Some of what came up when I accessed Youtube today:
Of course I realize that what is brought up is based upon prior searches using the creepy YouTube algorithms, although Youtube manages also to bring up tons of drek that I would never click on. Seeing some of my favorite film scenes all at once reminded me that this is very much the way I view the world, leaping from historical period to period, and resource to resource, making connections and drawing analogies where none might be readily apparent to others. This habit has been with me as long as I can remember, and my profession, especially when I am doing legal research, has re-enforced it. I draw nothing profound out of this other than that each of us has mental habits that help us make sense of a kaleidoscope world, and this is mine. A friend of mine is a fanatic baseball fan, as well as an attorney, and his analogy of legal, and other situations, to a myriad of ball games he has seen or read about I have found amusing and instructive over the years. Shakespeare opined that this life is a vast theater, which one might expect from a man who was an actor as well as a playwright. If so, it is one in which all the participants are performers as well as audience, and each are perceiving the ongoing play in different ways.
Very good insight Donald: “If so, it is one in which all the participants are performers as well as audience, and each are perceiving the ongoing play in different ways.”
And God and the devil are each writing scrips for us to follow.
I too, like Mr. Dowd, appreciate your insight Donald. How our world is viewed once we become aware that we are not the world. The center of all things. A generation of people are growing up viewing organized religion as an enemy. A hindrance to freedom. [ homosexual marriage-abortion-women discrimination via priesthood ] and how their perspective might only be from the darkened valley of being the center of all things. The world.
Without God they become god.
In Hugo’s Le Miserables, the ultimate question is asked; “Who am I ?”
I find that I write English like a computer programmer. If I put “not” in the right place, even multiple times in a sentence, it’s perfectly translatable into symbolic logic. But people don’t read in symbolic logic.
We pick up intellectual habits we don’t even realize.
Two of the reasons I love GK Chesterton are actually the same. One, I’m always comforted how someone who thinks completely differently than I do is led to the same place. Two, one of his main themes is that only God can be the source of fulfillment for all of us, even though we may be different. We all have God-shaped holes in our hearts, even if those holes are completely different.
“We all have God-shaped holes in our hearts, even if those holes are completely different.” I like this.