From: EMAILSeekingHarryPotter@rocketmail.comHERE   
      
   On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 19:59:56 -0400, John M. wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 19:13:15 -0400, VD wrote:   
   >   
   >> The mind, a terrible thing? To waste?   
   >>   
   >> As HRH grow up in front of our eyes, their characters develop, their   
   >> essence never changes.   
   >>   
   >> Harry is our spiritual leader, transforming and transfiguring his   
   >> soul, learning in many ways to be the exact opposite of Hermione.   
   >> Harry the Soul stays on his essential, righteous course, teaching us   
   >> about choices and results of choices. That life is a journey with a   
   >> purpose not a simple trip through an extended library of facts.   
   >>   
   >> Ron is Ron. Family oriented, salt of the earth, as spiritual as a rat,   
   >> if not for following Harry along, we could easily see him plodding   
   >> through Hogwarts and ending up, well, just as he did. Overweight,   
   >> boring; where getting his quite necessary Muggle driver's license a   
   >> major achievement of 19 years of effort...and he had to cheat to do   
   >> that.   
   >>   
   >> What we have in Hermione as the intellect is a tightly wound, facts   
   >> only, individual who only friends has inside the Harry circle. Her   
   >> fellow Gryffindors' put up with her, rarely sitting with her at   
   >> Quidditch or anywhere else for that matter. Her social development is   
   >> retarded, intellects want facts not intangibles, not real   
   >> relationships. Intellects certainly don't transform themselves   
   >> spiritually.   
   >>   
   >> Ms. Rowling has reminded us often how she is HJG, insecure,   
   >> relationship tainted, an intellect who never thought she was "writing   
   >> a fantasy series" until she had written one. As Hermione struggles   
   >> with all things spiritual so does Ms. Rowling by her own admission.   
   >>   
   >> Who Hermione is is most about what she is not. What interest she has   
   >> in life things Harry is learning, the transfiguration of his soul by   
   >> making the right, selfless choices, she can only absorb or experience   
   >> through him.   
   >>   
   >> Her entire life is built around these facts which keep her from   
   >> burrowing below or above them. To see the life past the veil or   
   >> acknowledge that such a life actually exists.   
   >>   
   >> Aw, isn't this the lesson of  the Seeker? You have to trust   
   >> your spontaneity, make choices often based on gut feelings, that facts   
   >> are material and superficial and often simply get in the way of a   
   >> proper life journey. Hermione teaches us very little with one   
   >> exception. Don't be like her, facts will bury you.   
   >>   
   >> The mind, a terrible thing? To have?   
   >   
   > In Divinity School, I took a course called Jesus and the Intellectual   
   > The underlying theological message was that our intellect keeps us   
   > focused on how much smarter we are than others, and this keeps us from   
   > seeing that there may be a higher intelligence than ourselves.   
   >   
   > The intellect is very much a "material good in a material world" and   
   > has little to do with gaining Heaven.   
   >   
   > Faith and intellect are often on a collision course.   
      
   I took a year off from "regular" studies to find that seminary school   
   was no place for me. Intellect is often rewarded in the Catholic   
   divinity and often required (Latin, Catechisms, etc.)   
      
   I found it exhausting and confusing if not out and out contradictory.   
   If you had to be intellectual then how in the world would 2/3rds or   
   more of the planet ever gain salvation?   
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