Re: virus: Original Sin (was: Truth) <---- irony, no?
Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 18:21:26 +0100
Wade writes
>>Shouldn't that read "Believing that there can be a right and wrong and
>>that he has to choose, is man's primary blemish"?
>
>Indeed. Remember, these things are always fables created by a
>priest-class, endowed with the authority that their uniquely heinous
>version of 'You're in trouble, only I can help' imbues.
>
>That theology hacks have spent careers, lives, and otherwise wasted their
>pitiable lives on the 'meaning' of these fairytales, well.... Let 'em,
>keeps 'em in one place for when we're ready to drop the big ones.
>
>The garden fable works equally well for anti-satanists, petty authority
>figures, misogynists, and just plain fascists....
I treasure these occasional agreements between us, Wade. :-)
"Good" traditionally means just "doing what you're told", while "bad" is
just doing what you're told not to, or not doing what you're told.
I still think in terms of good and bad, but for me these now mean
conducive, and unconducive, to enlightenment, respectively. Which can
be translated as, good is what, really, genuinely, suits people, as opp.
what someone else thinks is good for them (or society or whatever).
--
Robin Faichney
http://www.faichney.org/robin/