With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
August 13, 2003 - 2:29 p.m.
The thing that has me excited today isn’t going to excite any of you except for possibly Lawrence. We had an interesting bridge hand on Monday and I wrote to Eric Kokish about it. Eric is the best Canadian bridge player and has a advice column in the Bulletin of the American Contract Bridge League. He wrote back to me the today. His analysis of the hand is interesting and agrees with my position but what I really liked was the asides that stroked my ego. This might not sound like much but I loved it.
Interesting combination and it's good to see that your partnership has dealt with all the key issues either at the table, in your agreements, or in the post mortem.
It is always important to me that I concentrate on the right issues, that I know what’s important. I might not be the best bridge player but it’s good to know that I have the right approach. That is what really bugs me about one of my partners, he loves playing all kinds of conventions but he doesn’t really understand why they should be played and he doesn’t realize what things need to be discussed when playing them.
If the hand ends up getting published I’ll really be happy.
When the doctor examines me for my Crohn’s disease the most basic thing he does is probe my abdomen with his fingers. He presses deep in and feels if it is hard and if it causes me pain. I examine myself between visits to monitor my condition. I realized that I do the same thing with my emotions. I probe things that cause me pain and see if they still hurt. I found last night that the things that were causing me so much pain last week are now tolerable. I’m still not happy about them but I don’t get that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when I think about them. Perhaps I was wrong for chastising myself for picking at my emotional scabs. Maybe that is part of the healing process. Whatever it is my baseline state seems to be happiness now.
OK so it wasn’t a Platonic dialogue but at least it’s short.
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