Against the Day/Songs

[Ghetta Life]

The screaming across the sky might be God's voice, or a rocket, or it might 
be multitude of rockets leaving no place untouched.  In the last case there 
seems little distinction between the religious or the secular eschaton, at 
least from the scular point of view (not beliving in an after-life for our 
species).

Ghetta

>From: Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
>
>Paul sez:
>
>It's important that the Day of Judgement be seen to be just about as fully 
>applicable to the secular world and to the world of belief other than 
>fundamentalist Christian.  In all realms it is a judgement from which there 
>  is no appeal (GR page 1).
>
>So I say:
>
>Important to whom?  Death (as embodied by the screaming across the sky in 
>GR) is the judgement to which there is no appeal.  And yes, that screaming 
>could be the voice of a God dispensing judgement.  But it could also just 
>be a missile.
>
>The Day of Judgement is something else entirely.  As Anthony Burgess sez, 
>"Human beings die, and we all die... Only minor literature aims at 
>apocalypse."  Or something like that.  If you are an ethical atheist or a 
>Buddhist, the Day of Judgement is always already in existence.  So if you 
>mean that, then I agree with you.  But what I am against (and what I 
>believe the title Against the Day may imply) is the idea that judgement of 
>human behavior can be deferred to the point after we destroy ourselves as a 
>species.  I just want to make that distinction.

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