ProJo's Stanley M. Aronson's last column on NOTHINGNESS- weird and wonderful!

Link to Dr. Aronson's Obituary in The Providence Journal

When I read that your beloved columnist Stanley M. Aronson had died I immediately recalled he was my dead mother's favorite too. (and Ma was also born in 1922.)

It does indeed pay to be CURIOUS in this life. Einstein spoke of "holy curiosity." But it was just plain weird that Dr. Aronson's last column was a profound reflection on NOTHINGNESS. Unless we have an unshakeable belief in the afterlife we tend to associate death with nothingness. Aronson's last column is not dogmatic on the subject but creative and informative. I had an impulse to comment on it but it was really too deep for haste.

If you can think of God as No Thing, you can indeed believe in both the Big Bang and a metaphysical Creator. But Aronson's last sentence suggests that this very deep philosophical discussion be continued in the nearest tavern.

                                                                                                                                                               



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