I yi yi,
Hello all and drose.
First, my last post needs to be located in TRASH, that is the worst thing
I've written since "What I Did On My Summer Vacation", but in my own Red
Hook, Winterbrew sort of way was trying to get at something, I'll keep it
quick, I've already really lost my place.
drose wrote:
>There are many reasonable people who are
>also religious.
>I correspond with one regularly. Some of my best friends...
Most reasonable, and caring. I did not intend to imply.....
I wrote:
> I>f all of this Moq stuff holds water, something, probably not the MoQ,
is
> >going to fill this gap. I content that the Moslem faith is significant
> > contender.
Drose wrote
>Why not, indeed? Probably not in the West. The base is all wrong
I wasn't suggesting that the Moslem faith would be so much the base Moral
system for the entire west as a significant component of change. Second or
third chair to the big "Ka-chink" I like to use the analogy of the fractal
when I contemplate any system of events, the prominent iterations being the
plateau of our "Ka-chink".
Because of the behavior of feedback, or as I like to refer to it, the
edifice of referential tension, each component from minute to the prominent,
to the entirety of events, is connected, "butterfly wing, hurricane....".
My Moslem idea stems from what I see happening 40 -50 years from now. Our
educational institutions continue to teach in a way that leaves people in a
lonely, valueless, morally ambiguous wasteland. LS contributors try to
reason out shootings at schools, but the problem is that they are
reasonless. I think these children are victims of a sense of physical and
spiritual boundrylesness, that allows intellect to lap over its sides with
ego, and anger, and a need for justification, that has obviously disregarded
our biological patterns, there's blood everywhere. The Moslem faith, in my
limited understanding, for some could be a plausible remedy, and people
collectively seek out remedies like a bunch of drunken somnambulists. I am
probably much younger than you, and I'm seeing Moslem ethic creeping up from
behind, as a static moral system ( with Dynamic apeal...) in a volatile
time. I see it in music. The banal, Public Enemy. The not so Banal, and
actually quite impressive Muslim Gauze with songs like "Our Heroin, Your
Arms". I see it in Moslem community leaders, (Where I live there is a
strong American Moslem presence.) Any kid (Somnambulist) who catches wind
of the Koran, is likely to hear about Jihad. Americans blew up a federal
building simply becuase they were pissed at the Govt. This thing, society
is fragil. This could be said of any religion's Moral system or Holy War ,
but the main difference here is that the Moslem faith holds Dynamic Quality
for young westerners. I haven't seen any minarets around, lots of
Cathedrals, Churches...."
OK, I should kill this one. Somebody said something about applying MoQ to a
possible "future" moral situation/problem, I thought this was realistic
considering what I'm seeing in the real world.
The Science of God is next on my reading list. Thanks.
Pops to Doone for his talent for real life metaphor, Titanic, Dinosaurs.
Right on, that broke my heart and made me laugh.
Thank you to anyone who took my first Moslem/West post seriously.
Jay
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