Do you here what I hear?

Silence, according to Dictionary.com, can be described as the absence of sound. Think about it for a second and try and remember the last time you actually had a moment in silence.
I personally can not remember a time in the last few years anyway. There are times when there isn't much noise, but never silent. There is always some sort of background noise. At the old house a train horn or a passing car. At this house, a dog barking, a tweeting bird, or a passsing car. Even at work, in my fishbowl with the door closed I hear the whirr of my computer, the muffeled noise of voices and rivet guns and the occasional overhead page. I truly can not remember the last time I was not immersed in sound.

Now give this some thought, is that a bad thing? I have come to the point where I can not read without background noise. I find my mind wonders unless it has to concentrate to block out some noise. I literally need the noise to focus, to really focus. When I run material plans which, for those that do not work where I do and for some that do, is the most intense and detailed document that we have, I turn on some music loud enough to annoy those around me, put on the headphones, and promptly tune it out. Watch "For Love of the Game" with Kevin Costner and you will get the jist.... "Lock the mechanism."

I just think it is amazing that everyone wants a little peace and quite, but quite isn't that peaceful.

I again saw a billboard outside a church that kind of pissed me off.
"Evolution is unproven and unprovable." Maybe I missed the chapter in the science books that gave evidence of Creationism. I would say there is more proof of Evolution than there is of Creationism. Still, why put such rubish on public display. I can understand and appreciate the ones that say things like "Souls Saved Here" because they are faith based. If you believe that you have a soul and that it is in peril, than the message speaks to you. The earlier one takes on the age old debate of Science vs. Faith. If I ever considered going to that church, which had the "Hot Pink Cross" as one of my sisters friends once called it, my decision would have been made for me with this sign... in the negative. Sensationalism has no place in the church, at least not in my opinion. I mean, you are studying the teachings of someone who ascended 2000 years ago. I doubt he has added to it lately so what is the need for sensationalism? Do you really need to be sensational to get butts in the pews?

Oh, where exactly is the Gospel according to Jesus. His real name wasn't even Jesus, it was Yeshua. Yeshua Ben Yosef. (Yeshua son of Yoseph if you like, ben meaning son of. ) Oh! the hieracy.

How come we never see this one "Jesus wasn't white and he didn't have blue eyes." That is fact. It can be proven. I would guess that it would be unpopular though. Why? Because God made us in his image and it would be hard to imagine his son didn't look like us beacause that would mean that we don't look like God. That is probably the strongest objection to Evolution.

Even if we did just poof into existance, Adam and Eve would have been black folk. Africa is the cradle of life after all. It wasn't always a desert waste land you know.

How about this... find a spot with some silence and think about all this and figure it out for yourself instead of having someone else tell you what to believe.

Until next time...