Zero

If you can live 500 years
Would you feel less anxious
Or think less about getting old?

What if your probability of living
Until 500 years of age
Is only 30%
By sheer chance of accidental death
Or terminal disease?

What if you could live 1000 years
But the chance of living that long
Is only 10%?

In fact
What if you could live forever?
What are your chances of living
Forever?

Zero

The only way to live forever
Is in the place
Where there is no death

Certainly not of this world

Shalom

The road to genuine
Peace and tranquility
Free from all bitterness
And resentment
Is not through revenge
War
Or even financial success
Nor attainment of power

But through forgiveness
To forgive and be forgiven
Complete and absolute
Of any and all types of
Transgressions by anyone
Or anything regardless of
How trivial or severe

Thereby having nothing left
To forgive or be forgiven

An act independent of
The transgressor
An act impossible and
Meaningless on its own

But possible
Meaningful
And peaceful
Through God

Shalom

Trump vs Clinton

Another election year
And not so unlike other years
But particularly more entertaining
This one is sure to be a classic

Trump vs Clinton
Billionaire politically incorrect Donald Trump
Versus
First female aka former First Lady Clinton

The former trying hard not to win
Unintentionally
The latter trying hard to win
Intentionally

A popularity contest
For the highest office in the nation
For the most powerful country in the world
Setting the prime example of

Democracy gone too far

Porche 911

Theory of evolution
How somehow over eons of time
Soup of organic and inorganic molecules
Slowly came together to form life
Reproducing itself

Is like saying somehow
Over eons of time
At some remote planet in this vast universe
All the elements and molecules
Came together to form
Porsche 911

Independence Day

Independence Day
What a feeling it must have been
To be independent
To form a new country

Perhaps that is the reason
Why people get divorced
To be independent
To start a new life

Except those who divorce
Were independent to begin with
Which makes it harder
To be dependent

Whatever the reason may be
For those who are divorced
Independence Day is a tribute
And a cause for celebration

And for those who are married
Independence Day is a reminder
That the country has done
What they could not

And will not