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  • Is writing creating graven images?
     OP - April 06, 2013, 08:16 PM
    Reading Noise by David Hendy - brilliant and cheap on kindle -!

    He mentions an ancient Hindu belief that writing is creating a graven image, when discussing moving from oral to written cultures.

    This of course means the koran is blasphemous.

    What I found fascinating is how the concept of holy and blasphemy has shifted with technologies - some spoken words were thought to be holy, then written words.

    How long before we have a holy ebook, holy tweets and holy emails, complete with its own religion?

    This of course relates to the fascinating strong feelings we have about certain words!
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Is writing creating graven images?
     Reply #1 - April 06, 2013, 08:28 PM
    No, it doesn't mean the Quran is blasphemous. It means the Hindus had a different definiton of "graven image". Roll Eyes
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
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