My thought for the day,
(O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)
Thanks to Robert Burns, English version.
The Bible on one page.
Building plans for Earth approved & work completed in just 6 days.
Time share guests arrive and abuse hospitality
Fig leaves create fashion sensation
Storms lash newly fashioned world
Zoo Cruise makes news.
Multi coloured coat owner sold by brothers but becomes king of Egypt
Four hundred years pass before offspring cry “Let my people go”
Moses leads people across the parted sea, spends forty years on a big beach.
Daniel gets grade one haircut. “ Why oh why Delilah”
Shepherd boy slays big bully & says “I’m a poet really”
Jeremiah & Job share tales of woe, Off to Babylon the people go.
Daniel braves furnace, has visions & dreams of a new Jerusalem, no jam.
People return to build big temple. Temple sacked.
Judas Maccabeus becomes ruling conqueror
Romans compulsory purchase of Jerusalem.
First census, Jesus the baby king born in pub stables.
Jesus aged 12 visits temple and takes note of elders, elders note Jesus
Aged 30, Jesus proclaims his role after desert temptation, turns water into wine & other miracles.
Jesus has palaver in temple & overturns tables
People upset Sadducees, Pharisees, Stanchion upset & turn tables on Jesus
Jesus executed
Jesus , after 3 days lives again. He appears 10 times to family & friends .
He ascends.
Paul, the first known Damascus rd experience
Paul goes walkabout, establishes churches all over the place.
Writes a lot in prison
John writes Revelation
THE END
© Robert Junior
Excellent RJ, the Bible in a nutshell for those who wish to be converted in a hurry, that should be copy written, printed and made standard literature for army personal heading for the front line “How to become a Christian in two minutes” or “God I always knew you were there, I just could’t see you” No harm having a bit of insurance just in case we all get a surprise and there is a Hell after all. burny burny. 
I attended a weekly meditation class once with another dozen people - male and female which I think ran for 12 weeks. we of course practiced a range of interesting exercises which were not just sitting crossed leg and ohming!
however the exercise for the last session was for the rest of the group to offer an ‘analysis’ of how they saw you. very illuminating with surprises for some and tears for others!
an old mate of mine who in fact is younger than I offered to take me to meet another old mate of his who was 83 and had worked on cattle stations all his working life here in the Kimberley - Now his eyesight was failing - hearing going and breasts getting droopier but his memory was as sharp as a new pin.
we talked about the old characters of the Kimberley he knew many and I a few but I commented later that we had just spoken to a walking talking libary that soon would become extinct unless we visited him more regularly with a turned on tape recorder -that’s the plan.
his working life span had covered 50 odd years and you could sense his wisdom
How very true that is Gumbud. We used to have a radio presenter on the national station back in the 1950’s, his entire program consisted of interviews with old men and women from all over Ireland, boring to me as a young boy then of course, they were usually taped unknown to themselves in a local pub or in their own homes, thankfully all that stuff is still available from the archives. My old Dad used to always say if you want historical truth ask the ordinary elders of a community.
Maybe someone can sort this out for me it’s been nagging me all day. I was watching an old western film last night, the rodeo was in town and John Wayne was entered in a contest where they have to lasso a calf, bring it down and tie it’s legs in the fastest time possible, the MC speaking through a hailer calls out “Yes folks the Utah Kid has done it in 14 seconds flat” and it went on, the next fella did it in 16 seconds flat and so on, naturally John Wayne as the Utah Kid won the money but what I want to know is why do they say 14 seconds FLAT? what has the flat got to do with it? Maybe Pug would know.
Beats me Jem, I’ve been going flat out to liven up the older residents here, but things are still fairly flat, in these flats we call home. Good job the grounds are flat .
Actually I put this comment in to share one of my favourite quotations. THis may or may not relate to my stream of consciousness episodes.
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“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
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― Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
I guess she was running flat out.
Flat out, are you on the level? You seem to be settling in well into the flat, hope it didn’t leave you flat broke.
I deserved that lol
now back to being serious! - seconds flat heh - well a second is so short and brief that it is incapable of standing upright for more than one second so it always lays flat. you see minutes are much longer in time and probably fatter but I at least capable of standing alone for at least 60 seconds.
then there is the old expression “he was milking it for all it was worth”
now does this refer in anyway to our dear bovine friend the milkman?
well it’s not all flats around here I think I can detect a few sharps too - hope you are enjoying being flat for a while RJ I expect you will be flat out like a lizard drinkin eh?
I still keep in touch with a few of the old “flat earth society” fellows - they have their feet firmly on the ground my my I can tell you - during all their explorations they have never found a complete round piece of earth - humps yes - mountains high yes but not round and they have found the edges either yet!
I have no scientific evidence to substantiate my theory Jem, but could it be that when you run as fast as you can, and you don’t have enough energy left to support your structure in a perpendicular attitude, the only option would be to lay ‘Flat Out’ on the floor. Hence the saying ‘I ran Flat Out’ Nothing left. Or 16 seconds flat out…just a thought…
You have a point Reynard, as my old PE teacher used to say.
“If you still have energy left after a race, then you have not given your all”
Absolutely right RJ, My old PE teacher used to say. " Another note from your mother Robert, explaining why you can’t run in today’s cross country" I hated running when I was at school…
I was discussing my long and varied running career with my daughter the other day. I ended my nostalgic visit with, “I am just a has-been these days” she quickly pointed out that you have to have been ‘a somebody’ before you can become a has-been…
I wonder if she will be so chipper when she discovers that I have left all my money to the local ‘Disillusioned Runners Society’…
Contrariwise, the only thing I was good at was cross country running.
I tried orienteering but invariably lost my way, rather like my life. sigh…
Wot-Ho,scum!
Yes,t’is I…the vaunted and much praised Pug…or,as I’m USUALLY addressed “OI,Dick’ed”.
Now…this ‘Flat’ caper which has you all enthralled…it actually originated in the colonies…ie,the Yoonited States. Y’see,the second hand was always flat against the second MARK,on a pocketwatch.
In 1883,a jockey named Joe Murray was timed as having ridden half-a-mile 'In fifty seconds FLAT,according to the three timing watches’.
It was akin to the marks on a measuring jug,or spoon,where you fill to the exact level,making a flat measurement…but using time,a top-of-it’s-class pocketwatch,and top-class horologists.
Now…I’m off for brekky…laters,chaps & chappettes…
Thanks for putting me right on that Pug, you are a fountain of facts.
Not wanting to start another conversation about gays but we’ve been hearing an awful lot on the subject with the referendum yesterday to vote on gay marriage, there was a high yes vote and it will now go into law, congratulation to the yes camp. I was thinking long and hard about this and I’ve come to the conclusion that this could be natures way of tackling the worlds overpopulation problem, yes I know you will say it’s the ‘Underdeveloped’ countries that have the biggest childbirth rate but they will follow what happens in the ‘Developed countries’ eventually especially with world wide communications available to almost everyone. the more same sex couples that form a bond for life the less children born. This old world of ours has been turning for a hell of a long time and is very capable of solving it’s own problems, we are just minor tools to be used in the process, maybe the big plan is to get rid of us altogether after all we’ve been making a mess of the place ever since we got here.
unfortunately the reduction of children per family spells death for the country. the international prediction is : if in general families in a country have less than 2.2 - ie 2 adults and 2 children then the nation will be in decline because it is not the elderly that will maintain the country but the young to come on. several well known politicians have suggested this theory - one in particular was our former treasurer Costello and he supported this by giving women more money for having more children. The future lies with the next generation not the present or past
The Lord moves in mysterious ways Jem.