Posts by p forrester jarvie
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resentment is never, EVER irrelevant
(love from the 50 foot DogmaGirl
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how does one USE 'traditional animism' to 'maintain control' if every thing that moves - or doesn't - is equally invested with spirit? Just asking, y'all... where's the 'tradition' kick in exactly?
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ScottY if you want to read the most killer work ever on the very weird dynamics of belief itself then check/loan out asap my man Jean Pierre Dupuy's "Self-Deception and the Paradoxes of Rationality" (1998) )
'Pologies to those who despise consecutive posts
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i do apologise if my sometimes compulsive capitalizations offend anybody - but i'm reading a biography right now of my fellow 'headstrong, obstinate & perverse aquarian' (gasp!) hero Don Rumsfeld and boy, is it hot! You must all remember the time DR "paid a surprise visit to his wife's vagina" in 2006
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hey, thanks for the welcome! BUt what would you rather have, seriously, ultimately - a lottery win OR an "absolute unquestioning belief that a divine being rules our lives" - and i DO MEAN absolute and i do mean unquestioning...
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The design of religion is to provide spiritual validity to the correct answer that benefits the church/temple/mosque.
i'm sorry but that's pure horsedog. You're as wrong as an owl in a treetop. the originary function of religion IS fundamental and and it is real: it is to distribute the appetitive object amongst the newly sign-bearing creatures persent around it in such a way that resentment is minimised...
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boy oh boy. it takes but one reference to the former president & the bible, and the rampant thoughtlessness of the majority of obviously otherwise-intelligent people here comes rather fearfully to the fore... 'tis a most interesting state of affairs when, in the absence of George W, the very scripture itself now performs the crucial function of scapegoat, which it has been doing for a whole heap of time anyways...
the fantasy of so many nz'ers that religion is 'used to suppress thought' is highly amusing, to say the least!
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i did not "take" anything. I was MERELY trying to think for a moment outside of the box, as one says.. if YOU think those way-overdressed, totally gussied-up dudes who descend upon every scene of armed crime do not shout with every new creak of their armour HERE IS WHERE THE GOD OF VIOLENCE DOES DWELL and THIS IS WHAT HIS MINIONS SHALL LOOK LIKE then i'd like you to try and express what you think they do shout: "John Boy! Think of the FAMILY!" maybe?
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just a note from a seemingly newly pluckfilled little p, to ask for fresh consideration of posts just made at the threadbare tail-end of 'when that awful thing happens' ..
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you can rest assured that even the celecrated 'fruitbar' Jan Molenaar would have thought twice before attempting to destroy say, the fresh & brimming incarnation of Ronald McDonald if he rolled up onto the garden brandishing a day-glo, jiggly old piece of heavy artillery! I am sure you get my POINT already, but it is just what i do most hate about (my experience of) cops! they are soooooooooooooooooooo hideously UNImaginative! And we humans live in a 50% (at least) imaginary world!