13,942. TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE THINKING

TELL ME WHAT 

YOU'RE THINKING

I'm thinking of mushrooms

and remembering the word

shitaake which I once for a

while took as shitcake and

declined. Shitcake mushrooms?

No, thanks. But I hoped not

ever. And then I thought of

Joseph Campbell, probably

because of soup, as in Campbell's 

Mushroom Soup, which is hardly 

that at all and could get away with

being called shitcake too. Not

that anyone would notice, and

they'd like it just the same. But

anyway, Joseph Campbell wrote

'The Hero With a Thousand Faces.'

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That was back in 1949, the same

year I was born, and the same

year too that India was formed,

or maybe it was Israel, I forget.

It's what those experts call a

'book of comparative mythology,'

which phrase I never understood;

who compares mythology, and

why? What's the use? It's not to

be studied, but believed in.

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Only western rationalists would

stoop to dissecting. No? Here's

one: 'I go to bed tired each night

but not tired enough to ignore the

voice that is speaking within me.

It's as if, by sleeping, I am shutting

that valve off. I really just want it

to run, not be stopped. So I make

up the same passive myth by which

primitives believed in God?

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Keep it running on, but slowly

step away. But then, in another

vein, I get this other idea: It's an

allusion to the fact that God WAS

long ago, IS still today, and WILL

be unto eternity. Yet, then, just

before sleep, I still wonder, will

God instead UNDO eternity by

suddenly taking anew an active

role within the affairs of man?

And what would happen then?

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Einstein managed to formulate

the time itself is not absolute;

that it is instead merely another

dimension, to be likened to, say,

height, width, and depth. God is

GOD because all these dimensions

are consumed by Him, as the

Creator of time and unaffected

by time.

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I go bleary and this sleep inches in:

Though God is the creator of time,

and unaffected by it too, God does

not know what will happen 'before'

things happen  -  such a description

would present us with the problem

of predestination and the elimination

of humankind's free will. I nod, to

propose that 'God' is then above

the limitation of both the words

'before,' and 'after,' occupying

instead all of time simultaneously.

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The entire universe is filled with

'His glory' thereby? This is really

hanging me up. I ought to sleep.