Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Humanising God and Teaching Him to Speak Our Own Language

Obododimma,

I am intrigued by your titles and theses.

I opened one of blog links recently, kept it waiting along with other open tabs on my computer, and ended up having to close it along with others when the system became too slow on account of the number of open tabs.

May I suggest that to increase the chances of the blog posts being read, you post the entire essay on the group, while providing a link to the source of the post at your blog?

This could be useful on account of the kaleidoscope of information accessible online, meaning one is always struggling to juggle almost simultaneous attention to various websites. In such contexts, the faster one can access a particular piece of information, decide if one wants to give it further attention , and if so, decide how much time one wants to allocate to it and do so forthwith increases the quality of attention that piece of information  gets.

I hope you dont mind my asking if you use Facebook. That platform has its unique value for getting ideas across to people who are more likely to respond than even on Google and Yahoo groups, valuable as those are. You could see the Facebook accounts of fellow academics as Moses Ochonu and fellow writers such as Ikideh. Pius Adesanmi has entered a different level of Facebook visibility since his Penguin prize and perhaps his pre-and immediately post 2015 APC affiliation.

In sum, Facebook can be gold for a blogger, again by posting the content straight to Facebook with a link to the blog particularly since Facebook is largely a self contained social universe.

toyin

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 08:51, Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:

"
The title for this essay, as part of the design to enact surprise,
brings up the following issues:
1. God does not possess a language or sign system;
2. God has been made by humans who thereafter try to give him one of
their attributes – speech-using, since they themselves are homo
loquens – otherwise, he could have other sign system or not have any
at all, as in (1);
3. Making God (in our own image, linguistically) makes it possible for
us to interact with him; and
4. Making God in our image makes it possible for us to privatise or
claim him for ourselves."

Fresh from my blog, Eke na Egwurugwu. Read the full piece at:

https://obododimma-oha.blogspot.com/2018/10/humanising-god-and-teaching-him-to.html

Thanks.

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