TELEology in LEWW
"Who are you?
How did you get here?
Where did you come from?
What do you want?
Where do you think you're going?"
The first five questions that we are likely to ask a stranger upon unexpectedly finding him in our kitchen are strikingly similar to the core questions of our existence.
How would God answer each of these questions?
Philosophy in LEWW
Can a single straight line, which "connects two points in a plane
and extends to infinity in both directions" be part of a cycle?
Can a cycle be composed solely of a single straight line?
What is on the other side of a Mobius Strip?
Can that which is flawed be perfect?
Can perfection generate flaw?
What's out there?
What's next?
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theology in LEWW
Albert Einstein once said,
I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
Well, if God is alone in a void... eternally... what thought could he possibly have?
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three perfect persons in a single perfect being in... well... nothing.
Perfection, as the superlative state of being, would permit neither superior nor inferior states. It would, in fact, permit no deviation whatsoever... at all.
God's existence, if it could be called that, would be an entirely static one, with neither need for nor possibility of action or thought at all.
So... how did we get here? And why?
Mythology in LEWW
Joseph Campbell says that man created intricate mythologies in order to lead him to a better understanding of the Divine.
C.S. Lewis says that God presented mythological stories to man in order for him to reach the same understanding.
What do the gods think of these theories?
What does God think of them?
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History in LEWW
The present doesn't exist... vanishes the instant we claim it.
The future is pure speculation.
Any history must take into account every external stimulus experienced by the historian, both before the event and following it. What they record will always be filtered through that lens and, ultimately, distorted by it.
. . .
Okay.
So. . .
WHAT CAN WE KNOW. . . EVER?
Literature in LEWW
Even after having spent most of my life trying, I still couldn't answer a single question on this page.
With the advent of social media and input from potentially every mind on the planet, I've found some fascinating theories online, but they all falter at one stage or another.
What I did find is - I think - better than answers.
Her name is Kalina.
Now, everything makes sense.
Lest I give you the wrong impression, I should clarify. My life is not suddenly sunshine and candy canes. I have not found peace for my soul. I am not a kinder, gentler person of unceasing benevolence. I do not sleep better at night. I do not see beauty in everything, nor do I pretend to believe for a second to be able to teach anyone else to do these things. I am not content. Every day is a struggle against some opposition. In short, my life has not improved in any way... save one:
Kalina.
LAMPS OF EARTH, WIND & WATER is the story of one woman's unique and unorthodox use of the single, absolute, universal Truth to overcome stereotypes, prejudice and misconception in order to save the soul of one person.
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