This aptly described moment of epiphany was problematic in that it transformed my relationship not only with the idea of God but also with the world of the present, of daily obligations, of material fact. My new understanding of deity was, in all of it's complication, a confusing understudy for the affable old man that my liberal protestant upbringing had dreamt for us in Sunday School. This god, in living up to the sizable reputation that those three omnivorous words (a veritable omnibus of knowledge and presence and power) implied impossible. The old conception of the divine was now riddled with bullet points quickly, and neatly beginning to align:
* To be truly omniscient, God must represent not only a complete and full knowledge but the nuances of knowledge that are forged from a partial (but no less true) perspective. The insights of the mind rely on triangulations of information. The juxtaposition of science and art, of statistics and metaphor, combine to create variations in the u
"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
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