http://wrythings.net/2008/01/21/history-and-trans-physics/ words worth reading Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://wrythings.net/2008/01/21/history-and-trans-physics/#comment-3737 Michael Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:12:51 +0000 http://wrythings.net/2008/01/21/history-and-trans-physics/#comment-3737 That puts me in mind of an account I read of C.S. Peirce's cosmology... that we should view creation not as a one-time event, but as an active force or process. That puts me in mind of an account I read of C.S. Peirce’s cosmology… that we should view creation not as a one-time event, but as an active force or process.

]]> http://wrythings.net/2008/01/21/history-and-trans-physics/#comment-3712 John Powers Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:09:45 +0000 http://wrythings.net/2008/01/21/history-and-trans-physics/#comment-3712 I too took time to revisit King's speeches on Monday. His last speech spoke to me in so many new ways. One was his telling the story of the Good Samaritan. He began that part of the speech with "Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness." And proceeded to tell the story of the Good Samaritan as a way to understand history and the present. The thrust of the whole speech was creative. History is creative, the present is creative, and the future too. Understanding history requires creating a story which spans time as we experience it: past, present and future. We act in the present tense within a story that spans the dimensions of time. I too took time to revisit King’s speeches on Monday. His last speech spoke to me in so many new ways. One was his telling the story of the Good Samaritan. He began that part of the speech with “Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.” And proceeded to tell the story of the Good Samaritan as a way to understand history and the present. The thrust of the whole speech was creative. History is creative, the present is creative, and the future too. Understanding history requires creating a story which spans time as we experience it: past, present and future. We act in the present tense within a story that spans the dimensions of time.

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