Anus gazing with Spinoza

[prozak at anus.com]

> I don't have the time to address Pynchon's passionate
> interest in Judaism and how religious texts are
> contrasted with scientific ones in his novels. And
> it's not so much how they are at odds, but how, as
> move into the Enlightenment, science and reason are
> mixed with religion and technology and end in
> holocaust.

Or: how scientific reason gets bent around religious ideals, possibly 
at the instigation of technological change. This is coherent with 
what some thinkers have said about the rise of Christianity and 
Judaism as "bureaucratic" religions.

> The
> Talmudists were puzzled in their attitudes to both
> these books. No finality. No closed system. Nothing
> finished. They were not, after all, Greeks or
> rationalists,  their texts were books of revelation,
> not reason. They would never consider human actions
> and desires in exactly the same manner, as though
> concerned with lines, planes, and solids. 

Yet much of the Greek imperative, like the Hindu before it, was in 
the opposite direction when it came to spirituality.

It is interesting how philosophical systems resolve a quantitatively 
rational world with vastly different explanations for ontological or 
metaphysical systems.
-- 
Backup Rider of the Apocalypse
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