[Magdalen] neat comparisons

[James Oppenheimer]

I recalled this fascinating clip on Nietsche.  Enjoy. (or -- well, whatevuh
...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5GFgulByuM

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>