How many people believe in GOD.

I follow a pagans path. Since the beginning of time. Half my tattoos are either anti Christ or anti government.

Delighted to see Borges make an appearance on Hung Angels!

Wow! nice text! I would certainly not argue with Borges, Stavros. :) From memory, I thought it was in pages Augustin wrote about time in “The City of God”, but my memory is anything but reliable –besides, a quick look back and I couldn’t find it again indeed. Borges wrote there an history of the concept. Very nice!

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@ Dan, I thought that was Voltaire?

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I think one of Voltaire’s best remembered sentences about God is that “if He didn’t exist, he should have to invent Him”… lol

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I follow a pagans path. Since the beginning of time. Half my tattoos are either anti Christ or anti government.

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Lovely Athena, I can think of quite a few pagan rites I would love to perform with you…

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Wow! nice text! I would certainly not argue with Borges, Stavros. :) From memory, I thought it was in pages Augustin wrote about time in “The City of God”, but my memory is anything but reliable –besides, a quick look back and I couldn’t find it again indeed. Borges wrote there an history of the concept. Very nice!


I think one of Voltaire’s best remembered sentences about God is that “if He didn’t exist, he should have to invent Him”… lol

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Borges, in my estimation, is one of the finest writers who ever lived, which sounds pompous and grandiloquent when set against just one sentence which contains so much, and is so typical of his concentrated mind:

Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of a few metaphors.

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Borges, in my estimation, is one of the finest writers who ever lived, which sounds pompous and grandiloquent when set against just one sentence which contains so much, and is so typical of his concentrated mind:

Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of a few metaphors.

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We agree on something. (After your denunciation of Nabokov.) I wholeheartedly endorse your choice of the Argentinian. I've read everything he has written - many times.

I recall a story of his about the construction of a map that was to be drawn to life size scale. Not sure if I ever understood the point of the story, but I loved the idea of planning your route by spreading out a life sized map. Perhaps Borges meant to convey that trimming away the irrelevant and abstracting the key issues and functional relationships are more important than coding up every observable byte of information. Knowledge is not a one to one copy of the world crammed into your head, but something else...more subtle.

Try his wonderful essay "A New Refutation Of Time."

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I recall a story of his about the construction of a map that was to be drawn to life size scale.

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That reminds me of Synecdoche, New York where there's a life sized model of New York in a warehouse in New York... lol

I haven't seen it, but as a fan of Charlie Kaufman I've been meaning to get round to it.

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Borges, in my estimation, is one of the finest writers who ever lived, which sounds pompous and grandiloquent when set against just one sentence which contains so much, and is so typical of his concentrated mind:

Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of a few metaphors.

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Beautiful! If you don't mind, Stavros, I might eventually use that one for my "signature"... :)
I love Borges too. A rare, absolutely universal mind whose curiosity and interest constantly surprises and stimulates.
Reminds me of something less profound, obviously, but still interesting, from Romanian born French author E.M. Cioran (I translate, pretty badly, I know): “Adjectives change: such variations we call progress of the mind. Suppress them all: what would be left of civilization? The difference between intelligence and silliness resides in the management of the epithet, which the undiversified use constitutes banality. God himself only lives through the adjectives we adjoin him; there lies the purpose of theology. Therefore, man, by describing always differently the monotony of his unhappiness, only justifies himself in front of intelligence by the passionate quest for a new adjective.” From “A Short History of Decay”.