CMST-3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Religious Experience
6 Oct 2016
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Meetings throughout the day: always ask new wonders, tracy. The likeness between words about words and words about the word. We only perceive words and objects by what they are not. The process of linguistic entitlement is like the process of naming god: there is always a search for a term that sums everything up. Time is to eternity as words are to the meaning of a sentence. The relation between the name and the thing is like the relations of the persons in the trinity: we teach new stuff every time. Burke"s four components of the definition of man. We are separated from his natural condition by instruments of our own making. We are goaded by the spirit of hierarchy: some nights i hate. Consider the motivational power of words: people crave real musicians. Things are real as long as we believe that they"re real. Reality of the unseen helps us understand the power of religion.
