- Dear Old Dad ...

Dear Old Dad

This world, the Earth, around us spins so slowly

If only I could see this truth that you say that you see

My truth is my friends, my wife, my Lord and family

For me, they’re the only ones that I ever truly need

You fill your life with everything that occupies

Takes all of your time, feeds you no truth, only lies

Tell me you seek truth in a world of dishonest men?

That will send me off this Earth and we’ll end back here again

It’s right up in front, but no one else can see it, not even you

I can speak and talk and act and listen, but knowing you, what good does that do?

You need to learn for yourself son, and teach nobody else

If you’re too busy with them, you can’t cure what hurts within

They do not matter; they are only one person that you see

It’s you, not them, that is the person who is moving blindly

Sure they have their own shit, but that shits all theirs

If you think you can cure it, then you throw yourself to the bears

Sharks, wolves, who cares what the fucking saying is

That’s not the point I’m making, are you even fucking listening

The words coming out of my mouth mean nothing to you now

But wait for the future, you’ll see it will somehow.

It’s important to know, realize, and especially understand.

Because there is no one in life there to give you an extra hand

Your life is yours, you should live it that, just for you

DO NOT waste all your time doing what others want you to

Take it, or leave, choose what you want, choose as you will

Just don’t come crying back to me when you’ve fallen down that ole dirt hill

I give you my word, son, that I won’t be mad

This is just my knowledge…I’m only dear old Dad

Music & Lyrics by Joshua Gaudette

August / 2012

- Let The Masters Defend Themselves ...

I thought I would blog today. I felt that I may need to respond to a series of comments; yet again, levied toward a quote from an author I deeply admire. Then it occurred to me; why not let the man himself, do the explaining?  So here it is; the thought, in its entirety, if you still can't understand it, I'd begin to question your willingness to comprehend...

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it?  A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too—for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless—I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality—namely my idea of justice—was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952; Harper Collins: 2001) 38-39.