Six Stone Jars

I read earlier this week, someone's response to the Paris Cathedral fire, that 'Catholicism was an abomination to god...' And that was on the basis, the gentleman said, of around half a dozen points, one of which I clearly recall that he said: 'Catholics pray to Mary, who is dead and the bible says one must not pray to the dead.'

Personally I find these kinds of very widespread arguments quite funny from a distance, but then again quite boring if you have to get too closely involved in any such discussion.

I can think of two issues with making the sort of pronouncement that was made regarding the bible - one is that virtually no one these days has read the bible in the languages it was originally written in, almost no one at all has a Universally-accepted framework of translation (actual word meanings, phraseology, grammar what of it existed at the time...), and two, even if people have read the bible these days they seem not to possess any kind of memory that serves them accurately.

I don't know anywhere in the bible where it says that Mary the mother of Jesus Christ is dead...

Why didn't Macron burn down a great restaurant?

Not only that, as for consulting the dead, the Witch of Endor is only famous on account of accurately making predictions (in the bible) for King Saul after having summoned and speaking with the spirit of the dead prophet Samuel, admittedly though Jesus is meant to have said neither were any of the prophets 'dead' either but living somewhere not on the Earth.

Sometimes in all of the diatribe and gibberish that gets uttered regarding the bible (well, or just about any religious text at all, really; it's not restricted to the bible) rather pointed ideas go missing in the egocentricity of people's fired-up self-importance over their 'pronouncements.'

I often taunt certain people about the water-into-wine story - not just Christian religious people, but wine aficionados too: firstly what actual wine was made, and secondly, does anyone know how much was made in the incident...?

The story is that it was 'the best wine' and that there were six stone jars able to carry between twenty and thirty gallons of water.

...And so we are talking about more or less a 1,000 bottles of wine here.

That's no small 'miracle.'

Right now just for a while I'm staying away from talking about Pablo Miller (real name Tony D'Dalgo), or 'Darktrace' and why the cross-flow of ex-NSA employees with UK internet security companies is deadly dangerous.

LOL

Or that Macron is not just a drug addict, but that the French Secret Service is having some difficulty keeping him 'together' for the cameras. Most European politicians in cabinet roles - and that includes a lot of UK politicians, are using standard 'Beta Blockers' to mediate their body language over-activity (so do numerous film actors and actresses on account of the fact that the film camera amplifies the slightest movements), but some go over the top and try and express 'empathy' with people by using specialist drugs when they are in fact lying; the secondary problem being that such chemicals are highly addictive and some have adverse physiological and neurological side-effects.

The question for you is, is money more like water, than it is like wine? You know, flowing cheaply and plentiful - or like a marketing scam at $30,000 a small bottle of... That's the important question. Not whether or not politicians are crooks. We know that answer already. There's no surprising miracle entailed down that path.