Aphorism of the Day, March 18, 2024
With language we have come to explore the behaviors of the world towards us in the continual development of natural laws. One could say the articulation of such natural laws is the languaged projection upon the world which confronts us and it is the expression of the covenant of the total environment toward us. Even without invoking the name of God, we can accept that we project upon the All a covenant relationship in terms of what it promises to us.
Aphorism of the Day, March 17, 2024
God's omnipresence might best be understood as human being possessed with language ability and from this ability projecting words upon everything else even using like everything else as a negligible. If something does escape language, we cannot know it except by language declaring a mysterious state of escaping language.
Aphorism of the Day, March 16, 2024
Everyone is called to be priestly in that all our lives are lived as offered. We become priestly through intentionally offering our lives as belonging in solidarity with all.
Aphorism of the Day, March 15, 2024
Noted contrast. The Ides of March is the death of Julius Caesar who was also a declared god. The death of Jesus in contrast is remembered by a continuously reconstituted group of followers who changed a historical event into a spiritual process as seen in the Pauline confession, "I have been crucified with Christ." Is anyone saying, "I have died with Julius Caesar?"
Aphorism of the Day, March 14, 2024
The writer of Jeremiah wrote about a new covenant of the law being written upon the heart. This new covenant is appropriated by New Testament writers as the law of Spirit accessible to everyone. In practice there often seems to be a disconnect between Spirit and the people who are channeling this Spirit. Can Spirit be the overcoming of the continuous deconstruction which happens in language use?
Aphorism of the Day, March 13, 2024
Language is used by people to constitute their identity within contexts. Biblical language was generated to constitute the identity of people in various places regarding a "transcendental," or a mystery of how promulgated values regarded to be superlative could reconfigure the inner language of people and result in behaviors which are consistent with the superlative values.
Aphorism of the Day, March 12, 2024
In a metaphor, the words of Jesus compares a seed which dies and becomes a plant with what will happen to him. Does the plant have continuity with the seed from which it came? Indeed, but it is noticeably different. The post-death state of Jesus and everyone is quite different. In the case of Jesus, some people got to experience Risen Christ appearances. In the case of our departed loved ones, it remains mostly not yet in such appearances, save for memories, dream apparitions, and our mourning as proof that our loved one was indeed here.
Aphorism of the Day, March 11, 2024
Preachers most often use the Gospels as eye-witness accounts, whereas the writing provenance of the Gospels make them more about the issues of the early Jesus Movement communities encoded in narratives about Jesus.
Aphorism of the Day, March 10, 2024
If those who have died are lucky they don't escape being in the language of the thoughts of the memories re-manifested in those who knew them, and perhaps even in those who didn't. Who knows where the energy concrescence of selfhood goes and travels and in what varied forms?
Aphorism of the Day, March 9, 2024
Some would like to "escape" language by pretending that silence or any human life expression or activity could be known without first assuming language.
Aphorism of the Day, March 8, 2024
To blame a politician for being political is like blaming a fish for being in water. The question is "for what polis" does a politician speak and legislate? Is it for a true common good, for the largest number of people, or is it for only a local tribe?
Aphorism of the Day, March 7, 2024
Meaning is the differentiation of value that a person has learned within their community to place upon the events which occur to them. Meaning is not final because in time meanings create and give birth to new variations in meaning. Therefore finality in meaning cannot be fixed.
Aphorism of the Day, March 6, 2024
The present brings into existence a new past in how the past is assessed. The past can only be dealt with from the now because we cannot be anywhere else. History is the practice of anachronism since we cannot avoid import our questions from life now onto the historical traces which we have received.
Aphorism of the Day, March 5, 2024
The appearance of writing was magical in that it could be the trace of someone actually speaking without being there. The appearance of writing created orality since when only orality existed, it is not known as such because it is not yet contrasted with having writing.
Aphorism of the Day, March 4, 2024
Reading the Bible not about reading eye witness accounts of things which could be empirically verifiable, it is about appreciating the symbolic codes used for scribal leaders (the Bible is writing) to promote community identity as that identity related to the highest values of the community, which in the case of the early Christians was the mystagogy of the Risen "Christ in you, the hope of glory."
Aphorism of the Day, March 3, 2024
With language a person is trying to manifest the connection of everything that is within oneself with everything that is outside of one epidermis and sensory portals.
Aphorism of the Day, March 2, 2024
The Bible is a collection of writings which were preserved and elevated to a place of community importance instantiated by the legacy of values which readers perceived and deemed worthy of promulgating and passing on to the next generation. Within the entire universe of existing texts now, the biblical writings get evaluated among the vast amount of world knowledge. The quantity of world knowledge necessarily changes the place and value and functional use of all previous literature, and the Bible too is subject to constantly being seen differently in the expansion of the universe of knowledge.
Aphorism of the Day, March 1, 2024
Writing and speaking can only be done in a fragmentary way since what we say and write is a miniscule portion of the possible linguistic universe of everything which might come to language. What we say and write is also imprisoned by the particular paradigms in which we find ourselves located. We at all times should humbly admit that there is a great MORE universe of language which can dissolve our miniscule language efforts leaving our language constructs deconstructed by greater contexts. The fact of the smallness of our language products being dissolved by existing within a great MORE, should not diminish our efforts to make them comply with what we regard to be highest, namely, what love and justice in word and deed can mean within our limited contexts.