Looking-Glass Selves

There was only relevant one post in this blog (from February 5, 2009). It was titled, Villains and Others : "Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged." --Star Trek: TNG, "The Drumhead" The other posting is in my autism blog .

This is my first entry in DeadJournal. Actually, I really do not have a whole lot to say right now. As soon as I can think of something, I will post ie. ;-) Take a look at my recent article on religious terrorisms. Its approach is different and decidedly anti-American in its policy arguments. (By the way, I am an American.) http://terrorism.religionsnet.com. Cheers, Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. The time will come when the evils of the present U.S. administration will be exposed. My prediction (based on my readings and observations, not on some imagined psychic readings!!!) is that George H.W. Bush will go down in history as the most corrupt president in American history. Enough said for now. I know that some writers have made comparisons between Pakistan-India (vis-a-vis Kashmir) and Palestine-Israel. In my view, however, such comparisons have little merit. Neither Pakistan nor India are colonial powers. On the contrary, prior to their independence, they constituted a single colony (India) go...

Hermeneutics or Herman U. Tics ;-) From a historical standpoint, there is no evidence for many seemingly historical statements in certain world scriptures (one way or the other). Histories are mirrors, and those mirrors reflect the perspectives of specific individuals and populations. Various academic and traditional systems are operating within different constructions of reality, and there is no point in trying to connect them. As an example: Adam can be viewed in the context of diverse religious narratives. Affirming his existence serves a function in those narratives. As to whether Adam existed - that is a matter for which can only be answered in those narratives (relative truth). We are not, therefore, talking about "what happened." Who knows what happened? Even eyewitnesses to current events, like auto accidents, may, for various reasons (including racial and gender prejudice), not agree. We can only speak in the context of different stories as expressions of power a...

Welcome to the new home of the SocioSphere Editorials Blog. I am now publishing the blog using Blogger. The desktop software I had been using (called, simply, Blog ) was good, in its time, but, as the Internet goes, quite old and, therefore, limited. I also imported/merged into this blog my older Blogger blog (and then deleted it), which explains the earlier postings.