Farmer’s Markets, Define God and Albert Einstein
August 18, 2024
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Farmer’s markets
If you’ve ever been to a locally-organized farmer’s market, you are familiar with the enchanting feelings they bring: relief; belonging; a sense of holism.
Interacting with regional growers has this effect on everyone — their presence and connection with the beloved Earth reminds us of our own relationship with it. They are a living testimony that we are nothing without the supreme intelligence of Mother Nature.
One huge benefit of purchasing your produce here is that you can virtually guarantee that they use less pesticides and herbicides on their crops (compared to conventional grocery stores).
How do I know this? The simple fact that farmers look their customers eye to eye, as opposed to through many layers of the supply chain, makes them much more accountable to sustainable growing practices. Apparently, it’s very difficult to hand your 65 year old community member and their 6 year old grandson rainbow chard and kale covered in with horribly toxic agrochemicals!
Said differently, the organic produce at the farmer’s market is often-times more organic, more alive than even the high-end Whole Foods down the street!
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Can you define what you mean when you use the word God?
To define something is — by its very nature — to limit it.
For instance, defining a dog as being “a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, and a barking or whining voice” will, in turn, restrict what you believe a dog can or cannot be.
While such definitions are helpful in the phenomenal world, for me to define God in the same way will interfere with your understanding of It. How am I to make finite what is ultimately infinite? How could I put a limit on the limitless?
Even for me to say “God is all things” would be to restrict Him/Her/It in some way, for the mind does, in fact, have a category for “all things”.
Shoot, even saying “God is all things, including that which you cannot conceptualize” would still be restricting, because the mind can categorize that, too!
Ironically, though dissatisfying for the mind, the only conceivable way any of us can “define God” is by removing all such delimiters, an act that leaves us with the following:
God is.
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What percentage of the Universe do you think humanity currently knows and understands?
That is, if 0% = we know absolutely nothing about Reality, and 100% = we know absolutely everything about Reality, where do you believe we lie? Really think about it.
You’ll notice that the more seriously you consider this question, the more conservative your estimate becomes.
I mean…how can you even make an educated guess when you have no way of knowing what you don’t know? And how can you be certain that what you claim today won’t be proven wrong tomorrow?!
In other words, what humanity currently claims to know is, at best, incomplete, and at worse, completely deluded.
Imagination, on the other hand, is always "true", because it exists as an unbounded state of mind in which anything and everything is possible. Unlike knowledge acquisition, imagination makes no strong claim of being objective or defining reality, and thus has no real standards of “truth” it must live up to.
This is not to say that thoughts are more important than the Truth they point to — far from it.
Instead, all that’s being pointed out here is the fact that theory comes before law, idea comes before execution, and prediction comes before actuality.
You don’t have to understand the precise biological mechanisms of how a plant reproduces itself in order to sow a seed and watch it grow. And you don’t have to psychoanalyze your decisions from yesterday in order to become a better person tomorrow.
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