Last Thursday I left home
a little early to look for the geocache that "er indoors TM"
had hidden near Eastwell. I didn't get to it then as I got stuck in
the most horrendous traffic jam. Today I had another try at finding
the thing before work, and again didn't succeed. It didn't help that
my phone app first failed to actually locate that particular cache.
And when it finally did locate the cache I had to drive through quite
a serious flood and park in a swamp. I eventually got to with a few
metres of the thing, but I didn't have wellies. The mud and deep
puddles and the lack of time made me think that giving up might have
been the best idea for the day. So I gave up. I'll try again another
time.
Surprisingly I wasn't
late for work. I thought I would be when I found myself driving for
ten miles stuck behind a coach which was travelling at thirty-five
miles per hour in a fifty miles per hour zone. As I drove there was
something on the radio which promised to be quite interesting.
Apparently theological thinking has proved the existence of a supreme
being/creator/God by the application of basic intelligence.
I'd heard all the old
arguments before; intelligent design, "I think therefore I am
therefore God created me", absolute convictions, being
threatened with eternal damnation, over the years I've heard all the
old chestnuts. Today's radio program claimed to use logic; personally
I felt it was using gibberish. The arguments went something along the
lines of claiming that God (or the definition of God that they
were employing) is the most supremely wonderful and perfect thing
that there can possibly be. Absolutely anything that anyone can
suggest as being wonderful and perfect isn't as wonderful and perfect
as a slightly more wonderful and perfect thing, therefore a supreme
being/creator/God is the most wonderful and perfect thing there is.
I couldn't quite grasp
the sense in that, but as a clinching argument the speaker said that
it is an indisputable fact that anything that one can think of is
real. He could think of a supreme being/creator/God, therefore this
(up till now) hypothetical supreme being/creator/God exists.
Again the logic escaped me. I can imagine doing rather unspeakable
things to various TV celebrities of my infatuation. Does that mean
that I am actually going to get my wicked way with them in reality? I
don't think so.
And today is a birthday.
Google has been going for fourteen years. And what an impact it has
made in that time. Could you imagine a world without Google? Or any
of our amazing high-tech lifestyle? Talking of which I then heard
something which made my piss boil. A colleague whose mobile phone
comes from the same provider as mine asked me how much of a discount
I get each month. I get nothing. She gets twenty five percent off the
bill every month because she works in a hospital. She suggested that
I phoned the mobile company and asked for the same discount. I phoned
them. They didn't actually tell me to get knotted, but that was the
gist of their message.
Any discounts they might
give are applied at the time the phone is bought; and they don't like
to make people aware of any discounts that they might be offering. I
told them that I would bear that in mind when the contract is up for
renewal. The woman at the other end of the line said that I should do
that.
I had to spell it out to
her that I wouldn't be renewing...
No comments:
Post a Comment