Logocentrism

[Richard Fiero]

I get quite a different sense of the Biblical "Word."
Recall that Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and
also began to name things in words. Recall that Adam and Eve were cast
out of the Garden and prevented from returning by a shining sword,
possibly the sword of divisive ratiocination and the endless naming of
things. Christ was also the Word and Christ was sacrificed along with
the universe of opposites in the good and the bad thieves thereby
bringing about the possibility of redemption from the
infantile/regressive paranoia which causes man alienation from the
Garden of oneness through his desire to name and number things (being
like a God himself). I much prefer to see Slothrop as a hero of
transformation and his going away as Christlike. As Bodine sums up, ".
. .  you poor fucker."


David Morris writes:
>
>>From: Dave Meury "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.
>
>Biblically, "The Word" can be understood to mean Revelation, that which is 
>revealed.  Implicit in this definition is the understanding that the 
>"Word's" message was previously hidden, occult, behind the veil.  The Word 
>is a powerful agent in that it exposes a hidden Truth.  Revelation is a 
>thought that cannot be deduced, is beyond the ken of the thinker.
>
>If one were to try to align "The Word" with one of the Trinity's
three, the 
>"Holy Ghost" would be a good match, since the HG is the agent of
Revelation, 
>the medium for God's communication with man.  Without the gift of
Revelation 
>from the Christian God, human's are blind, deaf , and dumb.  That hidden 
>realm is purely invisible without a map given from above.
>
>David Morris