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10 avril 2013

"WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A" ... PROPHET ?

The answer is : a bucket of ducats, for some of them, especially televangelists, fortune-tellers and other swindlers. But more often, according to Holy Writ about its own prophets, a less attractive destiny : being unwelcome in one's own country (tell...

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10 avril 2013

THE POWER OF CONTAGION

The word "contagion" is usually associated with diseases like Legionellosis ("Legionnaires' Disease"), a form of pneumonia first detected in 1976. History is filled with the pernicious, devastating effects of major diseases like the Black Plague (called...

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8 mai 2013

CFBDSIR J21497

It's about the size of Jupiter, so it deserved, like the planets familiar to us, an equally divine name. But no. Being scientists, its baptizers preferred a jumble of letters or figures ("numbers", if you are American). This recently discovered enormous...

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16 mai 2013

FELLOW-ATHEISTS, LET'S ADMIT THAT GOD EXISTS !

I am not suggesting that we have been wrong all these years. But what if we tried to take seriously, for a moment, the opposition's arguments, to put ourselves in their moccasins, to see it their way for just as long as it takes me to compose this Reflection....

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23 mai 2013

"GOD BLESS MOORE"

When you have lived for seven years in Oklahoma, when you have lived through and survived tornadoes in Tulsa, when you have visited personally the town of Moore before it was devastated in May 2013 by Tornado Alley winds worthy of the Apocalypse, you...

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11 juillet 2013

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL ...

... but big, astronomically BIG, is incomprehensible. I have already, in the book "From Illusions to Illumination" (pp. 181-187), expressed my amazement at the beauty and size of the universe (not to say the multiverse). Not so long ago in human history,...

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28 mai 2013

STICKS AND STONES

Am I allowed to say that what someone is saying is stupid (even without saying what I probably think : that HE or SHE is stupid) ? The Bible has no hesitation in calling atheists like me fools. Galileo in his famous letter to Kepler in 1597 did not mince...

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26 mai 2013

"DESTROY RELIGION !" REALLY ?

Some of my readers might think that "he insisteth too much", not only by constantly repeating the mantra, but by apparently inciting to violence ! I have already explained that the phrase is not only wishful thinking (in Latin, "desiderium privatum",...

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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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5 avril 2013

AN ALTAR-BOY FROM OZ

When you enter your 77th year as I just have, indulgent progeny and rare tolerant friends will allow you the luxury of brief, occasional, preferably infrequent bouts of nostalgia. They will not allow your organ-recitals and accounts of your most recent...

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4 août 2013

ATTENTION !!! CHANGE OF BLOG ADDRESS !

As of N O W, to consult the blog, you must click on the following link : http://www.blindfaithblindfolly.wordpress.com All of the previous entries have been transferred to this new address. New blog entries will be posted only on this new website. I hope...

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11 avril 2013

"WE'RE PEOPLE TOO !"

Her words sum up a Jewish lady's protest against gender segregation in the right to pray at the sacred wall in Jerusalem. Women as well want to wail at the wall. In the Catholic Church, some women want to be priests. Tradition going back to anti-feminist...

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13 avril 2013

" ... SPRINGS ETERNAL"

Besides Lourdes, there are two thousand "miraculous" springs in France. Once you have located the village, just follow the signs to the one for backaches, headaches, rheumatism or pimples. The town of San Damiano in northern Italy attracts busloads of...

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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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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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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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8 juin 2013

"INFERNO" : HELL, " NONFIRE" ?

Dan Brown has done it again. Inferno will not fail to disappoint his faithful fans who will find themselves in familiar territory. With another breathless chase across the city, Florence this time, another smashingly beautiful heroine, this time with...

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1 juillet 2013

"ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON !"

Mr Holmes always found enough indisputable evidence to solve the mystery and prove the guilt of even the craftiest of criminals. He made it seem easy, obvious, elementary. We accept all sorts of things without proof. Besides subjects of debate and controversy...

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4 mai 2013

GUETTA NOT GARCIA

Error humanum est. Mr Brain Wash is a pseudonym of Thierry GUETTA, not the other guy, a talented imitator to whom I apologize as I do to the inimitable Mr B.W. I always wanted to be Pope Frank the First, but apparently I was not infallible enough.

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