The Scarlet A

[flexagon]

It's crunchtime at work. I could look at the big picture and say "Yow, what a shitty week!". But:

"Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small."
~~Virginia Woolf

Just added the Scarlet A to my public blog.

It feels like a brave thing to do, and that makes me cheerful.

Comments

[kaigex.livejournal.com]

The more I read mythology and see how the same stories are used and shaped by culture over time, and the more I read about the construction of mythos and sociology and the human mind, the more glaringly obvious it is that we made God up.

But getting rid of God is relatively easy; trickier is getting rid of the possibility of, say, a great ambient universal amoeboid, or other higher-order forms of life we don't generally account for but that would be quite supernatural by our understandings, and that may or may not work to influence reality around us, and so may or may not fit into general notions of gods, demons, angels, or whatever.

Then, of course, there is Durkheim, what with saying that the modern label "God" is really just an abstraction over culture. It *used* to be ascribed to an abstract sense of punishment and retribution, but has trended more positive over time and now nudges towards a generally optimistic cultural model in which people help each other just slightly more often than not, and the collective worship is merely there to support and permeate that model, of which I generally sorta approve in the sense that nonrational optimism beats nonrational pessimism any day. Though this may just be a Wittgensteiny logic-linguistic foible. And anyway, this all breaks down once there is an organized Authority/Church - as administrating spirituality feels like nonsense from any perspective.