Aphorism of the Day, January 2026

Aphorism of the Day, January 21, 2026

Public and communal religion is really only individually and privately accessed by the play of language within a person to constitute personhood straddling the known public persona and the vastly private flurry of unpublished personhood fragments.

Aphorism of the Day, January 20, 2026

In an age when everything is coming to "data," the only private place will be the private  inaccessible human interior which includes a volition switch to go public or remain private.

Aphorism of the Day, January 19, 2026

There is an arrogant presumption in the Delphic Oracle injunction, "Know Thyself."  The interior life of anyone is so vast that it cannot be known; the interior life includes us as a participating flotant on its ocean.  If theists can be honest, they would admit a co-extensivity  between participating with one's inner life and the life of the named divine.

Aphorism of the Day, January 18, 2026

Avoid the lifestyle which denies the discursive versatility of being a scientist and a poet/artist.  Don't confuse the different discursive rules which pertain to science and art.  Avoid the lifestyle which denies the discursive versatility of being a person of faith using faith discourse for faith purposes and yet being a foot on the ground science discursive practitioner.

Aphorism of the Day, January 17, 2026

Religious experience and discourse derives from the inner play of language which like over-lapping film can be projected through to create the kind of imagery which is more than empirically referent subject matter complying with the laws of nature.  It is fantastic discourse imploring us to use language in more than just common sense ways tapping to the human capacity of wonder, which for practical reasons, we encourage the child to neglect as the child becomes adult.  However, wonder capacity remains and needs other expressions in art and faith to balance one's life, not to deny the purpose of common sense and discourse of science but to give expressions to the totally private inner space which everyone has and needs to find external ways of acknowledging.

Aphorism of the Day, January 16, 2026

From our dreams and daydreams and fantasy we know that our interior linguistic states can create scenarios which can never be empirically verified in material conditions external to the internal subject.  Such non-empirical compliant fantasy creator can become lens through which we see the external world.  They help to create the myths of life and interpreters should trace the myths to the creativity of the subjects to see and project from within.  We do that for the cinema; we should do it for religious "seeing" as well.  One does not deny that subjective seeing has actually empirical consequences as in physical bodily reactions to the fantastic.  Fantastic projection can have empirical evidentiary consequences without the fantasies themselves being empirically possible.  In short, art creates emotions and and measurable reactions without being but empirically verified occasions of aesthetic experiences.

Aphorism of the Day, January 15, 2026

Time means that there is no actual present tense.  This is actually means "this is becoming."  "This is" is a false abstracted linguistic static state from "this is becoming."

Aphorism of the Day, January 14, 2025

The degree to which one uses language as being tied to the material world, even though the material world is interpreted from within a person through language, can result in one over-identifying language with the material world,  and one can be caught up in rigid even fascistic meanings, as well as greedy hoarding.  People who understand the nuances of language understand a kind of "continuum" of discourse from the materialized to the "spiritualized," or the continuous deconstructive play of signifiers challenging any final idolatrous rigid exclusive meaning adhering to a signifier.  It could be that Marx's notion of ideology attached to the material conditions of humanity was just the opposite kind of materialism to the wealth hoarders who had ideologies in place to maintain their material privilege.

Aphorism of the Day, January 13, 2026

The greatest reservoir of language products are actually the unseen private ones in the zone of the interior, in thoughts, interior pictures, but also in the unseen actions (body language deeds) which like the unobserved falling tree in the forest, still exist.  Spoken words unheard but by the person speaking to oneself are many, like the divas and divos in the showers.  The unseen, the unheard, the undone is the cauldron of preparation for the public performance of what is seen, heard, and done.

Aphorism of the Day, January 12, 2026

Writing is about trying to say many, many different things and in many, many different ways, and not being able to cease from continually trying.

Aphorism of the Day, January 11, 2026

Since the Enlightenment, science has become the new catholicity, because "catholic" means "on the whole."  Science uses a method which tries to state things which have an "on the whole" consistency everywhere in situations of the uniformity of natural causes.  Religious "truths" as catholic in practice means that a governing religious body has declared them as universally valid.  Religious catholicity moves from because we have discovered an insightful way for us to believe what we believe, everyone else should believe it too in the way that we do.

Aphorism of the Day, January 10, 2026

The "objectivity" of science is a language discourse to explain what is happening outside of us in things available to our senses such that the observed consistency of behaviors can result in infallible predictions of future behaviors.  Every "subject" doing subjective/individual/different in time and space participation in "objective" events should have their subjective participation verify the objectively state law of behavior of what they observe.  Subjectivity does not exempt one from objective procedures and what is objective is merely a statistically approximate pattern of repeated subjective efforts.

Aphorism of the Day, January 9, 2026

I am mystified by my interior, you are mystified by your interior and if enough people mystified by their interiors gather to share common metaphors about their experience of mystification, the social reality of religion happens.  So what is true becomes like the Nietzsche definition of truth, the continuous repetition of a metaphor, a well-used metaphor.  It's the "democracy" of truth.  But in time and space the discovery of so many "truth democracies" has lead to clashes of parties proclaiming "my truth is better than yours."  Science has come to say there are such mystifications which belong to "aesthetic" or "feeling truths" and there are statistically quantifiable truths which has the performance outcome to attain a more "unanimous" agreement.

Aphorism of the Day, January 8, 2026

Taking a vow of silence does not remove one from the linguistic universe, it simply means that one's behavior mimes a message that could come to writing or speech.  If one refuses to write or speak, one is but fasting from two public products of language, while inhabiting a body with situational coding and body deeds which have messages embedded within their actions.  Refusing to speak or write does not end the continual internal language cloud, and the fasting from public speech and writing might create the mystery of "voluntary" impairment while limiting one's ability to interact effectively with one's environment.  It can also be an attention getter like the child who doesn't speak and has all the adults doing cartwheels trying to coax speech acts.  Cutting of the arms of speech and writing may get one attention, if that is what one wants.  It also can be manifestation of passive aggression.  It can also be a sign of resignation and self doubt and self disillusionment of, "I don't have anything worthwhile to offer to to my situation in life with other people."  Silence can also be deployed as a rest is deployed in music.  Written words have "rests" or "spaces."  Spoken word has rests which allow the distinguishing of what is heard.  A vow of silence is the choice to make speech a score of all rests and a text of all spaces.

Aphorism of the Day, January 7, 2026

The Epiphany is the proclamation that God can assume the personal and a personality, i.e., Jesus Christ as a way of affirming the anthropomorphic path as a valid way for knowing God as the extra-human who touches the interior of people with a peculiar wildness which gets domesticated for human public sharing.  The Epiphany as manifestation of God's personality which resides as a divine parasite upon the subjective personal of everyone, but without any surgical removal of human volition.  Christ is the proclamation to everyone of the great Personhood assuming connection with every person.

Aphorism of the Day, January 6, 2026

The Epiphany for Christians as manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles in our lifetime can be restated as the accessibility to the God-image for everyone, which for Christians is known as the realizing the nature of Christ.

Aphorism of the Day, January 5, 2026

Within the epidermis of each person, there is a universe which might be called called "consciousness" or consciousnesses (pl) since one might have them being awake or asleep.  That one confesses consciousness is public though each person's consciousness is essentially private and inaccessible to anyone save oneself.  Consciousness is a word that forces other synonyms to imply its presence, like "feeling state."  Feeling state is again inexact in really not being equivalent with what it is supposed to signify.  One's interior universe is organized by the language forms which come to colonize how we regard our interior, and part of our interior world is the notion of having a significant agency in manipulating inner thought direction and activities which can result in agency in our external worlds.

Aphorism of the Day, January 4, 2026

Each person is an individual subject at the center of perception of one's own perceptual universe which has been socially constructed by lots of exterior input.  What makes the input individual is that the input gets mixed inside like a interior kaleidoscope and most of the mix remains private with but a tip of the ice berg having a public language product showing.  The mystery of what never gets shown is the mystery of the individual.

 Aphorism of the Day, January 3, 2026

Huxley's quote qua Blake about "cleansing the doors of perception (ergo the Band Doors) in part spurred the pharmacological approach to simulating altered or peak states to perceive one's insides and outside in a different way, with the hope of making different decisions for the benefit of the world.  Too often people are addicted to peak states no matter how they are attained and while basking in the peace of bliss the rest of the world can starve.  Peak states resulting in political and social quietism/escapism divorces one's religion from ethics.

Aphorism of the Day, January 2, 2026

Our language screens through which we bring our language products of deeds, speech, and writing to manifestation are formed passively by what we take on in their formation in our cultural/family circumstance including the self image that we have which comes from pretending to be on the outside of the language screen and looking within ourselves to code our interior with all sorts of imaging.

Aphorism of the Day, January 1, 2026

We are language using subjects who have come to know language use as a positive parasite which has grown upon us as hosts for this viral like phenomena which has taken us over.  With language we have created within us from the external social linguistic imprinting layered orbs of linguistic screens which filter what we come to say is outside of our epidermis, but at the same time each subject can magically seem to be outside of the linguistic screens looking within ourselves and naming our interior with words like soul, spirit, ego, id, subconscious, mind, feeling, consciousness, and much more which does not have an external empirically verified reality.  Through language as language users we with amazing imagination live on both sides of this interior linguistic screen and while our subjectivity is built as an individual perceiving subject of the world outside, at the same time we attempt to fulfill the Delphic Oracle injunction to "know thyself" when from inside ourselves, we look inside ourselves.  This is the amazing linguistic jujitsu of our subjective lives.