From dc5968ed003c08743d0f37ea81caa9a42a286434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Case Duckworth
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:53:56 -0700
Subject: Add Stark Raving to src/

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+---
+title: 3. Love as God
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    css: stark
+    order: 13
+    next:
+    - title: Worse looking over
+      link: worse-looking-over
+    - title: L'appel du vide
+      link: lappel-du-vide
+    prev:
+    - title: 1. Initial conditions
+      link: initial-conditions
+    - title: 2. 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 this saying, "God is love," \
+is less a definition of God what what love is supposed \
+to be. Of these two terms, maybe 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: 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.
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