"There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge."
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-I.html)

 

 

Basic Beliefs So Far
(Last edited 8/11/08)

 

1) My first, suspicion is that the reason "G-d" doesn't make sense to most of us (even those who believe in 'Him') is that there is an aspect of reality that most of us simply take for granted without ever recognizing...
2) We look right through this aspect of reality without ever realizing that it is an aspect of reality. We look right at it, but are oblivious to it -- probably like a fish is oblivious to the water in which it swims. We take it for granted. We are aware of it, we just don't notice it. We don't recognize its implications. We don't realize that it is "magical."
3) This is where G-d comes from. This is why 'He' does actually make sense, and why we don't realize it.
4) There is a magical (alive, conscious, free, timeless, meaningful, irrational) dimension to reality. We have another -- magical -- world right along side of us. Think of this as analogous to the rabbit hole, or looking glass -- or, the square root of 2.

5) My next suspicion is that the Jesus concept can seem so "off the wall" because we're not expecting the nature of our connection to G-d to be dictated by human nature -- but as it turns out, we should.
6) The Jesus idea seems so foolish to us intellectual types because the characteristics of a "Savior" for us humans would naturally have to fit with our needs -- but we never thought of it that way...
7) And, if we need a Savior, Jesus seems to fill the bill.
8) And for most of us, in order to rise above the 2 banes of human existence (guilt, and the fear of death), and experience real peace on earth, a Savior IS necessary. Most of us can't do it by ourselves.
9)And, Jesus comes through. He can take us into that other, magical, world -- down the rabbit hole. Where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts!

10) But then, are these things for real?
11) That's what I'm here to find out.

(Objectives)