Often people project on things which cannot be falsified specific providence because what cannot be falsified contain within themselves a justification for its own contradiction or negation. People who are skeptical about astrology fulfill the skepticism which pertains to their sign and thus instantiate the system they proclaim to oppose. People who oppose God are told that God has said that there will be people who oppose God, so that even opposition to God is foreseen by the theist. Why not just say with such vague causation, "Life did it to me?" How can one falsify Life? Short of God and the stars, scientists are more interested in more local empirically observable causation. Great unfalsifiable Life or God/Life/Being is indeed the big Container of all causation and that vagueness can be a contemplative blanket to wrap with mystical negligibility such inexactness in causation even while for pragmatic purposes we had better attend to our sensorial life of more immediate experiential causation. And sociologically and psychologically we cannot dismiss the great negligible Placebo of the unfalsifiable because what we project upon it ends up being an actual motivator of our actions in life. Even the mysterious Placebo has empirical effects.
Aphorism of the Day, December 30, 2025
Religious discourse was born when people did not know much of the actual world they lived in because of geographical prisons and informational paucity. One could say that one's orientation to reality was more poetically flavored. Modern discourse is more anchored in science which is based upon the experience of knowing more of the actual world and having access to much more information as well as the pragmatic ability to manipulate the world towards one's wishes. Practically speaking, the medieval European person knew much more about the non-empirical Purgatory than the actual Tokyo. The religious poetic remains in many religious communities in the modern era but it now has been supplemented or superseded in the many other genres of artistic expression including literature, cinema, video, and expanding digital imagery.
Aphorism of the Day, December 29, 2025
Being not yet people is due to the inner compulsion which we often name as hope. As not yet people we can be surprised by how much better we have become than we thought we would, but also not as good as we yet want to be.
Aphorism of the Day, December 28, 2025
What is empirical about feeling tone words, like God, love, peace, and sublime, is they occur in people who use such words and do so in confessing that such words describe behavior influencing events in their life. Social behaviors are empirical in that we can without disagreement say that people use these feeling tone words. So, the feeling tone words have their "empirical" consequences/effects.
Aphorism of the Day, December 27, 2025
If we are caught in a language loop, and language has to be used to refer to things which cannot be equivalent, like consciousness and the word consciousness, because consciousness has the negative in not really being able to say what it is without resorting to the endless positivity of trying to say what it is. The frustration about common words with "mysterious feeling tones," words like love, justice, God, and consciousness happens because they are not accessible in precisely agreeable ways to the five senses. Science which limits its discourse to the empirical evidence which are testable by the five senses regards this kind of discourse to be the preferred discourse for pragmatic living. However in actual practice words with the mysterious feeling tones prevail in human experience to create other kinds of discourse for sharing such "feeling toned words."
Aphorism of the Day, December 26, 2026
The Gospel of John can be read as the story of humanity embracing the limits of our anthropomorphic prison—being trapped within the language loop. In the beginning is the Word, and all things come into 'known' being by and because of the Word; that is, the things we actually know to have 'linguistic' being and signification. Word is what the 'Not-Word' spoke to make things happen in creation, and all things came to have a word or words. But then the human word-user also became completely identified with the Word-Creator-Self, or as John’s writer says, 'the Word became flesh.'
Aphorism of the Day, December 25, 2025
Ancient religious discourse functioned in a more omni-competent way for ancient people. Today with the plethora of language products and the many genre and media, our discursive language practice had broken into many specialized areas of manifestation. Practically it means that the discourses of Scriptures have functionally moved into media of popular culture into comic books, cinema, and the endless kinds of novel. There are many more outlets of the fantastic discourses of the day-dreaming sort.
Aphorism of the Day, December 24, 2025
One a person is reduced to a text, that person becomes a community person on whom is projected all the things that human projectors can project. If you want someone to remain private and unknown, don't reduce such a person to a textual manifestation.
Aphorism of the Day, December 23, 2025
Christmas is probably popular because of the experience of watching a "sleeping baby smile." The baby bliss phenomena is irresistible.
Aphorism of the Day, December 22, 2025
Stories and their language do not make things happen, they are merely ways in language of trying to explain in many different discursive ways which pertain to modes of human perception, what is happening in one's world through mainly reusing the traces in language that one has inherited in one's language traditions.
Aphorism of the Day, December 21, 2025
Solstice is a time to remind ourselves how Euro-centric and Northern Hemosphere-centric Christian traditions has been. Down under Christmastide is Summer Solstice and yet they have forced upon them with the European heritage out-of-season thinking.
Aphorism of the Day, December 20, 2025
Translation and mystagogy. The Matthew writer in using the Greek word parthenos for the Hebrew word in Isaiah almah which means "young woman," was given the rhetorical option of using the "extra" meaning of parthenos, which can also mean "virgin." Rhetorically this meant the specialness of the concept of Jesus was without human intercourse and was a "Holy Spirit over-shadowing" of Mary. This was a superior way of presenting the earthly arrival of Jesus in contrast to the other divinized human figures of the time. It also was a way of presenting Mary as the paradigm "Pauline" Christian regarding the mystery of the ages, "Christ in you, the hope of glory"...having been overshadowed by the Holy Spirit.
Aphorism of the Day, December 19, 2025
Creeds, doctrines, dogma, and ecclesiastical identities force upon biblical interpreter "preferred" if not required views of the various Scriptural writings, even if the history of biblical interpretation indicate that plethora of actual interpretations, many of which are contradictory. This means that interpretation is most often the administration function for community solidarity rather than to the actual conditions of diversity which exist around the interpretations of any text.
Aphorism of the Day, December 18, 2025
The "child motif" that is found in the words of Jesus in the Gospel, is an insight about accessing the state of "wonderhood" as an accompaniment to the full range of what happens to humanity especially the sheer contradictions of wonderhood providing immunity/cluelessness about the truth of harshness. As in young children laughing playfully in a refugee camp chasing a makeshift duct-taped soccer ball.
Aphorism of the Day, December 17, 2025
The past is really only "known" as traces of language products being made in the present or retained in passive storage form in written, video, or AI storage. The Bible is a book of passive written storage of language products which is used to represent what happened to people in the past regarding their faith enshrined in language traditions. To engage language products of the past as memorial traces requires the impossible but imaginary tasks of visualization involving the transference of the present concrescence to a past assuming falsely a derivation from this present concrescence. (For example, one who believes currently that the supernatural can over ride the laws of gravity now, believes that such happened in the past. And one who believes in uniformity of natural causes throughout time, interprets the records of the violations of uniformity of natural causes in the past in an artistic reading of the the fantastic). One can assume that others in the past like us in the past had "really real" experiences, but the contextual fullness of any really real experience was never accessible and only known through the continuous interpretive censorship and bias which anyone's limited experience is but an example of the reductionism forced upon us because words can never signify everything in a linguistic event.
Aphorism of the Day, December 16, 2025
The Bible includes designated text book words of human experience used as community abbreviations for extra-biblical life experience to help provide an interpretive framework for communities to form identities within the much greater extra-biblical life experience. The Creeds and dogma are further abbreviations with selectively interpret "biblical words" so that church communities can be given modes of inculcating community identity and administer church order.
The Bible includes designated text book words of human experience used as community abbreviations for extra-biblical life experience to help provide an interpretive framework for communities to form identities within the much greater extra-biblical life experience. The Creeds and dogma are further abbreviations with selectively interpret "biblical words" so that church communities can be given modes of inculcating community identity and administer church order.
Aphorism of the Day, December 15, 2025
Solipsism is self contradictory since to name it and bring an individual view to language makes it "public." Solipsism might name the unpublished inner lives of anyone as being the unique perceiver interacting in a unique way with one's own information field. Such a perceiver is indeed unique and the solipsistic unpublished inner field may be the font of creativity of what may come to language products.
Aphorism of the Day, December 14, 2025
The word "catholic" means on the whole before it refers to a worldwide strategy to convince all the people of the world about a worship tradition which centers on Jesus Christ. The historic fact is that all will not be convinced for reasons of regional identities and the inaccessibility of the Christ traditions to many people. Catholicity in the literal meaning of the world should be centered upon what is truly accessible to all people, namely, things like inherent dignity, love, and justice. One apologetic way that Christian theologians have used to unite Christ and the universal is to acknowledge that the "unchurched" anywhere can be anonymous "Christian" in making Christ nature equal to behaving in the dignity of love and justice. Can one be humble about one's tradition if one implies that "my tradition" is identified with the universal virtues, instead of being one of many paths in manifesting the same.
Aphorism of the Day, December 13, 2025
The Psalms are poetic anecdotes of the range of human feeling responses to a variety of situations stretching from agony to ecstasy with lots of quotidian in between. And the poems are composed with the premise that God of the composers is the main providence in the lives of composer and the people who are to share in the resulting liturgies.
Aphorism of the Day, December 12, 2025
Faith is admitting that everything has not yet come to language products in what an individual or the entire human race can know at any given time while interpreting and being persuaded that the unknowable but influential great Negligible is friendly toward us.
Aphorism of the Day, December 11, 2025
Rituals may be based partly upon the fear that some good things may die out, when good representatives of those good things die. Rituals are the communal way of remembering the good things that we believe should be retained into the future.
Aphorism of the Day, December 10, 2025
AI is the continual collection of as many actual language products requiring the continual expansion of storage capacity. Still the comparison of the actual stored body of language products is minute next to the conceptual realm of what Possible language products might be. However with the differences between the actual and possible becoming slightly less means that new mysteries of the former Possible are being solved with greater frequency.
Aphorism of the Day, December 9, 2025
One can conceive of a Realm of all Collective Positivity from which particular and context specific positive events of language use and the inherent structuration by language derives.
Aphorism of the Day, December 8, 2025
Often people of faith are people who seem to be proud of or privilege what cannot be known or said while people with more pragmatic leanings privilege the value of what can be known or said in the manipulation of the things and people of their environments for goals in history and time, and not for some unknown eternal or everlasting future of personal or communal continuity. But surely the incarnation belief assumes that the material world is to be cherished, valued, and stewarded for those higher purposes of love, justice, and all virtues?
Aphorism of the Day, December 7, 2025
People of faith and of religious perspectives are asking that their language games which pertain to how they believe they have accessed the Sublime be accepted in the world many discourses which pertain to human language endeavors. The modern problem for people of faith is that they pit discourse again the statistically probable discourse of science in ways which create perhaps the unnecessary situation of implying that one cannot be a poet and scientist at the same time. If we as multi-discursive being know how to stay within our discursive lanes with truths appropriate to each discourse, then we will affirm a fully human art of living which allows us to be poets and scientists at the same time without contradiction.
Aphorism of the Day, December 6, 2025
Human life is the language dance around what is not language in the continual compulsion to create language products which identify us mainly as language users with language as the prior assumption in anything being known or coming to consciousness including the reflexive use of language about itself as explaining it role in the continual dance around what is unknowable except through language.
Aphorism of the Day, December 5, 2025
Does one ever escape the language loop, that is, having to use words to say the "Real" while claiming the Real to be unsayable? By naming God as apophatic, is not apophatic already in the positive realm in naming it? Rather than calling the Real a negation why not call the Real an omni-Positive? Rather than saying God is not anything that we can say, we can mean God is not any one particular thing that we can say, but the divine could be the community of an all-inclusive One. Wouldn't it be truer to our linguistic being to say that what is Real or Divine is everything that has been, is and will be all at once? Would not this most positive view be a more adequate representation of fullness than the subtraction to complete negation? Negation is still relevant in the denial of an idolatrous identification of the divine with any one single isolate thing or word for a thing.
Aphorism of the Day, December 4, 2025
Most Bible readers are caught in the rut of their interpretative traditions which precode how they must read the Scriptures. They read with prior theological commitments which preclude them being a "neutral" reader. Following Barthes, we are all writerly readers of the text. A text "says" what is says according to our interpretive grid.
Aphorism of the Day, December 3, 2025
Something that we don't know and can't say with complete fullness seems to accompany everything that know in having come to language or to "feeling," but we still project upon this "anti-anything" endless words.
Aphorism of the Day, December 2, 2025
Fasting is a choice and action of intentional self control when one interdicts a regular habit of consumption by refraining for specific purposes like sobriety, redirection of resource use, and perhaps solidarity with some social cause or personal protest.
Aphorism of the Day, December 1, 2025
The paucity of information about Gospel figures means that we should read them a parables for community instruction for the listener/reader to project themselves upon for insights regarding being formed within the community's values.
