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The French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal wrote his "Pensees", French for "thoughts". We get our English word "pensive" from the same root.
"Thoughts" seemed a bit bare, so I've called my collection of thoughts on topics philosophical and religious my "Cogitations", from the Latin "cogito", for "I think"
BTW, in case you get the idea I am a great linguist, sadly no 8-<. I have the barest smattering of High School French, and a few fragments of Latin that I picked up from my brother and daughter.
As far as philosophy and religion go, is there really a difference - philosophy means "love of wisdom" and the Bible says that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
MORE... Genesis Ch.1:1-5, 26-31, Ch.2:4-9, 15-25, Ch3:1-8 - "Lets' start at the beginning" - fascinated with future - should be just as much fascinated with the past, only place we can find meaning. MORE...
MORE... I read a book called "Hidden Art" by Edith Schaeffer, and it altered my approach to art and beauty. I have always had a love for both, but the pragmatic engineer side of me would often opt for "rough enough is good enough". This book showed me that everyday objects and needs can and should be treated as art and beauty. A meal can be prepared with the eye in mind as well as the stomach! A bookcase can be beautiful, even is less than 100% efficient, like my "boatcase" I built a few years back. MORE...
MORE... This is a poem that my friend Nesta wrote some years back. Nesta often visited Mum, and this was one she read to her.
To the blind, untouched
MORE... ...and the answer is not in fact 42, even when you know what the Question is. Years ago I read "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", the sequel to Douglas Adams' famous book "The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy" (THGG). Well finally I have read that book too! How did I find it? MORE...
MORE... Psalm 90 Our lives are obsessed and harassed by the clock, by time MORE...
MORE... Francis Schaeffer, one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, wrote:-
Modern man is deeply plagued by the question, "Where to love and communication come from?" Many artists who pour themselves out in their paintings, who paint bleak messages on canvas, many singers, many poets and dramatists are expressing the blackness of the fact that while everything hangs on love and communication, they don't know where these come from and the don't know what they mean. The biblical answer is quite otherwise: something was there before creation. God was there; love and communication were there; and therefore, prior even to Genesis 1:1, love and communication are intrinsic to what has always been. ("Genesis in Space and Time", p12)MORE...
MORE... "No God But God", Part 2 of "The Story of God" by Lord Robert Winston (a venerated world expert in human fertility research, and an orthodox Jew).
He goes in search of the answer to the centuries old question: "If God created humanity, why does God allow humanity to suffer?"MORE...
MORE... (following taken from an interview published in the "Pipeline", the staff magazine of the company I work for) In 1969 Kurnell's Stephen Bates sat down to read Perelandra, the second book in C.S. Lewis's famous MORE...
MORE... Raphael's "School of Athens" is one of my favourite paintings. In it the artist depicts the many philosophers and their thought. In the middle are Plato and his student Aristotle, each pointing in a different direction. Plato, who was more concerned about the realm of the spirit and the "universals", points up to heaven. Aristotle was more concerned with the specifics, the realm of the body and nature, and points down to the Earth. MORE...
MORE... My friend C. died this week, suddenly, of a heart attack. He was 52 and super-fit (gym, running and surfing as often as he could). I still have a sense of shock and disbelief, and can only guess how his family are feeling and suffering (only God can know it all). The day I heard of it, these lines came into my mind MORE...
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