tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post4528279347426418564..comments2023-05-05T07:13:41.889-04:00Comments on Corruption-free Anguilla: Ba'alUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-78771552520644508952010-05-19T08:34:12.298-04:002010-05-19T08:34:12.298-04:00I do not agree. The big dinosaurs became extinct ...I do not agree. The big dinosaurs became extinct because they could not defend their big delicious eggs from predators. Birds are a branch of dinosaurs that put their eggs up high, but other than that would have been more fragile to effects of any asteroid. <br /><br />But on your other points, you are right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-63700133619113947732010-05-19T00:44:19.906-04:002010-05-19T00:44:19.906-04:00There was an early teacher on one of one of the mo...There was an early teacher on one of one of the more remote and smaller islands of South Pacific Fiji. His school children were assembled in the village one early morning, sitting cross legged on mats in the shade of the coconut trees. They were to the side and thus not in line of a falling nut.<br /><br />'It is time,' said the teacher, 'For me to tell you about your home in Fiji and the world beyond your reefs and seas.' He drew a rough picture of the earth's land masses and oceans and then pointed at a large open expanse near the bottom. He placed a fingernail in the centre. 'You see this tiny spot, no larger than the eye of a fly. That is the size of your land compared with the rest of the world'.<br /><br />When the children returned to their families with this extraordinary tale, the elders were incensed at such an insult. They went to the house of the teacher, clubbed him to death, roasted and consumed him: thus providing an early example of what happens when the truth is told to those who cannot recognise and do not wish to hear it!”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-68189719071849514342010-05-18T19:52:47.691-04:002010-05-18T19:52:47.691-04:00While I was a young man going to church, we divide...While I was a young man going to church, we divided the preachers into three categories. There were the "normals" who had girlfriends, the "weirdos" who had boyfriends, and the "impotents" who had neither. The last were considered "holy", though they were probably sicker than the other two.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-80423597826450328702010-05-18T18:45:04.611-04:002010-05-18T18:45:04.611-04:00The soundness of your main theme aside, methinks i...The soundness of your main theme aside, methinks in your column today you unwittingly tarred the good and the wicked with the same brush of materialism, and so a few specific questions crossed my mind. <br /><br />Sex? How then to explain those monks who enter the cloistered, poverty-stricken, contemplative life, e.g. the The Order of the Cistersians of Strict Observance, never to even speak again. <br /><br />Power? Well, granted! Not only exercised on a local level over congregations but morphed into the larger field of politics, as with the Reverend Ian Paisley. <br /><br />Money? Everything is relative, one supposes, but don’t you agree that in our time the Anglican and Methodist parson, for example, eked out at best only a miserable existence. <br /><br />Those factors aside, what motives, if any, are you prepared to concede to the best-intentioned of candidates? How about that ineffable quality called faith?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com