Johnny Barnes: Superhero

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Just a short entry this time since I am on a computer that is not mine. You will notice a lack of contractions in this post because I can not find the apostrophe. Hereès what I get if I press the button that usually has the apostrophe. I canèt find the quotation marks either so sarcasm will have to be at a minimum. Oh well. Somebody else has bigger problems than me.

I have had a good weekend, (or three days off), here at Jamie and Colleenès place. Watched some good curling and some great hockey games. Cooked some spaghetti and had eggs on waffles. Even had some Thai chicken. Soon I will be moving to my new place about 5 minutes from where I work. That will give me loads of extra time and freedom. So things are looking up.

I just went to Vancouver the weekend before this one to visit a friend of mine who I hadnèt seen in like 27 years. Derek Peregrym. We went to a Canucks game; I met his wife and son, Mel and Ethan respectively; and we went shopping, golfing, and touring around Langley. He lives in a neighbourhood called Walnut Grove. I thought it was really nice! Didnèt even seem like we were in Vancouver. We had superb centre ice seats at the game and although I was yawning and getting restless legs by the third period, the home team won 3-1. It was cool to catch up with Derek. I got a real kick outta Ethan too. We played a lot of catch with the little football. Ethan has this great way of answering questions. In fact I think it is something I should teach my ESL students to do. If you ask him, Ethan do you wanna play catch with the football, he will not say just yes, he will say, I wanna play catch with the football. Ethan, do you wanna have a beer with the boys? I wanna have a beer with the boys. There is no confusion when dealing with Ethan. Perfect clarity.

What I am saying is I have a pretty good life. I think I will try to think about that instead of banks that are too big to fail or jail. Instead of all the crude oil that will be shipped across some of the nicest natural land in our country. Why we can not refine it so it will be safer, i.e. easier to clean up WHEN it spills, I suppose it is the same thing. You can do anything you want if you have the money. Lying, cheating, stealing, polluting, you name it.

But I have my health and I can enjoy the sunshine, hockey, curling and a good meal. And, Johnny loves me.

I should not concern myself so much with what other people think. Like professional phonies such as Richard Dawkins who has made his fortune claiming not to believe in God and trying, (but if objectively investigated, failing horribly), to disprove God scientifically. I REALLY wish I had quotation marks for that last word! I have talked about Dawkins before here in this blog and told you that I think he is just a closet believer who is having trouble abandoning the flawed philosophy and pseudoscience that has supported him and his family, lo, these many years, without looking like a complete plonker.

As many REAL scientists are waking up to, the basic building blocks that they have put faith in being infallable are one by one being SCIENTIFICALLY shown to be nebulous at best. The law of conservation of matter states that matter can not be created or destroyed, it can only change forms. Science also avoids talk of infinity. Infinity is only a theory and can not be measured scientifically, therefore nothing is infinite. This questioning of infinity began so long ago it can not be credited with an originator. Indeed, it has probably been around forever.

So where did that matter at the very beginning come from? That matter, call it a cosmic egg, a swirling void, (really if it is void, nothing, how can it be swirling?), whatever it was it was either always there or it was created out of nothing. Neither is scientifically possible but there it has stood like a big philosophical dead end. When confronted about this Dawkins previously, and as scientifically as ever, said, We are working on that.

NOW he has stated that he is 6.9 out of 7 that God does not exist. By that I am guessing he is giving God a .1 out of 7 chance of existence. That is 1 out of 70. When you consider the odds against practically ALL of the crap Dawkins writes about in his books and says we should all believe in it and follows it with some silly pseudoscientific study to back it up, by golly he is virtually admitting that God exists! When you consider the odds against even the simplest new species being formed by a succession of fortunate genetic mutations, which go WAY beyond 1 in 10 to the 50th power against, (the scientifically agreed upon odds accepted as impossible), 1 in 70 are ASTRONOMICALLY better odds.

Folks, what I am saying here is that Richard Dawkins, Darwinès Pitbull, author of The God Delusion and other such books, BELIEVES! HE BELIEVES! He may be too stubborn or even stupid to realize it but he just gave God a fighting chance at existence that he never once gave any of his alternate theories of creation.

Soon Stephen Hawking will admit it. Johnny Barnes probably admits that God exists. In fact he is probably as honest as the day is long. Not like the bankers, politicians passing the pipeline or science worshippers. I wish they were all like Ethan: Did you commit fraud? We committed fraud. Are you willing to risk an ecosystem-destroying oil spill for a pile of money? We are willing to risk an ecosystem-destroying oil spill for a pile of money. Do you really think God does not exist? I really do NOT think God does not exist.

I really should not concern myself so much. I should ask myself, what would Johnny do? He would just say, Dawkins, Hawking, Harper, big banks, I love you. Have a good day. Take a deep breath. Ahhhhhhhh...