The Tapestry of life

It is amazing how things weave themselves into ones life. A chance encounter that sparks something. Sets one on another track. Or brings out something that causes introspection and then change. Life should be experienced and reveled in. Not feared. Not wasted.

When people come into our lives, do we give back? Do we share fully with them or do we hold something back?

Do we allow ourselves to be touched? To share? Do we allow people in?

Spirituality to me is the ability to open ourselves and commune with others. To do that we need to let them in.

Great quote

"If the glory of God is intelligence...then asking questions is the truest path." - Janice

This really is true. If there is a God, he/she/it then made us the way we are, intelligence included. It also made us with our sexual drives and gender identity. That being the case, why penalize us for using our brains and wanting someone to love, even if they are of the same gender as we are?

Life

I am a child of nature. This is not a bad thing as some religions would tell you. This makes me part of the world around me.

How can I live in this world and help to take care of it without sensing that connection to it?

How can I experience life without touching nature, communing with all that lives around me, loving those I come in contact with?

How can I?

I am. Simply. I am. What more can one say?

If we can truly figure out who "I am" is, and I am not talking about any kind of god, but who we truly are, perhaps we can figure out how to fit within the world around us.

I am a humanist. An agnostic. A lover of nature and my fellow homo sapiens.

What are you?

What is it about humans that they need magical thinking?

Well the hubub of the Rapture Day and subsequent lack of rapture on May 21st is just another example of magical thinking not working. People have lost their savings, alienated family and damn near died just because of this magical thinking. When will homo sapiens move past magical thinking and relegate god to the same status of Santa?

The Wisdom of Frank Zappa

"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." — Frank Zappa

Apologetics?

Why are apologetics necessary? I was thinking about that today. My take is that they are necessary to defend the indefensible and to maintain a magic mindset. When religion and science collide the normal person off the street may start to question. So up pops the apologist to explain things away using circular logic and pseudoscience so the lay person can feel good about their religion again.

If a religion is true it should stand the test of time and should not conflict with science. That is, it should not conflict with the geographic record, the archaeological record, biology,etc.

As I have said before, if God hides things he is a trickster and not worth worshipping.

Stress

Why do we let things get to us. Or specifically why do I let things get to me. The director of the department I work in made me out to be a terrible person in front of the rest of the people int he department. It stressed me out so bad that I began to have stress induced angina. It happened before the class I teach and I had to sit for a little while in the locker room shaking before I could go to teach. I don't know why it affected me as much as it did. Maybe because after problems in the past and extensive talk with a third party I thought things were good. The person is plain socially inept. Luckily I am not the only one who thinks so. Others in the department have stated the same thing.

Its two days later now and I feel better. It happened on a Thursday and I told my supervisor I was not coming back to work till after Easter.

So what makes the physiological affect that I had?