The more birthdays there are to celebrate - is one indication of age - until the balance changes and deaths are in the ascendent.
I’ve never felt my mortality so keenly as within the last year.
There are changes that are more than ‘in the wind’. Things that affect your very being and for which there are no easy antidotes. Why do I get moments which can stretch for minutes in which I feel as though the power has been cut off - or diminished to the extent that I must need sit down.
A light headedness, a ‘whooooo’ series of moments where I really don’t know if I’ll survive and where my father’s extraordinary last words reverberate and resonate ........ ‘ Oh dear, I don’t feel very well.’
I know as I write this that memory plays me somewhat false and that his last words were actually somewhat more dignified although the same sense was conveyed.
Forgive my lack of distinct memory but death was immanent and he’d been dignified enough to get up - in his last moments - and take a pee before uttering those words while returning, unsteady to bed, adjusting his alignment and redefining a death rattle so real that my instinct was to place my hand upon his forehead and speak to God so clearly that ‘Please end this now.’ was heard.
.... and such is the mystery and the majesty of existence that a ‘whoosh’ was felt and heard - as my father’s spirit departed in companionship with God.
I didn’t know why I was writing this until this moment.
Some American twerp has insulted ‘Mohammed - Blessed be his name’
I don’t understand this knee-jerk reaction by Muslims to real or perceived insult to God or his Messengers.
O.k. ..... the name Mohammed wasn’t good enough. Not enough ‘respect.’ O.k. .... let’s say ‘Mohammed and add ‘Blessed be his name’.
Hmm - why not add it twice....or thrice.
Where do you stop? It’s a nonsense to suggest that blasphemy has the slightest affect upon either - whatever God IS - or his messengers.
It’s ‘pissing in the wind’ and should engender ‘pity and perhaps a smack - then a hug’ rather that the mindless violence and death that we see as response.
Australia is no longer immune from this ‘dissatisfaction and - while we’re at it - lets damage and kill whoever the fuck we come across.’
Idiots. Should be a Fatwa against it.
Look - you’re not compete idiots but you’d have to concede that the source of Islamic religion is based upon ten simple but hard to achieve -Commandments. Nowhere is it even suggested that rage and blind hatred rule the day.
Neither Mohammed or Christ, Moses or Zarathustra - for that matter - came into painful existence in order to start a personality cult.
Don’t limit their existence to the everyday personal slights and injuries which affect our human - and piss weak personal sense of ‘honour’ and ‘respect’ - or some equally tenuous line of thought.
Do you really think that ‘They’ gave a toss about such fripperies.
Why don’t Muslims take Mohammed a bit more seriously?
Wanna have a ‘bitch’?
Bitch about the corruption of a financial system that enslaves the world. All of us. Bitch about the nonsense of ‘Foreign Policy’ being dictated by personal interest.
Bitch about the real.
Mohammed would be disgusted by such thoughtless action as to let rage be the blind precursor of action.
Well - I’d hope so.
Wasn’t he so concerned that ‘bloodlust’ not be THE motivating force in battle that he made mention of not destroying crops and orchards which may be in the battlefield........ hard to kill the ‘women and children’ indiscriminately if one needs to be concerned with not destroying the grape vines.
Is it so hard to understand?
‘Blessed be his name.’ - whatever THAT means.
....and the joyously cantankerous Les Visible does a lot more than suggest that everything that we witness, in these days, is for ....... ‘ the purpose of demonstration.’