Always look on the bright side of life

Theme song from "The Life of Brian "---If it's a song of somebody in the world  does it really work-?--Of course it doesn't - Its not even remotely "natural". Its completely one sided .

As Chesterton said nearly 100 years ago in "Orthodoxy ', to talk positively about everything is to drive yourself insane.


Yet ABCTV is doing a bit of it . You don't play that game to people you love

, so why do ABC presenters think we are going to go somewhere if we never get serious.

Jennifer Byrne, playing with envy in that way,( seven deadly sins)   is playing to burn -

If everything works for good ( The faith taught at Abcchurch ) there is no such thing as evil ; we can take everybody at face value, teaching our children they have nothing to fear .

 If there is danger out there ,you can't see it or warn well because you don't believe in it ;;

It may exist in the universe but because you can't see it ;  temptation, self deception and disguise  are tricks the universe plays on you - the blind leading the blind .
 Bullying for example is often best understood and addressed as an outcome of envy ( kids get it-- why don't we ?)

The culture of dependancy too  is a modern heresy introduced to us by the glass half empties .

No they say from the pulpit "God did not give you that gift , you earned it and if you haven't got what the other blokes got, you deserve it" . Without it you're disadvantaged and need state sponsored help .
The Fabians can only hope this unsustainable mental illness lasts till they retire . 

Why choose the devil when the deal is smoke and mirrors 

In the richest country on earth we have people imprisoned in their own thinking; thinking they don't have enough and what they do has isn't a special gift specially for them to develop. How the devil reduces everything ( even what is good) to nothing - even the good bits get broken into pieces so they never fit together again - even if you happen to get everything available on the board . 

If only life was simple

Well,,,,, it was when we were younger . We were carefree and cocooned . So why do we rebel against the great comfort zone provided by our parents ? The answer is basic and rational enough - our parents don't know everything and most importantly,  they didn't always practice what they preached .
Interestingly most of us hold onto the preaching bit even though we hate it in others ( another story in itself) . Even my reactionary colleagues who think we have moved on from the past :. those who like to make their logic simple when life and its challenges are best faced with all of your brains -- not just a tiny bit of logic and a heart full of hormone . To listen to most determinists you would think that hormones superseded the need for a head .Not real balanced;  Head should be on top - even a child can tell you that !

As a scientist I know partly why the blinkers- the ageing reactionaries are getting defensive and fanatical  ; they  worship reason but they are afraid of it ; deep down they know that there is no end to argument and no real reason as "the reason for life" : All that machinery and we still don't know its real purpose ( eg good or evil or indifference) Knowing some of  the means of life is not to know to the meaning of life . To focus on natures harshness doesn't help us again a foothold on some nice stuff .( Monty Python knew the problem BUT that didn't mean they had a better answer than the bloke who was crucified)

Many people worship science and rationality because they don't understand it and its limits - they don't understand that its not complete and doesn't help us with our most earnest questions . See other posts here . If we had good parents maybe we should review what they tried to teach us and themselves.