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 Solipsism might name the unpublished inner lives of anyone as being the unique perceiver interacting in a unique way with one's own information field.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.
