What Prince Charles got wrong

Hey - future Monarch of mine - If I recall correctly - you had the pleasure of being down "to the Ice" as we locals here say- i.e. to Antarctica - right?!?!

Next time you wanna say something about climate change - ponder this image taken of today's i-net!! 

Do tell me, HOW LONG it would take for that continent to thaw out!!!

How many T H O U S A N D S  of years will it take?????

Get real . . . .

Notice the cold frigid air coming from Central cold store and just swiping NZ!! No wonder it is wintry cold and snow falling on the ski-fields!

Interesting too is the freezing point in the Andes - right up into the Tropics!!! Ponder that for a moment . . . .

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Wanna do something nice for the planet - forget Climate change

DAMN IT     

    Do something local and look after the planet.

As my Grandmother once said - look after the little things and the big things will look after themselves!!  

It is not that hard - pick up your own rubbish - do not leave it for someone else . . . .

 

------->   https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/129249667/upsetting-scenes-as-trash-returns-to-previously-cleared-paradise-henderson-island

 

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Why I am ignoring the GREAT LIE

Yup - I am ignoring it to the extent that I am NOT afraid of any future global climate change . . . 

 

Ok - now that you have taken potshots and vilified me - let me explain - if you are still able to hear me out!

 --------->    https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300636133/new-research-shows-how-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-retreated-over-10000-years

Notwithstanding the Norwegian scientist who calculated that net inflow verses net outflow of Ice would amount to 0.01mm per year of Ice loss . . think about this for a minute - get your calculator out - - - - to get to ONE millimeter of sea level rise it would take urm - yeah about around a cool 100 years and for a full centimeter another - cough 1000 years.    Do you know where you will be in 1000 years from now???

Anyhow - this article talks about RAPID changes.  Well - ok in Terms of Earth time - it does seem rather fast!! In HUMAN terms - 

snip -- The first lesson is more of a warning. The period of ice loss from 10,000 to 5000 years ago was rapid, occurring at a similar rate to the most dramatically changing parts of the Antarctic ice sheet today.  

So that is from 10 000 to 5 000 years  eg, from 8000 BC TO 3000 BC- O K A Y

Where was our glorious humanity some 5000 years back -

 hmmmmmm  let me see - (consults google/wikipedia - need to get this RIGHT!!)   

oh yeah - we were still in our   S T O N E A G E ! ! ! ! ! 

Humanity was still being mostly hunter/gatherers!!!!! 

No Greeks / Egyptian / Chinese / Mayan societies. No Temples / No waterworks / No farming / NO RELIGION per say /  no o o o o o o etc etc

So why should I be worried that it might take 5000 years to flood me out!?!?!?!?!

All this even though they do not know why Antarctica is consistently getting COLDER and freezing more ice - these last 30 years . . . 

So - do you KNOW where you are going to be tomorrow / next month / next year????  Will you still be alive in 5000 years time??? yeah yeah - your great great great great great great great great - so forth grandchildren will thank you for it!!  Do you know who that might be???

Do you think that that neanderthal  (yeah that one - 50th to the left of that beautiful mountain) thought of YOU when he decided to eat cold meat because lighting a fire would "destroy" your  future environment????

I get the impression that this is just a "future funding keep my job secure" news article!!! 

 

F I V E   T H O U S A N D  Y E A R S  - - - - -          Dude - like really . . . . 

think about that number - 5000 years - what have we seen since 3000 BC?????

Get real!!!! 

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Donald Trump with Adam and Eve

Ahhh yes - sometimes you just gotta laugh.

For a very long time now I wanted to see the Seven sisters - and so far they have been rather elusive!! Light pollution not withstanding - one day - yeah ONE day.

Here is a clue - and still I am missing out on seeing them - OR I have seen them and just not realizing it?!?!?!   

Note: Orion is doing a head-stand - as seen from the southern hemisphere!!! 

Anyhow - our Family has always had more then a passing interest in all things celestial!! One of those is - where exactly does our solar system sit / fit into the milky way?????  

Google to the rescue!!!!!!  What did we do before google came along you ask - well - ok - that's a story for another time!!!

Meanwhile I found a few interesting sites / pictures that highlighted the vastness of time and space.  It makes you realize how insignificant our lives and all complicated issues are - really!!!  

The more interesting thing that I had found out was - what we see with our naked eye (eg no help from telescopes etc)  - is only a tiny fraction of our Milky-way!!!   TINY!!!  T I N Y ! !  ok - assuming that the site I lifted this image is from - is100% correct.  

I do remember going to the observatory at St. Johns / Tekapo / NZ and they pointed the telescope right into the middle of the southern cross - and hey presto - what looked like empty space had about some 100's or so bright dots . . . .  which would kind of validate this image!! 

Yeah-yeah I know - you are just wondering where Donald Trump fits into this - right???

Bear - with me

While doing the research, I also found this site --->  https://www.basicknowledge101.com/subjects/space.html   

Which - is quite informative!  It does give a Timeline of the entire universe - with the last few paragraphs just focused on Earth (and may I say some Bias's included in that alone!) . THE last paragraph deals with -- well let me copy and paste . . .

Horrible Moments in History - 410 A.D. Barbarians sacked Rome - 1348 Peak year of the Black Death - 1644 China's Ming Dynasty collapsed and the Thirty Years' War raged in Europe - 1816 The Year Without A Summer, when a volcanic eruption in Indonesia blocked out the sun - 1838 Trail of Tears - 1862 The darkest year of the Civil War - 1919 The Spanish flu pandemic -  1929 The Wall Street stock market crash -  1944 The Holocaust was at its height - 1968 Assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy - 1962 The Cuban missile crisis -  2001 The 9/11 attacks - 2016 Donald Trump becomes president - 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.

Yeah - I mean they are all undoubtedly not great moments in our human history. Still, of ALL the nastier characters that ruled / walked on Earth the author / owner of this particular website just HAD to include Donald Trump!!!  Talk about TDS!!!!! Why not Genghis Khan / Saddam Hussein/ Mugabe / Pol Pot / - and possibly one certain Putin ex Russia?! - who I would have thought - would have much better qualifications as "horrible moments" in our history!!  - yeah right - "Orange Man" is here and now and the others (well - with the exception of Putin) do no longer affect you personally!!  

Also - the Japanese might argue that dropping a couple of Bombs on them was far more traumatic then 9/11 and should be included if not replacing . . . .but I digress. I am sure you can add your own "horrible moment in history" to this list - right?!

The other point one can make is as follows: Why mention the "horrible" things in the first place - when one could  have written about  "good" things happening in our History???? Advancement of Medicinal knowledge - leading to less premature deaths for example . . . .

All this led me to the ponder - ALL this VAST knowledge!!!!! 

From Genesis 2 ---->  ¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” 

It has been some time since I read that - - so silly me has shortened that to just the tree of knowledge!! Period!!  That would certainly have put a different spin on things!!  I never believed for one moment that Science and Religion (or Creation vs Evolution ) are mutually exclusive! Rather I do believe that they compliment each other - IF you accept that Science tells us HOW things have evolved and Religion tells us WHY!!! How and why are different things even if they do lead to the same conclusive place!

Hendrick Goltzius - 1558 - 1617 

It is interesting (and yes - I am no scholar - just some old random dude), that the command for NOT eating from THIS particular tree came BEFORE Eve had been formed.  --- OK so I am NOT going to go into Eve and snake and apples . . . . 

Rather - I wonder why THAT tree was doing there in the first place?!?!  You will also have noticed that the fig-leaves came AFTER they had eaten an apple . . . .  hmmmmm what does that tell us???     right - pass the kiwi fruit?!?!?!

Genesis 3 --->  ²² And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” ²³ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

As said before - no scholar here - so - a simple question for you - are humans the ONLY kind of species that had eaten some of the "proverbial" apple?????  Indeed are they the only living thing that had its use forbidden?

I'd say not! Have you ever seen the guilty look on your dog when he got found out, having done something, he should not have????  Does doing wrong equal doing evil??? Or is that just a question of 'morality'?????

If morality is that thing that you do when no-one is looking - does that make Donald and Eve equally guilty??  

Another question --  Will we ever be able to get BACK into the famous Garden??? 

Further - there is this whole 'I am your only God' (as in SINGULAR) theme running through the bible and then he says about becoming like "us" (as in PLURAL) so figure that one out!!!!

And lastly -  not to put a finer point on this - Lord  - like really -  WHY OH WHY did you put those damn tress there in the first place??????

Johann Wenzel Peter

 
So - old dude up there - do tell . . . . . 

 

 

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