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> This is something
> along the lines of the survival and evolution of memes. The religions
> we have are the ones which successfully indoctrinated their followers
> deeply enough to perpetuate through time. They presumably contain
> the necessary appeals to deep motivations which enabled them to
> persist in hostile environments. Perhaps the same needs which keep
> religions alive foster ethnocentricism and bigotry....
>
> -Pete Vincent
>
> (I say, the proper way to approach the ultimate is via a sect of
> one. This world is a school, and we ought to do our own homework.)
Then you would agree with me that ethnicities (all
beliefs, habits, etc. which infect the child's soul
before he or she has the resources of critical
hermeneutics, law, anthropology, etc. to be able
to judge them and decide whether or not they
are good to let in...) -- all "lares et penates", etc. are
semiotic viruses which infect persons' "minds" (their
lived form of life, AKA consciousness, etc.)?
We need a Public Health Service of the Spirit to treat
the global epidemics of ethno-viruses which, because everyone has the
same sickness, are taken for normality or even
flourishing.
The cure for ethnicity ("memes"?) is genuine liberal education: Learning
the concepts of the polis and of personal self-accountability
for one's perceptions, beliefs, etc. --> and doing this in
a peer dialogical space which reinforces by
exemplification the content being
taught (a classroom with exams, grades, etc., teaches
by example subjection to Power, and therefore has nothing to
do with what I am talking here about).
Since all that which is or might be or cannot be
finds its place in the living discourse each of us
is in the form of "I am", "the ultimate" -- what encompasses
them all, can only be that living personal discourse
itself, in which even G-d or Y-w-h, if they exist,
find their place (perhaps this wounds their Deitific
pride so that they do acts of sadistic medical
experimentation -- Job -- and paramoid terror -- Babel -- on us).
We have never yet really been modern.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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