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- Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:40 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jung speaks of Christianity and Nietzsche Law
- Replies: 11
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Re: Jung speaks of Christianity and Nietzsche Law
Nietzsche is seized by the delirium of the Redeemer, Jung argues, and yet is unaware of the inner problems that led him to develop a doctrine which has greatly influenced the culture and politics of the twentieth century. The minute he states that 'God is dead', without realizing the profound relig...
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:28 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
- Replies: 81
- Views: 117816
Re: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
Quoted from the site you linked to: "This is the very pinnacle of the sublime secret approach. Do not speak about it to those of lesser aptitude, but keep it extremely secret. By being misinterpretted, the teachings concerning the heart essence will be distorted. Exaggeration and underestimatio...
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:39 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
Surely you jest! ;-) You're cute when you want to be. Okay, okay, the 'hero' resolves to return home. I'm leaving on my 'journey'. Long and arduous! Struggles, setbacks! And then: I see the Promised Land! One giant obstacle remains. But I defeat it! I cross over. I'm home now. Thank you Diebert! But...
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:04 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Monomyth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10135
Re: Monomyth
This goes out to those who finally get their definitions right! Good Luck!
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:51 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
- Replies: 81
- Views: 117816
Re: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
Peculiarly, you explain and 'defend' this 'enlightenment' as if you 'know' it, but then you evince all sorts of confusion, discomfort and even pain about existential problems. About 90% of the conversations (those endless, abstract battles over definitions which, in the end, seem to get no-one no-wh...
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Monomyth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10135
Re: Monomyth
I'm an ass of many questions and a many questioned ass...and thank you, btw.
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:13 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
"A Mort Les Juif!" (reference to the Dreyfus Affaire)
"While at some level this all may be seen as an embarrassing jest..." though IS DEFINITELY a keeper no matter what! Could you/would you ever just articulate what it is that seems to bother you so much about what I write and think? It really seems to rub you the wrong way. I have often felt...
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:45 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
Was that the best advice, Diebert? Do you really think it was? I have seen you attempt longshots but I really think this one will win you a prize! I'm going to be strong, with Weininger, and resolve to stay in 'my' diaspora! As to Colombia, as much as I have and still have my doubts, the place and i...
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:23 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
- Replies: 81
- Views: 117816
Re: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
One thing I note---by way of criticism---in Breese's exposition, and I think it is an important one, is that she seems to refer to a 'state of being', this thing called 'enlightenment'. As you know, I consider this term very flawed and problematic. There is only 'enlightenment' of a given person in ...
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Monomyth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10135
Questions Questions Questions
Since the subject is 'monomyth' and since, Cathy, your vision and approach, from what you say, is very 'mono-', what exactly do you do with this knowledge? What activity does it inspire? I am genuinely interested to know: With your views and focus would you, will you, have children (or have you alre...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:41 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
What you have done with your time is your problem, not mine! The way I see it---and you are very free to do this mind you---you yourself subverted potential communication. As to 'opportunities': we make our own opportunities. The question, though, was a very good one: are you driven? I assume you ha...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:09 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
- Replies: 81
- Views: 117816
Re: Enlightenment / Knowing Who You Are
Then perhaps you will be able to say: "I went on a trip to Hell and in that place, a poisoned place where great lies were recited and held up as great truths, my soul came under that influence and I felt and knew what it is to die alive. I drank the poisons they called 'liberation' and felt the...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Monomyth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10135
Re: Monomyth
My referen e to the 'entire Biblical tradition' was to show that Luke 12:49 fits within an even broader context of religious definition that includes the specificity of that single sentence. ;-) To say that those who compiled those traditions, who thought about them, dealt with them, did.not 'unders...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:23 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Monomyth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10135
Re: Monomyth
You ask What is the context of Luke 12, but the fuller question is What is the context of the whole Biblical revelation, what are the core Biblical themes, and what is the Biblical vision for a transformed individual and world? Luke is said to have been an associate of Paul, and if that is so it sug...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:14 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
Thanks for the response, Pye. It is not hard to build bridges with you. There is most definitely on my part a kind of obsessive quixotism to my being here and staying here. I am actually a very alow learner, or the things I have learned here have been 'leasons' so fundamental to my incarnation that ...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:07 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
Pye wrote : Weirdly, Alex, this rolls around to you, and why I sometimes find it angular to talk to you. I'm thinking you are caught up in language systems as systems; types of thought as types, and that you don't want to do anything with philosophy. As much healthy skepticism as you apply, your fo...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Monomyth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10135
Re: Monomyth
Cathy, you are operating within Christian categories with no enunciation of your specific relationship to those categories. Can you please describe to what 'world' one must perform allegiance to? If you quote Luke, will you also quote all parts of Luke and the other Gospels to? Or, as with Quinn, do...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:05 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
You are alone. Except there is a donkey munching daffodils in the field behind you who gets it! Literary allusion, gotten! Ma would be proud... Paranoid, over-fastidious rodent mapping his own territory, expanding ever-deeper into himself, then coming to the surface for hyper-paranoid self-serving e...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:57 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
Pye, I already know what he [David] means! The existentialist with the Gauloise is Sartre, not Dennis! But I get you point. I promise to make greater distinctions. Again, you are dealing with a farm animal , Pye. Did you ever read the Kafka story A Report to an Academy ? Now there's an [ape] that kn...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:48 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Monomyth
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10135
Re: Monomyth
Is there something higher than the Ipod? [Just a wee bit of a joke since it meets the criteria you mention. But not to make light of the topic (Diebert tossed 19 pages of Campbell at us in another thread) since it is really quite interesting, and not at all discussed here.]
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:25 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
Pye, in order to get this you have to have (shhhhhhh!) 'religious imagination'.David wrote: "There is an eternal aspect to change, to becoming, and uncovering that aspect is the key to all wisdom."
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:12 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Talking Ass gives Darshan to His favored disciples. Free!
David wrote : "I don't think you do understand why I consider you to be ignorant, to be honest. But in any case, the point I was making had nothing to do with you personally. I was addressing a deep spiritual matter." Oh, I think I do. I once suggested that we 'paraphrase' each other, a m...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:29 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
I didn't ask such a thing. My first post in this thread was a statement , as usual. But if you are explaining your views as arising from French Existentialism, yes that makes sense. With the lovely Marxian underpinning too! It is inevitable. You got me all wrong, ALL wrong. I am soft and furry and r...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:15 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
You and Diebert share that natty characteristic. "For a fellow who likes frisking around linguistics, you might have recognized the rhetorical opportunity I took to turn your word into the point". My complaint is that what you have written (as a tirade of sorts) is just not related to what...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:07 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 226244
Re: The Mystic....
I see your point. But that isn't why Dennis irritates. If some day Dennis articulates 'terror', I will jump up and applaud. Also, you are launching into an argument against a whole windmill you have in your mind. I am not opposed to those definitions, in se . My 'theology' could just as well functio...