My Peanut Butter, Your Chocolate
during our stroll down memory lane last night, the bartlebee and i discussed the search for the truth.
and really good chai that isn't too spicy and tastes like the chai you'd actually get in india served in a cup made out of river mud which tastes much better then you're thinking. at samovar, where the potstickers are overpriced and the chai is delicious.
she was talking about how she wants to make science understandable for the kids and i was talking about how i read things in the newspaper and want to write about how they are complete bullshit.
i said something like, "i read this stuff, like this article splashed across the NYT about how Porter Goss, CIA cheerleader, told congress that the terrorists are coming back and i think: you are all a bunch of ultra morons."
how much energy does it take to realize that Porter Goss is saying that as part of the congressional hearing about the CIA's budget?
i picture the conversation like this:
Congress: what the hell do you need $419 BILLION dollars for?
Porter: terrorists! they're coming! i swear! and i also need a pony! i need a pony! needneedneeeeeeeeeeeed!
i mean, today, when i go to find the article to link to it for this dramatization, i find it's already been rewritten with a healthy dose of skepticism. but yesterday? the headline was "Terrorists Coming to Drink Your Blood, Old Lady."
so i told bartlebee how i was considering adding a regular feature to this blog about reading into the news/media. she got all teary-eyed.
she said, "that's science! i think i'll marry you."
but i was all like, "nu huh girlfren', that's religion."
thinking like that is Jewish ninja training. everything they tell you, you go, "pfft. as if. let me see what's really going on here."
you say science. i say religion.
lately i've also been saying science IS religion. the way that scientists devote themselves to the scientific-method, refusing to validate factors that cannot be proven scientifically... well, it's the flip of the faithful refusing to admit things that conflict with their faith.
science is a faith. it's a faith in logic and verifiable data. it's a faith in anti-faith and that's damn tricky.
this is why i'm lucky to be Jewish. there is no rule that says i have to believe anything. in fact, it is my solemn duty to question everything. it's like a scientific religion! it's like scientology! or, wait, not like scientology. it's like relig-ience. with skullcaps.
evolution? works for me. mysticism? works for me.
i can believe in the proven and the unprovable without conflict.
was i talking about the CIA a minute ago? no. it was the search for the truth that started this rant. science is a good way to search for truth. religion is a good way to search for truth.
the best way to search for truth is to be open to it.
that's my relig-ience. something doesn't fit your framework? don't blame me. blame your framework. then ask what you need a framework for.
and don't believe everything you read in the papers.
but New Age doesn't need to search for the truth because it's already there....would you like to buy some of these potent grounding crystals that increase your compassion? (they were strip mined by slave labor, but that's to be overlooked)...