May 2009
8 posts
How much phlogiston in that log?
It’s a waste of time to talk about freewill/predestination unless you have a comprehensive, coherent and Biblical theory for how a human being makes a decision. Any. Decision. Don’t even bring Salvation into it, just tell me, exactly, how it was that you decided to put that particular shirt on today. Until you can do that, let’s not pretend you and I can talk about the human...
Adaptation
A person’s ability to psychologically adapt to adverse circumstances does not make those circumstances inadverse.
It is, though, a testament to the human mind.
Gallery of default anonymity →
Avatars for anonymity. Because the internets need a “thing” to show/display about you, even when you don’t want to show/display anything about you.
A medium conforming your identity to itself.
One small step for man
How far is it between the current scientific/technical ethic “if it’s possible we can/must do it” and a personal ethic of “if I can I must”?
The latter is the ethic of Nietzsche’s übermensch.
Opposite mistakes
Barth’s withering criticisn against the theology of Modernity applies equally to much popular “emergent” theology.
And, wow, what a phenomenal mind is at work in his commentary on Romans.
Can a would-be theologian be taken seriously if they haven’t read that commentary?
Shabbat
Is the Sabbath the God given way of maintaining personhood? Cutting back once a week to the core relationships? Stopping travel, commerce, labor.
Extensions
What happens to a person’s experience of personhood when they have never not been connected to the interconnected networks?
Good and Evil
Nietzsche’s critique in Beyond Good and Evil is excellent but it’s target is mis-named. He thinks he’s aiming at xtianity, but he’s really shooting at the kernel of what grew into Modern Liberalism.