‘trusting the science’ through the decades

Now that we have sorted out whats needed for our chickens, ducks, geese (and a cat), we have drifted into a feeding routine twice a day, seven days a week.

It’s easy to fall into a routine where we don’t notice whats really happening, and we just throw some food and water at them without any emotional engagement.

It’s a dangerous way to be, because you aren’t really caring for them, or noticing how they are.

The geese for example are naturally quite anxious like a bunch of 4 year olds with OCD. Any change to their routine raises their stress levels and the amount of noise they make,

The answer is to simply talk to them in a calming voice and sometimes sit down with them for while. It only takes a few minutes for them to calm down and go back to browsing thru the paddock picking out bits of grass to eat. I always try to feed them at the same time and place everyday.

Ducks are very self assured, placid, and happy to see you (they always think you have food). The only notable thing is that they need their water changing every day, because they turn it into a mud bowl rather rapidly.

The chickens have a hierarchy amongst themselves, and always have internal squabbles going on. The key thing is just to watch their health in general.

It’s our youngest daughters first year at university, but also her first time away from home for any length of time.

As the year has progressed, study pressure has increased, but also peer pressure to party and drink.
Thankfully, she’s working out these issues by herself.

Typically in the first year, the party goers fail exams spectaculy and dont make it to year two.

She’s very happy and a lot more confident whenever we visit for the day, but doesnt want us to leave and a bit clingy.

She’s quite capable most of the time, but occasionally we get a panic call about an easily fixable problem.

I guess it’s a growing up thing.

Leviticus

This chapter has some more regulations from God in detail (grain, guilt,sin, offering, etc) which should be followed least you get fried like Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10)

Numbers

This chapter is about holding several census’es and then organising the twelve tribes of Israel into divisions as they travel away from Egypt

From there, it’s a seemingly endless supply of blood thirsty stories as they travel away from Egypt, wiping out various tribes as they go. This is interpersed with laws about just about everything.

Deuteronomy

More of the same with the death of Moses at the end

Joshua

Yes, you guessed it! Joshua takes over from where Moses left off.

The same theme keeps happening though, the people disregard god, god gets pissed off, something bad happens, and more rules and regulations come out as a result.

Just more blood and guts stories without a happy ending…

Yeah…, I think I’m a bit done for now with trying to read the bible as objectively as I can. I find it to be very negative and oppressive.

The oppressiveness to me is not acceptable, it leads to people doing good things not out of respect for others, but out of fear of the wrath of God, in other words, they end up doing the ‘right’ things for the wrong reasons.

To be fair, all I’ve read so far is from the old testament (pre Jesus), the new testament is a lot more positive from what I’ve heard.

At this point, I was hoping to find answers as to why a lot of religious folk didn’t fall for the covid scamdemic, now I’m left wondering how they are so calm and peaceful, given the horrors of the old testament.