The "slightly over my head" influence of nineteenth century philosophy
Getting paid to sit and philosophize at my dad's office.
I'm going to give this a shot:
For as long as I can remember, my strongest intellectual desire has been for my scattered and compartmentalized subject knowledge to somehow coalesce into a universal truth, like an intricate web in which every event and fact and idea is connected to every other. I always expected God to be the common denominator; now I'm beginning to see that he is not only that, but also the numerator (in the sense of One who numbers), the Mind which works out the problem. No, I'm not going transcendental on you (gleeful pun). The transcendentalist would have you believe that we (and all our experiences and ideas) are extensions of God; when in fact our experiences have meaning because of God--because they are distinct from him.
God's Truth is the connection between isolated bits of knowledge. Rather than a tangle of arbitrary connections, life is a lucid, systematic diagram (with a Designer) in which every thing is connected to every other thing. Seemingly random events or facts or ideas are separated by no more than one degree because they all connect directly to the central Truth, that is, God.
I could give you concrete examples of how such things come together (at least for me personally), because talking only in the abstract is for those who don't know fully what they're talking about. And perhaps I don't. ha. That's ironic. Maybe if any of you cares to know I will try that in a future post. If this makes no sense at all, please tell me (kindly) and I will quit trying to stand where the water is too deep.
I'm going to give this a shot:
For as long as I can remember, my strongest intellectual desire has been for my scattered and compartmentalized subject knowledge to somehow coalesce into a universal truth, like an intricate web in which every event and fact and idea is connected to every other. I always expected God to be the common denominator; now I'm beginning to see that he is not only that, but also the numerator (in the sense of One who numbers), the Mind which works out the problem. No, I'm not going transcendental on you (gleeful pun). The transcendentalist would have you believe that we (and all our experiences and ideas) are extensions of God; when in fact our experiences have meaning because of God--because they are distinct from him.
God's Truth is the connection between isolated bits of knowledge. Rather than a tangle of arbitrary connections, life is a lucid, systematic diagram (with a Designer) in which every thing is connected to every other thing. Seemingly random events or facts or ideas are separated by no more than one degree because they all connect directly to the central Truth, that is, God.
I could give you concrete examples of how such things come together (at least for me personally), because talking only in the abstract is for those who don't know fully what they're talking about. And perhaps I don't. ha. That's ironic. Maybe if any of you cares to know I will try that in a future post. If this makes no sense at all, please tell me (kindly) and I will quit trying to stand where the water is too deep.