Untangling Haidt/Eliade

So I wrote a response yesterday to something that was quoted in Haidts book.

And along comes Kip yesterday evening and I mentioned it to him and he had actually read several books by the author Haidt was quoting because that author (Eliade) writes about literary theory too.  (Though Kip said he found Jung more useful, but anyway.)

The short version is that everything I had to say (I still think) was correct but I was arguing against a position Eliade probably hadn't taken.  Eliade probably wasn't saying we perceive sacredness.  He was probably saying we experience sacredness the way we feel happiness--as an internal condition different people feel about different things, but that we pretty much all have had at one time or another.

( Which matters because... )

So, Rise Up Singing

Has been pre-empted today by what one of the organizers calls "an additional opportunity for making music" (though with the old opportunity not happening, I don't see how this can be called "additional" by even the most optimistic stretch of the imagination) which is apparently an hour sing-along of religious songs "featuring" three students.

Religious songs do not interest me, so I didn't go.

Hopefully the next Rise Up Singing will proceed as normal.  I'll give it one more chance.