Sep 26, 2009
It's one thing to describe how something might be done, it is
another to actually succeed in doing it.
Conciliation (and reconciliation) seems to me to be a sufficiently
hot topic that I felt it necessary to devote a second episode to
actually getting it done. After all, it is easy to say that
something can be done, or that it should be done. But in this
case, it seems to me that you deserve more than just sayings.
After all, some of the principles and polarities which deserve
conciliation or reconciliation are some of the same ones which
inspire closed-mindedness on both sides of the issue - regardless
of the issue. And, there will be those who will refuse to
believe that there can ever be conciliation. But for the rest
of us, there's something to be learned, discovered, and
appreciated.
A good starting point is that eternal source of strife, the
argument between evolution and creationism. I have resolved
the issue within myself to the point that I no longer see the need
for disagreement between the two. But, on the one side you'll
have your creationists who do not wish to be confronted with facts
beyond the scope of their narrow interpretation. And on the
other side, there are those whose replacement for The Divine is
nothing more than "random coincidence."
Of course, if we go down this path, we are going to discover some
other concepts which we might not have thought of, such as how to
have unity without homogenzing ourselves!
Just how much might we be able to find conciliation or
reconciliation for? If we do, we can expect some good
things!