> John: > In Orthodox christianity there is a joke about the dying man being visited > by the priest, which goes something like ... the priest asks "Do you believe > in God the father, God the son, and God as Holy spirit?" The patient sits up > and says "What??? I'm dying and you give me puzzles?!?".
Jim: LOL, that's a new one for me. > Btw, a classic > answer to the multiple-diety issue - in Orthodoxy at least - is that the > trinity is not a statement about "God" (that would be arrogant) but a > description of how humans _experience_ religion. Big difference. That's also new to me. Coincidentally, I've been recently involved in an internet discussion on the Trinity with someone who is Eastern Orthodox and someone who is a Jehovah's Witness. Whew, and me in the middle! > Jim, thanks for your thoughtful comments, you have inspired me. Being > Russian Orthodox and an unqualified convert to evolutionary psychology > should raise conflicts, but, the fact that I experience so few conflicts > causes me to ponder this issue. Maybe this is like the circular universe - > you move so far in one direction you end up facing the opposite way. It's nice to know your mind is big enough for all of that ;) > Evolutionary psychology has interesting features. One is that it looks at > human behavior as it IS rather than what OUGHT to be. This makes it ok for > David Buss to say about murder: "killing has been a marvelously effective > solution to an astonishing array of human social conflicts" (last chapter of > 'The Murderer Next Door'). David Buss? We watch a clip from him in a marriage and family class. He certainly isn't shy about expressing his opinions. My students get a kick out of him when he claims that marriage needs to be reshaped fundamentally, fundamentally meaning a return to arranged marriages. That gets em going! Thanks for a great response --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
