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cartoon: question exclamations

Posted in humour by nakedpastor on the August 3rd, 2009

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  1. Lydia said, on August 3rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Very empowering!
    I agree with Rilke that we must live the questions in order to live our way to the answers.

  2. Tiggy Sagar said, on August 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    In Graham Greene’s ‘The Power and The Glory’, the alcoholic priest is described as a question mark, whereas the Lieutenant is described as an exclamation mark. I asked my friend if I was a question mark or an exclamation mark and she said I was a comma. :-(

  3. dr. robin dugall said, on August 3rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    you did it again…have you read, “the war of art”? pressfield suggests what you must do on a regular basis…your creativity astounds me!

  4. vasilia said, on August 3rd, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Hmmm. This is a really interesting cartoon! I keep thinking about it.

    Is the desire to convert the question mark based on fear and a need to control – a desire to conquer the question? To conquer in order to own it/consume it?

    The older I get, the more content I am to leave that poor old question mark alone. But Lydia’s right – if we live the questions, we find our way to the answers. But perhaps that’s because questions and answers are completely inseparable. Perhaps answers can’t be teased out of the questions because the attempt to separate one from the other creates a sort of hubristic illusion rather than truth.

    Very interesting cartoon! I’m off to see if this is available in a t-shirt. :)

  5. Erp said, on August 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    I agree with Vasillia on not replacing the question with an exclamatory order. Replacing with a explanatory period maybe (e.g., is the world spherical or flat) when such can be done.

  6. kls said, on August 4th, 2009 at 1:51 am

    Hm, I’m not sure that I completely get the above conversation, but here’s my take on this…

    “If you add to the words of this prophecy, God will add to your life the disasters written in this book; if you subtract from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will subtract your part from the Tree of Life and the Holy City that are written in this book. ”

    Sometimes we just want to shape the Unknown into something that we can grab, we want to make it our own. We start chipping away at the Truth until it is something that we can comprehend. God is incomprehensible, he IS the big questionmark. All we know about Him is what he revealed in Jesus & what is written of Jesus… Very few. The rest? We’ll see…

    Gosh, David, I’m starting to get your Z-Theory. :D

  7. faithlessinfatima said, on August 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am

    kls said…”God is incomprehensible, he IS the big questionmark. All we know about Him is what he revealed in Jesus & what is written of Jesus… Very few. The rest? We’ll see…”

    What about the Jews…wdn’t you have to think that God has revealed something of Himself to validate yr own beliefs? Jesus wasn’t born in a theological vacuum.

  8. faithlessinfatima said, on August 4th, 2009 at 10:34 am

    Sorry, I meant…”revealed something of Himself [ to them ]“

  9. Fred said, on August 4th, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Seems like it’s somehow both.

  10. Tiggy Sagar said, on August 4th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    But St. Paul said that ‘The heavens reveal the glory of God’. He said that God was visible in nature so that even the Gentiles he was preaching to had a knowledge of God.

  11. Laura said, on August 4th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Huh?!

  12. Julia said, on August 5th, 2009 at 12:49 am

    I don’t know, Lydia, Rilke seemed to think that naming was all about knowing things and, it seems, there are some things that are un-knowable.

  13. Mik said, on August 5th, 2009 at 1:47 am

    i just attended to a conference in uppsala, sweden, where pastor Kong Hee from Singapore talked about beeing transformed from a question mark to an exclamation mark. So you reminded me of his inspiring message. Keep up the good work!

  14. Tiggy Sagar said, on August 5th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    So what did this Kong Hee mean?

  15. Lydia said, on August 5th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    Julia, I agree that some things are un-knowable. I’m not sure that Rilke thought that we would live our way to all the answers in our lifetimes. He was so much the seeker, leaving possibilities open, that my sense is he treasured the un-knowable that drove him on and on…..

  16. Tiggy Sagar said, on August 5th, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    I don’t mind not knowing, it’s the not touching I can’t bear.

  17. vasilia said, on August 6th, 2009 at 1:48 am

    I agree with Lydia’s take on Rilke. When I read him, I have the sense that he fully embraced the unknowable and in that embrace, found the answer. Not that he found a concrete, rationally recognizable thing with a shape or form that can be named, but something inseparable from the unknowable, and therefore inseparable from the question.

  18. robin said, on August 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Dude, I’m just seeing this now. Love it! One of your best (in my opinion)…

  19. nakedpastor said, on August 18th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    Thanks robin

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