Aphorism of the Day, May 2024

Aphorism of the Day, May 31, 2024

One can look at Sabbath as legalistic requirement for behaviors on a day of worship, or one can see it as a basic principle of people needing rest sprinkled throughout their lives.  It becomes a religious law so that a minimum is enforced so that authorities cannot deny the rest privilege to what everyone needs.

Aphorism of the Day, May 30, 2024

An ancient "labor union" injunction: keep the sabbath.  Seven days of labor could not be forced upon anyone and use religious justification.

Aphorism of the Day, May 29, 2024

The Sabbath principle is the principle of balancing of active life with rest.  One might see the arising of Sabbath as a way of forcing person with wealth to provide their "servants" with rest so that they could not be completely exploited.

Aphorism of the Day, May 28, 2024

The quest of the law is justice for everyone equally.  When laws serve only the rights and opportunity of a privileged class of people, justice is not served.  The goal of a just society is to provide equal access to justice in equal ways to everyone.  But how many poor people have unlimited resources for legal assistance?

Aphorism of the Day, May 27, 2024

It's one thing to believe that there are behaviors which are legal and right in life; it is another thing to be rightfully related to the law.  The application of the law is more of an art than a science but it is both in that it relies upon the honest reporting of what actually happened coupled with a sensitive heart for loving relationships within a community.  Jesus said that the sabbath law was made for humanity, not humanity for the sabbath law.  The literal application of the law can sometimes result in harm.  A law that is seen as consistent as a well oiled machine can sometimes grind and hurt those who do not understand its functioning purpose.

Aphorism of the Day, May 26, 2024

The language of science is privileged because it results in the most effective and consistent manipulation of our external world.  When we experience things that we cannot explain, like why love happens, why we are moved by poetry, art, music, and seeing the ocean, the sky, the mountains, and other phenomenon of nature,  we resort to the very unscientific "wow" language that seems to be another discourse of language appropriate to such experiences.  Modern fundamentalism has occurred because certain "religious" persons have tried to say that "wow" language is actually scientific language.  So we have much discursive confusion.

Aphorism of the Day, May 25, 2024

In the use of  language we define and definitions create tautologies, as in God=the Greatest.  From such tautologies it follows that greatness at the very least involves superlative personhood, because humans are personal, and to be greater than human would be to have the greatest form of Personhood.  Even though such arguments are circular, they have meaningful relevance in our continual exploration of personhood.  We don't deny God Personhood because we don't deny that in ourselves.

Aphorism of the Day, May 24, 2024

One might say that the implicit understanding of God as Trinity arose because the words in the Traditions of Jesus regarding how he understood himself and his relationship to the divine.

Aphorism of the Day, May 23, 2024

The Trinity is a stated value about Personalism being central to human life.  Having language is what distinguishes human in knowing anything at all.  Language is personal because language is the basis of knowing relationships.  The Trinity presents a a dynamic equality in differences Personhood.  Life lived well is about the equality of harmony among the different people in life.  The Trinity models a Communal Personalism which we strive for with the practice of love and justice.

Aphorism of the Day, May 22, 2024

Language itself is the main metaphor for what is not language and comes to language.  Within the field of language in human attempts to relate to Plenitude, God-language traditions have occurred.  The Trinitarian language tradition arose, mainly because of the words in the Jesus tradition in how he is presented in his words regarding himself, God his Father, and the Advocate Spirit.

Aphorism of the Day, May 21, 2024

The Trinity arose within the Christian community as a standardizing way of speaking about God for the purpose of Christian unity within a growing religious movement.  The claim is that the Trinity arrived at an explicit explication in the words and traditions of Jesus even while it was implicit from the beginning.  God the Father created by speaking the eternal Word Christ as the Holy Spirit moved over the face of the abyss to make things become.

Aphorism of the Day, May 20, 2024

Language is the personal field in which we live because language is the expression of connection of relationship through which we are defined as personal.  Is it any surprise then that God as that which none greater can be conceived would include ultimate personalities?

Aphorism of the Day, May 19, 2024

Pentecost is a language day.  Christ as the Eternal Word was translated into every language.  The Christ image of God on each person rises within people of every language.

Aphorism of the Day, May 18, 2024

Once one accepts the mediation of all experience through language, whether consciously or unconsciously, the notion of the spontaneous must get reassessed because everything happens through a pre-existing interpretive grid.

Aphorism of the Day, May 17, 2024

Language is the built axiology of humanity in continuously assigning value from human contexts.  It is a system of privileging metaphorical ways of speaking about everything.

Aphorism of the Day, May 16, 2024

A mystery in life is how sentient beings have mutual experience of each other conducted.  Is it empty space between you and me or is it space which conducts sensorial experience.  Is Holy Spirit omnipresence a name we give the mystery of being able to mutually connect at all?

Aphorism of the Day, May 15, 2024

Holy Spirit in language becomes the personification of the metaphors of wind or breath, which for the ancients was the hidden sign of life within a person or nature.

Aphorism of the Day, May 14, 2024

Can we know the specific effects of everything that is and was on everything else that is and was?  There is two much negligible to deal with, and yet practically we have deal with statistical approximations of what our five senses tell us.

Aphorism of the Day, May 13, 2024

The mystery of Spirit: how does the quantities of all possible entities fit into the quantity of ONE?

Aphorism of the Day, May 12, 2024

The Ascension of Jesus might be metaphorical understood as the historical Jesus being expanded to being poetically declared by Paul as the Christ who is all and in all.  The Ascension might be insightfully understood as an expansive diffusion of understanding personal Christliness as accessing the image of God upon everything.

Aphorism of the Day, May 11, 2024

Oneness with God is not the equality of exact coincidence with God; it is is the equality of difference of living and having our becoming within God.  The continual goal is to accept the unity of being within God rather than forgetfully living a life of alienation.

Aphorism of the Day, May 10, 2024

The New Testament writing come to be generated long after Jesus has become invisible.  The writers start with their own reality of their experience of the Risen Christ, and present a program of the phases of Jesus Christ, stretching from the prehistorical Word from the beginning through his return to the invisible after earthly life state of being beyond the elevator of the Ascension.

Aphorism of the Day, May 9, 2024 (Ascension Day)

Ascension and Assumptions are presentations of the belief of specific memorable transitions of persons between the visible and invisible words.  This belief includes the connection between the lifetimes of the departed persons with the remaining memorial traces of that person as continuing inspiration for humanity in need of superlative exemplars to guide our quest for surpassability in excellence.  Each person makes a transition to the invisible and the goal of a good transition would be to leave some memorial traces worthy to inspire courage in excellence.

Aphorism of the Day, May 8, 2024

The similarity between checkers and chess is the same board on which they are played.  Language is the game board of human life on which many games of discursive practices are played, each with rules pertaining to their own "game." 

Aphorism of the Day, May 7, 2024

Within the main paradigm of human life, having language, there are many different paradigms or language games.   Like Venn diagrams, when language users experience the expanding of the flooding or mutual areas of different paradigms, the experience of ironies, contradictions, and ambiguities arises.  How does one live in the "scientific empirical verification" paradigm and the biblical writings at the same time.  The failure to know how to be scientists and poets at the same time and confusing discursive practices has caused much confusion.  Persons confuse by trying to be scientifically poetic or poetically scientific.

Aphorism of the Day, May 6, 2024

Anachronism occur when referring to the past because we can't be there and we project the paradigms of our "now" onto the understanding and presentations of the past.

Aphorism of the Day, May 5, 2024

Today is different any other other day because it has never been before even while it retains in our experience similar traces of what has gone before.  These traces have to be reapplied with invention for what new must arise in response to what is new.

Aphorism of the Day, May 4, 2024

Today we re-contextualize every memorial traces that lingers from yesterday and depending upon the goals which we have for today and the future, we use the traces variously.  Imagine the great expanding Plenitude re-contextualizing everything and always already including the absolute past which comprising a new NOW.

Aphorism of the Day, May 3, 2024

In John's Gospel, the notion of friends has a special meaning.  It refers perhaps to the affinity and fondness which members of the community shared because of their confession of an experience of the Risen Christ.  Such friendship was a reference to "fellowship" love.

Aphorism of the Day, May 2, 2024

In saying or writing, one cannot control the perceived meanings of others about what one writes or says.  We are fortunate if the meanings received are within an area of commonality to allow us to live together.

Aphorism of the Day, May 1, 2024

Laying down one's life for one's friends is an expression of love.  The Gospel of John uses the Greek word pseuche or "soul life" for life.  When we make room for each other to live together effectively, laying down one's soul life is a constant requirement.