Jimbo wrote in message ...
>>"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:5l1_8.111386$UT.7143617 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...>> Jimbo wrote in message ...
>> >
>> >"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> >news:kzJZ8.37707$Iu6.2150051 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...>> >>
>> >> Jimbo wrote in message ...
>> >> >
>> >> >"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> >> >news:4XGZ8.109814$UT.7020136 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...>> >> >
>> >> ><snipped>
>> >> >
>> >> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >
>> >I think fundamentalist **MISinterpretations** are responsible for
>"Tragic
>> >results".
>> >
>> What specific "fundamentalist **MISinterpretations**" 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.
these are not "fundamentalist **MISinterpretations**".
these are Consequences of "fundamentalist **MISinterpretations**", which,
"fundamentalist **MISinterpretations**", constitute the '"nterpretations"
to which strictly-literal-lfolks ["fundamentalists"] adhere.
the whole 'point' of my earlier post was that folks act on their
interpretations because they experience their interpretations as coinciding
with 'reality', when they are, in fact, only the stuff of the 'language'
interface. coincidence with reality exists, if at all, at a deeper 'level',
so it's good to operate at that deeper 'level' before acting in ways that
by-produce Consequences such as those to which i referred.
in your latest post, two posts in the thread beyond this one, you [again]
'eliminate' context, and then 'make-up' whatever direction it is in which
you want to 'steer' the discussion, in the way of some wasteful 'dance', not
'bothering' to actually deal with anything that's actually in anything i've
posted.
i'd answer you in a trying-to-be-informative way, if you'd just query' in a
way that explicitly states a question, explicitly with respect to stuff that
i've actually posted.
it's because you did not, and because you remove contextual information that
i'd provided, that i Chose to 'stand on what i've posted'.
one can See-Clearly, through the 'lens' of the 'moving away from', inherent
in your posts, that your interests lie somewhere other than in the stuff of
discrete-information-exchange.
as Lincoln said, "A man has not time to spend half his life in quarrels."
k. p. collins
