each individual person's life is their own lived and sometimes written "Bible" (their making sense of their world)
but there are so many plagiarists.
50+. Thoughts, observations and insights with 4 decades with "religious studies", theology, philosophy, history...but intending less sub specie academiae, or sub specie scientiae, and rather sub specie aeternitatis. "Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen", Goethe: Faust I, Nacht, Vers 682. [Photo from Mt. Scopus]
Thursday, February 27, 2014
here be no dragons...
who now in this time of mind even imagines to fear that a dragon or devil might stick his head out of a sidewalk or building wall?
second Sinai scenario
Moses ascends the mountain, but then sees no sense to descend and try to explain...
Location:
Moscow, Russia
our earthly home?
walking down a street in Moscow on this lovely sunny day, an insight to our life:
the society, culture and mind of this time is not at all that mankind is some spirit come down to earth
rather that the earthly, physical life is the home and goal of man
the society, culture and mind of this time is not at all that mankind is some spirit come down to earth
rather that the earthly, physical life is the home and goal of man
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
the gnostic scientific claims of cosmogenesis
natural scientists came to reject the unbelievable Mosaic account of creation in Genesis
but their own cosmogony of the exploding singularity is little less unbelievable
and such claims, not to any supernatural, divine knowledge of origins, but to a reasonable, scientific, natural one, are also not modestly agnostic
but their own cosmogony of the exploding singularity is little less unbelievable
and such claims, not to any supernatural, divine knowledge of origins, but to a reasonable, scientific, natural one, are also not modestly agnostic
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
rejected stark contra-visions: Strauss' and Steiner's
extreme oppositions of Christologies, theologies, anthropologies, Bible readings,...
the Skeptic Strauss (1808-1874) the Seer Steiner (1861-1925)
the Skeptic Strauss (1808-1874) the Seer Steiner (1861-1925)
self-loving in California?
when those who profess and promote self-love as some happy solution to human dissatisfaction, can distinguish it clearly from narcissism and solipsism, they might start to do more than babble in their happy dream-ideals
Saturday, February 22, 2014
conversations with the dead
spent the
week with Origen, Nietzsche, Darwin,...
ideas and images of Moses, Jesus, revelation...
no one, as
for years, noticed
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