Well, the senior bloggers met yesterday for lunch along with their squeezes.
Lunch was tasty and not at all like Robert reported in his AI inspired blog post this morning. Robert's reports not surprisingly are about as accurate as 'apostles' reporting on the life and times of Jesus more than 300 years later and expecting people to believe it. In that case though hundreds of millions of gullible people do believe it but, unlike with Robert's post though the reports via the New Testament do get read.
Anyway moving on - Richard and Shelley brought the contents of a delicatessen to our place when invited for lunch: wine, chocolates, cheeses (not Jesus) etc. I wonder - when they go to concerts do they take their own music or DVD players when they go to the movies?
It was a great catchup and underscored to me the advantage of moving to Wellington with or without the gratefully received goodies.
Over lunch Richard and I discussed Kierkegaard's notions on individual existence—particularly religious existence—as a constant process of becoming and for his invocation of the associated concepts of authenticity, commitment, responsibility, anxiety, and dread, Existentialism is our forte you see. We also debated whether Rubber Soul was the greatest Beatles album and whether Saint Rita - Patron saint of impossible feats really merited sainthood given that she was not a virgin, which is the most important prerequisite for becoming a nun and that there was a whiff of scandal about her involvement in the murders of her husband, his brothers and half of the congregation in her home village.
After exhausting the topics of philosophy, music and religion and because Richard had to use the toilet we had a natter about Robert and what he's been up to. We all decided that he was about up to his ankles so far, as 'testing the waters' in relationships between devout Catholics is about as stimulating as watching old screenings of the Val Doonigan Show ...
... which signalled the end of the luncheon.
Really though, Richard and Shelley had to go off to do some grandchildren minding - a responsibility that The Old Girl and I have managed to avoid.
The more observant reader will have noticed the highlighted links (orange writing) in the text. This is due to the extremely annoying Google search links function that I, and millions of other people apparently, don't know how to disable.
11 comments:
Thank you. It was a great lunch. The toilet was good too. Great conversation too!
"...reporting on the life and times of Jesus more than 300 years later". I think they have bits of John from AD 150 which doesn't mean that was when it was written. Most theologians I've listened to say that the Gospels were written as early as 20-30 years after Christ was murdered. Part of the logic for believing this is that all write as though the destruction of Jerusalem is in the future. This actually happened about 70 AD!
Mi ne frega una sega.
Yes a Sega was my first computer too
Una sega = a saw. Now use AI to work my statement out.
Not me care a saw?
The reading today is that bit I was talking about. Luke 21:5-11..."...talking about the temple..Jesus said "the time will come when not a single stone will be left upon another..."". The Romans (under the command of Titus) literally completely demolished the Temple in Jeruasalem after the Jewish revolt in 70 AD.
Saw - think, "Eee aw eee aw."
I wish you guys would stop arguing on my blog.
Hey, it gives you comments!
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