Irony: the deep collective grief of millions happens alongside the collective winning joys of millions. Time will tell how the vulnerable will be sustained.
Aphorism of the Day, November 5, 2024 (Election Day in the USA)
In the USA, by law no form of religion can be the "established" religion of the government but we are always voting for the hard and tough love of justice which means we should be voting for the leaders who promote the freedom for the co-existence of people of all persuasions to be part of a pragmatic system for the common goals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all.
Aphorism of the Day, November 4, 2024
What does it say when the poor widow gives her last too coins to the Temple treasury? It is a judgment on religious institutions who live off the giving of the very people who need to be helped. It is a judgment on the greedy rich whose lack of generosity is exposed by the generous poor.
Aphorism of the Day, November 3, 2023
A chief task in life is not to misrepresent the way things are to oneself. Not lying to oneself about the living in the universe of all that has happened and about what probably will happen is important. Part of our lying is forgivable because we wear cultural and contextual lenses which only allow us to see things in certain ways, even untrue ways. With internal language we need to continually cleanse the internal language lenses through which we read and interpret our world.
Aphorism of the Day, November 2, 2024 (All Souls' Day)
Christian missionaries often criticized other cultures for being involved in "ancestor worship." The grief of lost loved ones is accompanied with a "deep missing" of the loved one; is not this feeling of missing, not a respectful veneration for that person? The liturgies of All Hallowtide deal with the veneration of deeply missing people and we regard such veneration as being evidence of the continuing community that we share with those whom we no longer see.
Aphorism of the Day, November 1, 2024. (All Saints' Day)
All Saints Day is a particular observance of Easter, months after Easter in the Easter effect of the continuity of life for people in their afterlives. After the death of Jesus, he was known to have continuity with the life he lived before death, after he died, and this witness of the continuity of Jesus into the Risen Christ became the assurance to validate the faith that great heroes of faith (whose popularity is widely spread) and the local saints of our own lives have continuity in their afterlives.
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