April 17, 2007

• i
  am sitting in a  library carrel, wrestling with  feminist  theology and the themes of vulnerability and kenosis (self-emptying) as they relate to God.  it seems that every 15 minutes (or about every 4 pages) I have to get up to look up a word (antinomy, diremption, semiotic, apophatism, depotentiation, noetic) and it’s only when i do that i am aware that there are others in the library as well, that others even exist…  or occasionally, when a friend sticks their head over the carrel wall, reality intrudes and i recall that there is an external world.  suddenly i am reminded of the musings of a sixth grader walking home from school for lunch — i wonder if these people have reality outside my perceptive acknowledgment of them…. or is this a case like the white king in “Alice Through the Looking Glass”?  are they part of my dream? or am i part of theirs?

  if a tree falls in the forest with no one to hear, can it make a sound?
  

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