we are gods ... we have it on the highest authority ... but we're obviously also human ... what does that mean ... well if you're like me you have always a subterranean amazement that when you're with others they're never entirely with you ... and you suspect it's because of our peninsula style cocoons that hold in our unique particularity ... the point of view they give us necessarily divides us from everyone else and everything else we know ... and this is how we start ... how we begin to know ... the eyes of the subject open and all the predicates flow by ... the ears open and listen to the music they hear ... one voice or many equal voices but never just the one or the other ... what they say is never the same but never completely different ... not one univocal meaning but neither entirely equivocal ... but both making sense of each other through some third thing they have in common ... as we know so too we are in pretty much the same way ... in relation to some common truth ... some immortal spirit eternally true
john 10: 31-39; compendium 27; kreeft rpnt 165-6 (ch 28).
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