Thread by @PageauMatthieu

If something makes no sense in symbolism, go back to concrete facts and stay away from abstraction. This always works btw. Sometimes it takes longer than what most people are willing to offer. This is part of what i call "rumination" (getting hands dirty for spiritual insight).

https://twitter.com/morrow777/status/1668587886923464706

Forget about mathematics if that's not one of your interests (it's not important anyway)

The easiest way to draw a circle on the ground is to cut a length of rope and tie a stake on each end of the rope. You plant one stake in the ground and hold the other stake in your hand.

As one end is fixed in ground, you stretch the rope and use the other stake (like a pencil) to draw the circle in the ground, going around the fixed stake with the rope held tight.

(btw soon nobody will understand certain symbolic truths because everyone uses computers to draw).

Once you have the circle in the ground, you can now use the length of the rope you just used to measure the length of the line you just drew on the ground (the periphery of the circle)

If you see how many time the rope fits around the circle, the number will always be the same (no matter how big you made the circle using that rope). It will fit six times, but there will be a remainder. The remainder is shorter than the length of the rope. This is the 7th "rest"

This is the most basic meaning of the 6 days of creation, and the 7th "rest" which can't be measured with the length of the rope (when i say can't be measured, i really mean it. No fraction of that rope can measure the remainder, but this is the more abstract math)

I don't see how this reality could be criticized in any meaningful way. If you can, please tell me how this is being criticized, I'd definitely like to know. Probably by someone who thinks too abstractly and never gets their hands dirty. Personally, I never listen to such people.

Such people could learn a lot from someone like Temple Grandin. The real way to understand symbolism is to get hands dirty by digging in the earth. Then later you can find high level abstractions (if you want) once you found a new insight "from the earth" (a gem). -> "rumination"

Sorry for this long post about such a simple thing (a circle). There really is no substitute for facts: making an actual circle with a rope on the ground and then seeing all the implications.