Posted by PS on February 03, 2003 at 11:01:14:
In Reply to: nomos posted by stumbler on February 03, 2003 at 00:46:32:
: PS, thanks for the great teaching on 'nomos'. this really impacted me.
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: my nomos is constantly under surveillance by the circumspect detectors put inside me. i hope that one day my nomos, constantly being burned will be refined into oblivion. in the meantime, i work w what i have. it is not always easy.
: thanks to a few friends, who's initials could be ps, and could be other things, i know now that i am allowed to take steps into the unknown to at least get from point a to point b. i have always been so concerned to trespass that i forgot to walk.
: thanks to ps, and a few others, i am now learning to recognize and chronicle those moments that something like the sun beyond the sun, or something like the truth beyond truths comes and dovetails into my waking existence. then i see a part of a building block in the unique story that is my life. there is a part of me that seeks to constantly take inventory and get my life in order, that is so nomic of me. well, then i see this other part that says, give yourself a break. you don't have it all together, nor can you. you need to give this all to god and allow yourself to progress even if it's down a crooked road, until you can get to some kind of destination. thanks to a few friends, i am beginning to believe that i can take these faltering steps and that something great can come of them.
: thanks, the stumbler
Thank you for sharing this. I think it is amazing that these chronicles--these sacred monuments so gloriously illogical and anomic in their placement--do in some mysterious way portray the precise coordinates of that divine nomos which orders and defines us in all our existence and yet remains so magisterially transcendent that I cannot find myself on the map. This is such a good thing. Religion's AAA-type "trip-tiks" with the sacred journey marked in red abound. But there is something powerful about being lost in the true wonder of the unfathomable, and yet finding oneself firmly located in the simplicity of whether I loved my friend well today.