Slight tangent: cations.

AWWBA, “cation” is a term used in chemistry; it’s a contraction of “cathode-seeking ion” (or similar variation) and refers to a positive ion.

The thing is, it’s pronounced “cat iron” (as in, “Can your cat iron a shirt?”). But I always thing it should be pronounced “Kay shun” (as in, “Will Kay shun those people her church CEO holds a grudge against?”). Like, vindication, rustication, vacation, floccinaucinihilipilification and so on.

IHTIH

You can’t escape the cricket…

… but who would want to?

Bangladesh 88-2 off 15. This the ninth innings of the World Cup so far, and so far, only England – playing the first innings of the tournament – have batted out their 50 overs. Let’s see if Bangladesh can join the club.

Cricket part 3

A fine win for Bangladesh, after South Africa could only manage 309-8 in their 50 overs. Much might be said about some poor play from the South Africans, who were below their usual standard in all departments, as well as du Plessis’ decision to field first on the Oval wicket; but in reality, Bangladesh played really well and fully deserved to win. Though it could have gone either way until the final few overs.

To my mind, the existence of cricket is definitive proof of extra-biblical revelation (quite apart from the latter being referred to directly in the bible anyway).

Ken F (aka Tweed): don’t believe in the existence of cricket. At least not in the sense defined by the Cambridge dictionary where it calls it a noun, because one cannot point to a thing called cricket. But if it was defined as a verb, I could believe in that because it seems like cricket is fundamentally something that involves action (at least theoretically).

Well, interestingly, the Kingdom itself isn’t quite a verb – though embracing it certainly involves action, as you say. (Well… you didn’t specifically say that, but I think it’s a fair extrapolation.) It is, on the other hand, equally not a noun and you can’t point to it, as Jesus observed. I think it’s best described as a thing you experience by various forms of doing.

In that respect, the Kingdom is very much like unto cricket.

Ken F (aka Tweed),

That’s very kind, but of course the only reason Jesus didn’t use cricket in the parables of the Kingdom was that at that time cricket had not yet been revealed.

At least, there’s no mention in the canonical gospel accounts. Though John refers to many other wonderful things Jesus did in the presence of his disciples, and it’s more than possible that opening their minds to understand the laws of cricket was one of them.

Nick Bulbeck: At least, there’s no mention in the canonical gospel accounts.

One could make an argument that it is mentioned in the book of Genesis, but that verse might more appropriately apply to baseball…