Blind Faith : Blind Folly

19 avril 2013

ST FRANCIS' PRAYER REVISED BY EX-FRIAR FRANK

The prayer attributed to the 13th century saint, though in fact written early in the 20th century, is known, loved and quoted around the world : "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury,...

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19 avril 2013

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Who feels free to say whatever he or she likes, who can express, without precaution, provisoes or velvet gloves, whatever s/he thinks about anything or anyone ? Apart from absolute dictators, very few - and even they automatically put themselves in harm's...

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18 avril 2013

MINOR MATTERS : MINORS MATTER

Darwin would have agreed that the second part of the title is right because minors' rights are not a minor matter. What, you are wondering, brought this on ? Survival of the race is the name of the game, and children are its, our, future. We are unique...

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18 avril 2013

"IF WE ASKED THE RIGHT QUESTIONS ..."

"... we could change the world." It's a BBC advertising slogan for a French engineering company, Dassault Systems. It accompanies a video of a tiny tug tugging a gigantic iceberg - suggesting, I suppose, that they may have a (partial) answer to the question...

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17 avril 2013

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE ... HEADINGS

In my book I explicitly stated the obvious - one of my specialities - by insisting that it, and as a natural consequence this blog, makes no claim to be original. I have admitted that much, if not most, of it has been said before. I do hope however that...

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16 avril 2013

"DAD'S DEAD !"

Could happen anytime. Those replaced arteries will not hold up forever. And there are all those other creepies waiting for me, from Parkinson's to cancer of the whatever to what has this week killed Maggie Thatcher, just ten years older than I. I myself...

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Tags: fun at funerals

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16 avril 2013

STATE OF DENIAL

Alcoholics as well as families and friends of alcoholics - that covers about 99.9% of the Western world - can all identify this stage zero before what they hope will be an addict's progression towards recovery : "Problem ? What problem ? It is other people...

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Tags: Alcohol and Religion

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16 avril 2013

POSTHUMOUS RECOGNITION ?

Forty years ago, Don McLean wrote and recorded a beautiful ballad entitled "Vincent" with its unforgettable refrain "Starry, starry night", recalling one of van Gogh's most famous paintings, "La Nuit Etoilée" (Musée d'Orsay). Vincent van Gogh was not...

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14 avril 2013

PEARLS, PIGS AND PERSEVERANCE

Preachers, pundits and politicians have to be pretty arrogant to apply to themselves the words "crying in the wilderness". But some of us get a bit impatient promising ourselves a posthumous public, if not postponed post-mortem recognition and appreciation...

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14 avril 2013

IS DROOPY AN ATHEIST ?

"I'm happy !" He certainly doesn't look it. Americans have enshrined in their Declaration of Independence a universal human right which, whether "endowed by their Creator" or not, is called the "pursuit of happiness". In spite of his melancholy signature...

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