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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

Under Construction

Under Construction

June 7, 2016 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment
Joe and Rick, Songsmiths extraordinare, Beans & Leaves June 2016
Joe and Rick, Songsmiths extraordinare,          Beans & Leaves June 2016

Under Construction

Uncertainty
Incomplete knowledge
Must be accepted.
Courage!
Update your beliefs
As new evidence
Comes in.

Describe the universe
As a series of
Interconnected models
Appropriate at different levels.
Each model
In it’s applicable domain–
Ideas appearing–
Essential parts of each story,
Having the right
To be thought of
As real.

Our task
Is to assemble
An interlocking set
Of descriptions,
Fit together
To form
A stable planet
Of belief.

Everyone
A storyteller.
Hey,
It’s
Your turn!

Thanks to physicist Sean Carroll for these magnificent words on poetic naturalism.

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