It’s hard to wonder what is going on in the World. But with newspapers you generally get a very up-to-date account of what is ‘happening’. I counted it as a blessing that in my work, I read a few newspapers a day, tabloid and board sheets alike – and I surfed their websites with immense interest listening (or reading if strictly speaking) to lot of people’s responses and comments on the current issues. Sometimes, the 360 degree opinions on there would make you take out the map and check that the globe is still a round place to be.

Today, the gem is the discussion in The Times Icelandic Volcanic ash story, drifting to our sky and lock down the whole country’s air space, provoked a line of satiric exchanges on religions on the forum. I read with muse when a lady ( I think she is, go by the name of Lisa ) stated: “God is REAL! The end times is here, haven’t anyone noticed that more natural distasters is taking place every day on a larger scale”.

Only then to be told by a few people to lay off the religions. With Kevin’s most vehemently stated: ‘God isn’t real. There’s no God to rebel against. And intellect is the only thing that’s dragged us out of the dark ages that clearly the likes of you are determined to still occupy. Please don’t try and drag the rest of us down with.’

Along the line we have people talk about whether it’s really necessary to suspended all the flights, the inconveniences, the BA9 incident, the insults of each other, the declining of Times readership manner….a perfect day.

There are many stories catch my eyes today, with the obvious election debate, but I am mostly reading about the ‘Australia faces huge locust plague‘ and the ‘Chinese Yushu quake‘, with these volcanoes, quakes and locust going around, I wonder if there is any sequence of the second coming in the bible or is the News people all over the world know something we don’t?

© 2010 Miloslav Druckmüller