I cut through all the theistic and a-theistic stances by pointing to what seems to me the obvious fact that we are the universe embodying. All metaphors conjured atop this fact are pure poetry. These poetics have value in the beauty and the energy they provoke. It is in the rigid belief in one's poetics as THE TRUTH that difficulties arise, as has been proven time and again in the various and seemingly unending religious and ideological wars.
We are the universe embodying. All of us. Human and non-human. The mythopoetics we concoct to describe the nature of the universe and our "place" in it will be ongoing. I simply wish we could appreciate each other's poetry and not get so all-fired stubborn and outrageous with the stance that my poem is the best and only true poem.
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George,
ReplyDeletePeople these days can't even agree on what's a fact, and you'd wish that they'd learn to not fight over beliefs which concern an invisible entity and who is the true believer of said entity? I'm just hoping we wise up before the whole race does something so dumb that a global calamity like famine strikes the planet. With the leaders we have these days, I'm wondering if our governments are starting to fail.
John
John, the poem that you wrote as your comment (which I respect as a poem in which you believe) is still, just that, another poem.
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