It may not be the ONLY thing LIFE is about, but it’s a foundational element: STRIVING … fulfilling the need to BECOME … to learn, to know, to understand, to comprehend, to become “conversant” with the laws and nature of the universe, to become “productively engaged” on one’s own behalf, to become “productively engaged” on behalf of…
Preface I am not into lost causes, losing propositions or meaningless pursuits, including “fandom”, Superhero Divination, fantasy games, conspiracy theories, cult “caving”, and tribal “exceptionalism”. The first and last person I don’t want to fool – or BE fooled – is me. I will not shy from the difficult or even imponderable as long as…
Many hearty and sincere souls harbor a belief that the Bible holds a precise and inerrant account of how we got here – the earth was created in SIX DAYS some 4,000 years ago. Other hearty souls believe the Bible is the INSPIRED “Word of God”, to be taken in Spirit but not necessarily literally…
One of the most limiting factors in “becoming all that we can be” is failing to get TRACTION … failing to be able to GRASP and DIG IN on whatever we’re going to become and wherever it is we’re going to go. Life just seems so nebulously “ungraspable” … Captain Ahab finds himself in this…
As noted in “Hostage”/21, we may be being HELD HOSTAGE by all sorts of things hidden in the background thwarting our efforts and holding us back … … but it also helps to understand that we are likely being HELD BACK by some things that are actually “for our own good” … like by family,…