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Permalink Reply by gerard26 on December 9, 2009 at 8:40am

Is this the same as the former President Teddy Roosevelt's quote,"Speak softly and carry a big stick"?

Permalink Reply by Parallax on December 10, 2009 at 2:31am

Our soft speech is reason and our big stick is rationality maybe?

Permalink Reply by gerard26 on December 11, 2009 at 10:55am

That is where I was going with this.

Permalink Reply by Darwin Penda on December 9, 2009 at 4:05pm

yes, but also digging into our several cultural pasts to repossess our own legacies that can present meaning and continuity to our lives. It's also important to say that there is an appropriate time and place to take stock of threats and come up with a strategy to counteract them, it's just that this should not be the core of our communion with one another.

Permalink Reply by Parallax on December 10, 2009 at 2:30am

As evolved humans we should be above beating each other with sticks, but alas...

So digging into our cultural pasts to repossess our own legacies: I'm not trying to be obtuse here, but could you give me an example? I seek to get my knowledge on (I say that ironically because I hate the whole "Get your ________ on" it's gotten out of hand.)

Permalink Reply by gerard26 on December 11, 2009 at 12:02pm

" Yes, but also digging into our several cultural pasts to repossess our own legacies that can present meaning and continuity to our lives".

For give me, but this sound's New Age like. What's the difference? What is it that you mean by our own legacies and several cultural pasts? Are you also suggesting that in the symposium of ideas that there is an "appropriate time and place" for intellectual exchanges of one position or the other and that this group is exclusively for "communion"?

Permalink Reply by Mike Harvison on October 12, 2010 at 9:04pm

I just (almost) finished an audio book that describes the cultural legacy concerning God. Quite an interesting book, I was on the last chapter when the license from the local library expired.

It was written by Karen Armstrong; "The Case for God" really got me thinking about how we used to think about things on this planet. The book was basically an argument to allow for metaphor in our life and to not confuse metaphor with facts.

I highly recommend it.