Politics of Sign-Use: Intelligent Design
POLITICS OF SIGN-USE
Follow-up to: Absolutizing Ideologicals. Effect of
“INTELLIGENT DESIGN”
(In common contemporary discourse: religious right’s “ID” talking point)
Is a Trojan Horse
-a species-flattering pre-emptive pseudo-completion hypothesis, whose unconscious motive is to subsume the totality of the universe under anthropological limitation (“intelligence”, as we know it, is essentially bound up with the material processes that accounts for the human brain’s functions with signs). It is therefore a product of species narcissism, a projection of mankind’s highest, boldest, most complete and completing agency into the skies (reason) -- which becomes thereby a mirror of his psychic totality. God is the Formal Actuality of everything created. Man was created in the image of God (not: vice versa!). The Son of God of Christianity was taken up into heaven.
Acts 1.9 links Jesus to sky-god entities (‘angels’): “Now when he had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel, 11. who also said. “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”).
Revelation 22 continues the same cosmic containing link. “Behold, I am coming quickly!” occurs three times, at verses 7, 12 (followed by “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the End, the First and the Last”, v. 13), and v. 20. The last quoted words: “Surely I come quickly.” The star of Bethlehem and testimony of the three wise men link his birth to a ‘coming’ from the heavens. These links, this link between heaven and earth represented by the figure of Jesus Christ crucified on the cross, then ascending into heaven, from there to return, leaving the injunction: “It is not for you to know the times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.” – are essential to Bible Christianity, however regarded by de-mythologizers and neo-orthodox theologians. It is a group-fantasy link between dispensationalist evangekicals, so-called, and Zionist Jews. Jesus was a Jew on his mother’s side, but He is coming back triumphant after the four horsemen of the apocalypse ride, and the 7 seals are broken – this, from the lineage of His Father’s side.
The Creationist’s are using ….
“Creationists” have come into existence as A new species of humans, “creationists”, have come into being. Some professor is no doubt preparing research, right now, to establish links between holding to the idea of creation, as in the Bible, to a segment in the genome chair, as a pre-programmed disposition. How easily triumphant the science of life proceeds apace today to answer the age-old questions. “Creationists” can now go right up there alongside “homosexuals”, and, certainly, “semites”, race-ists, perhaps liberals per se. (Ann Coulter and the neocons call it a sickness; it’s hardly a stretch to think in terms of a maleficient ‘liberal gene’ plaguing humanity, maybe carcinogenic, as well.) God’s Spirit has called (opponents say culled) out the Orthodox to favor ID. It is the doctrine that says they were create in His image, Who created the Universe and all that it contains. The pseudo-concept of “Intelligent Design” is needed to latch terms of personal self-reference to an external bond others are obliged to recognize as common: “I”, light, sun, Taurus (in Sumer, etc.). Even though it proceeds from a private individual standpoint. This subjectivity of metaphysical origin is disguised, overcome by uses of signs designed for all to use in self-reference, consonant with the priest’s.
Thus, ALL AT ONCE, Bill Maher noted, as if ready to chime in with a perfect illustration of Group-think, Republican strategists had introduced the phrase “criminalizing politics” for what the Dems were doing, in pursing Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Libby and Rove. What they were doing, by contrast, was just politics. It is the goody-goody liberals playing out-of-bounds here by daring to hold them legally responsible.
Thus, the same ones who would give us “Intelligent Design” are the ones accusing Dems of “criminalizing politics” in seeking indictments for wrongdoing. This illustrates what psychosemiotics calls “reversal”. The charges brought do indeed import criminality in their political conduct. It’s about time this occurred. American politics has become an arena of hate through the Atwater-Rove-Cheney-Liddy-Miller-Feith-Rumsfelt- WHIG (White House Iraq Group: pro-war operatives in 2002/3 involved in the Valerie Plame/CIA leak case) political propaganda machine that would make Josef Geobbels blush, if it weren’t so passive in its sadistic aggression. By projecting their theological identifications as metaphysically ultimate, even though it originates in themselves as a group, they have necessitated rejection in kind: of themselves; of this way of being. If they make a demand that you must be either for or against the way their God made the universe, whereas you had not thought of making such a demand on them or anyone else, this is a willful transgression of reason: one-sided, arbitrarily irreversible, self-contradictory, logically deformed. And that is the demand made by hi-jacking use of the highest signs in America’s sacral firmament (freedom, democracy, life).
To Get (their) God
(and guns)
on the Ballot (indirectly: by promoting ID - related issues, e.g., “protecting the sanctity of marriage”; “rights of the unborn”)
Follow-up to: Absolutizing Ideologicals. Effect of
“INTELLIGENT DESIGN”
(In common contemporary discourse: religious right’s “ID” talking point)
Is a Trojan Horse
-a species-flattering pre-emptive pseudo-completion hypothesis, whose unconscious motive is to subsume the totality of the universe under anthropological limitation (“intelligence”, as we know it, is essentially bound up with the material processes that accounts for the human brain’s functions with signs). It is therefore a product of species narcissism, a projection of mankind’s highest, boldest, most complete and completing agency into the skies (reason) -- which becomes thereby a mirror of his psychic totality. God is the Formal Actuality of everything created. Man was created in the image of God (not: vice versa!). The Son of God of Christianity was taken up into heaven.
Acts 1.9 links Jesus to sky-god entities (‘angels’): “Now when he had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel, 11. who also said. “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”).
Revelation 22 continues the same cosmic containing link. “Behold, I am coming quickly!” occurs three times, at verses 7, 12 (followed by “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the End, the First and the Last”, v. 13), and v. 20. The last quoted words: “Surely I come quickly.” The star of Bethlehem and testimony of the three wise men link his birth to a ‘coming’ from the heavens. These links, this link between heaven and earth represented by the figure of Jesus Christ crucified on the cross, then ascending into heaven, from there to return, leaving the injunction: “It is not for you to know the times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.” – are essential to Bible Christianity, however regarded by de-mythologizers and neo-orthodox theologians. It is a group-fantasy link between dispensationalist evangekicals, so-called, and Zionist Jews. Jesus was a Jew on his mother’s side, but He is coming back triumphant after the four horsemen of the apocalypse ride, and the 7 seals are broken – this, from the lineage of His Father’s side.
The Creationist’s are using ….
“Creationists” have come into existence as A new species of humans, “creationists”, have come into being. Some professor is no doubt preparing research, right now, to establish links between holding to the idea of creation, as in the Bible, to a segment in the genome chair, as a pre-programmed disposition. How easily triumphant the science of life proceeds apace today to answer the age-old questions. “Creationists” can now go right up there alongside “homosexuals”, and, certainly, “semites”, race-ists, perhaps liberals per se. (Ann Coulter and the neocons call it a sickness; it’s hardly a stretch to think in terms of a maleficient ‘liberal gene’ plaguing humanity, maybe carcinogenic, as well.) God’s Spirit has called (opponents say culled) out the Orthodox to favor ID. It is the doctrine that says they were create in His image, Who created the Universe and all that it contains. The pseudo-concept of “Intelligent Design” is needed to latch terms of personal self-reference to an external bond others are obliged to recognize as common: “I”, light, sun, Taurus (in Sumer, etc.). Even though it proceeds from a private individual standpoint. This subjectivity of metaphysical origin is disguised, overcome by uses of signs designed for all to use in self-reference, consonant with the priest’s.
Thus, ALL AT ONCE, Bill Maher noted, as if ready to chime in with a perfect illustration of Group-think, Republican strategists had introduced the phrase “criminalizing politics” for what the Dems were doing, in pursing Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Libby and Rove. What they were doing, by contrast, was just politics. It is the goody-goody liberals playing out-of-bounds here by daring to hold them legally responsible.
Thus, the same ones who would give us “Intelligent Design” are the ones accusing Dems of “criminalizing politics” in seeking indictments for wrongdoing. This illustrates what psychosemiotics calls “reversal”. The charges brought do indeed import criminality in their political conduct. It’s about time this occurred. American politics has become an arena of hate through the Atwater-Rove-Cheney-Liddy-Miller-Feith-Rumsfelt- WHIG (White House Iraq Group: pro-war operatives in 2002/3 involved in the Valerie Plame/CIA leak case) political propaganda machine that would make Josef Geobbels blush, if it weren’t so passive in its sadistic aggression. By projecting their theological identifications as metaphysically ultimate, even though it originates in themselves as a group, they have necessitated rejection in kind: of themselves; of this way of being. If they make a demand that you must be either for or against the way their God made the universe, whereas you had not thought of making such a demand on them or anyone else, this is a willful transgression of reason: one-sided, arbitrarily irreversible, self-contradictory, logically deformed. And that is the demand made by hi-jacking use of the highest signs in America’s sacral firmament (freedom, democracy, life).
To Get (their) God
(and guns)
on the Ballot (indirectly: by promoting ID - related issues, e.g., “protecting the sanctity of marriage”; “rights of the unborn”)
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