Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

It was a cushy number. He generally lived above restaurants. However, he had been in the 8th army in the desert for a few years before Italy.

A program which may interest some of you who are interested in prejudices.

Have to down load it from BBC

The Brain with David Eagleman
E5 of 6
ABOUT EPISODE GUIDE
Why Do I Need You?
Series 1 - Episode 5
Why Do I Need You?


Fascinating series.

I watched the David Rubenstein interview of Dr Francis Collins of the (US) National Institutes of Health on Bloomberg tonight. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. Much of the program was about health, genes and the Human Genome Project but towards the end they discussed how he moved from being an atheist of conviction to a Christian despite all the usual arguments as mentioned by XL et al. His reply was interesting and I don't intend to go into in detail but it appears that his curiosity was stimulated by his experience of the human spirit through his medical work and later reading the works of C S Lewis. He felt as a scientist that he should study carefully both sides of the faith argument. He has since written a number of books which are available on Amazon giving his views on why science and belief are compatible.
Take it or leave it.

IT

I presume you particularly mean:

"The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief"
by Francis Collins

One reviewer says: "The only "evidence" presented for the existence of God was the observations that humans have an apparent tendency to be good rather than evil. Collins attributes this to a God-given inborn knowledge of God's moral law. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much but nevertheless, there were over three hundred pages and this was all that he could come up with as evidence! Not suitable reading for anyone with any critical faculties."

Another says: "Not so much a scientist explaining belief as one explaining belief through the eyes of a Christian."

And another: "I was expecting so much more from a world renowned Scientist. Basically he presents all the evidence for the big bang and fine tuning of the universe and then just expects the reader to take a 'leap of faith' and believe there MUST be a God! A very weak rebuttal to Dawkins."

Hmmm? I think I will leave it.

I remind myself of a 'mate' who discussed with me a couple of years ago:

"I've got cancer," Malcolm told me.

"Do you think it would be a bit late for me to start going to church? I mean, like, you just don't really know what will happen when you die, do you? It seems to me, like it might be a good bet. What do you think?"

The catholic priest made a very great deal of all this at Malcolm's funeral and about how Malcolm had 'found God'. For me, I was content to know that the RC priest had just overwhelmingly 'got to him', hadn't received much resistance, and that poor old Malcolm was merely just placing one of his last bets.

Desperate or what? (Murkels election?)


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/09/eu-immigration-offer-brexit-reversal-adonis

Similar remarks by Blair, Max. They just don't get it. They think it is all about immigration from the EU. Particularly ironic given that Blair and Brown were all for open borders. Bit late now to have a change of mind.
XL you can cherry pick your reviews as you like. Your choice. I have just looked at the reviews on good books and of 775 reviews, 90% liked. 3% gave 1 star. On Amazon, more than 70% gave it 4 or 5 stars.
There are actually a number of books by him, but no matter. Closed minds can't be convinced and I can't be bothered one way or the other. As I wrote, take it or leave it. But if you leave it, you could be destined for an eternity of hell swapping barbs with Fred and Stan. If that won't change your ways, nothing will.

Oooh Dil. You'll make me blush.

Need to be for the sheep hils , that's how they like it :-)

Last night of the Prom's., and the loony remainders trying to hi jack it.

Following 2016's referendum, anti-Brexit campaigners have distributed EU flags to the audience as they arrive.
A spokesman for EU Flags Proms Team told The Telegraph: "During the Age of Enlightenment, Mozart, Handel and Bach all lived and worked for part of their lives in London.
"Presumably under the Brexit dark ages, they would not be welcome."

I don't know much about classical music but I've seen Kathryn Jenkins a few times at the Millenium Stadium singing the national anthem.

Is Pavarotti the guy in the Go-compare adverts ?

No , that's Pavarnotti

I bought the Three Tenors CD for a fiver once.

What is reality?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06y8hyr/the-brain-with-david-eagleman-1-what-is-reality


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06y8hyr/the-brain-with-david-eagleman-1-what-is-reality

I came across this series.

I found it fascinating.

Only problem the first episode is going to be removed from the BBC I-Pad to-morrow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b070ss9x/the-brain-with-david-eagleman-5-why-do-i-need-you

The above episode with episode 5 may indicate reasons for Xenophobia and religious intolerance as shown on this thread.

Another way of processing thoughts.

Bargain, apart from Jose Carreras who shouts and has a terrible wobble in his voice.

Hays

Was that one of the Wobbles from Wimbledon ?

The above episode with episode 5 may indicate reasons for as shown on this thread.
Says Fred, the communist party supporter that is Xenophobic and having religious intolerance.

5,000 folks marched through London yesterday to demand that we stay in the EU. The speakers included some poor incoherent dishevelled Irish chap who I thought was a Big Issue seller invited onto the platform as part of a drive for diversity but turned out to be Bob Geldof. Though the folks, most of whom seemed to be notably physically unattractive and/ or significantly overweight showing, once again, that politics really is show business for ugly people came up with all sort reasons for protesting its clear that all wanted stay in the EU.And that is how they felt before the nation vote the other way year. These remoaners just cannot accept democracy.

Oh dear!

From the movie, "The day after tomorrow":



NASA satellite image showing hurricanes, "Irma, Jose and Katia":

Are we running too fast or is religion staying behind

Some say : religion is a mental illness
The Rowe's say : A boy wearing skirt is sick


re - Religion

Boy removed from school in transgender rights row

The parents of a six-year-old boy have removed him from his primary school in a row over whether another pupil should be recognised as transgender.
Nigel and Sally Rowe said their son became confused as to why the child dressed as both a boy and a girl.

The Diocese of Portsmouth, which runs the Church of England school on the Isle of Wight, said it was required to "respect diversity of all kinds".
The couple believe the school should have consulted all parents........

The Rowes say the suggestion that gender is fluid conflicts with their Christian beliefs as a family and they are seeking a legal challenge against the school's actions............

http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-41224146

Apparently, the 6yr old little 'transgender' boy was dressed as a boy one day and a girl the next.

Perhaps the 'transgender kid' doesn't actually have a problem? The problem could lie with his parents?

My wife was godmother to a friend's little boy, who at aged 4-6, just loved to dress up as a little girl and dance around. The clothes belonged to his elder sister and he had just raided her drawers for stuff to wear.

Nobody made anything of it much and we all just smiled and watched him 'fantasy playing and using his imagination' and just let the little chap 'get on with it' dancing about the living room and kitchen.

Guess what?

Yes. He grew out of it. It was all just 'an imaginitive phase' in his highly imaginative development. Everyone involved, felt his imaginative powers needed to be encouraged and not stifled.

However, quite sensibly his mum and dad didn't conclude 'he must be transgender'. Importantly, neither did they send him to school in girl's clothes one day and boy's clothes the next.

The kid in the news has quite hysterical parents if you ask me! Or is it just the kid's mother? My £5 says it might well be.

If anyone is going to be a bit mixed up it's the kid who is doing the dressing up. not the classmates watching him, IMHO.

Ah well. Anyway.....

"Lights Out!"

"Next!"