“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” –Leo F. Buscaglia
May 252010
I don’t have much problem accepting the possibility some highly motivated and inspired ancient people could have built a vessel sizable enough to carry a whole lot of animals. The proposition that the world as man knew it encountered a cataclysm as severe as Noah’s flood is also plausible in theory. Animals marching two by two to the ark to be safely preserved? Why not? Science observes animals doing some inexplicable stuff.
My problem with the story has to do with God’s role. As I learn to believe less in God and feel more in God the idea of God getting pissed at the entirety of creation over what humans were doing and wiping it all out in order to start over sounds much more like something I might do than the timeless source of love, truth, and creative energy.
Isn’t great flood story completely typical of the egoic mind? The epitome of selfishness? “Things aren’t working out as planned. F-it I’m going to end it, tear it up, throw it away, or haul ass and I don’t care how many innocent people, places, or things get messed up as a result.” And if that weren’t enough to seal it, there’s the part where he comes back after ands says “I promise never to do it again.”
That’s me. That’s people.
God though?
Image above from Marxchivist
Wow. One million iPads sold as of earlier this week and none of them to me. Took iPhone 74 days to hit the million mark, 28 days for its speechless oversized brother.
Via World of Apple
As if I haven’t wasted enough bytes on the iPad, my reasons for not being one of the million:
- No accounts: I can’t set up my email and stuff and leave it on the coffee table
- $500
Those are about it. I would have been a sucker for the rest. That thing is pretty.
I’m strongly considering a netbook to take that place on the coffee table.
May 062010
So the most important thing to realize is this: Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary.
This particular truth was something I learned when I came to terms with eating and my weight. It took me a long time to realize that what I do, even immediate stuff like eating, is an “outer” thing. The outer things never seem to look good until the inner things are in good shape which is another important truth for me. Fix the stuff on the inside, and the need to fix anything on the outside diminishes or goes away.
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss
