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Jeptha -> RE: God in your play? (10/24/2008 9:03:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Wickad
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ORIGINAL: aravain
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But the Nihilist agenda disagrees entirely with the idea, postulating that there IS no diety, no afterlife, and therefore no reason to live...
I have to disagree with the whole nihilist train of thought. Just because one does not believe in a diety, or an afterlife it does not mean that they believe there is no reason to live. Some see the absence of an afterlife as the most important reason to live, and live well....
That's been my feeling. If this is it, better appreciate the gift and seize the day.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, you know.
But, concerning the first question, yes, sort of. I certainly can find my lover, and love and sex quite divine, and yet very human. Anyway, better to revere her than an abstract deity that is most likely a psychological projection.
I just saw a little film by Maya Deren called "The Divine Horsemen" about voodoo in Haiti. This thread gives me an excuse to use the notes I scribbled down (as it is somewhat related);
"Voudon has given woman...exclusive title to that which distinguishes humans from all other forms; the capacity to conceive beyond reality, to desire beyond adequacy, to create beyond need.
Voudon salutes woman as the divinity of the dream, the Goddess of Love, the muse of beauty.
She is identified with the Virgin Mary as the mother of man's myth of life. In a sense, she is that very principle by which man conceives and creates divinity.
To man himself, she is as mistress."
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