tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759913671101666257.post5684531539766417179..comments2023-05-24T06:02:06.480-05:00Comments on Chuck's Chatter: Thanksgiving thoughtsChuck Doswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03099345055614900157noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759913671101666257.post-20034723179629192252010-12-05T08:07:21.346-06:002010-12-05T08:07:21.346-06:00I just came across your site after following a lin...I just came across your site after following a link from Jon Davies' excellent blog, and I'm very happy to see a non-believer openly expressing their feelings about this touchy issue! <br /><br />I find it hard to believe that anyone who observes the natural world carefully can believe in some deity, and I think that many choose keep their thoughts on this issue to themselves, which is unfortunate. <br /><br />Thanks, and keep up the great work!John Huntingtonhttp://www.controlgeek.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759913671101666257.post-68030408217325454072010-12-04T13:36:56.808-06:002010-12-04T13:36:56.808-06:00Rogelio,
You express gratitude to your chosen dei...Rogelio,<br /><br />You express gratitude to your chosen deity if you wish, of course.<br /><br />Given that some people have been offended by the tone of RJ's editorial ... I strongly prefer they discuss it directly with RJ, not me. Don't confuse respect for someone as a human being with respect for someone's beliefs!Chuck Doswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03099345055614900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759913671101666257.post-86757938657076331882010-11-27T15:20:36.948-06:002010-11-27T15:20:36.948-06:00Chuck, for once I'll be *relatively* brief and...Chuck, for once I'll be *relatively* brief and share your well-stated gratitude for every one of those human and natural aspects you mentioned. For all that and only one more, I too am thankful, every day. <br /><br />"We humans are only infinitesimal specks within this grand tapestry, but somehow, for no evident reason, we've been given the privilege of awareness of our connection to this vast process, and the curiosity to seek an understanding of it."<br /><br />Well stated! The reason, however, is quite evident to me, not in tangible nor material form, but in spirit immeasurable by beaker or scale or even time, undefined by mere words, equations or numerical models. The "proof" lies not in resolved theorems but in small part within the very grandeur, majesty, and mere multidecadal windows of human sentience of which you speak. They are, including our very lives, infinitely small and ephemeral glimpses of something so inconceivably vast and powerful that attempts at definition or understanding cannot ever succeed representatively. Witnessing the tiniest specks of this as we do, evokes yearning for more, longer, grander, bigger. <br /><br />In that vein, I am thankful for one more aspect, the biggest of all: He who transcends brain chemistry, doubters and denial, free-will choices to the contrary, space and time itself, even matter and energy, who gets my gratitude for all that wonder and majesty, large and small, human and not, living and inanimate, universal at every scale. And yes, gratitude for you.El Gran Rogeliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14519504590872284310noreply@blogger.com