"Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth," By Buckminster Fuller
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Alan: Although the following article is about Stephen Hawkings, Maria Popova's essay concludes with a hyperlinked reference to Buckminster Fuller, pictured above.
This hyperlink leads to Bucky's forthright, assertive and embracing definition of God, a definition in which the word "Love" is central.
Bucky also affirms that the Mystery intinsic to God is an ultimately unresolvable Mystery in part because there is just too much to understand.
At the conclusion of Bucky's poetic treatise titled "Ever Re-Thinking The Lord's Prayer," written on his 84th birthday, he writes:
Yours, Dear God,
is the only and complete glory.
is the only and complete glory.
By Glory I mean
the synergetic totality
of all physical and metaphysical radiation
and of all physical and metaphysical gravity....
the synergetic totality
of all physical and metaphysical radiation
and of all physical and metaphysical gravity....
Love is metaphysical gravity.
You, Dear God,
are the totally loving intellect
ever designing
and ever daring to test
and thereby irrefutably proving
to the uncompromising satisfaction
of Your own comprehensive and incisive
knowledge of the absolute truth
that Your generalized principles
adequately accommodate any and all
special case developments,
involvements, and side effects;
wherefore Your absolutely courageous
are the totally loving intellect
ever designing
and ever daring to test
and thereby irrefutably proving
to the uncompromising satisfaction
of Your own comprehensive and incisive
knowledge of the absolute truth
that Your generalized principles
adequately accommodate any and all
special case developments,
involvements, and side effects;
wherefore Your absolutely courageous
To accomplish Your regenerative integrity
You give Yourself the responsibility
of eternal, absolutely continuous,
tirelessly vigilant wisdom.
You give Yourself the responsibility
of eternal, absolutely continuous,
tirelessly vigilant wisdom.
Wherefore we have absolute faith and trust in You,
and we worship You
awe-inspiredly,
all-thankfully,
rejoicingly,
lovingly,
Amen.
and we worship You
awe-inspiredly,
all-thankfully,
rejoicingly,
lovingly,
Amen.
Buckminster Fuller’s scientific revision of “The Lord’s Prayer”
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