Skywatch Friday and some prose

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Here are some pictures of my favourite city in the whole wide world: Amsterdam

A friend from Antwerp and me saw this reflection during a walk through Vondelpark

Westertoren. If you could look straight through the tram and the houses, you could see the Anne Frank house. This was when I went catsitting.

What I like about friends coming to visit Amsterdam: I tend to avoid the center but they usually don't want to. So I go to places in 'my own' city where I hardly ever come. Like Leidseplein in above picture. The theatre in the background was called Stadsschouwburg once but recently became International Theatre Amsterdam. To sound more 'touristy' I guess. And because no non-Dutch could ever pronounce the name of the place.

Although I frequently pass this (Allard Pierson) museum. As it's on route to my favourite Irish Pub. 

And yes, the moon was really that bright that late evening.

On my way to an audition in Utrecht, I passed this cemetery. There's always something eerie about them, don't you think?

Since I didn't get hired for a fout months of acting job (this time), I went to apply for goverment benefit (I live in the Netherlands so I don't need to sell a kidney or borrow money at a 20% interest (US citizens call those loans 'creditcard', I believe) to buy groceries. Just don't buy a new phone every six months, nor buy expensive clothes and holiday? Nah, stay the weekend with friends in some other town and you'll be okay, moneywise) and had a really nice chat with the lady behind the desk:

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Here's one of the poems I noted down in the notebook

I got from my 'Secret Santa' while performing in Middlesbrough, last december:

Everlasting Memories (a #poem)

Ah, the sound 

of children's laughter!

Nothing was more beautiful

except - of course -

the sound and view

of her laughing

at his silly jokes

brightening his day

while going out of her way

to feed his soul

with

everlasting memories

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What are the arguments of stupid people?

"Yeah, but I don't know what's exactly in it!" as an argument for an anti-covid vaccine is laughable. Do those people know exactly what's in a whiskey bottle, in their cigarette? In a box of cereals? In that gram of the white, powdery stuff they bought from a complete stranger in a club last weekend of which they know it was transported in a condom through a foreigner's gut? 

"They inject you with nano-particles!" Yes and no. 'Nano' simply means 'really, really small' and yes, H²0 and other liquids contain really, really small particles. But no nanobots. Sorry.

"Everybody who takes the jab, will die within two months!" Within two months of what? Because if you are speaking of 'two months within taking an anti-covid vaccine', how do you explain that most who got it are still alive years later?

"They put a tracker in you to follow you for the rest of your life!" See above point: why would 'they' want to follow you for two months?

The way that wappies 'reason' is usually only laughable. "This chemist is a scientist who never studied the climate so he knows more about climate change than climate scientists!" falls into the same category as: "Max Verstappen is one of the best race drivers. Thus, because he's an expert, he knows more about baking pancakes than the chef of the Pancake House!"

If you're an expert in a certain field does that imply you know everything about everything else? Wappies seem to think so.

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"What!? People knew the Earth was a globe before there were pictures of it!?" 

People who can't critically think are surprised to find out others - even centuries ago - can. And to them only pictures can provide scientific evidence. It's sad, really.

Do you think critically thinking can be taught or are some born with the skill and other will never learn?

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