I so enjoy this current thread. The theme of the constancy of heaven and man's ever evolving social and mental gymnastics to understand what is (and becomes to us) patently obvious is both amusing and revealing. In some ways it makes an irony of science. Imagine spending your life to disprove a theory or worldview to arrive back at DUH in a couple of generations worth of research.
Mr. Spencer Klavan, you absolutely nailed it in that last bit; that heaven's light is constant and we revolve about it. It reminds me of another idea attributed to Socrates, and that is true wisdom is realizing that you know nothing. I would only add one exception and that is nothing but that the light of heaven is constant and we persis in our gymnastics to see the Source and when we do...DUH.
I so enjoy this current thread. The theme of the constancy of heaven and man's ever evolving social and mental gymnastics to understand what is (and becomes to us) patently obvious is both amusing and revealing. In some ways it makes an irony of science. Imagine spending your life to disprove a theory or worldview to arrive back at DUH in a couple of generations worth of research.
Mr. Spencer Klavan, you absolutely nailed it in that last bit; that heaven's light is constant and we revolve about it. It reminds me of another idea attributed to Socrates, and that is true wisdom is realizing that you know nothing. I would only add one exception and that is nothing but that the light of heaven is constant and we persis in our gymnastics to see the Source and when we do...DUH.
God bless you both.
"Earth has to shift to take in more and more of heaven’s permanence." Poignant, brilliant and powerful.
FYI
Dante's The Divine Comedy: A Lecture by Cook and Herzman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EMcUqTL4w
Oct 30, 2018
Dante's The Divine Comedy by Cook and Herzman
Lecture Date: October 23rd, 2004
"Why Every Person in the World Should Read Dante's Commedia" - Professor Bill Cook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOxpl-cIPJg
Oct 23, 2014
"Why Every Person in the World Should Read Dante's Commedia"
Professor Bill Cook
The Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence
Bing Overseas Studies Program
Stanford University
According to the theory of relativity, it’s impossible to say if the earth revolves around the sun or vice versa.
"Today some scientists propose that the universe will eventually contract back in on itself in a “Big Crunch,” and the loop of time will begin anew."
I believe That has been petty much disproved.
Beautiful.