The Hunting of the Snark - An agony in eight fits - by Lewis Carroll.
I have read thousands of poems and find this one the most enjoyable - so please take the journey with me in volleys!
Fit the First
"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."
In this blog I will be trying to get to the truth about what is really important in life, and to write satirically about what is not - all in my quest for The Stuff Reality is Made of. I also write articles on Religion, History, Travel, Flying, Philosophy, Physics, Meta Physics, Natural History. Mathematics and Psychology.
23 May 2013
21 May 2013
Thanks to all my readers
Thanks to all my readers - by P.K.Odendaal - May 2013.
I wish to thank all my readers for supporting my Blog, and for your comments and encouragement - I really appreciate that.
As you might have seen, I have tried to develop these articles and arguments without bias, giving both sides of the coin a fair hearing, and I mostly did not know what the outcome of the arguments were, until I finished the relevant article.
16 May 2013
That which has no existence …
That
which has no existence … - by P.K.Odendaal - May 2013
I have had a discussion with someone
recently on starting a flying community at our local airport. There is no
formal or informal structure to bind the lots of people together who are
interested in flying. Well … here it comes … an interest in flying is not a
material or physical thing - it is an idea or notion.
And what struck me immediately were the
words of White from The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy:
White: I
want the dead to be dead - forever. And I want to be one of them. Except that
of course you can't be one of them. You can't be one of the dead, because what
has no existence can have no community.
12 May 2013
Liberal, Liberty, Liberation … Liquidation, Perdition
Liberal,
Liberty, Liberation … Liquidation, Perdition - by P.K.Odendaal - May 2013
If there is one universal theme which comes
up again and again in almost all facets of our lives, it is the struggle and
conflict between free will and determinism.
It is the conflict between conventional
wisdom and innovation, between orthodoxy and heresy, between the well-trodden
path and the one less travelled, between the heart and the mind, between the
good and the evil, between freedom and regulation, between socialism and
capitalism, between revenge and forgiveness, between war or violence and peace,
between the flesh and the spirit, between honesty and corruption … and between a
lot of others.
2 May 2013
Slavery and Addiction
Slavery and Addiction
- by P.K.Odendaal - May 2013
Men are born free, but
everywhere they are in chains ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If
a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects
what never was and never will be ... Thomas Jefferson
If the Son therefore shall make
you free, ye shall be free indeed. Joh. 8:36
After many years of meditation, I still have not come to
grips with the meaning of the words Slavery and Addiction, much less have I
been able to free myself from the bondage of both.
29 Apr 2013
A parody on time
It's about time - a
parody on time - by P.K.Odendaal - April 2013
Words ... words ... words. How do I start a parody with an
article name which is already so ambiguous? Is the article about the subject
time or is it the long expected thing to do? Is the parody on the subject of
time or is it on the appropriate time?
And of course, everything about time is so slippery that I
could not even think of an article name which is not slippery - and as this is
positively not a material thing, I think I should call in our two
conversationalists named GLC (God Loving Creature) and Atheist (our
materialist), to whom you have got so used to by this time, to lead us into
this subject. Their views are so widely divergent so that it might help us to
understand the concepts of time better.
Fun With Maths - Part 3 - The Bush Calculator
Fun With Maths - Part
3 - The Bush Calculator - by P.K.Odendaal
So we are in the bush, and we quickly need to calculate the number
of stars in the night sky and our children are not there with their
calculators. What do we do?
We draw a few lines in the sand.
We need to multiply two double digit figures with each other.
Let's say 22 x 23 = 506.
15 Apr 2013
Passion and Meaning
Passion and Meaning by P.K. Odendaal – April 2013
I'm
afraid I've been thinking, a dangerous pastime, I know ... from Beauty and the
Beast
A previous
article I wrote about Passion, Emotion and Delusion left many questions
unanswered and thus prompted me to rethink the subject - and this opened new
perspectives in my mind. I never could have thought that passion and meaning
were such integral and connected concepts.8 Apr 2013
Passion, emotion and delusion
Passion, Emotion and
Delusion - by P.K.Odendaal - 7 April 2013.
I am quite sure that passion is the most important emotion
in our lives and that of God - if one can refer to Him as having a life in that
sense. I also know of many people who do not have that emotion, but I would not
want to live without it. In fact, God displayed His biggest act of love towards
us in the Passion of Christ.
Of course many people, notably the materialists, agnostics
and atheists would disagree that these three non-material or non-physical things
- passion, emotion and delusion - exist. For the rest of us who go off at a
tangent when these things grip us know too well what they are.
28 Mar 2013
Just one
Just One
One song can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream
One tree can start a forest,
... One bird can herald spring.
One smile begins a friendship,
One handclasp lifts a soul.
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One word can frame the goal
One song can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream
One tree can start a forest,
... One bird can herald spring.
One smile begins a friendship,
One handclasp lifts a soul.
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One word can frame the goal
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