Monday, June 17, 2002 |
16:24 - Jasper: Most Famous Dog in the Blogosphere
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/02/0602/060402.html#061702
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Leave it to Lileks to corral together the wildly disparate topics of home life, Islamofascism, the Macintosh, Star Trek, and agnosticism under one three-letter heading: Dog.
But who civilizes the dog? Man. And it’s so very easy to do; it requires only connection and the will to do good. Which is why I’ve often said, half facetiously, that the relationship between man and dog is the same as man to God. Dogs don’t understand our books or physics or spacecraft or lawn mower engines or flat-screen monitors or 99.8% of our world. They do not know what it is that they do not know. They don’t even know how to pose the question, frame the argument, find their way into to realm of the human mind. The connection to the human being is sufficient. And that’s why I’m not an atheist, as much as every single rational fiber of my being tells me I should be: don’t know what I don’t know. (And I know that for a fact.) I find no more empirical proof of God than my dog finds proof of satellite TV. But at night when we’re on the sofa he sees the inscrutable stories flickering on the box in the corner. I note his disinterest: one of those things, whaddagonna do. But the fact that he doesn’t get the story doesn’t mean there’s not a story being told.
It's so hard to quote the guy, because I hate having to choose one paragraph and implicitly circular-file the rest. So go read the whole thing and put my mind at ease. Thank you... I feel much better.
(Oh, and I do believe that was my Dogcow post he was referring to. Hot diggety damn!)
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