Religious Tolerance
What if you’d only ever seen Alec Guinness from one angle? And what if he was the only human you had ever seen or heard of? All you would know of him is exactly what you saw in front of you. Standing behind him, you would quite reasonably assert that he had two distinct ears. Meanwhile your friend standing just a few feet away to the left of Sir Guinness is insisting that there is only one ear. One ear? That’s preposterous! There’s clearly two ears right there. Is your friend even looking at the same Alec Guinness? And whatever a mouth is supposed to be, it’s obviously pure fantasy. You’re looking at Alec Guinness from head to toe right now, and there’s nothing that matches that description. What on earth is a nose? And eyes?! These jokers can’t even agree on how many of these “eyes” Alec Guinness is supposed to have. Your friend says it’s one, and that girl over there is claiming he has two of ‘em. If they’re going to try and pull a fast one over on you, they should at least get their story straight.
Update: This post was originally titled “Organized Religion”, but upon reflection I realized that tolerance is what I was actually thinking about when I wrote this.
Inspirational/Creepy Poetry
I was once you.
You were once me.
We’ll soon be each other again. Wait and see.
Cultural Creative
I took a quiz entitled What is Your World View? and here are the results.
You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
Cultural Creative
100% Idealist
81% Postmodernist
75% Existentialist
63% Modernist
44% Materialist
31% Romanticist
25% Fundamentalist
13%
So then I wondered what in the world a cultural creative is supposed to be. I did a search on google. I went to the first result and took that site’s quiz to determine if I am a cultural creative. Apparently if you respond in the affirmative to at least 10 of the 18 questions, you might be a redneck cultural creative. (I got 4.)
100% just doesn’t mean what it used to.
…With Responsibility and Justice For All
I discovered what I think is a very neat idea today. It’s a vision of a sister monument to the Statue of Liberty that would exist on the west coast. Take a look at the Statue of Responsibility.
I have to admit that I was a little shocked by the price tag for this project ($300 million). I don’t know the exact figures, but it seems like that might be more than the price tag of all our existing national monuments combined. One difference, I suppose, is it will be entirely dependent on private funding. (The site includes and an address for donations.) The $300 million figure also include all the marketing and publicity costs they plan at start up, as opposed to just construction.
The more I think about it, the more I think the budget is unreasonable. That’s a shame because I think the concept of dedicating a monument to responsibility as a complement to our monument to liberty is a very cool idea.
Single Sentence Movie Review: An Inconvenient Truth
Unless you have the necessary expertise to evaluate the data yourself, you are trusting someone else’s interpretation of the information on global warming no matter which side you take; though after seeing this movie I’m slightly more inclined to trust Al Gore’s interpretation.
