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 Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: Religion as a Cultural System |
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| Clifford Geertz in "Religion as a Cultural System" wrote: |
But it does appear to be a fact that some men - in all probability, most men - are unable to leave unclarified problems of analysis merely unclarified, just to look at the stranger features of the world's landscape in dumb astonishment or bland apathy without trying to develop, however fantastic, inconsistent or simple-minded, some notions as to how such features might be reconciled with the more ordinary deliverances of experience.
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I thought my friends here would enjoy this little excerpt of some of my assigned reading on religion. I have to be off now, but I'll be back to discuss. |
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aitm
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Now that there is a fine example of using ones intelligence to take a simple idea/thought and turn it into a complex bungling wash of words that tends to show more of an attempt at elitist wordsmithing than an effort to communicate for the sake of making a clear understandable point.
But I apologize to those who tend to think in such manner, and apologize as well for my simplistic mind.
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SpecterOpacus
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| aitm wrote: | | Now that there is a fine example of using ones intelligence to take a simple idea/thought and turn it into a complex bungling wash of words that tends to show more of an attempt at elitist wordsmithing than an effort to communicate for the sake of making a clear understandable point. |
/agreed
I read the first ten words and after it turned into BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH.
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