tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19411997.post8815833388871950654..comments2023-07-21T07:01:10.447-04:00Comments on A Jolly Company: In conversationNathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07288330419297657142noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19411997.post-84074824889926643622008-07-09T03:35:00.000-04:002008-07-09T03:35:00.000-04:00Hi nathan!I'm a medical student from Singapore, an...Hi nathan!<BR/><BR/>I'm a medical student from Singapore, and I just found your blog through other medbloggers. I've enjoyed reading a lot of your posts. You seem to be rather quiet lately... I hope everything's well with you. Do update soon! :DEileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00965947221462247191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19411997.post-74708241399769684042008-06-03T08:30:00.000-04:002008-06-03T08:30:00.000-04:00I'll say that there are few people more honest tha...I'll say that there are few people more honest than an agnostic skydiver. The conviction of the skydiver is not that death will never happen to him. It is a desperate and fearful scrabble away from the certainty of death and age. The question of eternity for the agnistic skydiver inevitably must be the kind of thing you're describing. It's either what we leave behind, or that pitching screaming leap into the yawning mouth of eternity. It's either a middle finger to inevitable death, or you built a monument, or a country, or planted trees like Gifford Pinchot. <BR/><BR/>So it ought to weird people right out of their socks that Puritans (that much misunderstood and victiminized group) are such practical folks, when they believe more than anyone else how fleeting this world is. Dust to Dust, and yet, they're out there tilling the soil, and nowadays raising families (who will eat, and labor and then expire back to dust)and working. Why? Why even get out of bed in the morning?<BR/>Well most people do get out of bed, and for the Puritan, for the Christian, it's not to leave your mark/scar/legacy on the world. It's because you're supposed to. Because the fabric of the world and eternity requires that of you right now. <BR/>Frankly I haven't got a rip it and grip it skydiver in my soul. So if it weren't for God and faith and truth then I'd be feverishly heaving at the world trying to make it turn and remember me. <BR/><BR/>Thank God I don't have to. Because in the absence of that sick desperation I feel myself living and getting the right kind of work done. <BR/><BR/>Thank God you're healing the sick, because there isn't anything nobler from here till dust.Bark Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16497409174319560301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19411997.post-89554685529529680112008-05-16T09:15:00.000-04:002008-05-16T09:15:00.000-04:00It would be too incredibly depressing if we allowe...It would be too incredibly depressing if we allowed the thought that this can - and will - really happen to us.<BR/><BR/>But you're taking a wise lesson away from this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com