Religion

Not "I know that."

Nearly everyday I find something I was taught in school is no longer true. I was told never to give my baby peanut products. Now that she is in school with a bunch of kids with deathly peanut allergies new parents are being told to give babies peanut butter as soon as possible.
Even facts change.
What can I know with certainty? What authority can I hand over my trust? The more I "know" the more I know I don't know.

I experience that the world exists. That it is a beautiful world. That the creator and the created are not two separate things. That I can't hurt you without hurting myself.

If I were enlightened I could always be in that place of oneness and not have to work so hard against economic and technological exigencies to stay there.
Technology does not get me there.
(I'll let others to their otherness.)


I had to Google to find out about Luther coming up with the Reformation whilst straining on the toilet. He was constipated a lot and from the links I read he was really into the excrement metaphors. “I’m like a ripe stool and the world is like a gigantic anus.”
Jeepers, do you kiss your mom with that mouth, Martin Luther?
Lots of farting in the Devil's general direction and etc.

But good for him calling BS on priestly celibacy and paying for indulgences. That is a load of crap.

At the end of Einstein's God Letter he says, (I paraphrase) "Whatever. Even though you totally believe this stuff and I totally don't, I still believe we could be friends as long as we talk about concrete matters."

Unfortunately...

My neighbors all go to the same prosperity gospel church and they do everything they can to make us unwelcome. They leave their stuff all over the street and let their dogs run in the street and poop on our grass and blame it on other peoples (leashed) dogs. They let days go by before they bring in their garbage cans. Their kids tell my kid she's going to hell. They have about three cars per person that they can't park in their garages because that's where the Christmas decorations go. It's their own little Dominion.

I don't feel very "interconnected" on these occasions. No poops nor code strings seem to help. I need to go into nature and pray.


We could use another Reformation. imho. And a better HOA.