Sins of Omission

Life isn’t fair, of course. No one thinks it ought to be. With the exception, perhaps, of small children. But they, too, learn quickly that fair isn’t a guarantee, or even a requirement.

Yet, we strive to treat each other fairly. We strive to balance the gentleness that the Universe has doled out to all. We remind ourselves to Do Unto Others, and to look out for the weak or the orphaned.

And still, the battle is only ever half fought. We argue about responsibility and government hand outs. We fight for our own stake of a little square property we’ve claimed for ourselves. Never mind from whom we’ve sequestered it, never mind that it was never really ours for the taking. We tally our cash registers in dollars and cents, leaving only a small tithe to whatever cause we’ve dreamt up as the righteous one.

Book Review! Sophie’s World

Mr. Gaarder scores big in this wonderful story! Use it as a crash course in Western philosophy if you will. Sophie is a young lady with a penchant for imagination and rational thinking. One day, she finds herself in a world that looks much like her own, but she has received a message from an anonymous thinker, who is about to turn Sophie’s life upside down, bringing her to question what it is she knows to be true in life. Eventually, the teacher makes himself known– but this disclosure doesn’t make Sophie’s understanding of life any more clear– instead, she must question the roots of truth.