Glacial Erratics

Gettin' Religion

February 18, 2003

I've been meaning to do this for quite some time. I just finished He, She and It so it is time to start something else.    (00007P)

I've cruised my bookshelves and found a selection of religious texts. Most of these are from classes I took in college, some I've glanced at, some I've spent considerable time with, most did not get the attention they deserved. Now seems like a good time to give them another chance. All at once.    (00007Q)

These don't intentionally reflect a bias. These are just the books I happen to have on the shelf; books I was assigned to buy or were left here by others. I plan to read a bit of one, then another. These are they:    (00007R)

I don't believe in a personified god. Nor do I believe in any force separate from us that controls the fates. I do believe, however, that we (the people, the animals, the plants, the stars, the flowers, the kitties, the winds, the past, the present) are all pushing time forward to create the future. Collectively we are determining our own fate. I do think it is something akin to magic, I don't think it can be explained, and I don't want to. I can't be in Sifter and I like it that way.    (00007Z)

Because we create our own fate, we are responsible, individually and together for what happens. If, for example, we collectively insist that our leaders should be cock sparring overgrown frat boys, that's what we'll get.    (000080)

The books above are some collected wisdom that some people use to shape some of their lives. That makes them instructive, to me, on what makes the world go round. Even though I don't want to explain everything down to the last detail I do still want to participate in the majestic unfolding of understanding that comes from simply being in the game.    (000081)

Unfortunately, the weight of the past is heavy. Would that we could simply wish a new world. Maybe we can start with the hope.    (000082)

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