Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:26:45 +0100
Subject: Re: Being Jewish/Being Guilty
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


Allen called upon to say, said this:

> I forgot to explicitly note the "Being-Jewish" dimension of "being guilty."
> Beginning with the call of Abraham,  Being Jewish has never had a basis in
> anything other than "being Jewish," by which I mean to say that so called
> "election," the chosen-ness of the Jews, is groundless. Abraham was not called
> because he was any sort of special human being. He was called because he was
> called,and the Jews became the Jews in response to that call.  In this way
> Being Jewish and being guilty are equally groundless

I wonder, Allen, whether the call (of being, of being jewish...) originates
from the called, the hearer of the call, rather than the calling/caller;
setting up a resonant field of attendance, which when attended yields to a
ringing, a klang, like the reverberation tail without the sound that has
been reverberated, 100% wet...

I think of the analogue computer setup whereupon a couple of integrators, a
potentiometer, all linked together in a circuit that 'represents' the
condition for the solution of a differential equation (whose solution is a
sine wave), actually IS a sine wave. Equally, I remember during my
Artificial Intelligence MA course, being introduced to programming in
PROLOG, whereupon by setting up a sequence of propositions (facts and
rules), the program executed a 'result' by making a final proposition that
acted as a question (leaving something undecided); the program worked by
listing all the possible answers based on the propositions and the absent
cipher, finding what would fill the absence.

The call occurs by being set up so as to require the call. The caller calls
the call by listening in a calling way; the call awaits its condition. We
choose to be chosen.

regards

My Call



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