The Four Sights

Shortly after I returned from India, I started writing a reflection on our trip there and the thoughts it brought up for me about suffering and theodicy. I've worked on it off & on since then, and I've never quite been happy with it. I'm still not, but I think it's time to let go of my inner perfectionist.

As always: I am no expert in the religions I discuss below and welcome critiques.

( The Four Sights & The Problem of Pain )

Still Greek to me

Speaker A: ...gobbling the whole, sharpening the flashing iron.
Speaker B: And the helmets are shaking their purple-dyed crests, and for the wearers of breast-plates the weavers are striking up the wise shuttle's songs, that wakes up those who are asleep.
Speaker A: And he is gluing together the chariot's rail.

Having read this exchange, I'm wondering if it is such a boon for humanity to have found fragments of a new-to-us Sophocles play. Nevertheless, I think this news is very exciting! Given my interests, I'm especially hopeful that new early gospel fragments will be among the newly legible papyri.