Alright, enough about food. I just made myself a whole shitload of baby paninis and now i can't even think about ego waffles, paper though they may be.
Anyway, there's something I read awhile back that I keep mulling over, and being the magnanimous personage that I am, I shall share it with you. It is this:
Standard responses to the problem of innocent suffering in the world:
1. God exists, is good, and is all-powerful; what appears to us His injustice is either a legitimate testing of our character, a just retribution for our sins, or an illusion created by our inability to understand the workings of the Divinity.
2. God exists, and is good, but is not all-powerful; beside Him are other, evil forces that contend with and sometimes best Him thus gaining power over the world.
3. God does not exist and suffering is the result either of blind chance or of immutable laws working themselves out in the lives of men.
But there is also a fourth possible response: God exists; He is good; He is all-powerful; therefore He must be just; but He is not just; therefore He owes man an explanation and man must demand it from Him.
--from the introduction to Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories, by Sholem Aleichem (which you may well know as the Fiddler on the Roof...), translated and with an introduction by Hillel Halkin.
Anyway, I've been muling it over.
Other things I've been enjoying:
the new Lucero album, which kicks ass. Of course.
I'll add more to this later, but Dan jus got back to Chicago and I need to get drunk with him, pronto.
Anyway, there's something I read awhile back that I keep mulling over, and being the magnanimous personage that I am, I shall share it with you. It is this:
Standard responses to the problem of innocent suffering in the world:
1. God exists, is good, and is all-powerful; what appears to us His injustice is either a legitimate testing of our character, a just retribution for our sins, or an illusion created by our inability to understand the workings of the Divinity.
2. God exists, and is good, but is not all-powerful; beside Him are other, evil forces that contend with and sometimes best Him thus gaining power over the world.
3. God does not exist and suffering is the result either of blind chance or of immutable laws working themselves out in the lives of men.
But there is also a fourth possible response: God exists; He is good; He is all-powerful; therefore He must be just; but He is not just; therefore He owes man an explanation and man must demand it from Him.
--from the introduction to Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories, by Sholem Aleichem (which you may well know as the Fiddler on the Roof...), translated and with an introduction by Hillel Halkin.
Anyway, I've been muling it over.
Other things I've been enjoying:
the new Lucero album, which kicks ass. Of course.
I'll add more to this later, but Dan jus got back to Chicago and I need to get drunk with him, pronto.
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well i dont know about you but im about ready for a familly renunion .. you know for those of us that can afford to take time off and see each other... say someplace like Italy... ponder on it would ya.. maybe england.. dunno as soon as i go to work ill be looking into a bit of traveling to ease the tention of being responsible by spending money and i figure, HEY!! i know this chick whom i consider to be "worldly" and i havent seen her in ohh 2 fucking years.. hugs
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