"Begin at the beginning,and go on till you come to the end: then stop." (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1896)
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered."Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"
I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Like Arthur Dent from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", if you do not have a Babel Fish in your ear this blog will be completely unintelligible to you and will read something like this: "boggle, google, snoggle, slurp, slurp, dingleberry to the power of 10". Fortunately, those who have had the Babel Fish inserted in their ear, will understood this blog perfectly. If you are familiar with this technology, you will know that the Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation. It excretes energy in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said; or in this case, what was read. The Babel Fish, thanks to scientific research, reverses the problem defined by its namesake in the Tower of Babel, where a deity was supposedly inspired to confuse the human race by making them unable to understand each other.
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"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat." - Sir Julian Huxley
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax; Of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot; And whether pigs have wings." - Lewis Carroll
"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" Alexander Pope
"The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal." Ann Oakley
"Some treat their longing for God as proof of His existence." Mason Cooley
"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man 'after his own image', and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him." Johann Most
"In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words." Mason Cooley
"My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have a vote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling." Septima Clark
"Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it." Tom Flynn
"If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet who employs those faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussionI unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape." Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Give the right man a solar myth, and he'll confute the sun therewith." James Russell Lowell
"Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone. Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon. Show me slowly what I only know the limits of. Dance me to the end of love." Leonard Cohen
"If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination." Mary Daly
"If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish." Robert Green Ingersoll
"In other words (so to speak): not two and also not not two." Magellan's Log V
"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." W.H. Auden
"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been." Jim Bishop
"To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth." Spyridon Marinatos
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed." Thomas Henry Huxley
"The place has changed but little since Diana received the homage of her worshippers in the sacred grove. The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough." Sir James George Frazer
"Babylonian king (1792BCE–1750BCE) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria." The American Heritage
"We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility." Hermann Hesse
"Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?" Mason Cooley
"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare." Harriet Martineau
"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun." Thomas Paine
"Zoroaster was thus the first to teach the doctrines of an individual judgment, Heaven and Hell, the future resurrection of the body, the general Last Judgment, and life everlasting for the reunited soul and body. These doctrines were to become familiar articles of faith to much of mankind, through borrowings by Judaism, Christianity and Islam; yet it is in Zoroastrianism itself that they have their fullest logical coherence.†- Mary Boyce
"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it." William Lamb Melbourne
"With reason one can travel the world over; without it it is hard to move an inch." Chinese proverb.
"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching." Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born. C. John Sommerville
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." Havelock Ellis
"It (myth) expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values... Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one." Ann Oakley
"Starry, starry night. Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze, reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue." Don McLean
"NOT from the stars do I my judgment pluck, and yet methinks I have astronomy, But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons’ quality..." William Shakespeare
"Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void." Epicurus
"Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy." Hannes Alfven
IT BURPS! IT FARTS! IT WETS ITS FUR WITH LAUGHTER!
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Ok, it doesn't do any of those things but it does other scary things. Yes, I added the horns. And yes, it was a joke. Please put the gun down.
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Seriously, I thought this thing was having a seizure or an epileptic fit. Maybe the next model can have flashing eyes to ensure that the owner and doll can have matching concurrent seizures.
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What has been described as the America's "gun culture" or love affair with weapons has always been at least slightly disturbing to me. But not anymore. Having watched the video of Elmo cacking his pants for about 2 minutes, I would be reaching for the nearest weapon to put it out of its misery. If there is anything out there that is begging to be a target, it is "Tickle Me Elmo."
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So my suggestion would be. Spare your sanity, buy a gun and tickle the doll with a round of hollow points.
What will the next version be? These ideas might be popular for political pundits.
1. A "Tickle Me Elmo Doll" which allows you to vote in the next presidential election by squeezing the righthand or the lefthand.
2. You then stick a USB cable up its cloaca and the vote is registered online and compiled via my server where I tally the votes for a small but fair fee.
3. Votes which are "ambiguous" set off the self destruct button located inside the doll's nose thus ensuring a troublefree vote count.
4. Also, it would be illegal to sell these dolls to African Americans who live in Florida thus saving valuable time having to delete their names from the list later on.
What about a religious theme?
1. How about a Tickle Me Jesus Doll? This would be a hit with people who like to tickle others under the armpits.
2. Or a Tickle Me Devil Doll. This doll could cackle insanely for a couple of minutes, and then tell the owner to go to hell.
Stupidity doesn't confine itself to America and Australia. It's a world-wide phenomenon which allows the majority to be controlled and manipulated by a tiny minority!
Isn’t it interesting how Switzerland’s crime rate is extremely low considering that almost every single male over 20 has had military training and owns a gun?
Um, what you don't see is the endless lines of people trying to buy these things. By Christmas, the lines will be out the door, people will fight, riots, chaos, and all for a doll, no wait, all for an annoying doll.
On a recent trip to China, I was asked about America's gun culture. "Is it true Americans can buy guns at the same place they buy food?" - I had to answer yes, at Wal-Mart.
Um, what you don't see is the endless lines of people trying to buy these things. By Christmas, the lines will be out the door, people will fight, riots, chaos, and all for a doll, no wait, all for an annoying doll.
On a recent trip to China, I was asked about America's gun culture. "Is it true Americans can buy guns at the same place they buy food?" - I had to answer yes, at Wal-Mart.
I have read most of the bible at different times in my life. The ancient writings about ancient gods is quite interesting. The ancient roman gods also make a fascinating study.
Of course, when I read about gods in ancient books, I don't believe in their literal existence, I do it out of interest to understand what ancient people's believed.
I haven't noticed a lot of mosques. But most major cities have palces of worship for virtually any religious belief you can mention.
There is a huge buddhist temple and a large Taoist temple, but I don't remember seeing any large mosques. Must be some somewhere, they just don't stand out.
18 Comments:
Pretty good post :) funny, I would vote using Elmo for sure...
However, don't fall into the whole, America is one mentality, there are plenty of people here to both be crazy and stupid in all sorts of funny ways.
Cheers
RE logtar:
It's ok, I am sure that all americans are not gun wielding maniacs, just like all australians don't wrestle crocodiles before breakfast.
Stupidity doesn't confine itself to America and Australia. It's a world-wide phenomenon which allows the majority to be controlled and manipulated by a tiny minority!
Isn’t it interesting how Switzerland’s crime rate is extremely low considering that almost every single male over 20 has had military training and owns a gun?
That last one certainly conjure's an image Beep, I'm just not sure I needed it...:)
Um, what you don't see is the endless lines of people trying to buy these things. By Christmas, the lines will be out the door, people will fight, riots, chaos, and all for a doll, no wait, all for an annoying doll.
On a recent trip to China, I was asked about America's gun culture. "Is it true Americans can buy guns at the same place they buy food?" - I had to answer yes, at Wal-Mart.
Um, what you don't see is the endless lines of people trying to buy these things. By Christmas, the lines will be out the door, people will fight, riots, chaos, and all for a doll, no wait, all for an annoying doll.
On a recent trip to China, I was asked about America's gun culture. "Is it true Americans can buy guns at the same place they buy food?" - I had to answer yes, at Wal-Mart.
RE: under the mercy:
This post wasn't a formal reproachment of "gun culture."
Though I do think the fascination with the ability to kill things to be a little odd, especialy in such a "Jesus worshipping culture."
This post was merely a lightheaded look at a very annoying doll.
I understand, sorry if I was to serious. Neither was I trying to make a "formal" defence, just pointing out an interesting fact.
On a random note, if you get the chance could you try and read the gospel of John sometime.
RE under the mercy:
I have read most of the bible at different times in my life. The ancient writings about ancient gods is quite interesting. The ancient roman gods also make a fascinating study.
Of course, when I read about gods in ancient books, I don't believe in their literal existence, I do it out of interest to understand what ancient people's believed.
I mean just sitting down and reading it through with an open mind.
RE: under the mercy:
Never have your mind too open. All sorts of nasty, silly stuff might fall in there.
'Stralia? Wow!
Been lotsa places. Hope beats eternal in the human heart, even
old ones.
Do you have as many Mosques as
we do? Don't know yet if they're
running at us, or away from a
Grand Ayatollah?
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RE: snake
I haven't noticed a lot of mosques. But most major cities have palces of worship for virtually any religious belief you can mention.
There is a huge buddhist temple and a large Taoist temple, but I don't remember seeing any large mosques. Must be some somewhere, they just don't stand out.
RE: beep
Such as conviction, or belief?
RE: under the mercy:
Not sure what you mean regarding conviction or belief?
Conviction or belief in regards to what part of what argument?
Twas in reply to:
"RE: under the mercy:
Never have your mind too open. All sorts of nasty, silly stuff might fall in there."
RE: under the mercy:
Do I think that conviction or belief might be some of the nasty. silly stuff that might fall into a mind that is "too open?"
Probably.
It depends on the conviction or the belief.
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