The Mandelbrot set *

projects such a fine image.

Remember, photos

*  Chaos, Fractals, and Dynamics. Robert L. Devaney. ©1990 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. New York.

 are images that flow two

dimensionally, always.

 

Can you conceive an

astounding 3D fractal?

Review image B

 

and see the small dark splotches 

emerging within the blue

 

ragged tentacles 

that will become spectacles

of cloned, magnified

 

miniatures of source A.

So, three dimensional space

 

Mandelbrot image A

has tangible points

totaling, incredibly,

infinity raised

 

to the sixth power of points

that showers one’s consciousness

 

with more tangibles

that can baffle even the 

best of human minds

 

that seek to find the right course

to endorse a fruitful life

 

for one’s unsure self.

Learning is doing, but then,

doing is choosing.

Mandelbrot image B

Choosing mandates deciding.

The core of living is a

 

great set of gerunds

’cause living is dynamic

and never static.

 

Keeping that in mind, Tina’s

erratic behavior stays

 

until she favors

a better being which makes

learning emphatic.

 

Since learning is doing and 

omniscience is out of reach

 

each one of us must

survive the consequences

of one’s bad judgements.

 

I’m sure you’ve learned as I have

that you secure your very

 

best understanding

when you choose naively, but

honestly, what you

 

thought would cruise you to your best 

success but then discovered

 

that it hovered just

outside awful disaster

that fosters faster

 

adjustments to avoid more

such costly predicaments.

Tina’s been abused

for many years and faced fears

and tears from before

 

her ninth birthday that would fray

many, more mature, brave souls

 

and I would extol

your kind generosity

to dole out needed

 

resources, both financial

and advisory, for your 

 

goal to offset the

toll of the atrocity

committed via

 

male monstrosities,

but you are not allowed to

 

control her journey.

 

[Joseph Ward]

 

What! I should just about face,

leave and conceive a

 

superb rational that won’t

disturb my self importance?

 

[Marlene]

 

No, my good friend, but

you, once again, demonstrate

your propensity

 

for extreme positions with

an immensity that tends

 

to agitate souls

seeking enlightened discourse.

Abandonment’s not

 

the course I would recommend.

You care and show your concern.

You share what you’ve learned,

but you can never dictate

to accommodate

 

your desire to protect

which will only irritate

 

her inflamed ire.

The difference of a great 

significance that

 

contrasts all religions from

all the sciences is the

 

rigidity of

dogma over science’s

scrutinization

 

and keen investigation

that fosters adaptation.

 

The scientific 

method has a strong ethic

for mandating change

 

when empirical data

requires one’s consciousness

 

to rearrange the 

particulars of one’s thoughts.

But there is a brand

 

of rigidity that lands

in the subtle arena

 

of veiled distraction

like copper’s green patina

hiding orange brown 

 

glows ’til one probs to know how

to remove the oxidized

 

small particles that

publicize copper’s subtle,

fraudulent color.

What’s intrigued me forever 

is the constant defining

 

of energy as

the ability to do 

work which shirks seeking

 

clarity with critical 

thinking for best precision.

 

Defining something

by what it does evades truth

because that statement

 

circumvents its character.

A child, a man, an adult

 

male or female are

characteristically

made distinctively.

 

The ability to do

work is: a bee, an Aussie,

 

train, a crane, or plane;

but that says nothing about

their identities.

 

So, energy is without

tangible form and before

 

the Big Bang erupts

the evolutionary

storm of cause-effect

 

events, the Uncaused Cause of

the First Cause is absolute

 

pure ability

to execute, with intent,

an infinity of work.

[Joseph Ward]

 

You overshoot with the use

of the word, ‘intent’. There is

 

no proof of reason

which implies consciousness void

of tangibleness.

 

You must confess your error

as you waver from your first 

 

proposition that

layered Thomas Aquinas

with Stephen Hawking

 

as you endeavor to add

what has not yet been proven.

 

[Marlene]

 

Quite right and I stand

corrected but I am still

unaffected ’cause 

 

your perception highlights the

exceptions embraced by each.

 

Science believes in

proof as being aloof from

religion’s belief

 

in faith as the salvation

of the human race to face

 

the task to displace

suffering and evil from

torturing mankind.

 

Hawking and Aquinas are

compatible in this case

 

’cause they interlace,

the same entity quite well.

The intangible

Uncaused Cause of the First Cause

possesses the quality

 

of Hawking’s zero

space wrapped in infinite heat

which is energy.

 

Once the Big Bang exploded

a deluge of events sprang

 

forth from the source that

set the future course for the

eventual rise

 

of Higgs field populated 

by bosons celebrated,

 

at first, as the god

particle that confers mass

upon every

 

elementary building

unit to pass through Higgs field

 

thereby to yield change

from intangibility

to become the first

 

tangible units within

stratified stability.**

** Brownowski

The god particle

disturbed the tranquility

of the Vatican

 

perturbed by the secular

incivility stomping

 

on sacred ground bound

by past laws to crucify

idolaters found

 

to blaspheme the supreme god

of their holy persuasion.

The god particle

was so dubbed ’cause the Higgs field’s

equation creates

 

mass which is an abrasion

upon divine sovereignty

 

and an invasion

upon dogmatic province.

Such a disturbance

 

is of little consequence

to those who employ the joy

 

of unifying

consilience abiding

more accuracy

 

in comprehending the vast

infinity that houses

 

the reality

of humankind’s journey through

evolution’s quest.

I have a request that you

rest your aggravation ’til

 

I press toward the rest

of my long explanation

of the foundation

 

of Tina’s situation.

I’ve brought you a copy of 

 

the Standard Model 

of particle physics that

ought to confuse and

 

befuddle you ’cause, to me,

it’s mostly hieroglyphics.

[Joseph Ward]

 

Why would you show me

the specifics of so much

inane gibberish?

 

It’s insane to frame your point

with incomprehensible

 

scribblings flinging

nonsensical ideas.

Tina’s future is

 

of great consequence to those

who’ve come to know and love her.

 

[Marlene]

 

Precisely stated.

There’s nothing in the above

Standard Model of

 

particle physics that splits

love into three stages that

 

gages the contrast 

from procreative lust to

the engagement of

 

camaraderie that frees

souls to be more supportive

 

of friends but rages

against common enemies.

Then, there’s agape

 

that engages a supreme

form of what sages term love.

 

Mathematics is

the language of science that’s

quick to tightly stick

 

with logic and rational

thinking over winking or

smiling and dancing

as prelude to romancing.

Manipulation

 

of emotion is crucial

for ample application

 

to fuel the flock’s

blind obedience and their

dogma-observance.

 

Religion has a smidgen

of reliance on logic

 

but the emphatic

truth of religion’s magic

is its affiance***

  ***affiance (commitment) pronounced: uph fi ance

to passion and emotions

to make the flock’s faith intense.

 

The charioteer

of Plato’s steers two robust,

fearless horses of

 

opposing forces chafing

at the bit to veer from one

 

direction to the

other to recover its

control over the 

 

charioteer’s plan looking

to expand his grand passion

 

for speed and power

to proceed toward his chosen

path to, then, advance

 

his chance to find victory

over contradictory

 

pathways to glory

which appears to me to be

the composition

 

of what’s needed to fathom

the many diverse factors

 

of the contours that

we’ve explored thus far and are

the generator

 

of new illumination.

The midnight black stallion of

 

emotion and the

pure white stallion of logic

depict the distinct

 

commotion of the tension

of competitive rivals.