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Things are bad. Really bad. You want to do the right thing and make the bad thing better. We wish life would be as simple as making the Monsters Under the Bed go away just by sticking heads in rooms. Sadly, that doesn’t work. We have to name the Monster, get the facts on it, make possible meanings of the data in the context, and assign significance to meanings made, so we can cast the proper spells to make it go away. | Things are bad. Really bad. You want to do the right thing and make the bad thing better. We wish life would be as simple as making the Monsters Under the Bed go away just by sticking heads in rooms. Sadly, that doesn’t work. We have to name the Monster, get the facts on it, make possible meanings of the data in the context, and assign significance to meanings made, so we can cast the proper spells to make it go away. | ||
| + | == Monotheism == | ||
[[File:God-does-not-play-dice.jpg|490px|thumb|center]] | [[File:God-does-not-play-dice.jpg|490px|thumb|center]] | ||
| + | == Fate == | ||
[[File:Fate-plays-chess.jpg|490px|thumb|center]] | [[File:Fate-plays-chess.jpg|490px|thumb|center]] | ||
| + | == Polytheism == | ||
[[File:Polytheism.jpg|490px|thumb|center]] | [[File:Polytheism.jpg|490px|thumb|center]] | ||
| − | Oh and my gods are bigger than yours <ref | + | == Whose is bigger? == |
| − | + | Oh and my gods are bigger than yours <ref />, of course. | |
| + | == Witch burnings == | ||
| + | I think I found why patriarchy feared witches in this snippet: | ||
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| + | An old woman (who happens to be a witch) and a priest are sitting by the road having a conversation. | ||
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| + | (The conversation starts on the classic subject of "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?") | ||
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| + | <nowiki> </nowiki>"Sixteen!" | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "You've counted sixteen?" said Oats eventually. | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "No, but it is as good an answer as any you'll get. And that's what you holy men discuss is it?" | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin, for example." | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "And what do they think? Against it, are they?" | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "It is not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray." | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "Nope." | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "Pardon?" | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "It's a lot more complicated than that--" | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "No it ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes-" | ||
| + | <nowiki> </nowiki> "But they Starts with thinking about people as things…" | ||
| + | |||
| + | == Unknowable == | ||
Okay, so for the sake of a "universal filesystem" and life being too short to fight over what we call "it", I have made space for an "Unknowable" directory. | Okay, so for the sake of a "universal filesystem" and life being too short to fight over what we call "it", I have made space for an "Unknowable" directory. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
<references /> | <references /> | ||
Revision as of 12:21, 27 May 2015
Things are bad. Really bad. You want to do the right thing and make the bad thing better. We wish life would be as simple as making the Monsters Under the Bed go away just by sticking heads in rooms. Sadly, that doesn’t work. We have to name the Monster, get the facts on it, make possible meanings of the data in the context, and assign significance to meanings made, so we can cast the proper spells to make it go away.
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Monotheism
Fate
Polytheism
Whose is bigger?
Oh and my gods are bigger than yours Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
refs with no content must have a name, of course.
Witch burnings
I think I found why patriarchy feared witches in this snippet:
An old woman (who happens to be a witch) and a priest are sitting by the road having a conversation.
(The conversation starts on the classic subject of "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?")
"Sixteen!" "You've counted sixteen?" said Oats eventually. "No, but it is as good an answer as any you'll get. And that's what you holy men discuss is it?" "Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin, for example." "And what do they think? Against it, are they?" "It is not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray." "Nope." "Pardon?" There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No it ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes-" "But they Starts with thinking about people as things…"
Unknowable
Okay, so for the sake of a "universal filesystem" and life being too short to fight over what we call "it", I have made space for an "Unknowable" directory.