Beyond Belief

[Photo: Big Frank Dickinson]

"I've got a feeling I'm going to get a lot of grief
Once this seemed so appealing
Now I am beyond belief"
---- Elvis Costello

Big Frank has been laying out some of his beliefs, and connecting them with photos, mostly of clouds because they reflect each other in many ways. This post will start with the photo of the clouds. Big Frank took this photo at 40,000 feet - above the clouds. Here, unlike the others, he is looking down on the clouds. So it would seem that a matching post on a view from above belief would be appropriate.

Above belief, is usually not said. Big Frank has heard 'beyond belief', meaning it would be hard to believe that, but that it is, in fact, true. For example, "The idea that someone in this country could be persecuted for their religious beliefs is beyond belief; yet that is exactly what happened last week in . . ." Truth beyond belief, that's the theme. So what does Big Frank have to say on that?

It is beyond belief that people lament having done certain things, see the wisdom in not repeating them, and vow never to that thing again; and then . . . go out and do that exact thing again. I believe that this happens over and over and over again. It is also beyond belief that there is no proof of any over riding plan, no blueprint with individual collisions with other people, no charting of circumstantial collections of illnesses, lucky coincidences, and chance enounters; yet, people - millions of them - believe that they are uniquely singled out by some grand architect, and uniquely have their life arranged, as is always the case (or so they believe, beyond belief), for the better. It is beyond belief that the cliche, "it's all good", is actually thought to be true; despite the undeniable fact that not all of everything is good. If it were there would be no need for the thought of a place like heaven where one could in truth say (and have it be true beyond belief) that of that place: "it's all good."