Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01168)

John-

Thanks.  I appreciate your comments.  I simply sometimes put a 
wordspin on things for dramatic effect.  That's the creative writer 
in me, as opposed to the literal news journalist.  In part, I do 
this not so much to attempt to represent your view, but moreso to 
stimulate some thought or counter-thought along a certain avenue.

I do, in fact, view many 'orthodox organizations' as little more 
than religious corporations that are in competition with each other, 
after the same manner as Walmart and Target Stores.  Each have their 
own products for sale, repackaged under different generic names, and 
they absolutely forbid cross-employment.

As far as religious Canons go, there are only a few of those, but 
Walmart and Target Stores have each produced their own 
translations.  Generic version.  Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Vince

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, samblo@... wrote:
>
> Vince,
>   Thanks for your reply and comments. I never used the 
term "Orthodox" in my 
> reply and also not the term "Orthodox Organization." You have used 
the term. I 
> simply put forward the "dominant" religion viz others. It can 
loosely be seen 
> as a timeline of concatenated appearances of individuals and 
groups holding 
> affinity to ideas and concepts that are at variance to previous 
individuals and 
> groups even when there is a father to son type of transmittal. It 
involves 
> the idea of perfect duplication of a communication from person A 
to person B. 
> This is usually not the case. All Cretans are liars and all Humans 
are imperfect 
> it seems. You may have for all I know a concept of "Orthodox 
Corporations" 
> which I have not been exposed too as yet, and if there is such a 
case I wonder 
> what the view of such an Orthodox Corporation might have of 
unincorporated 
> individual or groups that engage in competitive activity.
> 
>   I don't possess a final position on "Origination" of Orthodoxy 
per se in 
> the form you propose. It seems that Primary religion appear 
sometimes almost as 
> if they were manufactured in a new moment of time but have the 
character of 
> having made use of predecessors contents, Islam is one example. 
Christianity is 
> another. Judaism also. They arrive at some agreed upon place in 
time by the 
> actions of literary productions one piece at a time until there 
are sufficient 
> elements to create contestations of veracity by affinitized groups 
based upon 
> their aggretized affinities and attraction of mutual gathering 
whereupon a 
> demand for a Canon of Orthodoxy surfaces and is acted upon 
presenting a new basis 
> of group dynamic and effecting an evolution of social significance.
> 
> John  
> 
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