It's news to me that we have a firmly established framework of ethics and morality in our society (USA?), or that it is sound. I think we are in constant disagreement as to what is right and wrong. I am curious about where it originated. Not that I expect that there was like one single thing, or that we would agree about it, but it seems like interesting ground for discussion to me.
Henry Tandey sounds like one of those stories that if it didn't happen, somebody would have made it up. It may be that if he had killed Hitler a worse (hard to imagine) tyrant would have arisen, or maybe one who was not so bad but was more practical and could have won WW II.
The point system sounds to me exactly how most Christians view their religion. It's certainly the way I viewed it when I was a methodist. If that's what most Christians believe isn't that what Christianity is? But then Christians have a long history of claiming other Christians aren't really Christians.
I was not including the animism of the hunter gatherers as a religion, I think it is more of a superstition thing with no overall philosophy, and it's morality is just the law of the jungle, which is no morality at all. The reason I brought up the Greeks is that I wanted to discuss ethics without religion, you know in kind of a logical if/them manner, not in a what does the bible say about it manner.
I had a similar theory to Beagles's about Trump, calling him a big fucking asshole rather than a drunken uncle, but I think the theory is the same in that everybody knows a big fucking asshole, but hardly anybody knows somebody like our politicians. Well not quite like that. If we knew them close up they might seem odd but normal, but they have these crews of image people who construct an image that seems inherently dishonest, like everything they say has been crafted exclusively to advance their agenda. From listening to them on the radio and tv, since I don't know any personally, I'd say their main motivation was to blow everything up.
The fuse is being lit, but there is a lot of sputtering at the moment and I think it will be like cheap fireworks, all smoke and no bang, and then Pence and the Publicans! will come storming in like the Huns on their short horses to drag us back to the eighteenth century.
I am surprised that the lame stream media is being so forthright in calling Dumbo on his obvious (there is no tree in Uncle Ken's backyard) lies. Well the news is information. If there is only opinion then we don't need the news at all. I have even sampled Fox a bit, and some of them are actually skeptical.
The opening for my show, Corn, is this Saturday and my original idea was to have a corn boil, but that is messy and corn on the cob is hard to come by this time of year. I thought about tamales, but there didn't seem to be anybody that delivered them en masse, so I finally decided on cornbread. I inquired among well, women, they cook you know, and the consensus seemed to be that there was nothing to it. Could that be true? Yesterday afternoon I headed out to the Jewel.
I wanted cornbread but all they had was corn muffins, close enough. There was a list of ingredients on the back of the box and I was ready to go.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that, mix it all up and stir, stir, stir.
A little messy globbing the stuff into those little muffin cups, but not so bad, and afterwards a tasty bowl to lick. But the oven would be the proof of the pudding. 15 to 20 minutes the box said. Well which was it? Seemed like there would be a small window between glop and ember, but if I checked too often wouldn't that cool the oven. Well nothing to do but press on.
And there they were. The box had said golden brown, but I hadn't dared hope and yet there they were. And I ate of them, and they were spectacular!
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