Re: 2 Q's


Subject: Re: 2 Q's
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 15:57:56 EST


The one thing I'd have to disagree with you about is the idea that this or that specific theology isn't important.

I won't argue with that idea per se, but you need to realize it is a statement that works within a very specific theology and some very specific beliefs about what God is (and is not) that not everyone shares.

It's a specific theological statement that I think Saligner would share, tho.

Jim

> I feel that Salinger writes from a perspective where the qestion of this or
> that specific theology isn't important. True Spirituality is Uiversal;
> Perenial. I agree that one shouldn't go to salinger for spirtual philosophy
> or theology. He doesn't explain spirituality but I do think he tries to
> deliver a sort of Zen Thwak, a set of symbols and ideas that might cause a
> sudden spiritual insight to occur on it's own. To me, maybe because I
> uderstand my life through the eyes of a bodhisatva, that is the goal of Art.
> I realize Art can be many things to many people, but that is my perspective.
>
> I feel I enter into sort of tenuous ground when talk turns to spirituality.
> It seems the deeper inside our true selves we speak from, the more grand and
> intricate our linguistic bridges need to become to hold us together.
> Although I'm unsure whether it's really possible to make the cross on such a
> linguistic bridge (it's definately easier to make cross out of such
> bridges), I enjoy it and the challenges that make it possible. It may even
> be Art.
>
> Love,
> Madhava
>
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