Saturday, June 4, 2011

"Faith" & "Higher Ed" at WWC


Dear Colleagues,
 
Received an announcement this morning
about a community conversation ont
    Faith & Higher Ed at WWC
       (Tue 6/7 noon in Glad)
 
Always for the sake of argument: maybe
consider this fundamental distinction (aka:
belief, assumption) and my "Sense" Triad
below--so as to put IT in play.

Possibly.

 
The Heart of Thinking is Drawing  
                Distinctions
 
          “belief”
 
(aka: bias, conviction, prejudice) makes
common sense whatever it’s subject—
logical and rational even in its presumption:
basis for explanation, reasons why,
because-&-affects
 
                  “faith”
 
is absurd, illogical, irrational, indefensible:
might as well turn the other cheek –both
actually and walk away. “Faith” is nonsense
if not no-sense-at-all.

                      &&&&&&

              3 Mothers of Invention 

                    no sense at all
            (parabolical: to throw beyond)                             
        sense     nonsense                               
   (symbolical:                                (dia-bolical: to
  to throw together)                        throw across)

If possible: do not conflate, collapse, of  confuse
otherwise the distinctions are lost and it's all one.

                        *********

(After fasting for days, a holy man came off the
mountain, walked up to a hot dog vendor as asked:
"Make me one with everything."

 Receiving his dog, he gave the seller $10.  
And asked:  "Where's my change, then?"

"Change is within,"  says the hot dog man.)
 
xxxooo, Presbyter

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