On the Other Hand
Nov. 27th, 2003 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisbe"Many Americans make Thanksgiving into a religious festival. They agree with Lincoln, who, upon declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, said that "we have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven." They ascribe our material abundance to God's efforts, not man's.
" That view is a slap in the face of any person who has worked an honest day in his life."
" That view is a slap in the face of any person who has worked an honest day in his life."
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dont feel it
Date: 2003-11-27 08:15 am (UTC)perhaps because I never worked an
honest day in my life?
a lot of nonsense is written perhaps by
people who like in the Rilke quote, which
can be all of us some ways, are on the
edges of life not having accepted its
dreadfulness or majesty, also about
colonialism in new world etc from another
point of view.
I am thinking it is the one, and this perhaps
justifies bringing back that half remmebered
quote, who has accepted the world who is
able to know Thanksgiving and, if he will of
course, Eucharist...
Could that acceptance be called "objectivism"?
or the term is patented I guess.
+Seraphim.
I don't either
Date: 2003-11-27 08:35 am (UTC)Well, I have given two points of view, a Calvinist, and -- a materialist, I almost said, but that is inaccurate. Both are well expressed, and each has a part of the truth.