Aphorism of the Day, May 31, 2025
Deconstruction is the dissolving of specific and precise and "intended" textual meaning into the pleroma of other textual contexts.
Aphorism of the Day, May 30, 2025
The biblical record involves writers telling in story form how they believe the invisible Plenitudinous Divine becomes apparent. It is also the story of the continuing fluctuation in specific human contexts of the Divine as invisible becoming apparent becoming invisible becoming apparent in an endless interpretive ping pong experience.
Aphorism of the Day, May 29, 2025
It is difficult to leave the "totemic order" of one's birth community and ease of departure depends upon how the chief values were imprinted upon one's existence by the mentoring elders. If the imprint was not done with behaviors consistent with the chief values, there can be a failure for the mentee to embrace the "old" ways. Failed mentoring can lead to a rejection of the old order by the next generation. Disenchantment can also happen when new problems do not find adequate resolutions with "old answers," and a new paradigm is needed to address the new problems.
Aphorism of the Day, May 28, 2025
Weather forecast can be spot on, partially right, or totally misses, proving that statistically approximate prediction cannot make things happen on anyone's schedule. Experience should build within us actuarial wisdom while maintaining the humility that such statistical approximate predictions do not make things actually happen.
Aphorism of the Day, May 27, 2025
It's important to know when people are using dream like image language as if it were everyday commonsensical language.
Aphorism of the Day, May 26, 2025
Perpetual visionary language breaking into everyday commonsense reality and the language and logic which pertain to it can be the "break" which disorders or disorients because one may want each order to be the exact opposite of what they are. The dream like visionary person wants such dream like states to be one's reality, and one then takes on commonsense as the morally wrong reality of life even though it is actual since it does not and cannot add up to one's disrupting visionary reality.
Aphorism of the Day, May 25, 2025
Life is living in the sea of what actually is happening as described by those who are are experiencing life. So much is happening toward us at any given time that what we say is happening only reflects the words which derive from what aspect we focus on. Certainly harm demands our focus and would seem to be definitive of all with it seeming chewing up the scenery effect; still the omni-experience is predominant and we look to the whole to exert a healing effect, a dissolving of the intensity of pain effect, upon any particular event or cluster of events of harm.
Aphorism of the Day, May 24, 2025
To imagine a baby acting like an adult with communicative language is imposing language upon an infant that it does has much like we anthropomorphize animals as well. But there is other interactive communicative behaviors taking place which partake of body coding textuality.
Aphorism of the Day, May 23, 2025
Language is our inexact filtering system for what is outside us and inside us and we inherit, copy, and expand the particulars of these filter systems. Language stands in the place of what we experience outside and inside us without being either. So one might say that language is a para-reality, something which arises alongside of reality in a delayed interpretive response to experiencing what is other to language but only pragmatically known/manipulated through language.
Aphorism of the Day, May 22, 2025
In the middle of trends which seem be pre-disposing us to some horrific outcomes, one hopes that the reservoir of evil in a cosmic system experiences some psychical cataclysmic discontinuity with current patterns which birth new directions with the preponderance of more care for all.
Aphorism of the Day, May 21, 2025
Baffled baffler, baffles bafflingly to others baffled.
Aphorism of the Day, May 20, 2025
Living is a language art more than a science since it requires the integration of so many discursive practices to continually negotiate reality as becoming in time.
Aphorism of the Day, May 19, 2025
We live by trying to improve our actuarial knowledge of what probably might happen. Some probabilities are more likely because of cyclical certainty, like morning and night. Others involve more possible outcomes and so wisdom is needed to martial efforts to get intended results through controlling as many cause and effect variables that one has the ability to manipulate. We, however, can never eliminate the unknown new upon which is based the experience of surprise. "I didn't expect this, or I didn't want this," happens each day on grand and small scale. Small scale unexpected, usually go unnoticed because they have a higher degree of benign ordinariness.
Aphorism of the Day, May 18, 2025
Experiences of serendipity or positive fate could be the most apparent proof of an invisible Connector doing some intimations of connecting.
Aphorism of the Day, May 17, 2025
Is binary only a linguistic mathematical construction? Isn't there an endless nano-numerical continuum/gap between zero and one?
Aphorism of the Day, May 16, 2025
People get infected by language because we are host carriers of the same. We in turn become those who infect others with how language products come from us.
Aphorism of the Day, May 15, 2025
The Bible is less of a seamless linear telling of an epic story and more of a collage of writings, edited, re-written, and redacted over many years and put in a singular "final" edition. There are common themes but approached in as many ways as there are writers in their context specific writing occasions.
Aphorism of the Day, May 14, 2025
From having developed our language capacity, we retro-project about the infant state of having consciousness without having language ability. The words of Jesus refer to this as perhaps the wisdom given to infants, a life without language, as it were. We do perhaps hauntingly retain traces of the "bliss" or the "terror" of such life without language, however we do so by using language. We project "sentient" existence, or having a qualitative consciousness upon animals, who do not have "our language" ability. Who is to say that all sub-atomic nano-existence doesn't have sentient existence as the life of magnetic living life within all life?
Aphorism of the Day, May 13, 2025
A human person is essentially the location for language to occur. Within each person who enters the world in a pre-coded linguistic environment where language is rampant, many events occur of catching language like a infecting virus that takes hold within the hosting human subject of language as a parasite. Language takes over the human subject and spreads exponentially because the parasitic language finds a perfect host in the human subject. As language takes over the human subject, the human subject becomes part of the human army of those who continue to infect each other in and through language.
Aphorism of the Day, May 12, 2025
Language is the para-reality for all human reality that can be known.
Aphorism of the Day, May 11, 2025
The relationship between wisdom and language? Wisdom is when one uses the language products of speech, thinking, writing, and body language deeds in the best possible ways especially the ways of love and justice.
Aphorism of the Day, May 10, 2025
Is any group actually universal enough in practice to be "catholic," i.e. pertaining to universal relevance to every human being? Some groups are limited by the merits of the participants pertaining to skill sets required to perform, like professional sports. Professional sports teams can't be open to "catholic participation" even though they could be "universally enjoyed." If from a historical event, a group's discover of what is their root value results in their proclaiming that everyone should embrace this obviously superior value, then such a practice of that value can become coercive and not winsomely irresistible. Gunboat colonial Christianity often was a coercive "catholic" expression. "If you are not Christian, then you should be Christian in the way that we want you to be Christian." In our age of a smaller world with many different Christian expressions, and many different religions, and with those who believe that science and reason in practice express the interior rules which do not require adherence to because we cannot help but follow the "law" of gravity and other unavoidable laws of nature, each group needs to be humble about their actual ability to be "catholic." Everyone's groups including scientists can have catholic invitations for all to become a member, but every group should practice humility about all being able to comply with the group requirements for membership, except science. Why? Scientists believe participation in the natural order of things is not voluntary; we comply to the laws whether we think we are doing so or not. What we can all be catholic about is hope, namely, a future which makes the past and the present very tentative because the future opens up the present and the past to be falsified by integration into new syntheses.
Aphorism of the Day, May 9, 2025
The emphasis on "unity" by New Testament writers is an indication that dealing with differences within those who professed to follow Jesus were pronounced. When does differences become disharmony rather than the harmony of differences? Can one view harmony as something akin in music to a Jackson Pollack painting? Are there non-traditional ways to appropriate harmony? Who gets the right to declare Pollack's work as "not art," or John Cage compositions as "not music?" Or the Gospels of Mary and Thomas, as "non-Christian?" Ex-communication, condemnation, and censorship as a strategy of dealing with differences are "administrative" decisions. Galileo is proof that people condemned by the church can be right. New thinking regarded to be faulty because it is different from "my familiar" thinking is proof that creative advance often is designated as "heresy."
Aphorism of the Day, May 8, 2025
The linguistic Flood of Christianity is the super poetry of Christ as all and in all. Once Christ is the omni-linguistic presence, God as Word has taken over the human universe.
Aphorism of the Day, May 7, 2025
St. Paul, the earliest writer of New Testament writings, did not see Jesus but he was told by Peter that there were mass sightings of the Risen Christ, which happened closer to the death of Jesus than his own personal sighting. One might ponder the many apparitions reported for the Virgin Mary and contrast them with many fewer documented "seeings" of Christ. Serendipity in sightings does not lend itself to anything but reporting them as unique social/psychological events which foster endless "theological" interpretations of these events, but also have resulted in some "orthodox" control about "official" meanings of them. New Testament writings might be reporting of the "para-normal" which is to say that the substantiality that we affirm for physical existence include the "substantiality of a different nature" of what happens from within for persons who see from within in substantially different ways. It does no good for a parent to deny that one's young child saw an angel or boogie man at night. Empirically one has to admit that a child said such a sighting occurred. Sorting out the meaning of such a sighting for the child in order assist the child to get some more sleep is what a parent might do. Post-resurrection theology may be about sorting out the meaning of the kind of "seeing from within" which characterize the people who have come to base their lives upon those reports of those original "sightings" of the Risen Christ as well as weaving those reports with how people understand their own different sightings which have very individual morphology.
Aphorism of the Day, May 6, 2025
What may be possible in language may not be possible in the physical world of empirical verification. Jesus is impossibly a lamb and shepherd in biblical writings, a possibility in poetic and metaphorical writing, but logically impossible in empirically verifiable actuality. Such obvious distinction should be an eye opener as to how to read the Bible. Read it more as a poet than a scientist.
Aphorism of the Day, May 5, 2025
The Gospels represent a series of revisions on how various authors decided it was propitious to persuade regarding the communal practices which centered around experiences of the Risen Christ. Writing was motivated by how to build effective communal identity and promulgate the teaching.
Aphorism of the Day, May 4, 2025
Life consists of the consistent revision of the traces inherited in language in the new now which results in leaving more traces for future revision. There are many biblical language traditions as well which get added too throughout history and the collateral effects of the biblical language are hard to quantified, even if the biblical language traditions only are dissolved within the greater actual reality of all language products having happened.
Aphorism of the Day, May 3, 2025
We can be language users and know it without knowing the ontological status of language, namely, that language is co-extensive with Being.
Aphorism of the Day, May 2, 2025
We can posit consciousness before knowing language but we have to do it using language to refer retroactively to its priority to language, and by the way, priority to language, is also language.
Aphorism of the Day, May 1, 2025
In the self known beginning of me, was actually the retroactive advanced language user me activating a parafunction of language, memory to revisit traces of when I first came to language use to recognize memorial traces of me having been many years before I became aware of having been.
