God Is So Great And So Loving

I wondered how long it would take.

They cannot help themselves.

 

I wonder which God she was praying to. Thor? Mithras? Shiva? Jehovah? Whichever, He does powerful shit!

 

For the record. No Atheist has prayed for the death of another human, let alone thousands of humans.

 

InFlight Catering

Vintage Advert

A Bit of Perth

More of Sculpture by the Sea

Pot will Fly ~ Yoshio Nitta (Japan)

The freedom of a place ~ Tim Macfarlane Reid (W.A)

English Cricketers In Perth, 1924

There is no reason for this post, other than that I am a self-confessed cricket tragic.

This team arrived in Perth 35 years before I began playing the game at a senior level.

Found in the Western Mail, 27th Oct, 1924 in the National Library of Australia online “Trove” collection

Quotes; Science

“We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.”    Patrick Moynihan.

“Facts are stubborn things.”    John Adams (1770).

“Facts are stupid things.”   Ronald Reagan (1988—2004).

“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”   Albert Einstein.

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”   Aldous Huxley (1894—1963).

“Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.”   Henri Poincaré.

“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views… which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.”  Dr Who.

“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true !”    Homer Simpson.

“When it comes to science, thou shalt ban the verb ‘to believe’ out of thy vocabulary.”

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”    Winston Churchill.

“The plural of ‘anecdote’ is not ‘evidence’.”

“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.”    — Enrico Fermi (1901—1954), Italian physicist.

“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”  T. H. Huxley (1825-95), British biologist.

“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.”   Matt Cartmill.

“Facts speak louder than statistics.”    — Geoffrey Streatfield (1897—1978), British lawyer.

“That’s not right. That’s not even wrong.”    — Wolfgang Pauli.

“Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science.”  Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-99), US lawyer and agnostic.

“There’s a common myth that evidence speaks for itself. It doesn’t. It just sits there on the lab table, incapable of speaking.”

“Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs’ legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.”    — William James (1842—1910), US psychologist and philosopher.

God and Conservative Americans

Reverently burgled from I Am your God

Housekeeping

A Bit of Perth

Sculpture By the Sea at Cottesloe is an annual event and brings made and shiny things to a sometimes bemused audience.

Here is “Goshu” by Michael Le Grand from New South Wales with “Fortus Ovum” by Peter Graham and Cindy Blakeslee in the background.

More over the next few days.

 

Photo Hunt; Machine

On the foreshore of the Maylands’ Peninsula, an old boat ramp with a winch on rails.

From before the days of boat trailers.

Silver Tern

Not just a beach scavenger, the Silver Tern is a skilled predator of small near-surface fish.

That beak means business!

Sid and Sod

A Bit of Perth

Today, when events in Japan mean that we are all acutely aware of the impermanence of the earth, I have chosen two trees which have been growing for around 170 years.

On what was then Marmaduke Hutton’s Peninsular Farm, these trees were planted around 1840.

The Pear tree in the background appears to have stopped producing fruit while the Pomegranate in the centre is obviously still producing prolifically.

Vintage Advert

I cannot find any list of ingredients for this wonder medicine.

Any thoughts out there? It was being sold from around 1900 onwards.

From the Australian Women’s Weekly, July 1932

Some Thoughts On Our Existence

Tim Minchin (not to be confused with noted Climate Denier and all-round arsehole, Senator Nick Minchin) has the sort of rant I have to my mirror the morning after.

I am one with Calvin who once told Hobbes, “Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I’ll have a witty and blistering retort! You’ll be devastated THEN!”

This is that response!

Thank you, Trucie @NorwichRocks

And thank you also to whoever mentioned this on Twitter.

Go Christopher Hitchens.