If it can be said that our self-understanding changed radically when we moved from seeing the world as flat to seeing the world as round, from seeing ourselves as living on the planet which is the center of the universe, to comprehending that we are part of a vaster universe, then seeing ourselves on Spaceship Earth is another critical growth in our intellectual progress.
From R. Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed, that to our knowledge, humans have on board it for two million years, not even knowing that they were on board a ship. And our spaceship is so superbly designed as to be able to keep life regenerating on board, despite the phenomenon, entropy, by which all local physical systems lose energy
Spaceship Earth’s God
There exists “an infinitely greater a priori, omnianticipatory, intellectual integrity embracing and permeating the universe than that demonstrable or suggested by any known capability of any human intellect.”
God is, for Fuller, “the most economical term thus far intuitively formulated by humanity”
No More Second Hand God
God is a verb
the most active connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy
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I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments bf the human mechanism.
Our roles as transceivers on Spaceship Earth
It would follow from Fuller’s understanding of how God operates in the universe that man would be seen as “trans-ceiver mechanisms through which God is broadcasting.” It would further follow from this view of man that we must keep ourselves tuned to God’s wave-length – which is a technological statement of the Hassidic statement: “Where is God? Where-ever man will let Him in.”