two R's

actually thinking about junk food...

but then for some reason I was thinking about thinking... and my thought this time was an understanding of religious attitudes...

then it struck me... the two R's... one comes from one of my professors at Vanderbilt... he always said, "Man sorts, Nature shuffles."

that leads me to the first R... man being a sorting animal is also a RANKER... man always ranks things...

and that made me think that ranking is behind the other R... RIGHTEOUSNESS

Righteousness (also called rectitude) is an important theological concept in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. It is an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been "judged" or "reckoned" as leading a life that is pleasing to God.

it has been a long time since I thought that way, if I ever thought that way... I wonder what the statistics are on people really worrying about either pleasing GOD or going to HELL...

I mean I think everyone at different ages, follows different "gods".... teens may follow the god of "peer pressure"... adults may follow the god of "material success"...

but who really takes pleasing "GOD" or HEAVEN and HELL seriously...

so, my thought is that even those who claim to, don't... that it really is just another way to compete or rank oneself...