tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491665605856687498.post9107542866133108936..comments2023-08-03T03:04:00.350-07:00Comments on Bryan Ray: Religious-irreligious brainstormingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491665605856687498.post-15338571906354710532015-09-28T20:28:39.604-07:002015-09-28T20:28:39.604-07:00Exegesis! yes!—but I stress: only laughingly so. I...Exegesis! yes!—but I stress: only laughingly so. I love when serious, hairsplitting arguments (the type that are common among the writings of philosophers and theologians) become so convoluted that they resemble a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine" rel="nofollow">Rube Goldberg machine</a>. …By the way, thanks yet again for your appreciative words about the text and even the image: it really means a lot to hear that, especially from someone who's obviously paying such close attention. <br /><br />…Yes and I enjoyed that interview as well: I'm glad that you sent it on—this subject and talk makes me to want to pause the video every few seconds in order to answer with my own views. & by the way, the interviewer happens to be a Christian author whom I read back in my Bible-thumping days. He wrote <i>The Case for Christ</i> and all of its spin-off books. I remember even watching a movie version of that title—could that be right?—yes! he did make a movie of it (I just did a search)—now the memory is coming back to me very clearly—oh you should have heard me barking at the screen that night! The film's only about an hour long, but, because of my interruptions, it took us more than three hours to get through it! …But all this that I'm foaming about has to do with Lee Strobel, the guy off-camera… I totally agree with your reaction to Antony Flew, & with all that you observed: I got the same vibe from him… for a number of reasons he's very interesting… I myself, when talking about religion, still favor these couple quotations that I repeat either too much or not enough—William Blake's proverb: <br /><br /><i>Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.</i> <br /><br />& also Walt Whitman's lines from Song of Myself: <br /><br /><i>Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, <br />Only what nobody denies is so.</i><br /><br />In closing, please accept my sincerest apologies for all those life-changing experiences that you suffered with the pizza, the machinery, and the eggs.Bryan Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11804120781497712479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491665605856687498.post-70894509923215575882015-09-26T22:56:38.579-07:002015-09-26T22:56:38.579-07:00I forgot to mention, the collage is great! Decapit...I forgot to mention, the collage is great! Decapitated females in bed/office situations, open DRAWERS and LAP tops, a hand does a coguettish thing, turqoise pillars rise into frame, the view is confronted by the stare of an alluring blonde. Is it Hitchcock I should call or Freud.<br />Oh, and just so you know, the last proof I had to make was to point out the pictures that contained eggs. It was horrible.OnlyMeThefourthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491665605856687498.post-60647557883725282622015-09-26T22:46:27.696-07:002015-09-26T22:46:27.696-07:00I was thinking: that's exegesis innit but I ju...I was thinking: that's exegesis innit but I just had to make sure that's what it was by looking it up and so now I suppose I was quite right, that's what it is. It's a funny old three letter word from a funny old book I haven't read in much but what you did there seems to make a bit of sense to me and I particularly liked the final quote from your masterpiece and most particularly the verb describing what the androgyne did to itself. I'm going to do that to a bit of fruit later on just because I can. I'm reminded of a quote I read earlier today by Robert Anton Wilson on belief which echoed your own. You must be in good company. Earlier than that, but also today, I watched a short chat with Anthony Flew about his move from Atheism to Deism in late life (I was trying to dig up an idea on the power of symbols that I'd mentioned to someone else and was sure that I'd got it wrong and that it wasn't Flew but Gilbert Ryle and it wasn't fyi) which I really enjoyed watching I think more because of what I saw as his modesty and his hesitation and his old age and his closeness to his body and so on rather than what he was actually saying and I'll link that here because you might like it too..<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHUtMEru4pQ<br />Last time at this interface I was made to identify pictures that were of machinery. I struggled with that one as much as I did with the Pizza one so lets all hold thumbs that once again I will not be found out for a robot! <br />Laterz bro etc.OnlyMeAthirdtimenoreply@blogger.com