NP: Sympathy for the Devil

[malignd at aol.com]

I meant, merely that if one believes in a god, then one has a rooting interest that one who does not does not. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 22, 2012 8:29 am
Subject: Re: NP: Sympathy for the Devil


Malign, I don't believe that you really believe that believing in
something makes anything interesting. IMO, once one believes, the
delta between the thing believed in and oneself becomes too small for
interest, as interest concerns things that are separated by a
distinction that no longer exists.

Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:04 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> Agree it's more interesting that God is as big a prick as the devil.  Even
> more interesting if one believes any of this supernatural tripe.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
> To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, Dec 21, 2012 7:01 am
> Subject: NP: Sympathy for the Devil
>
> Hey, Godard liked the son well enough to feature it a movie!
>
> Has anyone who knows this song considered that the last verse subverts
> the name that one is likely to have guessed beforehand, namely "the
> devil?" All of the conflated opposites at the suggest that the writer
> believes that things are not as they seem, and that, while people are
> more comfortable calling the entity that causes tragedies "Lucifer" or
> "the Devil," the entity that is often described by some people, e.g.
> the Westboro Baptist church, as one that will send your soul to hell,
> i.e. "lay your soul to waste" if you don't pay tribute, i.e. "use all
> your well-learned politess" is God, not Lucifer.
>
> It makes the song a whole lot more interesting, IMO.
>
> Yours truly,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20

 
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