I used to consider myself an atheist. Now, when asked, I say I am agnostic. It is not that I have doubts but I don’t want to be bundled in with the atheist crowd.
In answering such a question, it is too difficult to explain the distinction between atheism and anti-religionism and to be honest, the lines are often blurred.
Is it any wonder?
This Easter we have been witness to baffling brawls over halal chocolate Easter eggs and squabbling over whether or not a footy match should be played on Good Friday. I adopt the laissez-faire approach in these matters but I find it troubling that those who advocate sombre reflection on religious holidays are cast as extremists.
Religion is often mocked by atheists. Mockery is fine in some instances but when people are painted as sub-human for holding supernatural beliefs, items of faith in all organised religions, it is clear there is an attempt to wantonly discriminate against people and limit their movements and their associations.
Full column here.
Serena’s baby! Just about sums it up for ANZAC Day.
John O’Hagan. Your superb comment on the reproductive processes of great white sharks and the proposition that it inspired the idea for free market economic theory cannot go unremarked upon.
Remarkable insight. Great stuff.
Give ’em heaps.
“Lest We Forget”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCDWYgVyps
Got a new one coming for Anzac Day JTI?
That photo of the hot cross buns is starting to do my head in. The missus gets back from Vietnam tomorrow, and I have to explain why the chocolate buns are still in the freezer. I couldn’t come to grips with chocky buns in the oven, so to speak.
As a further aside, I had some nice gourmet snags for dinner tonight. You need to sort out the props department at the Pictures gig.
Back to more serious, what to do about the wankers who defaced the war memorial in Melbourne ahead of Anzac Day? I’d like to send them to SAS Swinbourne Barracks for use as target practice. Given they clearly have small heads, the boys would appreciate the challenge.
I think we need to look at those either in active service or recently left the ADF and what support is given to them.
Too right. Listening to JJJ radio yesterday and there is a huge problem with the younger people who serve then leave. Readjusting seems to be very difficult for some.
We have an ongoing and apparently difficult debate about what ‘Australian Values’ are. Might be hard to define, but if you go around defacing war memorials then you definitely *don’t* have them.
Hear. hear!
These are small, irrelevant people who seek to make themselves important by showing their contempt for things that really are important. They further diminish themselves by doing it, not that they would have sufficient self-awareness to realise that.
Well said, TBLS. Just dreadful.
CHAPPELLI knows his stuff Bald “Grassless pitches, shortened boundaries, monster bats, defensive captains and bloody sport scientists are killing fast bowlers”. Not only bowlers-the bloody game itself!
Hear hear Bassy! Spot on!
TV re the DEC PDP/11 , does it still boot off paper tape?
On a good day…
as to whether North Korea should have the right to defend itself, you might want to have a read of this,
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoIDPRK/Report/coi-dprk-q-and-a.pdf
please note that, unlike the usual dross produced by the UN, this was a proper inquiry conducted by a respectable panel, chaired by our own Michael Kirby, a most distinguished jurist.
“dominates and terrorises every aspect of its citizens’ lives”
And there are some on here who are more concerned about next year’s grape harvest.
Ok, that’s my lunchtime burst done with. Btw, Bella, how’s your boy?
He’s fine now thanks Trivalve & he bought another bike recently.
The P plate driver did lose her licence but felt so guilty she checked in with him for months. A lesson learned perhaps.
Regards, Bella
Good outcome by the sound of it
What the hell has got into Julie Bishop these days all this huffing and puffing about North Korea , doesn’t she realise she is only a little cog in the world of diplomacy , the woman should tone it down, does she think she’s another Margaret Thatcher…
Yes, I do believe she does Bill.
Stupid ‘look at me’ behaviour, considering the stakes.
Showing a bit of the old colonial cringe there Bill?
As GDP’s go, we are 13th in the World and definitely a middle power..
The grog flowed like water last night Jack as word went round our local that we might be getting nuked. Never seen the lads drink so much. Any truth in this?
Could be Digger. There are rumours that the information is coming from a Liquor Marketing organisation.