The crest of a black tide

[fpb]

Anyone who thinks that the fact that the everlastingly resurrected scandal stories about the Church always peak about Eastertime is pathetically naive. The journalistic mob and their managers know what they are doing. This is their way of writing Easter sermons

Comments

[amonseuldesir]

As the Trotskyist saying goes: the minority is not always right but the unanimous majority (of journalists in this case) is usually wrong.

[fpb]

Or as General Patton is reputed to have said: whenever everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

[amonseuldesir]

Nice. i will remember this' one.
Apropos, in the famous (i.e.. notorious) Israeli intelligence there is a special unit called "Just the Opposite" (the name is in fact much nicer, it's in ... Aramaic: איפכא מסתברא, which means something like: "in fact - it is the opposite"). Well, the function of these analysts is the following: whenever there is a an important assessment regarding some major event, or development, and the assessment says A, this "Just the Opposite" unit gives a counter-assessment, -A. It appears that reality is often explained just as good with -A as with A. I like this idea.
(Only one question remains: if the intelligence is so good and we are all so super-intelligent, why are we [-we?] in such a deep s-h-i-t?, Or as the saying - now fallen out of fashion - goes: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" I saw it on the poster of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", a film I haven't seen).

[fpb]

If you lot weren't so smart, you would have been wiped out by the five armies in 1948. The survival of Israel is not unlike a miracle.

[shezan]

Amen.

[notebuyer]

Christ's parable about the wheat and the tares comes to mind: both have been sown in the field, and both plants have increased abundantly, and we will never root them out while the field is unharvested, but only one is designed for harvest, while the other is for the fire.