Thread: Happy 200th birthday Darwin!

Another thing that I like about Nietzsche is the way that he can get things into perspective and laugh at them. For instance the idea that 'god' would give a damn about all the silly little sins that christians queue up to have forgiven through the priest every week or the idea that the universe would be a better place if they lived forever!

How can people make such a fuss about their small vices, the way these devout little men do? No one—and certainly not God—could care less about it. Finally, they even want to possess "the crown of eternal life," all these small people from the provinces. But what for? What for? It's impossible to push presumption any further. An "immortal" Peter—who could endure him? They have an ambition that makes one laugh: they spell out their most personal things—their stupidity, melancholy, and their indolent worries—as if the essence of all things had a duty to worry about such things. They never get tired of wrapping up God himself in the smallest misery they find themselves in. And the most appalling taste of this constant familiarity with God! This Jewish—and not merely Jewish—excessive importuning God with mouth and paw!

talking of Darwin - in a loose sense - here's a recent contender for the next Darwin Awards.....

just spotted on news website.... all about a man who won a competition for eating pancakes as part of celebrating "Butter Week". I notice the party continued , when his body had been taken away following his 'unfortunate' accident ....

Pancake Eating Contest Winner Chokes To Death - Yahoo! News UK

A giant fossil sea monster found in the Arctic and known as "Predator X" had a bite that would make T-Rex look feeble, scientists said Monday.

The 50 ft (15 metre) long Jurassic era marine reptile had a crushing 33,000 lbs (15 tonnes) per square inch bite force, the Natural History Museum of Oslo University said of the new find on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. [...]

"The calculation is one of the largest bite forces ever calculated for any creature," the Museum said of the bite, estimated with the help of evolutionary biologist Greg Erickson from Florida State University.

Predator X's bite was more than 10 times more powerful than any modern animal and four times the bite of a T-Rex, it said of the fossil, reckoned at 147 million years old. Alligators, crocodiles and sharks all now have fearsome bites.



Fossil sea monster's bite makes T-Rex look feeble - Yahoo! News UK

Further proof of the behemoths and leviathans of which the Bible speaks