It is amazing how much we know, not really knowing anything. How we can build whole cities building by building in which people can work and live, and only recently have we thought about the mathematics that underlie our comings and goings. For as much as we have learned, the most important lesson might be how prone we are to be wrong. No one has all the answers, and when a person does have something of a truth, in expressing it, he or she is likely to be misunderstood (perhaps even by his or her own self). Myself, having emerged from madness, I am curiously suspicious of everything, and trusting in strange ways. I suppose that that is not out of the ordinary, and we all have learned certain ways of believing. I merely marvel at how, imperfect as we are, we are able to make this world work at all, to sew a whole society together with such tenuous strings.
Reflection
5:20pm friday, 20th may
A preacher, a politician and an engineer were led to the guillotine. The preacher was asked if he wanted to be face up or face down when he met his fate. The preacher said that he would like to lie face up so he would be looking toward heaven when he died. The blade of the guillotine was raised and released. It came speeding down and suddenly stopped, just inches from his neck. The authorities took this as divine intervention and released the preacher.
Next, the politician came to the guillotine, and he also decided to die facing up, hoping he would be as fortunate as the preacher. So the blade of the guillotine was raised again and released. It came speeding down and suddenly stopped just inches from his neck, so he was released as well.
The engineer was next, and he too decided to die facing up. The executioner slowly raised the blade of the guillotine, when suddenly the engineer said, “Hey, I see what the problem is…”
Reflection
Stand