Re: virus: Prisoners my Derrida!

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:18:58 -0500

Hi,

From: KMO <kmo@c-realm.com>
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Someone can present me with a iron-clad logical argument
to the that working counter to the expansion of consciousness will get me more money, pussy, fame, power, rhetorical finesse, and health, but that would, for me, be no argument in favor abandoning my axiom. Valuing consciousness, for me, is not a means to an end. There's no point in evaluating whether it's the best way to get me where I want to go. It's not where I'm going; it's who I am.
>>

This is a profoundly important point, I think -- and really at the core of the discussion. Faith isn't about rational assent to a proposition; faith is about internalizing, about *embodying* the principle, and bringing it to life, as it were.

An exposition of faith is an incarnational narrative, a story about how the present you came to be.

Right?

ERiC
("incarnation" is one of those words that always sounds profound, no matter how you use it)