Shut down
Hey folks, I’m shutting down the blog for a while. I’ve moved over to tumblr, but have done so anonymously, and I’m not certain I want to point in that direction right now. It’s been fun folks, feel free to email (matt@themattscott dot com) me if you want, or you can still find me on twitter and facebook.

Seasons/// a poem
Sing me muse, fair Story tell Of man of damsel of three years hell Postulate, debate, what does your heart say how these two temp fate and are surprised when the reaper collects his pay Our story begins in early spring With boy, with girl, as voices sing To dead god lift praise Their hands Aired to mirror their voices raised In song unfortunately ignored by it’s intended hearer. Next we move to summer scene In cars Where love was made thenceforth routine With passion with kiss Enough that hearts would forgive Those times love did remiss We hoped deeply with cries love was strong

On Suffering, with Rob Bell and Derek Foster
Sometimes I get tempted to saw forget it and walk away from the whole God thing. When I say “sometimes” I mean: quite often. It’s not the inconsistencies within systematic religion that makes me want to give up, nor is it my opinion of (current) Biblical accuracy. Not even the hypocrisy within the church. Not the Ken Silva’s. Not the bad music. It’s suffering. It’s theodicy. It’s pain. Those are the things that make me want to throw in the towel, and tell god (if there is such a being that fits the theistic implications we attach to that word) have fun without me. But I don’t. –This is the weight I’ve carried for years, th

The purpose of our Practice
“Students! Do not practice buddha-dharma for your own sake. Do not practice buddha-dharma for name and gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain blissful reward. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain miraculous effects. Practice buddha-dharma solely for the sake of buddha-dharma. This is the way.” -Dogen I often wonder what would Christianity look like if the practice didn’t promise some end benefit or gain. Would our treatment of the other be different if we our treatment derived from a simple desire to act justly, not for some perceived benefit, but simply for a love of justice? Or perhaps if we followed in th

What then do I write?
I’ve always written about that which was currently going on in my life. It’s easy to tap into that source and come up with plenty  to talk about, it got me through my first two years of blogging, but now… now I’m stuck. What if what’s going on in my life isn’t something that needs to be put up on a blog for the world to see? And even if I don’t post about that directly, all of my religious thoughts are directly affected by whats going on in my life. By the way, anyone that tells you they are able to separate out their life and their religious beliefs, and that the are not correlated, is lying to you. I’m seeing that now more than ev