Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Delusion is deception cast by those beyond us to bend us to their will in having us purchase their shampoo or their electric pickup trucks by having us think we are somebody if we do.
Illusion is deception cast by our own internal exegesis system explaining what's what and why to our superstitious, insecure, immature way of thinking. So that crossing our fingers brings us good luck and wearing garlic pods keeps werewolves away.
We are at the mercy of eveyone including ourselves, and our only chance is our determination to stop taking anyone's word for how things are and why, and start making our own investigations and conducting our own inquiries, asking such questions as, "What makes you think the way you think is the way to think?" "What makes you think that what you just said is so?" "What evidence do you have to support your contention that what you said is true? "Who would be most proud of you to hear what you just said?" Etc.
Do not take anyone's word for anything including your own! Get to the rocky bottom of everything. Don't leave any question unasked?
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
View more posts
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 