{"id":2317,"date":"2016-07-06T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2016-07-06T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:55:49","slug":"geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a while I was into geometry. Contemplating geometry was amazing! Mind-Expanding! So G\u2019d\u2019s glory is there implicit in everything!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not talking about the literal G-d of the Bible, of Jewish, then Christian history, but the Beyond-the-Beyond, the Becoming Everything. True, the mystics in the Western religions intuited this, but then re-folded this intuition back into historical context. I confess that my \u201cBible\u201d—such as it is—is composed of Nature, fantastical, unending Nature. (Also, the patterns implicit in or \u201cbehind\u201d nature, such as geometry!) Nature\u2019s God is Spinoza\u2019s God, and beyond, and beyond the beyond. I, an atheist in some senses (as Spinoza was considered an atheist by his own birth-related people, the Jews of Amsterdam), have come around to being a believer—although in some people\u2019s mind perhaps not a \u201ctrue\u201d believer.<\/p>\n

It is an honor and a privilege to witness to—among a thousand or a million other things—geometry! The depths of this phenomenon, or as my son David wrote about, the ratio of the circumference to the radius of the circle, \u201cpi,\u201d (3.14159etc.),  can truly boggle your mind if you think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a while I was into geometry. Contemplating geometry was amazing! Mind-Expanding! So G\u2019d\u2019s glory is there implicit in everything! I\u2019m not talking about the literal G-d of the Bible, of Jewish, then Christian history, but the Beyond-the-Beyond, the Becoming Everything. True, the mystics in the Western religions intuited this, but then re-folded this intuition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-papers","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}