We roe a bus to Zihua to attend the meeting today. The only bus seats were in the back which gave us the bounciest bone-breaker ride we had here so far. At one point I put my head close to Carol's to say something and a hefty bump in the road knocked our skulls together. Good thing our heads weren't close a few seconds after. The bus suffered a jolt magnitudes worse which would have left us unconscious in the back seat until back at the Marina bus terminal.
At the hall we were treated to a talk by a visitor from Australia on the subject How Real Is God To You? On a white board beside him were written the following numbers which for a while passed without mention ...
He spoke of the instinctive wisdom of ants storing food in summer for the winter, the order in the universe, and other examples of wisdom manifest in nature. He mentioned it's possible to consider all these things like the numbers above, just a series of observable facts with no particular meaning. But if we reason on the matter we can discern that in fact there is a clear meaning, such as the example below.
Similarly when observing the abundance of wisdom in creation, it points to a meaning, namely that there is an all-wise Creator. At the end of the talk he erased one number ...
He explained that for some people the issue of God's existence is not so clear because in their view there may be a gap or questions about it. He said when that is the case the important thing is not resign oneself to living with the gap or questions, but pursue the answers because they can indeed be found.
The following is a view of the hall after the meeting. You can see Carol's head at the right side of the center window. She was having a chat ...
Our bus back to Ixtapa was piloted by a disciple of Evel Kneival. The ride is over a modest mountain pass which we covered in the fastest time yet. Some of these buses chitty-bang-bang slowly and then you climb aboard one that takes a curve on two wheels.
The five minute walk from the bus stop to our place involved a sobering encounter with the sunshine. Not only was it very sunny and hot today but of course we were dressed up, me with wool dress pants, socks and shoes. sigh.
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