True. But the thread is climbing again on hot topics. Back in 8th place, ahead of 70 Weeks of Daniel.
OOOHH Gooodie!! We are at it again!!,
I guess it is a good relief over this boring long weekend, away from the trading battles of cyberspace, and the nonsense of the thread leaders, Masters of Hype, or venerable elders of the Circus of the Absurd....
As H.L. Mencken would say of the petty battles, (and some times not so petty). that from time to time develop:
The Eternal Male
Listen to two or three boys talking among themselves; their gabble is almost wholly made up of boasting -- about their prowess at games, their successes in school, the wealth and animal vigor of their fathers, the elegance of their homes.
And as with males of tender years, so with males of greater growth. Man is, of all quadrupeds, at once the most vain and the most idiotic. A genuine popinjay, whatever that may be, is as a shrinking violet compared to him. He cannot imagine himself save as at the center of situations. He never opens his mouth without talking of himself. He never undertakes the most trivial act without attitudinizing and hocus-pocusing it.
However banal the position in which he finds himself, he tries to make something singular and glorious of it. If, in one of his obscure and sordid combats with another imbecile, he chances to get the better of it, the fact fills him with such pride that he is like to bust. And if, instead of getting the better of it, he is floored by an adept blow with a length of gas-pipe, he takes almost the same lofty joy in his defeat and ignominy.
Thus we have, on the one hand, the hero, and on the other hand, the martyr. Both are puerile and preposterous fellows. Both are frauds.
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And as for the Weekly Daniel he also had something to say:
The Believer
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
There is thus a flavor of the pathological in it; it goes beyond the normal intellectual process and passes into the murky domain of transcendental metaphysics.
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill. Worse, he is incurable, for disappointment, being essentially an objective phenomenon, cannot permanently affect his subjective infirmity.
His faith takes on the virulence of a chronic infection. What he says, in substance, is this: "Let us trust in God, Who has always fooled us in the past."
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Oh well, now I am myself ranting again.... But at least, I am in the right place for my propaganda....
I will now get off my soap box..... and go do something constructive.... like ... playing golf.....
Z.
p.s. Anyone knows the score at half time between the Argentinean soccer team and the French wine & cheese tasters?, they were playing "heads off with the cadavers" (underwater), last I checked. |
