The Unseen

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 I consider myself a Spiritualist.  I have no religion and really have no politics.  I write about Angels here, but attribute nothing much about them.  I'm smoking my Angel Nording pipe this Sunday morning with Sutliff's Vanilla Cream tobacco.  I thought this being Sunday morning I would write about the unseen.  

Some say that nothing we experience is real.  Some have gone do far to say we exist in a black hole.  In fact the whole universe might be in one great huge black hole.  Others say there is a parallel universe to ours and we have doubles living their lives as we do, except with different names.  I can't see this universe, but who is to say that universe doesn't exist?  Some say we live in a Matrix and there is someone controlling all we do, think, or believe.  Who is to say they ate wrong; that such a Matrix doesn't exist?  

I could go on and on about ghosts, aliens, and Big Foot.  What do we know is real and what isn't real?  Even proof is not proof one way or another.  Who is to say Angels and Demons aren't real?  Just because I say they are doesn't necessarily mean they do exist.  Maybe I don't really exist.  We begin to delve into my area of theology and philosophy when we talk about the existence of the unseen.  But how do we know anything is real?  Yes, some will say that we just believe.  Just as we believe ten thousand Angels can dance on the head of a pin.  Why limit them at all?  Or maybe only one can, but how do we know?

We simply believe.  A belief can't be proven.  Only except by the reputation of the believer.  Did Newton prove gravity exists?  The apple fell from the tree.  It didn't go into outer space.  It fell down.  But what if Newton had not been a mathematician?  Or a scientist?  Could someone else make the same claim?  No.  Newton proved why the apple fell down.

So, if I believe in the unseen how do I prove I can see what someone does not see?  Technically, I can't.  I could say I have a sixth sense about things, people, and places.  But I can't prove I have this sixth sense.  Have I been wrong?  Was Einstein ever proven wrong?  If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, as T. S. Elliot says, does consistently being right matter?  Maybe it is just fun for me to think I have a sixth sense.  How would anyone know unless I'm ever wrong.  If you believe you have never been wrong, you've never been married.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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