Against the Day/Songs

[Matthew Ryan]

Or an air raid siren?

On 7/24/06, richard baillie <richbaillie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> 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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