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Post # 99: I often feel like that. It is important to struggle, to try, to work to understand, to be as godly or Christ-like as we can manage to be, but, in the end, I think our ability to comprehend the universe and to know the Mind of God is about as limited as a fly's, with its compound eyes. I don't know about anyone else, but I am left with two things: (1) faith that Jesus Christ will answer my prayer, as I do believe He will, and lead me to God and help me to be as worthy as I can be and (2) the wine of life, the beauty of life, the music of life--hence my screen name.

I don't understand the Sufi mysticism of The Rubiyat, but I don't think it is pessimistic, as it appears at first glance, e.g.:

Heaven--the vision of fulfilled desire,
And hell--the shadow of a soul on fire

I think he was saying that he cannot know and will therefore drink the beauty of life.

Or, be wine a metaphor for God's grace and therein lie a deeply spiritual devotion, as many seem to say? (And as music can serve such a metaphor as well as wine can, and it is the grace of God that elevates a man from a savage beast--the screen name again.)

What do you think, Stoch?

I wonder what Sufi scholars think.

Hey, Everybody. I didn't mean all those bad things I said about Islam. I take it all back. What does The Rubiyat mean?