Aphorism of the Day, February 2026

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.

Quiz of the Day, February 2026

Quiz of the Day, February 4, 2026

Who described the divine request to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac as the "teleological suspension of the ethical?"

a. Hegel

b. Nietzsche

c. Kierkegaard

d. Kant

e. Hume

Quiz of the Day, February 3, 2026

Of the following, who did not have specific covenant with God?

a. Abraham

b. Noah

c. Ishmael

d. Samson

Quiz of the Day, February 2, 2026

What didn't happen at the presentation of Jesus?

a. Anna prophesied

b. Simeon sang

c. Mary fulfilled her purification ritual

d. Jesus was washed/cleansed

e. Jesus was offered as first born male on 40th day

Quiz of the Day, February 1, 2026

What was the reason given in Genesis for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?
a. Lot's sin
b. the wickedness of the cities
c. the homosexual behaviors
d. the failure of Abraham's intercession 

Sunday School, February 8, 2026 5 Epiphany A

 Sunday School, February 8, 2026    5 Epiphany A

Themes:  Salt, light and laws

Discuss with the children salt.

Do you like salt?

Why do you like salt?

Can you eat just salt alone?  Why not?

Salt makes foods like popcorn and French fries tasty.  Food can taste very boring without salt but with just a little salt it can make food taste delicious.  In the times when there was no refrigerators, people used salt to preserve foods that would spoil or get rotten especially meat and fish.  Salt can clean and kill germs.

Jesus told his friends, “You are the salt of the earth.”  What do you think this means?  It means that the way that we live, we should make life tasty or exciting.  It means the way that we live we should preserve what is good and loving.

Discuss light with the children.

Why do we need light?  So we can see.

What is the biggest light?  The Sun

What did people use for light before electric lights were invented?  The Sun, Fire, torches with fire, oil lamps.

Jesus told his followers: “You are the light of the world.”  How can people be like a light?  When we learn something new, it is like a light coming on.  When someone shows how to live better, it is like a light coming on.  A person who teaches us to live better is like a light.  And we are supposed to learn and become teachers for others to help them live better.  So we are supposed to be learning all of the time so that we can become lights to show others how to live better.

Law

What is a law?  It is rule that tells us how to act.

Are all laws the same?  No

Which law is more important, “You shall not kill,” or “You shall not turn on your sprinklers on Monday, Wednesday or Friday?”

Jesus said that we should not be like people who made less important law the most important rules.  Are the rules of soccer more important that the rules about being kind to our neighbor?  What if we are not kind to our neighbors but we make everyone know and follow the rules of soccer as the most important rules in life?  It shows us that we are more concerned about a game than we are about caring for people.  Jesus said that we cannot replace the great important laws of love and kindness with less important rules.

Sermon:

  Today, I have in my bag of tricks two things.  What is this that I have in my hand?  A salt shaker.  And what else do I have in my bag?  A flash light.  What do I get when I turn this on?  I get light.

  Jesus liked to speak in riddles with his friends.  He told them that they had to be like salt and light.

  How many of you like salt?  What does popcorn taste like without salt or butter?  A little dull isn’t it.  What do French fries taste like without salt?  Really dull.  How many of you like pickles?  Do you know what makes pickles taste so good?   Salt water.

  What does Jesus mean when he says that we should be like salt?  He means that we should make the life of other people more tasty…more interesting…more exciting.

  I saw a little boy running into school and so I asked him why he was running so fast to get to school.  And he said, “I can’t wait to see my friends so I can have fun.”  That is what being like salt means.  We are to make life fun and exciting for each other.  We are to practice how to be good friends.

Jesus also said we are to be like light.  What did he mean?  I think that he meant that we are supposed to teach each other.  If I have learned something new that has helped me; then I want to share it with you.  And when we learn something new it is like a light coming on in our heads.

  No matter how old you are you have good things that you can teach someone else.  May be you can help your baby brother or sister learn how to crawl or walk.   May be you can help them learn how to talk or read.

  Jesus said that we are supposed to be like light because we are supposed to take the very best things that we have learned and share them with other people.

  What is the very best thing that we have learned from Jesus?  Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.

  If we can teach this to everyone in this world then our lives will be fun and happy.

  So can you be like salt today?  Can you make life fun for each other?

  Can you be like light today?  Can you learn new things and teach other people the very best things in your life?  I know that you can be like salt and light today.  Amen

Intergenerational Family Service with Holy Eucharist

February 8, 2026: The Fifth Sunday after The Epiphany

Gathering Songs:

Jesus Bids Us Shine, We Are Marching in the Light of the Lord, Thy Word,  This Little Light of Mine

Liturgist: Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit

People: And Blessed be God’s Kingdom, Now and forever. Amen.

Liturgist:  Oh God, Our hearts are open to you.

And you know us and we can hide nothing from you.

Prepare our hearts and our minds to love you and worship you.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

Song: Jesus Bids Us Shine, (The Christian Children Songbook, #132)

1-Jesus bids us shine with a clear, pure light, Like a little candle burning in the night; In this world of darkness, we must shine, You in your small corner and I in mine.

2-Jesus bids us shine first of all for Him, Well he sees and knows it if our light is dim; He looks down from heaven, sees us shine.  You in your small corner and I in mine.

3-Jesus bids us shine as we work for Him, bring those that wander from the paths of sin; He will ever help us if we shine, You in your small corner and I in mine.

Liturgist:         The Lord be with you.

People:            And also with you.

Liturgist:  Let us pray

Almighty and everlasting God, you are able to rule all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear our prayer requests, and especially in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

 Litany of Praise: Chant: Alleluia

O God, you are Great!  Alleluia

O God, you have made us! Alleluia

O God, you have made yourself known to us!  Alleluia

O God, you have provided us with us a Savior!  Alleluia

O God, you have given us a Christian family!  Alleluia

O God, you have forgiven our sins!  Alleluia

O God, you brought your Son Jesus back from the dead!  Alleluia

A Reading from the Prophet Isaiah

Is not a fast to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly;

Liturgist: The Word of the Lord.

Peope: Thanks be to God

Please read with me from Psalm 112

Hallelujah! Happy are they who fear the Lord * and have great delight in his commandments!

Light shines in the darkness for the upright; * the righteous are merciful and full of compassion.

Litany of Thanksgiving: Chant: Thanks be to God!

Litanist:

For the good earth, for our food and clothing. Thanks be to God!

For our families and friends. Thanks be to God!

For the talents and gifts that you have given to us. Thanks be to God!

For this day of worship. Thanks be to God!

For health and for a good night’s sleep. Thanks be to God!

For work and for play. Thanks be to God!

For teaching and for learning. Thanks be to God!

For the happy events of our lives. Thanks be to God!

For the celebration of the birthdays and anniversaries of our friends and parish family.

   Thanks be to God!

Liturgist:         The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew

People:            Glory to you, Lord Christ.

Jesus said, "You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.  "You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.  "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

Liturgist:         The Gospel of the Lord.

People:            Praise to you, Lord Christ.

Sermon –   

Children’s Creed

We did not make ourselves, so we believe that God the Father is the maker of the world.

Since God is so great and we are so small,

We believe God came into our world and was born as Jesus, son of the Virgin Mary.

We need God’s help and we believe that God saved us by the life, death and

     resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We believe that God is present with us now as the Holy Spirit.

We believe that we are baptized into God’s family the Church where everyone is

     welcome.

We believe that Christ is kind and fair.

We believe that we have a future in knowing Jesus Christ.

And since we all must die, we believe that God will preserve us forever.  Amen.

Litany of Asking:  Chant: Christ, have mercy.

For fighting and war to cease in our world. Christ, have mercy.

For peace on earth and good will towards all. Christ, have mercy.

For the safety of all who travel. Christ, have mercy.

For jobs for all who need them. Christ, have mercy.

For care of those who are growing old. Christ, have mercy.

For the safety, health and nutrition of all the children in our world. Christ, have mercy.

For the well-being of our families and friends. Christ, have mercy.

For the good health of those we know to be sick. Christ, have mercy.

For the remembrance of those who have died. Christ, have mercy.

For the forgiveness of all of our sins. Christ, have mercy.

Youth Liturgist:          The Peace of the Lord be with you always.

People:                        And also with you.

Offertory: Song during the preparation of the Altar and the receiving of an offering

Song: We are Marching in the Light of the Lord, Renew! # 306

We are marching in the Light of the Lord;

            we are marching in the light of the Lord

            We are marching in the Light of the Lord;

we are marching in the light of the Lord

            We are marching, marching, we are marching, oh,

we are marching in the light of the lord.       

We are marching, marching, we are marching, oh,

we are marching in the light of the lord.

Doxology (Stand)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

Praise Him, all creatures here below.

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host.

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Prologue to the Eucharist.

Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, for to them belong the kingdom of heaven.”

All become members of a family by birth or adoption.

Baptism is a celebration of our birth into the family of God.

A family meal gathers and sustains each human family.

The Holy Eucharist is the special meal that Jesus gave to his family to keep us together as the family of Christ.

The Lord be with you

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts

We lift them up to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to God.

It is right to give him thanks and praise.

It is very good and right to give thanks, because God made us, Jesus redeemed us and the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts.

Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all of the world that we see and don’t see, we

   Forever sing this hymn of praise:

Holy, Holy, Holy (Intoned)

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of Power and Might.  Heav’n and earth are full of your glory.  Hosanna in the highest.  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.  Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the Highest.

(All  may gather around the altar)

Our grateful praise we offer to you God, our Creator;

You have made us in your image

And you gave us many men and women of faith to help us to live by faith:

Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah Jacob and Rachael.

And then you gave us your Son, Jesus, born of Mary, nurtured by Joseph

And he called us to be sons and daughters of God.

Your Son called us to live better lives and he gave us this Holy Meal so that when we eat

  the bread and drink the wine, we can  know that the Presence of Christ is as near to us as  

  this food and drink that becomes a part of us.

And so, Father, we bring you these gifts of bread and wine. Bless and sanctify them by your Holy Spirit to be for your people the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.  Bless and sanctify us by your Holy Spirit so that we may love God and our neighbor.

On the night when Jesus was betrayed he took bread, said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his friends, and said, “Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me.”

After supper, Jesus took the cup of wine, gave thanks, and said, “Drink this, all of you. This is my Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me.”

Father, we now celebrate the memorial of your Son. When we eat this Holy Meal of Bread and Wine, we are telling the entire world about the life, death and resurrection of Christ; and that his  presence will be with us in our future.

Let this holy meal keep us together as friends who share a special relationship because of your Son Jesus Christ.  May we forever live with praise to God to whom we belong as sons and daughters.

By  Christ, and with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory

 is yours, Almighty Father, now and for ever. AMEN.

And now as our Savior Christ has taught us, we now sing, (Children may rejoin their parents and take up their instruments)

Our Father (Sung): (Renew # 180, West Indian Lord’s Prayer)

Our Father who art in heaven:  Hallowed be thy name.

Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done: Hallowed be thy name.

Done on earth as it is in heaven: Hallowed be thy name.

Give us this day our daily bread: Hallowed be thy name.

And forgive us all our debts: Hallowed be thy name.

As we forgive our debtors: Hallowed be thy name.

Lead us not into temptation: Hallowed be thy name.

But deliver us from evil: Hallowed by thy name.

Thine is the kingdom, power, and glory: Hallowed be thy name.

Forever and ever: Hallowed be thy name.

Amen, amen, amen: Hallowed be thy name.

Amen, amen, amen, amen: Hallowed be thy name.

Breaking of the Bread

Celebrant:       Alleluia! Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

People:            Therefore let us keep the feast.  Alleluia!

Words of Administration.

Communion Song: Thy Word, (Renew! #94)

Refrain: Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and light unto my path

When I feel afraid, think I’ve lost my way, still you’re right beside me.  And nothing will I fear as long as you are near.  Please be near me to the end.  Refrain.

I will not forget your love for me, and yet my heart forever is wandering.  Jesus, be my guide and hold me to your side; and I will love you to the end.  Refrain

Post-Communion Prayer

Everlasting God, we have gathered for the meal that Jesus asked us to keep;

We have remembered his words of blessing on the bread and the wine.

And His Presence has been known to us.

We have remembered that we are sons and daughters of God and brothers

    and sisters in Christ.

Send us forth now into our everyday lives remembering that the blessing in the

     bread and wine spreads into each time, place and person in our lives,

As we are ever blessed by you, O Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Closing Song: This Little Light of Mine (Christian Children’s Songbook, # 234)

This little light of mine.  I am going to let it shine.  This little light of mine, I am going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Hide it under a bushel, no.  I am going to let it shine.  Hide it under a bushel, no.  I am going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Don’t let anyone blow it out; I’m going to let it shine.  Don’t let anyone blow it out, I’m going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Shine all over my neighborhood, I’m going to let it shine.  Shine all over my neighborhood, I’m going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Dismissal:   

Liturgist: Let us go forth in the Name of Christ. 

People: Thanks be to God!  

Aphorism of the Day, January 2026

Aphorism of the Day, January 31, 2026

One might read the Beatitudes with the same counter logic as the parable about finding the presence of Christ in the hungry, the poor, and the prisoners.  The blessing is pronounced upon people in distress states not to seek such states but for the one with power, wealth, and knowledge to be wooed to find Christ's blessing in ministering to such people.

Aphorism of the Day, January 30, 2026

Our interior languaged lives are specific and individualized Large Language Models from which can come to many different language products manifesting a full range of discourses on the continuum from the highly poetic to the highly materialistic scientific, as well as naming of the visual events of our lives and the experiences of our other senses.  From our interior languaged lives comes the choreography of our ethically directed body language deeds as well.

Aphorism of the Day, January 29, 2026

The Beatitudes need to be appraised from various subject positions.  Followers of Christ who are living in oppressed conditions.  Followers of Christ who are living in privileged positions in society.  Comfortable Christians seeking devotional insights for living better.  Non-followers of Christ analyzing the sayings as a revaluation of "normal" values of seeing a comfortable life as blessed or noble/Noble, qua Nietzsche.

Aphorism of the Day, January 28, 2026

The Beatitudes question for "empire" power privileged "followers" of Christ is what side of the Beatitudes to be on?  As people with power and able to oppress, do we force the oppressed to live the winsome lifestyle of the Beatitudes for their mere survival?  Or do we use our power to make sure that the Beatitude lifestyle is not needed in the first place?

Aphorism of the Day, January 27, 2026

One can note that the state of blessedness of the Beatitudes have the disclaimer, "eventually" or that the kingdom of heaven is a current container for the suffering condition for what is called "blessed."  The Beatitudes do not promise any immediate end of the terrible condition of suffering.  This is perhaps why people of religion prefer to be on the protected side of the empires that can cause suffering and defend their people from having to suffer.  Followers of Jesus who have the protection of the empire should acknowledge their very uneasy and even hypocritical relationship with the Beatitudes.  The safest relationship to the Beatitudes and having power is to work so that none of the conditions of the Beatitude prevails.  It means being those who do not allow the conditions of oppression to prevail.

Aphorism of the Day, January 26, 2026

The Beatitudes might be called the poetry of the impossible since they confer blessings upon ways of being interiorly and doing exteriorly that are impossible.  Either we give up in futility to try to reach the standard, or we affirm the ideal as the standard because we don't set the mediocre as a standard.  By lauding the ideal, we practice the perpetual effort toward surpassing ourselves in excellence, accept our falling short it as "recovering hypocrites" while maintaining the high standard.

Aphorism of the Day, January 25, 2026

The saying what we think we think is but a tiny foregrounding of the immense background of everything else interior and exterior which could come to articulation but remains but the passive cloud of differences to what does come to language.

Aphorism of the Day, January 24, 2026

Being caught in the language loop we still try to bring to language products approximations of the more than language of the signified by language.  By using the word ALL, we use a rhetorical product to say that there is something which cannot be said or written.  Rhetorically we posit that we are becoming always already within an always already Omni-Becoming which means we can experience as cacophony the conflict of things and people being at different "ages," and just as an older individual might be at odds with that same individual at an earlier age, the age differences in experience for different persons in physical and other modes of maturity can account for the conflicts.  The same aging factors applied to social groups can give us insights to our warring behaviors.

 Aphorism of the Day, January 23, 2026

Being trapped in the language loop of using language to refer to what is not language, but hopelessly having to use more words to do so, we can only but use language to accompany the great order within and without of what is unsaid, unwritten, and yet is the Great Negligible which mysteriously permeates us in unknown ways.

Aphorism of the Day, January 22, 2026

Religious movements are the result of the manifestation of public agreement and persuasion regarding interior experience of the Holy or the Sublime as deriving from a common accessed interior Source, even as the Holy or the Sublime is also attached to and associated with Holy Figures or events which happened in the exterior "landscape" having historical registration.

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 into 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  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 and it 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.