NP: Sympathy for the Devil

[malignd at aol.com]

These laws of nature to which you refer are now well understood as well as why they are invariant -- not sure which are "fairly" invariant.  Not sure what you mean by "that's the basis of relativity." ?


I don't think at all it's a great mystery that different perspectives exist.  Many people are ignorant and happy to remain so; many take their information from charlatans and people with power bases to protect; from ministers, politicians, etc.


God or not, reality does seem to conform to a number of regularities 
(laws of nature) which remain fairly invariant no matter the 
perspective. I guess that's the basis of relativity. That different 
perspectives exist at all seems to be both a great mystery and the 
source of any potential sympathy or empathy.





-----Original Message-----
From: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 22, 2012 10:00 am
Subject: Re: NP: Sympathy for the Devil


God or not, reality does seem to conform to a number of regularities 
(laws of nature) which remain fairly invariant no matter the 
perspective. I guess that's the basis of relativity. That different 
perspectives exist at all seems to be both a great mystery and the 
source of any potential sympathy or empathy. We all come from the same 
place and are made from the same stuff. It's only with effort that any 
of us maintains our distinctiveness- which might just be a dream, 
certainly a temporary situation. Y'all can be in my dream...


-----Original Message-----
From: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 22, 2012 9:40 am
Subject: Re: NP: Sympathy for the Devil


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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