Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 21, 2024

Two boots are better in this weather.

Divine intervention has won the coin flip. But pluralistic ignorance doesn’t believe it was fair. The coin flip was stolen!!!

Heads, it’s the beetle; tails, it’s the bespectacled bird.

(I see buildings, not a boot.)

I have often wondered if the multitude of Olympian gods were gradually generated for the purpose of moral instruction or entertainment or manipulation for political purposes.

Is superstition due to ignorance of causes of natural phenomena so widespread and ingrained in the human psyche that even educated persons had beliefs in divine interventions? And still do?

Something in our layered brains must tend toward belief in an Other that controls and guides us, if only dispassionately. Some may believe we exist in a Vivarium as small as our immediate neighborhood — or as large as the Cosmos. :/

pretty deep

I am definitely in favor of divine intervention if it will help to tame the forces of ignorance, which seem to be spreading unchecked throughout our world. If our species is meant to continue to exist and evolve (I believe it is), a little help would be greatly appreciated.

If the coin lands on its edge….?

Whatever it is it was inherent in the big bang.

Someone posted a NASA photograph of a big black hole, or rather, a pink sphincter. One very like it may have produced a different sort of Big Bang. If it did, that explains a lot.

All the makings of democracy.

Luck of the draw…what will be will be….it is what it is….

I remember having an “8 Ball” with silly futuristic revelations….

I remember being taught God will strike you dead if you commit a mortal sin….☹️talk about divine intervention….Oy vey!

If you could be aware of all the variables involved, you would easily predict the outcome of any coin flip, since true randomness is beyond the scope of this universe.

… people want free will until things go south…

..then it’s all…

…if God really loved us bad things wouldn’t happen…

emu emu and doug

Love the glasses! Wonderful collage.

Bird is frustrated that beetle is too big to fit in her mouth.

Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, …and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. R’amen.

Weird. I had a dream of an Emu wearing glasses last night. Divine intention?

Put a pickle in the mix.

French kisses come to mine

Why are flightless birds always trying to look smart?

I know well that my question is today’s very lamest, but I feel up to my hips in the delusion that we call “today.” I see lots of actual and immanent imbalance in the ultimate balancing-out of energy and matter. It seems to me we’re playing in our little corner of a box, looking at illusory limits and liminal illusions.

I never did pay any attention to the man behind the curtain. You shouldn’t either. He’s not really there.

Snub the roosters sliders.

…DeSanta Claus stopped running just like Forrest Gump…

…military burn pits …

…you become what you burn…

…unless it’s books…

…some people just like to see the world burn…

…chipping away for pennies…

..homogenize your base…

…yes is no…

…war is peace…

…ignorance is bliss…

…knowledge is power…

…ooh look!…

…kittens…

…build the wallet…

…nuke the whales…

…green eggs and ham…

…son of Sam…

…they bomb innocent women and children…

…but won’t let them write …

…Frog Applause on their airplanes…

…this is why we can’t have good things…

If the ostrich has his head in the ground I’d know for sure that this was about ‘our democracy.’

Then the bird takes off its glasses and becomes a 90s romcom heartthrob

Hm – an attractive ostrich you got there.

I was just offered the installation of the “Today On Frog Applause” App, on Chrome.

Is that normal?

As many or varied your explanations may be, the fact is that Things did not turn out the way you had intended. Any really Smart Bird would understand….

The “to boot” nailed it for me.

I always pick tails.

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