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Originally Posted by harmonygirl okay, I haven't read those books. can you tell me why the Goddess wouldn't be dependent on women? |
We live in a nihilist society. Nietzsche predicted it in his philosophy, in his "god is dead", in his book "beyond good and evil", in his theory of super man: that we need no god or ethics or anything on top, as there is no truth, nor eason and no reality. Nobody cares, nobody stops to breathe, or stops at all. Time flows in humanity and no one defines the speed, everyone defines the speed! But we are re-writing history to have an illusion, the illusion that we are perfect: the fall of communism in Russia eliminated everything the cold war was, the unification of germany eliminated the main consequence of WWII, now the EU is getting nearer to become 1 united, that's eliminating the protestant, luther, calvin... And coming back to medievel ages idea of a united europe. We're re-writing history, and this means that we are re-writing all the important ideas too, for these are a fundamental part of history. And specially the idea of god is being re-written. Up to here this is Buadrillard's work, form now on it's Maffesoli's. We have become a pagan society, we have come nback to the tribes. Maybe in the US as it's all so self-centered the news didn't get ther,e but in france there have been big revolts in late 2005 from young people who are socially marginated, most from north africa. This is coming back to the tribes, they come back, they come back. We (as in society now) are anti-romanticism, against the idea of the individual, we need a 'come together' which is constant, we don't believe in our selves as virtues, for we belief our virtues are of no importance. We come back now to Baudrillard. Montesquie, Voltaire, Rousseu, etz all believe din the Human Rights as a reinvication of us as rational beings, as special, but we've changed this, we've interpret these rights as rights from our nature, not our rationality, due to the modern thought from 19th century geniuses like Wilde and Goethe. That's why now we think that dogs, birds, trees, ozone layer... Should all have rights... It's a coming back to intuition, as Kant defended it, and Einstein, and Bergson... Now we come to Deleuze's idea of a direct positivism: we don't need space, we just need time to be positive, and this is momentuous. We dedicate our life to 'carpe diem', or Fellini's film La Dolce Vita, to hic et nuc (here and now). To Foucault's reduction-to-sex based on Froid's psycology but applied to history. Many scientific investigations proof these things, some say 3/4 of what we do is to be more atractive to the other sex. Or for some to the same sex. Husserl's phenomenology is the base of 20th century science's philosophy: the manifestation of something is just my intepretation of it, not it itself.
What does all this have to do with god, and with what I say that if a supreme being existed it would be independent of our language, religion, sex or of humans in general?
Totally. You just have to analize my long and worthy reading paragraph. I tell you if there is a god it wouldn't have a sex, for it, as the universal of universals, should have all sexes, and no sex at the same time, and each sex at the same time. Also, if god really existed, it wouldn't be how it is in our mind, for it is an absolute, it should not be relative to each mind, each intepretation, eahc religion... Lots of modern thoughts says that god is how you see it, for example Wilde defended this, the idea of an 'inner nature to be followed' and we can see this also in Tolstoi but from the idea of happiness. But we are in a postmodern world, readers! And postmodern thought is looking at the future in terms of present problems, independent of the past (as opposed to modern thought which is looking at the present in terms of past problems). I invite you to read my many arguments agaisnt god in my thread "God". I jsut have so many thoughts on this single question I would write a book...