God, magnets and pigeons
James Yeoman shares his thoughts on God and metaphors
Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull…What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one: philosophy. But this consists in keeping the divinity within a man free from violence and unharmed… accepting all that happens… for it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2:17
I would like to share a metaphor that, while far from perfect, allows me to make some sort of sense of life. It involves magnetic fields and pigeons!
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