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So, it looks like the theme of this issue will be what
is real and what is perfect.
Your beloved reverend, having pondered the
question since the sixties has only come up with one
answer; the universe. Real in that we can never
know what it really is, and perfect in its chaos.
No, we do not worship the universe, though w e ,
are ordained in the Universal Lite Church. We don t
consider the universe a ‘thing . The universe, like
every thing, is a verb. We prefer to think of it as a
song. “Music of the Spheres” , and all that.
To all of our friends who do subscribe to the
dogma of organized religions, we do not question
your faith but we do not share it. Physics is as close
as we come to having faith in something we don t
understand. Perfect isn’t even on our list.
Our headline this month is a phrase that has been
applied to your beloved editor more than once. We
have never thought to deny it. We have found no
shame in it, we don’t celebrate it, often, but we live
with it, like everyone else. It is obviously part ol our
credo at the Edge.
In a perfect world there would be no death and
suffering, there would be a just God, and we could
be masters of our destiny. (Everybody eats, nobody
hits, and we get to love whomever we wish.)
But it is a real world and people die, and sutler,
and we aren’t willing to classify God as real or
just. We encourage our readers to laugh at their
failures and giggle at their successes, and have a
healthy skepticism when someone when listening to
folks that speak of “the word of God".
In the late eighteen hundreds Col. Robert
Ingersoll, and Civil War hero and biblical scholar
tour the country giving lectures. We would like to
share part of one with our readers.
“Man has no idea, and can have none, except
those suggested by his surroundings. He cannot
conceive of anything utterly unlike what he has seen
or felt. He can exaggerate, diminish combine,
separate, deform, beautify, prove, multiply and
compare what he sees, what he leels, what he hears,
and all of which he takes congnizance through the
medium of his senses; but he cannot create. Having
seen exhibitions of power, he can say, omnipotent.
Having lived, he can say, immortality. Knowing
something of time, he can say, eternity. Conceiving
something of intelligence, he can say, God. Having
seen exhibitions of malice, he can say, devil. A lew
gleams of happiness hav ing lallen athwart the gloom
of his life, he can say, heaven. Pain, in its
numberless forms, hav ing been experienced, lie can
say, hell. Yet all these ideas have a foundation in
fact, and only a foundation. The superstructure has
been reared by exaggerating, diminishing, combining
seperating, deforming, beautifying, improving or
multiplying realities, so that the edifice or fabric is
but the incongruous grouping of what man has
perceived through the medium of the senses. It is as
though we shoud give to a lion the wings of an
eagle, the hoofs of a bison, the tail of a horse, the
pouch of a kangaroo, and the trunk of an elephant.
We have in imagination created an impossible
monster. And yet the various parts of this monster
really exist. So it is with the gods that man has
made.”
Robert Ingersoll
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BASEBALL
We, meaning the Cubs, of course, are four
games below five hundred, at this moment,
and we face the last third of the season, with
some trepidation, but with the hope that
aprings eternal within the human breast.
We’d bet even money if Grace, Amazing
Grace, would have a chance at that. We
would have a chance, if Grace would swing
that bat. Or, maybe, Sosa. Go, Cubbies!!!!
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