Jeff Stahler for May 21, 2016

Yes, there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Expose at 8 PM, 7 central.

“Interesting 2 comments … but STUPID!” (sic,. “Laugh-In”)

Morley’s early reporting from ‘Nam impressed me, and I later saw much of what he was showing, and it went on for nearly a decade after I left. We’re doing worse in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, because we failed to learn the lesson of ’Nam.

A good journalist who brought humor to many of his stories.

BTW: Nam was also proof that not everyone buys Judeo Christian mythology, so the constant wings and clouds thing gets really old, especially when some cartoonists have used it for Buddhists.

A Very, Very Sad Story

Many centuries ago there was a man named Abraham who heard a voice in his head telling him to murder his son and burn his body. Before he could complete this foul and loathsome deed the voice told him to substitute a sheep instead and when he did the voice told him to tell all his neighbors to worship the voice in his head as a “supreme being”. Abraham (or Psycho Abe as we should correctly think of him) did this and his neighbors, rather than locking him as a dangerous lunatic began to worship the voice in Abraham’s head. They were primitive, uneducated, and superstitious themselves and practiced blood sacrifices to try to gain favor from unseen “gods” and knew nothing of the world outside their provincial lives which were short, disease ridden, and terrifying. Eventually 3 religions resulted from Psycho Abe’s madness and for centuries followers have been hating and slaughtering each other in the name of the voice in Psycho Abe’s head. Today if we heard this story of child abuse and/or murder it would either be part of an insanity plea in a courtroom or on an admission sheet at a locked Psych ward. Nevertheless, defenseless little children are forced (by violence if necessary) by their parents to see this story as something “holy” and as evidence of the “divinity” of the voice in Psycho Abe’s head. So here we are in the 21st century and millions still worship the voice in Psycho Abe’s head and as a result of this, despite all the wonderful achievements of humankind since then the hate and slaughter go on, especially in the ironically named “Holy Land” and we stand on the verge of the annihilation of the human race.

And that is a very, very sad story.

Do you still worship the voice in the head of this primitive being?

@StCleve,

Thanks for your insight, but I must tell you that while I don’t believe in any religion in any way, I do have an abiding faith in some Transcendent Power that I choose to call “God”. I have spent the last 42 years in Scientific R&D as an applied mathematician and biomathematician. The last 38 years have been spent in Cancer Research and medical R&D. And I cannot gaze upon the wonder of the universe both on the giga-scale of galaxies and the nano-scale of cellular and genomic physiology without a sense of awe and bewilderment.

And that has led me to the following which works for me and likely me alone: God is not the Answer; God is the Question.

You see I believe the most important phrases in scientific R&D are: “I wonder how that works” and “Gee, I don’t know yet (with emphasis on yet)”. Anyway that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Happy (?) Monday.