Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

Forget your football, basketball and baseball teams….a new fantasy league has started here in Minnesota. I haven’t figured out all the rules etc. But it see  ms like a novel way to get people interested in bills, congress, and the legislative process.

Go to http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2007/01/fantasy_legislature/ and check it out.

What do you think?

Dattaswami recent came on here purporting to prove that religious people are always superior to people who don’t believe in religion with the following semi-mathematical equation: “Negation of God is – 100. All the other good qualities are only + 99. Therefore a good atheist results as -1. The gratefulness to God is +100. All the other bad qualities are only -99. Therefore a bad theist results as + 1. Ofcourse a good theist is +199. A bad atheist is – 199. You should aim at + 199 and not just at +1.”

Well how about this one, then, Dattaswami? I say that negation of God is 50. Belief in God is – 200. Eating a gourmet pickle is 100, minus 5 for the resulting bad breath, which equals 27. Helping a little old lady across the street is 100. Riding a bicycle instead of a car is 100. However, sexually abusing altar boys is – 400. Therefore, theists can theoretically be superior to atheists, if the theists help little old ladies across the street, ride bicycles, and eat gourmet pickles, so long as they don’t sexually abuse altar boys, and brush their teeth afterwards. After the pickle, that is.

In stunning news that has sent zoologists scrambling for explanations, a group of camels has been caught hiding a bomb in their enclosure at the Hanover Zoo in Germany!

The camels were moved to another zoo last month, after they had begun exhibiting suspicious behavior. Apparently, they did not have time to remove their bomb from their hiding place, over six feet under the ground, before they were relocated. The bomb was found by earth moving equipment after the camels were taken away. Anonymous reports of electronic listening devices planted in the zookeepers’ offices are as of yet unconfirmed.

So far, the camels have refused to talk. No one knows what the camels’ specific target was. No chances are being taken, however, as teams of experts are being sent to search the cages recently inhabited by camels in zoos all over the world. So far, only a few old videotapes of Lawrence of Arabia have been found, suggesting that the camels may have an informant who tipped them off about the searches before they took place.

Where will the camel terrorists strike next? It could be at any place, at any time. Remember, camels can go a very long time without drinking water. They can afford to wait. It’s a matter of when, not if, the next attack will take place!

In the northeastern United States, this may go down in history as the year without a winter. Take a look at the experience of the northeastern city of Concord, New Hampshire and you’ll understand why.

Today in Concord, there has been a new record high temperature set: 69 degrees. The previous record high for January 6 was set in 1946 at 57 degrees. That record wasn’t just broken today. It was shattered, pulverized, whipped up in a blender and then baked into a souffle.

It’s not just one day that’s remarkable in this way. The entire season for Concord has been downright unwintry. It is as if autumn never ended, and is trying to stretch its way all the way until springtime.

Oh, sure, there’s still two-thirds of January and all of February and March left, but consider how the winter season is proceeding so far: Only 8.25 percent of the ordinary amount of snow has fallen. By this time of year, 21.8 inches of snow would be expected to have fallen in Concord. Only 1.8 inches of snow actually have fallen.

A generous Atheist Vs a Selfish Theist

Swami told that Gita says that the bad theist is greater than a generous atheist (Apichet Sa Duracharah…..). The reason for this is that negation of God is – 100. All the other good qualities are only + 99. Therefore a good atheist results as -1. The gratefulness to God is +100. All the other bad qualities are only -99. Therefore a bad theist results as + 1. Ofcourse a good theist is +199. A bad atheist is – 199. You should aim at + 199 and not just at +1.

At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org