Re: [NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries: Samson

2019-03-15 Thread Edward Picot via NetBehaviour 

Thanks, Alan. Stick it to Cranston! They're asking for it!

On 14/03/2019 21:25, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
This particular story is fascinating and I think resonates with the 
Middle East today. On Wikipedia, a scholar says "In contrast, James 
King West considers that the hostilities between the Philistines and 
Hebrews appear to be of a "purely personal and local sort".^[57] 
 He also 
considers that Samson stories have, in contrast to much of Judges, an 
"almost total lack of a religious or moral tone"
What's really interesting here is the idea of the "local skirmish" - 
which is how it reads to me. And now, throughout much of the world, 
local skirmishes are occurring at greater and greater frequency, I 
think, driven by climate change and the resulting starvation, hoarding 
of resources, over-populations, and so forth. Industrialization has 
ruined us all; Azure and I have tried going totally without plastic - 
and at least where we live, that's an impossibility. So the Samson 
story is oddly "modern" sounding. The issues of nationalism and race 
are troubling of course, and today I can imagine all the events 
occurring over a 25km radius, so to speak - people and peoples moving 
back and forth, absolutist religions creating "fights" and so forth. 
Great writing!  - Best, Alan (about to join a cult where we'll attack 
Cranston, the next town over!) -




On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:51 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour 
> wrote:


'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of
view of
a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't
believe in
God, or can't work out what he's playing at.

There are fourteen of these plays, and the seventh is now online:
'Samson'.

http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/07samson.html (or for the full
series
so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website

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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries: Samson

2019-03-14 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour 
This particular story is fascinating and I think resonates with the Middle
East today. On Wikipedia, a scholar says "In contrast, James King West
considers that the hostilities between the Philistines and Hebrews appear
to be of a "purely personal and local sort".[57]
 He also
considers that Samson stories have, in contrast to much of Judges, an
"almost total lack of a religious or moral tone"
What's really interesting here is the idea of the "local skirmish" - which
is how it reads to me. And now, throughout much of the world, local
skirmishes are occurring at greater and greater frequency, I think, driven
by climate change and the resulting starvation, hoarding of resources,
over-populations, and so forth. Industrialization has ruined us all; Azure
and I have tried going totally without plastic - and at least where we
live, that's an impossibility. So the Samson story is oddly "modern"
sounding. The issues of nationalism and race are troubling of course, and
today I can imagine all the events occurring over a 25km radius, so to
speak - people and peoples moving back and forth, absolutist religions
creating "fights" and so forth. Great writing!  - Best, Alan (about to join
a cult where we'll attack Cranston, the next town over!) -



On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:51 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> 'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
> Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
> Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of view of
> a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't believe in
> God, or can't work out what he's playing at.
>
> There are fourteen of these plays, and the seventh is now online: 'Samson'.
>
> http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/07samson.html (or for the full series
> so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)
>
> - Edward Picot
> http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
>
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