A blog by Tom Sheepandgoats (aka Tom Harley)
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Hiking Around the World
The District Overseer's going to walk around the earth. He told us so at the Circuit Assembly. He's not going now, of course. He'll go in the new system. Probably well into the new system, not on day one. He'll backpack, I guess. Go with his wife. He doesn't worry that he may not get the time off. He will. He doesn't worry about problems…
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Playing With Dinosaurs
The kid at work thinks I’m old. He addresses me that way. “Hey, old man!” he says. It’s all good-natured fun, or at any rate, I may as well let the little snot think I regard it as good-natured fun. I ask him if he’s ever seen Fred Flintstone on TV. “I knew that guy,” I tell him. “Not real well,” I admit. He was…
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Carl Jung, Job, and the Holocaust
I've said nice things about Carl Jung on this blog before. For example: “The next time I need my head examined, that’s the kind of guy I’ll seek out, rather than some modern-day critical type who declares: 'first thing we have to do is get rid of this nutcake religion!'” Not only does Jung, unlike most of his colleagues, acknowledge that there is a spiritual…
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Darwin’s Eye
There was great joy in the atheist world during 2010, where they celebrated the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin! Sigh…..that left Jehovah’s Witnesses doubly out in the cold: we don’t celebrate Darwin and we don’t do birthdays. Nonetheless, it’s a Charles Darwin statement that will be used as a starting point for this post. It’s taken from Origin of the Species, chapter VI. Call my recognition…
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Evolutionary Psychology and the Whitepebble Institute
The last thing we expected for 2010 was to be awarded First Prize for Scientific Achievement, owing to our recent research contribution on the evolutionary origin of boisterous flatulence. But, indeed, the prestigious Wonderful Scientist Magazine did so honor us, and now Tom Whitepebble, President of the Whitepebble Research Institute, to which I belong, is looking forward to the honorary dinner and hobnobbing with other eminent…
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Pedophiles and Smear Campaigns
On the one hand, I can certainly see it. The boy was molested, repeatedly, by the same individual, over a long period of time. Shouldn't someone be held accountable? Of course. On the other hand, it was an organization that was held accountable, and that organization has one of the strongest child-protective policies of anyone, and they've had it for a long long time. Ironically,…
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The Marcion Trap
So here I am, battling villains who insist the name Jehovah has no place in the New Testament, assisted by allies who nobly and quite properly come to my defense, when what should land in my comment inbox but a dissertation about Marcion. Who in the world is he? And what does he have to do with anything? “In all likely-hood, Marcion actually lived in…
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Josh Groban and the Watchtower
There's no way I'm falling for this! I absolutely refuse! No! No! NO! Don't try to make me go there. It's not enough that I made an on-line ass of myself in connection with Randy Newman? And now, do you really think I'm going to do it all over again with Josh Groban? Just how naïve do you think I am? What about that proverb…
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American Motors
“Brakes are a little squishy on the [then 24-year old] Buick,” I said to my wife, Mrs Sheepandgoats. “Would you run it down to the repair shop first thing in the morning?” But she never made it! Backing out the driveway, the brakes failed completely, and she smacked right into a parked car. In front of a police car, no less! The officer emerged. What…