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The Fearsome Legacy of Lying

Posted on 18/07/2025 by Daniel

We treat our children to the fairytale of Father Christmas and the the Tooth Fairy, to the myths of a world as it might have been with magicians and elves and dragons and having filled them with these fantasies for a decade we tell them this is the best time of their lives. Why? Because…

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Atheism

Posted on 17/07/202517/07/2025 by Daniel

The joy of being an atheist is to be wholly free in mind of any discussions that assert divinity. Once free you realise our ethics has to come from us, not diktat, tradition or history. You realise that every vile act that has been done in the name of religion is a human act devoid…

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Funny Funny

Posted on 16/07/2025 by Daniel

I keep hearing people say they cannot be anti-Semitic as they have worked with and know a lot of Jewish people. I recall Upton Sinclair writing that Goerring had Jewish pilots in his Luftwaffe and he said ‘I choose who is and is not a Jew’. I also recall a TV host saying his racist…

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Surorised

Posted on 15/07/2025 by Daniel

I was chatting to a young lady today who is 23, and she spoke about how badly she was educated as a child with dyslexia. I was surprised because I thought all that had been dealt with in the 1980s but it seems teachers out there exist who never received the memo. If you go…

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ISP Provider

Posted on 14/07/2025 by Daniel

So my isp called me and told me they were reducing my monthly charges partly to say thank you but mostly because many people are leaving them for other providers. They offered me an Apple watch as a present and is aid thank you and chose my colour. This morning an apple iphove16 pro was…

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Everyone has an opinion

Posted on 13/07/2025 by Daniel

The internet has unleashed a tidal wave of personal opinions onto the screens of the world that prove beyond doubt to me that we are nowhere near living in the world of computers yet. When we have to ability to talk and see things done by robots, maybe even have implants into our bodied we…

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The Heat

Posted on 12/07/2025 by Daniel

It is very hot. took the dog for a walk at 8 this morning to beat the heat of the day and it was still an intense sunshine you could feel on your face. We were back in the car by 9 and he drank his water and was chill until about half an hour…

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Baptism

Posted on 11/07/2025 by Daniel

The Christian church is gettingĀ  little excited by the increase year-on-year is adults seeking baptism. Especially in France and Belgium but also in the UK and in America. They are trying to explain the rise as an outcome of the Covid19 pandemic and the way in which people were forced to confront their mortality. Also…

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Hanging Out

Posted on 10/07/2025 by Daniel

Been with a friend all afternoon sitting in the shade on a hot day she drank half a Guinness and I drank an orange and mango juice and Rusty drank water. We talked about the arts, publishing nd had a good laugh about quite a few things and we reminisced about people no longer with…

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I don’t believe in Messages

Posted on 10/07/202509/07/2025 by Daniel

but when I see dictators spring up in every generation I have to say: You are strong when all your children learn to read and write You are strong when every woman can choose to marry the manĀ  she marries You are strong when historians are free to learn and teach in your universities and…

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