"You need help. Here" I said and dragged a scooter forward so she could get out.
"I want to use one", she said. I unplugged and pushed out the scooter she wanted. Once she was in, she just stared at the scooter and then at me. I showed her where the power switch was, turned it on, and then showed her how to use the grip handles to steer.
"Bless you!" she said.
"Off you go!" I replied.
I didn't have the heart to tell her I am a heathen.
Here's a map of Pascal's dilemna but not really.
I am squarely in the Gusto. Life observation, deep reading, and taking hundreds of hits of acid have put me in the position of No God/ No Soul, the Gusto. Go for the gusto.
I am an atheist and aspiritus. There is no God and I have no soul. Nevertheless I hold in simultaneous knowledge that the univserse is alive. And though I may not have a personality beyond death, others might. So I do have holy and sacred things, things that I myself have chosen. And strangely enough my choices align with the universe. And that is why I call myself a heathen.
The Gusto Origin; from Latin / Italian 'gustus', meaing to taste (with enthusiasm) Example: 'Going for it with gusto' means going after something with great passion, enthusiasm and an inspired energy
ReplyDeleteThere is no god or gods, not in the sense of our culture's meaning of the word, a supernatural being with supernatural powers who may or may not interfere with the lives of humans. If there is a god it's the universe itself, a living conscious thing that expresses itself in all the ways of being, the All That Is, of which we are just a speck, a single cell. And then there's the whole multiverse. Each a separate being or just more varied expressions of the same one?
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