Prescience

 With regard to the predicted rapture that didn't happen, only a week ago DZ wrote "I predict that we'll all still be here on Wednesday, and that the faithful will claim to have miscalculated. And they'll give another date." 

Well we didn't have to wait long. Entirely as predicted Joshua Mhlakela has obliged. Blaming the failure of his prediction on a miscalculation he has come up with a new date. The 6 and 7 October. That's next week. Apparently it has something to do with using (or not using) the Julian calendar. 

So the failure is all the fault of this guy.

Julius Caesar

I wonder what Mhlakela will be saying on October 8th?

Wrong again

 DZ wrote a few days ago about the impending rapture. The date for this has come and gone, and nothing has happened. Sadly all the religious nutters have not floated off into the sky. Hardly surprising. People have been predicting this event  since 1830, which is when the concept was invented.

This time it was all kicked off by this guy.

Joshua Mhlakela

Mr Mhlakela claimed that he was informed of the impending event by Jesus himself, who came to Joshua in a dream.

DZ would normally regard people who claim to speak to Jesus with some scepticism. But there are lots of people out there who want it to be true, so they believe it and hope. There are scores of previous similar episodes and the credulous don't seem to learn from the experience. For the time being they've gone quiet. Some of the more fervent will now have to deal with the consequences having quit their jobs, or disposing of their possessions.

But rest assured, when the next prediction comes along, as it assuredly will, they'll believe it again.

Ophthalmology

 

Too soon??

 

What? Again?

 DZ has commented before about the numerous predictions for "The Rapture" that have come, and gone at surprisingly frequent intervals. You'd think that getting it wrong so often would dissuade the christian fanatics from perpetually repeating the practice. But not so! the latest date predicted is just two days away, Tuesday 23 September 2025.

DZ can't go. He's washing his hair.

I predict that we'll all still be here on Wednesday, and that the faithful will claim to have miscalculated. And they'll give another date. 

Osho

 

Tyrants

 

The death of Charlie Kirk has caused an eruption of argument mostly in, but not confined to, the USA. Those positioned politically on the right have become almost hysterical, on the one hand defending Kirk on the basis of free speech, while at the same time maniacally attacking anyone who attempts to use free speech to point out Kirk’s many doubtful views, as illustrated in his own words. Kirk has been painted as some sort of saintly martyr, epitomised by one truly nauseating AI generated video showing Kirk sprouting wings and ascending up to heaven. And no, I’m not going to provide a link.

Those on the left are bending over backwards to condemn the violence while hardly mentioning the fact that Kirk was a prime cunt. The fact that his death was seen live on TV is treated as particularly heinous. But is it really any different from the constant stream of violent imagery churned out on the media. If you didn’t know it was real how could you distinguish it from all the death and destruction broadcast daily as entertainment? As an example, on you tube there are a series of videos which are compilations of film clips depicting people being shot in the head. All very realistic. I’m not providing a link to that either.

And let’s not forget Kirk himself advocated actually televising real executions!

And so I’m going to come out and say what many are thinking, but not prepared to articulate.

The world is a better place without this pig.

Not because of his offensive views though. He had every right to express them and I would not advocate his death to shut him up. But I believe there is, not only a very good reason, but also a logical and unemotive reason to breathe a sigh of relief over his death.

Tyranny has existed as long as humanity. Cruel and murderous men, and it is always men, have deliberately and wilfully inflicted an unquantifiable burden of suffering and death on humanity. The deadliest conflict in history, the second world war, with a death toll of 85 million people, was caused by one man. A man who had been quite open and vociferous about his intentions. But no-one believed he would actually carry them out, they were so monstrous.

Imagine for a moment that you lived in the 1920s. Imagine also that you had a crystal ball which would allow you to see the future and all it holds. Would it be a logical act to murder Adolph Hitler? Would it be reprehensible to kill that one man to avoid all those deaths, as well as the suffering, the broken lives, the grief and despair.

I am not comparing Kirk to Hitler. But Kirk, like Hitler and Trump was quite open about what he would like to do. The televised executions he advocated were not of murderers and rapists, but political opponents. He even added “And no, I’m not kidding.”

When aspiring tyrants lay out their stall we should believe them.

It is highly likely that, had Kirk run for Congress in a red state he would have been elected. The first step on a path to power. If someone as unworthy and undesirable as Trump can become President of the USA, why not Kirk? Kirk, as president would have been as narcissistic, arrogant, vindictive, malicious, vengeful, misogynistic, racist, and sadistic as Trump, but without the stupidity, dementia, incompetence, age and infirmity.

He would have been the most powerful tyrant humanity has ever known.

And that is why we should rejoice in his death.

Motivation

 

DZ has commented in the past about doctors who subordinate their duty to their patients to their own, less worthy, priorities. Usually financial, and, more often than not, the way they conduct them selves in their private practice.

I’ll repeat an old joke of mine;

Q. What’s the difference between doctors and prostitutes?

A. There are some things prostitutes won’t do for money.

But sometimes the ulterior motivation is not financial, and two cases have been publicised that I find quite astounding.

The first is this case where a French anaesthetist is accused of killing some of his patients. Any Anaesthetist routinely uses drugs which can very easily kill. Muscle relaxants, opiates, dysrythmogenic drugs can all cause death if the patient is not closely monitored, and, where indicated, supported.

Dysfunctional relationships between Anaesthetists and their surgical colleagues are not unusual and on rare occasions tempers can flare. 

So Dr Pechier, the anaesthetist, was not unusual in having some colleagues he viewed as enemies. What was unusual , it is alleged, is that he took his revenge on the surgeons he disliked by deliberately killing their patients. Twelve of them in total.

The other case concerns a British vascular surgeon, so someone well practiced with amputating legs. This guy deliberately packed dry ice around his legs to freeze them to the point where they required amputation. He apparently did this for sexual satisfaction!! Now DZ has heard of a lot of weird and wonderful ways that people, almost invariably men, can get their rocks off. But this is a new one on me. But that wasn’t enough. He then tried to claim on an insurance policy claiming he had lost his legs due to sepsis. Although the insurance money, almost half a million pounds, was paid, he was subsequently found out, and has now been jailed for fraud.

The surgeon has a most appropriate name. Neil Hopper!!

Light relief

 A little distraction from all the insanity currently surrounding us all. And a reminder that, no matter how bad things seem, they could be worse.

Hoist by his own petard

 

The political activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot yesterday. To put that in perspective he was just one of approximately 130 people killed by firearms in the USA yesterday. And every day. Some 48,000 people every year. In addition about 75,000 people in the USA survive being shot. Every year.

No other civilised country in the world would accept this carnage with the same indifference as is seen in America. This shooting, which also occurred yesterday, has had far less publicity than Kirk. Shootings in Hungerford, and Dunblane in the UK, and in Port Arthur in Australia both resulted in public outcry and significant extra restrictions on gun ownership in countries with already strict regulation.

But Americans have a fierce attachment to the second amendment to the US constitution, the right to bear arms. Kirk himself was a strong proponent of gun ownership and is even quoted as having said "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." Some, gun deaths? 48,000?

Invoking god in support of gun ownership is not the only example of Kirk’s faux Christianity. He once stated that said that he “wants to see Coca-Cola sponsored televised executions of Donald Trump’s political opponents if Trump returns to the White House. And, no, I'm not kidding.”

He was in addition a blatant  and shameless racist.

And a white Christian nationalist, a mysogynist, a homophobe and anti LGBGT activist.

And the true extent of his “christianity” is illustrated, again from his own mouth, in this quote, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."

But, ironically, Kirk got what he wanted. He was killed, in full view of the world, one of those deaths that are, in his own words, justifiable to retain the second amendment. And if he did not approve of empathy, then he should not receive it.

To quote the bible, that he shamelessly and hypocritically claimed to follow;

"He that lives by the sword shall die by the sword" Mathew 26.52

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Galations 6.7-8

Pareidolia again

 It's been a while since I put up a Pareidolia post. Here's Jesus!