Crackpot?

 In Robert's last post he published this clip. I think his title suggests that the lady who wrote it was a crackpot.

Robert tells us, " "Dying to be me" by Anita Moorjani sounds like an interesting read considering she claims to have had an NDE. Near death experience. It seems that if you include in the title of your book something about going to heaven people will snap it up and you can make money. But a closer look suggests anomalies of their experiences that at are apostasy. To Anita there is no sin."

Robert obviously doesn't like this idea because, among other things, there is no room for sin and, of course, Hell. He calls her ideas apostacy... he stumbles through a bit of bad grammar to make his point. I thought that Catholics loved everybody and were always ready to forgive. After all, a deathbed confession with a priest can clean your slate and you're supposedly into Heaven. Just like that! 

Anita actually has a much nicer approach to it all and maybe we need to ask the question, "Is it our place to judge others and have a need to see them suffer for all time?"

I was talking to a friend the other evening and, out of the blue, he challenged my atheistic views.

"The universe is expanding, it always has been, and there must have been something that started it all off."

Good point.

Then he jumped straight into the Catholic church, which he implied he had a liking for. He said my view of the institution had been shaded by some unhappy experiences.

His thought journey went from a good point, straight to a jump of faith. Maybe he was a fan of punishment and Hell too?

As I read Anita's excerpt, I thought how much nicer an idea it was than all this Christian mumbo jumbo.

I guess time will tell who is correct.

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I also read The Curmudgeon's latest effort COCK OFF COOK OFF!

Okay, TC has taken us into his fantasy world, but one thing doesn't work for me in this COCK OFF COOK OFF! I hate baked beans, but I would have proudly made spaghetti with cheese on toast.

Now there's a dish!

Still, I won the cook off - 1st place!
The reality is that I'd certainly go for spaghetti with cheese on toast over Mince and pasta with bacon and mushrooms, Wattie's sauce and wedges, McCains reconstituted mashed potato, rice risotto, Pam's frozen peas and corn, roast lamb, pig's trotters and beef burgers. A slice of lemon on top to give a 'Tuscan' flavour. 

I don't like mushrooms.
I certainly wouldn't be eating Pear, walnut & blue cheese tart with whole truffle roast celeriac with cheese sauce & hazelnuts.

I'd rather eat human faeces than that last one.

There you go, it seems that people agree with me.

It sort of feels like TC shot himself in the foot with that one.

Ciao tutti.