The Peripatetic Philosopher presents:

NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

We have lost our sense of identity as we think we are different than others, when that is an impossibility.  Life has become like looking into a mirror, seeing our reflection, thinking that is who we are and what life is about.  It is not.  Life is an open window with a world like ours only different.  Instead of embracing this difference, we are repelled and seek others with the same mirror image.

We fail to realize everything we have is not ours but everyone’s.  We are only renters of a cultural construct that goes back to the time of Cro-Magnon man.

We believe what we see is reality but it is not.  It is a function of the alphabet that was invented thousands of years ago: from letters, to words, to sentences, to thoughts, to ideas, to seeing the world sequentially.  The mind has adapted to this sequential reality which is limited.  

Our religions are also rented after thousands of years of tinkering, and more alike than different.  Christianity is a Hellenistic product from what St. Paul rented from Protagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle with the earth the center of the universe.  This was then refuted by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton so that the universe no longer fits with an easy reference to God or any theology.   

Alas, the human mind has been given a second chance with the supernatural placed in the closet while theories and disciplines surge from quantum mechanics to chaos theory, from the Big Bang and Dark Matter, to string theory with a new perspective on time, space, matter and energy. No longer do we see the universe as a tidy place, or nailed down to preconceived notions. 

Yet, Nowhere Man hides in the shadows as science is now tempted to play the role of high church when it comes to global warming and creationism. It seems apparent we never move too far from our penchant for absolutes.

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NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART FOURTEEN -- THE AGE OF FAITH