May 23/2018
Newly posted, front-page features are updated until moved to archives. -WT
For those unable to embrace either a fairy-tale Sky God or atheism’s blind denial of the unseen life force animating all things, we urgently need a new way to talk about “God”. Though its most articulate explainers refuse to acknowledge the implications of what they are proposing, Hyperobjects provide that language. -WT
IS GOD A HYPEROBJECT?
by William Thomas
Yes. By definition. But no one writing about this bold new way of viewing “objects” as vast and amorphous as climate change, the Big Bang, machine intelligence or the internet wants to talk about the Prime Hyperobject pervading all others. Including ourselves.
“Hyperobjects are scary. We sense something is happening, but we don’t know what it is,” says Stephen Muecke, a hyperobject himself who teaches Environmental Humanities at the U. of New South Wales.
This isn’t just bafflegab. Even if we refuse to consider them, hyperobjects permeate our lives, sticking to us with effects and implications pervasive and profound enough to rock our world.
Hoookay, toss me more hyperobjects...
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Updated May 14, 2018
Courage To Ponder…
Tammie Jo Shults showed 'nerves of steel' and kept calm after the left engine of her Southwest 737 exploded at 32,000 feet.
One of the first women to fly an F/A-18 fighter jet, the former carrier aviator and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. was turned down by the Air Force after being warned in high school that “there were no professional women pilots”.
A retired colonel giving a lecture on aviation, “started the class by asking me, the only girl in attendance, if I was lost,” the 56-year-old Shults said after the incident. “'I mustered up the courage to assure him I was not.”
The 149 people onboard Flight 1380 are no doubt delighted that she persisted in her often-opposed quest.
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