[Magdalen] neat comparisons

[Lynn Ronkainen]

interesting words today in "The  Writers Almanac"  .... considering the ways 
this thread has been discussing stars and black holes...

It's the birthday of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (books by this author), 
born in the Prussian village of Röcken (1844). He was a philosopher who 
loved literature, and he experimented with different literary styles to 
express his philosophy. His most famous book, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883), 
describes a prophet who comes down from the mountains to teach people about 
the coming of a new kind of superman, but the people he speaks to only 
ridicule and laugh at him.

He's perhaps best known for claiming that "God is dead," but most people 
forget that he actually said, "God is dead ... and we have killed him!" He 
thought that the absence of God from the world was a tragedy, but he felt 
that people had to accept that tragedy and move on. He wrote that God was 
like a star whose light we can see, even though the star died long ago. Much 
of his philosophy is about how people might live in a world without God and 
without absolute morality. At the time of his death on August 25, 1900, 
almost no one had heard of him, but after his work was republished, it had a 
huge impact on the philosophers of the 20th century.

He said: "[W]e should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at 
least once."



Lynn
website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck

Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the 
ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is 
leaning against the wrong wall.”

"What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:02 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] neat comparisons

> I get pretty annoyed with the creationist types, but at the same time I
> pity them because their vision of God is so small. I don't worry too much
> about what or who may be "out there" either.  After all, if God made the
> universe, God made them too in all their glorious forms, no matter how
> "non-glorious" they may seem to us. The psalmist said, "When I consider 
> the
> heavens you have made, what is man that you are mindful of him?"
>
> On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> David Strang:
>> The real thing, as it unfolds year by year  is much more wonderful than
>> Genesis.
>>
>>
>> Well said, David!
>> Lynn
>>
>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>
>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have 
>> not
>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave 
>> me."
>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>>
>> Thomas Merton writes, "People may spend their whole lives climbing the
>> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder 
>> is
>> leaning against the wrong wall."
>>
>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 9:14 PM
>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] neat comparisons
>>
>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 10/14/2014 7:41:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> ichthys89 at comcast.net writes:
>>>
>>> Knowing  more and more about our vast universe makes brings me even 
>>> closer
>>> to
>>> the  concept of a loving God and God's  creations.
>>> Lynn>>>>
>>>
>>> There is this, and it's what keeps me going.
>>>
>>> It also makes me cross to have so many in the USA, at least,
>>> insist on the literal biblical creation stories as the only  acceptable
>>> and "gospel" truth.  The real thing, as it unfolds year by year  is
>>> much more wonderful than Genesis.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David Strang.
>>>
>>
>>