a friend and i used to sit around trying to blow thomas jefferson's mind. we'd end up blowing ours in the process. this is how it went:
one of us would say, "you think thomas jefferson ever conceived, in his wildest dreams, of.......... fill in the blank." we'd fill in the blank with things like automobiles, cell phones, airplanes, going to the moon, skyscrapers, national football and baseball leagues, cable, computers, skype, a trillion dollars, a trillion dollar debt, the astro dome, and stores never closing on sunday.
sometimes we'd substitute thomas jefferson with leonardo da vinci or socrates or martin van buren. (we only substituted with martin van buren once. and the game was short. trust me.........try it.)
my friend and i never really knew, of course, the answers to our questions, but the conversations that they sparked and the thinking that they required were, if nothing else, great time passers on a long road trip.
but they were much more than that. they were reminders to get our houses in order.
they were reminders that - whatever you think is impossible - probably isn't.
that whatever you think doesn't extend beyond today, probably does.
that just when you think you're so damned smart........you aren't.
which brings me to the question that i am going to ask you, not thomas jefferson- because it is the only question that my friend and i know for absolute sure what mr. jefferson's answer would be - but we don't know what your answer is. much less, ours:
will we ever go to heaven (or hell) virtually?
