tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9716997.post6992254166599233195..comments2024-03-15T23:30:38.471+11:00Comments on Lindsay's Lobes: A revelationLindsay Byrneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11030132436987752741noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9716997.post-5816325678937735802010-12-20T15:48:57.489+11:002010-12-20T15:48:57.489+11:00Hi Mecutio, Susan & Granny Fiddler
Thanks for...Hi Mecutio, Susan & Granny Fiddler <br />Thanks for your visit.<br /><br />Mercutio <br />I think religion does behave in a similar fashion to the secular market; driven by supply and demand factors which change how people collectively worship and respond. However our response since Augustine’s time to the big metaphysical questions has not changed that much because we simply don’t have the definitive answers. <br /><br />But I also think much of the growth in the so called fundamentalist religions is due their simplicity with little underlying religious philosophy or theology (dogma) to leave those questions up to the indivuals to decide for themselves. This current trend seems to be gaining traction. <br /><br />Susan. <br />Well said. Even the vengeful GOD of the Old Testament associated with justification for war as the ‘divine warrior’ is revealed by scholars to be later overshadowed by another ‘GOD’ declaring one is to put down the sword and turn away from judgment towards the blessings of a new holy life for a rejuvenated Israel. These priests of old such as Ezekiel had already begun the tortuous path of revealing that the vengeful GOD of old was not a true GOD after all but rather a misinterpreted myth. <br /><br />Granny Fidder<br />True, not much has changed except for the fact that technological changes allow us to both live longer and have more material things both of which may be our undoing if we continue to destroy the environment upon which we depend. At the height of the industrial revolution in 1849 in Manchester the average life expectance was only 29. But is seems technology was never going to make us happy although many still place their store of happiness on a materialistic philosophy. <br /><br />Best wisheslindsaylobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774918551798647046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9716997.post-75988207447227555102010-12-18T05:36:32.407+11:002010-12-18T05:36:32.407+11:00.... sigh.... and look around at what the life of ....... sigh.... and look around at what the life of a man who taught humanity about its potential has been bastardized into.... at least in north America... clots of vehicles jam the arteries of every city and town, vomiting their contents into malls and shopping centre, they, in turn vomit the contents of their wallets in exchange for trash that will, for the most part, be in the landfill by spring. And between now and that spring, the kings and queens of those merchandizing chains that profit from this gluttony of mammon will be far from the serfs and peons who labor in their desolate fields to keep them fat, just as kings and queens of old escaped to the country to ignore the squalor and disease of the cities that fed their wealth. the more things change, the more they stay the same. <br /><br />but there are a few bright sparks, and you, wise and gentle one, are such.gfidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08452490194253665370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9716997.post-12695710620336177052010-12-14T14:31:41.716+11:002010-12-14T14:31:41.716+11:00The Book of Revelations is probably the most serio...The Book of Revelations is probably the most seriously misunderstood by those who would prefer to see and even agitate for an end to this world of wickedness. In all honesty fundamentalists, whether Christian or Muslim, aren't wrong in recognizing that the corporate state is one completely missing spirituality but hoping for the fiery end of the world doesn't help matters.<br /><br />I remembered a passage I'd read (and had to search for) about CS Lewis in conversation with JRR Tolkien when Lewis was still an athiest. Their conversation was about myths and Lewis insisted myths were lies but Tolkien responded: They are not. We have come from God and reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth is with God. Only by myth making can man aspire to the perfection he knew before the fall.<br /><br />It's more than just unfortunate that many modern people seem to have lost the ability to understand myth as metaphor for deeper meaning most of us can only hope to glimpse. <br /><br />You've done a wonderful job of describing how the mythic elements of Revelations came to be and I agree the answer must be at the level of individual understanding.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9716997.post-88265294507878784882010-12-11T06:47:43.257+11:002010-12-11T06:47:43.257+11:00On the whole, it is very much like the market, all...On the whole, it is very much like the market, all over again.<br />Expectations generally are driven primarily by fear, and any degree of rationality can be noted only over a period of time rather than in any particular moment.<br />Indicators come, fundamentals shift, expectations change. Again and again.<br />Consider this:<br />There was a merger announced earlier this month that, should it go through (which it will), will give Russian interests over 50% control of the US uranium resources.<br />Unthinkable in the time of Krushchev, not so long ago.<br />So, was glasnost a success?<br /><br />Similarly, the Vatican sits in Rome where Augustus sits no more.Mercutiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13270898097330918764noreply@blogger.com