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.
October 12, 2003 - 11:46 p.m.
It started writing a really depressing entry and decided to delete it. Consider yourself spared.
I actually liked my last entry. I made a point very quickly without getting stuck in a verbal morass. It is what I really would like to do more often, point out something and let you make of it what you will.
I didn’t do much of anything today. I watched the Marlins beat the Cubs. I was rooting for the Cubs but it is always fun watching a pitching masterpiece like Beckett threw, a 2-hit shutout.
I guess the big news in my life is that I finally finished Emma. Yes it took forever but at least I finished it, more than I can say for most of you and Jurgen I really enjoyed it, I don’t know why it took me so long. The tiny print might have had something to do with it. Actually reading Emma slowly seems somehow appropriate. The lives of the people in the book proceed at a very leisurely pace.
What I appreciated most about the book is that one of its main themes is one that I harp on here all the time, the gap between reality and people’s perceptions. Everyone seems to be perpetually blind to things that the reader sees easily. The not only read everyone else’s hearts wrong but more importantly their own. Austen said that Emma was a heroine that only she could love. If that were true the book would not still be read almost 200 years later. Emma is very much like many people that I know and love.
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Email me: GordonLew at gmail
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