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Some Humor

Some Humor

I cut off way too much of my hair yesterday… Sigh. So… here are some jokes that friends and relatives have been sending. Enjoy… ‘Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?’ ‘No, Daddy. She’s upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul.’ After a brief pause, ‘But honey, you haven’t got an Uncle Paul.’ ‘Oh yes I do, and he’s upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now.’ Brief Pause. ‘Uh, okay then, this is what I want…

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Death, the Afterlife, and Human Being

Death, the Afterlife, and Human Being

We all die. I don’t know whether or not there is an afterlife, and neither does anyone else. People have a range of beliefs. Some people believe in a heaven of fluffy clouds. Some people believe in a hell of unending torture. Some people believe in a gray space of limbo. Some believe that one’s place in the afterlife can be purchased with money or obedience or membership or works or sacrifice or mantras. Some believe that your spirit rejoins…

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Las Conchas

Las Conchas

Driving out of Los Alamos, we found the place that I had been seeking at the Las Conchas Trailhead in the Jemez Mountains. If I had been hiking alone, I would have started here, and wandered for days. We saw a rockclimber there, too. But it started to rain again, and all of the camping was too far in to haul…

To a Recovering Jehovah’s Witness

To a Recovering Jehovah’s Witness

Dear C – As always, take what is helpful to you and reject what doesn’t ring true to your inner self… If there is a spirit of the cosmos, and if that spirit is what we mean when we talk about “God”, then I have to believe that the spirit is a spirit of Love that holds everything together and makes everything related and connected in a million, mysterious ways. All our words about God are simply ways to place…

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