in our brief time 



What are we doing with the brief time we have?

We don't know what it is about, we begin to have a hope of understanding how the physical world that contains us -and of which we are a part- works, but still no closer to understanding why...

Some of us think they have found the key to it all. It all rests in a Creator figure who has been revealed to them, who has told them what to believe and what is right and what is wrong. All in very simple terms, in black and white, this is good and this is bad and all you who do not share this belief are evil and not really human. This is a very useful way of making sense of the world, it makes analysis, doubt and self-doubt redundant. God created the earth, there's good and evil very clearly labelled and easily identifiable and we only have to have Faith.

And so, we simply close our eyes to the questions we cannot answer. We refuse to see the bottomless infinity before us and to shut it out hang a sheet with nice and clear Heavens on top with our reward awaiting, and Hell at the bottom with the punishment for the evil ones, the number of which of course does not include us.... 

Posted: Mon - July 25, 2005 at 11:22 AM          

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