more from the heelers emails

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From: JH
Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 9:09 PM
Subject: re attenborough documentary clip
To: <jafjr@verizon.net>

Re: David Attenborough documentary clip titled "Are Humans Responsible For Pandemics," which you inflicted on me.

Faygo.

Well firstly I'd be concerned that these guys are trying to make out that their pet theories are held by all scientists.

They use phrases like "scientists believe," when what they mean is "some left wingers with primary degrees in science who hang out with me in the BBC canteen are claiming..."

Attenborough is a joyless guilt ridden life long atheist with a penchant for declaring that mankind is the sole problem here on earth and contriving all sorts of nonsensical pseudo scientific glib justifications for his claims.

If we'd only just leave the planet to the walusses, life would be perfect, eh Attenborough.

You've heard of self loathing white males who continually try to achieve credibility with black people by admitting to all sorts of purely notional wrong doing on all our behalfs.

I would suggest to you that Attenborough is more generically a self loathing human being.

His religion is climate change and he is keen to foster the notion that flu virus outbreaks are caused by industrialisation.

For all his faux radicali excoriations of mankind as a species, he is not willing to state a simple observable truth about certain segments of mankind as political actors.,

He is not willing to say: "The Chinese government developed this virus in a lab and released it either accidentally or deliberately on mankind."

As far as Attenborough is concerned, the facts must never be allowed to interfere with a good climate change story.

James

from the heelers emails

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 1:04 PM <rosebarrettod@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello there,

I just signed the petition "Minister for Health: PATisiran for PAT" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 100 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

http://chng.it/Vfbmwtkc7x

Thanks!
Rose

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For the attention of Rose Barrett O'Donoghue, editor of the Kildare Post newspaper...

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From: James Healy
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: Minister for Health: PATisiran for PAT
To: rosebarrettod <rosebarrettod@gmail.com>

O'Donoghue you Fianna Fail horror story.

A rose by any other name would be a ****ing eejit.

I'm sitting here eating raw bread and steinervortzels in a falling down house with no hot water, alone except for a neurotic budgie, two character driven dogs, and a parrot who absolutely refuses to pay rent and insists on augmenting his diet by ingesting the curtains and poohing on any of the few remaining armchairs which happen to be passing, while you... you edit your newspaper in palatial splendour surrounded by glittering sycophants, fawning politicos, toy boys and fear driven lackies, and you, you... you have the temerity to ask me for something.

Throw me a fricking bone.

Commission me to write something you horrendous gobshite. A man does not live on Fianna Fail propaganda crapweasal bollocksology petitions alone.

For ****'s sake.

James Healy

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From: Rose to JH

YOU gobshite!

I was out a job as soon as Covid hit!!

No Ballymore Bugle.

No Kildare Post.

No local reporting for the Leinster Leader.

But I'm alive.

By the way I mean this reply in the same irreverent tone as your own. Hope you're safe and well.

R.

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From JH to Rose.

Better than I deserved.

proofs of god

 The most amazing thing is not the vastness of the universe, the glory of the stars, the earth and her realms, the expanse of ocean, deserts, forests, mountains and plains, people, fish, birds, animals, all creatures, the mysteries of the atom, the quality of light, electricity, friendship, fellowship, conversation, prayer, love, the Catholic Church, Israel, and so on.

Reality is not the most amazing thing.

The most amazing thing is our experience of reality.

philosophicals

The first few days at the river, my mind filled with a quite extraordinary peace.

This seems to tie in with notions of mental healing that I have long advocated for those dealing with trauma.

A present experience of something beautiful or something that touches the heart or even just something the person is really interested in, can reduce the power of the memories that are causing hurt in an ongoing way.

The present experience reperspectivises the mind.

It is no longer dwelling on pain but on joy, freedom, praise of God, possibility.

This happened to me midst rain and shine, enfolded in the twists and turns of the riverbank, blessed by the sights and sounds of the everyday countryside.

The joy of those days almost immediately freed my mind from vexatious contemplations.

So the theory on reperspectivisation actually works in this instance.

This evening I plucked a few flowers on the bank and as I slipped suddenly and barely avoided precipitating myself headfirst into the river, I thought briefly and ruefully of the woman from Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady. I'd always considered her a right eejit for getting drowned while collecting flowers in a storm. Now I could imagine her watching me clinging to the bank and saying with exquisite Victorian courtesy: "Oh my Lord Heelers! Who's the eejit now?"

She must have been laughing fit to burst as a herd of bullocks chased me and the dogs home across the fields through the gathering dark. 

We made record time from the river to the house.

You know there's nothing like drumming hoofbeats getting ever closer in the dark to lend you wings.

Ah.

A herd of charging cattle that you can't even see, like joy, praise, belief, and beauty, can most effectively reperspectivise the mind, lifting its focus from all former upsets, and raising it to the translucent realisation that life for all its seeming faults is still the best possible option.

today they said

Following the Azerbaijani attack on the Armenian populace in Nagorno Karabakh.

Jens Stoltenberg (Secretary General of Nato): "I expect Turkey to use its considerable influence to calm the tensions."

James Healy: "I expect Turkey to attempt to conquer Nagorno Karabakh because Turkey's Muslim Brotherhood President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is behind this war.  He is flailing about desperately for a victory having failed over the past ten years of grand power games to install the Muslim Brotherhood franchisees styled Isis and Al Qaeda as the government of Syria, having failed to dominate the current Libyan civil war, and having most recently failed to intimidate the Greeks using warships in a dispute over mineral rights in the Mediterranean. Mr Erdogan needs a victory. The Azeris are his proxies. He is incepting a second Turkish genocide against the Armenians, the first being the murder of one and a half million Armenians by Turks in 1915."