Eggbert's Travels

Wednesday 16^th May

SHE SAID:

With plenty to keep me occupied at the house, chores & orchid file sorting, I stayed put today.

It is very nice here at the house with the bright blue sunny skies. Shame it isn't 10C warmer! But it isn't that bad really. It is nice to sit out in the semi-enclosed veranda; it gets warm in the afternoon sun.

Photos from yesterday's outing.

Welcome to Walcha...the Eastern entry sculpture

Autumn on the Oxley Highway

All that remains of "Irish Town", on the Walcha to Uralla road

Across the fields

HE SAID:

Usually, religion is a no-go topic, but today I will make an exception because of a very ironic story I read online at news.com.au. There is no way anyone could get a good idea of what is going in the world from just this one crappy news site, but I include it in the several news sites I check regularly, as a way to get a broader picture of events.

The article I am referring to was about the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, and of the many deaths that ensued. But the amazing part for me was when the story described how US evangelical Christian preachers were present to open the place, and that these evangelical preachers, and several prominent US politicians who are also evangelicals, are hoping to start a war in the Middle East to fulfil a prophecy that will bring on the second coming of Jesus, followed by "The Rapture", when 144,000 souls will go to heaven, and all the rest of the world's souls will go to Hell. Just how they can think that by starting a war they will be considered better than the other 8 billion souls alive today the story didn't say. Anyway, to top it all off, the story went on to say that this is exactly the same prophecy that the terrorist group that call themselves ISIS was using to justify their war in the Middle East (Jesus is a prophet in Islam, not the Christ). Except that they thought that they'd be the ones that go to heaven. So in a strange way this news report was implying that the USA and ISIS want the same thing, but that both sides consider themselves the righteous ones. Quite a different perspective in news stories that I had not come across before!