John Ege
2 min readAug 8, 2021

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It's a reasonable question. I won't kick you out. Hell, I jumped through some hoops to join the Catholic church, even signed the book of life with Bishop Delaney, only to have the priest who's church I had selected to join tell me he wasn't going to bring me into the church. He and I argued quite a bit. He couldn't even name the sons of Jacob, and I asked for someone who had read the Bible. Probably not the best thing to do, but he said, "You know, you will find most Catholics won't be able to play trivia with you, but it's what in the heart that matters..." Ten weeks later, I guess his heart harden because he didn't like the questions I asked in that RCIA class, or the fact that I pointed out I don't think anyone else had read his book. He said 'you're out of my church." I was much more of an ass then. "You do know the membership in your club is dwindling, right? You sure about this?"

I am curious, can a human being bring wisdom and be flawed? Oh, Ugar, are you and I just too challenging for folks?

It is the water you drink, not the cup. Vessels can be broken, small, dirty- but if you're thirsty, having walked through the desert, are you going to refuse water because it had dishwashing spots on it?

You know how many inventions Bell gave humanity? I don't. Probably not as many as he would like us to believe. Tesla offered us free electricity, and Bell publicly killed an elephant in the street to prove how deadly his system was, and in the process, gave us the electric chair, which we still use today. I am not going to refuse electricity in protest.

Hypocrisy exists. That sucks. If it's true all human beings lie, statistically more than we think, it would be kind of shame if we didn't accept anything at all just because we know humans are flawed.

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John Ege
John Ege

Written by John Ege

LPC-S, Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.

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