“George is American, white, and from a wealthy, largely homogenous neighborhood of Long Island, New York. His accent is flat, his voice stable, he liked categories and frameworks. He liked order and linearity. Cause led to effect. Action led to reaction. When we argued, he often called my claims and conclusions groundless, illogical, and contradictory. That my ground was different-- was less constant, was wilder-- than his ground was not something he was willing or equipped to consider. He understood the world through analytic deduction. I leaned more heavily on a more corporeal form of knowing.” WisdomKnowledgeKnowingDiversityExperience Book:Aftershocks Source: Aftershocks
“Everything on this earth is connected!" my father exclaimed. "A better religion, to me, is the practice of noticing that connection, of deepening our understanding of it." In Christianity, there was no need for microscopes or space shuttles or radiocarbon dating. Questions were frowned upon. Everything was already decided. "And that is absolutely maddening," my father said. "If that's the case, why live?” LifeReligionKnowledgeLearningCuriosityConnectionHuman Connection Book:Aftershocks Source: Aftershocks
“But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things.” TruthKnowledgeAcceptance Book:Aftershocks Source: Aftershocks