Oannes

David Stockhoff · 20 Mar 2012, 18:30 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:30:01 -0400
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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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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