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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 23:11)
Hi mate, particularly enjoying your thoughts on the cornerstone of logic, although taking my time to internalise..
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(13.6.05 01:27)
Before the beginning? What?! What is a relationship anyway?
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(4.10.05 21:33)
Very clever, I like the sound of my own voice too.
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