IS TATTLETALE GREY YOUR FAVORITE COLOR?

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Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th century German philosopher and no matter how you look at it, his bottom line was that God was not a part of his working philosophy. This attitude brought him to the point where he slept every night with a loaded revolver under his pillow and refused to trust a barber enough to allow one to cut his hair.

He was a miserable, selfish, bitter, fearful man right up to and including his dying day. An agnostic who had chosen to live in a theological limbo-land.

Another man one day wrote the following. “In the visible world the Milky Way is a tiny fragment. Within this fragment the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot tiny lumps of impure carbon and water crawl about for a few years, until they dissolve into the elements of which they are compounded.”

And so having written this he continued, “Therefore, what could be more logical than suicide?” And having asked the question, he did it.

H. L. Mencken, one of the most well known atheistic pessimists of all time, wrote, “Life is a business that doesn’t cover expenses. The only honest wish man can have is that of absolute annihilation.”

Such comments flow quite naturally from those who do not believe that “In the beginning God created…” or are not terribly impressed with the fact. Or who again and again cry out, “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.”

It does make a difference what one believes, and how much and mightily one believes: the absolute void of absolute doubt, or the powerful presence and strength of absolute faith. Or, the in-between of tattle-tale gray.

“Even the irreligious cannot argue about the power of religion. Why? Because this whole business about the relationship between God and man is not just a social, cultural, political or ideological factor; it is personal. Through and through, it is you and your Creator with only two tags attached. The one reading Created and the other Creator.” (rewrite of ideas in the preface to the book Rediscovering Religion)

The writer Katherine Logan wrote, “If a vision is of God then it is a vision that comes in advance of a task well done.” (rewritten)

Let me put it yet another way, “Vision without a task is a dream; task without a vision is drudgery; vision with a task is the hope of the world.”
What is your vision?
If you are a preacher you see life as a sermon.
If you are a miser you see life as money.
If you are a loafer you see life as one life-long resting time.
If you are a soldier you see life as battle.
If you are a teacher you see life as a school where you both learn and teach.
Ah, life is a great thing for the thinker, but it’s a folly to the fool.
Life is just one long vacation to the man who loves his work,
But it’s a constant dodging of duty to the ever lasting shirk.
To the faithful, earnest person, life’s a story ever new.

Where there is no vision, the people perish…” says the book of Proverbs. (29:18)

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