Subj : The Game
To   : TODD HENSON
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Tue Oct 31 2000 07:59 am

 TH> > egophantic fool (in the sense of the "fool who has said in
 TH> > his heart, there is no God" - not the ordinary "silly
 TH> > fool").  Only the libibdo dominandi could imagine this
 TH> > non-thingly, Divine Ground of Existence that draws the
 TH> > philosopher in his search for it to be less than the
 TH> > universal experience of the human or pertaining to anything
 TH> > less than universality.

 TH> If God isn't real, then there would be nothing that draws the
 TH> philosopher in the first place.

 TH> > ??????

 TH> Frank, are you unable to understand simple sentences now? If
 TH> you think my statement is wrong, then why not explain why?

        That may well be.  You appear to be alone here in believing
so.  Perhaps when you explain to me in more than a simple sentence
whether or not you assume that in order to be REAL an entity must be
THINGLY we can have some basis for dialogue.  Because you apparently
do not understand the soul to be, in Voegelinian-Platonic language a
"place of the tension" and therefore have a radically different
understanding from mine of what FAITH is you feel more comfortable
with the assumption that your understanding should prevail.  What I
think you do NOT comprehend is that I have no intent or desire to
wrestle you out of that assumption.  You have passed into a
knowledge of Divinity that neither ordinary men NOR mystics could
possess.  I must simply acknowledge that and live with it.  O.K.?
I sense that you really do not WANT a "dialogue among equals" and
that is O.K., too.

     I sincerely hope not to see your normal procedure of breaking
the above into little parts so that you can attack them piecemeal.
I don't believe such tactics really fool anybody here.  Complete,
open, intellectual honesty and sincerity is IMPERATIVE in any
worthwhile dialogue.   Trying to WIN is destructive to dialogue. All
that is really called for in a dialogue is understanding the
position of the other - not pronouncing it true or false.

     I hope that's clear enough.

Frank

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 * Origin: Maybe in 5000 years (1:396/45.12)

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