Magic and Reason
"What man is capable of leaving an edifice on whose construction he has spent all his life, even though that edifice is his own prison? It is difficult to get rid of it in one day."
-Kahlil Gibran
I am sitting here listening to one of my favorite songs, "Silence" by Delerium and Sarah McLaughlin. In the song, she thinks aloud, "In this Silence, I believe" then "I get caught up when the rage in me subsides". No matter how many times I hear the song, I can't help but stop what I'm doing and listen. It's the story of many of us. We want to believe in something greater but just can't find a reason for it's existence.
I must say, I see a search for the magical in this world. We all want to see something magical, mystical, unbelievable. Something that makes us think that we could "get caught up". Just like the song. No person is immune to this desire for the mystical, even me. I have found myself pondering things like the existence of life after death. I have often thought that as humans, we can only see a small part of the visible spectrum, so wouldn't it be possible to exist outside the senses? Is there a whole world that we can't sense, therefore, we deny it's existence? The explorer in me wants that to be true. I almost need it to be true.
I pose this question to you....If we can't prove it, does it mean it doesn't exist?
posted by mariemon at 9:18 PM
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Cool whip and shaving cream look a lot alike, too. But they are so very different.
I don't try to find the answers to life anymore. Those answers are reveiled to us, almost daily. I have spent quite a bit of time beating myself up over wanting those same answers. I read the book that Un-Ap spoke of, "The Purpose of Life." Really, no help at all for someone like me. But I'm sure the Southern Baptist church goers managed to find even more reasons to unfairly judge the folks around them, inside those pages.
Yeah, it would be great to know why a child suffers, why we lose loved ones and child molesters and spouse abusers continue to live and submit the innocent ones to their behavior. Those are questions that, even if we had the answers, would that be enough, could we just accept those answers, or would those same answers pose more questions.
Simply put in my opinion, some things in this world are not questioned, just accepted or denied. I find the magic of this world in my children, my friends, and the beauty of everyday things like clouds and trees. I refuse to waste time wondering "What's next."
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