Thoreau, Sir Isaac Newton, and trinity
I was reading over at ninetyandnine.net this morning and saw some of my favorite hot topics, some that go way back in my self-education of life. The word Walden caught my eye in one of the blogger's posts about tossing the ipod and finding Walden or sump'n like that. I followed the link to a Relevant mag article and it looked as though the author's knowledge of Thoreau was wikipedia deep. Not that I'm a scholar, mind you, but Walden is not about tuning out civilization, but tuning in with nature and the lessons that the natural world can teach.

But please, let me step off my soapbox before a crowd of tomato tossers gathers.

My next item is Newton, the guy who invented gravity, er, discovered it. I have read in several college libraries and I can tell you that the information is scant at best. Newton was implicit in the fact that a trinity of God is a mathematical improbability, and was a mere concept created by "papists." Newton stirred the proverbial hornet's nest with his take on the errant concept of a trinity, and had to lay low late in life to avoid not only tomato tossers, but jail or worse.

Both Newton and Walden were men who had courage to stand for their convictions, and dedication to spend time contemplating the serious issues of life on Planet Earth. I agree that we cannot walk around with our brain muted with music fuzz all day, creating some euphoric, rose-colored view of our mundane lives whilst we walk among men. But I also believe that turning introspect (sans ipods) still keeps us unplugged from people and society. We Aps are a shy bunch of introverts, so ipodded or ipodless we cannot afford to remain in a state of exclusion from the rest of the world of people.

It's time to fish or cut bait.