For the past couple of years, the concept of the imprecision of language has been a frequent visitor to my philosophical wanderings. I began by being simply frustrated at the impossibility of using such a blunt tool to communicate anything real, and in fact was truly distraught by this wall that seemed to ensure each of us remains an island.  ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say that I have terrible intuition. That is, that certain kind of mystical premonitory intuition - I totally lack it, and I find this rather disappointing. My mom thinks she has it, and I can't prove her wrong... on a few occasions she's asked me if I'd been really upset the night before and I had, and she'd just woken up at 3am ( Read more... )

I fight for my way and my views. But what no one seems to realize is that I expect and want everyone else to fight back just as hard. That is how I expect we will all come to a better way and better truth. I am not fighting to be right, but to find out what is right. What a capitalist I am, though! to expect that competition creates mutual benefit ( Read more... )

Thinking - it's a wonderful thing.  After this summer, and what with this class, I am doing a lot of it.  Here are some things I've jotted down in margins.

If you lay down your life for your friends, that cannot be selfish because you cannot hope to gain anything from it.

[This is not new] How can you hate hatred?  How can you close your mind to ( Read more... )

The more I read, the less competent I feel to comment on it - perhaps in relation to my expectation of growing competence.  So, ask me what I thought of the Bible, and I will tell you I don't really know what to think.  I mean, I think a lot of things about it - but I'm not sure what, overall, my reaction is or ... my evaluation I guess.

Hey... I ( Read more... )

Another thing I've been contemplating is: What does this mean for how you should live your life?  Jesus says, love God and love one another.  This above all things... on this everything else is based.  He taught that many of the ... rituals of following the law were not really that important - that it is what is inside - that it is loving God and ( Read more... )

Not much to say about numbers.  It didn't take very long to read because so much of it is lists of people or sacrifices and I didn't really read them because they wouldn't mean anything.  My Bible had a note about how scholars disagree over the interpretation of the census numbers because the totals don't seem to make sense for the time and place ( Read more... )

If you were given the choice between faith and eternal hell, which would you choose?

To even accept the question as a valid choice is to choose the former option.  There is no way to choose hell without choosing to believe in it.  The valid question (from my point of view) is, given the choice between faith and lack of faith, with the former ( Read more... )

Exerpt from my new book, which Evan Almighty totally ripped off. Yeah...  Because I was going to publish it and all... anyway. I'm just being silly. What this really is, is thoughts I had last night.

Meditating ... to clear my mind ... open my mind to new things ...
... So that I might eventually discover some bit of truth and good.
~~It is all* ( Read more... )