January 2010
15 posts
Conversion, Salvation and Love
The choosing/chosen problem exists for those who find themselves, truly, “in love.”
While there is a perfectly coherent way to describe the experience of the persons “choosing” the other. There is also a perfectly coherent description of experience where the two people find themselves inexplicably drawn, bound, and captured by the other such that, in retrospect, you...
Pacific Anarchy?
IF
1-coercion is a type of violence
2-The State is a State, in part, because it holds the power of coercion
3-The State retains its Statehood, in part, because it uses its power of coercion
4-pacifists are against the use of violence
5-the alternative to States is ungoverned anarchy
THEN
Are Pacifists Anarchists?
“Whether or not a person or thing is what it claims to be is always decided by...”
– Barth, 2009, on the nature of Science, p9.
“LAWLER: Wendell Berry might say … technology doesn’t change the...”
– Interview with Kevin Kelley on his upcoming book The Technium.
it IS well.
maryjuanita:
Yesterday we first years held the annual memorial service for those who donated their bodies to our anatomy lab. While we did not know anyone we remembered in life, we came to know them intimately in death, and feel immensely indebted to their gift to us and our medical education. One classmate remarked that she learned the beauty of an exposed muscle—a thought that once seemed...
Social Justice Theory = Just War Theory
Social Justice
aka Redistributive Justice
aka Equal Outcomes
distinguished from Equal Starting Points and Consistently Applied Rule Sets
Uses the same mechanism to justify itself and bring out it’s outcomes as
Just Wars
Both may be perfectly fine, striving for Just Wars and Social Justice, but my guess is that adherents to either would be surprised to find co-travelers in the other.
“Let us set aside our investigation of God. He searcheth us. Our mind is never...”
– Barth, 1968 p317, on Romans 8:27
“The groaning of the creation and our own groaning is naught but the impress and...”
– Barth, 1968 p315-316, on Romans 8:26
“We do see. Existentially we see what to us is invisible, and therefore we wait....”
– Barth, 1968 p315, on Romans 8:24,25
“All that is not hope is wooden, hobbledehoy, blunt-edged, and sharp-pointed,...”
– Barth, 1968, p314, on Romans 8:24,25.
In the same way that philosophical thinking and material making reinforce, amplify and inform each other, so too do pastoral thinking and gardening.
“I would like to speak up for an ideal that is timeless but finds little...”
– Crawford, 2009. p2.
The reason Renaissance men were both brilliant thinkers and basic tool using & making craftsmen, tinkering, taking apart and making, is because critical reasoning thinking uses the same thought patterns and neural pathways of physical disassembly, improving & reassembly. The two, philosophical thinking and material making, reinforce and amplify each other. In other words, Liberal Arts...
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“[Cost Benefit Analysis] leads to serial decision-making, precisely because it is...”
– Cost Benefit Analysis and “Lines In The Sand”