Roger Ebert’s Journal
Roger Ebert has been a film critic for all of my life. Though I don’t always agree with his reviews, his journal is one of the most thoughtful and eloquently written items that I have ever read. Go gentle into that good night has become one of my favorites.
My opinions have been challenged. I had to defend what I believed. I did some more reading. I discovered fractals and Strange Attractors. I wrote an entry about the way I believe in God, which is to say that I do not. Not, at least, in the God that most people mean when they say God. I grant you that if the universe was Caused, there might have been a Causer. But that entity, or force, must by definition be outside space and time; beyond all categories of thought, or non-thought; transcending existence, or non-existence. What is the utility of arguing our “beliefs” about it? What about the awesome possibility that there was no Cause? What if everything…just happened?
If you have the time, consider reading his journal and reflect upon the wisdom that time has given this man.
