Using Poetry To Evoke God

Back in the short moment when I was a philosophy major in college I think I whacked my way through a little bit of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophus. (Knowing me I probably read the back cover and winged it from there…) For a guy who wrote about language he was sure hard to read! But what I think he might have said is that language is an agreement between people: you see this thing and call it a table. I see the same thing and also call it a table. So when I hear you say “table” that picture is what arises in my mind too. I may think of my mother’s dining table when you say “table. You may think of your mother’s dining table when I say “table.” But we both have a general sense of what is meant by the word, enough that we can have a conversation about setting this table that’s in front of us.