It’s funny how a life lesson
That I ignored as a child
Can still be sitting
Exactly where I left it,
Waiting for me finally
To pick it up and
Start learning it.
I was mad at it, I suppose,
But now, it seems to be
A dear friend.
Category Archives: Dysrationalia
Bible Facts
Perhaps Life Here
Perhaps it is the case
That life here
Is meant to be a tougher adventure
Than you assume it must be—
And that you could and should
Learn more than seems convenient—
And overcome more challenges than
It seems one should have to overcome.
What Good is that Amazing Brain You Have?
What good is that amazing brain you have—
Created and loaned by the
Greatest Thinker Ever Himself—
When it is under the charge of a tired spirit
Who has grown so weary in this world
As no longer to care about learning
And discovering and verifying,
And who doesn’t care if it
Learns the truth of a matter or not?
You are duller than you think you are.
Plenty and Need
We have plenty of:
- Land to grow enough crops and animals to feed everybody on earth.
- Sunshine to make it grow.
- Water to make it grow.
- Air to make it grow.
- People to do the work that’s required to make it grow.
- Natural resources from which to make clothing and housing for everybody.
Yet, not everybody has adequate food or shelter or clothing.
So, then, what do we need that we don’t have?
Not Many Ever Fully Surrender
Not many ever fully surrender
To letting the truth be the truth.
No, the masses find such promise
In pretending parts of it
To be something other
Than what they are.
A Ghost of an Idea
We want to know about ghosts,
But maybe not entirely,
Because maybe it’s somehow
More satisfying if we don’t
Find out for sure.
False Hope
He is sinister who trades in false hope,
And yet, the world beats a path to his door.
Just watch them.
They cannot get enough of his catnip.
I have seen them walk right around true hope—
The wisdom of the ages—
To get to the false.
They call evil good and good evil,
Intoxicated with the promise of ease,
And mindless that there’ll be Hell to pay later.
Woe to us!
So vulnerable still to this original scheme—
Barely able to manage our minds
And still unwilling to learn the lesson
Of this world.
We could learn to do better,
But there’s always the hope
That we don’t have to.
How blessed are those few
Who have dared to listen.
Why the Drive to “Grow this City”?
Why the drive to “grow this city?”
Is it because it makes us better people? Does it make us more honest or honorable or loving?
No. It’s because it creates a bigger market in which to make money. And while money is a necessity, it is surely not the proper priority in life. Yet it ranks far too high. And so goes the drive to “grow this city”, while you’ll probably never hear of any initiative aimed at growing our character.
It’s the Rare Human
It’s the rare human who decides
That he is unwilling both to
Believe or to assert
Anything that is untrue.