Just trying to read this paper on the relationship between God and calculus reminded me why I keep my religious beliefs very simple and never fancied calculus too much. Probability, permutations and combinations were a whole lot more fun.
This quote made me wonder if it is really true that we no longer have the sense of being surrounded the unseen.
"One of the reasons why religions seem irrelevant today is that many of us no longer have the sense that we are surrounded by the unseen." -- Karen Armstrong, A History of God
Maybe we don't relate the unseen to God, but we are painfully aware of both the unseen and unknown. We worry about what cell phone and microwave radiation can do to us along with what the experience of ordering a pizza may turn into once Homeland Security implements the National ID. The former is the fear of the unseen while the later is that of the unknown.
crossings as in traversals, contradictions, counterpoints of the heart though often not..
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