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Re:“God is a Verb” by R. Buckminster Fuller (1968) by wu-ikkyu on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:36AM (#16764757)
>It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library.

Your analagy is akin to The Cloud of Unknowing, a spiritual guide to becoming closer to god by "unknowing", written by a 14th century christian mystic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing

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Re:“God is a Verb” by R. Buckminster Fuller (1968) by 09bjb on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:44AM (#16765920)
Similar to something I read in a Jack Kornfield book the other day, about a Zen tradition called "just sitting" where you dispense with any goals or concepts of enlightenment and, well, just sit. Presumably it gets you somewhere...or nowhere :)
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