MY DEMENTED DIARY

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Today we celebrate the birthday of Johan Friis, born in 1494. He was a Danish statesman who helped his king convert Denmark from Catholic to Lutheran. I'm not sure that was a whole lot of a step up, but I guess we gotta settle for what we can get.

I've really gotta get more familiar with classical writings. Yeah, I know, I've read enough of Marcus Aurelius and Plato and Lucretius to know they're several orders of magnitude smarter than the moronic stuff attributed to Jesus Christ (who was probably mythical anyhow).

But here's the problem. When we're about two years old we learn about Jesus Christ from a nice sweet rosy-faced Sunday-school teacher who leads us in singing nice songs and clapping our hands.

And then when we're teenagers, we learn about classical writings from some tangle-toothed old hag who eats nails for breakfast and breaks bricks with her face making us memorize the birthdays of a buncha dead guys.

And if the public school system ever introduced the famous Dilemma of Euthyphro (the proof that it's impossible to derive moral values from a belief in God), the Righteous Reich would gang up on the school board.

And as a result, reading classical philosophy tends to put me to sleep.

Oh well, today's the day our little warm snap is over. It's gonna snow today, says the Wondrous Weather Website.

And now, suppose you owned a huge castle and had plenty of room on the east and west sides, and you wanna have a tennis court and a swimming pool. Which would you put on the east, to get morning sun and evening shade? And which would go on the west, to get morning shade and evening sun?

I'll never own any such castle, of course, but what if I wanna write a murder mystery about a crime that takes place in such a castle?

Happy Building Castles In Air!

OrneryPest