Logocentrism

[Dave Meury]

Otto said:

"Well, we all know that catholicism is a children-religion . . ."

Aquinas, in one of his Summas or another, relates this to children eating 
food appropriate for children but that when grown they are ready for adult 
food.  I assume this means the interpretation as opposed to the fairy tale 
exposition (though I doubt if Thomas - A - not P - would explicitly admit 
to scripture as fiction).

"We all live today like American people and the story of "shit, money and 
the word" with all it`s ecological implications is one of the
highlights of GR to me."

I'm sure this must have been brought up before but that "shit, money, and 
the word" is a parodic version of "father, son, and holy ghost."  The word 
part is interesting because as Mitchell points out, the greek form of the 
term is logos.  But just as a word imparts form upon thought, logos is also 
defined as an informing principle of being and, by inference, implies an 
intelligence that thought the thought or thinks the thought.  In the 
Christian tradition, the thought is somehow both the intelligence itself 
and the product of the intelligence.

Sounds as reasonable to me as black not being black because while being 
black, it is only so by not being white and therefore carries white in its 
meaning.  Meaning must equate to identity and if we don't know our 
identity, we must be meaningless if not impotent by virtue of that blind 
will to power, that "modern" informing principle.

Just musing, wasting that precious bandwidth that some are so worried 
about,

Dave