http://subversify.com/2009/12/24/the-christmas-wish/ An online magazine offering an alternative, subversive perspective to mainstream media. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://subversify.com/2009/12/24/the-christmas-wish/comment-page-1/#comment-3831 A.B. Thomas Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:44:55 +0000 http://subversify.com/?p=3939#comment-3831 I wonder too if there was anything truly to be taken from this story is that one has to consider a few possibilities when you look at another for guidance or direction – are you enamoured by the message, by the messenger or the medium in which it is presented? Emperor Constantine had over fifty gospels to choose from yet he discarded all but four to envision the Bible. What was it about those four that appealed to him that would set the course of Christianity over the gospels of Judas, Peter or Mary or “the gospel according to that little quiet monk who sat in the back and doodled when the archbishop wasn’t looking”? In turn what made the council at Nicene favour those that Constantine chose? I wonder how much of what appeals to our own beliefs are shaped not so much of the message but what the icon presenting that message and how it given? Not to seem glib but take the line “I’ll be back” (alright, not the greatest message but in the context of movie Shangri-la-dom, Arnie and the first “Terminator” did have a profound affect on some of us lesser minded individuals that can exude mountains of interpretations from the merest of syllables) – how much of an impact would that have had if it was said in Delhi by a leather clad sunglasses wearing Ghandi as he stood off against the British governor? I would surmise that the magnitude of Ghandi’s affect on the world would have been greatly lessened just as if Arnie would have said in that police station, “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching”. I wonder too if there was anything truly to be taken from this story is that one has to consider a few possibilities when you look at another for guidance or direction – are you enamoured by the message, by the messenger or the medium in which it is presented? Emperor Constantine had over fifty gospels to choose from yet he discarded all but four to envision the Bible. What was it about those four that appealed to him that would set the course of Christianity over the gospels of Judas, Peter or Mary or “the gospel according to that little quiet monk who sat in the back and doodled when the archbishop wasn’t looking”? In turn what made the council at Nicene favour those that Constantine chose? I wonder how much of what appeals to our own beliefs are shaped not so much of the message but what the icon presenting that message and how it given? Not to seem glib but take the line “I’ll be back” (alright, not the greatest message but in the context of movie Shangri-la-dom, Arnie and the first “Terminator” did have a profound affect on some of us lesser minded individuals that can exude mountains of interpretations from the merest of syllables) – how much of an impact would that have had if it was said in Delhi by a leather clad sunglasses wearing Ghandi as he stood off against the British governor? I would surmise that the magnitude of Ghandi’s affect on the world would have been greatly lessened just as if Arnie would have said in that police station, “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching”.

]]> http://subversify.com/2009/12/24/the-christmas-wish/comment-page-1/#comment-3828 grainnerhuad Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:30:42 +0000 http://subversify.com/?p=3939#comment-3828 Or do we do both? I rather think this makes an arguement for the path that we choose being played out, however it is never as well mapped as we would like it to be. Or do we do both? I rather think this makes an arguement for the path that we choose being played out, however it is never as well mapped as we would like it to be.

]]> http://subversify.com/2009/12/24/the-christmas-wish/comment-page-1/#comment-3820 karlsie Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:03:08 +0000 http://subversify.com/?p=3939#comment-3820 A very twisted story with a disturbing ending. It makes one wonder who is paying retribution for what. One for material aspirations, another who claims to have been on a selective course from which there had been no real choices. Sort of like that age old question; do we live our choose our fate? A very twisted story with a disturbing ending. It makes one wonder who is paying retribution for what. One for material aspirations, another who claims to have been on a selective course from which there had been no real choices. Sort of like that age old question; do we live our choose our fate?

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