Life is complicated. Many of us use this as a rationalization to avoid decisive action. This can leave us in a morass of moral confusion. If we a fine line a ledge, the slightest movement may result in profoundly different outcomes — such as falling of a ledge, or not.\u00a0 The difference between right and wrong may not seem much at times, but they are opposites. This poem is yet another meditation on the wisdom of relying or over relying on fine probabilities (statistics) versus qualitative certainties (moral knowledge). Modern society is inundated with statistical probabilities, such is the good foundation of much science. But, we can get lost in all the calculations of life. There is a good reason that calling someone “calculating” is not a compliment. My best practical suggestion regarding “life is complicated” and its ensuing confusion, is to simplify and focus on the many fewer things that you know for certain, that is, your basic values. Wile the whirled may be a swirl of confounding, by keeping a focus, a center around the fewer sure things, balance becomes reachable. May you find clarity and balance in this oft bewildering whirled.<\/p>\n
That Fine Line<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Can you tell Life is complicated. Many of us use this as a rationalization to avoid decisive action. This can leave us in a morass of moral confusion. If we a fine line a ledge, the slightest movement may result in profoundly different … Continue reading
\nThe deference
\nBetween who and what
\nMatter and anti-matter
\nCreation and destruction
\nBetween everything
\nThat\u2019s possible
\nAnd nothing
\nThat you can do
\nMadder and anti-madder
\nThe parent riffed between
\nLoving
\nAnd just
\nScorn points
\nDown with stuff
\nAnd up with attitude
\nGetting awe this
\nAnd being
\nThis
\nGod presents
\nThis fine line
\nWhere you must
\nLive
\nBetween distinction
\nAnd extinction
\nBetween discreet
\nAnd excrete
\nFaith and certainty
\nThe devil sells you an admission
\nTo know where
\nObscure plays
\nBetween meaning and mean-ing
\nA rock and a hard place
\nRead and red
\nBetween the lyin\u2019s
\nForever grasping
\nAnd never under standing
\nThe deference
\nOf worship and warship
\nSome wear
\nBeyond the same owed ship
\nEvery won occupies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"