From 9fce418b46c9f0894f429384ef9e3dabaeffbeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:36:17 -0700 Subject: Change file hierarchy and rewrite makefile - File hierarchy is now as follows: - / - appendix/ < appendix source files - backlinks/ < backlink sources & builds - hapax/ < *.hapax source files - scripts/ < scripts, like *.js, *.hs, etc. - templates/ < templates for outputs - text/ < source files - trunk/ < assets, like css, images, heads, etc. - index.html - *.html - Makefile --- love-as-god.txt | 77 --------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 77 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 love-as-god.txt (limited to 'love-as-god.txt') diff --git a/love-as-god.txt b/love-as-god.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0eecee7..0000000 --- a/love-as-god.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Love as God -genre: verse - -id: love-as-god -toc: "Love as god" - -project: - title: Stark Raving - class: stark - order: 13 - next: - - title: Worse looking over - link: worse-looking-over - - title: L'appel du vide - link: lappel-du-vide - prev: - - title: Initial conditions - link: initial-conditions - - title: Ouroboros of memory - link: ouroboros_memory -... - -| [God is love][], they say, but there [is][] -| no god. Therefore, how can there be love? -| And if there is no love, how can there be God? -| There are things in life, I suppose, -| that are simply unanswerable mysteries -| of existence. Maybe this God and love are one. - -| Maybe there are many loves, instead of one. -| The difference between [what isn't][] and what is -| could merely be one of scope. The mystery -| is how we speak only of one love--- -| to act as though we know we are supposed -| to love only one other, or that one other and God. - -| But supposing that one other is God? -| What then? Is the God-lover to walk alone, -| supported by God only when He feels He is supposed -| to support her? What kind of love is -| this? I would argue in fact this isn't love, -| this [one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand][] mystery. - -| How to define two loves as one is the mystery. -| It's obvious to many there is a thing called God, -| and just as obvious that there is one called love. -| Maybe we fool ourselves, we who can't be alone; -| maybe we don't know what either God or love is. -| Maybe, and perhaps; but I for one propose - -| that we as only humans are not supposed -| to know or understand capital-L Life, that mystery. -| Isn't it enough to know that God is -| love, and love is God, -| no matter which one -| does or does not exist? What is life, if no love, - -| if no God? [Maybe][Maybe1] this saying, "God is love," -| is less a definition of God what what love is supposed -| to be. Of these two terms, [maybe2][] the one -| we should capitalize is Love, that great mystery -| of chemistry and longing. Maybe "Love is god" -| is a more fitting [epigraph][] for what life is - -| [made of:][made of] Love, that most delicate, most misty -| of all emotions, is supposed to be their god, -| as the one that binds us, that was, that will be, that is. - -[is]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html -[God is love]: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A8&version=NIV -[what isn't]: largest-asteroid.html -[one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand]: http://www.footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?page=Poem/Poem.php -[Maybe1]: cereal.html -[maybe2]: death-zone.html -[epigraph]: epigraph.html -[made of]: tapestry.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81