Kindest Regards, Z!
i tend to isolate ideas, perhaps divinity cannot be seperated from god. perhaps it is a little of god within everything. i just wanted to explore the idea in its aspects like e.g. simplicity, truth, beauty etc. but i suppose fudge will do
OK, I can try to play along. In some sense I can relate to isolating ideas, but then I find myself fitting the pieces into the grand puzzle. I guess what I am trying to say is that even isolated ideas tie into each other, and cannot really exist in isolation alone. Not when those ideas are such as "divinity, God, beauty, truth," etc.
And yet, having said this, I am wondering...
Can beauty exist without a reference? Surely there must also exist ugly, in order to show beauty. In other words, if all is beauty alone, and there is no other, then beauty is mundane, "normal", unexceptional and even boring. Can this relate equivically with divinity?
Can divinity exist without a reference? Perhaps, but then what purpose is served? If nothing profane exists, and divinity is all, and there is no other, then divinity again is mundane. I do not know why, but I have an image in my mind of a manager, managing a business in which nothing is going wrong, everything is constantly and perpetually correct, just as intended. How boring and unchallenging can that be? What opportunity for growth and development? If there is no need, it will not become a target or goal to reach for.
Another image comes to mind, a man retires after years of service in his occupation. He takes up his hobby, goes fishing and basically kicks off his shoes. He gets fat and lazy, and dies within three years, because he no longer has any goals to strive for, no reason to get out of bed in the morning.
There is a certain energy, I think, that develops from the contrast of opposites. I think this is alluded to somewhat with the concept of yin / yang, or even electrical poles. Stasis is inertia, a "flatline" of death. At least if there is some destination to reach for, (even the wrong one?), there is energy that sustains and creates and bouys and drives.
Perhaps one day this will no longer be. Perhaps things are different in some other dimension. We could guess all kinds of perhapses...but for the here and now it seems to me there is an energy that develops from opposition, from opposite ideas, that the one pole forms and frames the basis for the other, providing a reference.
No beauty without ugly, no ugly without beauty. No peace without war, no war without peace. No truth without deception, no deception without truth. No divinity without the profane, no profanity without divinity.
Just my rambling thoughts for the evening.
