My dad keeps insisting that there must be something special about him, because various coincidences have happened throughout his life relating to people he knows. For instance, he frequently used to go into a shop where my mum worked, in a relatively nearby town to where we now live, years before they married, so must have met her several times without realising it. Aah! Spooky! Although I've pointed out to him that he engineers his own coincidences by living in the same town where most of our family lives, and that the coincidences aren't that amazing anyway, and that coincidences are bound to happen, he claims that he's a 'focal point of energy', whatever the hell that is. Normally, he's a normal, bright bloke (he's a fairly successful lawyer), but, when it comes to this, his rationality just goes out of the window. Sigh.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
