Is There A God?

What if there is no God?
And the world with all its suffering as well as its beauty is a random product of a meaningless universe?
There are many people that believe this is the case.
Then all human plans and efforts for improvement and progress would be in vain,
And humanity would be without hope.
If there is no God or eternity then all we do here is irrelevant.
If nothing matters then there are no ultimate consequences.

I believe in God.
Every day I think of loved ones that have passed away and feel sure that one day I will see them again.
I like to believe that one day the evil people in this world, the nasty, the wicked, the uncaring, the cruel, the depraved, will be made to pay for their actions.
And the decent, good, caring people will enjoy life in eternity.

For more of my thoughts and opinions on this subject click on ‘Bible’, ‘Dark Matter and Dark Energy’, ‘DNA’, ‘God or Creator’, Moon and the Planets’.

Thatcher And The Tories Created The “Ghettos”

Works and Pension Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says we have “created almost ghettos of poverty where people are static, unable to get work because there isn’t any there. They are stuck”.
Not so very long ago people who wanted to relocate were assisted by the Employment Transfer Scheme, which provided grants to pay for removal costs and the legal fees involved in moving home.
It was Margaret Thatcher who scrapped the Employment Transfer Scheme.
So if Mr Duncan Smith wonders why workers are trapped in these “ghettos” that he describes so vividly, he might like to point the finger at Mrs Thatcher.
Because God knows, she, in her wisdom, helped to create them.

Is Fabio Capello That Good?

Football is a game in which a handful of men run around for 90 minutes watched by millions of people who could really use the exercise.

Why aren’t football stadiums built on the moon?
Because there is no atmosphere.

The English F.A. are paying an Italian guy, who barely speaks English, £6 million a year to manage our football team.
Am I missing something?
Or are the people who run the F.A. a bunch of pea-brained idiots?

Fabio Capello is paid £6 million a year to manage the England football team.
Mexico pay their manager £2.7 million.
Holland pay their manager £1.5 million.
Germany pay their manager £1.3 million.
Argentina pay their manager (Maradona) £830,000.
Brazil pay their manager £830,000.
The USA pay their manager £345,000.
Is Capello that good?
Or am I missing something?

I’m surprised England didn’t do better in South Africa.
After all, half the team are experts at playing away from home.
Those vuvuzelas didn’t help.
Every time Ashley Cole hears a car horn, he gets up and climbs out of the window and down a drainpipe.

The England football squad flew home from South Africa to a heroes’ welcome.
Their flight was diverted to Glasgow Airport.

You Don’t Have To Speak English To Live In The UK

Home Secretary Theresa May has been accused of watering down a Tory election pledge to bar immigrants unless they can speak English.
The promise was a central part of David Cameron’s election campaign.
But it has now been disclosed that the families of asylum seekers allowed to settle in the UK will be exempt from the ban.
Labour MPs said Conservatives had been forced to drop their hardline stance by their Liberal Democrat coalition partners who support uncontrolled immigration.

He Who Is Calm In Mind Acquires Peacefulness

If a man is free from greed, he will not quarrel with the world,
He will not kill, nor steal, nor cheat, nor abuse, nor lose his temper, nor flatter, nor envy, nor will he be unjust.
They will be able to guide and support others in this bewildering world, and they will be worthy of trust.

The human mind, in it’s never-ending changes, is like the flowing water of river or the burning flame of a candle.
Like an ape, it is forever jumping about, not ceasing for even a moment.
A wise man, seeing and hearing such, should break away from any attachment to body or mind.

All living beings rise from ignorance.
All objects of desire are impermanent, uncertain and suffering.
All existing things are impermanent, uncertain and suffering.
There is no such thing as ‘mine’ in all the world.

An unenlightened life rises from a mind that is bewildered by its own world of delusion.
If we learn that there is no world of delusion outside the mind, the bewildered mind becomes clear,
And because we cease to create impure surroundings,
We attain enlightenment.

One who is to enjoy the purity of both body and mind walks the path to enlightenment.
Breaking the net of selfish, impure thoughts and evil desires.
He who is calm in mind acquires peacefulness and thus is able to cultivate his mind day and night with more diligence.

New World Record For British Angler

British angler Ambrose Smith has set a new world record by catching a monster 99lb carp.
Ambrose spent 20 minutes reeling in the mirror carp in a French lake.
Ambrose, from Denham, Bucks, takes over as record-holder from Martin Locke, who caught a mirror carp weighing 94lb in France in January this year.

It was really disappointing last year when I had to pack the London Marathon in half way through.
I’m determined to watch it from start to finish next year.

On the 1st September, 1979, Bristol City Football Club held sixth place in the old First Division.
By 4th December. 1982, they occupied bottom spot in the old Fourth Division, a drop of 86 league places in three years and 95 days.

The Source Of Human Suffering Is Greed

Men are unaware of the true reason for succession of things.
From ignorance and greed there spring impure desires for things that are, in fact, unobtainable, but for which men restlessly and blindly search.
Ignorance is manifested in greed that fills the human mind.

People cling obstinately to lives of wealth, comfort and pleasure, excitement and self indulgence,
Ignorant of the fact that the desire for these very things is the source of human suffering.

In Nothing Be Careless

Do the job well if you do it at all,
Whether important or something quite small.
You’ll have your reward when your work you survey,
And proud you can feel at the end of the day,
Of what you’ve accomplished although it may be,
Something that no one is likely to see.

Even although you’ve to answer to none,
You’ll know in your heart that the work was well done.
In nothing be careless.
In all things excel.
A job that’s worth doing is worth doing well.

Criminals To Be Given Softer Sentences

The genuinely conservative MP Philip Davies said to David Cameron:
“The millions of people who voted Conservative at the last election in order to make him Prime Minister did not do so in order to see a reduction in the number of people sent to prison or to see those criminals given softer sentences.
If he really wants to reduce the budget of the prison service, may I suggest that he starts by taking Sky TV away from the 4,000 prisoners who enjoy that luxury in their cells”.

Kenneth Clarke, Secretary of State for Injustice, smugly brushed off the public’s fear of crime as “out of proportion” and talked of prison cuts.
He is in a long tradition of gutless Tory ministers who have followed noisy promises to be tough on crime with reduced sentences and hamstrung police forces.

Confess Debt And Beg Days

To economise is an easy solution,
But very difficult to carry out.

Political economy – two words that should be divorced on grounds of incompatibility.

Better go to bed supperless than to rise in debt.

Better to pay and have little
Than have much and to be in debt.

France has raised its retirement age from 60 to 62 as it strives to reduce its mounting budget deficit.
The higher retirement age will be gradually introduced over the next eight years.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes,
The seller but one.

Confess debt and beg days.

A budget tells us what we can’t afford,
But it doesn’t keep us from buying it.

Barclays chief executive Matt Barratt criticised his own product and suggested people should avoid using credit cards.
The millionaire told a commons committee in 2003 he did not use credit cards from Barclaycard because they were too expensive.