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.
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going past them into the impossible.
November 05, 2009 - 12:04 p.m.
I did this morning's quota of procrastinating so now I can update. People think procrastinating is easy but it isn't; you have to work at it. Things don't put themselves off all by themselves.
I'm back. I had to do one more procrastination before I wrote this. I was going to wait till after I wrote this but decided to strike while the iron was hot.
I watched the last game of the World Series last night. I rooted for the hated Yankees against the hated Phillies. I'm going to drop the pose for a second. I don't actually hate the Yankees or the Phillies (except for Jimmy Rollins). It's just part of the fun of being a baseball fan to act like I do. I wanted the Yankees to win because they are a New York team and more importantly because they were the best team in baseball this year. It's been way too long since the best team in baseball has won the series. I hate the endless rounds of baseball playoffs. I cringe whenever a wild card team wins.
For all their bought stars the Yankees have a remarkable core of homegrown talent that has probably been together longer than any other team's core; Jeter, Posada, Petite, and Rivera. They all came up together in the last millennium (1995 or 1996) and have been teammates for pretty much their entire careers (except for Petite's 3 year hiatus in Houston). A real baseball fan should love Mo. When it comes to relief pitching he's the best there is, the best there ever was, the best there will ever be.
OK now back to being a Met fan. The season is over which means it is not time to hope again. Forget "Next year in Jerusalem." For me it's "Next year in Shea Stadium Citi Field."
Let's Go Mets!
That feels better.
I really shouldn't be writing this now. I should be getting ready for Lena's visit. I might not be able to update much while's she's here so I feel compelled to write now.
I'll often criticize myself here; I call myself an idiot and a procrastinator. I balance that out by endlessly praising my prowess at cooking and other virtues. Here's another thing I like about myself.
It's a bit early to start talking about Festivus but it isn't too early to start talking about talking about Festivus. In an amazing act of not procrastinating I created the Festivus Event on Facebook. So far 22 people have said they'll attend including two people that I don't know! My dream is to have millions celebrating my favorite holiday. Twenty-two is a start.
What does this have to do with praising myself? One of my favorite attributes of someone is their ability to take a weird idea and run with it. That's my specialty. I didn't invent Festivus; I just ran with it. What I promote has very little to do with it's depiction on Seinfeld. It is the product of the fevered imaginings of my friends, primarily Carey and Shelly, and myself. It has no grounding in reality but some people, the elite, enjoy the enthusiasm and shear insanity. I don't just trim a pole (yes I really set up a Festivus Pole) and sing Festivus Carols (yes there are carols) I wrote the Principles of Festivus and it's long and storied history. I make it real.
I'd be happy if my epitaph was "He knew how to run with it." You can add "He knew how to keep Festivus if any man possessed the knowledge;" if you like
oO Deck the pole with Pez dispensers Oo
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