Against the Day/Songs

[richard baillie]

couldn't it just be someone screaming??


On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:53:14 +0000, "Ghetta Life"
<ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> said:
> 
> 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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