Two thoughts come to mind this morning. The deficiencies in
our systems of governance -
local, global -
and the first two pages of The End of Faith in which he
mistakes political (acts of war) for
religious acts,
but recognizes understanding the workings of the world is not
the same as knowing
the unknowable.
Every new twinge provokes fear but what is there to fear?
That one won't
live forever?
The year of a man is the day of an inchworm and 267 years
on a reverse-
rotating Venus.
A billion of anything is a lot unless it's the distance one must
traverse to look
at God.
How much silence, or tinnitus, can you handle? A chipmunk
cannot for long
stand still.
Once the twinge passes I'm off to the next task: building a
constituency for this compassion,
that solution.
The dialogue starts with a question. To know the question is
almost certainly to find
an answer.
Conflating questions is the commonest of logic errors. No
negotiation unless the
violence ends.
Why not talk while we fight? We can always **** torture or
assassinate
between conversations.
Justice, or retribution if you want, can remain on the table
even after we
achieve understanding.
Nature is my religion, I know no other, and community is my
church.
The sacrament
is policy debate. I attend church everyday. Our jobs are
hymns (the classifieds
a hymnal)
and payment for services rendered is sung praise and
gratitude. Walking and talking
is prayer.
Strategies to limit or subvert discussion are the only evil.
Violence
is one
but not by far the only one. What's the hurry to build a
highway or free
a people?
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time and time is
the mercy
of eternity.
Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 9:20 AM UTC
Two thoughts come to mind this morning. The deficiencies in
our systems of governance -
local, global -
and the first two pages of The End of Faith in which he
mistakes political (acts of war) for
religious acts,
but recognizes understanding the workings of the world is not
the same as knowing
the unknowable.
Every new twinge provokes fear but what is there to fear?
That one won't
live forever?
The year of a man is the day of an inchworm and 267 years
on a reverse-
rotating Venus.
A billion of anything is a lot unless it's the distance one must
traverse to look
at God.
How much silence, or tinnitus, can you handle? A chipmunk
cannot for long
stand still.
Once the twinge passes I'm off to the next task: building a
constituency for this compassion,
that solution.
The dialogue starts with a question. To know the question is
almost certainly to find
an answer.
Conflating questions is the commonest of logic errors. No
negotiation unless the
violence ends.
Why not talk while we fight? We can always **** torture or
assassinate
between conversations.
Justice, or retribution if you want, can remain on the table
even after we
achieve understanding.
Nature is my religion, I know no other, and community is my
church.
The sacrament
is policy debate. I attend church everyday. Our jobs are
hymns (the classifieds
a hymnal)
and payment for services rendered is sung praise and
gratitude. Walking and talking
is prayer.
Strategies to limit or subvert discussion are the only evil.
Violence
is one
but not by far the only one. What's the hurry to build a
highway or free
a people?
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time and time is
the mercy
of eternity.
