Bono’s Hole

On the Arte TV channel tonight, Hermann Vaske asked Bono the question “Why are you creative?” Have a look at the drawing Bono made to answer the question. You can see the entire interview at U2France.com. Click the Real Video links at the bottom of the page.

26 thoughts on “Bono’s Hole

  1. This is the perfect example of Dake-Bonoist inspiration. The entire “God Shaped Hole” thing, while sometimes attributed to Paschal, is also used in Dake-Bonoist circles. The most telling part of this relates to the fact that Bono chose to use swirled markes which everyone know is an exact parallel to the swirls Finis Dake uses in his end times charts and his explanation of the curse of ham.

  2. This is the perfect example of Dake-Bonoist inspiration. The entire “God Shaped Hole” thing, while sometimes attributed to Paschal, is also used in Dake-Bonoist circles. The most telling part of this relates to the fact that Bono chose to use swirled markes which everyone know is an exact parallel to the swirls Finis Dake uses in his end times charts and his explanation of the curse of ham.

  3. so, with all this god-shaped hole stuff…wouldnt that mean that the hole is empty, meaning bono doesnt believe in god, or am i missing something? i know he is a christian, but this confuses me!

  4. so, with all this god-shaped hole stuff…wouldnt that mean that the hole is empty, meaning bono doesnt believe in god, or am i missing something? i know he is a christian, but this confuses me!

  5. “Seen through the eyes of faith, religion’s future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature — one whose morphe (form) is theos — God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image of God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them. Searching for an image of the divine that will fit, they paw over various options as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, matching them successively to the gaping hole at the puzzle’s center…. They keep doing this until the right “piece” is found. When it slips into place, life’s jigsaw puzzle is solved.

    How so? Because the sight of the picture that then emerges is so commanding that it swings attention from the self who is viewing the picture to the picture itself. This epiphany, with its attendant ego-reduction, is salvation in the West and enlightenment in the East.”

    — Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, Harper-Collins, 2001, pp. 148-149

    http://m759.freeservers.com/2001-02-21-godshaped.html

  6. “Seen through the eyes of faith, religion’s future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature — one whose morphe (form) is theos — God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image of God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them. Searching for an image of the divine that will fit, they paw over various options as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, matching them successively to the gaping hole at the puzzle’s center…. They keep doing this until the right “piece” is found. When it slips into place, life’s jigsaw puzzle is solved.

    How so? Because the sight of the picture that then emerges is so commanding that it swings attention from the self who is viewing the picture to the picture itself. This epiphany, with its attendant ego-reduction, is salvation in the West and enlightenment in the East.”

    — Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, Harper-Collins, 2001, pp. 148-149

    http://m759.freeservers.com/2001-02-21-godshaped.html

  7. Blaise Pascal, a famous French mathematician and philosopher, put it like this: “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.” If we try to stuff anything but God into that God-shaped hole in our lives, we’ll end up dissatisfied, restless, discontent.

  8. Blaise Pascal, a famous French mathematician and philosopher, put it like this: “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.” If we try to stuff anything but God into that God-shaped hole in our lives, we’ll end up dissatisfied, restless, discontent.

  9. That was the deepest, craziest stuff you’ve ever posted, vonb, and quite frankly, even though it was a quote, I’m a little worried about you;)…

  10. That was the deepest, craziest stuff you’ve ever posted, vonb, and quite frankly, even though it was a quote, I’m a little worried about you;)…

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