Thursday, 14 January 2016

09:23 – It’s been chilly around here, but nothing compared to the forecast for Sunday night. The low is to be 4F (-15C) with winds of 20 MPH. That puts the wind chill, at a first approximation, around absolute zero (−459F/−273C), where atoms stop vibrating and even Colin will want to stay indoors.

I tagged this post as recommended books/videos, but in fact the books I’m about to list are distinctly NOT recommended. The first is Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, a dystopian/PA novel. It has 2,759 Amazon reviews averaging 4.1 stars. It’s a New York Times Bestseller and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist. That last should have told me to run screaming from it. The good news is that Mandel can write competent English sentences and paragraphs. The bad news is that it’s a literary novel (hawk, spit), which means it’s all about beautiful language. A would-be poet writing prose. No plot, no story. Nothing ever happens. Boring. If you’re even considering wasting $10 on a Kindle copy of this book, I recommend you first read the 1-star reviews on Amazon, which provide a fair evaluation of the book. It’s simply terrible.

Then there’s James Hunt. He has a bunch of his books listed on Kindle Unlimited, which means I can read them for free with my KU account. I grabbed several of them yesterday, with high hopes. Unfortunately, the best I can say about Hunt’s books is that they’re not literary novels. I wasted half an hour or so reading the first book and part of the second in his Exiled series. All I can say is, stop him before he writes again. The plot, such as it is, is ludicrous. The Colorado River has run completely dry, leaving California and the Southwest without water. Literally, without a drop to drink. So an evil congressman passes a law to expel (Exile, presumably) these states from the US, leaving 40 million people to die. And the ludicrous plot is the least of it. This guy can’t write his way out of a paper bag. Horrible dialog, horrible everything. Don’t waste any time on these. Even at $0.00 each, these books aren’t worth the price.

More work on science kit stuff today.


43 Comments and discussion on "Thursday, 14 January 2016"

  1. nick says:

    Perhaps several people here are correct about heritage winning out:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3397860/Anti-immigrant-Soldiers-Odin-raise-concern-Finland.html

    Note that immigration in Finland went from 3600 to 32000! And Finland is tiny.

    nick

  2. Robert Bruce Thompson says:

    As I said, if governments punt their responsibility, private citizens will do what needs to be done. And, speaking as a Viking-American, if I were those moslem scum, I’d be worried. Odin/Wotan doesn’t much like fucking moslems.

  3. OFD says:

    “Odin/Wotan doesn’t much like fucking moslems.”

    It seems to work the other way around, mostly; THEY do the fucking.

    “That puts the wind chill, at a first approximation, around absolute zero (−459F/−273C)…”

    Damn, that is freaking COLD! Not only will the atoms stop bouncing around, but we’ll all be dead as doornails!

  4. Lynn says:

    Do you need a comfort pig?
    http://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2016/01/11

    Not gonna happen here.

  5. Lynn says:

    The first is Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, a dystopian/PA novel. It has 2,759 Amazon reviews averaging 4.1 stars. It’s a New York Times Bestseller and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist. That last should have told me to run screaming from it. The good news is that Mandel can write competent English sentences and paragraphs. The bad news is that it’s a literary novel (hawk, spit), which means it’s all about beautiful language
    http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J1IQUYM

    “Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty.”

    Elegiac?

  6. MrAtoz says:

    Elegiac

    Probably written by the author? Sorta like Cankles describing her time as SoS. "I am great. I saved Libya. I saved blah, blah blah."

  7. Lynn says:

    All I can say is, stop him before he writes again.

    Um, no. I love the freedom to publish drivel on Amazon. It is a new world out there with people torturing electrons. The change is simply amazing as authors do not have to beg one of the five? publishers to get their books published. There is much drivel yes, but we get such amazing new authors as Angery American, Andy Weir, David Crawford, Matthew Bracken, etc.

    I of course, prefer dead tree books and deeply appreciate the POD (print on demand) ability of Amazon. I’ll bet that I bought forty POD books from Amazon last year. And if I wanted the wife to know that, I would tell her. That does not include the twenty POD books that I gave as gifts last year. My extended family thinks XXXXX knows that I am weird.

  8. Robert Bruce Thompson says:

    “elegiac”

    That one word is sufficient to indicate a probable literary novelist in the vicinity.

    Hawk, spit.

  9. Lynn says:

    “Illegal immigrant ‘screamed “you have treated me like a dog” before punching and strangling American artist to death in jealous drug-fueled frenzy’ after sex in her Italian apartment”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3397826/American-murdered-Florence-took-kinky-sex-game-strangled-autopsy-finds-police-arrest-drug-dealer-seen-outside-apartment.html

    I am very tempted to say here, lay down with dogs and get up with fleas. But, that would be callous of me.

  10. Lynn says:

    “12 cell phones seized from accused ISIS sympathizer’s home”
    http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/12-cell-phones-seized-from-accused-ISIS-6759069.php

    We gave this moslem scum shelter, food and clothing for him and his family. How does he repay us? By building a bomb for the Galleria mall in Houston.

    And his wife and baby got evicted out of their apartment for him being a terrorist. I am shocked I tell you, shocked. I cannot imagine that anyone would have a problem living next to a terrorist and his family.

    http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Relatives-of-accused-ISIS-supporter-deny-6746578.php

    “She and Omar’s parents did not appear to understand the charges Al-Hardan faced and expressed confusion as to why he had been arrested. They adamantly denied he had any terrorist sympathies.”

    I am with Trump. Lets stop bringing these moslems to Texas and the USA until we can tell the good ones from the bad ones.

    Trump 2016!

  11. Lynn says:

    Do you need a comfort pig?
    http://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2016/01/11

    “Flying turkey ruffles feathers about ’emotional support’ animals on planes”
    http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/01/14/turkey-ruffles-feathers-about-emotional-support-animals-on-flights/

  12. OFD says:

    ” Lets stop bringing these moslems to Texas and the USA until we can tell the good ones from the bad ones.”

    That’s easy; there are no good ones. And we tried explaining that during the group meeting today to our ex-jarhead liberal who watches too much MSM tee-vee. We didn’t even get as far as me ‘splaining how it isn’t even a religious faith, which everybody seems to just accept without question. It’s a continuous organized political cult of slavery and death, and aggressively so; 1,300 years and counting. Whose voice was it really, back in that underground desert bat cave???

  13. SteveF says:

    “Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty.”

    Hmmph. Some writer, can’t even spell “emetic” correctly.

    I am very tempted to say here, lay down with dogs and get up with fleas. But, that would be callous of me.

    I can say it for you, if you like. I’m pretty callous. Though I prefer the formulation “Stupid should hurt.”

    ex-jarhead liberal

    -blink- Those exist? The only thing I can think of is, they forgot to give him his brain back when he got out.

  14. Lynn says:

    Whose voice was it really, back in that underground desert bat cave???

    Uh, Lucifer? There is a new tv show coming out about him on Jan 25:
    http://www.fox.com/lucifer

  15. OFD says:

    “…-blink- Those exist? The only thing I can think of is, they forgot to give him his brain back when he got out.”

    He did multiple grunt tours and they fucked him over bad when he got back, so he hung out in Kalifornia for a year with the local hippie-type riff-raff, doing lotsa dope and booze; sound familiar? Then while working decades as a carpenter, he went through SIX wives; can you imagine such a thing??? Two have just about killed me. He’s a little guy, originally from Georgia, and has also worked for years as a VA Med Center counselor/therapist up here, just now retired. He’s always got a ton of shit on his plate, like having both sons in prison (both now just recently out), an ex-wife in a bad accident up here a couple of weeks ago, his own illnesses and injuries and surgeries, a half-wit suicidal psycho brother, and family down in Georgia that are a veritable circus of bad shit happening daily. To show you how fucked up he is, he thinks I’m “deep.” I’m deep alright; deep in it. We’ll get him straightened out on the librul bullshit sooner or later.

    “Uh, Lucifer? There is a new tv show coming out about him on Jan 25…”

    That would be my guess, or one of the lesser demons, more likely. They’ve had fun pushing the musloid thing all over the world; it seems to turn most musloids into either dhimmi-type saps who go along with anything and everything the murdering scum do, and the murdering scum.

    As I’ve said, the commies defeated the West without firing a shot, other than the numerous stupid proxy wars they had us fighting, and now we’re buns-up-kneeling for the musloid barbarians bursting through the crumbling walls. A veritable one-two knockout punch. And with all their success, I tend to seriously consider that yeah, the smoke of Satan has entered the vestibule, you know, Lucifer, the Angel of Light, gorgeous and defiant and EVIL. Laugh if you will, he loves that. Even more does he love unbelief. Makes everything so much easier.

  16. Lynn says:

    “Uh, Lucifer? There is a new tv show coming out about him on Jan 25…”

    That would be my guess, or one of the lesser demons, more likely. They’ve had fun pushing the musloid thing all over the world; it seems to turn most musloids into either dhimmi-type saps who go along with anything and everything the murdering scum do, and the murdering scum.

    His name in the tv show is Lucifer Morningstar. Somebody threw his butt out of Hell.

  17. OFD says:

    He got thrown out of Heaven by the Archangel Saint Michael, protector of soldiers and police, and took a third of the angels with him. Whoever tossed him out of Hell has to be a real hardcore badass. It warn’t me, so I suspect that guy down in the Capital District or that other dude out in Lost Wages. I’m just an old fossilized crip tottering on my last legs here, barely make it up and down the stairs, very peaceful and gentle, just reading my books and listening to classical music on the radio…wouldn’t hurt a fly…oh wait….wasn’t there somebody known as Lord of the Flies? Nickname of Beelzebub? He ran some kind of island summer camp for wayward boyz or sumthin?

  18. SteveF says:

    Apropos to this twist in the thread is a quote I saw somewhere: Try to live your life in such a way that, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says, Oh shit, he’s awake.

  19. Lynn says:

    I always heard an old Irish drinking toast, “May you be in Heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you are dead.”

  20. OFD says:

    “Try to live your life in such a way that, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says, Oh shit, he’s awake.”

    That’s probably you. You the dude who threw him outta Hell, aintcha? That’s badass. Hardcore, man. Otherwise very few peeps in this world would qualify.

    “…be in Heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you are dead.”

    I never got this; if you’re going to Heaven anyway there’s not a damn thing he can do about it.

  21. DadCooks says:

    “I’m just an old fossilized crip tottering on my last legs here, barely make it up and down the stairs, very peaceful and gentle, just reading my books and listening to classical music…”

    Me too for the most part, however I can’t get up and down more than one step now and listening to my classical and 60s/70s tunes streaming on Amazon Prime Music. I have a great ANKER bluetooth speaker (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016XTADG2) that I carry around to whatever room I’m in.

    I can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

    Edit: Listening to The Planets by Holtz at the moment

  22. OFD says:

    Outstanding, Mr. DadCooks! When I get the Sirius XM hooked up here, one of my regular channels will be the 60s-70s rock-and-roll tunes. And I always dug “The Planets,” great for binoc sky-watching, and keeping one’s eyes peeled for pesky drones.

    Here’s some interesting thought which may look a bit familiar to some here, seeing as how I’ve been harping on it for many moons, repetitively and tiresomely so, no doubt:

    http://www.maxvelocitytactical.com/2016/01/on-legitimacy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MaxVelocityTactical+%28Max+Velocity+Tactical%29

    That’s right, a fascist corporate oligarchy, which shits on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

    But here’s a good point, which I’ve also harped on occasionally here, staying on topic for us old, harmless and feeble guys:

    “Does this mean that if you are older or injured, you cannot lead if you can’t beat the 20-something at a run? No, but you need to have the trust and background in other areas. It may also mean that you are not the tactical leader, perhaps you run operations from the TOC, because you cannot physically set the example out on mission. It gets a little complicated in a civilian multi-generational setting such as a militia or tactical team – suffice to say people should be encouraged to do what they are good at, command in their own sphere, and make sure they set the example where possible. Put the ego aside.”

    I’d love to get in decent enough shape to get down there for ALL of Max’s training courses, but that’s a long ways off at my current pace. And if my knees can’t deal with it or some other shit messes me up, well, I can at least help to run a TOC or SOC, and get much more expert on commo, intel and gunsmithing. Plus training and tutoring pesky young whippersnappers.

    Obola intends to wreak as much havoc as he can with the country and our Constitutional rights; but it’s beginning to look as though Cankles may run afoul sooner rather than later and could conceivably have to bail. Which might have us watching Chump vs. the Brooklyn socialist. It would then be pissed off Murkans who buy into the populist sturm und drang verses masses of progs, SJWs and dumbo Dems holding their noses and voting against Chump. Sanders would get the college vote, the immigrant vote, and all those who just routinely pull the levers or mark their ballots for the Evil Half of the Party. Womyn? Who knows? Hard to pick a race like that nowadays, but the show would be quite entertaining.

  23. OFD says:

    You already got three or four years of food stocked up plus more for family and friends that show up, amirite? Plus piles of cash ready at hand along with gold and silver, and a long list of stuff you should have already bought or should get right now. Also, learn a dozen useful skillz real fast and start your own business.

    http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/01/70-tips-that-will-help-you-survive-what-is-about-to-happen-to-america/

    I guess we can do this if we both work multiple jobs and don’t sleep much. While also paying the regular monthly bills, back taxes, and current taxes, and for a kid on the eight-year BA Plan with summers off touring Europe.

    Shit, I gotta play my sniper game now, work off some bile…

  24. nick says:

    Funny you should mention the game. After 9-11 I was playing a nice game, and potting hadjiis, even just virtually, helped my thru some issues.

    And for anyone who thought about buying a Ramsey kit:

    Ramsey Kits Calls it Quits: After more than 40 years as a purveyor of inexpensive electronics kits for hobbyists, the Ramsey Hobby Kits group has announced that it’s thrown in the towel, effective on January 1. The Ramsey RF Test Equipment Group is unaffected by this change. The Victor, New York, company sold a wide array of hobby kits over the years, starting with its LED Blinky kit in the 1970s and eventually including simple ham radio transmitters and receivers, aircraft band receivers, and other devices. Ramsey kits were frequently available at hamfests. The company said it will continue to provide technical and warranty support for hobby kits purchased through the end of 2015. Ramsey said its remaining hobby kit inventory has been relocated to Amazon.

    From the ARRL newsletter.

    nick

  25. Miles_Teg says:

    OFD wrote:

    “Then while working decades as a carpenter, he went through SIX wives; can you imagine such a thing???”

    Henry VIII, one of the most evil men in history, had six. I bet your mate didn’t have some of his exs beheaded though.

  26. ayj says:

    uh, I grow up with envy about availability of kits, tinkering is going to be blacksmithing, but, what is going to happen on the real world, all chinese ready to use?
    I imported old Tek oscilloscopes with 40 years running and now manufacturing guitar audio amps, looking for NOS elsewhere

  27. DadCooks says:

    @nick – I took a look at the Ramsey Kits that are now on Amazon. There is some interesting stuff there and I am betting dollars to donuts that some of that interesting stuff has led to some unwelcome hassles for them from the Federales, probably what prompted them to roll it up.

    @OFD – certain music brings back very fond memories of my high school years. I played trumpet in the orchestra, concert band, dance band, marching band, and The Hungry Five – Starving German Oompah Band. The head of the Music Department was a great composer and arranger who had contacts in the Music Industry. He did Beattles, Stones, and others arrangements for us that were very popular. We did commercials for Purina Dog Chow with our Cheerleaders holding up Meaty, Beefy, Crunchy signs (yes we had a lot of laughs with that) as the marching band did a half time routine of moving dog shapes. Our final concert my senior year included The Planets and the 1812 Overture which included 2 stage cannons firing flour loads over the audience, 7 shotguns firing blanks into oil drums, stage pyrotechnics, and 7 sets of chimes for the church bells. The decibel level would not be allowed today, but no one complain. We never did a concert or a stage show in a small way back then.

  28. OFD says:

    “…And for anyone who thought about buying a Ramsey kit…”

    Bummer. I have three Ramsey QRP radio kits to play with here. Maybe I’ll grab some more ASAP.

    “Henry VIII, one of the most evil men in history…”

    +1,000

    Hey didja see the latest on my former denomination? The ECUSA has been “suspended” by the Anglican Communion over homosexual “marriages” and probably some other stuff, too. ECUSA is unrepentant and PROUD, etc., etc., so they’re well on the way to becoming a minor Protestant sect here and eventual extinction by 2030.

    “…certain music brings back very fond memories of my high school years.”

    Yikes, y’all really had it going on back then, didn’t ya? Wow. I had music lessons in elementary and middle school but not afterward and never learned to play an instrument or actually sing; used to know how read music but forgot. It was the late Sixties, so the music was all around us, on the radio and at all the rock concerts in the greater Boston area. I heard nothing but classical on the radio my parents had, WCRB in Waltham, and listened to that station and its descendants for forty years and counting. But I also went off to rock clubs and concerts; saw some amazing events. Led Zep at the Carousel Tent Theater a few blocks from my house in August, 1969; Procol Harum at the Boston Common, along with the Allman Brothers (with Duane) and J. Geils jumping up on the stage to jam with them; Santana at the Wang Center; and later, Bruce Springstein out in the Berkshires in the late 70s.

  29. R. H. Brown says:

    If you still have NETFLIX:

    Woochi: The Demon Slayer. It’s a Korean language film, the DVD has English subtitles, but the Netflix doesn’t. You don’t really need to understand the plot to watch the amazing CGI, and stunts.

  30. medium wave says:

    … and I am betting dollars to donuts that some of that interesting stuff has led to some unwelcome hassles for them from the Federales, probably what prompted them to roll it up.

    The Feds’ Ramsey Electronics Raid Blow by Blow

  31. OFD says:

    So the Fed ass-hat cretins did a stupid raid on the Ramsey company seventeen years ago. I’d be interested to see what’s going on currently and why they decided to fold, since they’ve been selling the kits since that first raid. I’ll be on the lookout for these kits now everywhere I go, like ham radio swap meets, garage sales, etc.

    I note that Amazon still has several pages of Ramsey kits for sale.

  32. Miles_Teg says:

    OFD wrote:

    Hey didja see the latest on my former denomination? The ECUSA has been “suspended” by the Anglican Communion over homosexual “marriages” and probably some other stuff, too. ECUSA is unrepentant and PROUD, etc., etc., so they’re well on the way to becoming a minor Protestant sect here and eventual extinction by 2030.

    Mum was a Methodist, which became part of the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977. She got sick of the politically correct BS and I think the final straw was when a wimminz announced at a meeting “I’m a lesbian and proud of it.” She left soon after.

    John Wesley (may peace and blessings be upon him) must be spinning in his grave.

  33. OFD says:

    Both Wesley brothers must be spinning; and they wrote some great hymns, too. What a shame. The seventies was when the PC rot began infesting the mainstream Christian denominations; several renegade bishops illegally ordained a few womyn in Philadelphia and then the dam broke. Crappy PC language in the BCP and the liturgy, and it seemed like every womyn priestess was a dyke and a commie of some sort, never anybody normal. I was already “high church” and Anglo-Catholic as we tumbled into the 80s but I hung on for more years, as a church school teacher and verger, until finally, after my first wife gave me the boot and became a high-priced super lawyer down in NJ, I went home to Rome, completely on Easter, 1996. Remarried to a cradle Catholic in ’98.

    Blessings and peace be upon the Wesley brothers, Isaac Watt, and the forty-plus English martyrs of the Reformation in England under the evil bastard Henry VIII and his daughters.

  34. DadCooks says:

    @OFD, the ECUSA has been dead to me for many many years now. Unfortunately it’s only a matter of time until the Anglican Communion gives in to the radical terrorist lgbt… crowd (once again I am using lower case to differentiate the scum from the good LGBT people I know who practice live and let live).

    I may have mentioned before that my High School’s sport teams were not very good so the “in group” was the Music Department. I may have also mentioned that I was the steady of the Cheerleader Captain. The bus rides to the away games were very nice :big grin:

    So @medium wave, maybe on old score that wasn’t quite settled. Thanks for the interesting link.

  35. OFD says:

    Yeah, Mr. medium wave; that was interesting; the Ramsey guy spelled it out pretty well and with a sense of humor.

    “…so the “in group” was the Music Department.”

    Our two main in-groups were the jocks and their girlfriends, even though the teams weren’t that hot, and the National Merit Scholar types who had all the advanced science and math courses and both groups were heavy into all the extracurricular clubs and activities. I was friendly with all kids in all groups, pretty much, but hung out mostly with the “heads” and the “greasers.”

    “…the ECUSA has been dead to me for many many years now. Unfortunately it’s only a matter of time until the Anglican Communion gives in to the radical terrorist lgbt… crowd…”

    Dead to me since the early 90s, but I still like to read the Anglican Digest. They’re strongest in Africa, currently, with many more millions of faithful than in the UK and North Murka. Also probably where our most faithful are turning up these days, seeing as how they’re being ruthlessly and relentlessly hounded and martyred.

  36. SteveF says:

    and they wrote some great hymns, too

    Well, hell, I’ve written a couple hymns myself. Improvised them on the spot, in fact, as a testament to my unbelievable and well-rounded awesomeness. They tend to piss off believers, but my policy is that if some self-righteous asshat pushes me to listen to “the good word” despite my expressed lack of interest, or even worse demands that I describe my sins and accept his help in “finding my way”, well, he deserves to get it with both barrels. And he can count his blessings if they’re only metaphorical barrels.

    I will acknowledge, OFD, that I’ve never been pushed by Catholic clergy. The priests and, uh, lay brothers? that I’ve chatted with were pretty relaxed about it. “You’re an atheist? That’s fine. Stop by and talk any time if you ever have any doubts.” Not like members of some of the evangelical sects, several of whom seem to have taken it as their life’s mission to convert me, personally. I’d have eaten their souls except that you are what you eat and ewww.

  37. OFD says:

    I’ve mentioned this before but here goes again; we Roman Catholics are SUPPOSED to be evangelizing but not many do here in North Murka, so like here in the Northeast, you won’t find us knocking on doors and hassling people, or trying to convert atheists, agnostics and other denominations. The most of that sorta thing we ever see around here are the pairs of Mormons in their white shirts and ties carrying their little briefcases, maybe, and an occasional Witness. We Roman Catholics also do not handle venomous reptiles nor will you find us guzzling strychnine and howling like banshees as we hop around. Hell, you’d be hopping, too, if you’d just swallowed a pint of rat poison and were swinging a timber rattler around in the air.

    I’m just a lay fummamucker, but the same thing goes; I’ll sit and rap with anybody about my beliefs, the Church, etc., or the Big theological questions. I won’t try to baptize your sorry ass or make you worship statues.

  38. lynn says:

    I’ll sit and rap with anybody about my beliefs, the Church, etc., or the Big theological questions. I won’t try to baptize your sorry ass or make you worship statues.

    I’ll be happy to baptize anyone who wants to be baptized. I have baptized three people and would be happy to baptize more believers.

    But, I won’t cut your head off, shoot you until you are dead, or bore you to tears of my beliefs. I won’t even force you to be baptized to attend our worship since we believe in open worship. That separates most of today’s Christians from the moslems, that fake, made up, so-called religion that is flooding the world right now.

  39. Miles_Teg says:

    Well, since OFD was an Anglo, then a Catholic, I’ll bet he’s never been baptised, so you’d better go up there and take care of that. (No, so called “Infant Baptism” isn’t.)

  40. OFD says:

    I was born in July of 1953 and baptized that November at Grace Episcopal Church in New Bedford, MA. Confirmed in the Episcopal Church at All Saints Episcopal Church in Worcester, MA in 1982. Received into the Roman Catholic Church on Easter of 1996 and they were perfectly happy with my infant baptism and having completed their RCIA program that year. Babies that aren’t baptized immediately go straight to Hell, of course. Just kidding; KIDDING!

    We also don’t cut or chop peeps’ heads off, not anymore, or go around with murder vests shooting up non-believers and atheists or even musloids, not yet anyway. And I doubt most Roman Catholics here in the West could actually sit there and explain their beliefs, or the Ten Commandments, etc., much less what actual Church doctrine and dogma are; I bet a lotta clergy couldn’t do that, either. But it’s not like the information isn’t available and kept top-secret by cabals of mysterious black-robed Jesuits in underground catacombs. We’ve got the Bible, the Catechism and the daily missals, and if we have questions, then by all means go button-hole that priest and ASK him. If he can’t answer, move on up the food chain. Or LOOK IT UP YOURSELF.

    Off to Latin mass tomorrow, now thirty miles south of here, but I gotta go down that way to pick up Mrs. OFD anyway, back from sunny Tarzana, CA. A week from today she has a gig down in Stoneham/Woburn, MA, and I might tag along if we can be sure the dog and cats will be taken care of. I’d be able to visit family down there, some of whom I haven’t seen in years, and also do a bit of colonial history research. Looks like my tagging along for the Vegas trip in early March is out for the time being, though. MrAtoz can cancel the Blackhawk rental.

  41. nick says:

    IIRC the idea that people COULD and SHOULD be able to learn about God on their own was revolutionary, and is far from what the mass of koranimals believe.

    The masses of any faith have a mostly hazy understanding of the actual theological issues and most, even the ‘bible based churches’ haven’t read their holy books, or if they’ve read the words, they don’t understand WHY those were chosen as important.

    Most people repeat the words of their faith without ever having considered them, and have a more ‘mythological’ (for lack of a better word) view of their overall tenets, than one based on knowledge and understanding.

    And that’s ok.

    It’s my understanding that you don’t have to be a Biblical scholar to get into Heaven (as it were.)

    Certainly in Christianity, no one is saying you can get there by killing innocents, no matter what other justification you might have.

    And that right there is the difference and how I know that the God of the Jews and the Christians IS NOT the same as the god of mudhommad. No matter what someone else says, or what I might have blithely believed in days gone by, they are opposites, as are their followers.

    nick

  42. OFD says:

    Nope, they’re slavishly following words spewed by a succession of homicidal maniacs and perverts over centuries, and their “god” is, in my opinion, originally and concurrently the voices of various demons. Genuine angels, saints, and Christian clergy do not, as a rule, call for the murder of unbelievers or some kind of worldly kingdom/caliphate, nor do they cast women in the role of breeding cattle, and justify gang rapes of women and young boys. And Christians have been known to speak up about abuses and offenses and deal with them accordingly, not least ending slavery in the West finally, which musloids still enthusiastically practice and advocate, based on their “holy” screeds, for us infidels now.

    I’d say again that if genuine Christianity is not restored in the West and that right soon, we are very likely to fail against our communist traitors and the musloid swarms. The latter actually believe we still ARE Christians, something too many of us do not, and act accordingly.

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