Just a new thing I learned today:
In the past, Persian carpet-makers apparently believed in the idea that God is the only one who can create perfection. Hence, if they happened to create a flawless carpet sometime, they would stain/chip it so that it was no longer "perfect" - just to save themselves from God's wrath !!!
My twisted logic to this twisted logic is as follows:
If God created humans, and if humans were created with a specific role in mind; then the carpetmaker that God created would have to be a perfect carpetmaker ? Hence the perfect carpetmaker would be required to make perfect carpets keeping in line his own perfect carpet-making skills ^^ . Ceteris paribus, the carpet would never need to be chipped / stained (qed)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The persian carpet syndrome...
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That is why I consider Humans to be above God, in sense that the carpet-makers would actually stain their perfect carpets so that the 'short-tempered' God doesn't feel bad about that!
That's a rather diverse view... who is this btw?
nice one...
but it says only god can create perfect things..not that everything that god creates is perfect...:)
so the carpetmaker is not necessarily perfect...
To be more specific, God's creations are specific. If God created man, and hence the carpet-maker he created him perfectly to make carpets and hence ...
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