Dear friends,
In a few hours depending on where you are, by the time you read this, it will already be 2020 to some, there will be several hours to go.
So before we get going with this post, thank you all who read this blog and sometimes comment on my many ramblings. You have all in your own ways made this blog a great gateway from the pressures of life. I noticed that if the people in the US of A stopped reading this blog, it would be such a lonely site. The stats show that you outnumbered all the other readers from the rest of the world combined. There were readers from countries I can’t locate on a map. Hi five to that guy from Latvia and Malta.
One of the best books I have read this year have been by Okot P’Bitek. His criticism of Christianity is beautiful. I fell in love with him.
Then I read Odera Oruka and I loved his contribution to the problem of evil. His argument that in omnibenevolence, omnipotence and omniscience can be inferred seems to be quite novel. He responds to both Platinga and White(I think) and concludes that given the problem of evil, it is more likely that atheism is true and theism false.
I read waiting for Godot and a host of other interesting books.
For some reason that I am yet to discern, the post on sex seems to have attracted a lot of views. Maybe the universe is telling me to write more on sex, who knows๐.
Our economy has been on a nosedive. And the building industry suffers as a consequence which is not fun for those of us directly involved.
Now with my master’s degree complete, i will in the new year begin a PhD in urban studies. That means some 3 years of study๐ญ. Hopefully I get a scholarship to cover for my studies.
I did not ride as much in 2019 and since I don’t exercise much I look like a small elephant. Or rather, I am a small elephant ๐.
Happy 2020 friends. You have all been great.
All the best to you, & yours, sir!
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All the best to you good friend.
And I hope you are not having a fiery beginning of year
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Thank you Mak.
Fire season doesn’t officially begin until April, but things can change pretty fast.
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This year I will send you rain since April we have long rains, that is if the weather doesn’t play monkey tricks on us
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Yeah, all the monkey tricks have often become deadly.
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Yeah. Like the rains we had toward the end of the year. Wrecked crazy havok
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Disasters everywhere, & much of it on the news almost everyday.
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Good luck on your PhD, and I hope the economy there gets better soon. Small elephants are very cool, BTW! ๐
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Thank you, Bob.
I am such an elephant every time I try to weigh myself, the machine says one person at a time
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Dontcha just hate smartass, mouthy machines?
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I try to fill their chords with sand so they are not rude to anyone else
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Good idea.
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They can’t expect to win all the time, you know
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Yup, even little elephants can be toughies.
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lol!
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Hello Mak. Yes best wishes to you this next year. Good luck on both your studies and in the rest of your life. Just for myself as someone from the US, I enjoy and learn from your posts, even if some of them are a bit above my level. I have learned a lot about your country from your posts and I am thankful for that. Hugs
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Scottie you are always too generous with your praise. Thank you and have a great 2020.
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Have a wonderful New Year and I know youโll come up with many more mind provoking posts, that we all love!
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Thank you Mary.
It’s always a pleasure to read your insights.
Have a pleasant 2020
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I would like to wish you all the luck on continuing your studies.
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Thank you my friend
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Happy New Years mak!
Best of luck with the studies. Don’t stress too much about elephantness, it happens to the best of us.
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Thanks Mike.
I try to cut weight and if just piles!
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I’m in the same boat. Lamentably it gets harder as you get older.
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Yeah, which is not nice
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2020, sounds so futuristic. And here I was sure I was going to be the antichrist in 1999 when I was around 12.
Thanks for a great blog, Mak!
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In 1999 I had not encountered atheism nor imagined there were people who didn’t have god belief. Now see where we are
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Yep, I couldn’t have realized that I wasn’t so strange after all back then.
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Yeah, now it seems so strange that I believed for so long
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Happy new year buddy. The one thing about fattening up…now when you haul-ass youโll have to make two trips… All the best to you. Itโs been a pleasure.
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When one is so fat, they begin to have two shadows๐.
It’s always a pleasure Jim
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Happy New Year and good luck on you PhD.
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Thanks Jeff
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There was a post on sex??? Damn! I missed that one! Sigh … the story of my life.
Congratulations on your Masters, and good luck on you Ph.D.! I am most of the way to a Ph.D. in International Relations, but I ran out of money and steam. You’ll do better, I’m sure!
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Steam you can build. Money is not as easy.
Yeah, there was & it keeps bringing new faces to this humble blog
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Yeah, just the word ‘sex’ draws ’em in! ๐ค
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Like a magnet, I dare add
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DOCTOR Noel… I like it!
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Happy Next year, Maka. Im sure it will improve, it almost can’t help itself. It’s been a joy finding you, and reading what you have to say. And frankly small elephants are some of my favorite critters. Large ones, however…
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The pleasure is all mine. It’s always a joy reading your thoughts.
I am such small elephant I go through doors sideways
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And it will not be from some funny theological college ๐
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Doctor Mak?
As a soon-to-be-titled member of the community, and as you and I are familiar with what goes on in parts of Africa, I expect you’ll be receiving requests to provide some Ground Rhinoceros Horn?
To which you will spend an inordinate amount of time informing such requestees that: ”I’m not that sort of Doctor, dammit!!”
All the very best from your Southern Neighbour.
๐
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I have seen titled members of my community being so particular in how they are introduced. You must introduce them as Dr. So and So or you will be reminded they didn’t spend all those years in school just to be called So and So.
Thank you my friend and have a great year
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Best wishes, Maka! I rode 7900 miles last year, and I am still TOO F%$#INJG PLUMP. I cannot even type the F word!
Elephants unite!
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Man that is some clicks you did. I didn’t even make 1000km. How can you be plump with that amount of activity?
This year i will try and ride 5000km.
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LOL! Good job, buddy! Probably the popularity of your offerings on sex is due in a large part to the desire, fancy and fascination the subject has for the majority of humanity! ๐ Naked hugs!
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“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” ~Arthur Conan Doyle
Happy New Year, Mak!
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Happy New Year, Ron.
i will remember this message and go a biking
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