In Baha�i philosophy and teachings there is an element of what Nietzsche called �eternal recurrence.� It�s not quite the same as �the theory that everything that ever has been or ever will be is cycling through history in a loop,� as Megan Shaw defined eternal recurrence in her article on the Eternal Return of the Jedi.1 Nor is the concept of eternal recurrence the same as assimilating all of known and unknown history into some One scheme, as say Joseph Campbell appears to do in his study of mythology or as George Lucas with his three films on Star Wars. At least that is not my understanding of the Baha�i philosophical and historical schemata. -Ron Price with thanks to Megan Shaw, �Eternal Return of the Jedi: The Phantom Menace Approaches,� Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, Issue #43, April 1999.
The whole thing is far too complex to reduce to some visual simplicity or even some masterful total vision where everything becomes subsumed into One enormous, but painstaking inclusion of all of reality, known and unknown throughout all time.
Still, there�s a richly rewarding enterprise......confirmation of the unity of the race of man... biology and also spiritual history like a single symphony1 for some who try. For there is pattern, plot, rhythm, order and harmonies2 in all this flotsam and jetsam, all this staggeringly complex phenomenological reality before us.
1Joseph Campbell,�On Completion of the Masks of God,� Creative Mythology, Viking Press, 1968, Frontispiece. Campbell began this work in 1956. 2 H.A.L. Fisher, �Preface,� A Study of History, Fontana Press, 1973(1935).
Ron Price 11 August 2003
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Oh, do fuck off.
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THIS SHIT IS THREE YEARS OLD, BORING
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TODAY WE CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
H.A.L. Fisher has one great set of initials, though I suppose he quickly grew weary of them. I mean, getting into or out of garages with a passenger must have become a terrible chore.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Is that spam I smell?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Maybe, but what for? For marriage, or being a teacher, or for doing so for 3 decades plus? Or for being Canadian, or for living in Australia, for slightly less time? Or for B'nai B'rith or whatever it's called? Perhaps he wants to sell us garage-door openers. . .
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
It mightn't be spam but it's just as annoying.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You would think that the C&P job could have been updated to say George has 6 films.
Do a google search for Ron here I see that he's a member of a lot of dierse forums, sci-fi to baseball, most, it seems, with only a post or two like these here. I wonder if his hits start slumping so he goes forum whoring to get hits?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"Eternal recurrence" might just be the best theory describing the never-ending periodic influx of retards like this yet.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Yet there is also a belief in Baha�i philosophy that people who SPAM must be castrated and hot lava poured into their eye-sockets. They are then to be tied to a pole at which point a giant ape will come and penetrate them through the anus.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I'm assuming he wants to plug his own Baha'i website, the one present in his profile. Thread closed, thankee-sai.