Two Camps

[Eucharisted]

In philosophy, there are two camps, two groups, two houses, two fields, two rivers, two forests. Both ponder life, each asking of themselves, of the planet, and of the Universe, “What are you? Where are you from?” And both receive the answers “I am man and a son of man”, “I am the planet and from the Universe”, “I am the contiuum and I am from…” But the answer to that last question is different for each camp. One camp hears “God”, the other hears different answers: “Something mysterious,” “Another continuum,” “Nowhere”, “Myself,” and “Origins unknown.” Each camp strains to know the answer and each comes up something different, because both camps think differently. The one has religion to complete the data of reason, the other has no religion or impartial religion and so the data is incomplete. The one sees everything as proof of God and is open to the possibility of the invisible, the other sees everything as proof of the visible and something mysterious and is closed to the possibility of the invisible. What is curious about these two camps is that, most often than not, they oppose one another, thinking the other is dumb - when in fact, the two camps, groups, houses, fields, rivers, forests can cooperate. The one can share its knowlege of God to help complete the data of the other, and the other can share its knowledge of everything to help illustrate the beauty of God’s creation.

What the one camp calls a Mystery, the other calls a Mystery as well. What the one camp calls great, infinite, and inconceivable, the other calls great, infinite, and inconcievable as well. What the one camp unknownly knows, the other calls God.

 

[liquidpele]

In philosophy, there are two camps, two groups, two houses, two fields, two rivers, two forests. Both ponder life, each asking of themselves, of the planet, and of the Universe, “What are you? Where are you from?” And both receive the answers “I am man and a son of man”, “I am the planet and from the Universe”, “I am the contiuum and I am from…” But the answer to that last question is different for each camp. One camp hears “God”, the other hears different answers: “Something mysterious,” “Another continuum,” “Nowhere”, “Myself,” and “Origins unknown.” Each camp strains to know the answer and each comes up something different, because both camps think differently. The one has religion to complete the data of reason, the other has no religion or impartial religion and so the data is incomplete. The one sees everything as proof of God and is open to the possibility of the invisible, the other sees everything as proof of the visible and something mysterious and is closed to the possibility of the invisible. What is curious about these two camps is that, most often than not, they oppose one another, thinking the other is dumb - when in fact, the two camps, groups, houses, fields, rivers, forests can cooperate. The one can share its knowlege of God to help complete the data of the other, and the other can share its knowledge of everything to help illustrate the beauty of God’s creation.

What the one camp calls a Mystery, the other calls a Mystery as well. What the one camp calls great, infinite, and inconceivable, the other calls great, infinite, and inconcievable as well. What the one camp unknownly knows, the other calls God.

It is interesting that you don’t see the possibility (and I would think more likely scenario) that none of the camps have a complete answer. Regardless, this is a good lesson. There was once a professor that gave half his class a picture of an old woman, and the other half a picture of a young woman, and then showed this on the overhead projector:

http://brainyworld.com/wp-content/uploads/oldoryoung.gif

He asked the students what they saw. Due to the previous suggestive pictures, some students called out young woman while others questioned the previous students’ sanity and said it was an old woman. After a while, the students figured out how to share information to show the other students what they were seeing.

This is a skill so many people are lacking these days…