Arthur Koestler

    "True creativity often starts where language ends." 

Sunday Photo for Today leads us into "dark holes".

A great mystery lies ahead.....

Further from Far

Many writing their headstones, I have seen more often of late, is their amazement life is over so quickly. A doctor told me a long time ago that if I did not lower my blood pressure, I would have a stroke or a heart   attack within four years. I asked, "What if I control it?" He told me in that event, I could live ten years before I had a stroke or heart attack. He was 40, but  a short ten years to me was merely one little decade. I have to labor to remember any of them. He, on the other hand, obviously thought ten years was a long time. 

At least fifteen years now, and no strokes or heart attacks yet. My advice to all doctors is to not make any predictions, because everyone only remembers the ones that are wrong. I, on the other hand, perhaps should not have even mentioned this at all. One never can tell when a superstition will rear its ugly head.

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Power of Optimism in the Future Mystery

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It is better to be as optimistic as  one can over the long haul. This applies, in my view, to virtually every human endeavor we can think  of, especially in the stock market as well as the  general pursuit of happiness in this life. The   future beyond us holds great promise if we think about it. Think how the universe is opening up to our understanding, and even just technically, to our view. There is more to everything than those behind us ever could imagine unless they trusted existence, the fountainhead spirit of existence, God.

If one takes it then they've got it!

 It is good to remind myself occasionally that if I understood all  it would be easy to forgive all. It is good to forgive. It benefits the forgiver rather than the forgiven. I try to be geared up for the

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positive. Any benefit to the forgiven is entirely up to the forgiven. It is their acceptance. Only the forgiven can be in charge of acceptance. In any case, it is never profitable to take an offense. Only offensive people take offenses, who else would accept offenses except an offensive person?

One Plus One Equals One

 I have a respectful attitude when looking back at the ancients. It is doubtful extra terrestrials are so much smarter and I also find it very iffy that even if they are, they would be benevolent. I say this because groups see each other as anything other than suspiciously competitive, even if benevolent. If the present day intellectuals cannot figure out how the Romans could build the Coliseum without electricity they should assume the more likely course and ignore the pop concept of extra terrestrials.

"Electricity" by the way no one today knows that much about it except what they can see in front of them. After a time, by accident, it was discovered how the Romans did do it after all. The builder left behind a picture relief in a book, found in a Londinium library abandoned in the 5th century.  So they did it by themselves? And the ancients did it without pyramids in the background. Even the Red Sea parting has an very logical explanation. And cities did suddenly disappear into the sea. Even myself, I suspected my own grandfather was wrong about our family history when he was in fact right, and I could go on, only extreme embarrassment slows me to a pause. So where am I going?

Before writing was established the thinking today is that knowledge was past down by word of mouth, memorized. God looked down and observed that man could do anything he had a mind to do. Since there were no rockets to the sky, "we" were building buildings to the sky instead, no so different than today.. They were intricate even then and a marvel having to do with, I believe, water dispensed by gravity, altho I don't see how. But who would believe this story? This justified the different languages. Is that all it did? Not so wild an idea, this business of building into the sky. How about a man walking on the moon? Some today do not believe such a stunt. So this contrasted idea came to me and I find it fascinating and leading to possible further reliable revelations from the Great Predictor.  (More coming in the Specific Theory.)

Pay less attention to what is said....*

....and greater attention to the motive. Everyone speaks for their own benefit.  One more thing we should all know already. In my case it is true and said so I don't forget it. (It's an age thing.)

Who is worse off?

 Is it the man who tells a lie? Or is it the man who believes it?

I consider any attack...

...a chance to make myself stronger, a chance to advance. 

We become what we believe.....

We are going to get whatever much we put our faith in. If someone insults us or offends, I would try not to accept it or I would become an offensive person myself. I mean if I get offended then I got offended. So I am offended which makes me therefore offensive. I try to not let anything like that stick it to me.

No exit

 Atheism doesn't quite know how it got in here, but is convinced there is no way out.

Definition of knowledge....

 Knowledge is information known and not yet known. There is no way to know how much knowledge is yet to be known except to laboriously discover new previously unknown knowledge. A problem arises when we do answer a question only to find in the answer several previously unknown questions. The result of this gaining of knowledge is to repeatedly realize we are more ignorant than we had earlier realized.  

Without all the information of relevant knowledge we are all unable to reach a conclusion whether or not there is a God simply because one would be making a decision without all the knowledge necessary to do so. 

Secondarily, and separately, it is impossible to prove a negative which is to say there is no God. The only avenue left is to plead ignorance. The chilling problem for the agnostic is that he has unknown, as well as seriously limited time available to make a definitive decision.  In my experience anyone leaning toward agnosticism always finds eventually the hammer comes down on atheism. 

We are then subsequently all forced to realize we can only decide using faith. 

From time to time a little Pogoism is required....

 This month Friday the 13th falls on Sunday.