Archive for May, 2007

Learn Chinese in 5 minutes

Not politically correct but just for laughs.  I’ll post a couple and if it gets by the censors and nobody else objects I will post a few more.  Or you can contribute your own.  If anyone does object then I will remove the post.  So, here we go, learn Chinese in 5 minutes.
Are you harbouring a fugitive……………… Hu […]

Dawkins, again ?

Apologies to ozwebfx but his post was getting slightly buried.  Having watched the second installment of Root Of All Evil I was amazed and alarmed at the widespread rejection of the theory of evolution.  Apparently huge numbers of people still believe, and worse, still teach, that the world is only 5,000 years old !  I find […]

whither nook ?

Is it just me or have other people noticed how some nookers appear and disappear after one or two posts.  Or that, although new nookers appear in the side panel every day, very few of them actually post or reply to anything.
 
In the nook personalities post nooknews makes reference to nookers I’ve never heard of.  […]

Inner peace

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. 
 
By following the simple advice I heard on a Medical TV show, I have actually finally found inner peace. 
 
A Doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things […]

Regrets, I’ve had a few

Regrets, I’ve had a few…so Sinatra sang.  And so have I but someone once said its better to regret something you’ve done than something you’ve not done.
I agree.  Luckily, the mistakes I’ve made haven’t been fatal but what of the opportunities I’ve missed.
Things unsaid, words unspoken, deeds undone.  Are these more regretful than an angy […]

Passage of the day 140507

Greetings.  Todays  passage comes from Richard Carrier, an Instructor of Ancient History. 
Suppose there is a god who is watching us and choosing which souls of the deceased to bring to heaven, and this god really does want only the morally good to populate heaven. He will probably select from only those who made a significant […]



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hannahsgranpa. Ubergrumpy old man with no sense of humour. Cultured, gifted and infinitely modest. My philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white. Life's too short to be serious.

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