h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hey dude, great thoughts. I had some funny little thoughts on some funny little passges, but I've forgotten them already. Here's what remained.
(1)Nice senses/con-sensus biznatch, etymologically and conceptually. I don't think I agree with a democratic sense of truth (well, everyone else says I'm nuts, so I must be), but I don't know if that's what you were saying. Maybe senses are "processes" to the consensus (like Hobbes's Leviathan). You suggested stuff like that, which was cool (I'm all for progressively violent perspectival bitch-slaps).
(2)When you were talking about chairs, I wondered if you were just testing the boundaries of Platonic forms. To me anyway, the transition from form to formlessness makes a lot more sense to me if I stuff the processes as composites of order and disorder (chaos theory? entropy?). Donno... lemme know.
While your picking this pair of donkey balls I've given you out of your teeth, here's the "meat" of this post:
(3)You're in good company in your thought. This comes from Alistar McGrath's Christain Theology:
"The origins of process thought are generally agreed to lie in the writings the the American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead..., especially his Process and Reality (1929). Reacting against the rather static view of the world associated with traditional metaphysics (expressed in ideas such as "substance" and "essence"), Whitehead conceived of reality as a process. The world, as an organic whole, is something dynamic, not static; something which happens. Reality is made up of building blocks of "actual entities" [I think he uses this word very differently than you do] or "actual occasions," and is thus characterized by becoming, change and, event.... Whitehead argues that God may be identified with [the] background of order within the process. Whitehead treats God as an "entity," but distinguishes God from others on the grounds of imperishability....
Process theology... redifines God's omnipotence in terms of persuasion or influence within the overall world-process.... Process thought argues that God cannot force nature to obey the divine will or purpose for it.... God is thus absolved of responsibility for both moral and and natural evil. (261-262)
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Ok, so Whitehead thought similarly, and the major contributions are in an explanation of suffering and giving us a God who suffers along with us. I'm not sure where process theology stands in its orthodoxy; a lot of theologians wonder whether the God of process theology is really God at all. (McGrath, 278) Anyway, f**k 'em; process theology is still part of the dialogue. In terms of the hedge or garden party, you may be getting funny looks from the stodgier folk, but who cares... you're at the party.