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I realize that I keep re-visiting this metaphor, but please allow. As I have aged I find that I have become more and more pre-occupied with allegory and metaphor. Small things take on larger meaning. There are fractals of wisdom inter-connected between and within other fractals… all metaphorically and metaphysically linked together (quantum entanglement itself being slightly allegorical).
There is such meaning embedded in so many venues of life. Lessons and parables abound. Not only in the little things but possibly even more-so in the little things for me. The human mind can’t embrace it all. I know I can’t.
The Holy Spirit speaks ever so gently, but brother and sister, you know He speaks POWERFULLY! His Wisdom will often overwhelm. One is slain in His presence. Many of you know what I’m talking about. The Holy Spirit often speaks magically and wonderfully to His friends => the gift of knowledge… the gift of wisdom.
When we come to a place in our lives where we have actually opened up our spiritual ears to hear, we find that He has been waiting for us in a more powerful sense for a long time. It is all so sweet and so dear! Joy supreme!
Back to The NOW => the NOW is one of life’s enduring, most meaningful metaphors. NOW is the evasive singularity in which we now exist. We live within the space/time continuum. There is a place beyond space and time where time has no meaning. But here, time is the driving function.
Time can be broken down into very small pieces or it can be framed into larger structures. You can’t ever break time down small enough to stop it… or to actually get a fully-defined look at it though. The analytical grasp required is infinite. No matter how small you break time or space down one can always break it down further. It’s just a mathematical truism.
Calculus deals with the fact that in calculation, one often *approaches* the solution by integrating between limits. And for all practical purposes that is sufficient. But scientific methodology is often an asymptotic approximation. It works. It’s good enough for “government work” But it’s still a hamster on a treadmill who doesn’t ever quite get there.
What I’m so unsuccessfully trying to metaphysically describe is a paradigm best described as being asymptotic in nature. Reference my previous post: God Is the Asymptote: https://jctmisc.home.blog/2019/10/26/god-is-the-asymptote/
God is the grand, infinite, impulse singularity that encompasses The full spectrum of eternity. And you can’t get there from here. You can approach the Throne but ‘His glory He will share with none other.’ He is beyond comprehension… beyond the pale of fully grasping.
I suspect that in one regard we will forever be metaphysically chasing the asymptote => forever bathing in an increasingly-lovely understanding of the Holy One – The One who truly and fully embodies infinity. Infinity is the grand fractal conundrum that exists within the Fourier spectrum of an impulse function. It’s allegorical to the mystery of the Godhead. Three-in-one existing as One. A mysterious singularity if ever there was one.
John 1:1 RSV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
I apologize. I have badly digressed. Candidly, it’s difficult remembering my original (germ seed) thought now {I told you I was old}. I get lost in all the fog and impenetrable overdraft. My thoughts get all ‘fractalized. Isn’t that dreadful? It’s entirely possible that I didn’t have a thought in the first place. Makes one wonder, huh 🤪? Call me Forest Gump.
Post has gotten too long anyway. Possibly to be continued…? I don’t know.
A big “howdy” to all. We say “howdy” a lot down here in Texas. Texas => What a wonderful and distinguished history!! I am humbled to be a (very) small part of this place. Davy Crockett, Sam Bowie, and Stephen F. Austin => forever legends in my book! Long live their memory.
Later, dudes and dudettes. Love ya’…
PS: I apologize for the fragmentation and bafflegab. I get tend to get swept away in this stream of consciousness thing. I sometimes lose track of where I am 🤪
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