Time for another series of Share Your World questions from Melanie. Here goes:
If you drink coffee, how do you like it best? Hot, cold, iced, with cream, with sugar or black as black?
I do, indeed, drink coffee. Only hot coffee, only black coffee sweetened with one packet of Splenda.
In your opinion, what’s the greatest invention of our age?
I’m using it to respond to Melanie’s SYW questions: the iPhone.
Global warming? Reality or myth?
Global warming (aka, climate change) is reality. The Bible is myth.
Are you an explorer or more a home body?
I used to be an explorer back in the day. Now that I’m retired (and old), I’ve become more of a home body.
What were you grateful for this week?
Hmm. Other than I’m still alive and well (as are my wife, kids, and pets), I can’t honestly think of anything else. But maybe that’s enough.
This, That, and the Other 
Simply excellent answers! 😀 Thanks for participating in SYW this week…and now there’s two ‘votes’ for the cell phone….you and Trent. Hmmm do I sense a trend? 😉
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Yep, that’s enough. Some days all I do is breathe, and that’s enough 😉
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I’m a tea drinker – strong and black; I took a course in Bible as Literature and that’s what it is; I used to be an explorer but like you, have slowed down. (being a writer as meant less travel – also having a cat)
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I have a cat and a dog, and having pets does add a level of logistical difficulty to travel planning.
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In my opinion, the greatest invention was those blue teeth.
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Yes, those blue teeth sure to make ‘lectronic communimacations a whole lot easier, don’t they.
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I like coffee. I like it with sugar or honey or agave nectar or whatever they use at starbucks (syrup) and the like. But it also has to have cream and frothy milk (for hot) — or I think they just use milk at starbucks (for iced). I’m a fan.
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I tend to think global warming is true, but my approach has more to do with keeping things clean and keeping nature alive and supporting native populations than with the most common supposed solutions. I don’t think carbon taxes and offsets will help much if at all (and I think they would be economically harmful to those who are less than rich and anyone who wants to see competition ). I’m in favor of clear rules on clean water, clean air, and so on.
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I can’t decide between internet and cell phone.
But I also like land line phones.
SAVE HOME PHONES!
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I haven’t used a landline phone in at least eight or so years. No need, so why pay for it if I always have my cellphone with me?
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When I moved into the house I’m in now, I could have kept a land line with my number (from the previous location) for like two dollars a month. That’s not a lot… particularly since there are at least a couple things it would be good for. Sometimes, if the cell phone dies (and don’t forget the silly iPhone programming that made it run down faster), you can still have that available. (Same if you misplace or lose your phone.) And why not have a different sort of phone? What if the tower(s) were to be down? I could think of more reasons.
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Two dollars a month for a landline? A few years back I contacted AT&T, the monopoly phone company in my area and the cheapest monthly rate (without long distance, without caller ID, without voicemail, call waiting, or much of anything but local service, was around $35/month. Plus I’d have to buy my own telephone.
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Well, yeah, I wasn’t dealing with AT&T or a monopoly.
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To be a little more clear, I don’t think small businesses should be exempt from the rules (by which I mean laws, not trusting self-regulation). But what I also mean is big companies or rich people can’t buy exemptions (that little guys can’t afford).
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You are after all entitled to your own opinion as is everyone else. Remember too that our choices have consequences… the good, bad or ugly. #justsaying
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I agree. But can you be more specific about which of my opinions I express in this post you are referring to. #justcurious.
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Once upon a time….
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You see…. believing that The Bible is a myth is your opinion. Christians are entitled to believe it isnt. What have we got to lose? If we are .. its our present that is affected by people who mock and scorn BUT if we are right and the Bible is real its (y)our eternity that is affected so why take a dig at Christians and our beliefs? #ThreatenedMuch?
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You’re right. I was expressing my opinion. The nature of the Share Your World prompt is to get people to share their opinions. And yes, Christians are entitled to believe whatever they want to believe. It was not my intention to mock and scorn. My philosophy is “whatever floats your boat,” and I wasn’t taking a dig at your beliefs as much as I was expressing my own, personal opinion in a post on my blog that the stories in the Bible are mythology. If you choose to believe in and accept that mythology as your religious truth, go for it.
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Lol #mikedropped
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Who’s Mike? Or did you mean “#micdropped,” as in dropping a microphone?
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Ag jinne mamma… night night. #ntsnt
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Yes. We ARE still alive. A little broken, but breathing and alive. And ready to VOTE.
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For me the greatest invention is paper.
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And of our age.. Internet.
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But it asked for the greatest invention “of our age.” Paper was invented around 100 BC in China. That’s not what I would call an invention “of our age.”
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Read the comment above..
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Yep. I guess I responded to your initial comment at about the same time you were making your second comment.
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Q: Global warming? Reality or myth?
A: Global warming (aka, climate change) is reality. The Bible is myth.
Interesting that you brought the (Christian) Bible into the mix since the question had absolutely nothing to do with it. I can only assume that you deliberately were taking a shot a Christians just because you could.
Now I would never try to convince you regarding my belief system. You’re not interested, it would take too long, and adopting a faith in an all-powerful Creator is as much a metaphysical experience as it is anything else.
However, you probably didn’t think through the ramifications of your statement. I mentioned the “Christian” Bible before, but the first two-thirds of it, what Christians call the Old Testament, make up the Jewish Bible.
The writings in the Jewish Bible are the very basis for the existence of Israel and the Jewish people. I know liberal, secular Jews who would disagree with me, but given that my wife is Jewish and I’ve had extensive experience in both some churches and some synagogues (I know you might not believe this, but not all Christians and not all Jews are the same, and in fact, there are churches and synagogues, even here in red state Idaho, that are highly progressive), so my opinions are not entirely uninformed.
So in calling the Bible a myth (and that’s your right), you may well be invalidating every single observant Jewish person in the present and for the past 3500 years, as well as the Jewish people as a whole. I know you didn’t consider the implications of all this, but the Holocaust tried to do the same thing (and I’m absolutely not accusing you of being anti-semitic or a Holocaust denier).
Yes, I’m going to extremes but to make a point. Whether you believe in something or not (speaking of Colin Kaepernick), it doesn’t mean those who do are invalid. The Bible, once you study it (and Bible studies are complicated) is an incredibly nuanced and complex document, and I’m the first to admit that most churches don’t even know how to study it (I’ve argued endlessly with many Christians on this point).
I am curious about your opinion of the Koran (it’s transliterated from Arabic, so it can be spelled different ways in English). Is it myth as well? Would you stay that on your blog if you know Muslims were reading it?
I know you made the comment casually, but words have power. As writers, we should be aware of that.
Oh, I take my coffee black, nothing else in it.
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If I drink coffee black, it makes me sleepy.
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That’s strange. It’s supposed to wake you up!
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When I combine coffee and sugar, I am energized; neither one on its own works that way though.
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Whether the Bible (Old or New Testaments), the Koran, or any other religious text, they are all, in my opinion, myths. I assume at least some Muslims have stumbles across my blog, but perhaps not. So while I used the Bible as an illustration, I was not intending to limit my belief that all religions are base in mythology to Christianity.
Why did I bring it up at all? Just to offer a contrast between those who deny climate change and those who eagerly embrace religious mythology. I also don’t think you need to be religious in order to believe that the Holocaust happened and to be embarrassed by the inhumanity that humans perpetuate against one another in the name of their favorite god, for “ethnic cleansing,” or for the whatever religious beliefs to which they adhere. Is all that part of GOD’s infallible plan? That millions of people — his children — shall be killed and persecuted in his name?
I am not a religious person in any way and I believe that all religions are based on made-up bullshit. But I don’t deny that there is much to be learned by reading religious tracts and that if it helps people make it through their lives, then who am I to be critical of them? But that doesn’t make me believe that the Bible is any more true than Tolkien’s Middle Earth, for example,
or other fantasy tales. It’s great literature, but it’s mythology at its finest.
Okay, enough of this meandering response to your comment.
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You’ve probably already gotten the pingback, but out of fairness, I wanted to share the link. No, I’m not picking on you, however our brief transaction here served as the catalyst for a commentary of my own. Writing is how I process information and emotions, so I crafted this: https://mymorningmeditations.com/2018/09/25/when-does-a-faith-become-a-culture/
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I’ll need time to digest and respond to your post.
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No worries. Technically, you don’t have to respond, but I can understand why you would.
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