true or false?

do you agree? if so explain your answer. your answer is wrong. jesus is the answer. why can't you give me a simple answer? you fool. you just have to read your bible. listen to what we taught you in sunday school. oh and do what we say. not what we do. and not question. anything. ever. it's simpler that way. it's just yes or no. black or white. true or false. wrong or right. it's they who are the godless atheists! ok, so we will give you gray too now. 127 shades of gray. are you happy? why do you have to make everything so hard? why do you need color? and sound? and movement? and now beauty - that's so new age. and why extra dimensions? why is a high contrast black and white photograph not enough to describe truth? to encapsulate Gods reality? the heavens declare the glory of God. but why must you make everything so hard? why do you have to say things like, 'there is more computational power in a cubic centimeter of reality than in the most powerful computer ever made'. don't you know we were happier when we were ignorant. when we were dumb. when we knew less. ignorance is bliss. aren't we happier when we hide? wrong but satisfied? ignorant but pacified? so what if reality isn't made of bricks. if the greater reality is quantum probabilities. that God isn't sovereign in the way that you want him to be. that God loves your more than you could possibly have conceived of in the old way. that the world goes deeper than you want it to be. his love exceeds the depths of particles, or is it the waves of the eternal sea. that acknowledging that the very structure of a carbon atom leads to life - is the same as saying 'God is Love'. that being rolled by the ocean waves - is the same as the sound of a thousand tides. that point of view is all you'll ever have. that his grace pervades every scream and every cry. that what we experience as real, is shadow - for real. that what God made and what we live in is more miraculous still. that there is no difference between body, soul and spirit. i know it and you feel it. and what you or i experience as conscious human beings is as great a mystery as there will ever be.

now go and do likewise.

inspired by the truth found in the wave forms of DJ Tiësto's album Just Be
and the cognitive dissonance of questions that miss the point everywhere.

6 & 7

six things i think are arbitrary:

• spoken languages
• countries (lines on a map)
• laws
• culture
• genres (of music)
• the divisions of scientific disciplines (...more genre's)

seven things i think are true:

• love
• math
• good music
• gender (the complementary concept/aspects of male and female)
• c
• redemption
• life (that life thrives)

invariance

"Code is Poetry"

it's a cool little quip.  but the point, whether we are einstein or not, is that we each develop an intuitive feel of how to approach a problem *before* we work out a logical replication of that as a rational thought.  they way we work out something intuitive, is art.

it struck me then - that if code is poetry - then the code of reality - revealed in say mathematics - would display God's intuitive sense, and be his poetry, his art.

Psalm 19:1-9 (The Message) A David Psalm
God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening. Their words aren't heard, their voices aren't recorded, But their silence fills the earth: unspoken truth is spoken everywhere. The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road. The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. The directions of God are plain and easy on the eyes. God's reputation is twenty-four-carat gold, with a lifetime guarantee. The decisions of God are accurate down to the nth degree.

there are a number of lines of God's code that have revealed themselves - accurate and also elegant to the nth degree. at the top of the pack are Einsteins Mass-Energy Equivalence and Maxwell's Electromagnetism Relationships.  But I would argue other lines of code have revealed themselves and are evident to all... love, redemption, beauty, grace, mercy, his infinite power, and goodness. these lines of code run rampant throughout all human experience - and they remain changeless regardless of your frame of reference.  this idea is called invariance. and it's a bombshell.

what i want to rail against, is that we pretend like we live in a newtonian (or flat euclidean) universe - but we don't.  we really live in an einsteinien (or curved minkowskian) universe.  but that doesn't mean that there aren't things that are changeless.  we've just been looking in the wrong categories for things to anchor ourselves to.  

for instance, we've been looking at facts-as-parsed-by-language to be True-from-all-perspectives-and-sides, and failed to recognize / respect the dimensionality of reality.  we need to recognize the ramifications of what Einstein learned about God and reality a hundred years ago - and start to graple with its meaning for us.

This is God's code.  This is God's poetry.  This is his art.  It's breathtaking in it's beauty, magnitude, elegance, and invariance.

p.s.  and of course, an einsteinien universe is not the last most correct understanding / revision of reality - there is a problem ;-)

bwaha hahaa haaaa

Written today at Common Table

Blooms

God's beauty
breaking through
the Kingdom of Heaven
breaking through

silently
and in stillness

waiting
expecting
desiring

longing -
but not on tip toes
content -
but made for more

living in community
and seeking life

existing for something bigger
and reflecting something greater

quiet
yet shouting

a single note
in a symphony

a symphony written
by God's own hand