Bookmakers don't make books
Well the cozy puffy jacket has come out of its tiny stuff-sack, and I really thought I was being a wimp about it till I heard on the radio the other day that it was 2 degrees - almost freezing. In typical Seattle fashion (or I guess typical Irish fashion as the case may be) it has been a little rainy, a lot grey, and cool with chilling breezes most of the time. But I would expect no less from the holiday season! Christmas lights are showing up everywhere and the shops are even playing holiday music now. There's no use in fighting it, it's time to just roll with it!
I noticed in my calendar the other day a note that I had written in at the beginning of the trip. Compared to when I started this trip, my previous longest-trip-ever would have ended yesterday. I don't know if it counts now that I've had a break in the middle, but I guess I can say this is the longest I've ever lived out of a backpack at a stretch... so far.
It has taken a while, but I think I'm finally in the travel mentality. Was sitting the other night with my little pocket atlas and journal trying to get a rough sketch of the rest of this trip... and I have no idea how I'm going to do it! There are so many places to see, but even if I strip it down to the barest of bare bones, I still think I'm coming up short. I mean I could spend 6 or 12 months just tripping around South America... and Africa, well... I'm sure something will work out, but just the possibility of stopping is starting to sound like a really bad idea. :-)
Speaking of ideas, who's up for some philosophy? First question - is it possible for God to have an opinion? I mean if you know everything, do you still think stuff? Second question - is it hypocrisy for a person who believes in Evolution (capital 'E') and/or Darwinism to help someone?
Ok you don't have to play if you don't want to; I know we're never supposed to talk religion or politics (isn't that what they say). But that's boring, and this is really neither anyway, and man's rules are usually meant to be broken.
2 Comments:
Don't those who think they know everything tend to be the most obnoxiously opinionated and threatened by those who disagree? Are their gods any different?
I think they're the ones still crowing about about evolution like nature cares about anyone's belief.
They're great at inventing fictions like "Darwinism" so they can bullhorn a one-sided rant and claim a "moral" victory. Anyone for a mid-east peace conference or a presidential "election"? Rumsfeld was a recent example but this little hypocrisy been exercised long before Galileo was a twinkle in the eye of a star.
Hypocrisy often takes the form of condemning another person for an act of which the critic is guilty. Can anyone caring for others be hypocritical, or are they more likely to be hippocratic?
Heck with philosphy. It's time to wander down a trail and listen to the earth.
wha?.........
No God can't have an opinion. And He can't try. He knows and He does. Otherwise He wouldn't be God by definition (... definition of God with a big G, not "their gods" with a little g).
And sure someone who cares for others can be hypocritical - those two things are not interdependent.
Who's next?...
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