Reflections on life at “De Witte Wand”…
…the energy-wasting, resource-draining process of how we make books now. We chop down trees, transport them to plants, mash them into pulp, move the pulp to another factory to press into sheets, ship the sheets to a plant to put dirty marks on them, then cut the sheets and bind them and ship the thing around the world. Do you really believe that we’ll be doing that in 50 years?
10th Doctor: …Oh, and the Master, he just showed up again…5th Doctor: Really, does he stll have that rubbish beard?10th Doctor: No… no beard this time; well, a wife…
Oh my god, it’s like going six months without a fag and then someone puts one in your lips and lights it. That was brill, can’t wait for Chrimbles!
Well, I thought it was quite funny, knowing the manneken pis, but I believe its the fact he’s a sort of skinhead neo-nazi that is bothering people – not the image they want, (sadly true though it may be). Personally I’d have been happier with a normal hot sorta brit guy pissing away, much more attractive !
Ah fink it’s lahvlee; it shows that even with a thuggish exterior, we are still masters of grace, precision and elegance. Though I’m with Gelert, not my type. Maybe a city type with a brolly and a rolled up Daily Torygraph would have answered everyone’s cliches.
I showed the link to my Serbian colleague who smiled briefly and moved on…
But, Robert, what sort of smile was it? Wistful, knowing, evil, sardonic? Inquiring minds want to know…
Enigmatic – he’s Serbian after all!
Yes, I want to know, before I order any.
Well, I think you should be. Only one thing though – how come so many of them have athiest in the title? We have this ongoing dialogue about why some people seem to think you must be an atheist to be thinking or worth listening to. I of course, don’t agree, but maybe I’m just lucky in the people I know. I’ve met as many closed minded athiests as believers, and have not found intellectual worth packaged in only one or the other.
It’s nothing to do with being "worth listening to" in the sense that I think you mean it. It’s to do with being rational. If "faith" means accepting something without evidence, then I’m sorry, but I think it’s a poor alternative. "Closed minded" is orthogonal to "Atheism", the two have nothing to do with each other as far as I’m concerned.
Hmmm. Yes, I see what you are saying, but of course, disagree on the ‘no evidence’. I consider myself very rational, have approached the many ‘strange’ things that have happened to me in my life with cold rationalism, and remain open minded about some,if not all. I think the ‘evidence of faith’ and even the word ‘faith’ is greatly misunderstood. What I mean by ‘closed minded’ about many atheists I’ve spoken with, is their lack of willingness of even approach the possibility that because they cannot put it on a plate, it is by definition, void.
The other thing I found worrying, and which I’m not sure anyone has gone into, is her comment that she ‘didn’t mean it’, she was just doing it to ‘impress boys’. Why does even one muslim girl think that to impress the opposite sex she needed to express such desires and sentiments? Why is that saying?
And who, really, will turn away from George Eliot and James Joyce and Joseph Conrad in order to rescrutinize the bare and narrow and constipated and fearful world of Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, and Osama bin Laden?
It is in the hope of strengthening and arming the resistance to the faith-based, and to faith itself, that this anthology of combat with humanity’s oldest enemy is respectfully offered.
Why should there be resistence to faith and the faith based? I’m sure that as much evil is done in the world in the name of any variety of things, as is done in the name of God. Why the assumption that one must turn from any of those authors in order to read the other? Why the ignoring of anything but the negative things in the faithful? Just curious.
It’s the old saw: good people do good things, and evil people do evil things; but to make good people do evil things – that takes religion. It’s the certainty that they are doing good because their god/holy book/priest/shaman told them so that makes me so angry at my species.
and with that I would agree wholeheartedly. I just think that evil done in the name of ‘good’ must be seen to be bogus, but that its not just ‘god’ that is used in this way by some human beings. Is it the fault of god? or the abused ideology? or the fault of the twister?
Basic marketing. Create a fear, a gap, a need. Offer a solution.
Always a pleasure Geoff.
I love that! I thought that was great – original and so much less boring than the average sales page.
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