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Discussing and researching religious literature, and how it influences our culture.
About Me:
Joseph Campbell "Power of the Myth"
"On the field of truth, on the battle -field of life, what came to pass, Sanjaya, when my sons and their warriors faced those of my brother Pandu" - The Gita
"Historical reality is always more complex and fascinating than the orthodox of any tradition would like us to believe. The winners rewrite history, and the rewrite is almost always a simplification. Simplifications are helpful to give us an initial grasp, but we should never content ourselves with them."
-David Noel Freedman, What are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They Matter (p. 69).
The dictionary definition of a myth would be stories about gods. So then you have to ask the next question: what is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universe--the powers of your own body and of nature. The myths are metaphorical of spiritual potentiality in the human being, and the same powers that animate our life animate the life of the world. But also there are myths and gods that have to do with specific societies or the patron deities of the society. In other words, there are two totally different orders of mythology. There is the mythology that relates you to your nature and to the natural world, of which you're a part. And there is the mythology that is strictly sociological, linking you to a particular society. You are not simply a natural man, you are a member of a particular group. In the history of European mythology, you can see the interaction of these two systems. Usually the socially oriented system is of a nomadic people who are moving around, so you learn that's where your center is, in that group. The nature-oriented mythology would be of an earth-cultivating people.
Now the biblical tradition is a socially oriented mythology. Nature is condemned. (Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth 22-23)
A myth is the dynamic of life. You may or may not know it, and the myth you may be respectfully worshiping on Sunday may not be the one that's really working in your heart and the one that's out there in the view of your religious instructors.-
Joseph Campbell
"The descent of the Occidental sciences from the heavens to the earth (from seventeenth-century astronomy to nineteenth-century biology), and their concentration today, at last, on man himself (in twentieth-century anthropology and psychology), mark the path of a prodigious transfer of the focal point of human wonder. Not the animal world, not the plant world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery."- Joseph Campbell, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces p. 391"
"God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought. Even the categories of being and non-being; those are categories of thought. So it depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's doing you any good. Whether it is putting you in touch with the mystery that is the ground of your own being; if it isn't, well, it's a lie. So half of the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts; those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts, and so they're lies; those are the atheists."
-Joseph Campbell
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein
As a hobby I study world religion and anthropology. Currently I have been reading Plato and Greek tragedies along with the Gnostic texts. I am married to my lovely wife and we own one cat. I have a sense of humor and love to have fun and get to know people.
Wayman29 on the net:
Twitter- http://twitter.com/wayman29
ReligionThink- http://www.youtube.com/user...
The Non-Theological Bible (Under Construction) http://www.nontheologicalbi...
BlipTV -http://religionthink.blip.tv/
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United States
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Manufacturing
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Anthropology, Art criminology, biblical studies, archeology, anthropology. e-sword bible program module creation, petting my cats, writing essays, reading, graphic design and ceramics.
Movies:
Millennium, CSI NY,
Music:
Most music is fine with me.
Books:
Who wrote the Bible, Who wrote the New Testament, Mask of God Series, the Fundamentalism Project, The Golden Bough, The Evil that Men Do. Whoever Fights Monsters, The Collector, History of God, The Battle for God, to name just a few.
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"@wayman29 Also, do we add into evidence possible date of possible composition or date of the manuscript it's self?"
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What Am I Currently Reading/Thinking About ?
Plato:
Euthyphro- Completed 11/7/2010
Phaedrus- Completed 11/7/2010
Ion - 11/7/2010
The Republic- Currently on Book 3. 11/11 2010
The Symposium of Plato-11/8/2010
Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman
Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Study Of The Gnostic Texts.
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
Allogenes
The Apocalypse of Adam
The (First) Apocalypse of James
The (Second) Apocalypse of James
The Apocalypse of Paul
The Prayer Of the Apostle Paul -Completed 11/4/2010
The Apocalypse of Peter
The Apocryphon of James:
The Secret Book of James- Completed 11/4/2010
The Apocryphon of John
Asclepius 21-29
Authoritative Teaching
The Book of Thomas the Contender
The Concept of Our Great Power
The Dialogue of the Savior
The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
Eugnostos the Blessed*
The Exegesis on the Soul
The Gospel of the Egyptians*
The Gospel of Philip
The Gospel of Thomas:
The Gospel of Truth:* -Completed 11/4/2010
The Hypostasis of the Archons
Hypsiphrone
The Interpretation of Knowledge
The Letter of Peter to Philip
Marsanes
Melchizedek
On the Anointing
On the Baptism A
On the Baptism B
On the Eucharist A
On the Eucharist B
On the Origin of the World*
The Paraphrase of Shem
Plato, Republic 588A-589B
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Second Treatise of the Great Seth
The Sentences of Sextus
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
The Teachings of Silvanus
The Testimony of Truth
The Thought of Norea
The Three Steles of Seth
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
The Treatise on the Resurrection -Completed 11/5/2010
Trimorphic Protennoia
The Tripartite Tractate - Completed 11/5/2010
A Valentinian Exposition -Completed 11/5/2010
Zostrianos
Tragedies of Euripides
1. Alcestis (438 BC, second prize)- Completed 10/10/2010
2. Medea (431 BC, third prize)
3. Heracleidae (c. 430 BC)
4. Hippolytus (428 BC, first prize)- completed 10/10/2010
5. Andromache (c. 425 BC)
6. Hecuba (c. 424 BC)- Completed 10/11/2010
7. The Suppliants (c. 423 BC)
8. Electra (c. 420 BC)- Completed
9. Heracles (c. 416 BC)- Currently Reading
10. The Trojan Women (415 BC, second prize)-Completed 10/25/2010
11. Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 414 BC) -Completed 10/25/2010
12. Ion (c. 414 BC)- Currently Reading
13. Helen (412 BC)
14. Phoenician Women (c. 410 BC) -Completed 10/25/2010
15. Orestes (408 BC) -Completed 10/23/2010
16. Bacchae and Iphigenia at Aulis (405 BC, posthumous, first prize)-Completed 10/23/2010
17. Rhesus (uncertain date)
New Joseph Campbell Books-
1. Thou Art That - Completed
2. Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation- Currently Reading
3. The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion
Biblical Literature:
Texts Attributed to Paul:
1. First Corinthians- Completed 9/30/2010
2. Second Corinthians- Completed 9/30/2010
Thinking About:
How to best re-mythologize religious literature.
Euthyphro- Completed 11/7/2010
Phaedrus- Completed 11/7/2010
Ion - 11/7/2010
The Republic- Currently on Book 3. 11/11 2010
The Symposium of Plato-11/8/2010
Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman
Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Study Of The Gnostic Texts.
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
Allogenes
The Apocalypse of Adam
The (First) Apocalypse of James
The (Second) Apocalypse of James
The Apocalypse of Paul
The Prayer Of the Apostle Paul -Completed 11/4/2010
The Apocalypse of Peter
The Apocryphon of James:
The Secret Book of James- Completed 11/4/2010
The Apocryphon of John
Asclepius 21-29
Authoritative Teaching
The Book of Thomas the Contender
The Concept of Our Great Power
The Dialogue of the Savior
The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
Eugnostos the Blessed*
The Exegesis on the Soul
The Gospel of the Egyptians*
The Gospel of Philip
The Gospel of Thomas:
The Gospel of Truth:* -Completed 11/4/2010
The Hypostasis of the Archons
Hypsiphrone
The Interpretation of Knowledge
The Letter of Peter to Philip
Marsanes
Melchizedek
On the Anointing
On the Baptism A
On the Baptism B
On the Eucharist A
On the Eucharist B
On the Origin of the World*
The Paraphrase of Shem
Plato, Republic 588A-589B
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Second Treatise of the Great Seth
The Sentences of Sextus
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
The Teachings of Silvanus
The Testimony of Truth
The Thought of Norea
The Three Steles of Seth
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
The Treatise on the Resurrection -Completed 11/5/2010
Trimorphic Protennoia
The Tripartite Tractate - Completed 11/5/2010
A Valentinian Exposition -Completed 11/5/2010
Zostrianos
Tragedies of Euripides
1. Alcestis (438 BC, second prize)- Completed 10/10/2010
2. Medea (431 BC, third prize)
3. Heracleidae (c. 430 BC)
4. Hippolytus (428 BC, first prize)- completed 10/10/2010
5. Andromache (c. 425 BC)
6. Hecuba (c. 424 BC)- Completed 10/11/2010
7. The Suppliants (c. 423 BC)
8. Electra (c. 420 BC)- Completed
9. Heracles (c. 416 BC)- Currently Reading
10. The Trojan Women (415 BC, second prize)-Completed 10/25/2010
11. Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 414 BC) -Completed 10/25/2010
12. Ion (c. 414 BC)- Currently Reading
13. Helen (412 BC)
14. Phoenician Women (c. 410 BC) -Completed 10/25/2010
15. Orestes (408 BC) -Completed 10/23/2010
16. Bacchae and Iphigenia at Aulis (405 BC, posthumous, first prize)-Completed 10/23/2010
17. Rhesus (uncertain date)
New Joseph Campbell Books-
1. Thou Art That - Completed
2. Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation- Currently Reading
3. The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion
Biblical Literature:
Texts Attributed to Paul:
1. First Corinthians- Completed 9/30/2010
2. Second Corinthians- Completed 9/30/2010
Thinking About:
How to best re-mythologize religious literature.
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You might recognize some of the ideas espoused by this Jewish scholar, especially in the introduction of the above book. You'll find a few of his lectures loaded on smadeintheshade's channel. He's better informed than most and with D. Flusser having passed and D. Bivin & B. Young unwilling to drop their Messianism for a more historical POV, Rabbi Prof. Basser is closer to the truth than most, IMO. He's also written two other books that are well worth the purchase price and your time.