Einstein and God

I came across an interesting little discussion of Einstein’s religious beliefs. It drew a lot of comments, mostly heated, with one side holding him up as a standard of proof of God and the other as a standard of proof that God doesn’t exist. With my usual sideways approach to such discussions, it occurred to [...]

Hi. Do I know you?

I sometimes wonder if we ever really know another person or if we overlay that person with an expectation that is strictly ours. An extreme example of this would be the neighbor that the police arrest one day and charge with the murder of 15 people over a period of five years. Inevitably the people [...]

Strange habits

People do strange things and, for the most part, simply accept them as “what we do”. Take clapping as an example. Why in the world do we bang our hands together as a sign of approval? Bizarre.

Permanency

If you reflect for a moment you will realize that nothing is permanent…not me, not you, not the Earth we live on, no human relationship. Cars wear out, houses fall down, nations and cultures disappear. Indeed one day even the Sun which energizes all life on Earth will be no more and in its’ passing [...]

Quotes

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift

Toys and Things

I saw a bumper sticker recently that read “He who dies with the most toys wins” and it reminded me of the experience of cleaning out my parent’s house after they both died.
My father was a tinkerer and had built a nice wooden work bench in the basement where he had numerous hand tools, all [...]

Time is the great deception

…and yet I believe that time itself doesn’t exist. It is the parade of events that we use to mark our place in the great play in which we participate.
How can it be that time doesn’t exist? Clearly we see the hands on the clock move around and the leaves of the calendar turn. Surely [...]

Beauty surrounds us

There is beauty in the most common and mundane items. Open your eyes, take time to look. Life goes by day by day, one after the other until our allotment is used up and then it is too late. Do you want to meet your maker and have to tell him/her/it that you weren’t interested [...]

Reality. Is it real?

Nothing is real. Not me, not you, not the Earth we walk on or any of its’ components. At the atomic level all is empty space and energy. It’s all a construct for lesson learning, a vehicle for the spirit. Time and again we return, each time to learn a new lesson, interact with different [...]

Sleep, the little death

Why it is that we fear death and seek out sleep? Someone, can’t recall who, once described sleep as the “little death” and when you think about it that is a pretty apt description. So we routinely lose consciousness and find it pleasant but resist mightily the idea or fact of death.
As we age many [...]