Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> Perhaps my inability to understand this is because of my own
> background. Raised in the strongest of Marian traditions yet
> surrounded by traditions that were mildly to strongly anti-Marian.
>
> That means you learned both the Marian and the anti-Marian concepts.
> To an outsider, the traditions may seem small; they both involve the
> word `Marian' and may be irrelevant to people from another background
> altogether.
>
> If your mind
>
> ... compounds the emotions of love, fear, dependence, fascination,
> unworthiness, majesty and connection ...
>
> then coming to perceive one or the other Marian or anti-Marian
> tradition helps flesh it out. To others, you would become either
> Marian or anti-Marian. (Or you might endure the cognitive dissonance
> and become both, but as a practical matter that is less likely.)
>
> It would seem to me that if one were to construct a continuum line
> for Marian belief, Athiests would inhabit a section beyond (frex)
> the Baptists and Catholics would occupy a space closer to the
> center ...
>
> That presumes that a continuum line provides the best way to think
> about a person who is experiencing numinously. As far as I can see,
> that presumption is false. For one, it implies `shades of gray'.
That gave me 2 ideas that conflated into one -- a multi-dimensional
vector space with "snap" (if you've done computer drafting, you might
know the term from there).
Elaboration later when I have more brain. (Not that that's kept me from
logorrhea in various places this morning....)
Julia
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