“HE TOUCHES THE MOUNTAINS AND THEY SMOKE” (Psalm 104:32)

It really puzzles my monkey mind to observe humans whingeing because some “minor” volcano is disrupting their holiday plans.

Recent volcanoes have erupted with a force equivalent to some forty Hiroshima sized atomic bombs. Bali’s Mount Agung may surprise us all yet and singe a few Balinese monkeys as well as some crazy Australians.

But then I have noticed that you humans do have a grossly over-inflated view of your own significance, just as the great Shakespeare stated in his ‘Macbeth’. Life is a “tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing”.

I mean here we all are, Chimpanzees and Balinese monkeys included, riding Planet Earth, a lump of various rocks and water, at 24,000 mph to only God knows where.

Perhaps these ‘Idiots’ might consider holidaying on the planet, Mars, if they want to dice death with a volcano. The biggest known volcano in our solar system is actually on Mars. Its name is Olympus Mons and it measures a whopping 600km (373 miles) wide and 21km (13 miles) high.

Gibber! Gibber!