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This is to say, as he does, that at 20 we haven’t yet figured out that life is meaningless.įor William Shatner, he has lived long enough to validate a need for permanence. Shatner believes that our lives, in the end, merely succumb to the forces of gravity. The problem with mankind is that he seeks to discover this permanence and transcendence apart from the Creator who made him. Only mankind, in all of God’s creation, has the understanding of “something more remains.” But we also long for transcendence, like God, to be outside the bounds of time and space, to be able to reach the final frontier, and to understand the world the way He does. As we saw in our first study in this current sermon series, God is eternal and has placed this longing for permanence into our very nature. God has “planted eternity” in every human heart. It seems clear to me that Bill has crashed head-on into the message of Ecclesiastes, which he likely encountered during his childhood years in Judaism. If I’d known that at 20, I wouldn’t have done anything!” “I’m glad I didn’t know, because what you know at 90 is: take it easy, nothing matters in the end, what goes up must come down.
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“Here’s an interesting answer!” he says perkily. It feels rude to ask a 90-year-old if he worries about death, so I ask instead what he wishes he had known at 20 that he knows at 90. “Isn’t that incredible? So it could be on my gravestone and people can ask it questions, and as long as the electronics work there will be some kind of permanence,” he smiles. He has recently done a project with a company called StoryFile, which will recreate him as a 3D talking hologram. I just finished reading an interview with him in The Guardian by Hadley Freeman titled “ Take it easy, nothing matters in the end.” Most of the article is about what Shatner is up to now, even at 90, but closes with a more introspective question that he answers insightfully: I am always interested in the musings of folks who have lived for as long as Shatner, especially since he has such a variety of life experience to speak to issues about the end of life. Either way, he is likable enough and remains a large figure in the entertainment industry. He is either as purely transparent and authentic as a human can be, or he has faked sincerity for so long that he has convinced even himself. “The Shatner Personna” is a tag that frustrates him, but in all honesty, Bill is a hard one to know. Born in Canada and raised devoutly Jewish, Shatner is quite an enigma. Though he has often denied his age, Bill is more forthcoming now about his longevity. “I've giv'n her all she's got captain, an' I canna give her no more!”Ī couple of months ago Shatner, known to friends as “Bill,” turned 90. The final frontier.” I was hooked, as was my uncle, who just 10 years my senior, would allow me to join him in my grandfather’s 14-foot V-bottom riverboat that he transformed into the “USS Enterprise.” He was Kirk, and I was the Chief Engineer, “Scotty.” Instead of a Matter-Antimatter Warp Drive, all I had was an 18-horsepower Evinrude outboard motor. As a kid, I could be anywhere in the house and recognize that single pinging note just before Shatner, in his signature Captain Kirk voice, said “Space. He is most known for Star Trek, which ran for three seasons on television. William Shatner is an icon of the 1960s, catapulted there by the space race of that decade and our dreams of hurling humanity into places where no man had gone before. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.