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This and that - on growing older and other stuff

 

"Pizzaonia Emerging" courtesy of the Pizzaonian Art Institute. Abe Straction, curator

The following comments were made by Brother Pio on "facing retirement"......

As I grow older, and now by any standard, I am considered elderly, things change.  For one, no matter how much you think you are aware of time; it is nothing compared to how you see and feel time when you know there are much fewer years ahead of you than behind.

The trick here is to make the years ahead more important than the years already lived.  It is easy to live in the past when you are older. For one, that is where your accomplishments live.   This is a trap you want to avoid.  However, no matter how much you feel the need to cling to the past, think ahead – see a future, never give in to the notion that the best is behind you. No matter how little time is ahead, there are things to look forward to.  This is life, and you must always live with hope and optimism that there is future.

And that brings me to the present.  We talk of the past and the future, and they are important.  However, the past and future cannot exist without the present.  This moment is the most important in your life because you are living it now and now is the only reality you have.

I know we hear variations of this many times, but how many of us really get it.  For many, this amazing truth does not make sense until the end.  For them, the last moments of consciousness have to be hell.  They realize the truth when there is no longer any time to do anything about it.  That has to be the definition of despair.

But what about the rest of us?  For us, there is still time and with time, there is hope.  So look around, see and feel the wonders of life around you.  I don’t care where you find yourself, go inside your mind and live.  When you do this, the road ahead becomes clear, and you know with all of your senses and spirituality you are alive.

And think, for better or worse, this was inspired simply because I love a cat name Gatsby.

Brother Pio

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September  2014

Bits and pieces while moving west… 

Nothing is more amusing to Pizzaonians than to watch and listen to the arrogant self-rightesnous of political commentators in the United States. 

When Pizzaonians discovered that we no longer had a need for government, it was not because our government was intrinsically bad.  It was because people cannot help themselves and always use government to solidify their personal positions.  Power corrupts; it does not have to be absolute power to do so. 

In the United States, the use of government to feather your own nest has become an art form.  Unfortunately, the art form should be governing. 

I suspect that has not been the case since Thomas Jefferson. 

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Do you think the Democrats are aware that the Republicans have stolen the political agenda?  The Democrats remind me of the man that keeps showing up at parties without pants.  Everybody knows it but him. 

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I do not understand why the leaders of the American labor moment do not understand they are the problem.  They have taken a movement that is responsible for virtually every good thing the working person has earned in the work place and reduced it to whimpering insignificance.  

Our advice:  Get back on track and become the American labor movement again.  God knows the American worker has never needed you more.

 

Abe Surdity, commenting from Pizzaonia, for the "The Pizzaonian," a division of the Pizzaonian Newsertainment Network.

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Faith is a word that is thrown around a lot.  I wonder how many of us take it seriously.  If we think about it, it seems that we live and plan our lives by having faith.  For one, we have to have faith that there will be a life to look forward to – we really don’t know that, it is an act of faith that there will even be a tomorrow.

I know we have probability on our side.  The odds are there will be a tomorrow. That doesn’t change the fact that for many of us that will not be true. However, that is not going to stop us from doing what we have to do to get ready for the next day. 

Unspoken faith dominates our lives.  We couldn’t function without it.  The question has to be asked – “Why is it that faith is so often suspect as a concept.” I suspect that is because we live in the “age of science.” 

Hardly a day goes by when the new “high priests” of science proclaim with bursting pride that they deal with facts not faith.  “The technology now available makes it possible to know everything.” I might add they always add the caveat, “that what we don’t know we will know in the future,” it is just a matter of time.

This is not just uttered as a statement of fact, but virtually as dogma, with a bit of anger thrown in for good measure.  I think religious faith has always been the boogie man for both people of science and religion.  While they don’t admit it, they have waged a war for supremacy from the beginning of recorded civilization.

For years the churches dominated the argument.  They had more people on their side.  However, as the world modernized and more people drifted away from organized religion science began to make its move.  After all they had facts, not faith on their side.

Unfortunately, when you look at the history of science its record is not much better than religion.  We are now led to believe that is no longer the case. I need to add my personal caveat here. I am not anti-science. I am not advocating for religious faith.  What I am advocating is an end to the arrogance of both religion and science.

Sooner or later both sides come to the need for a “first cause.” I know it is no longer fashionable to use that term.  But for the sake of our discussion it still works.  One could reasonably conclude that science has not removed causality as a concept; they have simply changed its name.

For the religious and people of faith it is inconceivable that there is not a creator that began the whole process of life.  Science now argues that beyond infinity there is nothing and they can produce equations to suggest that a universe from nothing is possible.

However, if you look closely it seems to some of us that they have simply changed the name of nothing, and their nothing is really something.

Which brings us back to the subject of faith – and the beat goes on.

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