A compassionate human being looks outside his own dogma to find some truth, and is summarily denounced: ABC News: 'Heretic' Minister: Nobody Goes to Hell. My hat is off to you, Minister Pearson, for doing, thinking, and saying what you feel is right rather than what is popular.
McSweeny's has a great short essay on a short imagined monologue by Richard Dawkins to a kindergarten class regarding the plausibility of Santa Claus.
"I had to do confession for the second graders today in preparation for their First Communion. Hearing confession from second graders is like being stoned with marshmallows." - A priest in Haverhill, MA, said with a thick Boston accent.
Tao Te Ching # 11 The Nature of Usefulness
Thirty spokes will converge
In the hub of a wheel;
But the use of the cart
Will depend on the part
Of the hub that is void.
With a wall all around
A clay bowl is molded;
But the use of the bowl
Will depend on the part
Of the bowl that is void.
Cut out windows and doors
In the house as you build;
But the use of the house
Will depend on the space
In the walls that is void.
So advantage is had
From whatever is there;
But usefulness rises
From whatever is not.
[Translated by Raymond B. Blakney]
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Bruce Campbell: If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
I'm still waiting to warm up to this autobiography. Maybe I need to see Army of Darkness again. (**)
