In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.
The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ...
If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.
Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
