The Bible Bloke

 This will probably run along the lines of Worldview part 2, but that’s OK, let’s get it cranked up and see where we go. Let me start off by saying there are things I don’t know. To be honest with you there are things I don’t want to know, but that’s another story. There are books I haven’t read, movies I haven’t seen and there are books and movies I don’t want to see. My mother was a big influence on my early reading habits, and very much my early viewing habits. Mum loved murder mysteries, and she loved westerns. I enjoy a good who-dun-it, but I can take or leave westerns. Mum would hand me a book, and I would generally read it. There were some I just couldn’t get into, much as I tried. I remember having a copy of a booked called Swallows and Amazon’s, and for the life of me I couldn’t get past the first page. One day I might find a copy and read it and figure out why. But here we have one of life’s puzzles. I’m sure there are people who loved that book when they read it as kids....

I want to take a bit of time tackling a concept that looms large in the background or our now, and our every day.  This idea of worldview. If you've never thought about it, that's OK. Trust me on this, everyone has a worldview. You might not be aware of it, but you have one. In order to understand how the world works, and how other people work, then it's important to grapple with this concept. I have worn glasses for as long as I can remember, until recently that is, when I had my cataracts done. As a kid I was always put down the back of the class. I never worked out why. Because I was chronically short sighted I had to squint at the blackboard, yes, in those days they still used chalk, and often I wouldn't be able to make out what was written there. I think it's a bit of an indictment on the education system of the day that kids like me were considered a bit dim because we just didn't get it. Hey guys, I didn't get it because I couldn't see it! Eventua...