Re: 7 years old Iranian genius

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And I would not underestimate the boy's familiarity with the notion of
interpretation:  i.e. the capability of fining other
MEANING<bold>S</bold>.  The heart of the matter could go to sufism which
had led people to atheism!  It is not that easy!  I also know kids who
recite manifesto without interpretation indeed a lots of hard core
Marxist do it !

Atefeh


At 02:08 PM 5/1/1999 -0500, you wrote:

>too bad the iranian boy 'genius" is spending all that brain power on

>memorizing --and interpreting --the Koran! There are Christian

>fundamentalist boys who are trained by their fanatical parents to do

>this with the bible, to preach sermons etc. Orthodox jewish boys are

>also  given major doses of religion at very young ages. I think such

>kids are victims of child abuse.  I saw that BBC report -- and when I

>saw that little boy carried around on the shoulders of grownup men,
and

>fussed over and catered to -- I thought, this story is not going to
have

>a happy end.

>

>What would karl marx say about this, i wonder?

>

<bold><italic>The foucaldien ethos  has already reached  his/her  eternal
 utopia in the "present".  No need for further move!

</italic></bold>