Quoting veronica caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Mike:
"God has his reasons, I know,
Walter, reminded of a conversation with Father Herbert McCabe (*Love, law
and
language*) over a lovely pasta dinner, with a chianti to kill for, at the
Orthodox church in Oxford, circa 2002, goes:
Hmmm ... Does an omniscient and omnipotent "being" really have reasons?
Rendering this thought in transcendental locution: Is it *possible* for a
"being" answering to this description to have reasons? (That we mere
mortals
often do attribute reasons and intentionality to god is not in question.)
I would have thought that god had no need for inferences - that what she
"thought" would always already be the case in the moment of the thought.
(And
of course she has great powers of control over her thoughts; that's part
of
what omnipotence is all about after all.) Her intuition would thus have to
be
of an intellectual form, not a sensible one. A thinking that itself
creates in
the act of thinking knows all, sees all but tells nothing. If she would
love
and tell, we'd all end up in heaven and the place would be as crowded as
Nikki
Beach in mid-July. Life's a beach.
No, I can't remember what position Herb maintained at that time. He was
eager to
move the conversation to Witters' *On certainty* instead.
Tempering his desire to extoll the virtues of his '71 Valiant and
lamenting its
ultimate demise in '78,
Walter O.
I just wish that He would slow
down his retribution against mankind
for fucking up his grand design."
Veronica
"What grand design?"
My comment was in reference to the above lines in Mike's poem. Nothing
to do
with car designs. God's design is how I took it. Clarification from
Mike
please.
Veronica
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy
To: lit-ideas
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:37 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST
The Grand Design was made by Chevrolet. It was replaced by the
Mini
Mouse subcompact, which runs on bird seed. They're running a contest for
a
marketing jingle. I was thinking, See the U.S.A. in your Mini Mouse
subcompact. Well, yeah, it is kind of small. See Rhode Island in your
Mini
Mouse subcompact.
Andy
--- On Tue, 7/28/09, veronica caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: veronica caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8:56 PM
I like the poem. It made me laugh. I hope you get more heat
so
you can get more work.
What grand design?
Veronica
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Geary
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:42 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] TUESDAY'S FORCAST
WEATHERING THE WEATHER
It's uncomfortably cool in Memphis,
Life has almost stopped.
The sun's turned suddenly gentle
and service call have dropped,
business is down
way down,
way, way down.
No AC's are breaking under strain.
Can you feel my pain?
Our bodies struggle to maintain
ninety-eight point six degrees
when it's only eighty-five outside.
God has his reasons, I know,
I just wish that He would slow
down his retribution against mankind
for fucking up his grand design.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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