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I am a crossover person--one who walks along the edges of two or more worlds, contemplating the meaning of each, and sometimes feeling that I do not belong in either. I studied sciences first, having degrees in Biology and Astrophysics, and then later in life I studied religion, having converted to the Christian faith as a young adult. Having been very involved in the life of my church and its intellect for 37 years, and qualified as a church teacher, I have now come full circle. My church has failed me, and my life is on a very slender thread, these days, both spiritually and physically.
I am living, but I am dying. My heart is deteriorating, and I have far outlived the doctors' estimates of when I would die. I don't know why. I love without hope, and I live with a strange combination of hope and absolute unconcern. If I die tonight, it will not be a problem, except for the poor guys that have to wrestle my clunky old body into the back of a hearse.
It is from these places that the content of this blog comes: A willingness to die alone in the night; a need to reconcile the certainty that the supernatural does not exist with the need for a deity I can pray to; pure plain frustration with a lifetime of lost loves and failed institutions. Where do we go from here, and how long will it last? Read on...
- Location:
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United States
- Primary occupation:
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Technical Writer
- Dream occupation:
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Blog Author
- Hometown:
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Valle Crucis, N.C.
- Schools attended:
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ASU, UNC-CH
- I like:
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HongKong, friendly small dogs, woodworking, intelligent women, many other things...
- Favorite writers:
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Tolkien, Doctorow, Blake, T. Mann, Heinlein, Herodotus, Plinius Secundus
- Favorite newspapers:
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South China Morning Post, NYT
- Gender:
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Male
- Religion:
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Soteric Deism