I wanted to begin my random philisophical meanderings with one of my favorite quotes.  If you haven't read Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, then you haven't lived... It's times like these that I wish Will still checked his LJ more than twice a year, because he kinda got me into Chesterton:

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

As I was trying to find that quote on the internet, I found a bonus quote that really reflects my current feelings about faith...

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

So thus begins my exploration of the mystery we call "God".  A caveat: I don't expect to write a clear thesis or actually get anywhere with this discussion.  Actually, I don't want to rule out the possibility of actually getting somewhere and maybe coming to some kind of a conclusion, but if there is one thing I've learned about God, its that if you refer to anything as being "God", or if you come to a definite conclusion on the matter, that's when you have missed the point.  It is at this point that I should refer to the first G.K.C. quote.  I have tried to figure out how God works and what God is... primarily because I thought that everyone somehow has God figured out and I don't and once I do that, then life become a piece of cake.  But at some point (I actually remember the moment, driving down Jackson St. in GH after hanging out with Rhea; I literally had to pull over) I realized that I will never have it figured out, and if there is any point to all of this, then THAT is it...  THAT being the moment when you realize that no one really has anything figured out.

"Wow Casey, that all seems REALLY fatalistic."  Yes.  True.  But what other options do I have?  That seems to be the only premise that I can assert for sure.  So that is exactly what I did for a while, with the pretense that this was the best philisophical option.  Either that or I throw logic and scientific method and materialism out the window, and then I would be a complete nut-job.  But I found a third option kinda by accident...