Now in retirement, I take long walks for the exercise, and these days have always included the quarter mile cemetery in our town. I don’t think any of the residents there have the virus.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Chicago and Police
Tell me they don’t need police in Chicago…
No Police Departments
No police departments in the US and the gangs take control of the streets, and there are lots of these gangs.
City Life
If the police departments in major cities shrivel, all residents there will need to practice concealed carry for their own protection, including the left-wing lunatics. The looting and property destruction we are witnessing are a pretty good preview of this dystopia. Left-wing lunatics can’t see beyond their noses.
American Marxists
Our colleges have turned a whole generation of American youth into foolish Marxists with extremely naive views and little grasp of reality. Who could have seen that coming? It will have dire consequences — hopefully after I’m long gone.
Respect
No Effective Police Force
No effective police force in major cities and the gangs take control of the streets. Then it will be no lives matter. Is Chicago our future?
Undermining the Protest
The looters and property vandals are undermining the legitimacy of the protest for George Floyd. They are just antagonizing a large segment of the population, probably a majority. Dumb and dumber.
Wizard of Oz in Washington
Naz reaches all time highs. The pandemic never happened — thank you Federal Reserve. And this despite 40m now unemployed. Just like the magic feats of the Wizard of Oz — the Feds. We live in a world of smoke and mirrors where reality is hard to detect.
“Opium of the People”
Religion is based on man’s need to understand life and the universe, so he invents god or gods and a complete ideology (religion) that explains it all, but in truth it explains nothing, and life and the universe remain deep and unsolvable mysteries. Even our science doesn’t really explain anything. The evidence is that 14 billion years ago something happened that we refer to as the “big bang.” That’s how far we’ve gotten toward the truth…it was a big bang — terrific. What actually happened, why it happened, etc., none of that is explained or will ever be explained.
The closest thing we come to any kind of deep truth is our knowledge of matter, the periodic table, and how the different substances behave and what produced them (other than hydrogen and helium, the rest were all produced by suns). And we know a good deal about human psychology and anatomy. But as for religion, it is equivalent to your comfort pillow at night when you are sleeping, the one you hug to feel safe and secure. Kind of pathetic in a way.
But there are deep mysteries in the universe, which makes me an agnostic, not an atheist. I don’t see how an atheist can know for certain there is no higher being — where is the proof? There is none As an agnostic, I know that I do not know. That’s all i can know. That’s probably all I will ever know at the deepest and most mysterious levels.
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