Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Danielle,
I suppose even Keith Richards didn’t regularly take a combination of crack, heroin, ketamine, ecstasy and alcohol
The man is such a wuss.
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Allow me to pfft in a condescending way at your "snow chaos".
Once they closed the airport in Milan due to snow - possibly as much as 2cm - and a Finnair pilot is rumoured to have radioed in to the control tower "fuck off, I'm Finnish, let me land".
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Meanwhile, MetService spokesman Bob McDavitt said he heard a report of a snow flake being seen in Lambton Quay. I'm off to build the world's smallest snowman.
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to David Haywood,
Anyway, got to go make a sled...
You do that, you magnificent man.
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You had me wondering there because of the jibe.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Hebe,
poor wee Amy Winebox
Really?
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I seem to recall hearing – and am fully prepared to be corrected on this – that pretty much all the neat aphorisms attributed to Jesus in the Bible are just updated versions of previously-existing pieces of wisdom.
An anti-Christian polemic by Piergiorgio Odifreddi I read is full of examples of this, although why that ought to lessen our opinion of JC (as the author clearly thought it should) is beyond me.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Islander,
*Yes, I did become aware of apologetic exogesis later. Still unconvincing.
I think it's a wonderfully poetic image, me. And the first time I was told that it was supposedly a mistranslation for getting a tow-rope through the eye of a needle, or that (worse) the eye of a needle was actually a gate in Jerusalem, I was quite disappointed. But then apparently that's not the case - Jesus really said camel through the eye of a needle, updating an older Talmudic aphorism (which crammed an elephant in there).
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to nzlemming,
but they would always sling me out before I got to “So, the human race is based on incest, then?”
Well, of course it is. And probably survived at various times in human history via various degrees of inbreeding. I fail to see the problem there.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to nzlemming,
“If Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, made directly by God, and they had Cain and Abel, and Cain slew Abel, who did Cain marry?”
Actually, I think you'll find that even in Sunday school at least a third son is mentioned, Seth, but Adam had other sons and daughters (as per Genesis). The daughters are not mentioned by name except in apocryphal texts, but then that's the patriarchy for you.
So Cain either married a sister or a niece (ie one of Seth's daughters).