re talking about the pressure point that converts inaction into action, you state that there is a ‘mistake’ there that needs correcting, vis-a-vis the push pull consequences.  You’re then sta…[Read more]

I don’t have any problem with your definition of God, principally because there’s no right or wrong definition.  The force by which everything evolves…. yes I can still go with this, because everything does evolve – some people call this force Nature, others God, others a mystery.

Now you do some quantum jumping that is a completely…[Read more]

You could always answer that ‘blessing’ thing with, “I didn’t sneeze!” – another favorite of mine is when people say, “I’ll pray for you” which usually invokes my utter astonishment, as in, “Really?  You’ll really get down on your knees and pray to your god to intervene for me?  Will this be at bedtime with all your other prayers or will I get a s…[Read more]

We are a bit out of the way here, although Archaopteryx once managed to get me a visit from the mormons. Well, he tricked me into applying on line for a free copy of their book, which I did, and which was then followed up with said visit. (Short visit)

As far as verbal blessings and stuff are concerned, I think of them as a sort of  Tourette’s…[Read more]

Since I’ve become an adult, I usually tell such people that it is incredibly rude and innapropriate to start pushing an unsolisited existential world view on people and that they should respect other people’s personal intellectual space. If you must, then ask first if they are up to having such a conversation, if they say no, then fuck off.

None…[Read more]