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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edwarda who wrote (77733)	4/11/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have been struggling all day to formulate the basic dichotomy between religious and scientific thought, and show that they are two facets of human experience. Science is very much like Pattern, in that the order of presentation of facts, quantities and relationships is less important than their proper placement in space, including "concept space". Engineers gravitate toward Pattern because it retains its validity and beauty without requiring people. It is one intimation of the Absolute. (Disclaimer: this is of course only an approximation. Mathematics are a humanity.) Religion and literature,including mythology - are Story. Here the sequence, the development of relationships, allegiances, social and material order is very much a matter of time. Non-engineers like to relate to the world around them as Story rather than dispassionate Pattern. And the idea that Man and God are linked in the proper unfolding of the cosmic Story is the highest imaginable embodiment of this mythophilia. It gives us a human terminology for the beauties and asperities of life. I don't know how much water this dichotomous metaphor holds. But on first approximation to one like myself - Poet/Engineer - it "sings". I observe my two-year-old daughter absorbing life. She thrives on a combination of recognizing and solving patterns, and hearing and acting within stories. I don't think that man can live on Pattern alone, or on Story alone.