the universe will not be controlled by the likes of us

the title is a brilliant phrase uttered on the intertubes by AdamSelene @ theoildrum.com. this space accumulates other such short, poetic, and found-elsewhere insights into the limits of human cognition. it is a project dedicated to Wes Jackson’s vision of an “ignorance-based worldview.” a brilliant phrase uttered by his friend Wendell Barry in a letter.

god speaks symphonically

Yesterday evening, this cloud and this tree were speaking.

Yesterday evening, this cloud and this tree were speaking.

recently said within lovely vortexes of human conversation, in which i had been given the grace to participate:

“What things have you to tell me today?” – Carrie

“Every detail matters. There is no meaningless anything.” – Link

“Nature is perfect. Nature is beyond design.” – Tony

“The earth is a big big,bright planet, and the sun is a big big bright star.” – Jasper

“Godness is very large.” – Camille

“If you build them, it will come.” – Adam

2 Comments»

  adam wrote @

off the top of my head, a few other ways that god speaks:
symmetrically
asymmetrically
fractally
via misheard fragments of conversation
via the songs that children sing when they think no one is around

  graham wrote @

righteous.
have any examples? i esp. agree w you on children’s songs.
i have a friend who is a DJ of thought (www.therealadamgood.com). he takes two totally unrelated books – not even in the same discipline, or with the same approach to knowledge – and reads random sentences out of them, switching back and forth between the books. he might say that god speaks through improv reading.
god speaks in ways multifarious. and then some. human beings listen in 2 to 3, maybe 4 tops ways.


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