I’m fuming so I had to put ‘pen to paper’. An MBE for this incredible lady shines a shameful light on the mockery that is today's Honours System. David Cameron's hairdresser was 'awarded' an MBE for 'services to hairdressing'! Shami Chakrabarti was 'awarded' a Peerage (by Jeremy Corbyn of all people!!) for, well, nothing, Lynton Crosby ...
LOVE, EMPATHY, GOODNESS, KINDNESS, COMPASSION…ARE OUR FEELINGS AND ACTIONS REALLY JUST A SET OF COLD, BIOLOGICAL IMPULSES?
I'm having one of those deep, introspective days.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbHKY363eT4 The Holocaust, the accounts, the stories, the evil, the suffering, it screams at me "G-d, a theistic G-d, to be specific, cannot possibly exist" and, if He does, he ain't for me, not against this backdrop (see *'Epicurean Paradox' below) but stories such as these, stories of mind ...