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Our system's got a hole in it. December 21st, 2022. Introduction. If we are not too proud

to learn a little ethical wisdom from Anquilliams, I would like to share the chorus from one of

his songs with you. Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it. Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it.

I can't buy no beer. Anquilliam. The takeaway message from such a simple refrain

should be that when your bucket has no bottom, there's no sense going to the well.

But providing us all with yet one more example of hope, try and think over experience,

the children of men will continue to go to the well in the hope of bringing some water back.

And after they've done so, they would like to sit down in order to relax and have a beer.

But alas, their bucket had a hole in it. We do this because we are created in the image of God

and we are not what are approved dogma claims that we are. We claim that we are the end product

of so many millions of years of evolution, time and chance acting on matter.

But the thundering stupidity of such a lie cannot erase the divine signature on the heart of man.

God has put eternity into our hearts, Ecclesiastes 3.11, and tries we might,

we cannot successfully replace that reality with millions of years of aimless genetic groping.

No matter how many times we are told that the universe has no meaning, we persist in acting as though it does.

Even the nihilist who pleads with us to recognize that everything is pointless,

is somehow assuming that his sentences and point of view have a point.

We can run but we can't hide in other words.

Mankind cannot be consistently logical at this point, but it has to be said that we keep attempting it.

Sart once said that without an infinite reference point every finite point is absurd,

which is exactly correct, and clown world is the attempt to live this out.

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