From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sun Aug 08 2004 - 20:32:45 BST
Mark,
My point is that the old label (God in all his maleness, for instance)
represents something to move to a higher quality,
Everything-Is-Connected-To-Everything. Shouldn't it be a new word without the old connotations?
I suppose I'm way over my head.
MarshaV
Hi Marsha,
God may be viewed in two distinct ways:
1. As a static analogue of DQ.
2. As a means of social control.
These two views must be distinguished. Your thread is called, 'The Social
Construction of Reality' and so i thought you were considering God from this
point of view. God, as a means of social control, as exhibited in organised
religion, is a useful pattern of evolutionary development. It keeps biological
patterns in their place. This has also allowed the suppression of Women by Men.
Just why they should want to do this is obvious: Men are nothing without social
status, and very often, the woman provides it (ooooo-errrrrrr, the social
status i mean)!
So, as far as The Social Construction of Reality and God as 2 goes, it's all
a bit of a sorry mess.
God as an analogue of DQ is something totally different.
All the best,
Mark
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