Well, did you expect this?

 Someone from St. Peter's Catholic Church passed me this.

I first heard of this in a comment on Rob's blog.*

No chuckling from Robert! 

* Peter also refers to himself as The Curmudgeon and TC.

Proof.

 Good morning.

I thought I'd start with a nice picture.

Around these parts Rob's blog seems to be very popular and is building up more comments than any other blog. His latest post 'Prove it!' already has 15 comments.

This post starts off with, "Generally proof is required when contradicting an accepted belief. Atheism is not the status quo and never has been." What he's saying is that, for human beings, having a god is the accepted thing and thinking that there is no god is a bit weird. I got an Uber home from Wellington last night. I always like to chat to the driver because it's a half hour ride. The driver was Indian and told me that there are over 1,000 worshipped gods in India. I don't remember how the topic of gods came up and I haven't researched it online. If that is true, it means there is quite a bit of competition for being the one true god.

The word 'belief' seems to always pop up when talking about religion. Catholics, for example, seem confident that they have proof for the existence of their god. They tell us that this god is made up of three people. I don't think that any of them are female, though the Holy Ghost could be.*

I looked up the definition of the word 'belief' online. I got three 'answers'.

1) An acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof.
2) Something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion.
3) A religious conviction.

I have quite often asked Catholics for proof of their god's existence. I have been told many things. Often they refer me to the Bible as proof. Sometimes I'm told that a lot of people saw Jesus ascend to Heaven after the crucifixion. They sometimes quote miracles that have happened.

Did God write, or inspire the Bible? I don't think so. Anyway, there is no proof.

Obviously there are no photos of Jesus ascending into Heaven. We are reliant on what people from about 2,000 years ago might have written down or told someone else. I've heard that the Bible was written about two or three hundred years after Jesus buggered off. If that is true, information would have to have been passed on by written statements or passed on mouth to mouth. Over that time period it wouldn't be hard for things to get a bit muddled up.

Okay, fair enough, there are other things that have been passed down to us, like 'tempering' that took place in European music around 1750. I guess the fact that tempering is used today by most of the world to make chords work and scales sound the same in twelve different keys is proof of its existence.

Here's a score that I bought in 1971.
We studied it at university.

Anyway, I'd be interested in comments that can show me that there is proof of the Christian god. 

Keep your comments concise and to the point - no big flowery words please. You shouldn't need to use AI. 

Ciao.

* I doubt it though.

Peter is coming home!

 

This is wonderful news
for all his Wellington
friends!

Will he choose to live in Wainuiomata or Moera?

I'll be honest - probably not.

At any rate, it will be great to have him here!

What? You don't know Peter?

Here's a little background...

Peter grew up in the Wellington suburb of Mornington (or there abouts).  He was one of the first Kiwi boys to sport a mohawk.

After finishing primary school, he was sent to St. Patrick's College (town) where he was more heavily indoctrinated into the Roman Catholic faith and made it into 3P. 

That was in 1966.

After that he went to Victoria University, where he tried to find a girlfriend. A friend named Tony tried to help him out. He told Peter that young women preferred young guys who were pissed.

Peter stayed single for a very long time.

Then Peter got into the wine industry.

His friend Richard (of RBB) was able to teach him all about women and he eventually met his lifelong partner, Lynn. He has thanked Richard (of RBB) many times for his help.

Then Peter got into blogging. He had moved way up north, where he was falling into streams at the golf course and upsetting other tennis players.

His blog went by the name of The Curmudgeon. He wrote some very good posts, but then he got into house maintenance, gardening, moving his trailer and outside chairs being blown over.

He also bought some very silly boots.

He also started about 400 other blogs.

The list goes on, and on, and on.

The good news is, and maybe it was caused by medical intervention, that now he plans to move back to his hometown - Wellington.

Welcome home, Peter.

Is God real?

 Let's ask a Catholic child, a Muslem child and a Sri Lankan child.

They all answer, "Yes, God is real."

Problem - they all follow what their parents have taught them.

There are lots of gods!

A very large number of people have followed every god, and this is only eight examples.

Yes Rob, and I'm sure they all have bible type books.

Your god of choice obviously depends a lot on where you were born. 

Work it out for yourself.

It's raining cats and dogs in Wainui.

 I know because I just got hit by a bone.

Ha, ha!

I thought I'd do a quick post because there is nothing much happening around the blogs - Peter hasn't posted for ages and Robert is putting up old posts. Peter is talking about an orange tree and Robert is going on about the ten commandments. Nothing changes.

I spent most of Saturday with my best friend, Harrison Robert Prowse. He is doing quite a lot of singing and is demonstrating very good pitching. 

I bought two tickets to the Rodger Fox Big Band concert next Friday. Rodger died a little while back and I missed his funeral because I had Covid. So, this will be like my farewell to him. The ticket people don't make life simple. I paid for the tickets online, but you evidently have to do something complicated with your phone to get in - you can't just print off the tickets or screen print them. Why can't they just give me a fucking tickets, like in the old days? It'll be weird if they don't let us in.

I'm going to do some violin practice before my very expensive trip to the dentist. I'm practising using a Lydian mode to play over a minor 7th. chord. The idea is to get away from root notes and find more interesting note choices. The relevant Lydian mode is a minor third up from the Am7 root note. I'll practise that today, as I said before. Sorry to repeat myself.

Here's a picture you may like...

Well, I'll leave it there for today. The dentist is at midday. Yay!

Hey, it's still pissing down here!

What we can learn from the tale of Adam and Eve.

 

Okay, before we get started, why Adam and Eve had belly buttons, only God knows.

The story goes that God created Adam first. 

God said to him, "Okay, I'm going to make you a female companion, but it'll cost you a part of your body."

Adam replied, "Sounds good. What would it cost me to get a real babe? You know, a very beautiful and smart woman who certainly would follow your instructions."

God replied, "That would cost you an arm and a leg."

Adam thought for a little while and then he replied, "Okay, what can I get for a rib?"

This is where things started to come undone for Adam. Tent Horn says, "That bloody apple! That bloody talking snake! That is the price Adam paid for only offering a rib."

Forward to the present day.

I recently wrote a post titled 'PLEASE, NO COMMENTS ON THIS POST'. 

Now you have to understand that I have plenty of posts that people can comment on but, like God and his apple tree, I asked people not to comment on this one.

Hey, TC, that's not a towel on my head.
Look more closely, you blind old man.

Two notorious bloggers have left comments (now deleted). They are Peter (aka The Curmudgeon, The Wine Guy, The Religious Curmudgeon and many other names) and Robert (aka Rob, Trans Roberto, Roberto Testore and Roberto Testero). It is disturbing when you learn that they were both raised as Catholics and both know the story of Adam and Eve well.

Still, they both 'bit the apple'. 

If I had a Garden of Eden, I would banish them both from it. I really know how God must have felt.

It seems that history does repeat itself.

I am mostly ashamed of Robert because he preaches all that Catholic stuff - read his blog, just click on 'Tent Horn' on our LINKS list.

At least we know that Peter is a person you cannot trust - remember the communion hosts incident?

I rest my case.
Maybe this post needs to be added to The Holy Bible?

Moving on.

It's wet in Wainui. This might be the reason why I only got two comments (one written by myself) on my last post. It doesn't take much effort to leave a comment. Even if it is raining. Hey, you don't get wet sitting at your computer, unless you piss yourself. I wonder if The Curmudgeon pissed himself yesterday and if that's why he didn't couldn't leave a comment on my post?

"Hey, apologies, I did
have a little accident
yesterday, while sitting 
at my computer. I'm
still trying to dry the
seat."

Oh, well, at least that explains it.

Moving on...

There was no interest shown about my 12 things to practise (on the violin, or another instrument) to help your jazz playing, so I won't say anything more about them. 

Moving on, yet again...

Give us a sign. This picture demonstrates how easy it would be for God to give us a sign that he actually exists (and wrote those silly 10 commandments). Look again at the picture. Do you understand this sign? Of course you do. Not a lot of thought had to be put into the picture's creation by me. The round plant thing was hanging on a window and Shelley was standing on the other side with a phone camera. That simple. Why can't God think up something simple like that?

Moving right along...

I wonder if this post will get any comments? I can usually rely on Phillip Edward Nis, The The The Guy and Bin Hire (three old friends) to come to my aid. 

Here are a few random pictures to fill out this post. Not much point putting a lot of thought into the post for one possible comment.

Ciao.