Jimbo wrote in message ...
>>"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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>>> in this actuality, there's the necessity to explore the larger stuff.
>which,
>> with respect to the Word of Christ, is what i do.
>>>> "fundamentalist' interpretations get-into-trouble because they 'stop at
>the
>> interface'.
>>>> often, with Tragic results with respect to which most folks are familiar.
>>>What specific "Tragic results" as a result of "fundamentalist'
>interpretations" are you referring to?
'segregation', 'apartheid', lynching, 'religious' warfare [such as that
which is being waged against the U. S.], the Troubles in Northern Ireland,
the threat of 'nuclear' war in South Asia, in general, all 'us vs. them'
stuff.
if all of History is searched, the list is very-long.
by 'fundamentalism', i mean exactly that which i discussed in the portions
of my prior post that you 'erased'.
seeing the 'interface' and 'thinking' that it's 'everything.
it's not.
it never is.
what is, at least with respect to this or that instance of 'language [say a
'sentence'], is the larger stuff that is what underpins 'language'.
Tragedy happens when folks establish 'rules' ['laws', 'treaties',
'agreements', etc.], and, then, 'forget' about the larger stuff in order to
adhere to the 'letter of the law'.
in such, reality is forsaken, while mere words, infinitely-replaceable, are
'elevated' to the status of 'everything'.
Tragedy happens because of the forsaking of reality that's inherent.
k. p. collins
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