December 2009
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not content to cease contending
November 2009
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Modernity:Epistemological Questions :: PostModernity:Ontological Questions
it's a lightbrite world
a multiplicity of data points, and claims about data points, leads to a feeling that there really is no truth about any data points
Simultaneously,
there is a strong Biblical theme for hanging on, persevering, moving forward, being strong and courageous, and trusting & obeying.
And
there is also a strong Biblical theme for a Godly giving up or resignation.
- David’s baby boy’s death
- Moses not getting to the promised land
- Paul and his thorn
The Choosing
— a personal, volitional event —
is our piece that brings existential, subjective change and development
the Structure within the Scaffold
the Flesh on the Bones
“Help me in my choosing”
is different from
“choose for me”
Scaffold or Bones?
Externally Enforced Forms/Rituals/Helps/Tools/Habits/Hacks
serve
Existential, Subjective Change and Development
Are they scaffold or bones? And, in the end, the difference likely only matters to the external viewers.
“The more luminously clear it becomes that the demand requires my actual...”
– Barth ([1968](http://un-related.com/post/159442094/bibliography)), on Rom 7:15, p260
let's call the whole thing off
Or maybe
Subjective Truth is too freighted by its Modern opposite, Objective Truth, and so also must be abandoned to the Post-Modern Fire.
So let’s just deal in the Truth, or, if you prefer, the Real.
maryjuanita:
Translating Tolstoy:
WSJ: Every culture thinks its literature will stand the test of time. What is it about the Russian novelists that makes us come back to their work again and again?
Mr. Pevear and Ms. Volokhonsky: I think there’s the phrase “the accursed questions” attributed to Dostoyevsky: What is the meaning of life, the existence of God, the mystery of death, the big...
You've got your origins at the wrong coordinates
Ontology as Relationality, Being-In-Relationship-ness, means that it’s all relative.
Truth is relative?
That the truth is relative, vs objective, is not the problem.
The problem is that we want to make the truth of a thing/situation/person relative to ourselves.
There is a great Relativizer, but it ain’t us.
Great Zeus!
The run to a Humanly Objective Truth is Christianity-in-Modernity’s valiant attempt at defending Truth.
But as Modernity crumbles, so too the Human grasping at Objective Truth. So it’s probably best to get the Family Treasures off of that particular pedestal.
Is the Human attainment of Objective Truth is the Mythology of Modernity?
Subjects, not Objects
If the basis of the cosmos is onto-relationships, being-in-relationship, then can there be Objective Truth?
Regardless, this isn’t an abandonment of Truth.
Nothing Objective for a subject
Can anyone now argue that there is one can have an “objective viewpoint” on anything?
And so it’s tempting to abandon the notion of objectivity.
But really, the thing to abandon is the “viewpoint”, not the “objective” part. We don’t really abandon the notion that there is some “object”. Truly, the sophomores among us like to argue...
“The new homogeneity of the printed page seemed to inspire a subliminal faith in...”
– Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (p 144) (via blrting)
Twitter Avatars →
some placeholders are cooler than others! (but that’s the point)
“It is largely to the humanists that we owe the curious conception of the...”
– C.S. Lews English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (p. 21) (via blrting)
If we don't lie to Google →
what does it mean for us as persons?
How does having a search box affect how we think about ourselves and the world? The very forming of a question creates the boundary of the answer set. Working hard on the question is as important as working hard on the answer to the question.
So here’s a box in which we enter characters, which auto-completes the question, then gives an answer. How...
One Book, Many Readings →
Choose Your Own Adventure + Tufte = Complete and Total Awesomeness
“The supreme tragedy is still not seen that in Germany it was largely people of...”
– Hayek, 2007, p59.
Historic, orthodox Christian Political Philosophy
Given this political spectrum, what is the preferred status of the person within a State?
[nasty, brutish, short anarchy actor] ——— [slave]
Put another way
[no coercive force] ——— [unrestrained coercive force]