Wednesday, December 13, 2006

A New Twist!

Sometimes I think a mind has to be a little warped itself to come up with something like this! It looks like a versioin of the mohibus strip. Of course, a mobius strip is made of a thin material, like a paper or belt. It has a half twist, making the paper one-sided and single edged! Take a piece of paper and try one. You can find more if you search on modius strip.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Things that make you go HMMM??!

What Do You See?
Is it an arch or is it columns?
Are they square columns or round?
And just where is that soldier standing?
I love things that are more than meets the eye! Life is like that. So much either doesn't make sense, or is much more complex than first glance. C. S. Lewis said that sometimes when we ask God questions about why or how, we don't seem to get an answer because we really aren't asking an answerable question. If I ask you if the columns at the right are round or square, could you answer definitively? Round? Well they look round at the bottom, but follow them to the top? Look a little different up there! Kind of square. Are there 2 or three? Well, looks like three at the bottom, and two at the top? Is the soldier standing between two round columns, or a round one and a square one. These questions are difficult because the picture almost seems to have an extra dimension! I think that is why we have silence from heaven punctuating the end of many of our questions. Somewhere between earth and heaven, something changes, and our question is not answerable. We think we are asking "In heaven, Is the color red the color red or the color blue?" Which we are sure the answer is red, because red is red, not blue. In heaven the question is more like, "Is the color red round or square?" In heaven, I think much of our earthly questions are nonsense. I think the first lesson here is, when we ask a question of God, we shouldn't presume upon the acceptable answers. We should leave the answers open, because it is unlikely that we are even close!