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Re: GG: Background and foreground
Hmmm ... don't get too carried away
here. The God I am most familiar with from long experience, in person and as a
journalist, is also especially fond of loud explosions, catastrophes, sudden
outbreaks of widespread disorder, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes,
tsunamis, mudslides, plagues and pestilences, mass extinctions ...
To overemphasize a Baroque, orderly,
architecture-loving God of harmony and ever-pleasing aesthetic is to ignore
God's equal fondness for chaos, catastrophe and terror. (Dichotomists blame all
the Bad Stuff on the Devil. Which begs the question ...)
Don't even ask what He/She is planning
for our near futures with the Yellowstone Caldera and a landslide-prone volcano
in the Canary Islands. You don't want to know. And there's utterly nothing you
could do about it anyway.
Elmer
In the best of worlds everything would
be
>foregrounded after a fashion? Is this what's at the heart of GG's
instinct
>to contrapuntalize EVERYTHING!!??
>
>Is his
propensity to to foreground what people mean when they talk of
>Gould's
love of structure-- demonstrating the love of, desire for rules
>and
cohesion?
>