well said, i don't consider myself religious either.
but i think i probably believe more in having a truth
to strive for but am still fascinated by different
takes on the subject of religion. perhaps to be
faithful in questioning is more vital than any kind of
blind following.
thanks for this.
- Jill
--- Daniel Zimmerman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Jill.
>
> I don't consider myself religious, but the stories
> fascinate me.
> Theology--a discipline of pure imagination--and
> mysticism
> (Yeats, Duncan, et al.) propose worlds as contrary
> to our
> ordinary experience as quantum physics, and as
> exciting.
>
> Blake says (approximately) "anything possible to be
> believed
> is an image of truth," and that makes sense to me.
> 'Give me a
> place to stand and I will move the world,"
> Archimedes said.
> Unfortunately, some people regard those images of
> truth as
> fulcrums, and imagine the bones of the bombed as
> levers--
> levers unable even to move the corpses they come
> from.
> Rather than jam such levers under the 'real' world
> and try
> to pile on enough Lilliputians to budge it (dream
> on, suckers),
> I prefer to put contrary energies on the seesaw such
> images
> engender, & let them frolic--to learn from them as
> from
> children playing.
>
> ~ Dan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JT Chan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:21 PM
> Subject: Re: religious poem
>
>
> >i like this daniel...
> >
> > Jill
> >
> > --- Daniel Zimmerman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> specials
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> originally, who cares?
> >>
> >> somebody got it right
> >>
> >> eventually. the apple
> >>
> >> obviously didn't work
> >>
> >> as well as planned,
> >>
> >> so Cain made a hybrid
> >>
> >> & invented pears. pears?
> >>
> >> they couldn't compete
> >>
> >> with sheep, but Abel
> >>
> >> lost his perk
> >>
> >> to his brother's hand,
> >>
> >> so we had to wait a bit,
> >>
> >> out on a limb for lamb
> >>
> >> before we could eat it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ~ Daniel Zimmerman
> >>
> >
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