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You're on a roll, Gordon. Keep 'em coming.

bigbrotherinlaw

Wow. That is, simply, awesome. Who thinks like that, much less can then get it onto paper. What a great read. I'll be forwarding it to several people who will love it.

I like that.
When I read "Christ tells us that we are to be the salt of the earth and children of the light..." I think of salt as both a flavor enhancer, a seasoning and a preservative. To be 'salted' by Christ is to be changed by Christ, and this change seasons us, our flavor is enhanced, and being thus salted, we are then called upon to preserve the faith through our flavorful witness.

Your bit about Zeno's paradox reminds me of the bit of Pratchett's Pyramids, where the philosopher (Xeno, in his story) who came up with the idea was trying to demonstrate the principle with a tortoise and a bow and arrow. He kept insisting it was impossible to hit the tortoise because by the time the arrow has moved along the arc, the tortoise has moved a bit farther, so the arrow has to move that much farther, and by the time its done that the tortoise has gone a bit further..

Course, its a good thing the philosopher was a lousey shot with a bow. Very philosophical animals, tortoises, be a shame if something that wasn't philosophical, like reality, happened to them.

RLP,

"There is hope in knowing that someone thinks we can be good and should be good, and calls each of us to goodness."

What a wonderful sentence. As I see on a daily basis how far short I fall from following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, this will help me keep trying. Thanks.

Thanks for the reminder of the "hope that is within us". For me, the joy in the journey has been learning how to listen and obey; finding intimacy in a mystical, spiritual relaionship with my savior/creator. I know that sounds kinda churchy, but I can't figure out how else to say it. You always say it so much better. Thanks.
Curt in KC

"I'm writing from Pepe's Cafe in Ozona, Texas. "

bumped across this, Ozona is my "hometown" :)

Zeno's paradox actually isn't a problem not because there are not, in fact, an infinite number of points between A and B. There are. The reason that you can get between A and B is that you can add an infinite number of things and get a finite number.

If you add 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and so on (an infinite number of them), you get 1. This is exactly the sum that Zeno is adding. The informal argument goes like this: 1/2 + 1/4 = 3/4. 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 = 7/8. No matter how far you keep on adding, the numerator is always going to be smaller than the denominator, so the sum is always going to be less than or equal to 1.

I do enjoy your writing (as a non-Christian). I just had to comment in this instance because I took a couple of math courses once...

Brother...that was incredible.

Hugh

It's worthy. Thank you, Preach.

"Only in the pages of the Bible do we meet the poor in spirit, the peacemakers, those who turn the other cheek and those who love neighbors as themselves."

I was wondering who you meant by this statement. I don't come across many people in the Bible who are much different than we are, except for Jesus of course.
The persons in the Bible have the same feet of clay we do.

I do enjoy your writing.