tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post5969733337752377716..comments2023-02-08T03:16:24.937-05:00Comments on Saturday Morning @ The Story-of- Everything Place: More Than Any CreedJohn Kotrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471048328678222796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-1515575079875217782008-12-18T11:47:00.000-05:002008-12-18T11:47:00.000-05:00I have long been fascinated with images and symbol...I have long been fascinated with images and symbols, beginning with the teddy bear I wore out as a child. Years later, when I learned in graduate school that my love for that stuffed critter was really the satisfaction of my longing for my mother’s breast, I did not become cynical, but instead took this revelation as another proof of my increasing awareness of the complexity of life and of my place and faith within it. This kind of insight wasn’t available to me when, during a fraternity initiation, I was blindfolded and asked to reach in a thoroughly cleaned and sanitized toilet bowl and take in my hands and eat a peeled banana. The smell reassured me at some level that this indeed was a banana, but at a completely different level the texture and shape of the banana conjured up scenarios that were far less benign. I did in fact take a bite of the banana and was immensely relieved to taste it. The moral, I guess, is that, while we tend to want to believe that some aspect of our sentient self presents reality to us, be it thought, sight hearing, or any of the other senses, it is probably more true that it is a gestalt of all that that accounts for our perception reality. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-85580550751685388532008-12-15T16:35:00.000-05:002008-12-15T16:35:00.000-05:00I read the article on the value ofour HUMAN image...I read the article on the value of<BR/>our HUMAN images of the DIVINE presence. Yes, we form sensual images of the non-sensual presence that cannot be imagined. Yet how often we presume that our mind can grasp the One whom we image.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-11341476529216415632008-12-15T16:32:00.000-05:002008-12-15T16:32:00.000-05:00How many (especially young males) have been subtly...How many (especially young males) have been subtly driven away by images of the wimpy Goy Jesus?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-78681564420387621092008-12-13T11:40:00.000-05:002008-12-13T11:40:00.000-05:00This seems to tie in with the Dalai Lama's stateme...This seems to tie in with the Dalai Lama's statement that mankind needs such a complex diversity of religions because each serves a need for a certain group of people. He supports Ulanov's view that comprehension of God is uniquely personal.Sharon Lippincotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269757107845288737noreply@blogger.com