Men and monkeys, science and faith: World-renowned neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky gives the commencement address at Stanford University. This guy is the professor you wish you had for Biology 101: sharp, witty, down to earth, and speaking plain English.
(I also totally love the beard, woof. I just might get mine out that long one of these days. The hair is groovy too, but I sure don't want to have to wash and dry it every day: been there, done that.)
Skip the intro remarks, the speech starts at exactly the 5:00 mark. Listen to the first minute, and you'll be hooked till the end. Closing concept, paraphrased by your Head Trucker:
The more you realize it's impossible for one person to make a difference, to make the world better - the more you realize that you must try to do just that.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.