Wind, waves, and grey matter

[Josh]

Originally posted 12/26/05:

I just read in Lewis an interesting point, paraphrased here:

It often stretches the bounds of credulity for us to imagine Jesus 'walking on the waves' or 'calming the sea'-- to believe that a spiritual being in flesh might manipulate physical matter.

But in reality, we are doing the same thing 24/7. We are spirits who somehow manipulate our brains which in turn manipulate our bodies to manipulate other matter.

The difference isn't really of kind, but of magnitude.

[sonlyte]

That's a pretty cool quote.

I love that it begins to break down the rigid categorization of how we see life forms.

I have always wanted to move something through the power of the force, but I was talking to my kids one day (they share the same passion) and we talked about how our hands allow us to move things that our will desires to move.
If we didn't have hands we would probably be thinking of someone who did (hand-I knight) and wanting to be like them. It was a fun conversation.

[Josh]

Wow.... that's just a tad trippy. I just got done watching some scenes from Star Wars with my son for the first time. ;D

[christopher]

Now that's interesting.

I've been thinking about showing Star Wars to William lately and I'm trying to find the right way to do it for him. He sometimes can get scared of monsters and things, but he really wants to see it.

So did you just select some scenes to show Justus or did you skip certain scenes?

(I know this is way off topic, but it will be brief)

[Josh]

I just skipped (summed up) the scenes I thought would be scary (you know, like when Mark Hamil gets too whiney, etc..)