Here I am at the airport en route for Delphi and the oracle who may still be there. This means many hours at Heathrow Terminal 5 which is a giant shopping opportunity where you are trapped remembering all the things you don't need but maybe ought to get. I am thinking to myself what would a wise man, Socrates or Plato think and do here? and then I read about Rev Alice Goodman who has WTFWJD as a sticker on her car. This seems to me to be eminently sensible and maybe we should stick this on all our foreheads and contemplate the dottiness of our gullibility. I wonder if we are just waiting for someone else to do the things that He would do or say them. He would probably see Heathrow Airport as a good analogy for life, in we come through security having handed over our baggage and immediately through we start adding things to our tiny little hand baggage. We are attracted by Swarowski sparkle, by beauty products, by books, by that hot egg and bacon croissant and cappuccino, we feel a bit sleepy and wait for our flight out. It is mostly all hope and desire and you have to pull yourself together and remember you have been here before and you need to travel as lightly as possible and with as little expectation as possible.
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So it's not so much WTFWJD but put on your own best mind and think carefully before you
board your particular flight, you need to keep safe.
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