{"id":8870,"date":"2025-12-04T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:09:54","slug":"poem-re-framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/04\/poem-re-framed\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Re-framed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend once called me &#8220;the king of re-framing.&#8221; I just see this as taking any experience or situation and making sense of it through the frame of my world view, my most basic assumptions about the world.\u00a0 I strongly suspect that Albert Einstein nailed it with what he viewed as the most important question facing humanity: &#8220;Is the universe a friendly place?&#8221; I say &#8220;Yes.&#8221; His assessment of how we answer this question is quoted after the poem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Re-framed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wear experiencing<br \/>\nLoss, pain, or sadness<br \/>\nI sow covet<br \/>\nWhat may be<br \/>\nDue<br \/>\nReframing my perspective<br \/>\nExpanding to the largesse possible<br \/>\nAt times doing a 360<br \/>\nStill<br \/>\nIn the same plays<br \/>\nYet feeled as sow much amor<br \/>\nAnd if fortune truly peers<br \/>\nGranted real eyes<br \/>\nThere is no frame at awe<br \/>\nSoully a surpassing grace<br \/>\nBeyond my own<br \/>\nDreaming<\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein put it this way:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think the most important question facing humanity is, \u2018Is the universe a friendly place?\u2019 This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all that which is unfriendly and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially \u2018playing dice with the universe\u2019, then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe. Because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;God does not play dice with the universe.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend once called me &#8220;the king of re-framing.&#8221; I just see this as taking any experience or situation and making sense of it through the frame of my world view, my most basic assumptions about the world.\u00a0 I strongly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/04\/poem-re-framed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,15],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-top-pun","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-einstein"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Re-framed? 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