Topic: God is a Verb - RB Fuller
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Palghat

Sun 09/23/18 11:01 PM


To explain Fuller's write to my younger relatives (in college) I had included comments. These I have retained in this post. (Explains why Fuller's write inspires me)

God is a Verb
By R Buckminster Fuller, published in The Whole Earth Catalog, 1968
Professor Fuller was the inventor of the Geodesic Domes.


I see God in
the instruments and the mechanisms that
work
reliably,
more reliably than the limited sensory departments of
the human mechanism.


Reminds when Kepler discovered the Planetary Laws - he felt God's hand.
Similarly inventing the domes - how could Fuller explain it?


And God says ...,
observe the paradox
of man's creative potentials
and his destructive tactics.
He could have his new world
through sufficient love
for "all's fair"
in love as well as in war
which means you can
junk as much rubbish,
skip as many stupid agreements
by love,
spontaneous unselfishness radiant.
Here is God's purpose-
for God, to me, it seems,
is a verb
not a noun,
proper or improper;
is the articulation
not the art, objective or subjective;
is loving ...,


The moment Fuller brought in Love (and as God's purpose) i thought it was time to leave but luckily...


is loving
not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated;
is knowledge dynamic,
not legislative code,
not proclamation law.
not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon.
Yes, God is a verb,
the most active,
connoting the vast harmonic
reordering of the universe
from unleashed chaos of energy.
And there is born unheralded
a great natural peace,
not out of exclusive
pseudo-static security
but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing.
Naught is lost.
Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled.


So there is amidst chaos, order. To see this one has to include, refine and balance. One possible reason for Fuller to touch on chaos and order is because in the Dome he invented, the frames mimicked the cells laid out in plant tissues and so on.


And I've thought through to tomorrow
which is also today.
The telephone rings
and you say to me
Hello Buckling this is Christopher; or
Daddy it's Allegra; or
Mr. Fuller this is the Telephone Company Business Office;
and I say you are inaccurate.
Because I knew you were going to call
and furthermore I recognize
that it is God who is "speaking."And you say
aren't you being fantastic?
And knowing you I say no.


finally to the message:


All organized religions of the past
were inherently developed
as beliefs and credits
in "second hand" information.
Therefore it will be an entirely new era
when man finds himself confronted
with direct experience

with an obviously a priori
intellectually anticipatory competency
that has interordered
all that he is discovering.


The phrase intellectually anticipatory competency - sounds like math (if only i had paid more attention)
Is there a way to rewrite this last para in English?

Oh, yeah; is God a Verb?
(or may be we are His verbs)