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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 13, 2012, 11:20:47 pm ---I suppose I agree that there are certain core concepts that should never change, but there are a lot of things that must change. The human race no longer needs to reproduce itself ad nauseum, in fact if it does, it is doomed. This idea has many reverberations; for instance it is no longer important that everyone be heterosexual and "breeders."
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Let's also not forget the role of women in the church--still an issue for some denominations, if not for others. I believe it was once universally held that women should keep silent in church. Fortunately, those days are gone in many denominations.
ifyoucantfixit:
I suppose that I agree that it has to change. I find that the problem is usually not the change, but the fact that they have interpreted the items, in such a way, that it now has to be changed. I personally do not profess to be a religious person. I do think the (morals and tenants) should be absolute. Not the interpretations. The morals. I have a real issue with the things that the "church," has thought were so, that were only decided to be so.
I do not think that morals are a changeable thing. If they are moral, they are moral. If not then the same is true. I never think that love, or caring is to be decided by an entity. Any more than rights are changeable. A right is a right. Endowed at birth. Period... Others may interfere with that. But it is still the true fact.
Front-Ranger:
I'm reading a fascinating profile of Christian Marclay, who created "The Clock" a 24-hour video mashup of timed scenes from movies.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 14, 2012, 11:29:50 pm ---I'm reading a fascinating profile of Christian Marclay, who created "The Clock" a 24-hour video mashup of timed scenes from movies.
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I must have skipped that one, accidentally or on purpose. I'm sure I didn't read it, and I have no memory of it.
Good grief, it's been almost a month since anyone had anything to say here. ::)
Today my copy of the April 9 issue arrived. Even though I have a lot to read in the April 2 issue (next/first up, the article by Robert Caro about LBJ), when I checked the table of contents of the April 9 issue, I went right to the article about the Karl May festival in a place called Bad Segeberg, in Germany.
I am probably one of the few Americans who has heard of Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
I am presently enjoying Lauren Collins's article on the Daily Mail in the April 2 issue.
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