List of agnostics

[Madeleine Maudlin]

I don't think it actually is this shade, but I love it thisaway:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beit_alfa01.jpg


Dear Joe Campbell, bless his energetic heart, was confounded by this
Zodiac.  It's from Beth Alpha Synagog somewhere around 550ad and at that
time the equinoxes were not aiming anywhere near the constellations that
the Wheel in the mosiac aim.  The angel in the upper left corner aligns
with the Virgo-Leo boundary, which means that the entire Zodiac, this one
in this Jewish mosaic, is beginning at a time not of 550ad but of 10650bc.
 Campbell believed the mosaic was an error because the mosaician lacked
proper Greek astronomical knowledge.

Little did Campbell know that that date, 10650bc, 12650bp, also noted by
Giza as well as this mosaic, is the greatest Deluge that struck the earth
before the other big one, the Biblical/Platonic flood, of 9600bc.


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting stuff.  It's been a while but Joseph Campbell hit the nail
> on the head in his first essay in "Myths to Live By."  Before anyone
> pronounces a lack of "belief" one should read the first essay in this
> thin volume and understand the ramifications of one's own spiritual
> pronunciations.  Nietzsche pronounced "God is Dead" and  look how he
> turned out.  Jung is the only university "intellectual" who's been
> able to make it to the other side of the arguments with his wits
> intact...  Man is much more than a biped lacking wings...
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> wrote:
> > apologies to dave for double post ...
> >
> > i'm native american, and if there's one thing we have learned, it's to
> keep
> > our mouth shut about spirituality.
> > if you have to talk about it (your religion/spirituality), it all goes to
> > hell (is it the same with sex?).
> > wasn't so very long ago that we were extinguished for our beliefs.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Sent: Wed, June 27, 2012 9:19:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: List of agnostics
> >
> > On 6/27/2012 11:36 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:22 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> So long as you're not planning to embark on any crusades, holy wars or
> >>> constitutional conventions to define life as beginning at conception,
> I'm
> >>> cool with that.
> >> ... ironically (?), I have atheists proselytizing to me day in day
> >> out.  I make a point of not returning the favor, though I'm
> >> occasionally driven to respond, "in the good ol' days, we used to burn
> >> heretics like you" (though I generally save THAT for Protestants) ...
> >>
> >
> >
> > I say, if asked, in hospital emergency rooms and the like, that I am a
> > non-believer.  That way you don't have to say what it is you don't
> believe
> > in. They send in someone to talk to you anyway.
> >
> > Strangely, I do on occasion get the feeling that there is something out
> > there.  My life seems guided somehow. Not guided particularly well  in
> many
> > ways, but guided.  There's the fact that I'm still here, which seems so
> > incredible.
> >
> > P
> >
>
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