Sometimes you just want to go to home, or some place nice and safe…but you don’t know how to get there or where it is in the first place. My readings tell me it’s best to follow the path you are on…and not feel obliged to take the ones others have chosen. For example, I took this path down into the dark the other night – and what was down there was even better than where I had been.
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RAMBLING ON: Due to the recent interest in posting the Ten Commandments (‘The Ten’) in our schools, we think the time has come to make a few changes. After all, Mankind has progressed over the years and now we are better suited to modifications on some of the old rules and guidelines. The first thing we should look at are a couple of the worn-out (and archaically written) Commandments as ascribed to our Forefather. (N.B.: We are taking the ‘Originalism’ approach and doing our best to keep in mind what our Forefather had intended when he first chiseled ‘The ‘Ten’ in stone)
Let’s start with the easy one:
- “Thou shalt not bear false witness against Thy neighbor.” As everyone knows, not everyone is considered your ‘neighbor’ anymore – what with the advent of: Races, people from other lands and people with strange ideas, etc., etc.,…So, maybe you can bear false witness (including fake photos, et al) against those who are not your ‘neighbors’…but the point is you probably should not lie about anybody or make up false stories about them either.… unless you are practicing the God given right of Free Speech. Then you can say what you want – about your neighbors or anybody else, because you are Free, Free and American. We can throw this Commandment out the window because slander and libel no longer seem to be problematic with the law. So tell the children they can call the “other people” (aka not their neighbors) all sorts of names and make up lies about them and worse…as long as they are practicing the right of Free Speech. (See Bill of Rights/Amendment #1) Now we are down to having to follow only Nine Commandments – a shorter list for our children to have to commit to memory. Come back next week, when we will subtract another and continue to make our lives even easier – and more fun.
MORE ON THE RAMBLE:
…A little trickier:
- I have a note, dated 2006, which states that “Most High School students think Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.” Things are getting better, because I have a new note which shows the last poll on this matter reveals that only 12% of High Schoolers think Joan was Noah’s wife. However, it is my belief Zero per cent of Americans – High Schoolers through College and Soc Sec ages – know that Noah’s wife’s name was Emzara…which everybody should know, since she is “The Matriarch of Humanity”. They could put Emzara’s name on the School walls now that there is more space available what with ‘The Ten’ taking up less space than it did before this posting. Hey! Wait a minute: It says here on another Google search that Noah’s wife’s name was Naamah..or ‘Beautiful One’ …a descendant of Caine…Who knows what to believe anymore? …and who gets to decide which and what to put on our school’s walls?
Ed Note:…Do not despair over America’s decline in Religious beliefs, the latest poll I read on the subject reveals…”More Christian Americans believe in the ‘Virgin Birth’ than they do in (so called) “Evolution”.
More next week; but first a few quotes for your amusement.
“If you come to a fork in the road; Take it.” -Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame
“Because the President didn’t hit 40 Home Runs last year.” -Babe Ruth answering a reporter’s question on why he made more money than the U.S. President. Question: How would Musk answer such a question?
That’s it for the moment…and a “Good Night” to Mrs. Calabash and Gordon,
