Topic: God is a Verb - RB Fuller | |
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To explain Fuller's write to my younger relatives (in college) I had included comments. These I have retained in this post. (Explains why Fuller's write inspires me) God is a Verb By R Buckminster Fuller, published in The Whole Earth Catalog, 1968 Professor Fuller was the inventor of the Geodesic Domes. I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism. Reminds when Kepler discovered the Planetary Laws - he felt God's hand. Similarly inventing the domes - how could Fuller explain it? And God says ..., observe the paradox of man's creative potentials and his destructive tactics. He could have his new world through sufficient love for "all's fair" in love as well as in war which means you can junk as much rubbish, skip as many stupid agreements by love, spontaneous unselfishness radiant. Here is God's purpose- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the articulation not the art, objective or subjective; is loving ..., The moment Fuller brought in Love (and as God's purpose) i thought it was time to leave but luckily... is loving not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated; is knowledge dynamic, not legislative code, not proclamation law. not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon. Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy. And there is born unheralded a great natural peace, not out of exclusive pseudo-static security but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing. Naught is lost. Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled. So there is amidst chaos, order. To see this one has to include, refine and balance. One possible reason for Fuller to touch on chaos and order is because in the Dome he invented, the frames mimicked the cells laid out in plant tissues and so on. And I've thought through to tomorrow which is also today. The telephone rings and you say to me Hello Buckling this is Christopher; or Daddy it's Allegra; or Mr. Fuller this is the Telephone Company Business Office; and I say you are inaccurate. Because I knew you were going to call and furthermore I recognize that it is God who is "speaking."And you say aren't you being fantastic? And knowing you I say no. finally to the message: All organized religions of the past were inherently developed as beliefs and credits in "second hand" information. Therefore it will be an entirely new era when man finds himself confronted with direct experience with an obviously a priori intellectually anticipatory competency that has interordered all that he is discovering. The phrase intellectually anticipatory competency - sounds like math (if only i had paid more attention) Is there a way to rewrite this last para in English? Oh, yeah; is God a Verb? (or may be we are His verbs) |
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