God falsely sentenced to death (5-6 am first draft)

it was rather "man" who "died", or should have (been recognized to have) "died", in the human horrors of the "1930s" and "1940s", to have been put to death for the crimes...

if "God" not isn't, but never was, then His death, guilt or complicity were obviously impossible
in such case He could not have been at the scenes of the crimes
and in any (and all) cases, the murderers (not of "God" but of humans) were members of "mankind", and they merited at least the verbal, rhetorical death penalty

mankind had been disobeyed his higher self...in deed, word and thought
(and whether conceived sub specie dei or sub specie humaniae)

and these thoughts are just foolish child's play about and with those terrible realities
it was not "God" that died, or should (have) be(en) blamed for the crimes en masse and en individual

"man" was guilty of the crimes, but "God" was given the blame

were the many criminals less culpable due to underage? diminished responsibility? insanity?
had "mankind" not yet already entered historical maturity, manhood?
if not en masse, then in its (mis)leaders good and evil?
"just following orders"

yes, otherwise they would not have falsely accused "God" of the crimes
a lie to their selves

and even if the Falsely Accused, the Mis-blamed Is
it is "man" who was responsible for the crimes...
too old for diminished responsibility or a defense of negligent and/or involuntary manslaughtering

blaming anOther, man had/s still not "come of age", even before, during and/or after the human horrors of that time.

"God" is at most to be blamed for having instigated, for having inspired, the life of the criminals...
for have created a creature (or conditions) that does not want – or seem(s) incapable – to realize itself its own guilt

was "man" of diminished capacity due to age?
was "man" of diminished capacity due to mitigating circumstances?
is "man" not also to be charged with false accusation (aka "bearing false witness"): blaming "God"?
and putting "God" to a pathetic, rhetorical death for crimes he himself committed?

applied contemporary idea archaeology

applied contemporary idea archaeology – studying those ideas from the past living in the present

not the death on the cross

but the death of the cross

(and all that that means)

Original Error

what shall be concluded about mankind's Western history when it is recognized that "Original Sin" as understood and articulated by Augustine was based on a weak, erred translation on Romans 5:12?

mental dead ends...

logical positivism
post-modernism

Unexamined History

a history of history's unexamined assumptions

that's enough

how and why we got here is useless to most

that's the situation is enough

athens, mt. sinai, golgotha, a road to the Damascus

the history of philosophy as a series of footnotes on Plato...

the reflections and refractions, reverberations and echoes of events on Mt. Sinai...

the meanings of a cross and empty tomb...

and, the enlightening experience of falling off a horse on the road to Damascus...

Daylight Apocalyptic Savings Time?

collective time now more casual*, without any inherent meaning

*casual (adj.) Look up casual at Dictionary.com: late 14c., "subject to or produced by chance," from Middle French casuel (15c.), from Late Latin casualis "by chance," from Latin casus "chance, occasion, opportunity; accident, event"

Middling Platonism

studying and classifying Middle Platonism?

real social psychology

being able to discern on sight how much a person – in "thought, word, deed", dress, demeanor, diet,... – is not of the crowd, but their own

breathing THE ?

one can search, quest, for "the meaning of life"

and one can breath with the question
(or rather breath an absence)

Ding an sich? – Jesus-in-Himself?

as Kant held we can not know the Ding an sich

so through all scholarly research it seems impossible to know

the real Jesus-in-Himself

trans-Darwinian happiness

the deeper problem with human happiness is that need "not of this world"

the histories of ideas in history

not the history of ideas...

rather

the histories of ideas

or the histories of ideas in history

(those of e.g. Exodus 20.3, or John 18:36, Republic 10.614-10.621, Vendidad 19.3)

pop politics

popular politics are not bad,

if you have a good populus

"...passing through nature to..."

Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die,

Passing through nature to...nullity?

that's a hell of a reason

considering the massive, brutal and systematic inhumanity of man to man* in the 20th century..
one can only hope that it was a reasonable mistake for the 17th and 18th centuries to have disbelieved in hell

*from Robert Burns' 1784 poem Man was made to mourn: A Dirge

The Comedy in Leibnitz's Théodicée?

Leibnitz does not consider Dante's Comedy in his Théodicée
though that is Dante's "response" to the "problem of theodicy"

the deaths of God

"God" died slowly, in differing parts...
as a wise, loving, attentive Father he died for some at Lisbon
as a Creative Designer he died for others later (e.g. Darwin)
as a Scipt(ure)-writer he died for some unconvinced readers (e.g. Strauss, Nietzsche)

BREAKING NEWS: In the .0000000000000000000000000000000001 second...

In the .0000000000000000000000000000000001 beginning, Nothing happened, and expanded 100 trillion trillion times as the universe...*

isn't that just incredible!?

(but, really, even if purely myth, is the Mosaic account more unbelievable?)

*cf. http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/big-bangs-smoking-gun-discovered-140317.htm#mkcpgn=fbdsc8: "Computer models indicate that the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times in .0000000000000000000000000000000001 (10 to the minus-34) seconds after the Big Bang explosion 13.8 billion years ago."

the authoritarian smile

the authoritarian state of socialized smiling

      

Dante's theodicy...

is a commedia

"theodicy" suffers

few thinkers on theodicy seem to have suffered enough

theoretical theodicy suffers deeply from being too theoretical

a study requirement for a PhD dissertation on theodicy should be "having nearly died or the equivalent"

dozing theology sub specie scientiae

theology and theologians – at least in the 20th century and now – cannot be well understood without recognizing that they think, speak and write about theology – it would be too much to say of "God", but of all things related to a diversified and proliferated theology(ies), religion(s), Bible studies, exegesis (also of exegesis), etc, etc, etc – in a kind of blithe earthly doze, and that in a mentality, individually and collegially, intellectualized, ie in a widely-shared intellectualizing system which is rather sub specie scientiae, sub specie mundi, than with/in any real sense theology sub specie dei.

solipsism à la California

here is a typical announcement for a course in women's self-improvement:

"Are you ready to release old people-pleasing patterns and give yourself permission to play and put yourself first?"

when such ideas can be clearly distinguished from solipsism, narcissism, ego-centrism,...

then these ideas might have some minimally clear value and meaning.

Cosmogenesis -- The Rock Opera

[email to an atheist friend:]

Hey, the atheists may be right, but the scientists today are myth-makers none the less than the creationists.

watching another "docudrama" on the origin of the universe..

rather than accept the absurd incredibility of the "scientific" "Singularity" (with a capital S) -- where Nothing Happened -- I would rather believe the Mosaic account where it is at least comprehensibly claimed "God created", even if Moses and God didn't exist and Genesis is a complete fiction, because it at least pretends to make sense, whereas the ultra-mini-atomic Singularity becoming the universe asks me to be stupider and more gullible than the dumbest hillbilly creationist.

and if the first chapters of Genesis seem childish, the ever-repeated variations of CGI like-real "images" of the big bang and all the rest, which show such a lovely, cozy cosmogenesis, are presented to naive viewers as if real facts, and with thus about the same seriousness as a Sunday school class.

psychologies' theologies

rather than theology actually being anthropology
theology is more personal psychology

the living school

more likely an ordeal... an experience... an education
than a place for answers and solutions

self-bespelled

to be explained:
the self-bespelling spirit evident throughout the history of theology and philosophy

a peak's peek

seeking via theologians charts
to climb through the vagaries, fogs and clouds
up to peek from a peak

the mundane comedy

the low dramas of our lives
sub specie mundi

freedom of divine choice

people now happily choose a Jesus Christ or Buddha or Krishna to suit themselves

the mall contra the ✞

the pathos, ethos and telos of a mall and Golgotha are human antipodes

terra cognita

traveled and travailed for 40+ years in our history
most are lost, but mercifully don't know

"nationalists"

humans still at the level of brute

in body, soul, mind, and spirit

pathos + theology =>

pathetic theology

inebriated theologians

theology -- orthodox, liberal, hip, et al -- often was and is of a kind of spirit that allowed even the death of God theologians their inebriated and sentimental musings on "God", man and their relation

post-Soviet disbelievers

the wake of Soviet atheism is wide even in the minds and beliefs of many post-Soviet Russians

one "ultimate concern"

or one's ultimate disconcertion

things fall apart, the center cannot hold?

things fell apart, the center did not hold

the history of our travel

as a smart traveler studies the history of the country to which he will travel
so should one study the history of the one in which we travail

waiting for Godot?

don't

unreal estates?, Florence, Italy

beyond "the pillars of Kant"

the ne plus ultra of the pillars of Hercules
explorers: Prince Henry, Dias, Columbus, da Gama, Magellan, et al
the pillars of Kant
explorers: Hamann, Hegel, Goethe, Blake, Coleridge, Steiner,...Leary, Castaneda, et al

obstacle courses to God

theological studies?

Jefferson contra Augustine

fallen, repenting sin
naturally pursuing happiness

our ultimate, avoided ?

is our daily life
sub specie dei
or
sub specie nihilis*

*not sure about the Latin ending here.

the God-forsaken malls

it is less that "God" is missing from a mall
than that people are too busy to notice

just another day?

then run...
escape...
seek, write, scream, "die",...

poor, lost poetry

one problem with and for poetry is the lack of a common understanding of the "real world"
or the real in the world
the other is the kindred problem -- little enough conscious amidst all the clutter and confusion -- of the "inner world", aka self, aka person

In the beginning...

"In the beginning was the word..."
and then the theologians got hold of it

the Christ-coma of Barth

in essence, Barth's "Christ" is a replacement for the "higher self"

Barth leaves the "Christian" in a kind of dogma-induced Christ-coma

Bibliosyncratizations

Let us make Bible in our own images

Augustine and Goethe?

needed: a comparison of their ideas of man's origin, life and goals would be very clarifying

Maslow or Dante on Self-Actualization?

Maslow was too light-headed on self-actualization...
simply: what is the self actualized of a vicious individual?

Maslow needs two parts Dante

sub specie aeternitatis through the clouds

most attempts to view matters sub specie aeternitatis are often unclear due to low fog and overhead clouds
mostly over academic humanities' department buildings

wholly other or partly other?

"das ganze Andere", "the wholly other" -- in addition to its vagueness of content of the "other" -- assumes that the concept of some capable microcosmicity, or imago dei, or scintilla is at best weak, at worst non-existent
"abstract" academic "psychology of religious experience" vs those traditions in which man is partly other

pilgrimage a la Dante and Columbus

after the descent

the only way back, through the earthly

some mysterious combination of Dante's and Columbus's

pilgrimage amidst pluralism

neither terra incognita, nor mare incognitum...
not in forest or deserts...
but in medias res the multitude of religions, philosophies, sciences, beliefs,...
trying to penetrate through to Insight, to "God", to Meaning.

Incredo

"the belief in God" must now be that somehow in all of mankind's trivial and terrible
there is yet some barely credible Meaning

hemlock and a cross

few ever have drunk hemlock calmly
and even one many believe to have been greater is reported by two to have felt forsaken

Up with a multicultural, multinational, multireligious,...global Thor!

what the world could really use is a god like Thor upgraded, who could use surgical lightning strikes -- even out of the blue -- to the multifarious and much-deserving bad guys everywhere!