John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readNov 7, 2019

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Abre,

Keep in mind relative and relevance have the same root as relativity. Otherwise it is the absolute and the infinite, not the ideal.

If you remove all physical properties from space, it still has the qualities of infinity and equilibrium. Infinity because there is nothing to bound it and equilibrium is implicit in General Relativity, as the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock is closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum. The unmoving void of absolute zero. The flatline between the ups and downs of fluctuation.

So the two properties of energy and form are either radiating toward infinity, where everything fades out, or coalescing towards equilibrium, where everything sums out.

The problem is that with monotheism, we equate the absolute with the ideal. Logically the spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. But no culture could function, if it idolized the raw desire bubbling up through life, without equally validating the form and judgement coalescing out of life. youth versus age, liberal, versus conservative. So since we want to make it all one, not two. God almighty, not the yin and yang, we prioritize that top down structure. God as the father figure lawgiver. Yet that leads to fundamentalism and tyranny. The divine right of kings. The priest and elders are always right, because God is behind them.

There is no “perfect” form, as form is balanced by energy. One pushing out and the other pulling in.

We have to understand it is that fluctuation between the anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement. The absolute and the infinite. The head and the heart.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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