the sarcophagus of god

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Yes you're right on the idle part anyway, we all know how he feels about
idols.  I hesitated at using the word, but didn't want to leave meditation
alone.  Too Krishna sounding.  (Though those cathedrals...)  I should have
just said thinking, which is what he probably used.  But thinking sounds
pretentious so I avoided it.

How's that for clarity for a Monday morning.  All downhill from here...

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I might think Nietzsche felt that idle contemplation was as dead as a dead
> church, so why not, like stagnant water, give it
> a place to pool?
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> "Trust only the thoughts you have while walking"---Nietzsche
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>   *From:* Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
> *To:* Prashant Kumar <p.kumar at physics.usyd.edu.au>
> *Cc:* P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 1, 2012 11:48 AM
> *Subject:* Re: the sarcophagus of god
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> Ah thank you!  I was thinking BGE.  But I think there's a place where he
> mentions using churches, after all the crosswork is removed etc, for idle
> contemplation.  Maybe GaySc.  Maybe I'm wrong althogether.
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> Being a little more, sober, today, as it were, I'm not sure I want to
> divulge my Nieztzsche insights.  Or if I even agree with what I was
> thinking yesterday.  Something having possibly to do with the architecture
> of some churches though, especially the Gothic ones...
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> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Prashant Kumar <
> p.kumar at physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
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> It's in the second chapter and ff. of Beyond Good and Evil:
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> "Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is
> accustomed to stink. One should not go into churches if one wishes to
> breathe PURE air."
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> I'll bite. Why?
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> On 1 June 2012 03:23, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:
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> I was just wandering, what was that line, or where is it, I can't find it,
> Nietzsche had about after clearing out the bad air of churches, we'd keep
> them around as places to go to for contemplation.
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> I'm curious whether anybody knows why he suggested that.  I do, I'm just
> curious if anyone else on the planet knows it.
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