The major portion of the move is now done; one more good truckload will complete the emptying of the old. Then I get to start the lovely job of swabbing out two years of built up bachelor dirt in the corners of the old house, a task that may take weeks by itself, given the two hour limit I have to any sustained hard work (i.e., sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, etc…..). But, my bed is now set up at the new house, so that is a major plus in life; I hate sleeping on floors anymore; this old bod can’t handle it for long.

Here is the old school pearl, on one of my usual targets subjects, religion. To my mind, it’s pretty clear where it is going, and wastes no time getting there. But, just to be sure, the last one fairly well seals the deal…. enjoy!

“As soon as you are willing to discard observational data because it conflicts with religion, you are giving up any hope of ever really understanding the universe.   As soon as you pick religion as the touchstone of reality, then we have to start discussing how one can demonstrate the correctness of one religion over another when different *religions* disagree.” —   Wilson Heydt (whheydt@PacBell.COM)

“The answer is simple: kill the heretics.   History shows us that this is the actual solution that competing religions apply — trial by combat or trial by ordeal.  God is the final arbiter.  What a sad waste of human potential it has proven to be.” — Paul Hager (hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)

Disproving evolution does not prove creation. — Smart Bee

“But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing t heir oppressors in Church and State.” — Thomas Jefferson, [letter?] To S. Kercheval, 1810

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.” — Thornton Wilder

Education and religion are two things not regulated by supply and demand. The less of either people have, the less they want. — Charlotte Observer, 1897

God is an atheist. — Smart Bee
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Apostrophe To Man

(On reflecting that the world is ready to go to war again)

Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade;
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia
and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young; exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest,
be all but overcome, be photographed;
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market;
Breed, crowd, encroach,
expand, expunge yourself, die out,
Homo called sapiens.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pretty heavy, eh? I love it when people don’t pull their punches….. Abondanza!….
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I knew I’d figure it out….. below you will see a picture. Your task is to write a caption for the picture. It should be fairly easy, the picture speaks volumes…. Put any captions you think of in the comments section, and I’ll publish the best ones in a day or two, depending on how much of a response this gets…. If it should bomb, I’ll write one myself (I’ve thought of at least a dozen….) and publish that, along with a scathing expose of WP laziness…. just kidding….  (The picture was found on Facebook with no attribution….)    Have fun!
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