@George: So, do you honestly know …

Comment on Believing the Disproven – An Adventure in Science by wesley kime.

@George:

So, do you honestly know your biblical god exists, or do you simply take the gestalt moment you felt under the klieg lights in the carnival tent at age 10 and circumscribe all your inquires therein? Take a good, hard look in the mirror Dr. Kime rather than just disparage those that have honest doubts about how religious belief comes about?

Honestly, Over the past half century since it’s become popular among Adventists too, and over the years on this blog, I’ve heard a lot of agnostics but never heard it put more crisply and nicely, with more postmodern whimsy (“uncertainties are my nuggets” or words to that effect), probably never more civilly, despite the part about “disparage.” Here we are, home, home on the range where seldom is heard a disparaging word. So you can’t be serious, can you? But seriously, it’s a privilege to be the one to whom is sung such a hymn to uncertainty, at whom such a gem, may I say nugget, is slung.

Now, putting down the mirror you handed me, smiling at your gift and at what I saw in it under the klieg lights (mainly jowls and sagging gestalt), may I submit that if there can be such things as “honest doubts,” exquisitely indubitably standardized and syllabized as they are, are there not also “honest certainties,” certainly of the Bible? You’ve got those, I’ve got these, and that’s that, undoubtedly, honestly, cordially. Eternally?
Yea-hee, pard! Lasso yourself a good undisparaged New Year, out here on the discouraging range!

wesley kime Also Commented

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@George: What is the accepted atheist interjection? You’re asking a blinkered old SDA? It is: OMG! Or OMG!!!!!!!! Or OMG :-} On twitter, #OMG.


Believing the Disproven – An Adventure in Science
@george:
Anent your comment unwittingly rhymed, I have a loose quatrain divined, to wit:
“Wit of Wes /No less,/ But an agnostic pest/ Doing my best/ I must remain.” It
Has more or less impelled me to board your rhyming train, to get:

Gentle ole George, grizzled George, he was a High Plains Drifter.
At home home on the discouraging range and purple prairie,
Hard panning for token gold among the tumbleweeds, suffering many a blister,
He merrily unearthed uncertainties many and airy, but nuggets nary.


Believing the Disproven – An Adventure in Science
@george: Your altruistically-driven comment on genome-driven diversity got me mulling, and I still am mulling it. Today’s mulling, single-mindedly premise-driven, the premise being that God in creating man deliberately, by design, and with delight, went all out for diversity, of which yours and mine are as glaring as mutually titillating. But that’s nothing compared to the crowning diversity, devised with divine glee, comprehensively laid out (not merely genome-driven) — male and female. By nature sundered out of sight, beyond random and for the purpose of being joined together, not to be put asunder, that male-female diversity is so gaping it leaves me agape, boggled. What man can understand woman? Only God could have come up with that one!


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