Faith & Spirit Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

Fuller doesn’t “define” God here so much as he redesigns the word the way he redesigned structures: strip out the ornamental metaphysics, keep what does work. Calling God a verb is an engineer’s provocation. Nouns sit still; verbs do things. In one move, Fuller pries “God” away from institutional ownership and turns it into a description of ongoing activity: patterning, unfolding, organizing, iterating. The intent isn’t piety; it’s reframing. If divinity is action rather than a celestial object, then reverence looks less like obedience and more like attention to process.

The subtext is classic Fuller: distrust of static categories and a belief that reality is a system in motion. “Proper or improper” has bite. He’s winking at grammar to puncture the arrogance of capital-G certainties, while also signaling that conventional language fails at describing what he’s pointing toward. He’s not dodging belief; he’s rejecting the false comfort of naming. A noun can be possessed, argued over, weaponized. A verb can only be participated in.

Context matters: Fuller’s mid-century optimism about design science and “Spaceship Earth” sits behind this line. His faith was less church-bound than cybernetic: an intuition that the universe has intelligible tendencies, and that humans can align with them through experimentation and responsibility. The phrase “to me, it seems” is a subtle escape hatch: not doctrine, but a working hypothesis. Like any good prototype, it invites testing in lived practice rather than settling into ideology.