Does it need to be lined up? What if we made one side one way, and the other side another - congruous and connected, yet unique from two different vantage points.
Asymmetry is apparently very useful in the biological world - a fiddler crab has one big claw, and one small claw, for unique tasks. The human face is different on every human being on the left and right side, a human lung is bigger on the left side than the right to make room for the asymmetrical heart, and so on.
The following car design premiered in Frankfurt (I’m no big car fan, I add) is one of the first asymmetrical vehicle designs I’ve seen (though it’s simply cosmetic in the front), and it feels as though it provides a simple metaphor for the Church.
We don’t need to all line up like a fine row of chess pawns. It is more than okay, even preferred, that we look different from different angles, that we are actually different from different angles, and yet are clearly a part of the same whole.
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“Bible passages are kinda like cats - you can hold them up and turn them any which way to look at them, play with them and and pet them before you drop them, but they land right side up. Unless you have ulterior motives to deliberately force them in some unatural manner.” David Hicks in Healing your Financial Soul.
i love it … and i’m ok with upside down and inside out too … t
“They say that one of the principles of beauty is symmetry, that as near to perfect symmetry a face can come, without actually reaching it, the more beautiful. Rachel’s face was close enough. It’s funny how the mind can focus on something almost irrelevant at times of intense emotion and I found myself searching for the one disparity, that one important feature, however slight, that broke symmetry and allowed her to be as theoretically beautiful as she was in the eye of this beholder. In the end I found two; a slight upward curve at the left corner of her mouth which was marginally more pronounced than at the right and the fact that her left ear was by about a sixteenth of an inch the higher.” - from ‘Rachel’.
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