AtDDtA(15): A Space No Longer Entirely Readable

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

 Mark Kohut 
   
>If you think that God, or the spirit of the world, is immanent, 
>you will have a world in which the entire world is endowed 
>with spiritual importance. If you describe this idea 
>of ‘spiritual importance’ as the sacred, everything will 
>be sacred, however, the conception of the sacred you will be using will be >nothing like that which Durkheim uses, because there is nothing that >distinguishes it from the ordinary.
     
that rings especially true tonight

I may have heard the concept before, but somebody turned off the lights
here (new security guard, probably), 
and I'm listening to a bunch of Dead concert excerpts off of
dead.net, in a small pool of light from the monitor,
and everything does seem kind of sacred

but to follow through, it will be equally sacred in the morning
when we night owls have to clear out for the day shift 

and to riff a little further, why would any 
self-respecting God not be immanent in Creation?
it's like as if that was just a day job for him,
and he was sitting there typing p-list posts while
it was going on...

(no parallels to me apply, 
a I'm not that megalomaniacal
b I love my job and am totally immanent, immersed, in it
c I'm on a break)