Saturday, April 29, 2006

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

This can't be right:

God/poetry*
God/me
God/art
God/life

Am I missing something here? What's the link? ///

(*see previous post)

Heaven/Hell or English 101

Binary pairs:

black/white
up/down
left/right
east/west
us/them
self/other

Human beings observe the chaos that surrounds us and try to make sense of it by organzing things into binary pairs or opposites. We observe these things through our senses and then we make sense of the world in our minds by constructing reality. Human beings create our reality through our constructs, or ideas, about the observable world based on our own perceptions of it.

heaven/hell

I am bothered by that one. We can observe black/white or even us/them. We cannot observe heaven/hell. The "afterlife" is beyond our perceptions. So is God and all things "godly".

heaven/hell

is too simplistic for me. It sounds man-made, and yet it is beyond our observable reality. It seems to me that we, rather clumsily, assigned God and all things "godly" a label, just like we do to other things. But God is beyond our immediate perception. We can observe God's creation, but not God directly. We imagine so much on faith.

What is the reality of God?