Most times, when i hear ppl arguing bowt god, it seems to me that what they'r really arguing about is, "Just what exactly do you mean when you use that label 'god'?"
Being raisd in religious schools, hence forced to decrypt th edifice of religion from a young age, i came to th conclusion that "god" is one of those lazy, all-purpose labels, like "love", which we use when we don't know exactly what we mean. The "here be dragonnes" part of th map. We infer that something must be there, but we can't quite get our heads round it.
I find polytheism a pragmatic & healthy form of this symbology, as it is lively, complex, overlapping, interwoven, just like th universe it attempts to describe. Some ancient pagan, living amid forest, could probably guess that a tree possessd somethin like DNA, but lacking th tools to observe it directly, it just became part of th dryad. And this view needn't be threatend when they do discover DNA; they'v just unfolded anotha leaf of her beauty.
Th rise of hierarchical societies, afflicted with notions of perfection, is what brought us th sterility of monotheism, and strife has followed ever since. It's an attempt to impose th map on th territory, and th territory will always beg to differ.
I like PKD's ontological argument: reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I must confess, tcpip, your association with th Unitarians baffles me.
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Date: 2007-01-31 03:54 pm (UTC)it seems to me that what they'r really arguing about is,
"Just what exactly do you mean when you use that label 'god'?"
Being raisd in religious schools,
hence forced to decrypt th edifice of religion from a young age,
i came to th conclusion that "god" is one of those lazy, all-purpose labels,
like "love",
which we use when we don't know exactly what we mean.
The "here be dragonnes" part of th map.
We infer that something must be there,
but we can't quite get our heads round it.
I find polytheism a pragmatic & healthy form of this symbology,
as it is lively, complex, overlapping, interwoven,
just like th universe it attempts to describe.
Some ancient pagan, living amid forest,
could probably guess that a tree possessd somethin like DNA,
but lacking th tools to observe it directly,
it just became part of th dryad.
And this view needn't be threatend when they do discover DNA;
they'v just unfolded anotha leaf of her beauty.
Th rise of hierarchical societies,
afflicted with notions of perfection,
is what brought us th sterility of monotheism,
and strife has followed ever since.
It's an attempt to impose th map on th territory,
and th territory will always beg to differ.
I like PKD's ontological argument:
reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.
I must confess, tcpip,
your association with th Unitarians baffles me.