Thanks, Andre. That's a nice way to put it. In some broad sense, we could say that overcoming the blind spot to DQ in our culture would serve the cause of feminism. I realize that sounds like some kind of joke, but I'm not kidding.
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:43:21 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment > > Jon to dmb: > > In Christianity, Christ is the Logos, the Logos who became flesh and dwelt > among us. The book of John opens with 'In the beginning was the logos, and > the logos was with God and the logos was God. > > Andre: > And Jesus was begotten by Mary, in mythology (read Campbell's Masks of God') > commonly identified with the aesthetic, emotional female principle. Plato > 'arbitrarily' branded this female principle as 'evil' and the male, rational > principle as 'good'. In Pirsig's words Plato had 'encapsulated' it. > 'Consequently, it is to this rational factor termed, God the Father, that the > Divine (read Quality/the Good)is restricted in the orthodox Christian > religion of the West, whether Catholic or Protestant'( Northrop, p59). > > And it was under this guise that the old church fathers had demoted Mary, not > according her 'divine' status in her own right but only according her this > status as mediated through her son, the rational principle. Encapsulated by > Plato and cemented-in by Aristotle. (Thomism) > > Pirsig has described the devastating effect this has had upon our > understanding of nature's order and goes on to argue that: '...it's time to > further an understanding of nature's order by reassimilating those passions > which were originally fled from. The passions, the emotions, the affective > domain of man's consciousness,[the 'female aesthetic principle] are a part of > nature's order too'. (ZMM,p294) > > The rational principle, (the 'Christ'/ Truth) is a species of the Good, > ('Mary' the aesthetic, emotional female principle). > > Once this is properly understood and rectified (as in the MOQ)according each > their proper status (the rationally postulated and the immediately > apprehended) we can move a little closer to understanding the 'Eastern' > religions. Once the latter understand the rational/theoretical, postulated > principle we can move toward mutual understanding. > > I doubt if we can expect this to come from within the Christian church > itself. They have too much to lose and will carry on their static, deceptive > and abusive, narrow minded practices. And not just targeting innocent 5-year > olds. > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
