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...the problem with arguing with Richard Dawkins is that he is right. More on that later.
The problem with Richard Dawkins' arguments, as I see it, are two problems and one imaginary: first, it is risky to declare current knowledge as final proof and absolute and as explaining(whatever I said earlier). Second, Reason must, as Emmanuel Kant explained, acknowledge that it cannot prove (or disprove) the metaphysical. The imaginary problem is (what I said earlier).
...he is blatantly, self-servingly (?) wrong about Einstein's beliefs. / He presumes to speak for Einstein. / He offers his own brand of revisionist history to suit his needs / to assist his cause. Yes, he does have a cause and has so as much himself (insert quote about combating/erraticating religion / making converts to atheism... which is to be expected and even appreciated. He must have a cause, as any passionate person must. Darwin himself said, "(insert quote re: must have an argument)
...after confessing it's limits, Reason must confess that a Supreme Being is somewhat reasonable.
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...the more knowledge I gain / information I learn, the more I value understanding. I am not impressed with game show contestants. And, if it were possible, am less impressed the more I understand.
That all natural processes have scientific explanations does in no way disprove the spiritual.
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I disbelieved strongly. I spoke out against it, the way religious people do: full of fervor but no fact.
I looked into it. Read: (insert online readings)
I had a crisis of faith. Both the Bible and Evolution cannot be true. Because the Bible makes quite a to-do about the creation of things.
I stated that Evolution was true to a couple who are friends. The wife seemed genuinely baffled. "So we really came from monkeys"
And then I had the crisis of the undoing of my crisis. Wait. Then, as before, the more I thought about Evolution the less it seemed reasonable. It seemed to explain natural processes and most behaviors. But it failed completely to explain some behaviors and origins, and, failing to explain origins, it is difficult to use it to explain much of what it claims to explain, such as: diversity of species.
One difficulty of evolution is the age it claims for the solar system. Maybe it is simply difficult for unlearned minds to believe. Or maybe it is so difficult that it is impossible.
The fossil problem: fossils are incontrovertable.
(from Time mag. letter to editor)
Humans are developed far beyond our function.
Another problem with evolution is that we don't see it... uh, kinda like that other theory.
The question is: where did life come from? We don't know. We may find the answer in fact-based, naturalistic discovery.
Evolution is not a stand-in for science. Science is not a step-by-step process to truth.
If an explanation of origin is necessary to understand evolution, then you will never understand it.
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One of the first things you have to believe about the God of the Bible--if you believe--is that he would build a world (or universe) that is capable of continuing without constant supernatural intervention.
Starting from that point, everything in the universe fits: of course, this is just the kind of universe that kind of being could and would create. The processes, the interconnectedness and interdependancy between species... all that we have discovered called science--that we will always be discovering, all of it fits. All of the things that evolution explains can be as logically explained with Creation. Everything but the Creator.
We don't see God; we don't see evolution. We can't see the motivating force. We don't know the origin.
I'm not sure why we insist that everything must have come from something else. Why do we insist on that being the only explanation? We see similarities, but does that mean one came from another? For our world, similarities always mean created... by a creator. No one would ever, observing two differently-sized pieces of paper, think that one came from the other.
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So, adaptation makes sense and is provable. But doesn't that point to an all-knowing creator as readily as it points to evolution?
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There is as much hard evidence for God beginning things as there is for any other theory of beginnings.
Nice:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/read-this-now-stop-procrastinating-and-get-stuff-done-or-else.html
Nice:
The Day I Met Lance Armstrong
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/the-day-i-met-lance-armstrong.html
Nice:
http://www.craigharper.com.au/
What I like and am good at:
Even those who preach that humans can become something more do not become more. Wayne Dyer comes close. As far as we know.
Many others talk continually about the necessity of becoming something more than what most people become. And their pleadings and proclamations all make sense and stir something deep inside our humanity.
But how many become something different... more?
Deepak Chopra, Buddy Wakefield, (lady who wrote "Heal Your Life", Robert Schuller, Rick Warren,
How much different are they from me or you?
I'm trying to read engage the students into poetry.
But they are talking about their jobs, and paying for insurance, and their friend (a classmate) who drinks too much, and their dad who took their car even though it's not his.
And I'm trying to engage them in poetry.
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn away. - Walter Percy
Some of the things that "God did" in the Bible can be explained by natural processes. An entire army dying overnight before the battle... some disease or poison could have overtaken them.
But some things cannot be explained with reason. Things like the separation of languages at the Tower of Babel. There is no natural explanation for languages changing overnight. There is however, the possibility of languages evolving within groups of people so that, over time, the groups could not understand each other.
Why can't I believe? If my reality depends on my thoughts, then everything is up to only me. And what do I do when I'm truly depressed? My negative thoughts must be creating my reality, so depression is self-perpetuating and, as such, how does a person escape.
After all the error rests in the mistaken idea that the subject of a [photograph] is the object [photographed]. Robert Henri
(My idea: photography is capturing a timeless moment... not any old moment. A snapshot captures your daughters birthday, a photograph captures all children's birthdays.)
I don't think there is any such thing as detachment when you're photographing. You have a point of view and if you haven't, your pictures don't show anything about the people you are working with. Eve Arnold
In the end, the relationships we form with each other and with the people we photograph are much more important than stories or pictures. Erich Lessin
Life isn't made of stories that you cut into slices like an apple pie. There's no standard way of approaching a story. We have to evoke a situation, a truth. This is the poetry of life's reality. Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Our daughter was born a fighter. What a difficult child she has been. We comfort / console / calm ourselves by saying that she will surely become something great--she will surely grow up to use her great strength for something good--she will fight for something good. But, of course, that won't happen. You grow no further than the circle you were born into. She will grow to lead a life just like all those in our circle of family and friends. The exceptions to this rule are so rare that they are mythological--the stuff of fairy tales and inspirational stories.
God does not talk to you through the songs on the radio. A God as great as the Bible claims cannot heal people or talk to those you claim he deeply loves. The best he can do is manipulate what is playing on the radio and when you happen to turn it on?
But then, of course, he did just that. Sunday, at 11:41am, driving to school, pressed "Seek", the radio passed four or five popular stations and stopped at 101.9 KINK. "Anything's Possible" by Jonny Lang was playing. Uh, is that you, God? 'Cuz I'm not sure I believe you talk to people.
All the joy is gone. And I am empty. The only happiness comes in the early, early morning when I am lying in bed, having yet to fall asleep, and I think about not living anymore. A shadow of happiness falls across my heart. I relax and hope I fall asleep and dream of such happiness.
People are forever expecting to suddenly explode. But no one does. People hold to the belief that all the suffering from childhood to adulthood / a life of suffering only means that one day they will have a sudden chrysalis. But the long-awaited explosion never comes. No one ever experiences a sudden chrysalis. What we do get, however, is more suffering; more time struggling against the bonds of the cocoon.
How to Practice The Way to a Meaningful Life - Dalai Lama
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life - Wayne Dyer
http://www.youcanhealyourlifemovie.com/
Every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.
If affecting change were as simply as the innumerous books claim, would we need so many books? If Wayne Dyer has answers, why does he need to continually write books?
Stop and ask yourself, "What am I thinking? Would I like this thought to create my life?"
I am willing to change.
I am willing to forgive.
GRATITUDE:
The healing power of gratitude.
http://www.juniorattractors.com/index.php (gratitude dance)
GIVING, KINDNESS:
Giving, receiving, seeing Kindness releases seratonin.
FINDING PURPOSE:
http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/get_a_life_blog/defining_the_work_you_are_meant_to_do/index.html
http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/get_a_life_blog/2007/05/takeaways_from_.html
What do you love, love, love? Think of the photographers: Ansel Adams, Chase Jarvis, Sergio (http://www.sergiophotographer.com/). They absolutely love what they do. They it so much, they love every part. They get up early to do it. They do it when it doesn't pay. They are (perhaps inadvertently) practicing the principles (see: http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/get_a_life_blog/defining_the_work_you_are_meant_to_do/index.html) that bring success.
Photographers I love:
http://www.sergiophotographer.com
** Henri Cartier-Bresson
** Sebastiao Salgado
** Richard Avedon
Robert Capa "If your photos aren't good enough, you're not close enough"
*** James Nachtwey (put self in danger, won more awards)
* Mary Ellen Mark
Rebekka G
Didier Massard
Kathleen Connally
eric meola
Steve Highfield
Galen Rowell
http://chasejarvis.com/blog/
PHOTO CONTESTS:
http://www.prophotosupply.com/events/contests.htm
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then I gave in and gave up and took up mindless domestic activities.
I know my purpose... well, my vocation.
It came to me Saturday night.
Sell subscriptions to my website. $1-a-month. On the site are all my thoughts. Thinking is what I am best at. That is how I should make my living.
Next Action:
detail what is required and the plan
(My brother's birthday. More on birthdays later.)
Yes, you can be a teacher with purpose... easily. You can have a purpose to the class, which means, a specific direction the class is heading.
A man of purpose is one who does not dabble in whatever distraction crosses his path.
A man of purpose knows the one direction he is heading, and focusing, therefore, is easy.
Stand up, fathers. Stand up.
The appeal of video games is PURPOSE. In the game, you have a specific, significant purpose (albeit a virtual one).
The man of purpose is simply a person who is heading in a specific direction.
I am washed out to sea, and I don't care.
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Where are the men? Where are the boys who will become men? Where are the boys who are charming, confident, kind, and purposeful? That is what the world needs, has always needed, and will always most need.
Where are the boys who can laugh, but never at someone's expense? I guess the underlining question here is: where are the boys who Know Themselves? Who are working hard at maturing? Who sweat in their effort to be kind, strong, wise, and better than they were before? Where are the boys who see that this is the real task?
And where, oh where, are their models?
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Well... how do I wish my classes looked?:
When did I turn 45?
This is not a matter of time going by. It is a matter of time lost; of purpose like an unmet stranger: existing out there somewhere, but I haven't met them. We'll never cross paths.
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Anybody can do anything. You can even make the devil good. But that don't mean it's right.
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