"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
Once upon a time, there was this aussie girl called Sheila. One day she came across a snake-in-the-grass with all the cunning of sh*t house rat. The snake asked her why she didn’t just grab lunch off the tree in her garden.
"Gawd has told me that I will be dead meat if I get me fruit salad from that tree." she said to the snake. The snake replied, "Gawd is lyin' to ya luv, ya won't cark it. He just wants it all for himself, the greedy mongrel."
So Sheila took a good squiz around, and then a bite and passed the fruit on to her bloke." "Gees" said Bruce. "That was bloody good luv. Got anymore of that stuff?"
"Stone the crows!" yelled Sheila. "Who took off all me clothes?" "I dunno," said Bruce. "But as we are both naked, how about a bit?"
"Shuddap," said Sheila. "Ya dopey drongo. Can't ya see that gawd is gunna be back in a tick and he is gunna be as mad as a cut snake cause we ate his granny smiths!"
"Talking about snakes," Bruce said, with a glint in his eye. "Just you settle petal. I tell ya what. You go get that big stick over there and whack the crap out of that snake. When gawd comes back we will tell him that the snake did it."
"You're a bonza bloke," says Sheila, her eyes all misty. "And you're the ant's pants," replies Bruce.
And everyone was able to avagoodweegend.
(Except for the snake of course, but that's what ya get for messin' with a sheila.) The end.
~*~
Australian Slang Decoder: ~
1. aussie - australian
2. cunning as a sh*t house rat - sneaky, cunning
3. dead meat - dead
4. cark it - die
5. mongrel - bad person
6. stone the crows - an exclamation of surprise
7. squizz - look
8. a bit - sex
9. dopey drongo - stupid person
10. back in a tick - back soon
11. mad as a cut snake - really angry
12. granny smiths - australian green apples
13. settle petal - calm down
14. bonza - fantastic
15. ant's pants - wonderful
16. avagoodweekend - Have a good weekend
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Ricky Gervais Live - Animals 2. (The Book Of Genesis)
Pope Benedict XVI could announce as early as today that the Catholic Church is abandoning the ancient concept of limbo, a way station for babies barred from heaven because they were not baptized, according to unconfirmed reports circulating Thursday in Europe and elsewhere.
"It's an idea whose time has passed," the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Vatican expert and senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., told the Free Press on Thursday.
Kaput. Heh.
"Did you make disease And the diamond, blue? Did you make mankind, After we made you?
It's criminal really. All those catholic mothers who for hundreds of years were tormented by the idea that their dead babies went to limbo. Female catholics who would have been distraught with grief because they believed that their poor little baby wasn't in heaven because they didn't get it baptised in time.
And now the catholic church is going to say, "sorry, we got it wrong, we got a new email from god - apparently they are allowed to go to heaven now."
As, I said, it is criminal and psychologically abusive.
Criminality and psychological abuse are two sides to the same coin: the latter enables the former, at least insofar as organized religion is concerned. The Vatican, Falwell, Robertson, all are crooks.
Now that was fun and I loved the translation of the words and phrases.
My three favorites are settle petal, stone the crows and ant's pants
I think I may steal them and use them. If I could learn to say "stone the crows" when I'm surprised instead of my usual F**K, that would be an improvement.
I loved the translations, especially stone the crows, settle petal and ant's pants
I think I may steal them and use them. If I could learn to say "stone the crows" when I'm surprised instead of my usual F**K, that would be an improvement.
I am over here in the US and I tell you what they are a crazy bunch mate...They don't understand me when I say..haveagoyablugger or give me a dogs eye with dead horse!
Bump! (sound of me falling off the chair while laughing and having cracking contractions) I made all my friends read it. The ant's pants is definitely my favourite...
Dear Beep, I've had a death threat (see my site). Given that you, like me, relentlessly question and prod the sacred cows, we are always open for verbal and physical attack by the crazies.
One of the main problems is that, unlike us, non-moderated blogs allow anyone to say anything. Then when we reject innappropriate comments, these commenters get upset and then we're accused of stifling free speech, etc.
Anyway, be warned. Those who shine a light into dark places sometimes uncover nasty things. Cheers!
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Yep, this settles it. You aussies are an odd bunch. Funny, but odd.
RE mojoey:
What can I say, but thank-you ;)
Bloody ripper Beep!!
Here's one for you, Beep:
Catholic idea of limbo likely kaput
October 6, 2006
BY PEGGY WALSH-SARNECKI
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Pope Benedict XVI could announce as early as today that the Catholic Church is abandoning the ancient concept of limbo, a way station for babies barred from heaven because they were not baptized, according to unconfirmed reports circulating Thursday in Europe and elsewhere.
"It's an idea whose time has passed," the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Vatican expert and senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., told the Free Press on Thursday.
Kaput. Heh.
"Did you make disease
And the diamond, blue?
Did you make mankind,
After we made you?
-- Andy Partridge
RE urizon:
It's criminal really. All those catholic mothers who for hundreds of years were tormented by the idea that their dead babies went to limbo. Female catholics who would have been distraught with grief because they believed that their poor little baby wasn't in heaven because they didn't get it baptised in time.
And now the catholic church is going to say, "sorry, we got it wrong, we got a new email from god - apparently they are allowed to go to heaven now."
As, I said, it is criminal and psychologically abusive.
Criminality and psychological abuse are two sides to the same coin: the latter enables the former, at least insofar as organized religion is concerned. The Vatican, Falwell, Robertson, all are crooks.
Now that was fun and I loved the translation of the words and phrases.
My three favorites are settle petal, stone the crows and ant's pants
I think I may steal them and use them. If I could learn to say "stone the crows" when I'm surprised instead of my usual F**K, that would be an improvement.
Have a great weekend :)
That was fun.
I loved the translations, especially stone the crows, settle petal and ant's pants
I think I may steal them and use them. If I could learn to say "stone the crows" when I'm surprised instead of my usual F**K, that would be an improvement.
Have a great weekend :)
Wasn't Eden of the Joe Blakes near the Black Stump, Mate?
Struth, Gorblimey,I dunno. Search me.
Then, blow me bloody down, Blue, what's new?
Nuthin'. Talkin' of snakes, let's go to the rubbity-dub, get hissed as parrots. Missus will blow her stack.
Beaudy, Mate! I'm as dry as a dead dingo's donga! That's bloody religion for you.
What a cheerful tranlstion. so much more fun then the original.
I've got to come back here more often, your posts are always worth the read. :)
I am over here in the US and I tell you what they are a crazy bunch mate...They don't understand me when I say..haveagoyablugger or give me a dogs eye with dead horse!
yes "dead meat" was my favorite.
Bump! (sound of me falling off the chair while laughing and having cracking contractions)
I made all my friends read it.
The ant's pants is definitely my favourite...
Dear Beep, I've had a death threat (see my site). Given that you, like me, relentlessly question and prod the sacred cows, we are always open for verbal and physical attack by the crazies.
One of the main problems is that, unlike us, non-moderated blogs allow anyone to say anything. Then when we reject innappropriate comments, these commenters get upset and then we're accused of stifling free speech, etc.
Anyway, be warned. Those who shine a light into dark places sometimes uncover nasty things. Cheers!
RE daniel:
And from a good believer, is my guess..
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