Mid-morning.
You were up for Paul’s breakfast and read the Sunday paper. The others headed
down to John’s Pass for a walkabout before heading to Target for prescription
meds for Brennan’s cough. You did thirty some minutes of exercises. Linda will
arrive around eleven. The Gulf is much calmer today. When you arrived yesterday
shortly after noon it looked like Atlantic waves on a stormy day; very
turbulent but quite romantically pretty with the high white tipped waves
shining in the sunlight in the quite brisk chilly north wind.
1029
hours. Bill’s yard is most awesome. Sitting in the backyard is like sitting at
a bit compacted Hemingway’s yard at Key West or more like the back yard of one
of the homes on a side street off Duval – cool, laid back thoughts and memories
herein invoked. The Gulf has a varied greenish cast this morning, few white
caps. From the balcony it is what one might see looking out at Lake Erie –
Linda just called, she and Bill are meeting us at eleven thirty at the Conch
Republic. The others just returned.
You discovered an interesting article on page 5P in the
Sunday Tampa Bay Times titled, “Perspective: Things don’t occur for a reason”
by Konika Banerjee and Paul Bloom. Banerjee is a graduate student and Bloom is
her professor of psychology at Yale. Post. - Amorella
Owen just came in and said, “Why are you in
here [the bedroom writing]?” and you said, “I am a writer.” He immediately went
to his father on the balcony and said, “Papa is an arthur.” So there's more humor for you.
Post. - Amorella
1618
hours. Here are some excerpts from the article.
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. . . “Unsurprisingly,
a majority of religious believers said they thought that [these] events
happened for a reason and that they had been purposefully designed (presumably
by God). But many atheists did so as well, and a majority of atheists in a
related study also said that they believed in fate – defined as the view that life
events happen for a reason and that there is an underlying order to life that
determines how events turn out.
These
atheists’ responses weren’t just the product of living in America’s highly
religious society. Research done at Queen’s University in Belfast by the
psychologists Bethany Heywood and Jesse Bering found that British atheists were
just as likely as American atheists to believe that their life events had
underlying purposes, even though Britain is far less religious than America. .
. .
This
tendency to see meaning in life events seems to reflect a more general aspect
of human nature: our powerful drive to reason serves us well because it helps
us figure out why people behave as they do and to respond appropriately. But it
can lead us into error when we overextend it, causing us to infer psychological
states even when none exist. This fosters the illusion that the world itself is
full of purpose and design. . . .
Whatever
the origin of our belief in life’s meaning, it might seem to be a blessing.
Some people find it reassuring to think that there really are no accidents,
that what happens to us – including the most terrible of events – reflects an
unfolding plan. . . .
Even
those who are devout should agree, at least here on Earth, things just don’t
naturally work out so that people get what they deserve. If there is such a
thing as divine justice or karmic retribution, the world we live in is not the
place to find it. Instead, the events of human life unfold in a fair and just
manner only when individuals and society work hard to make this happen. We
should resist our natural urge to think otherwise.”
From
– Konica Banerjee and Paul Bloom. Tampa Bay Times, “Perspective: Things
don’t occur for a reason,” p. 5P, Sunday, November 2, 2014
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You fervently believe that this sort of
scientific hypothesis is closer to the truth in the world than any other. This
is the main reason why you once believed that your ‘seeing aspects of Angelic
manifestation’ early in your life or later or both was accidently. You would
swear this is a sense of ‘accident’ is true in a court of law or metaphysical
circumstance. – Amorella
1649
hours. Yes, if the angelic-like presence was real or imagination, either way it
was accidently. That is, I opened a door expecting to find nothing and
something was there instead so I shut the door, as I was being impolite and
rude. That is the way I look at the experience. It makes no difference really
because for a short time in 1987-88 my actions were that the Angelic Presence
was real. The surprise and shock still exists that I thought it was real, that
is the underlying psychological state I have the difficulty with. I think the
Merlyn stories are an amends to my sense of self. I made a mistake and am
attempting to make an interesting and readable story from it. Thankfully no one
has bought a copy as far as I am aware. I like the invisibility right out in
the open. Very funny. I would just as soon nobody buy a copy. How cool would
that be, have a book out there, and eventually a series, and not one buyer. I
imagine though I will eventually have one, and what would be the irony if it
were accidental. This is an example that fits my sense of humor. While I have my doubts on many
things in this world, dark humor is something I do not doubt, because I have an
example of it. Humor gives me all the element of meaning I need about life, the
world and the universe and perhaps even the beyond.
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