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It is somewhat ironic that the church is very slow to act on matters, such as its myriad trail of abuse from its then absolute power, which corrupted absolutely. Karol Wojtyla was a great man in his own right, not least, in his alliance with Ronald Reagan in accelerating the demise of the Soviet Union.The only saint we need is St Paddy and beatify Fr Ted Crilly and Bishop Len Brennan.
My father Jerry, died suddenly on my 44th birthday last October 24. Whatever about the merits of Karol Wojtyla, I can say with certainty that Jerry Connolly was a living saint who just got on with things selflessly for the benefit of others without any profit, motive, nor any need or desire of pontificating piety from vested interests.
That humanity actually has real meaning. I’ll never reach his level of earnest endeavour, but at least I have a standard to measure against and fail better in future.
David Connolly
Unfortunately he does himself a disservice of creationist-intelligent design bias, perhaps unintentionally. To wit: “There is no room for the creator, since there is no need for him. The laws of physics do it all by themselves”, this, being a reasonable interpretation of Hawking’s position. And later asking , “what created the laws of physics ?” How is it that these strange and powerful laws alone, apply to the world”. The World of What ?, the known solar world certainly, powerful, yes, strange only to those that try to treat them as rules that can be bent or laws defied. Still, who needs a room if one has the universe to chose from, a waste of space surely ?
The question conspicuous by it’s absence is what created the “Him Creator” ?, does Mr. Scruton know or perceive something exclusive beyond the final frontier of human thought ?
I was born and involuntarily baptized into the Irish Church of Rome, in
To pray is to implore the suspension of the laws of the universe upon the plaintive pleading of a single penitent, confessedly unworthy to an omnipotent being.
To close Roger Scruton’s open argument of treating faith and reason as mutually exclusive as an either/or proposition, why not evolve to a closed loop of faith in reason ? A mind is best used like an aerodynamic-gravitational parachute, when opened. None are so blind as those that will not see what they cannot know for certain, no matter how creative their narrative. Religion as a philosophy is intellectually benign and morally beneficial earthly magnetic compass as in, “love thy neighbor”. Religion as a faith in general and a monotheist monopoly faith in particular, cosmic or secular, is intellectually bankrupt and a morally nefarious earthly magnetic compass in a convective thunderstorm , as in, “identify sectarian difference and attack it”, in a world at war. Optimal man standing spinal 1G gravity is an intellectual armistice of universal by law of faith in not pretending to know that of which the ignorant are sure. It is surely better to be uncertain of our position and know it rather than to be certain of where we are not…QED !
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Considering Patience Wheatcroft’s “Agenda” analysis of WSJE 02-16-10 of the Greek fiscal Trojan Horse tragedy of cascading into the Club Med bay of PIGS, of it’s own Greek Finance Mythology-sorry-Ministry making, it is time to think out of the Euro-Brussels box of process being progress without ever the twain meeting, with maximum and decisive force. My fantasy would be viable if the European Commission committed less and omitted more and the Eurospacewaste Parliament moved singularly to Istanbul, to reduce it’s infinite bull produce. This was well illustrated with it’s latest SWIFT financial disclosure action of Feb 12 via the Lisbon Treaty,(which I voted against on 06-12-08) to protect the financial privacy of hard working terrorists. Considering the EP’s history of financial probity, they are consistent at least. How many Greek MEP’s voted swiftly ?
Greece has it’s own alphabet descended from the Phoenician alphabet, it is now time to translate it’s equally unique economic alphabet, beyond Plato and parody to what it is, a Retsina soaked road to perdition.
To wit : GDP in Greek means Greek Decimal Point. As Communists are still undead there along with Portugal, Spain and Italy the deficit decimal is statistically moved to the hard left, upon receipt of current account data, so the reality of 2009 was 12.9%, so it was moved left to a Euro friendly 3.7% while it’s public debt decimal moves in the opposite direction to a crushing hard right of 112.9%.
Solution ?...Expedite the EU accession of the booming solvent Turks on the condition that they bail out their oldest foe and kiss and make up on both upper cheeks, avoiding the lower ones, the location of a European Parliament to Istanbul calling it a “Bull Bulwark Parliament” would be a typically apt vacuous gesture of Euro-solidarity.
Result ? A sun-stroked retsina-soaked EU member is sobered up by the reality of being bailed out by it’s arch nemesis. A Greek fiscal farce is bailed-out tragedy by a Turkish delight unifying Europe further. I can see the movie, “My Big Fat Acropolis Now !”, Greek mythological fiscal fact makes fiction redundant by any metric in the oldest Greek industry of all.
April 30th 2009 illustrates that
As Antonio pointed out, as up until the late 1960’s one could walk in and buy an official Belgian license. Now there are apparently 2 million demographically and chronographically challenged Belgian drivers that treat rules of the road, as interesting suggestions. The 1985 forged license holders caught in 2007 have equal validity, as they had to at least make some effort to reach a forged standard.
If one is cheating, one is trying hard. If caught ?, clearly, one is not trying hard enough. Must fail better.
Antonio was entertainingly informative enough, but then hilariously, Adolf Hitler’s 64th death anniversary was inadvertently marked with an illustration of the aptly “highly aggressive” Nazi Wunder Auroch/Ayrian Cows in
However the Bulletin made a glaring omission, to wit : Is the dairy and beef produce of the beasts, Kosher ? …Fiction made redundant yet again , ja ? Heil Moo !...Nazi humour is clearly no laughing matter.
An afternoon of acute sober clarity in Brussels Kitty O’ Shea’s pub dawned on Paddy’s Day, Tuesday March 17th 2009. It was provided by two Irish journalists, namely Ann Cahill of
St. Sir Bob “invited” European Commission President Jose Manuel Barosso to Kitty O’ Shea’s in
This was nothing but a mutually self-serving PR exercise. BS is the inverse square root of all PR, so Bob and Barasso were in good mutual admiration company with each other. With St. Sir Bob living in a tax shelter and Snr. Barosso sheltered by the taxpayer, they are shielded from the daily reality of actually paying one’s bills while pontificating to real workers to pay their guilt bills. As witnessed by the two journalists , Bob and Barosso charged in with staff lackies and media assistants. They were not men enough, despite their wealth, both earned and remunerated, to do the descent thing and buy everyone in the pub a pint on St. Paddy’s.
The duet of Bob & Barro, stayed for 20 minutes, sipped, not lipped, 2 pints of Guinness. As if that was not culturally insulting enough on Paddy’s Day, these wet-fish Nancy-boy freeloading wasters, then left without paying, leaving two glasses half full of emptiness, like themselves. “An onlooker offered to pick up the tab for the two pints”, according to Ann Cahill.
Publicans, hoteliers and restaurateurs should oblige their staff be aware of these two parasites and demand cash up front before any service is tendered and warn other taxpayers keep their hands on their wallets at all times while in their drinking and poverty and guilt pontification radius. Needless to say, no food should be served, as one is likely to throw up and Bob and Barro will waltz away from the ensuing mess, in the tradition of being the spoilt child of the bad habit of indulgence.
... and comment from Gilbert Doctorow on Bulletin of April 2 2009.
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