tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post7996545519010356348..comments2024-03-19T09:06:21.507-04:00Comments on Irtiqa: God is in the metaphorSalman Hameedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04327330113822656571noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-22608117592562500682007-08-16T10:28:00.000-04:002007-08-16T10:28:00.000-04:00Salman,Congrats on having "God is in the Metaphor"...Salman,<BR/><BR/>Congrats on having "God is in the Metaphor" cited on 3QuarksDaily! I of course enjoyed the original posting tremendously for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I happen to be meandering through the book "The Universe and Dr. Einstein" by Lincoln Barrett. It's more of an essay, really, and a quick read, and it very well may have been one of the sources for the quotes in your piece (though I'd imagine Einstein's quotes on God appear in myriad sources). It's a little dated, but nevertheless extremely enjoyable reading, and I would highly recommend it to your readers if they have not already taken a look at it.<BR/><BR/>Best regards, and keep up the absolutely great work,<BR/><BR/>A. ArainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-3242296254035503932007-08-16T01:37:00.000-04:002007-08-16T01:37:00.000-04:00We're trained so well to see all differences, even...We're trained so well to see all differences, even fundamental differences in cognition and emotion, through the filter of economic function.<BR/>So people who get in the way of the economy and can't feed themselves due to mental dysfunction are ill, and people who seem sound of mind, who have social skills and are charismatic enough to start large political or religious movements are later, when their endeavors fail, described as ill. Those who don't fail are looked back with respect, not least because they've shaped what we are with their manipulations.<BR/>Those who contribute to the material well-being of their societies are accepted regardless of what's going on in their heads. Thus we have what looks like some sort of emotional lack in many very successful businessmen, a lack that allows them to perpetrate horrendous things on the world around them, to disconnect from the outcomes of their activities, sociopaths without the cliched trappings of criminality. True a lot of it's just out-and-out greed, but not all. Some of those guys just don't feel things like "normal" people do. <BR/>These oh-so rational speculations and metaphoric constructs seem to come from minds a few clicks toward the alien. <BR/>Cheers to Marina for the reminder of Rilke's clear and insistent, and steadfast, refusal to compromise with the less than human. And his adamant recognition of the more than.Jukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02183914310591005773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-4916987292290501122007-08-13T01:16:00.000-04:002007-08-13T01:16:00.000-04:00Rilke said it well:"We must not portray you in kin...Rilke said it well:<BR/><BR/>"We must not portray you in king's robes,<BR/>you drifting mist that brought forth the morning.<BR/><BR/>Once again from the old paint boxes <BR/>we take the same gold for scepter and crown<BR/>that has disguised you through the ages.<BR/><BR/>Piously we produce our images of you<BR/>'til they stand around you like a thousand walls."hedgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07002804980576789573noreply@blogger.com