Wise Words
As I read this article, I could not help thinking about something a young rabbi once told me. He said to me that in order to get 13 year old Bar and Bat Mitzvah boys and girls to start thinking about their relationship to God he asked them these questions: Why are you here? Why did God create you? Of all the infinite ways elements could be arranged, how, with the crushing weight of statistics against you, did you come into being? I have always been a firm believer in the theory of evolution. I have always been told that a theory is not something easily dismissed (after all, gravity is only a theory). But I can not help but go back to what the rabbi said and wonder (and hope) that there is more to life than random chance. Could it be that we are all just random collections of molecules? Is God present in this world or perhaps did it create us and leave us to our own devices? I could think about the purpose and reasoning behind life all day long; but I think the most poignant message for me within the article came at the very end when the very astute greaser said, “If you think about this too much, you can go insane.� Wise words.
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I really liked your comment. I know there were times I wondered too much and it was overwhelming. I remember coming across a question like that was when I was about 6. I wondered what happens when we die. I would freak out in the middle of the night crying to my mom that I didn't want to die. Her reply was, "Tanna, you have to." This made me cry more and she had to calm me down, explain that it wasn't going to happen this second. She told me that I would go where ever I believed I would go. I had no idea and that was what scared me. My mom assured me that I was loved and where ever we go, she would be there with me. I felt better knowing that my mom would always be with me. It wasn't too long ago that my son(5 years) asked me the same question and he was worried. I told him my story and he laughed because I felt the same way he did, a little more distraught but, he saw it as the same. His question included, do aliens exist, where are they, are they going to take over our planet? It's so funny to hear him ask questions like that. I just told him that his daddy was an alien and we made a mutant, HIM.
Posted by: Tanna C | February 7, 2009 7:53 PM