Rather Vain Of Us, Wasn’t It?
August 7, 2006 by Mark
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
This reading feels particularly on point at this moment, for me. From pg. 49 in the BB.
“When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn’t so.”
A lot of folks don’t believe the way I do. I don’t believe the same way a lot of other folks believe. What does this mean? Despite all of “man’s” laws, what does this mean?
Heck, I don’t know…
I do know that when some of us disagree many others of us laboriously set out to prove that the other is wrong. Truth is it isn’t really all that important.
“We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we believe this universe needs no God to explain it.”
(hangs head – guilty!). Yep! All in the name of… ?
“Were our contentions true, it would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.”
Today, I feel like the only thing that means nothing is yesterday’s “argument.” Today it is not important.
“Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearhead’s of God’s ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.”
“Rather Vain Of Us, Wasn’t It?”
Thanks to John B, Mary Christine and Gwen for your feedback yesterday 
We live in a world of “stuff.” From birth (in the Western world) we are bombarded by the media and friends that we must have “stuff.” For most of us, it becomes our goal in life.
Changing that thinking process is difficult, at best. Putting a Higher Power in place of “stuff” does doesn’t come easily or voluntarily for many of us. Especially us alkies and addicts.
For this alcoholic, that meant being spiritualy empty. It took a spirla toward death to even make a dent in my thinking. Fortunately, AA and its Big Book were there to facilitate the process.
Thanks again dAAve,
Your comments are always refreshing…
Stuff lol – only we used to call it sh**. rotfl – you know, like “he who dies with the most sh**, wins.”
Gawd – what were we thinking???
Great post~