Comments on: Myth of origins: Ursula Goodenough http://arbitrarymarks.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/myth-of-origins-ursula-goodenough/ Religion and philosophy, in no particular order Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:30:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Comrade Kevin http://arbitrarymarks.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/myth-of-origins-ursula-goodenough/#comment-6519 Comrade Kevin Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:31:18 +0000 http://arbitrarymarks.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/myth-of-origins-ursula-goodenough/#comment-6519 I think we have been continually conditioned in this society that there's always a ready made explanation for all of society's ills. If we have a medical issue, then we can count on science to resolve it. If there's a economic problem, there is always someone around with an easy answer. To an extent, this is due to an American Myth that we perpetuate that no problem that arises cannot be solved by good old ingenuity. But that leaves faith out of the picture. I believe in God. I am a theist. And as I have gotten older, I have ceased to feel the compulsion to have everything explained and wrapped up into neat little concise statements. It feels good, but there's a great deal about humanity that exists in contradiction, hypocrisy, and paradox. It's been tough for me to recognize that there will be things about humanity and life that I will not ever discover because I am not God. But I'm learning to be okay with, as James Thurber pointed out, knowing some of the questions than all the answers. I think we have been continually conditioned in this society that there’s always a ready made explanation for all of society’s ills. If we have a medical issue, then we can count on science to resolve it. If there’s a economic problem, there is always someone around with an easy answer.

To an extent, this is due to an American Myth that we perpetuate that no problem that arises cannot be solved by good old ingenuity.

But that leaves faith out of the picture. I believe in God. I am a theist. And as I have gotten older, I have ceased to feel the compulsion to have everything explained and wrapped up into neat little concise statements. It feels good, but there’s a great deal about humanity that exists in contradiction, hypocrisy, and paradox.

It’s been tough for me to recognize that there will be things about humanity and life that I will not ever discover because I am not God. But I’m learning to be okay with, as James Thurber pointed out, knowing some of the questions than all the answers.

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