It was marvelous out today: an afternoon where the soundtrack is the buzz of a one-propeller plane and it’s impossible to be in a hurry for anything at all. The quad’s so interesting when it’s warm – it’s easy to forget that beyond its self-containment, there’s so much more of the university. It seems like an ecosystem of its own, enclosing walking, sleeping, studying, staring, basking people. And it’s going to be a wonderful night for hookah.
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JUG: Justice Under God
It seems to me that the only true justice is justice under a god. If god knows everything, then, well, god is the only thing qualified to judge what’s just. We humans can’t compete. But does god know everything? How can we tell? I really don’t see any reason to trust god...especially considering the backwards, tricky world god created. Anything that makes water that both drowns and sustains or atoms that can’t make up their minds whether to split or fuse really doesn’t seem to me to be very straightforward. And how can something not straightforward be just? Justice needs to be straightforward, to see the blacks and whites when others would perceive only grays. In conclusion, don’t trust god to be just. And never take wooden nickels.
I never got a JUG when I was at Marist. I don’t intend to now that I’m out of Marist, either.