About
I’m a lonely man lost somewhere on a lonely planet. Occasionally I write things here. This is for my friends, and also for myself. I have many great friends, and a great family, and I probably don’t do half of them half the justice they deserve half the time. I refuse to speculate about the other half.
I have lots of questions, and I believe in answers, but wonder whether or not I personally will ever find them. I enjoy thinking. I enjoy not thinking. I have many regrets. I am grateful that life has been good to me despite my numerous mistakes. I am grateful to the people that have made it so, but show it poorly.
Expression is frightening. Religion moreso. I believe that unless a thing is frightening, it is probably not worthwhile, though that doesn’t mean that all things frightening are worthwhile.
The simplest truths are the hardest to embrace. Apophatism is sometimes necessary, but more often it’s a copout. I apply the term to more than just religion. Lack of certainty does not imply a lack of truth or reality. Ninety percent of all things are abuses, but the abuse of a thing always implies a right use and purpose. People are selfish, but they are also wonderful.
Christianity has little or nothing to do with the discovery of ethics, though it is in full support of right living, and if true, the ground of ethical truth. Christianity has everything to do with salvation, and on this score it is either right or wrong. If it has only to do with ethics, then it may be disregarded to the benefit of history and humanity.
Most Christians are bad Christians, but that doesn’t make them any less Christian in the only way that matters..
I hope one day to do something worthwhile, and always have, but more and more I think that the things that are worthwhile are invisible to all but the few people intimately affected by them. It could be that I only say that because I’m giving up, but I prefer to think that it’s the product of some kind of growth.
What do I know?