(urth) Oannes
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Mar 20 11:30:01 PDT 2012
Still, if no one can tell good religions from bad, what else is there to
say about the topic? Why write about it, as Lee asks?
On 3/20/2012 2:22 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> "Actually we have a relevant observation from Wolfe: “Silk is a good
> man in a bad religion.” Plainly he thinks that there can be better or
> worse conceptions of the Divine, even if all are imperfect."
>
> This seems to me more of a statement about Silk than the Divine. Also,
> now I can think of is Oreb continually assuring all players in the
> story that Silk is a "good man!".
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com
> <mailto:gerry at bindweed.com>> wrote:
>
> *From:* Antonin Scriabin <mailto:kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com
> <mailto:gerry at bindweed.com>> wrote:
> >
> > "The same way that one group of humans could have a better grasp
> of science,
> >
> >
> or economics, or poker,"
>
> >
> So, repeatable experiments and mathematical models? How are these
> applicable
> >
> to the study of "the infinite", especially when by "the infinite"
> is meant, "the divine"?
> I should have said “analogous ways”, I suppose. (Though perhaps
> repeatable experiments and mathematical models could provide
> insight in some ways.)
>
>
> >
> >
> "To say that the unknowability of absolute truth renders all views
> equally valid is
> >
> >
> the silly end of relativism."
> >
> Not really, if you add the qualification "equally valid /on the
> topic of absolute truth/".
>
> Actually we have a relevant observation from Wolfe: “Silk is a
> good man in a bad religion.” Plainly he thinks that there can be
> better or worse conceptions of the Divine, even if all are imperfect.
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
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