Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now for entertainment you should check out 'The Rediscovery of Man", by Cordwainer Smith. It's science fiction, with a religious twist. It's my understanding he influenced Philip K. Dick to some extant. Well worth a read. Slobodan Dimitrov Studio G-8, Angels Gate Cultural Center http://sdimitrovphoto.com On May 18, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Don Dory wrote: > Thank you for the reference. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 5/18/06, Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: >> >> The 30 year war seems to be our common faultline. >> How Europe related, and still relates, to itself, and made >> religionized and politicized acitivty convertible, is a lesson >> sorely avoided. It just seems that we've applied the same criteria to >> economic participation. >> While we don't kill people for not following religious beliefs within >> a hegemonic culture in the West, the same can't be said with belief >> in economic systems. >> An interesting critic of this has been Wilfred Cantwell Smith. His >> "The Meaning and End of Religion: A New Approach to the Religious >> Traditions of Mankind", (1963) is still a good read today. >> Most people when asked about religious revival assume it is a process >> that is outward, and coupled with expansionism. In reality, it is an >> inward event affecting all the major, and minor, traditions as they >> strive for internal uniformity. Unfortunately, it is done heedless of >> the human cost. >> But I think we've entered a topic drift area outside the scope of our >> "affinity group" criteria. >> >> Slobodan Dimitrov >> Studio G-8, >> Angels Gate Cultural Center >> http://sdimitrovphoto.com >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 18, 2006, at 6:54 AM, Don Dory wrote: >> >> > Slobodan, >> > Please expand on that line of thought. This is an area that you >> > have far >> > more knowledge of than I do. To my meager knowledge, a lot of the >> > religious >> > wars were typical expand and conquest for power and riches masked >> > by an >> > excuse, this time Christianity or Islam in the West, but also >> > Romanism vs. >> > Protestantism at a different time. >> > >> > Likewise, my understanding of the spread of Catholicism in Latin >> > America was >> > initially all about enforcing but fairly quickly brought into a >> more >> > voluntary proselytising mode. >> > >> > Don >> > don.dory@gmail.com >> > >> > >> > On 5/18/06, Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> The term "spreading" is convertible with "enforcing." >> >> Which means that we're in the very same boat Western Europeans >> found >> >> themselves during the religious wars. >> >> >> >> Slobodan Dimitrov >> >> Studio G-8, >> >> Angels Gate Cultural Center >> >> http://sdimitrovphoto.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 18, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Kenneth Frazier wrote: >> >> >> >> > >> >> > On May 18, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> besides consumption. That, and the fantasy of spreading >> >> >> "democracy" throughout the world. >> >> > >> >> > Aren't they the same thing? ;-) >> >> > >> >> > Ken >> >> > ----------------------------------- >> >> > The Rev. Kenneth Frazier >> >> > Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ >> >> > ---------------------------------- >> >> > Current Leica Photography (PESO): >> >> > http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r >> >> > >> >> > Current Medium Format Photos: >> >> > http://tinyurl.com/bjvfn >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Leica Users Group. >> >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> >> information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information