tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post1149389986350451191..comments2023-07-03T08:51:01.209-05:00Comments on What Powderfinger Said . . . Observations on Life in the Dying Empire: Not WorthyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-83439395159871931442009-07-30T07:57:19.502-05:002009-07-30T07:57:19.502-05:00Montag, nice to hear from you. I've missed you...Montag, nice to hear from you. I've missed your occasional incisive comments. I know it's because I have not really been dealing lately with anything particularly "chewy." Rock music and legalization of hemp aren't your things. <br /><br />I take heart that you have at least acknowledged some validity to my remarks. Which is not to say I don't agree with you about the cauldrons of our unconscious minds. Perhaps I'm being swept along myself by my distaste for militant, public atheism. Which, it has always seemed to me, relies as much on a faith (in science) as does theism. <br /><br />Your closing metaphor is, of course, terrific.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-46637202962957609202009-07-30T07:09:33.758-05:002009-07-30T07:09:33.758-05:00Hmm...I suppose you already know I would not agree...Hmm...I suppose you already know I would not agree with you, there is much more done in the "unconscious" mind than there is in the "conscious" mind.<br /><br />However, I am not sure that I agree that the non-conscious mind is the faculty which "depicts them in less flattering terms than is objectively warranted".<br />Perhaps this is an irrational appraisal, but it does not strike me as unconsciously done, unless we decide that "repetitive habits linking up negative emotions to negative images" ( or some such palaver ) is "unconscious".<br /><br />Anyway, I don't think God needs arguments. He uses them for scrap paper to scribble telephone memos on, then forgets where He put them.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com