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| geometry forms plains
and lines
space and TIME
all lines, that serve to divide
you
from
me
from
us
from
T H E M
spatially fragment
ideologically isolated islands individuals
cut & paste
lines to heaven, lines from hell
converge and divide thereby
in points on lines.
"absolute value"
found or founded in
space between
lines and points
resisting the absolute
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| end game.
the end of an era. the start of another.
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| exams:
exam week is half over. two down, two to go.
after reading the entire works of shakespeare this semester i am throughly sick of him.
after a entire semester studying the reception of classical themes in culture i am in love with the neoclassical era.
after studying the relgious texts of judiasm/christianity/buddhism/taoism/hinduism/confusianism and reading:
The majority of the bible again
The dhampada
The bhagavad gita
chuang tsu: inner chapters
tao te ching
i am convinced - universalism through love and understanding
"Say first, of God above or Man below
What can we reason but from what we know?
Of man what see we but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known,
'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
He who thro' vast immensity can pierce,
See worlds on worlds compose one universe,
Observe how system into system runs,
What other planets circle other suns,
What varied being peoples every star,
May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are:
But of this frame, the bearings and the ties,
The strong connexions, nice dependencies,
Gradations just, has thy pervading soul
Look'd thro'; or can a part contains the whole?
Is the great chain that draws all to agree,
And drawn supports, upheld by God or thee?"
Alaxander Pope: "An Essay On Man"
I am convinced that "An Essay On Man" is one of the most beautiful pieces of prose ever written. i am enamored with it; both in form and function.
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Religions, however, that are bound up with an advanced culture have struggled to answer the same questions by means of more refined concepts and a more developed language. Thus in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust. Again, Buddhism, in its various forms, realizes the radical insufficiency of this changeable world; it teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination. Likewise, other religions found everywhere try to counter the restlessness of the human heart, each in its own manner, by proposing "ways," comprising teachings, rules of life, and sacred rites. The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men. Indeed, she proclaims, and ever must proclaim Christ "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6), in whom men may find the fullness of religious life, in whom God has reconciled all things to Himself.(4)
- VATICAN II
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