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| User: | paradosiakos (11760686) |
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| Name: | Democracy of the Dead | ||
| About: | "Tradition means giving a vote to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father." -- G. K. Chesterton “Art thou not aware how God sets forth the parable of the good word? It is like a good tree, firmly rooted, reaching out with its branches towards the sky, yielding its fruit at all times by its Sustainer’s leave. And thus it is that God propounds parables for men, so that they might bethink themselves of the truth. And the parable of the corrupt word is that of a corrupt tree, torn up from its roots onto the face of the earth, wholly unable to endure.” (Qur’an 14:24-26). "The death of what is dead is life. There is only one way to dominate the past, the realm of things that have perished: to open our veins and inject some of our blood into the empty veins of the dead. This is what the reactionary cannot do: treat the past as a form of life. He pulls it out of its sphere of vitality, and, thoroughly dead as it is, he places it on a throne so that it may rule over our souls." -Jose Ortega Y Gassett | ||
| Interests: | 41: anthropology, baal shem tov, buddhism, canon, cappadocian fathers, catholicism, christology, eastern orthodoxy, ecclesiology, ecumenical councils, fasts, feasts, food prohibitions, gemara, gregory palamas, hadith, hassidism, hesychasm, hinduism, islam, judaism, koran, liturgics, marabouts, philosophy, prophets, rabia al basri, religion, religious traditions, rig veda, rumi, saints, scriptures, siddhartha gautama, sufism, sutras, talmud, theology, torah, usul al-fiqh, usul al-tafsir | ||
| Maintainers: | 2: golodhgwath, midwinterspring | ||
| Members: | 3: golodhgwath, gyntsela, midwinterspring | ||
| 4: golodhgwath, gyntsela, midwinterspring, mysticactive | |||
| Account type: | Basic Account | ||
