firestorm wrote:
in my deepest belief, humans tell stories, and become the stories they are
telling. and tell them to each other, and when there is common ground and
agreed bounds, there is community.
Yes, community is a story. It is constructed through mythopoeia.
ahhh. i would call that God, and note that God is a construct. which, in each
individual aligns with She Who i would call the Divine, and Beyond that, the
One, and beyond that ...
The universal governing mentality can be imagined as God. However, IMO,
it is more the depersonalized God of some pantheists or panentheists.
excuse my ignorance... but where did he do that? or is that a case of his
statements not conorming to the myth oif science in ur head.
"What science calls a virgin birth we do not associate with that of
Jesus Christ, which we believe to have been a miracle and a sign of His
Prophethood."
-- From a message written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, High Endeavors:
Messages to Alaska, p.70
the insistence on male/female at this time in science is, imho, a negtive
artifact of tahirih, and an example of the recognised social pattern of
inventing higher degrees of differentiation the close the actual similarities
become.
I agree that sex, like gender, is a social construction. Depending on
one's definitions, there is either one sex (female), two sexes (female
and male), or at least five sexes (accounting for the varieties of the
"intersexed").
yet, within progressive REvelation, that might appear to be What Happens. this
might be that the contradictory narratives become tests.
As I see it, it is dependent on both the divinely ordained relationships
between particulars and on how the stories, or narratives, of those
particulars, in interaction, are annotated.
or the clinging to the understanding.
the other night i was engaged in a dialog about the evolutionary origins of
religion. the perso i was talking to is pre-law philo stident. i told hm his
view was wrong, utterly, and useless...but i he needed to actual facts to
support it, he needed to read, x, y and z for examples of him being right
The study of modern analytic philosophy (as opposed to continental
philosophy), which dominates in the U.S. and Canada, may be suited to a
law career, but it is very ill suited, IMO, to understanding everyday
human experiences.
--
Regards, Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. * http://www.markfoster.net
"... the modern challenge is how to live with uncertainty. The
basic fault lines today are not between people with different
beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an
element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with
a pretense of certitude." — Peter L. Berger, sociologist
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