tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7314844332691177213..comments2024-03-29T10:53:28.617+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond moves in mysterious ways to the Speccie mob and the onion muncher ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10760761072138477702018-08-04T08:31:38.633+10:002018-08-04T08:31:38.633+10:00I think it's maybe some variant on the "D...I think it's maybe some variant on the "Daddy (or Mummy) knows best" syndrome, Bef - some kind of totally generalised "I'm right (because I'm who I am) and you're wrong (because you are who you are, ie you're not me)."<br /><br />And yeah, some people can get almost as worked up about their infallible grasp of religion as others get worked up about the superiority of their chosen football team. And some do both.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75630301471342165522018-08-03T17:50:04.329+10:002018-08-03T17:50:04.329+10:00Always funny to have people, who clearly have prob...Always funny to have people, who clearly have problems themselves, offering advice on what is good for us. You see this in any workplace where the morbidly obese offer diet advice, the divorced offer relationship counseling and the inept run the joint.<br /><br />It may be just my experience, but generally the balanced people I know don't seem to need religion. They may just not mention it, but that in itself would contrast with the "religiousity" of the Abbotts and Sheridans. The ones that go on about religion are the ones with a problem not a solution.<br /><br />Which leads to the next point - why do they have to push it onto us? It seems faith is not enough.<br />Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-18642667861248198612018-08-03T15:11:22.483+10:002018-08-03T15:11:22.483+10:00Oh, just in case you are bemused but tempted by ye...Oh, just in case you are bemused but tempted by yet another eternally repeated 'Big Fat Reptile Lie' - ie this one:<br /><br />Muncher: "... <i>that we should do unto others as we would have them do to us; and <b>without an ingrained sense of our duty to protect the weak</b> while encouraging the capable. All these have a Christian inspiration. Societies without Christian roots don't have such characteristics</i> ..."<br /><br />let me quote Richard Carrier:<br /><i>Let me dispel a common myth: no, Christianity did not bring the idea of charity to the Western world.<br /><br />The concept of charity and concern for the poor was already fully developed before the Christians borrowed the notion from their pagan and Jewish peers. It’s evident in Jewish wisdom literature, Cynic discourses, Stoic and even Epicurean moral theory, Aristotelian generosity and magnanimity, and the Greco-Roman institutions of philanthropia and euergetism.</i><br /><br />Oh, and just for fun: "<i>The data show poverty only increased under the Christians. For almost a thousand years</i>."<br />[ See https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/12453 ]GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-26805584353564375192018-08-03T09:10:26.703+10:002018-08-03T09:10:26.703+10:00Malcolm Turnbull, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Ab...Malcolm Turnbull, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten, Kim Beazley, Peter Costello, Mike Baird, Kristina Keneally, Penny Wong, Michael Tate, Andrew Hastie, Peter Khalil, Mary Easson.<br /><br />What a gang of grifting charlatans and general hypocrites. And Abbott reckons he should have included Barnaby Joyce - in his chosen role as non-repentant sinner - and also Bob Carr as the obligatory 'conscientous objector'.<br /><br />And to cap it all off, Kim Beazley on the front page as the leading fanboi. Well that's just one more, amongst many, books that I will have absolutely no regret at never having bothered to read. Life has always been too short to waste on rubbish such as that.<br /><br />And in the meantime, this: "<i>No environment officials at Turnbull meeting about $443m reef grant to tiny charity</i> …" is just truly appalling - it puts the Muncher's obsession with knighthoods into the shade.<br />GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com