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Re: anibanerjee
Well, I encouraged you to try, and you succeeded quite well at a difficult task. Epic is the word, for sure. 
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Sea_Gypsy
on July 18, 2016 at 8:58 PM
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Re: anibanerjee
I can't see any oddities now . . . deleted as per your wish. But I think these are all in the game. Anyway, dear Presta you heap such fine praises for my work that it 'oxygenates' the RBCs of my brain. Such encouragements are most welcome of course.. The work becomes strenuous at times, the epic being so huge, and then there are so many other aspects which, unless incorporated, we would not be able to comprehend Milton's purpose in its ecumenical significances. But doing the Milton series has been an engaging, enjoyable and satisfying experience. Remember, you made me to have a go at it. A big thanks, therefore, is due to you. 
posted by
anib
on July 18, 2016 at 7:08 AM
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Re: FSI
I am grateful for your continued support and reading, and am also glad that you find
the dfferent takes interesting. Thank you.
posted by
anib
on July 18, 2016 at 6:49 AM
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It is interesting to read different takes on it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 18, 2016 at 5:20 AM
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anibanerjee
As you can see, I am having keyboard, internet and computer issues. Please delete the oddities that came through by me.
I must focus my comment on your skillful discussion of Milton's epic work. Phenomenal! Well done, and so difficult. I agree one should not read Milton without considering the times in which he lived. Good and evil exist, of this I can say I know. Their faces and origins - a topic for another time, perhaps. Well done, anibanerjee. Excellent, and kudos to you!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on July 18, 2016 at 12:22 AM
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Re: My friend...
When we see the twelve volume epic, we cannot help but admire Milton. Otherwise why should it have been a classic for over three-and -a-half centuries? Every age has its own peculiarities, some those that do not age with time and circumstances. God, as you say, comes from good; the devil from evil. Love is God. Yes indeed. Love is the glue that binds the universe. Just BTW, why do we call the universe, the universe and not multiverse? Because the supreme power can contain both good and bad. All-inclusive itself means supreme. Otherwise we would have a lame Goc.
posted by
anib
on July 17, 2016 at 9:37 PM
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Re: Anibanerjee
As you so rightly say, the mind is its own place.... There is no heaven, no hell, no god and no devil. To my way of thinking God is the supreme power that makes all things move. If we think of God as Energy then that power is power. We can not term it as either good or bad, no personification can be ascribed to power. Electricity runs the world, but it can destruct too. As you say god is closer to science. The energy, when static, all things are at rest, creation is at rest. When kinetic, all the kaleidoscopic happenings of creation, destruction, good, bad keeps happening. If we are to understand it this way, then God is neutral, no white bearded person sitting high up there. Not that I subscribe to Milton's views, but the story does have its significance.
posted by
anib
on July 17, 2016 at 9:22 PM
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My friend...
Milton for me, was brilliant at building word pictures. Pictures that mostly terrify, horrify, and hold everything repugnant for me. I guess I believe that folks make their own hell. I don't really think hell has a specific social target, more for me it is the avarice of greed, the hate of diversity and the need to be the one who is right. my way or the high way. if those creatures are your God then I am thinking you can call them satan.
God is love. All we need is to love. Love brings tolerance and Peace and opening one's self to these two allows God to enter and to dwell. I am not always a good girl but I do know that when I keep my eyes on my God all is well.
And Science...well the more I learn of scientific fact and about the Universe and the perfect mathematics of a flower or the function of the body the more excited I am. Nothing has been created in chaos, but by knowledge. So again for me God is all knowledge, all that has been and ever will be.
Having written this here which is a bit of a long comment...sorry...I have to remember that Milton was a man of his time. A time where he could witness the debauchery of Stuarts and their followers and the terrible restraints that the Puritans imposed. Neither group was healthy for mind and body, in my opinion.
posted by
Kabu
on July 17, 2016 at 9:53 AM
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Anibanerjee
My mind is its own place and definitely makes room for only the God of my understanding and communication with. How or why could that God who created all of the heavens and earth and all it's peoples then create the evil of devils? Back in 1667 and while man got involved with his psychotic mind out of fear and Puritanism methinks, the mind had not then been well trained to think properly for itself. I think of God as being closer to science and created man with the same or more joy than he created the sun and moon and everything else.
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posted by
WileyJohn
on July 17, 2016 at 9:40 AM
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