Stray Thoughts On Creation

[DaveM]

Addressed to you all, but especially to Janis, who must be horribly weary by now. A highly condensed version of an old journal entry I ran across recently:

We were created....we do not know how or when or why, but here we are.
And He who made the atom gave us the power to create. Whether out of
hope or curiosity or just a sense of humor we may never know. But we
all have it in us in some way....whether it is organizing recipes or
nailing boards in perfectly straight lines or getting the engine of a
car to run just so....it is all creation. Even the guys who blast iron
ore of of a rock face locally are making something out of what was nothing.

But some of us do not break rocks or drive nails or get our hands
dirty. Some of us find other refuges. There were those who built
pyramids or the Taj Mahal, the one who found David in a block of marble
and painted the Sistine Chapel besides. There was the one who composed
"Eiene Klein Nachtmusik" and died before anyone heard it....

So write or sing or drive nails or break rocks, whatever your nature may be. And when you take pleasure in your work, remind yourself: what you are feeling is God's joy

[Dee]

I believe we were created also Dave, and the compulsion to create in some way connects us back to our source. Or by another way of looking at it, us creating is a reflection of that source of creation. In fact, I would say that’s the main reason I'm drawn toward creative people.

Learning the when or why or how of it all is probably the longest running quest of humankind – and as inherent as creativity itself.

[Racheldiva]

Creative Child

Little girl, little girl,
where are you?
Come to me quickly.
You must be strong, be stronger,
and don’t let the serious world smother you,
or take your words.
You are the very essence of me.
My reason for living,
my life’s blood.
Never leave.

[hoops]

thank you all for such beatifully presented creations
pax
hoops

[Wes]

That will do for me & as close as I am willing to concede. The Chief Raabi thinks he's right, The Pope thinks he's right & the Head Buddist thinks he's right.
For me Its Macro god. He don't (If he exists ) operate at the micro level. Thats down to us & the quicker we realise it the better. If we f.... up we disappear but life will go on.

[Racheldiva]

The older I get the more I'm coming around to the way of thinking that we have more power than we think. I used to be a fatalist, but nowadays I don't really think that that is right necessarily.

[Rikki]

Wow this is a discussion not many people will agree on. I agree with you all to a point and disagree as well on some points.

I think being dead set on one way or the other is wrong. That's the only thing I'm sure about on this one.

[DaveM]

I did not intend for the post to provoke agreement. I did hope it might provoke discussion.

I am an atheist/agnostic myself.....but if there was a "first cause", I prefer to believe that the hand in question was that of an artist. Could it possibly have been otherwise?