Month: March 2005
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Logocentric Theology
"Logic is all about the entertaining of possibilities."
-- Colin McGinn,
Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning,
Harvard U. Press (See yesterday's entry.)
"God is the sum of all possibilities."-- Isaac Bashevis Singer, according to
the Associated Press "Today in History"
feature for today, March 30, 2005"A probability space is a measure space with total measure one."
-- Gregory F. Lawler, Probability Notes
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one."
For other illustrations of logocentric theology, see
Matrix of the Death God (May 25, 2003),
Transcendental Meditation (July 30, 2003),
and, for Warren Beatty's birthday today,
Graphical Password (April 27, 2003). -
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The stranglehold of the Wiener Kreis on Harvard philosophy may at last be breaking:
"... imagination and belief are related.... belief presupposes imagination...."
"To negate the actual is to move imaginatively into the realm of
modality. Logic is all about the entertaining of possibilities.""... imagination is central to an account of linguistic understanding.
To understand a sentence is to imaginatively grasp the possibility it
represents."-- Colin McGinn, excerpt (pdf) from Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning, published by Harvard University Press on November 22, 2004
From November 22, 2004:From Four Quartets:
And the pool was filled
with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light... -
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From
The Mother ShipCamille Paglia, The Magic of Images:
"Young people today are flooded with disconnected images
but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a
historical frame of reference in which to situate them.... The new generation,
raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid
primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of
culture." -
Quarter to Three,
continuedA Google search on plato cave jesus tomb yields the following:
Parched with thirst am I, and dying.Nay, drink of Me, the ever-flowing Spring....
-- Ancient tomb prayer
Those with opinions on the Schiavo case may interpret these words as they please. See also the previous entry.
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Harrowing
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Added at 1:11 PM Saturday:
From a discussion of gnostic heresies in today's Tennessean.com: Gnostic way a backlash against
lackluster sermons, worship''Jesus is not a teacher in the conventional sense, according to the
Gospel of Thomas, because people must come to knowledge themselves,''
writes Marvin Meyer in The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus, the latest book to collect these hidden gospels and secret sayings of Jesus.''Jesus was more like a bartender, in that he serves the
intoxicating drink of knowledge, but people must drink for themselves.''
"It's quarter to three..."See also
The Twelve Steps of Christmas
from Sinatra's birthday last year. -
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