APPENDIX S: Book #1 (God and Evil) v. Book #2 (God and Good)
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APPENDIX S:
Book #1 (God and Evil)
v.
Book #2 (God and Good)
Many readers of the Summa
much prefer Book #1 over
much prefer Book #1 over
Book #2.
Presumably, it is
clearer, and its style is more in a classic
clearer, and its style is more in a classic
expository presentation/form. Plus Book #1 actually
uses
uses
real, normal sentence structures.
Furthermore, Book #1 is almost a stand-alone, fairly
comprehensible original and hi-energy, complete
Metaphysics.
But only ‘almost.’
Whereas Book #1 conceptualized and framed-out the
existence of Quest for Potential (enroute to dealing
with
with
theodicy, and before I
brought Extraordinariation into the
brought Extraordinariation into the
equation), Book #2 attempts to get its arms around the
entire Q4P.
However, the mission of
Book #2 is not so simple.
Book #2 is not so simple.
How does one use regular language to describe an
innitely expanding (as we speak) Innitude?
I thought about Book #2 for fourteen years before
commencing 5-6 years of writing. And I only even
conceived of a line of approach 12 years into the fourteen
years of mulling-over this little task. So, either
I’m slow or
I’m slow or
the task is challenging, or some combination
thereof.
thereof.
As noted in the introductory section to God and
Good,
Good,
Book #2 is heavily intuitive as the major motif, and heavily
intellectual as the minor motif, whereas Book #1 was the
mirror-image in these
regards.
regards.
To achieve my (ambitious?)
goals for Book #2, I needed
goals for Book #2, I needed
to not only push my own psyche to its limits, which
was
was
frankly painful, but I needed to push your psyches
to
to
their respective limits, which I presume may have been
somewhat grating, aggravating, frustrating or some
combination thereof.
I saw no other route.
And time marches on.
Remember that Book #1 initially encountered very
signicant resistance when it was published in 1988.
No
No
one criticized it; it just wasn’t “grasped.” Then,
about 2-5
about 2-5
years after publication, it achieved ‘traction,’ for
whatever
whatever
combination of reasons. Note that Book #2 plays at a
totally different
level (higher) than Book #1, which itself was
level (higher) than Book #1, which itself was
not shy in its goals.
— Birnbaum