Up with the light. Breakfast and the paper. Nothing in the paper about the killing of the lead terrorist, even the media has been somewhat subdued in their reaction.
It was a surprise, but not really a happy one – someone was killed in a gunfight. Reminds me of old Tombstone, Arizona. Muslim funeral rites and buried at sea. People had thought this through. I like to see intelligence in the media from time to time – a public reminder that people do have the intelligence to think ahead, to plan and to dispose.
The Today Show is still showing video of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge driving around the block in Daddy’s Austin-Martin. That was very cool and very James Bond-like. A flare of youth that I thoroughly enjoyed. And, they were able to pretend ‘being somewhat normal’ after all the pomp and regalia. Good for them.
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Lunch at Chipotle/Panera after a helpfully intelligent Sears’ appliance technician checked over the stove and refrigerator, both inspected for free as they are a year old. The man saved you time and money as well as fixed the window on the door of the oven that supposedly could not be fixed. After that good fortune you arrived at the local UDF and bought gas for $4.07 a gallon just as they raised the price to $4.19. You only saved fifty cents but it is a fun savings.
Tim K. our neighbor bought a Prius a year ago and says every time the fuel price increases the faster the car pays for itself. I agree. We are waiting for the 2013 Honda Accord hybrid – it is supposed to get 42-44 miles/gallon and be a V-6 – we like the zip of a six and the German styled road ride. I loved our Beetles and Rabbits over the years (1965-1994), plus my favorite car was my custom ordered red 1985 GTI. Nothing I have ever owned was more fun to drive. Then we switched to the Ford Taurus (1986) and Mercury Sable (1990), then eventually to our first Honda Accord – Ex in 1998. Now we each have a 2003 and a 2005 Accord Ex – Six.
Prince Charles’ Austin-Martin is still in the back of your mind, orndorff. And, you are conjuring up photos from Car and Driver and Road and Track. You still have the car bug, so you aren’t dead yet. Post. – Amorella.
Drove Carol to a last minute doctor’s appointment for conjunctivitis. At Kroger’s on Tylersville picking up the prescriptions this late dreary rainy afternoon. Daytime spent away. . . . time for a Graeter’s while waiting for the prescriptions.
While waiting I am thinking about the concept of ‘Original Sin’ – that belief is a dressing the wound for that which appears in mostly Christian ‘beliefs’, and seen in the literature of Milton.
Wikipedia has this to say about original sin:
“In the theology of the Catholic Church, original sin is regarded as the general condition of sinfulness, that is (the absence of holiness and perfect charity) into which humans are born, distinct from the actual sins that a person commits. This teaching explicitly states that "original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants". In other words, human beings do not bear any "original guilt" from Adam and Eve's particular sin. The prevailing view, also held in Eastern Orthodoxy, is that human beings bear no guilt for the sin of Adam and Eve.
Although Orthodoxy prefers using the term "ancestral sin", which indicates that "original sin is hereditary. It did not remain only Adam and Eve's. As life passes from them to all of their descendants, so does original sin” In this quotation, "original sin" is used not of the personal sin of Adam, which is his alone and is not transmitted, but in reference to the "distortion of the nature of man", which is inherited.
An important exposition of the belief of Eastern Christians identifies original sin as physical and spiritual death, the spiritual death being the loss of "the grace of God, which quickened (the soul) with the higher and spiritual life". Others see original sin also as the cause of actual sins: "a bad tree bears bad fruit" (Matthew 7:17, NIV), although, in this view, original and actual sin may be difficult to distinguish.” – From Wikipedia
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You like the words “distortion of the nature of man” but you do not see this ‘ability to adapt to survive’ as a natural instinct or will (not free will), one that is more basic than obeying moral or even G---D’s sense of Good. To you, to obey G---D is to be what the species is: human, i.e. civilized, to follow, when possible, the Golden Rule and to be humane for the greater good of the world human community for the greater good of raising the children to serve their fellow humanity (as shown in the Marsupial community). To you this is not Utopian, it is reasonable and parental – the care and feeding and labor of service as a system for the world to work in just as a home also needs to have a humane system in which to work.
This is as I see it, Amorella. I am no Marx. It seems to me there ought to be a way for this to work – I think of the Amish as an example, but theirs is a religious base. Why not a humane base which follows basic spiritual trends of kindness and respect and service by, of, and for one’s fellows.
Alas, my sense of romance – no wonder the mind of Merlyn is the center – it is the center of the Arthurian romances. Perhaps never in real life, but it is a projection I wish in the fiction. It’s my head, my brain and mind you are using Amorella. I admit I would like this to be or to remain a part of the stories, even among the Dead and their two Rebellions.
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