A tip of the tight-fitting, brain-cramping deerstalker cap to YOU, Gentle Readers . . .
MAN WITH A PIPE - Yup, that photo atop the page of a red-headed stepchild in a deer stalker cap with a pipe is Da Rev. This is exactly the personna I am trying to project -
stra-a-ange . . .
“I want to find the secret of the universe and put it on a T-shirt. ($12.99 + tax + handling)!”
Da Rev solicits your comments, suggestions, bitchin' and moanin'.
Yup, this blog is here to discuss RELIGION & POLITICS (& more) without fear or equivocation, but with an avowed purpose to improve the landscape, to increase the opportunities for rational discourse and to expose the religious and/or political extremists and to debunk their rumors of wars and/or apocalypse.
If we can talk religion & politics without fighting, maybe others will get the same idea. Spread the meme, please. I’m not as clever as the fundies when it comes to getting the word out.
As Aquinas said, “Beware the man of one book.”
Da Rev is happy to report:
========================================================== Author-Scholar ARTHUR C. CLARKE is weathering the recent tsunami & ensuing chaos. His estate is inland on higher ground. He turned 87 on December 16. He was knighted by Queen Lizzie in '98. CLARKE In 1998, he shared: "Though I am no longer able to walk without assistance, I still play table tennis daily, leaning against the table. Apart from occasional coughs and colds my health has been quite good: I wish I could say the same about my memory... I very seldom leave the comfort and convenience of the large house I share with my adopted family - Hector and Valerie Ekanayake and their three lovely daughters Cherene, Tamara and Melinda ... Day and night I am seldom more than a few feet away from my beloved Chihuahua, Pepsi ... "A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets." AND "Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. [ - Arthur C. Clarke ]
Clarke - 1990
[– Arthur C. Clarke]
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