Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Questions...and things of that sort

On a scale of 1-10, how dangerous is it to ride an electric light-rail train in a electric storm? What happened to paranoid schizophrenics and does anybody listen when they talk to themselves?

The sky is most beautiful when it turns black at midday.

Who picks up garbage in front of buildings that nobody own? Does anybody else think it was weird that the U.S. dropped a bomb, then tried to help the country it bombed recover?

Where do the homeless people go when it rains? Where do the homeless people go when it snows? Where do the homeless people go when it's 40 below and they cancel school because they don't want the kids to get hypothermia?

What does organic REALLY mean? Is coffee honestly that bad for you? And if so, why do so many people drink it? Why do we ignore poverty? Why is it that everybody is terrified to go to Africa, but once they do, they never want to leave? Why is it that we refer to the world's second-largest continent, compiled of about 60 countries as one place that is all the same?

Why are we ashamed to show emotion? How is it possible to have a national identity in a country compiled of 50 other states with their own identities? Is it possible to know a culture other than your own?

Is it true that to have a dog is a pact with sorrow? Could you say the same about marriage?

When is it appropriate to cry? What is one's responsibility when living in an over-medicated community with a high suicide rate? Does God care about you and me? Can you give me a better answer than what they teach you in Sunday School?

Do you know how to cry? Are we a beautiful people living in a broken world or a broken people living in a beautiful world? Is life really just a journey toward death? What is pure joy and how do we find it? Is there more value in having a firm grip on something evanescent or just a taste of something eternal? Do scars ever truly heal? Are humans truly superior? Have we surpassed the pinnacle of our existence? Are we on the verge of extinction of the soul? Can a soul even die and leave a person still alive? Does the flame ever go out or does it just become so small it's unrecognizeable?

Can you truly know grief without experiencing it firsthand? Is there anything as strong as a mother's love for her child? Why are so many twenty-somethings experiencing a crisis of beliefs? Doesn't God see?

Why does the sun seem so much brighter when surrounded by rain clouds? Why does the Son seem so much brighter when surrounded by rain clouds. I am surrounded by rain clouds. Why can't I see the Son?

Will this ever end? What is true wonder and why do we never realize it at the time? Would goldenrod mean anything to a black and white world? Do priests ever have sexual fantasies? Does anyone ever cry for our fallen world?

Why do battered women stay? Why do rape victims remain silent? Why do murderers escape? Doesn't God care?

Why does history repeat itself? Why do people deny the Holocaust? Why is the world the way it is? Do pastors grow calloused in order to bear the pain and secrets of a crippled congregation? Do mothers cry when their grown children get hurt? Were all abusive men abused themselves?

Do people stop eating because they get depressed or do they get depressed because they stop eating? Why are the happiest moments always the shortest? How do we know the difference between an answer to prayer and life happening? Does God really hear our cries? How do we know the difference between an acquaintance and a friend?

Could the wind blow hard enough to wipe out an entire city? How is it that Christians can be so accepting and judgmental at the same time?

Is it possible for man to be flawless? Is it possible for a broken person to heal on their own? Are women and men rally created equally? Can a broken city be saved? Will I ever see through this fog?

Is there such thing as true love? Does absolute truth exist? Can emotional pain be strong enough to kill a person? What is forever? What is death, if not relief?

Could we survive without the honeybees? Could plants survive without the sun? Could I survive without the Son?