I’ve been asked to perform a wedding for two great friends. I don’t know how to do it, but I know I’d like to have some things to say that will help tie the day together with their feelings and the experience of getting married in front of friends and family.
So I’ve been thinking about what matters most to people who are getting married, like we did a lil’ over a year ago. And you know what? It’s made me think about what matters most to everyone here:
It occurred to me that everyone believes something different about the origins of human life and how everything around us became. No one believes the exact same thing as someone else in this regard. There’s no way, our minds are too different. That fact alone makes it hard to call one religion more correct than another. I’ve always wondered how different religions can coexist respectfully with such disparate views of the origins of life.
Something worth reading here.
When we all understand and believe the same, truths about how we got here, (and what’s out there…) many many things will be solved, and the intense contention between people will dissipate. This contention and the fear, terrible behavior and ignorance it breeds is the stuff of the worst in all of us.
The problem is: How are we going to figure it out? I’m leaning towards science and technology
Read THIS and realize how little we and our trifling problems really matter.
After reading that, I also wonder, if the Universe has a size, then it has an edge. What’s lying next to it? Or around it?
We are so lame to be worried about money, fashion, politics, plastic surgery, websites, and pretty pictures. All of the smartest people around should be put to solve the hardest question: Who are we and what the hell are we doing here?
Is love the only answer?
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1 Big Dog // Feb 4, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Is there a place in timespace where love and God finally intersect? Can it all be the same thing? Is “The Force” real?
Religon bothers me alot. Can it be that an entire race of people can really be that egotistical, nieve and needy, or am I the one being obtuse by denying what is obviously a big part of being human?
I struggle with this daily. Then I get a big fat hamburger and a Coke and say “Fuck it, I should be dead in about 30 years and I guess I will know (or not know, which equates to still knowing, somehow) what’s up then.”
Is religion just the true embodyment of fear?
Why is it O.K. to make fun of people who believe in sasquatch but not O.K. to make fun of people who think that the world is only 4000 years old?
Smart people with strong religious tendencies are one of the biggest mysteries to me. How can a quantum mechanics expert also believe in organized religion at the same time?
Is there a nice easy place where art, science and God all come together easily? Is this truly Unified Theory?
Can it be that you can only know so much and that the variable that you can never know is what we call God? By that definition does God get smaller over time and we learn more and more about the rules of our own existence?
Is this response even appropriate?
2 Switchblade // Feb 5, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Appropriate, yes. Attempting to avoid saying what you know is probably the truth… probably.
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