Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
We’re back to the hospital now, so Patty can have a mammogram. Then there’s the ear guy, the pulmonary doctor, and then back to the first doctor… This had better work.
I spent so much time in waiting rooms yesterday, had so much TV nooze chattered at me, that I went just about stir-crazy. I can’t imagine the psychological landscape of someone who watches TV all the time.
I pray this all works…
(“We are so ****ed…”)
I hope you’re sitting down for this.
According to research by the University of Alaska, “If the current rates of greenhouse gas emissions remain unchanged,” the vast isle of Greenland may be ice-free–
–By the year 3000! (https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/climatechange/greenland-ice-sheet-could-completely-melt-out-by-the-year-3000/70008659)
Alas, alack, and welladay! Game over, man! Why, that’s only… only [breaks out calculator; hands trembling, drops it, picks it up, drops it again]… Good grief! That’s only 1,900 years from now! Everything’ll wind up underwater but the Himalayas!
Well, like, s***, that settles it–all power and all money to a global government, and maybe, just maybe, they can save us! Otherwise when the year 3000 comes around and you find yourself standing around without a lifeboat as the water level rises to your eyeballs–and that’s with you standing on the roof!–don’t blame the government. We told you we had to have absolute power over everything and everybody! We told you we had to have all your money! But you wouldn’t listen! You wouldn’t listen to Science! And now you see what happens to people who won’t listen to Science.
Pack your water wings, folks! It’s gonna get mighty wet in just another 19 hundred years.
I like to re-post this every two years ago, for the benefit of readers who missed it last time around.
Why people believe in Global Warming…
You can go a whole day without hearing anything that qualifies as reasoning. If you spend a lot of time in the nooze, make it two days.
Somewhere down the line, you have to declare your presuppositions and start from there. The Christians’ presupposition is that the Bible is the word of God and therefor true. We reason up from there.
But the presupposition that all “science” is true… well, today’s settled science is tomorrow’s quaint little superstitions.
This hymn is an old standby, here with a glorious a capella rendition by the Altar of Praise Men’s Chorale: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty. Background sets by God the Father, maker of heaven and earth.
With all the doctor visits this week, we cannot but help but sympathize with you!
I have long maintained that anyone who can still say “Fap!” after seeing the doctor is far from being defeated.
Plus you have our prayers. Get well soon, Erlene.
When I watch hamsters do their stuff, I always wonder: how fast would a human being have to run, for his legs to vanish in a blur of perpetual motion? What would that look like?
Another thing I wonder about: how come the hamsters don’t get horribly dizzy from spinning themselves around and around so fast? How long would it take you to get riotously ill, doing that?
There is no one who doesn’t want scientists to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. But so far there has been no cure; because the animals whose brains they study just really aren’t similar enough to human brains to be worth that much.
So what we need, say scientists in Canada and China, and at Yale, is to inject human tissue into a monkey’s brain to make it much more like a human brain (https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/it-just-really-ethically-scares-me-caution-urged-as-scientists-look-to-create-human-monkey-chimeras)… And honk if you think this is a good idea.
See, they need a “better” animal to study, to experiment on. They are thinking of “biologically humanizing a large portion of a monkey’s brain.”
Uh-huh. And when the monkey turns around and sues you, what then? Like, just how human do you want to make the monkey’s brain? And is that really the sort of thing a righteous person does? Really?
Close observation of human patients–wouldn’t that be better?
Maybe–but not as much fun as playing Frankenstein with monkey brains.
They’re “red,” all right–and they didn’t expect to lose
A grassroots Arizona parents group, in a statewide school election, has defeated radical “teachers” and Organized Sodomy (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/01/purpleforparents-defeats-redfored-in-arizona-state-board-victory-on-sex-ed-standards/).
Far Left teachers, calling themselves #RedforEd, teamed up with “gay” groups to try to impose a new sex education doctrine in Arizona public schools, doing away with language pertaining to “abnormal, deviant or unusual sex practices”–because of course to these characters, the only thing abnormal, deviant, or unusual is a marriage between a man and a woman. They proposed to replace all vestiges of traditional sexual morality with value-neutral “scientific” sex education.
Always beware of anything that any liberal tries to sell you as “scientific.” And remember that “value-neutral” always mean that Far Left values win and yours lose.
Arizona parents got together, forming “#PurpleforParents” as a group to fight the proposed changes. They won the election and forced the state school board to abandon the radical teachers’ project.
For which we give God thanks!
True, they’ll have to fight the battle over and over again because Far Left Crazy never gives us. Never seems to run out of George Soros’ money, either. Leftism arises from Original Sin, so it will be with us until Christ returns and does away with death and sin and pitches the Adversary head-first into the lake of fire, never to be seen or heard from again. Let us enjoy the victories God gives us, in anticipation of total victory by Jesus Christ.
from the Unashamed of Jesus blog
There shouldn’t be a need to say this… but there is. –LD
As a student of political science, I spent much time reading various theories of politics. None of the ones in the textbooks were anywhere near as convincing as what I found in Tarzan novels.
It came to me in a flash. I was reading about Peter the Great’s visit to London, and what a shambles he and his entourage made of the lovely house which had been provided for him. Did these men not know what a stairway was for? Did they not know not to ride their horses on the parquet flooring? They couldn’t have made a bigger mess if they’d been a tribe of apes…
Eureka!
In Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan stories, the apes are always competing with one another, often violently, to see who gets the most food, the most matings, the best place to sleep, and so on. And the ape who gets the most of everything, the biggest and the strongest and the meanest ape, gets to be king. Until a younger, stronger ape comes along and takes it away from him.
Holy cow! Politics!
It really is about who gets to have the most of everything–the most power, the most prestige, the biggest heap of other people’s money… It wasn’t even Burroughs who discovered this. We find it right there in the Bible, in 1 Samuel 8:10-18, in which Samuel warned the people of Israel exactly what would happen to them if they made good their resolve to have a king.
God knows we have a terrible penchant for finding big apes to rule over us. In Deuteronomy 17:14-20, God warns Israel, through Moses, that if they simply must have a king, they ought to have the kind of king God recommends–a king whose duties will include writing out God’s law, longhand, word for word, every day; no foreigner, but a true Israelite; and a king who will not use his position to collect loads of wealth or a vast herd of wives.
Most of the kings they got were just big apes.
God’s guidance, and faithfulness to His word, makes us real men and women: not apes with car keys.
