Nice Comment

Comment was by Loren Miller on February 26, 2021 at 8:49pm

I get along pretty well with my kitties, Spooky especially:

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on February 26, 2021 at 8:49pm

Joan I vaguely remember a teacher at my secondary school being horrified that I chose to read Shelly in my English Literature class. It wasn't until many years later that I think I know why. My teacher was really conservative in his views on working-class history.

Comment was by Joan Denoo on February 26, 2021 at 8:41pm

I also found a poem by Shelley who was a non-violent resister to the government of his time. The paragraph caught my attention:

"Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!"^[4]

^{~  Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1847). Shelley, Mrs. (ed.). The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. pp. 231–235.}

^{See the entire poem in Wikipedia, "The Masque of Anarchy"}

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on February 26, 2021 at 8:35pm

Some really good ones there Joan

Comment was by Joan Denoo on February 26, 2021 at 8:33pm

Loren, while looking for the source of "If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him?" I ran across this Shelley claim that I thought would have meaning for you:

“When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh! and this one:

"If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat."

~ Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

Comment was by Loren Miller on February 26, 2021 at 3:12pm

Damn ... what an utter load of meadow muffins!  Just one more mechanism the Republicans can use to subvert the will of the people.  Question becomes: will Arizonans see through it?

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on February 26, 2021 at 2:17pm

Arizona Republicans propose giving lawmakers -- not election officials -- final review of election results

(CNN)Arizona lawmakers are debating a new set of voting bills -- including one that would allow lawmakers to review election results "if needed" and would grant the legislature the power to pick the state's presidential electors -- as Republican lawmakers around the country work to change election laws in the wake of the 2020 election. 

The effort by GOP legislators in battleground states to drastically change voting laws comes after last year's elections saw record numbers of early and mail-in voters, many of them Democrats, after rules were relaxed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The high numbers triggered baseless claims of fraud by then-President Donald Trump and other Republicans that culminated with the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. 

Under a new proposed amendment to the Arizona constitution, introduced by a Republican state senator, the legislature would meet in a special session the Monday after Election Day to "review or investigate, if needed" the results of the election, a provision some Republicans have said is needed after the November election. 

GOP Sen. David Gowan, the bill's sponsor, said the legislation "is not meant to override the vote of the people," but provides a process for auditing the election."

Arizona Republicans propose giving lawmakers -- not election offici...

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on February 26, 2021 at 1:43pm

Loren, I imagine it would have been much harder for a person to justify being an Atheist pre-Darwin. Shelley on the other hand did it so well. After Darwin, it would have been even harder not to be an Atheist.

Comment was by Loren Miller on February 26, 2021 at 6:26am

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced? If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

A lot of "ifs" there, and I don't really hear a lot of satisfactory answers from those who want to promote this alleged deity ... and to be honest, I don't expect to in the future.

Comment was by Onyango Makagutu on February 26, 2021 at 4:23am

Religion or many ideologies have internal ways of reinforcing themselves that it is hard to get out. One almost always needs external stimuli to drop a belief held from childhood.

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