I see the wife of a high powered Russian official has had £4,500,000 worth of jewels stolen whilst driving through Paris. Evidently the car she was travelling in stopped at a light and an opportunist thief wrenched open the car door, snatched her handbag and fled, escaping evidently scot-free. Well all I can say is, serve her right. If you’re travelling with that amount of goodies in your handbag you lock the door for goodness sake. And four and a half million is a whole heap of jewellery so the fall of communism in Russia has obviously been mighty good for some. We’ve all heard of the multi-million oil executives, bankers, etc., but politicians too? So what’s new?
Old Popey is doing his nut because of a law being broached in England that will make life a bit fairer for homosexuals, Meanwhile he has had to closet himself with a whole range of Irish Bishops and give them a good ticking off for not doing anything, well in some cases evidently covering up, the child abuse scandal in Ireland. One priest has allegedly admitted to abusing over a hundred children. Again, what is new, and why can’t people see the wood for the trees? Or the trees for the woods, which is it? Priests are men, men with sexual desires and celibacy is unnatural if anything ever was. Vulnerable children are the easiest outlet and there can’t be any doubt the abuse has been going on for a very long time.
From the young to the old, the controversial subject of euthanasia is still rumbling along in Britain with arguments for and against. A well-known BBC announcer has come out of the closet to admit some years ago killing his lover who had AIDS and was suffering terribly and he has no regrets for what he did. Now of course the police are investigating and he will more than likely be charged with murder. Those who are against euthanasia go on about the possibility of abuse and that a person in intense pain or suffering an incurable illness may urgently desire it one day but not the next. My personal view is that if I am in either of those situations or totally incapable of fending for myself I would rather be sent peacefully off into what I believe is an eternal dreamless sleep. Talk of eternal life is really wishful thinking and those who desire it haven’t stopped to think what eternity really means. Do I repeat that old wise story of the novice monk who asked his master to describe eternity? And the master said, “Imagine the world is made of solid gold. Every thousand years a swallow flies by and touches it with his wingtip. When the world has been entirely worn away, eternity is just beginning.” There are variations to the story of course, there always are.