Terry Tempest WilliamsI accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.
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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. Here is a short story about a man named Garvey. Garvey was a very religious person and he was always reading his holy book.
One day he came across a passage that said, “Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there.” This made him very upset because he thought it was a silly thing to say. He told his friends about it and they laughed at him. They said, “You should be glad you can’t see God because if you did you would be in big trouble.
You know, He is invisible and can’t be seen by anyone except for a few chosen people who have been promised the gift of remembering him.” Garvey asked them why they were making fun of a good idea and they said that there was no God and that everything they did was for themselves and their own benefit not for someone else or society at large. The other people in the room disagreed with this statement but Garvey was still very upset so he went home and read his holy book again trying to find something in it that would make sense to him. He found nothing except for one little sentence that said, “Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there.” Garvey decided that this little sentence made sense so he took his book to the temple where he prayed to God asking Him if this little sentence meant what everyone else was saying or if it could be true after all then maybe He did exist after all! After praying to God for hours on end, he went back home where he shared his epiphany with his friends who laughed at him again but this time only laughed with him instead of at him.
They said that he had come up with an idea that contradicted what others were saying about God which is why it wasn’t considered plausible especially among scientists or rational thinkers who want to know how everything truly works without any mystery or mythological elements added in like religion does. Garvey told them to go jump in the lake but instead they asked him what he believed in because they wanted to know if they could believe it too which made him happy but sad at the same time because he didn’t want them to think he was crazy or anything like that even though
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