Recent content by Bob Crowley

Your comment about the mirror reminds me of a dressing table with wing mirrors that my parents had when I was a kid. If you got the angles right you could just about see an infinite number of reflections receding into the distance as they bounced off each other. But one day I had this eerie...

I've got a bit of an interest in quantum entanglement. Way back before I left the Presbyterian Church (got married and moved away), my old pastor opined to me that "I think God's going to drive us out into the universe... I think we'll learn to teleport ... Although it will take some time...

The exercise reminds me of the cynical comment I read somewhere during the Cold War that "a tactical nuclear weapon is one that explodes in Germany".

Demons are fallen angels. Fr. Jose Antonio Fortea had this to say in his book "Interview with an Exorcist". He was appointed an exorcist but is no longer practising. I suppose he'd had enough of it. It reminds me of a comment I heard from a Presbyterian pastor who'd had a ministy working...

There's a scene in the SF comedy "Absolutely Anything" where some aliens capture a probe sent by earth. They find a template similar to this CD with a message like "We come in peace!". They break out in guffaws of laughter and toss it onto a whole pile of other similar plaques and space probes...

It's quite incredible that such a weak signal is able to span the distance from Voyager to Earth, about 15 billion kilometres, and that it can carry so much information that can be deciphered, after being filtered out from all the other electromagnetic noise...

It seems that at least one expert thought the same thing. https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/israel-launches-missile-strike-against-iran/news-story/85cfbc13bc2ce1e2a92f2835f1b99bfc

This ignores Christ's statement to Peter that He would build His Church on Peter, "The Rock", and that whatsoever Peter (and the apostles) bound or loosed would be bound or loosed in heaven. Christ was giving the Church authority. Or as my old PROTESTANT pastor put it "What's the use of having...

Salt water crocodiles have the strongest bite in the animal kingdom. If they get hold of you that's almost certainly it. https://animals.mom.com/powerful-crocodiles-bite-10441.html

I don't have any more information than anybody else - just the same limited news that's available to everybody else. But I get the impression that if it was an attack it was a muted response, in line with Iran's recent attack which didn't seem to target "strategic assets" in Israel. If Iran's...

It appears the 16 year old attacker may have had mental issues. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/19/sydney-church-stabbing-charges-terroism-offences-mental-illness-christ-the-good-shepherd-church-wakeley-ntwnfb

A bit morbid for the topic but it's believed a 16 year old boy was attacked and possibly killed by a salt water crocodile in Torres Straight in the last day or so. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-19/body-of-missing-torres-strait-teen-found-crocodile-attack/101045364 Apparently the boat was...

Heaven existed before the universe. Angels and demons (which are fallen angels) existed before the universe. As for when, we don't know. Whether we believe in special creation or evolution, or a combination of the two, we cannot pinpoint the time.

A pilot from the Royal Flying Doctor Service holds hands with a kangaroo. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-18/kangaroo-shakes-hands-with-pilot/103738778 Incidentally the RFDS was largely started by the Rev. John Flynn, a presbyterian pastor. It was to assist people in the far flung reaches...

They did a bathtub survey once to find out who sits with their back against the taps and who sits in the shallow end. Every single responent said they sat in the shallow end except for one bloke, a single outlier. So they asked him why he sat with his back to the taps? "I haven't got a plug!"...