multi-media

I just happened upon a essay on NPR's website, "I Believe", a series that has apparently been around forever but I just discovered. Anyway, Penn (of Penn and Teller fame), in his usual style attempts to indicate that believing God does NOT exist is the only intelligent way to go. He even goes so far as to slam the notion that God may be something OTHER THAN a white haired Christian guy. In another post I'll wax philosophic about God (the perceptible God, anyway) being the immutable laws of physics. The "rules" or logic of creation, are potent enough... relative to my infinitesimal capacity to create change in my environment... oops I am doing it, aren't I.

I actually like Penn, and appreciate his sort of cynical intellect, what I found MOST interesting was that for no reason at all I clicked on the audio link and then followed along with the text version of the essay (as it was read by Penn himself). I followed along word-for-word... and it worked... I actually slowed my reading to stay sync`d with the reading. Why did this impressed me!? I can only guess that it is due to the fact that I have been unable to get audio books to 'work' for me. I wander off and miss stuff. The tools aren't up for quickly stopping... more importantly a quick 'jump back to where you stopped paying attention' button.