SergeantLynch

Ah.


You have to flip those little colourful discs into a dangerous receptacle, usually a small plastic beaker.


Doubt that it would pass rigorous safety checks these days.


Could always pop down the store and buy your kid a gun to play with instead.


As long as it's got a safety catch.


They are popular toys in American schools, guaranteed to induce "tearing up".

SergeantLynch

Nah.


When leftists become rightists, this results in brutal oppression, which is nothing at all to do with communism.


There is no real distinction in terms of social government between far right and far left.


They all desire wealth and power and inevitably become autocratic arseholes with a paranoiac tendency.



SergeantLynch

True communists believe in true communism.


But true communism is an unachievable Utopia.


There has never been a communist State.


All systems of social order are tyrannical to a degree, some being more brutally tyrannical than others.

SergeantLynch

Hmmmm.


The trouble with nuking all your neighbours.


The initial impact would be a bit like a really big firework and all the Jews in their dark glasses would go woooooooo.


Followed by a lot of shiny crackly sand, coughing and skin legions.

SergeantLynch

Pop and bang are noises relative to an auditory receptor.


Prior to such devices, would have been a BIG SILENCE..


What worries me, is how far away did GOD have to stand when he lit the blue touch paper.


Analogically speaking though, I can run with the idea that GOD lit the blue touch paper...Sacrificing itself in the ensuing BIG SILENCE.

SergeantLynch

The Biblical mythology is indeed a loose record of a few tribes of early Middle Eastern folk and their associated fantasy GODS.


Though earlier Civilisations and their associated fantasy GODS obviously predate the Jewish ones.


And the Jewish fantasy GODS and add-ons obviously copy the previous ones, but with new spin and ritual.


And then, along came Christians and Islamists and did the same.

SergeantLynch

What a stroke of luck, that GOD didn't need to be created...Well, a bearded magician didn't need creating.


Whereas the fundamental basis of everything is the fundamental basis of everything.


Which I often refer to as the GOD principle.


Though some people have a tendency to get too excited by the G word.



So Debby, in your book, for how long was your GOD clicking his heels before he came up with the biblical creation idea?


Must have been an infinitely long time.



Now, I can run with the idea of infinite Universes and their associated evolutionary processes.


GOD principle indeed , but magical beardy man would be infinitely unnecessary.

SergeantLynch

Well, same old same old.


The U.S. is a Nation founded upon Immigrants.


Even the First Nations folk didn't originate on the land mass known as North America.


So any claim to rightful citizenship based simply upon a moment in time, is tenuous, and to preclude others for the same reason, is hypocritical.

SergeantLynch
The Bible has always been passed down in it's entirety.


So Debs, are you trying to tell me that the bible on your bookshelf is exactly the same as a few word of mouth folk tales that were uttered in a strange Middle Eastern language, several thousand years ago.


Or are you just saying that the bible on your bookshelf has no pages missing.


Hmmmm...


The latter would be highly likely, whereas the former would be highly improbable.


Actually, highly improbable is being way too generous...Highly ridiculous is perhaps more appropriate.

SergeantLynch

Certainly stick to the highly speculative creation and existence hypothesis known as the bible, for some regional information and a few prominent names that might be loosely factual.


Also stick in there for quite a few fantasy add-on's.


All in all, if you're a lover of mythological prose, then there are a raft of other similar mythologies out there for you delectation and stickiness.


I personally am not so keen, so you can stick mythologies wherever you fancy.

SergeantLynch

Words are just vocalised or symbolic representations of internally processed data.


And putting omni in front of a word is quite popular.


Though I wouldn't go as far as to say omnipopular, even though I just did.


See how easy it is?

SergeantLynch

Or.


GOD is a various concept applied to the point at which we need to create various concepts.


Of course, MANGOD was an obvious MAN concept.


If we were CARROTS we would undoubtedly have conceptualised a maximal CARROTGOD.


MARINEBIVALVES, then MARINEBIVALVEGOD.


BANANAS.........


Etc etc.

SergeantLynch

OK.


So initially, the Bible was a historical mythology based upon a traditional GOD idea, relative to a few semi-desert dwelling Middle Eastern folk, who existed a few thousand years ago.


Then a few thousand years later a broader regional chapter was added to the collection of folk tales and fantasy, based upon the activities of a new central character with magical powers, who was supposedly the son of himself....Mythology indeed.


So the Romans et el loosely based popular religions and political ideologies upon said mythology...Often brutally.


So generational data transfer, and the fallible nature of the human brain is what it is, and therefore global society has become what it has become.


Though Universally, I doubt that the influence of Roman Catholicism extends much beyond the Space Station.


Nonetheless, if a similarly evolved intellectual species exists in the Xtrollian sector on the Planet W'hey, they will probably have come up with similar ideas in a similar fashion.


Though I fancy that the W'heyians whistle like Marmots, and the whistle for GOD is what we would refer to as a wolf whistle... So if they turn up and start whistling at you, don't be offended, they will just think that you smell like a goddess.

SergeantLynch

No what?


I was only suggesting that Christians took pre-Christian ritual and celebration and repurposed it.


Specifically when and where and by whom was not particularly important to the comment.


But thanks for the history lesson.



Lucy just takes old ideas and repurposes them for his own whimsical take on things.



SergeantLynch

So GOD created itself.


Otherwise, it doesn't exist.


Therefore it would not be possible for anything to exist.


Same old conundrum.


Ah...So GOD doesn't need to be created.


Ah...therefore "everything that exists" didn't need creating.


Ah...But. Some old semi-desert inhabiting ignoramuses said so, and you cannot argue with them.


That's because they died.

SergeantLynch

I would suggest that a lot of people are aware of ancient Roman mythology.


Such is the knowledge of ancient Roman mythology.


I'm a fan of Bacchus.


Venus was/is the goddess of love and the Romans named a Planet thus.


Lucifer of Roman folklore and Lucifer of Christian folklore are different concepts...But typically Christians repurposed pre-Christian concepts.


Just as you are repurposing various archaic twaddle and coming up with slightly different twaddle.


Retwaddling.