OUR THEME TODAY

truth wonder personal immortality these are our themes today ... take the last first ... why settle for anything less ... why be a drop absorbed by the ocean ... why be a dot and then be erased ... when you can be a person forever ... well maybe because you don't think it can be true ... hmm ... give up the hope of personal immortality because you honor the truth ... that's a good beginning ... you value truth more than you do your own life ... at least you have more faith in it ... though of course it may not be true at all ... your alternative to personal immortality ... suppose it's not and we do live forever ... doesn't that present difficulties too ... one being the quality of that life ... is it to be heaven or hell ... and second doesn't this mean we have a map of the universe in the sense that we know where it's going and we along with it ... to a place unlike any on this mordant morbid earth ... and doesn't this map mean that if we claim to hold it we hold too much ... how can we make such a claim so far above our capacity to know ... and to this much I agree ... the more we take things for granted the more we fear them we lose humanity's mark of truth ... wonder