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Please be patient as I get used to using this blog. For now, one fascinating idea I am pursuing is the elusive concept of "place". In researching traditional sacred places, such as temples and churches, one of the more prominent qualities that emerge is the importance of the location. Wars are fought for the very fact of <em>place.</em>
These days, with increased mobility, and especially my own, I am growing suspect of such claims. What is that makes one place more special than any other? It is just that it is personal. While this is hardly surprising, what makes it novel is that we are rooted to ideas that have no basis for being rooted. If we are willing to die for land our ancestor's fought for, than we are practicing nothing short of ancestor worship. And as I have come to decide, ancestor worship is nothing but animism under a different name. And what a blow that is to high and mighty monotheist presumptuousness.
I'm still sorting my ideas out on this wonderfully complex and intricate subject. But why not check out <a href="http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2000june/koontz_article_pf.php" title="The elusive concept of place">my inspiration for this.</a>