firestorm wrote:
welll .yes. that's what the creation is...or isn't.
To me, "creation" is simply a name, a category, for the particular entities which God creates.
if any of this whatever about Hidden Mystery, Ancient Eternity of My Essence, yadydydaaa has an Author, then...yes. the cosmos--that is the perceivable part of the universe-- is a metanarrative about the Attributes of the One DEsiring to b Known...the Telling of a Story.
IMO, humans tell stories. Abstractions, like "the cosmos," are human constructions. The cosmos is a name which is applied to various narratives, especially those which attribute some sort of order to creation.
as an academic of the alleys and fields i respond.....duh. yes. becuae if there isn;t One Governing Mentality then who reallly cares what some short persian with a great press agent and a bad lwyer said abou anything? it was like... so 5 minutes ago.
By a universal governing mentality, I mean the hypothetical universal essences which are imagined to be the forms of particulars.
i can make a dirct case, based on th avialabl story to converge present science and harmnies and whatever... th extreme violent rpaciousness of the tribe (feel free to ask, and what did al these Old Testament xyz-ites >do< to have all this smiting coming) was due to an exra y chromosome. such that many o the dudes were xyy, an random females were xxy, speciically ncluding maryam, thus her lack of interest i gneral boy/girl games untol thru stress she had a bad ovulation and produced twinned eggs, x, and xy, he xy fixed to the uterine wall, th x was washed away. and Isa was the Outcome.
Scientific "virgin births" are always female. Shoghi Effendi clearly stated that he was *not* referring to the scientific variety. The Virgin Birth of Christ is not scientific, and not historical; it is, IMO, sacred history. Its truth is relative to the narrative.
2. since we know that scientifically eyewitnss accounts are not reliable, ther is no such thing as history as "fact" and we can get over it.
Histories are mirrors.
i have been asserting this with compleat archimedean wobbblitude since my arival. the issue is then...relative to who...not what.
IMO, it is relative to the construction or the narrative. To make it relative to a particular individual would be to restrict the ability of a person to accept other, even contradictory, narratives.
somwhere or other i have rad a provisional trnalsation of a Tablet in whiuch the Blessed Bauty Answers the question, ishmael or isaac? by saying something along the lines of "it depends when u ask, and both genesis and Qu'ran are True.
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