Aphorism of the Day, February 28, 2026
War: the conflict between the few rich and powerful against each other while reeking havoc on the general populations which just want to get on with their ordinary everyday lives of meeting the requirements of subsistence while having some excess for possible aesthetic pleasure. The rich and powerful require those who are not to fight their battles as their mercenaries and often do it under the guise of a "patriotism" for everyone's own good.
Aphorism of the Day, February 27, 2026
Asking AI about the odds of AI being used for the survival of most on the planet versus its use to favor but the few who can control it, renders the honest AI probabilty result of the odds being overwhelmingly in favor of the survival of the very few Nietzeschean "overcoming human" technocrats with slim odds for the ignorant masses. The "overcoming human" technocrats believe that they are the fittest who should survive to be those who can eugenically give us conditions of survival. They could be hoisted on their own petards by concurrently embracing economic patterns which still favor practices which destroy the planet and/or warring practices resulting in mass destruction.
Aphorism of the Day, February 26, 2026
One of the irony of positing that the divine is supremely apophatic, a beyond all "negative" mystery, is that to state this is already in language a "cataphatic" or positive position which is attributed a superior place in the hierarchy of positive values. The apophatic is "deconstructed" by being designated as the highest positive value, or at least it contradictory status is revealed.
Aphorism of the Day, February 25, 2026
Christ as the Logos principle stands as a declaration of language in its fullest meaning is the organizing principle for humanity and thus being language users defines our anthropomorphic prison. We are language users who have brought everything that has been brought to language products, including highly fuzzy meanings like consciousness and the notion of existence itself. Where humanity escapes the prison is in the individual highly internal subjective realm, which escapes publicity but is the generator of what is public when the subject or subjects bring things to language products. One might say that the divine resides in the unpublic subjective interior which in apophaticity has not and cannot fully come to language.
Aphorism of the Day, February 24, 2026
What the history of philosophy and religion reveals is that language users have come to set standards of language on the human experience of the seen and the unseen, the physical exterior world, and the inward world of how from invisibility of "inner language" the outer and inner world come to be named. Philosophy and religion are language products of language users using language reflexively to bring to language using language continuous language products purporting to continue the filling up the collective language product base in a futile effort to say we have the last word, which is only the parade of the latest word. When the Wisdom writer said about God, "God is All," it has to include thus far God is all, and in the future God will continuously be All as the Collective Big Container grows and never has a significant rival.
Aphorism of the Day February 23, 2026
The moment the sublime inner subjective gets manifest into an external language product, it becomes what it is not, and can be a replacement or even an idol with the semblance of duration because of its apparent concrescence.
Aphorism of the Day, February 22, 2026
Comedy can be the acting out of crying inside.
Aphorism of the Day, February 21, 2026
Comedy is the multiplication of irony.
Aphorism of the Day, February 20, 2026
Comedic culture is the culture of profound human disillusionment that stands in for misanthropism in wishing that we were better than we actually are.
Aphorism of the Day, February 19, 2026
Modern life has become the ubiquitous expression of comedic culture. Comedy might be seen as a cathartic mechanism for not taking ourselves too seriously especially those who are tempted to abuse power. A sobering result is that we may have become cultures of scorn where kindness is no longer trusted.
Aphorism of the Day, February 18, 2026 (Ash Wednesday)
Ashes present a "freeze frame" of an eventual phase of my mortal body and even my eventual ashes will also further break down into the invisible with enough time. The ashes bespeak the temporary nature of the phases of my life requiring volitional intention to value and add value to these fleeting phases.
Aphorism of the Day, February 17, 2026
Compared with all the cells in a body, a relative small number of them reaching their "shelf life" can cause the demise of the whole. Environmental disasters could cause the end of human life and usher in the age of the unwitnessed post-human universe?
Aphorism of the Day, February 16, 2026
Life and aging are built in term limits for human beings; such term limits can save us from the continuation of the harms of an evil person but also end the active goodness of a good person. The afterlife of each person's term limit might be called the posthumous effect whereby people say either, "be like she/he was or don't be like she/he was."
Aphorism of the Day, February 15, 2026
The Gospel task is to inform humanity that we aren't divine orphans; that our heavenly parent did not die and leave but remained buried in a divine image upon us. We have let the clutter of the external world distract us from knowing our parentage.
Aphorism of the Day, February 14, 2026
One of the functions of religion and art is to express deep and varied enchantment with the experience of mere life itself.
Aphorism of the Day, February 13, 2026
The cosmology of the Bible is expressed as a perceptual realism, or as things seem to the eyes of the perceiver. The sun seems to rise and set in the eyes of the perceiver and so it seems perceptually true. Perceptual seeming truths co-exist today in our expressions with scientific truths. We still say the sun rises and sets even on scientific weather reporting sites, thus instantiating the language traditions of perceptual truths continuing even while scientific truth falsify such statements.
Aphorism of the Day, February 12, 2026
At some point, the interior life comes to be signified with the symbols of language from the mystery of the interior. The mystery of the interior is that it is the inherited non-coded conscious of a new born baby, which becomes coded within a cultural/family context so that the mystery of what has no language grows language ability after being imprinted by exterior language users mentoring. Interior events are then given meaning and religious events attain the designation of being "sublime" and so mark the hierarchic superior valuing place in human experience even to name the greatest Container as God that which none none greater can be conceived.
Aphorism of the Day, February 11, 2026
Much of pre-modern thinking includes the naive assumption of words being exempt from interpretation in their original textual composition event as well as their having self-evidential meaning for their readers. Some biblical interpreters today assume that biblical words were pristinely delivered words into human contexts free from human mediated and interpreted articulation and also having self evidential and final absolute meanings. Such view is an administrative projection for establishing authority by being able to project "our understanding" as the correct and God-given one.
Aphorism of the Day, February 10, 2026
The Gospels are narrative learning, a form of indirect learning, and it is participatory learning since it forces interaction of the readers' language base with the presented language of the story. Such learning is not very precise since it can be as varied as the number of readers/participants. The so called precision only happens when a story is converted to doctrine and dogma within a community which decides to enforce an interpretation regarding a presented story item in the life of Jesus.
Aphorism of the Day, February 9, 2026
John's Gospel does not have an account of the Transfiguration of Jesus, but one of the metaphors in John's Gospel is Jesus as the Light of the world. One can find a contrast of writing styles between using a narrative account and a metaphorical tautology (Christ is the Light of the World) to proclaim and teach Jesus as one who enlightens through bringing insights to launch a new movement in human history.
Aphorism of the Day, February 8, 2026
Using anthropomorphic analogy as language users without choice, one can see oneself as a singular being who is becoming in time and retaining would we might call a continuous "same" identity even though this "same" begin is continuously different in each occasion of aging. We have visual and social markers of continuing identity but which can be doubted except when forensic use of DNA is seen as a more infallible marker of same identity over time. But as a being we are also a community of participating beings in the atoms and cells which comprise us. These other beings are important because if enough of these participating cells die, they are so crucial to the whole, that the whole can experience demise. In a similar way we project a great expanding Container, a Being of beings, all of which are becoming in time. This great Container is unlike lesser beings because the great Being even in the Self-surpassing Becoming, has no significant rival.
Aphorism of the Day, February 7, 2026
In the communion of the parts which make up the "one" person, a few dysfunctional parts can do in the whole, i.e., an appendix as its own communion of cells can cause the death of the whole "one" person. When it comes to the expanding ONE WHOLE CONTAINER of all beings, we assume the relative dysfunctions happening within localized parts, even if perceived as widespread, cannot cause the demise of the ONE WHOLE expanding CONTAINER. As to whether language using conscious beings can all reach an end within this great CONTAINER, we do not, and will not ever know.
Aphorism of the Day, February 6, 2026
A person claims to be one being, but such one being is really a communion of many parts which each have their own oneness of being. The transformation of enough of those parts in the community of beings which make up the person can lead to the demise of the entire person. For those who accept the One non-dual Container of All which has a related presence within each of the All, the One non-dual Container of All is but a community of many ones.
Aphorism of the Day, February 5, 2026
Meditation and contemplation are attempts to live completely in one's own interior "private" space which is falsified by the fact that one's interior is contained by the ALL.
Aphorism of the Day, February 4, 2026
Before the Large Language Model of AI, each person has their own memory base of words and constellations of words to draw from in speaking and writing new syntheses in their "new" language products, many of which turn out to be but the rote mimicry of cultural cliches. Memory base of words are often random and intermittent is the conscious retrieval process because a person cannot have the "machine like" efficiency of the retrieval algorithms of AI. Biblical writers wrote drawing from the storage of words in their own memory base to create synthetic products in words for their writing situation. The Bible is evidence of community writing because it represents something like a growing baton passed on in the human relay as each recipient of the baton adds to it in his or her leg of the race in a new time and place until a particular canonical mechanism is responsible for saying that the race is over. But it really isn't over because the continual presence of writerly readers(qua R. Barthes) continue to add to the biblical traditions.
Aphorism of the Day, February 3, 2026
The Matthean Jesus and the Pauline Christ may be at odds. The Matthean Jesus requires the fulfillment of ever jot and tittle of the Law, whereas to dietary requirements and circumcision, Paul says persons are exempt. The resolution is by having two "classes" of Christians or life style tracks, Jews who follow Jesus and practice ritual adherence, and Gentiles who follow Jesus and are exempt from Jewish ritual adherence.
Aphorism of the Day, February 2, 2026
The mystery of events of elation and happiness sometimes are mostly unknown. One can seek endless explanations and interpretation including the just the right physiological and body chemistry balance or of fortuitous events, but lots of events of happiness will probably remain mysteriously random.
Aphorism of the Day, February 1, 2026
Time means that what we call the present tense for verb should actually be articulated or understood as the continuous present tense. We posit a present tense because by attaching words to time we wrongly assume that we can make something "static." The present tense as "static" is but an abstracted word which pretends to "freeze frame" time.
