God is found within beauty or, more importantly, harmony

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In the NY Times today there is an article at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010 ... ?hp#foster which displays some of the extraordinary architecture being constructed by extremely creative architects. It is a good example of my contention that the base of realized creativity is simply wealth. Creativity abounds throughout all mankind from all sorts of sources but to put it to work requires something as extraordinarily obvious as wealth. Combined with wealth enduring objects of all sorts come into being. It is unquestionable that one of the sources of huge wealth during the Middle Ages and beyond is the religious organizations which milked the rich and poor alike to assemble vast resources out of the imaginary terrors of the punishments from their imaginary deity. And that's why all that marvelous stuff got done.

"This was the fount from which Newton and Einstein drank and this is the nucleus of my basic hatred and disgust of religion which never deeply questions the archaic and imprisoning principles which underlie its beliefs which would consign humanity to ignorance in a dark dungeon cringing before imagined and unsubstantiated and unsubstantiatable powers."

I guess you never met either an ennea-5 theologian OR an ennea-1 paleontologist [the latter my dear but not loving brother]. It is not the religion nor the paleontology nor any other field, mon ami, it is the attitude of the proprietor whose sees it as his castle. Save hatred and disgust for the ideologues and demagogues, and stop watching the doughnut hole of the particular manger they are occupying.

Check out Enneagram-based personality classing. By preference Riso school or Palmer school.

Origins frankly perturbing, some of the variants in play seriously bad-headed. Has proven pretty robust predicting / explaining interactions with others [including my brother].

My enneagram-based hunch is you won't like it. But hey, you can always use awareness of a new idiocy, am I right, or are you left? Behind, that is, sufficient unto the day is the political situation thereof.

So therefore, no point complaining about pedophilia either because good and evil are zero sum. What about a lone hijacker crashing a 747 into the Rose Bowl? Do the numbers experiencing positive and negative affect the alance of the equation?

More seriously - are we clear that rapists have a good time?

I have no way to judge directly, but I know that times I did clear evil [I am talking about my atheist days here, so we can leave religious memes out of it] I was NOT having a good time.

It's just that the world doesn't parse with simpleminded unthought out naive concepts of good and evil. An emotional emetic is frequently the proper medicine to crack through the fixated corroded misconceptions promulgated by the primitive social minds entranced by much conventional social doctrine. Right now in the USA the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor. Good or evil? Depends upon whether you're rich or poor. When I go to the dentist to get root canal work is the experience good or evil? Depends upon whether you're the dentist or the patient and whether he has an anesthetic.

I can complain about the rape because I sympathize with the girl. Don't tell me there are no idiots who sympathize with the rapist.