http://www.pzed.ca/words/2006/05/30/the-paleolithic-period/ what do you read, m'lord? Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.pzed.ca/words/2006/05/30/the-paleolithic-period/comment-page-1/#comment-21088 words » Blog Archive » convergences Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:19:22 +0000 http://www.pzed.ca/words/archives/2006/the-paleolithic-period/#comment-21088 [...] I was perhaps a little hard on Armstrong in my previous post. The chapter on the neolithic period is stronger, generally, than the chapter on the paleolithic. Even PZ Myers acknowledges Armstrong “has interesting ideas about religion,” and I’m looking forward to her chapter on what she calls the axial age, essentially the period during which the so-called great religions of the world were born. I’m hoping for insight as to how and when our society lost the knowledge that nothing ends, that life is a constant struggle, that there is no ultimate victory. This is the irony in Moore’s all-knowing god character reminding us that nothing ends: it is precisely in the historic creation of all-knowing god characters whose faithful believe in beginnings, ends, and ultimate victories that that old knowledge has been lost. [...] [...] I was perhaps a little hard on Armstrong in my previous post. The chapter on the neolithic period is stronger, generally, than the chapter on the paleolithic. Even PZ Myers acknowledges Armstrong “has interesting ideas about religion,” and I’m looking forward to her chapter on what she calls the axial age, essentially the period during which the so-called great religions of the world were born. I’m hoping for insight as to how and when our society lost the knowledge that nothing ends, that life is a constant struggle, that there is no ultimate victory. This is the irony in Moore’s all-knowing god character reminding us that nothing ends: it is precisely in the historic creation of all-knowing god characters whose faithful believe in beginnings, ends, and ultimate victories that that old knowledge has been lost. [...]

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