luminous sampler ~ short and sweet

More luminous thoughts on a subject of true perennial interest to each and every one of us on this planet... I should write a daily editorial... Everyone may have an opinion - but mine is simply more pleasant to read!

Ghost of a chance... ~~~~~













''When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.'' ~ ~ ~ Arthur C. Clarke (b.1917)  Thus, a distinguished elderly British science fiction writer has spoken; close enough to a egghead himself! And he admitted this...! Why won't the rest of them ever do likewise now, hmm? Stubbornness is present right next to erudition as well, you know.

Science will discourage old withered beliefs - not because these are the stuff of archaic and unverifiable superstitious material but truly because science has not "experienced it" - and will never accept something they cannot quantify. Seeing is believing, as they say - and the most stubborn scientist of all would sing a different tune if he had experienced himself a divine apparition - or seen an angel - or a ghost. Proving the existence of these via scientific methods would become secondary very quickly - for the scientist who starts seeing things is either hallucinating (as he would theorize it to be the case - at first) or really, truly seeing something! For scientists are materialists - they do not think their eyes can deceive them, see? They are "free" from superstitious beliefs, their minds are not "clouded" by myth - hence, if they see something, if they experience it, it is truly "there". They might still explain it completely wrong though, but at least it will be certified as having "been" - at long last! It is up to the believer to get them to accept what "it truly was"...

It is the easiest thing to confound a disbeliever, verily - by using their own arguments and methods against them! They are using them against themselves in the first place; blinding themselves to the truth by adhering too strongly to a rigorous, excessively rigid approach that cuts them away from wonderment - and enlightenment.
An open mind is good.
An open heart, as Christ instructed, is better!






Hmm... If Shadow Gallery's Ghost of a Chance is not available -
we always have Rush's Ghost of a Chance to fall back on! ;)
Just scroll down to the bottom of the playlist below...!
(Ok - more like the middle of it now - #18 to be exact -
since I've added a considerable amount of tracks...!)

Clearly the second-best choice in this instance...!
(Sorry, Neil Peart & Geddy Lee!) Hence...