47. I believe I’m growing skeptical of cynicism.

I’ve recently been introduced to a channel on TV named Hits.
This may well be the most wonderful thing to happen to my television life since the discovery of Foxtel (that’s the Australian equivalent of TiVo, for those of you playing at home).
As a result, I’ve been recording re runs of Dharma & Greg on a weekly basis.

Hilarious as the show is, I’ve also come to really enjoy the “Vanity Cards” they flash at the end of each episode.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Chuck Lorre places a vanity card at the end of each episode of the shows he writes. The vanity cards are his “sporadic attempt to share his personal beliefs with millions of people (hence the term “vanity”).”

I found Vanity Card #7 particularly interesting, and I’d like to post it here.

I believe that the very act of believing in something causes us to distance ourselves from that thing, thus a duality is created: oneself and the thing in which one believes. Now since we all know that in order to fully understand a thing one must be that thing — walk a mile in its shoes so to speak — it seems obvious that the state of believing in something inevitably causes us to not truly understand that thing in which we believe. This noncomprehension leads to all sorts of difficulties. “I believe in love” has a better than even chance of leading to divorce, while “I believe in God” seems to end in variations on the Spanish Inquisition. But — and it’s a big but — if one were love, one couldn’t help but be affectionate and caring towards oneself and others. If one were God, one would act toward all beings and all things as if they were one’s own creations. And that, my friends, is the secret of life in a two-second vanity card. Of course, the secret could also be “Sit, Ubu, sit.” We have to keep an open mind.