Ralph Scherer

The observer has been observed and now the observed has become the observer. And so it goes.

However, if the observer wants to be observed then by definition he/she gives up his observerhood.

I suppose it’s possible to be observed while observing. I guess it all depends on your power of observation.

True happiness is being an unwitting sower of jealousy.

Maybe nothing we do now will matter in a thousand years, but IF SO, then it also would seem that nothing that will matter in a thousand years makes a difference now, either. In particular, it doesn’t make a difference now that in a thousand years, what we do now won’t matter. –JAP

Life is momentary. There are happy moments and sad moments and to experience life to its fullest you must stay in the moment. I think I understand what all the monks meditating out there are doing. They are making a valiant effort to stay in the present moment.

I submit this is impossible to do because there is no such thing as the present moment. The future is feeding on the past.

It takes more energy for good to reside in evil than it does for evil to reside in good.

…. and not bad is better than pretty good.

The world is fleeting, and so am I. Maybe I should learn to surf instead of drowning.

… of scripture and their intellectual dishonesty is more than skin deep. You guessed it, it goes right down to the bone.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, ’tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”

–Benjamin Franklin

I am disgusted by the cult of personality dominating the media at the moment. Wake up people. There are more pressing issues in the world than the death of Peter Pan and a Charlie’s Angel. I wish that the media would just let MJ’s memory be rather than drag it around for days like some carcass of a once-proud show horse paraded around for the sake of sentimentality and ratings.”

Theists are afraid people will think for themselves; atheists are afraid they won’t.

Science has given us much. What has theology given us?

Theology has given us hell.