More about seeing things as they are

My last post was about whether there is any meaning or significance to life, and in editing that post this morning to correct some carelessness, I mentioned the book "A Course in Miracles."  If you look up the Workbook for Students in this course, you will see how it is relevant to what follows here.

A while ago I came across a cartoon drawing, showing two young girls of about twelve or thirteen, standing close together; one is whispering into the listening ear of the other, who is looking down at the ground, "We've been wrong all this time, you don't blow at all!"

Aside from agreeing with her that it is confusing to call it a "blow job", it really prompted me to think once more about the possibility that in my ideas about life I might have been, and might be now, "wrong all this time."  And Oliver Cromwell famously said, to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."  Cromwell was an eminently practical man.

Not only do I think that I might have been wrong all this time, and probably still am, but I think - pardon me for this insult- most other people are in the same boat.