It’s Hump Day, and tomorrow I’m off to Mississippi to lecture about evolution in the South. If I don’t return alive, it’s been nice knowing you! Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili gets reproved for her intellectual pretensions. (I’m told that Andrzej was using the basket to fetch firewood, and Hili refused to get out of it.)
A: I have a feeling that this basket is half empty.Hili: A basket is not a glass, and platitudes are not philosophy. Let’s go.
In Polish:
Ja: Mam wrażenie, że ten koszyk jest na wpół pusty.
Hili: Koszyk nie szklanka, a banały to nie filozofia. Idziemy dalej.
Good luck! Thanks for finishing The Albatross before you went!
There is a popular trope of the non-existent atheist-in-a-foxhole having his life saved by a BuyBull / cross/ St Christopher graven image stopping a bullet otherwise headed for his heart.
Does the Albatross have Kevlar covers?
Pearls before swine? I didn’t think they had evolution in the south.
You know, if Hili had a bit more food, she might fit the basket.
I wouldn’t call Southerners “swine,” or even imply it. Most are nice people and are science-friendly. It’s just that the U.S. south is where there is most of our country’s opposition to evolution. Most of my audience, even there, accept evolution. WHile lecturing in Augusta, Georgia once, though, they had an armed guard for me. I asked why, and they told me that they always furnish an armed guard for someone lecturing there on evolution.
Interesting that so many religious people think they have the right to murder in the name of their deity, who is apparently too weak to stand up for himself, which is usually the case with non-existent beings. They want to put up the 10 Commandments everywhere but don’t think the prohibition against murder applies if they’re killing for gawd.
And, gosh, the evolutionary science just talking about a theory* – it’s not like he’s drawing cartoons** or anything.
* – which completely undermines central tenets of their faith
** – unless you’ve bought a book and know the secret password
It must be the guards are there to protect agains Muslim extremists: Fox Hews assures us no Xtian has ever killed in the name of religion:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/eric-bolling-prayer-breakfast-christians-dont-kill
Saying otherwise is, apparently, “not okay.”
Do they really think their listeners are so stupid? Really?
That’s pretty insulting. Really deeply, thoroughly, comprehensively insulting.
Oh, good! Armed guards for evoultionary bioligists. Yet another positive “southern tradition” for the folks from my area to be proud of…
One of of my philosophy profs at Oberlin (hippie college) was a black man, raised by Jews, who once went to the South to give a lecture on abortion. He made it back alive, so you should be fine.
But in how many packages did he come back?
Since Hili is apparently in a hand-basket, the only question is “where are we going?”
+1
I watch you everyday, you must come back, we can’t stand you don’t come back. 🙂
Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend anyone with that quote.
The only time I’ve had an armed guard was when working late in Johannesburg. It was also the first place where I was woken up by the sound of automatic weapon fire in the middle of the night.
The other place I was woken up by gunfire was Belfast.
Best of luck with the lecture in Mississippi. Don’t know why, but at first glance, I thought you wrote Mississauga! One can only wish.)
Now for Hili… what’s needed are a big loaf of buttered bread, a wheel of cheese and a jug of cream, beside her.
You might want to stay away from the coffee down there. I would pass on the grits.
Two posts with kittehs ensconced in wicker today. Basketsful of cute!
Clearly a basket case. But so am I, today…and I don’t even have the lovely wicker basket to be carried around in….
b&
Can’t wait to hear all about your trip!