User:Bigjohnshea

"There are geniuses who, in the fathomless depths of abstraction and pure speculation- situated, so to say, above all dogmas, present their ideas to God. Their prayer audaciously offers a discussion. Their worship is questioning. This is direct religion, full of anxiety and of responsibility for him who would scale its walls. Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyses and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world which surrounds us returns what it receives; it is probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, there are men on the earth- if they are nothing more- who distinctly perceive the heights of the absolute in the horizon of their contemplation, and who have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain." Victor Hugo

A quote from my text, "THE GOD OF RIDICULOUS THINGS."

"Dear reader,

When did humanity become so full of pride as to forget that morality has no substitute? I believe it was when we birthed in ourselves a fascination with the desire to define the metaphysical? Those precious concepts should never have taken form as idols, symbols or even stories. The most terrifying thing I see in the world, is that we are perpetually ignorant of the human limitation of defining our nature in relation to god. Worse yet we take pride in our efforts to do the same, and to be the genesis of that understanding in others. That is pride the likes of which sin alone cannot define. A pride which leads only to the suffering of our neighbors under the auspices of our own divine likeness. If that is how we will define divinity, then god is truly ridiculous." Big John Shea