List of agnostics

[David Morris]

OK.  This is deserving of analysis.  More soon.

On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Lemuel Underwing wrote:

>
> for example:
> "The Ascent to Christ is a struggle thro' one heresy after another,
> River-wise up-country into a proliferation of Sects and Sects branching
> from Sects, unto Deism, faithless pretending to be holy, and beyond, - ever
> away from the Sea, from the Harbor, from all that was serene and certain,
> into an Interior unmapp'd, a Realm of Doubt. The Nights. The Storms and
> Beasts. The Falls, the Rapids,...the America of the Soul."
> -The Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke, '*Undelivered Sermons'*
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I can't be less interested in what most of your religious (or
> nonreligious) beliefs are, how about we talk about the subject of faith in
> the works of Pynchon, hey? That would be an interesting discussion and it
> would allow us to expound upon our own beliefs (or non-beliefs) in relation
> to his body of work?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>wrote:
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> i continue to keep my spirituality personal, silent, and unexplained.
>
> please don't lump me in any of the aforementioned boxes.
>
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well unless you folks talk with Tom I don't know where you've gathered
> that he's either an agnostic of an atheist?
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Wasn't referring to the people on THIS list, but to the people on the list
> of agnostics that Dave Monroe sent a link to.
>
> LK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Colter **
> Sent: Jun 27, 2012 5:48 PM
> To: David Morris **
> Cc: Phillip Greenlief **, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: List of agnostics
>
> Sure GR's core is deeply Agnostic, but M&D is a different thing
> altogether. Tho' Cherrycoke is of a somewhat dubious orthodoxy he certainly
> worships Christ and misses no opportunity to ridicule Deism...?
> Presbyterian myself,
> Did someone really insist that we were atheists?
> some people on this list......
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've played with the I Ching (not seriously enough to say I've studied
> it) one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts.  At its heart it
> is a representation of the universe (maybe the source of Taoism), and
> its structure starts with two elements, yang & yin, symbolically
> corresponding  to male and female.  So it would agree to a universe of
> two frequencies, but they wouldn't be fear and love.  The range of
> opposites would be infinite, thus the spinning duality of the yin/yang
> mandala.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > From: Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
>  > Subject: Re: List of agnostics
> >
> > Some say
>
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