If not god...who?

[tectak]

Tom,

I question your use of "sublime" and think instead it should be "sublimate".

"That simple trick of gravity combined with heat, spontaneous and without god"
Even if I agree with you, you merely make a statement without supporting evidence, here you are pedantic as much as the fundamentalist you detest. It is a trap of science and especially of scientist who fall into this haughtiness of correctness.

"At best we say that we pass through, like current through a copper wire;
except, of course, electron flow is by that very path confined."
Predestination?

"the hands that hook us, dangling over fate’s senescence"
Almost a paraphrase of Edward's "An angry God".

"Who made this plan, this rum re-cycle…building us with such poor glue?"
Mixing in a little hubris aren't we. what makes the particulars of mankind so important. I look at the galaxy and note the millions of stars, and then the universe filled with billions of galaxies, which my ego will not let me grasp in its entirety, and understand that a bug smashed under a thumb has as much significance as a single human life, or even the entire history of the human race. Science answers all questions. "From where comes man...chance."

I have no poetic problems with this poem, except it is reduced to strictly the intellectual level, and stirs nothing in the reader to care about, so in that sense maybe it proved its purpose.

Dale  

   

Bump!!!! The ego has landed!

Thanks dale, but it is rather a mission accomplished....twist on the word, as always.

The sublime is not holding water...it must go...even so, one can sublime as well as sublimate. As I poorly explained, I was hoping for the duality of sublime. I failed.

verb

1 [no object] Chemistry (Of a solid substance) change directly into vapour when heated, typically forming a solid deposit again on cooling: the ice sublimed away, leaving the books dry and undamaged
More example sentences
1.1 [with object] Cause (a substance) to sublime: these crystals could be sublimed under a vacuum
2 [with object] archaic Elevate to a high degree of moral or spiritual purity or excellence: let your thoughts be sublimed by the spirit of God

I do give god a parting boost....if not he who? You are asking ME?

Best,
tectak
Now read Thank You. Flip side.