It’s terrible all over, there’s no denying that.
War, war, every day. Always a new explosion or beheading.
Economy, economy, things are never better than “cautiously optimistic”.
Yet for some reason, the front row seat for the whole show has been meant for you.
Look at what we go through to try to hang on to this theatre seat!
Oncologist: “I’m very sorry, sir, you have stage 4 cancer.”
War medic: “We can save half your arm and one leg.”
Father: “Oh, hello? Do I know you? You look familiar…. ”
A horror movie I never bought a ticket for…..
Guess I’ll have to enjoy the show or walk out.
What IS on the outside of this theatre?
The life show is so stingy with its pleasures, an action movie with only one stunt – being born.
How does one manage to “be born”?
The odds (if they can be calculated at all) are either infinitesimal or infinite.
If infinitesimal, then you are so close to nothing that you may as well not exist.
Hooray! You are nothing!
If infinite, then your rebirth is a logical certainty, utterly outside considerations of space and time…
Hooray! You are everything!
Leave the cinema, stay behind,
The choice is yours.
BUT… You’ll never know the chances of being born.
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People get overly down on beheadings, IMHO, but only because I want to build a guillotine, but not for people.
So, cool guillotine fact from the French period of using them, the blade would get dull from going all day. So the wealthier prisoners would pay to go first, because later in the day they’d have to drop the blade a couple times, and it could get pretty nasty.
But they solved it, by adding weights to the blade. The guillotine was really one of the most humane methods of execution, which is why I want to build one for my chickens, when I get some chickens. If it was good enough for a French king, it’s good enough for my chicken dinner.
I haven’t decided if I’ll scale it big enough for lambs or pigs which I also hope to get, because I’ve known farmers to do that. It’s better than an axe, no aiming, and you can add weight.
to be honest, I think they should still use it for capital offenses, if they have to do executions which I’m against. I’m for people dying when they want though…. and honestly I think a lot of people commit death penalty offenses so they can get state assisted suicide.
Here’s the thing; we can’t do lethal injection well, or the chair, so that just leaves hanging and the firing squad, so why not guillotine?