President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called out the face of a new enemy recently. His new foe and symbol for all that is wrong with the world is none other than Paul the octopus.
Paul the octopus is the world's first(to my knowledge)psychic octopus. His talents were utilized to predict the outcome of the outcome of all of the German world cup finals and he was dead on the mark.He then went on to predict the Spanish win of the world cup. Not too bad for an octopus I would venture.
This squishy little bastard held the attention to half the world for a while based solely on his good decisions and properly made predictions. Sure he had no idea what he was guessing at, nor did he know he was guessing anything at all, but that does not make him any less correct.
Ahmadinejad has seen his predictions and has watched as his predictions came true, now he is calling Paul out. According to the Iranian President, Paul is the symbol of decadence and decay in the western culture. Which of course is what makes us his enemy, with all of our immorality and belief of superstition leading our decisions.
He claimed that Paul was responsible for "spreading western propaganda and superstition". He also stated that, "Those who believe in this type of thing cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values, ".
Let's see what is really being argued here by Ahmadinejad himself. Superstitious people should not be in charge. I wonder why it is fully tolerable for the leaders of the world to believe in the unseen Allah and deny the holocaust, while it is intolerable to believe that an octopus.
For religion to be debated at its best, one needs an army of facts, a library of apologetic material and ways to dance around any discrepancy that can be found. Holocaust denial requires a conspiracy of a grand design and requires the silence of millions. All the while the psychic octopus only requires one octopus, one tank, and little pictures of flags.
I am not saying that the octopus is psychic, I highly doubt it, but it is a bizarre coincidence. For all I know it could have been lead with food to make the predictions, or the octopus studied statistics before his capturing. That I do not know.
All that I know is that that psychic octopus is far more believable than holocaust denial and islam put together. The reality of this is simple, Paul and they came true, so maybe he knew something that the Ahmadinejad did not. After all, I don't recall Ahmadinejad winning a bet about the world cup. Also I will point out that another thing that the octopus has figured out is that it can survive and all of its needs met without making half the world want to kill him or any other octopus that is seen in the ocean.
Perhaps we all have something to learn from our eight legged friends though.
for the orignal article,
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories...