Why "Heaven and Pi"? Well, I have occasionally fantasized about opening up a cafe that would be conducive to book clubs, artists, music and politics. I also realize that the Buzz Cafe has kind of done this already, and it's a lot easier to just go there. But if anything ever happens to the Buzz, be prepared for "Heaven and Pi." Heaven because I am intrigued by all things Godly and Spiritual, and Pi because my favorite dessert to make is blueberry pie (and I'm a dork and love the play on words). But beyond that, Pi is such a mysterious number (the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle). Pi is based in math and should be logical, but has many characteristics which make it so strange: it is infinite, it doesn't repeat, there is no seeming pattern to the digits that comprise it, and it shows up everywhere in nature.
You might think that using an irrational number whose exact value is not fully understood would not be wise, but it is the exact number required for many of math's most complex equations. I just love thinking that Something infinite, not able to be calculated, not fully understood is just the thing we logically minded people need to solve some of life's greatest riddles.
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Oh my gosh - I, too, have the coffee shop fantasy. Who doesn't??
AND - Please go immediately and read the quotes from Chesterton that I posted on our book club blog the other day re reason vs. the "illogical" or mystical. You ought to be able to find a suitable quote somewhere in the chapter of "Orthodoxy" called "The Maniac" that you could have stencilled on the walls of your coffee shop by some up-and-coming local artist . . .
ps - so brave of you to bring all 3 kids to church by yourself last night. I just can't bring myself to do it --
Here'a good one:
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
Don't know if you noticed, I spent the entire time in Church at the cry room with them, heard NOTHING of the entire mass, and basically yelled at them to keep quiet so I could hear the mass and pray (which never happened). Next time Matt is sick on a Sunday, I think I'm going to go to McDonald's playland to pray. I LOVE the quotes.
I love the name of the coffeehouse! Have you ever seen the movie "Pi"? I highly recommend it. It's sci-fi, with a very eerie, cool, conspiracy theory twist. I'm not a fan of most sci-fi, but this is one of my favorite movies.
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