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Predators, Hosts and Parasites

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:36:00 +0000

Predators, Hosts and Parasites by PK Odendaal. January 2026.

Where ever you and I go or sojourn on this planet, and for that matter, any living creature or groups of creatures, we are either a predator, host or parasite.
In fact, we are most of the time all three simultaneously.

Coercion and care

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:27:00 +0000

Coercion and care by PK Odendaal – October 2025

These two words are, superficially considered, quite the opposite or antithesis of the other, and maybe some people have the trait of being coercive and others of being caring. Some are even caring and coercive.

Or is it?

Let us consider any carer, let us say a medical doctor, a type of person who cares for the health of people.

His focus will be on coercing people into taking an operation or painful treatment for the sake of the patient’s health. Most people with agree to the treatment recommended.

Or will they?

Anointed with Authority or Grace - a lesson from the Bible

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:24:00 +0000

One of my anonymous readers sent me a link of A Tale of Three Kings - A study in Brokenness by Gene Edwards.

I link it into this article for all to read and I hope you receive the lessons and blessings to be learned from it, as I have.

The story is of King Saul and King David and how King Saul was anointed with the Authority of God and David was anointed with the brokenness of Christ.

The first became a mad and evil king and the second became a broken king.

Ultimately Saul was rejected by God and killed himself in battle whilst David's throne became an everlasting throne.

The third king he refers to was Absalom, but for me it did not have to feature in an otherwise excellent piece. It is like snow white appearing in Little Red Riding Hood.

If you read my article on Absalom here https://pkodendaal.blogspot.com/2020/06/oh-my-son-my-son.html you might agree with me.

Here is The Tale of Three Kings:

A Tale of Three Kings

My readers - You do me proud

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:54:00 +0000

What more can I say. I write for discerning readers and you do me proud.

My Pilgrimage through life – Part 1 - My Spiritual Camino

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:12:00 +0000

My Pilgrimage through life – Part 1 - My Spiritual journey

In Spanish, "camino" translates to road, path, way, or journey. It can be used literally to describe a physical route or figuratively to represent a course of action or direction in life

After traveling for decades on my personal road to the Celestial City, a city very far from here, I have come to realize that I have to write about my journey to comfort weary pilgrims who have also chosen this journey to redemption, freedom, self-development, self-expression, exploration and exhilaration.

A pilgrimage on which I have been accompanied by the Greatest Of All Mentors, acting as my Lord, saviour, companion, friend and inspiration.

I was partially inspired to embark on this pilgrimage some decades ago due to the inspiration I found from reading the book "The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan - a book everyone on planet Earth should read and which I might have read about three times since. It is an allegorical tale written as a dream while he was jailed for many years, because of preaching the gospel as a lay preacher without being indoctrinated by the Catholic Church first, something not allowed by that church. Even today, most churches indoctrinate their preachers before they may preach the gospel.

The story is of a man called Christian, and few co-pilgrims, fleeing from the City of Destruction, meaning This World, to the Celestial City, meaning Heaven, and encountering vicious physical enemies along the way, such as Mr. Morality and the Giant Despair, as a metaphor for spiritual enemies, on their journey. Some pilgrims quitting and some persisting.

Bunyan paid a heavy price, being persecuted and imprisoned, for embarking on this journey, which seemed to him worthwhile and which proved to me to be exhilarating, profound, eventful and consoling in the extreme.

Why Bunyan was persecuted, confounds me. Why does one have to be indoctrinated to understand and explain a very simple gospel? Being able to read is quite enough! It is a very simple gospel, totally summed up in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world …."

That is really all we need to know.

As a side note, I know that this excursion into some aspects of my pilgrimage, since I was young, will make up a few volumes, having had the honour and opportunity to travel this road less traveled for seven decades and quite possibly for another few. Therefore, I will publish it as a series of articles as a preliminary work in progress on my blog.

Where and what is the Celestial City and how does one get there?

Who on Earth will travel to some distant country far away, without knowing where it is, how to find it and what is to be found there. Columbus is a prime example, but many people I meet in everyday life are too, not realizing it?

This pilgrimage is a serious journey to a well known place of note, from which we never wish to return. It is real and surreal; practical and mystical, dangerous and rewarding, packed with faith and doubt, and packed with fear and bravado. It is the best excursion we can ever go on in our lives. It was and still is that for me – and it is getting more interesting and exciting by the day.

Do not ever look back or yearn to return to the City of Destruction; we do not have eyes in our backs.

This journey you might wish to take with me is not only of traveling, but also one rich in religious issues, spiritual experiences, history, war, peace and philosophy - sometimes plain and simple, and sometimes quite intricate and mysterious.

My readers are of a special kind or select group - people who are here on earth, like myself, to explore life inside out, or from within us to everything around us. Exploring God's plan for us and admiring His universe. Pushing the envelope of experience, knowledge and actions to unfathomable limits.

As they say: We are going for gold.

Also sometimes I will write quite humourously about things secular like in ...

The time has come," the Walrus said to talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax.

Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings."

from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll.

Do you believe in the saving grace of God through the sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ? Then you are on a Spiritual Camino like I am. But, I will not stop there. I will become a warrior in the spirit and join the forces of God to finally triumph over Satan and the forces of evil - in the spirit, but also manifesting or mimicking it in the body. I have no sentiment with an entity or enemy who commands his demons like slaves to destroy everything holy, angelic, sacrosanct and godly.

So, whilst I am on this spiritual journey, called a camino, I will join forces with God's children to travel the earthly caminos called El Camino, leading to Santiago de Compostela. Routes on which over seven hundred thousand Christians yearly travel. I will also take the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual lessons that I learn on these physical caminos to enrich my own spiritual life and that of others.

To Think or not to Think ... that is the Question - A satire

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:19:00 +0000

To Think or not to Think ... that is the Question - A satire by P.K. Odendaal October 2024

From Descartes we have the statement: I think, therefore I am. Wow! What I farce. For the long or brief periods when I do not think, I am inanimate or even vegetable.
In fact, should I never think and follow the global Woke movement who are not capable of thought.

From Shakespeare we have the adage: To be or not to be ... that is the question.

We can easily adulterate or hybridize the two above statements and form a new one: To think or not to think ... that is the question.

Redemption or suicide - take your choice

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Redemption or suicide - take your choice - by P.K. Odendaal March 2024

There has been many instances in history and society where people have chosen suicide in stead of redemption, to their own destruction and nihilation.

Judas Iscariot, who sold Jesus Christ to the pharisees, and Hitler, who was instrumental in the death of millions of people, were two.

My prayer when riding the French Camino in May 2024 with a bicycle

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 19:43:00 +0000

My prayer when riding the French Camino in May 2024 with a bicycle

God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
It is with humility, veneration and admiration that I contemplate your omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence and your universe with everything that is in it.

The Quest for Wisdom

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:28:00 +0000

The quest for information, knowledge understanding and wisdom

Yes, we were born without any of these. Shall we remain so, or shall we strive for wisdom – our ultimate quest?

It is said that a fool knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Shall we have all the information there is in this world or even the universe, and remain fools?

It seems to me that most of us do not even get out of the starting blocks and are not interested in information at all. We feed on what was good for yesterday and for our ancestors.

The Turing Test should be revised

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 18:36:00 +0000

Just more than seventy years ago, Alan Turing, working on the first crude computer which had intelligence, made a statement on how to establish when a source of intelligence was human or artificial intelligence.

A fruit salad of religious thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 18:32:00 +0000

Today I am on an excursion into the labyrinths of religious conventional wisdom, trying to set the record straight. We have wandered too far away from the evident truths of the Bible, even changed it to suit our delusional concept of God and translated it so many times - almost into oblivion, so that it can mean anything for anyone.

God is a utilitarian par excellence

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:59:00 +0000

God is a utilitarian par excellence.

One of the best qualities I like and attribute to God is His utilitarianism, and by extension our utilitarianism which is a spin off of our free will. Similarly, it is also a spin off of God's free will.

In essence, utilitarianism is the act of doing the best for yourself or for groups on whose behalf you may act or choose.

The Root of all Evil - Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:04:00 +0000

The Root of all Evil – Part 2 – by P.K. Odendaal July 2023

My previous article on the root of all evil is pure drivel.

Will I delete that article or will I keep it here on my repertoire as a lesson in folly? Yes, I will keep it here, as the endeavour and accomplishment of humankind is fraught with error, omission, folly and evil. I make no excuse.

What this exercise in folly really taught me, is that an idea which has slumbered in my soul for too long - the idea that expressing an opinion is useless, fruitless, superficial and egoistic, has been let loose.

The Gift of Flight - Part 6 – Escaping death in the Zlin

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:44:00 +0000

The Gift of Flight - Part 6 - Escaping death in the Zlin

Published January 2023 by P.K. Odendaal

ZLIN 50-LS 325 HP

And so it happened that, after I got all my flying licences and flying ratings, that I got bored with flying ‘straight and level’. That was lesson one in my training, and I did not want to stop there.

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 8 – Becoming a Friend of God.

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:24:00 +0000

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 8 – Becoming a Friend of God.

We have now come to the end of this series, not that the subject is exhausted, but rather that this part is the ultimate happiness and joy any human can live for and even die for; the incredible opportunity to be a friend of God, or more specifically, to be a friend of Jesus Christ, the human side of God. Scripture says 'for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily'.

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 7 – Exploring a conversation with God

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:39:00 +0000

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 7 – Exploring a conversation with God

How does one strike up a conversation with God ?

That was my main thought when Jesus Christ came my way some five decades ago, and saved my soul by God's Grace.

I knew or thought at the time that it would be a monumental task and challenge to strike up such a conversation with God, as I thought I would have to remain silent and allow God do do all the speaking, according to the false teaching of the Church I grew up in, which taught that 'God is in Heaven, and we are on earth, therefore our words should be few'.

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 6 – Starting a conversation with God

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:01:00 +0000

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 6 – Starting a conversation with God

Ultimate happiness can only be experienced when we are in the presence of God and talking to Him, like He talked to Adam and Eve in Paradise, in the coolness of day.

But, Paradise was lost due to no fault of God, and He is presently working hard to restore that and to restore Mankind to its proper place in the Universe, ruling with Him.

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 5 – Genesis to Revelations

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 08:07:00 +0000

Part 5 - Genesis to Revelations

It is not necessary to have or read the Bible to get to know God and communicate with Him.

Millions of people have found Him by searching for Him and He is always ready to reveal and even partially expose himself to those who search for Him, whatever the form or shape of that path may be.

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 4 – Embrace the Nietzsche Moment

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 17:15:00 +0000

Part 4 – Embrace the Nietzsche Moment

Now that we are at peace with our decisions, we do not care about the past or the future, we have shunned negative people from our lives and we have made peace with those whom we have wronged and those who have wronged us, we can sit back and enjoy every moment that we are alive and blessed to partake in the wondrous universe and people around us.

The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 3 – Inspire or shun negative people

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 08:41:00 +0000

Part 3 – Inspire or shun negative people.

You get a breed of people who can never be happy. They are never satisfied with their lives, with what they have and with people around them. They can never embrace life or accept responsibility for their actions. They have no idea what their mission in life is and can never accept their destiny. Despair, prejudice and bitterness darken their inner being. They have no faith, no hope and no love.

The Pursuit of Happiness Part 2 – The joy of forgiving and forgetting.

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:02:00 +0000

Part 2 – The joy of forgiving and forgetting.

In the first part we learned how to be free to choose anything from all possibilities, regardless of what the outcome of the choice may be, and that the past and future has no meaning for us.

We thus progress on this road to become free, to delete the past, and for that matter also the future’s pain that the past may have caused us.

The Pursuit of Happiness - Part 1 – Goodbye Convention and Compromise

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:41:00 +0000

Foreword.

Happiness is within our grasp. I know that, as I am the happiest person in the universe, I think, and I have not even explored half of the possibilities of these seven principles yet. I also know some people around me who feel exactly the same, probably without even realizing what the principles of happiness are. But I also know that the majority of people around me are unhappy, frustrated and miserable.

The joy of doing penance

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:44:00 +0000

The joy of doing penance.

There is such a disconnect between our thoughts, actions, sufferings and joy, that we feel lost and unable to find meaning and purpose in life, and for us, or at least for me, meaning and purpose is all I want from life - well - speaking only on an emotional and intellectual level.

There are riches and pain on a spiritual level as well, but that is not my subject today, whilst I concede our emotional and spiritual wellbeing are intimately connected. And then there are the physical necessities, which I also do not write about today.

To my readers in Russia.

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 06:14:00 +0000

The self destruction of nations - Part 1

I have written a few times on the self destruction of individuals, but if I look at the self destruction of nations, a notion which recently grabbed my attention quite forcefully, the self destruction of individuals pale in comparison.

The Fall of the Western Empire

noreply@blogger.com (Peekay) — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:14:00 +0000

... or How the West was won.

No, I am not trying to imitate or emulate Gibbon who wrote six volumes on the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire some hundred and fifty years ago.

My aim is to write about the fall of the present West which has started some thirty years ago when the Cold War ended.