Re: [-empyre-] transgression and Matrix Theory

[Kate Southworth <katesouthworth@gloriousninth.com>]

Christina,

I wanted to use the term 'transgressions' in connection with 'border
crossing' for this month's discussion because for me, carried within the
concept of 'transgression' as a human activity, is the idea not just of
questioning and challenging boundaries - laws, norms, behaviours, values,
categories, systems, identities - but of actually finding ways of moving
beyond them.  

So, I understand that to transgress boundaries requires an awareness
(rational, emotional) of that boundary's existence,  and some real, tangible
means of going beyond the limits presented by that boundary.

And having attended a convent school, I too was taught that sin is a serious
and willful transgression of God's law.  But perhaps when human activity is
interpreted within phallo logic systems (e.g. the law or the church) maybe
those working within those systems are only able to conceptualise
transgressions in binary terms - inside or outside the law, good or evil,
with us or against us.

Kate


 4/4/05 18:11Christina McPheechristina112@earthlink.net

> 
> 
> Kate:
> 
> 
> i remember you really wanted to use the term 'transgressions' for the
> month in connection with 'border crossings'  so this is intriguing to
> me.
> 
> Why is the idea of 'transgression' important ?
> 
> How do you define it in terms of matrix theory?
> 
> Being brought up in the Church, i was taught that a transgression was a
> sin.  I thought I'd have a look at the English dictionary and went to
> the url:
> 
> <http://www.wordreference.com/definition/transgression>
> 
> 
> Here's a copy:
> 
> 
> Adapted From: WordNet 2.0 Copyright 2003 by Princeton University.  All
> rights reserved.
> 
> 
> transgression
> 
> A
> noun
> 
> 1 
> transgression
> 
>  
> the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit
> 
> Category Tree:
> act; human_action; human_activity
> ?action
> ?transgression
> 
> 2 
> transgression, evildoing
> 
>  
> the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral
> principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"
> 
> Category Tree:
> act; human_action; human_activity
> ?activity
> ?wrongdoing; wrongful_conduct; misconduct; actus_reus
> ?transgression, evildoing
> ?inside_job
> ?crime
> ?crime; law-breaking
> ?terrorization; terrorisation
> ?sin; sinning
> ?vice
> ?depravity; turpitude
> ?villainy
> ?evil; immorality; wickedness; iniquity
> ?abomination
> 
> 3 
> transgression
> 
>  
> the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of
> marine strata over terrestrial strata
> 
> Category Tree:
> phenomenon
> ?natural_phenomenon
> ?geological_phenomenon
> ?transgression
> 
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> intrigued......
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> cm
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