it could be your expectations are unrealistic Dec 31,2004[2025 edits] Maybe it’s because you don’t have a realistic notion of what God is, and what you can reasonably expect. Maybe God doesn’t do the kind of stuff you’ve been led to expect God does. Maybe the role of God in the Universe isn’t what you’ve …
Author Archives: Ciel
How The Universe Looks From Here
The last day of 2004 I wrote the first words of a blog on a quiet little site of writers and readers. There are now nearly 400 pages of that blog, and it’s still there on Blogit; the site that has become quieter over the years but still hangs on. I still add to it …
What’s Old Is New Again
I have begun a shift of one of my oldest blogs–HOW THE UNIVERSE LOOKS FROM HERE–from it’s original site, Blogit, to WordPress. It has its own page, and I am having to figure it out all over again, how to get things going, how to add tags and categories… All very confusing! It begins 20 …
The Value of Trust
Hannah Arendt told us: The lies are not meant to be believed, they are meant to make us not trust anyone about anything. And being unable to trust the information we’re given, we can’t make any choices because there are no sure safe trust-worthy choices. And that’s why so many Americans stayed home on Election …
Atrocity fatigue…
the normalizing of huge lies & injustices just to get on with life… The Social Contract of any society is based in trust and reliance on the sources of truth. In these times, trust is one of the chiefest of casualties: We have been lied to in large and little ways our entire lives, all …
What Do You Believe?
Everyone at some time in their life, if they cannot travel widely around the world, should study anthropology. Or at least, read a book or two on the subject. I recommend Edward T Hall’s many wise and readable works. Since humankind traded instinct for intellect, every society in the world has wrangled with the same …
America Dreaming
Well, here we are in the United States: living in a time of the ascendance of a social order that glorifies greed and selfishness, that revels in ignorance and defies science in favor of clever but inane conspiracy theories. It is a time of Dunning-Kruger exemplars gleefully, self-righteously preparing to lay their agendas on all …
Over-Thinking About Thinking
It’s not anthropomorphism to believe that animals think & feel like us. It’s assuming they think & feel the same ways about the same things as we do. Misreading physical cues like facial expressions or body language leads to totally mistaken interpretations of what an animal has on its mind, what it intends or wants. …
Who Are We Really?
“…humans have fought each other throughout their existence. Such a waste of the gift of life on our planet.” I am so tired of those who make such cynical assertions about how useless, hopeless, selfish and finally self-defeatingly monstrous are human beings. People have also loved and created and protected and cherished each other and …
Not Quite Alone
I am glad of the cat who keeps company with me from time to time sitting beside me on the arm of the chair or on my arm despite my need to have it free and sometimes I pause from work or pull her close against me to rest slightly purring against my chest and …
LOOSELY SPEAKING... 