Nature at its most glorious and the ultimate spiritual experience ...
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The sun sank into the Gulf of Mexico yesterday and it was beautiful (whenever is a sunset not beautiful?), the moon set behind clouds this morning (yes, of course, it was beautiful), and then the glorious sunrise occurred. Gulfport is a good place to watch moonsets and sunrises.
I got into an argument with several conservatives yesterday ...
it was a pointless sort of thing, and a waste of time too, but there is always something energizing about getting into an argument. Perhaps this is the reason why people argue so very much. Arguments of this sort are always futile, though, because the emotional investment of the disputants precludes any sort of rational discussion of the dispute. Sometimes it prvents any actual discussion of the dispute (see cable news).
Fortunately the sunset prevented me from investing too much time in the argument. In the afternoon I noticed that the clouds had disappeared and the sky was blue. Looking to the West I could see blue sky all the way down to the horizon.
Naturally I had to travel to the beach and watch the sunset.
I woke up this morning and the moon and stars were shining bright. The full moon would set in the darkness.
Naturally I had to travel to the beach and watch the moonset and sunrise.
I don't have any natural compulsion to spend a lot of time engaged in arguments with people. I've spent enough time in my life doing that and in the vast majority of cases such arguments have proved futile though occasionally enlightening. It is even less necessary now since the purveyors of hatred, bigotry, racism, xenophobia and perpetual warfare have failed from a political standpoint and they have become an increasingly irrelevant extremist minority.
So I watch the sunset, the moonset and the sunrise and wonder why humans choose to fill their minds with such horrendous, negative, soul-destroying thoughts. If I could rescue these people from their own personal hell, I would. Too bad that these people have grown to love their hate.
David Mathews
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