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1. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Within the guru tradition “revelation” is related to reality the same way sunlight by which we see is related to the sun.

2. 4 days ago on Non Sequitur

   The other place being for the shiftless without options.

3. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Herinate and hisinate yourinate stations.

4. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   All good.

   It is I who should apologize for not making myself clear in my posts.

   I will try to do better.

5. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   ’What makes my eyebrows rise are the people who think that everything in the Bible is the literal God’s honest truth."

   Only an eyebrow rise? It causes my face to snap into “Danae stink eye” configuration.

6. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Pardon, but you stand unassailed and invincible on mistaken ground.

   I AGREED with you.

   You missed the my point that reducing myth to morality tale (regrettably) leaves a lot …umm … on the table.

7. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   “…. And then I looked down thar and what I saw was five or six escaped convicts running around a blowin whistles, yes they was …. "

   Note: Dare I say that I am fanatically against fanaticism – of ANY sort?

8. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   “There is not anything intrinsically wrong, though, with reading any of the myths and construing them as morality tales.”

   No, just as there is nothing intrinsically wrong with utilizing the original Declaration of Independence as a coffee table placemat if the entire intent is to keep the tabletop free from stain when placemats work well as placemats.

9. 10 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Samuel Longhorne C. dealt in insipid reductionisms in catering to the audiences that would foot his bills.

   Just as apples are not the same as stardust, lies and myths have nothing in common:Myths, as meaning-inducing means of construing reality without themselves being real, have a different and more profound function than (mere) morality tales and base fiction; as such, the “sacred scriptures” of all societies and cultures are of significant import and fascination.

10. 10 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Then you read as the the character Andy Griffith “saw” football in his skit, “What it was, was football.”

    I.e., without comprehension of what was before you.

    Scripture is not a comic book or a dime fiction novel.