Crazy old bastard returns!

Yes he is back.

Welcome to tonight's musing. But let's start with a joke.

Two whales, a male and female, are swimming just off the coast of Japan and the male whale sees a boat sailing. He recognises it as the boat that killed his mother and says to the female 'Let's get revenge on that boat, it is the one that killed my mum'

'Ok' the female says 'what shall we do?'

'Right' says the boy 'We swim under the boat and both skush air out of our blowholes and that will make the boat turn over'

so they swim under the boat and fire air out and the boat capsizes. Then they see the sailors swimming towards an island that's near by and the boy whale says 'lets go and eat the sailors to stop them escaping' and the girl whale replies...


'I didn't mind the blow job, but if you think I'm going to swallow seamen you're wrong!'

Crap joke!

Well the subject for tonight - tolerance.

I think I'm a semi tolerant person. Don't get me wrong I haven't always been. In fact as a youth I was a narrow minded religious bigot. Like most teenagers I believed the world to be black and white, but as you get older and grow up you begin to lighten up and realise that life is shades of grey.

So as I have scanned the blog world, under the tutolage of my master 'Tumchie Ben Munchoby' I have visited a blog of a former hero of mine.

When we were young we enjoyed the rock and roll soundings of CCM (contemporary Christian music) and one artist in particular. He (my hero) was a well read man who had studied philosophy in Switzerland at an artists retreat. So we visit his blog and discover that he is taking himself and his beliefs too seriously and at the age of nearly 50 he has gone the opposite way to us. Rather that becoming less sure of the nature of truth, as most of my friends have - we all kind of get the broad sweep but the detail is less clear (just like our eyesight) - he has become more sure of everything even the minutiae of life and theology the universe and everything. He has also become a religious bigot. It is only his small corner and interpretation of the religious that is right everyone else is wrong. What a prick.

Final thoughts

It is like M. Scott Peck says in 'The road less travelled' as a person becomes more actualised either their faith grows but becomes more nebulous or it dies. If however the start without a faith the one that develops with their actualisation is stronger. For those who have a faith, they often have to remain unactualised to preserve their faith.

I'm not sure where I am in this but want to be both actualised and faithful.

Here is hoping.
SF