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 06, 2003 - 1:03 a.m.
I saw Slaid tonight, that always makes me happy. He was scheduled to play in Ballard Park in Ridgefield CT. I had been to Ridgefield once before to see The Kennedys with Carey. When I went through Wilton on the ride up I was getting all nostalgic for a trip with the CND concert choir that I wasn’t on.
When I got to the park there was a sign saying that the concert has been moved to The Temple Shearith Israel. That’s it, no directions not even an address. I assumed that it would be right there but I was wrong. I went to a few stores in the neighborhood and nobody had any idea where it was. I then went to the Library where Carey and I had seen the The Kennedys. The person working there didn’t know but someone in the library did. It was about a mile away. I had just time to grab some pizza then get down there. The other people in the Pizza place were also there to see Slaid. One couple had come down from Manchester. They were happy to hear that I was from New York; it made them feel less like a freak for traveling so far. What would they think of us? To me sixty miles away is a local show.
When I got to the temple the lot was filling up but there were still plenty of seats. They announced that the show was going to start late to give people time to get there from the park. They even had a shuttle bus running. What was missing was signs directing you to the sanctuary where the show was. I ended up in the kitchen where I found Slaid, he told me where to go.
I ended up sitting down next to a couple from Long Island who were also glad to find someone else who traveled. It was a running theme for the day.
I don’t know what to write about the show that I haven’t written already. I haven’t checked but my guess is that I’ve seen Slaid almost a dozen times since I started writing this diary. The constant theme is that Slaid always makes me happy. Slaid always does a number of cover songs. During the show it dawned on me that I’d love to hear him do one by Leadbelly. I told him after the show and he liked the idea. He doesn’t know what he’d do. If he does one next time I see him I’ll be a very happy boy.
An interesting note, I’ve been to countless churches the last few years but I don’t think I’ve been to a synagogue since the last Bar Mitzvah I went to till last night. I’m not a very good Jew am I? How bad? Read on.
In her blog Gella wrote about the story of Abraham smashing the idols in his father’s shop. Read her blog them come back here if you don’t know the story. I’m just do a dance till you are finished….
When I learned the story in Hebrew school my first reaction was, “he broke the idols by accident then made up a rational for doing it afterwards to avoid getting in trouble with his father.” It isn’t like I really believed that. I didn’t believe that any of it actually happened. It’s just that if it did happen I think that is a very plausible explanation. Very in keeping with human nature. Imagine my delight when I read Cabell’s Figures of the Earth. In it the cult of Dom Manuel the Redeemer springs from the story that the young Jurgen tells to avoid getting in trouble when he was found out at night when he wasn’t supposed allowed. I still can’t understand why most of my friends hate Cabell. Sometimes he is just like me.
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