Hierarchized oppositions

Where is she?

Activity/passivity,
Sun/Moon,
Culture/Nature,
Day/Night,

Father/Mother,
Head/heart,
Intelligible/sensitive,
Logos/Pathos,

Form, convex, step, advance, seed, progress.
Matter, concave, ground - which supports the step, receptacle.
Man
-------
Woman

Always the same metaphor: we follow it, it transports us, in all its forms, wherever a discourse is organized. The same thread, or double tress leads us, whether we are reading or speaking, through literature, philosophy, criticism, centuries of representation, of reflection.

Thought has always worked by opposition,

Speech/Writing,
High/Low

By dual, hierarchized oppositions, Superior/Inferior. Myths, legends, books, Philosophical systems.

H. Cixous, 'Sorties'

I've just read a message where someone was using Ephesians 5-6 to show God's loving order: 'submit to one another in God's love: wives to husbands, children to parents, slaves to masters'. Although the text we are reading is often used as God's direct word from heaven, it sounds to me very much like Cixous' list of hierarchized oppositions. I wonder what God thinks of texts like this...

Doubt as belief

“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself” (Unamuno).

This is a hero of mine, above all for his honesty when dealing with subjects as serious and profound as this one. And he makes me think... perhaps an important part of believing in God is doubting God; perhaps part of being a believer is being an atheist. I certainly would like that, and I think (or want to think) that's what Bonhoeffer discovered in prison. Perhaps part of God's personality consists of hiding himself; and if it is, he is certainly very good at it.

(Kind of) Evolution conversation

This is a very informative conversation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKMhtyI3L8&feature=related