(1502) Afternoon all … the cunning plan is to run some jazz if I can find any good ones we’ve not run too many times … at around 1615. Health certainly a bit better, which suggests it is the toxic air after all. (1554)
14. The point of running this
… is that not only the parallels striking between the various western nations and the communists who’ve taken over, but it’s not just in capital cities … it’s even reached the provinces and villages/towns.
13. Andy at 1045
… has a link to an item on “intelligent design” which annoys me every time they try that one, as it misses the entire point, as I’ve explained a few times now, and others have explained it over and over and over.
Humanists (perfectability of man by himself on earth) have long tried to draw true Christians (biblical four gospels people) into trying to “prove” the triune God, using the tools available to “science”, which in itself is fraught, especially in the current day.
Which tools? A whole lot of IPCC paid for “scientists” willing to go along with the Mann hockey stick and all the rest of it? The Faucis, Fergusons, Birxes, the high priests and priestesses of PEPFAR as well?
As against empirical science?
Before you even get to the interdenominational issues within Christianity, plus the cherrypicking of bible verses and misinterpretation of texts to suit one’s hobbyhorse (see immediate past, plus present Pope) … before even getting to that, science itself must clean its own house and expose the Royal Society and Smithsonian types, into everything BUT science.
The bottom line for Christians is that it is unprovable by any earthly measure and so it should be … the whole system is predicated on faith. Naturally, secular humanism cannot disprove, any more than it can prove metaphysical matters … the most anyone can do is point to evidence and say it either seems this way … or the other way.
Now we get to this “intelligent design” provability lark. Were the gurus of this attempt on the Christian side sharp minded, able people … that would be one thing … but the ones so far have not been so, they’ve been like Rachel from Accounts has been with economic policy. They’ve been drawn into making claims of “proof” which are nothing more than evidence … in various cases good evidence but still evidence. Archaeology is not the final proof … reviewing the entirety of the literature is. And that takes a lifetime.
In short, it’s a stupid strategy, a stupid debate and not only that … the humanists themselves can be easily taken apart, applying rules of evidence to the “Intelligent Designers” which they’d never apply to themselves … for good reason. Also people wading in to the fray using words like myth … and legends in many cultures.
They use that as a disprover, whereas the very fact it’s in many cultures in the first place should actually tell them something quite different. Ditto with the Christology which developed within twenty years of His Death (see Robinson).
An analogy … DJT walked into those courtrooms where everyone including the judge was allowing no evidence, providing no cross examination from his side etc. etc., was heavily biased, on a mission to convict … it was an obvious hiding to nothing, a kangaroo court in each case.
The Christian faith is worth far more than to stand or fall on shoddy terms of reference by one side only.
Feeling not 💯just now, chaps and chapesses, within the engine room, so going to try for a snooze. That thing about not going out into the midday sun might actually … er … have something to it … or rather not out into the toxic air, exacerbated by the chemicals out there.
I noticed yesterday it was not too bad at ground level, dowwnstairs, but up higher, three storeys up, opening a window has me instantly coughing, tummying, ears, all the rest of it. That seems to have been yesterday’s issue, after testing it out … and it is today too.
My windows face three directions, inc. the landing. The worst is down over the valley … almost instant illness and with good reason, the landing is not too bad, the kitchen more reasonable again.
Anyway, going to hold back polit items if you don’t mind until mid-afternoon and concentrate on a moderate wealth of films and shows, which I’ll list.
There’s a four part Wimsey, two long Christies, another film, plus a curiosity I might open with … it’s a southern lady reacting to Roman Holiday. Can’t get the actual film but these reactors can apparently access these cut up bites of footage … scenes … YT seem fine with those and the reactor droning on …
… so for me, better it’s a personable lady droning on. In the case of Roman Holiday, it’s too romantic for mine, a real girls’ film and yet … not a bad way to know what it was about, the plot, plus commentary by the reactor. In shortened form for the males of our species.
Right … after that will come one of the longs, which might take us to mid-afternoon when hopefully I’ll be in better fettle.
Hoping you survive Sunday too. For IYE, that’s a puzzler … scoured all the folders and no IYE pending there. Shall look again mid-afternoon. Ciao for now.
(0805) Pinned warning to Brit readers this Sunday, May 11 (0835)
10. This 👇🏻
9. Hopefully, Deryl … hopefully
8. Never stops, does it
7. More an extension of Sun 6
… than a separate theme, DAD at 1045 just said only weak men compete with women, only weak minds applaud it … think this was on the men in women’s sports thing.
As mentioned before, I make a point of losing fights with the gals as a matter of form … at the last minute of course … the only one I ever won was an arm wrestle with a sportsmistress who was being a bit feminazi that day.
And extending that … to win something over a girl, being serious about it … that’s … well … a bit shameful really.
6. Yet another Mothers’ or Women’s Day for the year
Last count, there were four or five of these across the west in the calendar year … not complaining, mind … the girls can have everyday a mothers’ day afa I’m concerned.
No men’s day of course, as we’re invisible and luvvin’ it … except for a few countries’ attempts to have a fathers’ day. The country with the real “men’s” day is, of course, Russia, on Feb 23.
Any way, best, blessings and prayers to all mums and grandmamas and we’ll join you for the next one in a few months.
(0549) Same situation outside as yesterday morning. Morning all! (0704)
5. Moosh corner
The romantic part is yes … of course I’d wade out and rescue her … the unromantic part is => probably in a fireman’s lift.
4. Steve at 1045
Google Hit with Historic $1.375 Billion Settlement for Secretly Tracking People’s Movements *
Archbishop Viganò Sues Vatican Bank Over Alleged Theft of Charity Assets **
Stephen Miller to TGP’s Conradson: Trump Admin is “Actively Looking At ”Suspending Habeas Corpus on Immigration Matters as the Courts Wage “War” on Executive and Legislative Branches **
ICE Bodycam Footage Shows Dem Rep LaMonica McIver Verbally and Physically Assaulting Federal Agents **as well
Executive Order to Establish National Center for Homeless Veterans
Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 10, 2025
EU/UK demand Russia surrender […] Trump Backs Starmer/Macron Ultimatum ***
Spike protein found in stroke victims’ brains up to 17 months after injection
Virologist who endorsed HCQ for COVID-19 appointed to top pandemic post at HHS
Much more.
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*A known-known.
**Wonder if he knows about John-Paul I, Bank Ambrosia and Blackfriars Bridge.
***Dismaying criminal lunacy.
3. DAD at 1045
a) The new ‘Sport’ of the young of France. An urban rodeo gathering 500 cars and nearly 3,000 people took place Friday evening in Bordeaux, before being stopped and dispersed by police intervention, police said Saturday. Two officers were slightly injured during the incident, which resulted in no arrests….. *
b) They shout “shit*: shit” in broad daylight, sitting on chairs in front of the front door. In the Belsunce neighborhood, a stone’s throw from the Old Port in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), for the past year, a landlord has seen her building lose tenants one after the other.….
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*Er DAD (cough) … er … we … er … we were doing those things in the 70s too in our souped-up vehicles. Having said that, we were hardly ever stabbing and raping like today.
2. Why the Oz input?
Parallels, readership partly from there, my past dealings downunder … a bit like Canada and NZ. DAD covers France, Kassandra Netherlands, southern and eastern Europe, middle-east.
1. AKH poses an interesting issue to a fellow blogger
Firstly, the topic itself but then secondly … netiquette or blogiquette and that can extend to vlogiquette and podcasts, memes etc. etc.
And the question is? The question is how much to include in a quote … the entire post in this case needs reprinting but there’s also a “guild” code of conduct that we aim to drive traffic over to the other chap, so we can’t just include it all, even attributed.
A bit different, methinks, is IYE, for example in our own sidebar here. Holus bolus or partly quoted? Matters less, as long as it’s signposted, attributed. NOWP? Obviously I’d like Steve and DAD visited there by you, the reader … thus I can’t give it all at HQ. Is that clickbait? Maybe but “good clickbait”? ☺️
OoL? Well Julia advertises us on X, so it’s fairly well covered. I try to cover that with Julia’s posts at X afap.
