http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/kinglear/
The Literature Network
King Lear
William Shakespear
Act 4. Scene I
Old Man
Fellow, where goest?
GLOUCESTER
Is it a beggar-man?
Old Man
Madman and beggar too.
GLOUCESTER
He has some reason, else he could not beg.
I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw;
Which made me think a man a worm: my son
Came then into my mind; and yet my mind
Was then scarce friends with him: I have heard more since.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=39565
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Prayer in Schools
February 25, 1984
My fellow Americans:
From the early days of the colonies, prayer in school was practiced and revered as an important tradition. Indeed, for nearly 200 years of our nation's history, it was considered a natural expression of our religious freedom. But in 1962 the Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Sometimes I can't help but feel the first amendment is being turned on its head. Because ask yourselves: Can it really be true that the first amendment can permit Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to march on public property, advocate the extermination of people of the Jewish faith and the subjugation of blacks, while the same amendment forbids our children from saying a prayer in school?
When a group of students at the Guilderland High School in Albany, New York, sought to use an empty classroom for voluntary prayer meetings, the 2d Circuit of Appeals said, "No." The court thought it might be dangerous because students might be coerced into praying if they saw the football captain or student body president participating in prayer meetings.
Then there was the case of the kindergarten class reciting a verse before their milk and cookies.
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https://www.psychologistworld.com/superstition
Psychologist World
Superstition
How Skinner's pigeon experiment revealed signs of superstition in pigeons.
"They may seem unlikely candidates for psychological analysis, but pigeons have given a revealing insight into how animals, including humans, can be bound by superstition..."
The Superstition Experiment
In the Summer of 1947, renowned behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner published his study on a group of pigeons that showed even animals are susceptible to the human condition that is superstition.
Skinner conducted his research on a group of hungry pigeons whose body weights had been reduced to 75% of their normal weight when well-fed. For a few minutes each day, a mechanism fed the birds at regular intervals. What observers of the pigeons found showed the birds developing superstitious behavior, believing that by acting in a particular way, or committing a certain action, food would arrive.
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from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
Dec 16, 2017 6:57pm
You see how ridiculous are Jesus Christ bible-thumpers.
Still, in these modern days, those morons, as did their idiotic cavemen ancestors, think - with false hope - their ridiculous fairy-tale "Heaven" is in the sky above.
The Common Era of G-Sus Gullible Chumps.
from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
June 25, 2018 at 3:41 PM
You only care about that Jesus bible-thumper crap because you're SCARED.
You're scared because scam-artists convinced you the Bogey Man is real.
Now you're terrified of mortality and you NEED to do anything you can to kiss the ass of your imaginary God.
Pathetic.
from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
Dec 16, 2017 7:01pm
Eventually their delusion will evolve, I'm sure.
Delusional people, such as all Jesus Christ bible-thumpers, will simply change their story when the facts prove they are wrong.
Million of monkey-men were wrong about Zeus so they simply invented a phony God easier to believe.
from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
Dec 15, 2017 6:01pm
Jesus Christ bible-thumpers throwing around hundred dollar bills.
That's how those wacko nutjob Jesus thumpers bought off the equally weak-minded primitives around the world.
The primitive mind, as is all Jesus Christ bible-thumpers, is easily impressed.
Show them something flashy and BUNCO! - their new "God" is better than the old God.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
Edwin Hubble
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.
Edwin Hubble is also known for providing substantial evidence that many objects then classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. American astronomer Vesto Slipher provided the first evidence for this argument almost a decade before.
Discoveries
The universe goes beyond the Milky Way galaxy
posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:21 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 25 September 2015 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
Edwin Hubble
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.
Edwin Hubble is also known for providing substantial evidence that many objects then classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. American astronomer Vesto Slipher provided the first evidence for this argument almost a decade before.
Discoveries
The universe goes beyond the Milky Way galaxy
Edwin Hubble's arrival at Mount Wilson Observatory, California in 1919 coincided roughly with the completion of the 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker Telescope, then the world's largest. At that time, the prevailing view of the cosmos was that the universe consisted entirely of the Milky Way Galaxy. Using the Hooker Telescope at Mt. Wilson, Hubble identified Cepheid variables (a kind of star that is used as a means to determine the distance from the galaxy – see also standard candle) in several spiral nebulae, including the Andromeda Nebula and Triangulum. His observations, made in 1922–1923, proved conclusively that these nebulae were much too distant to be part of the Milky Way and were, in fact, entire galaxies outside our own. This idea had been opposed by many in the astronomy establishment of the time, in particular by the Harvard University-based Harlow Shapley. Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on November 23, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
From 11/23/1924 to 9/25/2015 is 90 years 10 months 2 days
from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
Aug 10, 2018 3:02pm
The National Weather Service website is now reporting 106 degrees Fahrenheit at my location. The warmest I have seen them report since I lived here locally is 108. My weather device right now is reporting 111 degrees but who knows if that's accurate. A thermistor is easily affected by absorbed heat, or something like that. It's in the shade now but it was in the direct sunlight for several hours today. I have wondered where the threshold is at the higher temperatures. Something about how the direct sunlight can have a impact only up to a certain point. The surrounding material will be warmed only to a certain point. So my theory has been that in days such as this when the air (a poor conductor of the energy in sunlight) temperature is very high then the surrounding material (a much better conductor of the energy from sunlight) will be about the same.
The smoke today is so thick from the wildfires I cannot even see the nearby mountains from my window.
Hell.
The invention of monkey-human-cavemen in Europe who were often exposed to volcanoes, is my guess.
And the United States of America is rife to this day with such moronic and idiotic superstitious people.
Religion is the desperate retreat of the uneducated United States American.
And when I say 'uneducated' then I am referring to the simple, basic stuff that most people don't pay attention to in middle school.
Things such as tectonic plates, penumbra, the reason for the cycles of the moon. And that's just the stuff here locally from the surface of this planet Earth. The vastness of the Universe beyond and out there and its deep history are clinically incomprehensible to the United States American zipping around spewing out poison in their gas-guzzlers with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the phone clicking away mindlessly droning on with "LOL" and "Like, that was me, like".
A woman trying to counter my argument about ignorance and me thinking "Defensiveness. Yeah, I get it".
And yet, for some reason, I have WASTED more than a decade trying to get them to share their opinion with me about a very important matter that concerns everyone. Truly futile.
Trying to reason with monkeys.
Monkeys who claim to be experts on the Universe.
When something is unknown those dullards simply proclaim "God did it".
God Is Ignorance.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 3:26 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 04 November 2018
