At 12:21 PM Monday 1/8/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: >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
Insert Ob "Spock's Brain" reference . . . -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
