Reflections on Life. Colin E Knowles

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      You pause,

      Contemplating your next question.

      How do we come to know this God and his love?

      And the nailed man replies

      There are many paths to God

      And the best path is through me.

      Why is that so when there are many paths?

      Well, I am instructed to say,

      With our path we promise the good man

      Eternal life, with life after death in heaven

      A wonderful place of goodness and light

      And whatever you enjoy most

      Along with all the other good, believing people.

      Whereas unbelieving, bad people face eternal

       damnation and pain

      In hell

      Along with all the other bad people

      Suffering in the worst way they can possibly imagine.

      You are sure you are a good man so you ask

      But how can I be certain?

      You will need faith

      Blind faith and trust

      In this, our message.

      The music stops

      The light streams down

      You are stunned.

      You see

      The stark, archaic unreality

      Of this doctrine

      In the world around you

      You turn to go

      The voice whispers behind you

      Remember

      Blind faith and trust.

      You walk into the marble foyer of the office tower

      To the lifts and up forty floors

      To the observation level.

      Perhaps there will be meaning when you can see

      The city all around you

      Like a god?

      The doors open and you move to the glass wall.

      You see the city spread before you

      Huge and complex

      Patterns of humanity

      Energy and movement

      Cars creeping like ants

      Through the box buildings.

      You know there is order in this apparent chaos,

      Somehow it works.

      Man is restless and boundlessly creative

      But do the blue sky, the distant green rolling hills

      And the still sea of the bay beyond

      Beckon you to a greater reality?

      The cold, black, starry night sky

      Spreads from horizon to horizon.

      You look up.

      You know that there are billions of people

      Feeling, touching, living

      On this airy, wet, rocky speck

      In this one galaxy

      In time and space

      In infinity

      So you ask this universe where is meaning?

      The dark void whispers to you

      You live in

      An expanding cosmology

      Of fields and forces

      Matter and energy

      Everywhere

      Popping in and out of existence

      Uncertainty and probability

      Everywhere.

      The classical absolute

      Clockwork universe

      Of touch and feel

      Common sense

      And blind religious faith

      In an all powerful God.

      Gone.

      You live in

      A universe of

      Rubbery space/time

      Mass energy equivalence

      Light speed constancy

      And a hoped for unity of all

      But still one arrow of time

      Flying into the future.

      A universe created from a point of nothing.

      A big bang.

      Space expanding

      Relentlessly

      Curved

      In and out

      Cooling

      But all hanging on to glorious

      Symmetry

      The stars probe your consciousness

      And in the stillness

      You are overawed by the immensity and potential simplicity,

      The huge energies

      Of it all.

      Gradually,

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