Intro This story came about as I walked my dog in the pouring rain and remembered a few news articles recently where refugees had turned up at police stations, asking to be returned home because they are sick of the weather. You’ll see media articles decrying how we are a Christian country, being overrun by […]
Good and evil I’ll start the beginning at the end! This post started off as a simple share on Facebook. It was going to be a quick, ‘Yep’ before I returned to wasting hours of my life in Warcraft – (albeit playing in French, might as well be productive!) – instead of studying some psychology.
World’s Deadliest Terrorist Groups : Putting good and evil into context Read More »
Remnants of Chaos social guild on Aerie Peak/Bronzebeard EU Facebook (open) page: facebook.com/remnants Facebook (closed) group for guild members: facebook.com/groups/Rocguild On Battle.net : Remnants of Chaos Website, Forum and progress on Enjin Remnants of Chaos website (We rarely use this though, so empty at present.) For achievements if nothing else, we are in the top
Read this quote by Voltaire today on Open Culture, in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in Paris last night: Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities While the post linked above is no doubt in support of those hurt in Paris by ISIS terrorist it should be noted that
Vive la France and all that! Cause and effect. ISIS leads the end of days! Read More »
Note: This is a very long post. I could – perhaps should – break it up, but I won’t, it belongs together! (2,450 words, if you are curious; a tad longer than a 140 word Tweet!) Snakes on a plane? It could be worse, if the reports in the news are correct, that ISIS planted
Snake (strike) Bombs on a Plane? What if ISIS used a nuke? Read More »
Bored and ungrateful migrants There is an article in today’s Daily Mail: "They told us we were going to Frankfurt, but we’ve ended up in this wilderness": Migrants turn up their noses at ‘boring’ German village… and some have already left. The tiny village of Sumte in Germany – population 102 – received 750 ‘refugees’
Desperate refugees – or ungrateful, manipulative, economic migrants? Read More »
My wife, who has just finished her own chemo and radiotherapy for breast cancer, shared this unattributed poem on her timeline on Facebook. The original was posted earlier today on the Young Breast Cancer Network and I’ve cheekily lifted it to copy here. Obviously I can’t wholly related to everything the writer felt, nor to
Breast cancer: I'm not that brave Read More »
It took about 3 million years from the earliest known humanoids climbing out the trees to reaching an estimated million humans by the stone age. Zipping from flint axes, through the bronze age and into the early iron age and the start of the Roman Empire it took the human race a much shorter 10,000
Pondering the world population: How bad can things get? Read More »