List of agnostics

[Otto]

At it's core all religion is paranoia, from its beginnings it's an
attempt to ban bad things that might happen to you you can't explain
by praying to a supernatural entity.

If there's such an entity "out there" that started the whole thing it
could be that this entity is, for some reason, trying to get you. If
there's no such entity out there and the whole thing started without
an intelligent maker behind it most of what happens to you will be
most likely accidentally.

But if there's a "good entity" there might be also bad ones. Doesn't
the believe in god mean that you have to believe in the devil too?

Slothrop, who has Puritan ancestors, "has become obsessed with the
idea of a rocket with his name written on it--if they're really set on
getting him" (...) Call it 'operational paranoia' or something. But--"
(GR 25)

"this is how it does happen--yes the great bright hand reaching out of
the cloud. . . . (GR 29)

The good ole' "Proverbs for Paranoids":

Bersani, Leo, “Pynchon, Paranoia, and Literature.”
Representations 25 (1989): 9–118

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/paranoid.htm



2012/6/28 Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>:
> is there some sort of Religious Paranoia or a Religion of Paranoia?
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>> >Sent: Jun 27, 2012 10:41 AM
>>> >To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> >Subject: List of agnostics
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>>> >Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937): Catholic-raised author of The Crying of
>>> >Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. According to former friend, Jules
>>> >Siegel, "he went to mass and confessed, though to what would be a
>>> >mystery."
>>> >
>>> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agnostics#Authors
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