File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0312, message 27


Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:19:41 +0000
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Just a slob like one of us


Hugh

why do you think God/theoilogy And faith  has anything to do with 
Erioc's paragraph ?

s

hbone wrote:

>Eric/All,
>Eric wrote,
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>>As Badiou puts it, the animal becomes an immortal in fidelity to the
>>event of a truth that itself remains unnameable.  Or as Sartre put it -
>>our greatest de-sire is to become god, which is simply good orthodox
>>teaching - god became humanity in order that humanity might become god -
>>the word becoming flesh as the divine cyborg - Deus Prosthetic. 
>>
>>The blind see and the crippled walk...and god took on our weakness,
>>    
>>
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>Badiou and others seem to traffic in truths that remain unthinkable, unspeakable, unknowable, hence unnameable.  Truths that leave their  selves  incommunicado but with religious fervor for naming each  other. I remember a night service outdoors in an enormous public space at Lourdes.  Hundreds of cripples and otherwise afflicted.  All of them immersed in holy scripture, holy light and holy music. Confident in their faith; certain the name of God would make them whole.
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>Hugh
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>A truth that remains unnameable
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