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Chapter 1 - Relationship
Thoughts on beginnings...
In the Beginning when God...
Not one, but Three. Before the beginning, the first beginning there was
relationship, and from that incredible place creation and all of humanity was exploded into being.
The connection of one thing to another.
Nothing exists without context. Everything we do affects the whole of
creation, even the famous butterfly over the Atlantic who flaps its wings and prompts a storm. The world is bound up in a web of the most incredibly complex patterns that dazzle the brain when we even begin to explore a tiny cross section.
The cornerstone of logic.
Rationalism thought he could understand everything by logic, but beyond a line of logic is a universe of relationships - logic only traces
them. Postmodernism heaved logic onto his back along with his
empiricist allies only to find that he knocked himself over too... if
everything is relative, but all is relative to nothing except itself then everything is nothing, after all. And one day somebody saw that in
fact the subject was indeed related to the object and that changed
everything...
The root of story A beginning and an end. A plot, a narrative, a sequence. A subjective view of an objective world. A snapshot through someone else's eyes, read through someone else's eyes again. Narrator and author, reader and writer, hero and enemy, protagonist and reader. Patterns and patterns of relating and learning to relate.
God is Love. Jesus' mission; the greatest commandment; what is left when everything is stripped away. The trinity; the marriage as a picture of Christ's relationship to the Church; the body - interconnected but many-membered; the family... it's what we are designed for.
Before everything is relationship. But it's such a massive mystery.
What is friendship? What is the difference between social capital
(Bourdieu) and love? I wonder what Jesus' relationships looked like...
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10.6.05 00:47
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chapter 2 - making space
‘True religion is about making space for otherness, about God making space for mankind, about mankind making space for God, and about us making space for one another.’
Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
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16.6.05 01:07
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chapter 3 - open eyes
 This week I really have had a bit of insight into the french surrealist stuff I have been reading this year. Walking around a city three years after being here for three months, places have taken on meaning and beauty and significance through their relationship to my experiences then and now. New places are beautiful in themselves - like the 'banal object' Naomi Segal talks about in Proust; ordinary things can blow you away by their very ordinariness - but more than this, by the part they play in a web of associations and thoughts and feelings in your own self. It's like an interior map, a dreamscape ina sense, with coordinates pinpointed in the real world but loaded completely subjectively. Maybe I will try and draw it some day...
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24.6.05 01:00
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