The serious and sometimes satirical reflections of a priest, poet, and pilgrim — who knowing he has not obtained the goal, presses on in a Godward direction.
July 6, 2009
Thought for 07.06.09
Being and doing in metaphysics share the same equivalency as matter and energy in physics.
I'm imagining a day when Heisenberg is listed in Holy Women, Holy Men and his will be the collect of uncertainty and will celebrate this same equivalence. And it will be the last straw for -- as my mom the "moderate" Southern Baptist preacher's wife would call it -- fun-damn-mentalism.
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ReplyDelete"To do is to be" - Plato
"To be is to do" - Aristotle
"Do be do be do" - Sinatra
YBIC,
Phil Snyder
In the long run, the Philosopher of Hoboken had it right!
ReplyDeleteI'm imagining a day when Heisenberg is listed in Holy Women, Holy Men and his will be the collect of uncertainty and will celebrate this same equivalence. And it will be the last straw for -- as my mom the "moderate" Southern Baptist preacher's wife would call it -- fun-damn-mentalism.
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