Holy Mama of CRAPA-COLA -- the Puerto Vallarta Writers Club Meets at the BASE of My HILL!!!

This is actually Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, two days ago. The copyright to this photo is owned by Lumina News and if Pat Bradford requests it, I will remove the photo. Here is the original article: http://www.luminanews.com/article.asp?aid=13241 .

And here is where the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group meets -- at the Boutique Theater:

http://www.theboutiquepv.com/

No TELLIN' what kind of trouble I can get into with a REAL LIVE THEATER only three blocks from home!!!

(Volunteer work, 7-foot giant wearing sandwich-board advertising amongst the mini-Mexicans, one man show that can play setlessly at unused times to raise money -- or even some for me if I get a visa that allows work. Maybe do it at SEVERAL theaters to raise money all around town for theaters, etc. -- I just TREMBLE to imagine . . . )

Let's face it: I DO tend to get "carried away" -- but there are so MANY possibilities of WHERE things might go . . .



>>> OTHERWISE THIS MORNING:


1. "'Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?' Asks Sixth Grader -- See His Amazing Response" from Kenan-Family-Associated HuffingtonPost.com, here is the letter exchange and the entire article can be read here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/einstein-scientists-pray_n_4697814.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=901254b=facebook .

She wrote:

January 19, 1936

My dear Dr. Einstein,

We have brought up the question: Do scientists pray? in our Sunday school class. It began by asking whether we could believe in both science and religion. We are writing to scientists and other important men to try and have our own question answered.

We will feel greatly honored if you will answer our question: Do scientists pray, and what do they pray for?

We are in the sixth grade, Miss Ellis's class.

Respectfully yours,

Phyllis

He replied a mere five days later, sharing with her his thoughts on faith and science:

January 24, 1936

Dear Phyllis,

I will attempt to reply to your question as simply as I can. Here is my answer:

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.

However, we must concede that our actual knowledge of these forces is imperfect, so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith. Such belief remains widespread even with the current achievements in science.

But also, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.

With cordial greetings,

your A. Einstein

2. That's right folks -- DESPITE "separation of Church and State", religious orgs in the USA spend nearly $400,000,000.00 in POLITICAL ACTIVITY each year:

3. Another cause of "The American Problem":

4. And now I must return to the doctora to see what she thinks of my foot's healing process . . .


Scott

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