I have trouble with the term "Alternate Universe" . The universe, by nature, would include all alternatives.
The Catholics have a cult of Mary which states in repetitive prayer: "Holy Mary mother of God", seeing her as a co-redeemer and creator of the divine. On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 9:34:28 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Sex is how we currently reproduce, gender is probably a wider concept and > hardly stops at male and female. I had wondered if you guys think much in > terms of social construction. I tend to like working with people who can > tell the shit from the sawdust and why the unmentioned in the manual > crow-bar is so essential. 'I'm going to help from the feminine divine > Neil' doesn't sound very promising. The mug, for instance, could come from > various 'inspirations'. And one can say much the same of the thesis. I > used to see a hundred of so a year, a few quite brilliant (this one isn't), > some so obviously good in the practice I'd have preferred no write-up and > down to the plagiarised majority. We might take Allan's stance and ask for > a 'jar of feminine divine', but this isn't how I would treat something like > this educationally. > > I think an 'alter-universe' needs to be created for a thesis like this to > exist as a process. We might think more generally about the difference > between the alter-universe of a Muslim woman in an area with a promotion of > virtue and prevention of vice squad and a grad student of Judith Butler. > > What interests me is what promises we can genuinely make about radical > change. You see, amongst some academics this thesis would be an outright > fail. I could both support and crush it, if I was hired as an advocate. > > I would see stuff like this as relevant to building with the imagination - > though also find it dull and conservative. > > On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 12:12:43 PM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> I will be the first to admit having a great deal of problems with gender >> and spirituality . When I feel someone trying to sell me a bill of good >> I lose interest quickly. >> >> >> >> >> I'll get back on why I think any aspects of divine relate to >> alter-universes Molly. Allan could be seen to miss the point on this >> thesis, though my own response had a lot of his experience in it. Here's a >> cruder example of the 'divine feminine'. >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
