Thank you for your reply Firestorm. Rand had an excellent understanding that "absolute good" is "objectivity" and "absolute evil" is "subjectivity". "Objectivity" was referenced to usefulness for an immutable purpose. The standard is therefore immutable. What is immutable is absolute. The relativity of revelation is relative to what the immutable Lord wills, in my opinion.
pax vobiscum. richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "firestorm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Baha'i Studies" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: re: "Deconstructionism" context richard, i start by saying, this is not about us. this is not about us. the world increasingly know something is wrong. something hurts. people feel powerless. within a rand paradigm, ellsworth tooey is ascending. and ascending specificallly by using tools that take words like "democracy" to mean a lack of differentiation between human excrement painted on a wall and the parthenon. to argue that those who see a "qualitative" difference between the 2 are imposing a cultural prejudice. concretely, people ask me why, as a ruhi facilitator, core children';s class whatever etc i so flamingly refute authority. and my answer is that authority is false. Authority is real. the faster the falsity is seen, the faster the REality. and for the world, this is a grim necessity: "that these ruinous wars should cease..do u in the west not need" ..whatever... i have been known to say quite often to people, as soon as someone convinces me that 2 world wars, hiroshima, nam, the depression etc were good ideas, i;ll beleive i need to listen to my elders instead of respecting them. there is, as is self-evident on the deconstruction thread a battle waging...which my eyes see as utttterly, utterly irrelevant to 11-14 yoas, who need to determine if the quantum possibility of their finger going thru a table can be removed from their consciousness, and the quantum reality that the strong nuke force is so much more strong than gravity or whatever, that no. the sun willll come up tomorrow, and the aliens will not land, and if they learn the principles of math, they have a chance to take care of themsle4ves, to emerge from a nest into a breeze, not a tornado, and fly. i would, to answer ur specific question, associate "the fountainhead" with vogue of the age....and i include roark there, as not a hero, but a protagonist, so that rand can vent her spleen on the evil of tooey, and grim necessity with "do you in the west" and i would offer that u might revisit the tail end of the Y2K Message on the topic of those this is realllly all about. The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify JCCC by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
