tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post3742213289183136189..comments2024-01-25T13:40:59.343-05:00Comments on Ecstatic Doggerel: Triptych: Portraits of DoubtM. C. Allan (Carrie, to most)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12073563632969877406noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post-46718856928067725502009-12-19T05:19:01.596-05:002009-12-19T05:19:01.596-05:00Interesting article you got here. It would be grea...Interesting article you got here. It would be great to read more about that topic. Thank you for posting this material.<br />Sexy Lady<br /><a href="http://www.baccaratgirls.com/london/london_night_life_escorts" rel="nofollow">London night life escorts</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post-85492940005597203532009-04-14T16:33:00.000-04:002009-04-14T16:33:00.000-04:00hey, thanks Sam and Mouse.hey, thanks Sam and Mouse.M. C. Allan (Carrie, to most)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12073563632969877406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post-81719494114871159842009-04-08T22:05:00.000-04:002009-04-08T22:05:00.000-04:00Enjoyed the poem - Section III, in particular. Go...Enjoyed the poem - Section III, in particular. Good connections in all three pieces.sam of the ten thousand thingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04378206265831223396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post-91119791736309460712009-04-05T18:11:00.000-04:002009-04-05T18:11:00.000-04:00it's a great poem, carrie, and i'm so glad it's be...it's a great poem, carrie, and i'm so glad it's been published. i remember camus counseling to embrace doubt, and i think that's what the poem does. ... your introductory essay is very nice and irreverent. it's interesting to see how some of the seeds there play out in the poem. and yet what a leap -- of faith? -- is made from conversational essay to poem.<BR/>-- mouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post-14967443411589139402009-04-02T15:31:00.000-04:002009-04-02T15:31:00.000-04:00Yeah, I can see that the good thief is hedging his...Yeah, I can see that the good thief is hedging his bets, but, arguably, that idea of a nice God, where there's salvation for all is another way of hedging your bets, because if God is like that, then having faith is enough and, if it costs you nothing, why wouldn't you have faith? <BR/><BR/>I got a sense of Pilate's earth-boundedness, but I read a discomfort in tone in the line about the candle/ woman's back that implied a sense of him not wanting to go there (anywhere mystical), as opposed to an outright dismissing of the mystical.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11482921203285728706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post-38171047974332782672009-04-02T12:49:00.000-04:002009-04-02T12:49:00.000-04:00Wow, interesting thoughts, Danielle. The good thie...Wow, interesting thoughts, Danielle. The good thief, in my mind, was more sort of hedging his bets (what's the philosophical trope, Pascal's wager?) than he was proposing an actual theology ... and Pilate I sort of envisioned as someone so wedded to the sensual pleasures of his life on earth that the idea of working toward afterlife rewards or acknowledging a spiritual dimension to physical existence is a threat to the status quo (figs, women, etc.) Your working through of the Thomas side of this is really interesting!M. C. Allan (Carrie, to most)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12073563632969877406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-800183462183999322.post-62824474838072677392009-04-02T00:09:00.000-04:002009-04-02T00:09:00.000-04:00Very thought-provoking...If Pilate is right and, j...Very thought-provoking...<BR/><BR/>If Pilate is right and, just because there are mystical/ spiritual aspects of existence we can't understand, does not prove there is a God, then the arguments of Catholic theologians are bunk. If the good thief is right, then Sensitive New Age God makes organised religion an unnecessary exercise.<BR/><BR/>If Thomas is right, it's bleaker. If we can only understand, based on our own experience, we naturally understand creation the way we understand giving birth to life on earth. However, the assumption that parents are good and loving is one we've managed to disprove. Moreover, creating a masterpiece is not synonymous with goodness. We've also proven that. To assume that if there is a Creator, He/ She cares or is invested in proving to us that He/ She does exist is problematic. We assume that we are made in God's image because we understand the creation of life as parenthood, but, even this is a limited reading of our experience. We create foetuses to destroy them for medical research, we breed mice to make them run on wheels aimlessly. We kill them, without knowing whether they understood why they existed. If we are made in His/ Her image, why would we assume God would be any different or that we would ever know why?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11482921203285728706noreply@blogger.com