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.
February 04, 2003 - 11:57 a.m.
My good class continues to be very good. They averaged a 2.8 out of 3 on the last quiz; that’s 93%. More importantly they are fun to teach. My morning class remains dead. Too many people arrived late today too. I told them that next quiz will be at the beginning of class and that anyone who came late would get a zero. The most enthusiastic student in that class has missed the last too sessions, that makes it tougher.
I’ve been spending a lot of time debating about Iraq recently which is funny because that is the political issue that I am most unsure about. I don’t really have strong convictions. What I end up doing is arguing against whatever the person I’m talking to believes. It’s pretty easy since I think that nobody really knows enough to know what is right. That is the point I’m really trying to make that it is so far from being a black and white issue.
Speaking of black and white issues I just read the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report. It is a fascinating magazine. It documents hate crime in America. There were two interesting articles with a common theme. One was on Leo Felton, a white supremacist, who ran a group called Aryan Unit One. Felton was half black though no one in the organization knew it. The other was on Jewish Anti-Semites. You really should check out their web site. They are a wonderful organization that fights the good fight. Every employee at the SPLC receives the same salary whether they are the CEO, a trial lawyer, or the janitor. They are people that believe in their work.
I had a lot of fun thinking about two friends of mine. They are always pushing each other’s buttons and complaining to me about it. If life were a movie you’d know that they’d be getting married at the end of the film. I could see Woody Allen directing it and playing me. As far as I know we aren’t living in a movie though; not even a TV sitcom. Of course people in movies usually don’t know they are in one.
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Email me: GordonLew at gmail
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