"It makes me feel horribly pompous and American. " i like the way you put it. so succinct. thank you. national day is coming up, you know.
who's afraid of death? i ask it again. i would only be afraid of death if i died without completing what i wanted to do. and that is why life is easier one small task at a time, instead of toiling towards a momentous goal. bits of achievement add up like [they don't have cents on this keyboard, how peculiar. americans! ] it just depends whether you want your happiness in instalments or a lump sum.
life is full of paradoxes. the way you ask, "Could a God create a world that he could not escape?" sounds like someone painting themselves into a corner. but i don't believe that the God i believe in would do that. i think it's possible, but it depends on the kind of god. a fallible, semiscient one perhaps could. but fallible and semiscient are not words one ordinarily associates with the traditional idea of God, or a God as the case may be. and that leads [me] to the thought: there's no such thing as a carbon-based God. because then he/she/it would be on equal terms with us flawed humans. [Jesus is in a separate category.]
not bad for a spot of poetry. considering this blog is [supposed to be] full of cappers i wonder why we haven't had more.
"at the top of a mountain of melting time
i watch the seas erupt
as a silver bird flies away with its tail of fire
flickering in the darkness of outer space.
and all the lonely microbes swirl up
and start over in the depths of the ice
this planet won't be empty for very long."
-anne lee
that was random. do you think if the earth gets over-polluted we'll leave it to rot and go destroy somewhere else? how self-serving these humans are. i'm almost ashamed to be one. but 70 years from the sky to the moon.. almost makes you forget and feel proud instead.
posted by anne @ 3:44 am
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