Jumbled thoughts

Here's a little stanza that just came to me:

underneath my skin
inside my heart
what never should have been
has just begun its start



Here's an excerpt from an essay that Clive Staples Lewis wrote and that was published in 1962 called Is Theology Poetry?. The essay as a whole is concerned with answering a question that had been put to him regarding the legitimacy of Christian Theology and whether or not it was just a bunch of mythical nonsense that Christians were going crazy about. This piece of the brilliant whole will speak for itself. I will say, however, that it should prove equally interesting to the Christian and non-Christian alike. Please don't hesitate to comment, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Long before I believed Theology to be true I had already decided that the popular scientific picture at any rate was false. One absolutely central inconsistency ruins it; it is the one we touched on a fortnight ago. The whole picture professes to depend on inferences from observed facts. Unless inference is valid, the whole picture disappears. Unless we can be sure that reality in the remotest nebula or the remotest part obeys the thought laws of the human scientist here and now in his laboratory--in other words, unless Reason is an absolute--all is in ruins. Yet those who ask me to believe this world picture also ask me to believe that Reason is simply the unforeseen and unintended by-product of mindless matter at one stage of its endless and aimless becoming. Here is flat contradiction. They ask me at the same moment to accept a conclusion and to discredit the only testimony on which that conclusion can be based.

The difficulty is to me a fatal one; and the fact that when you put it to many scientists, far from having an answer, they seem not even to understand what the difficulty is, assures me that I have not found a mare's nest but detected a radical disease in their whole mode of thought from the very beginning. The man who has once understood the situation is compelled henceforth to regard the scientific cosmology as being, in principle, a myth; though no doubt a great many true particulars have been worked into it.

since this post is already lacking cohesion, i will throw yet another random bit in. If you are in any way interested in knowing something about an economy, namely, the one we are apart of, then check out Greg Mankiw's Blog: Dr. Mankiw is a very influential economist in this world, and I would encourage you to check him out on wikipedia to see his vast education and accomplishments. It isn't dry, I promise, and you might even enjoy reading the blog.