Will Chadwick (ラヤ+תהלים+案 but Scorning Shame 钉十字架)

What an idea.

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mtg spent like ten years making enemies on the left and that seemed fine with her. she spent ten days making enemies on the right, had to hire security, and then had to quit altogether.

"A demon boy band? Why?"

New blog post

799. The Value & The Danger of Abstraction

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I prefer other birds. Like Redwing Blackbirds.

Everyone is Twelve Now Theory of Politics remains undefeated

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Sent this to a friend today, and yeah, it's 100% true:

Basically, I am entrusting whether I'm a fool or not to God and whether I've heard him right.

Fun stuff.

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You guys gotta start flexing your "you can't fucking talk to her like that" muscles now, with your friends and colleagues, so you'll be ready to flex them when it's time to tell the President of the United States to watch his mouth.

Being a Christian really is like watching the whole Cosmos tremble

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I love the resonances in this post so freaking much

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Thank you for taking the time to read what I wrote. I do know that I am far from the best writer.

I appreciate you also taking the time for this dialogue.

To some extent you are undoubtedly right, and to some extent I don't see that that is a problem

I also think that you're evading actually engaging w what I (or Paul) actually wrote, to the extent that we can understand what he actually wrote. I think our understanding of it is enough to take us far

I am being pretty direct in all of this, but mean none of this combatively nor dismissively. What you wrote is indeed insightful, & I appreciate you sharing it with me. And perhaps the problem isn't intellectual at all, but merely a problem of the will, in which case, my will is no better than yours

Problem 3

You implicitly believe that if such a thing as a Singular Good exists, then while it must apply itself somehow to infinitely many finite situations, you (a finite human being) must be capable of judging and understanding them all.

But how can you in your finitude comprehend the infinite?

Those who improperly burned incense clearly knew better - the point is that their actions embodied their will, their heart, which dishonored the Good. But the way this morality is shrouded in an ancient mystery highlights a third problem for us Autonomy-Project-Conscious Moderns.

I think it is possible that God will somehow save everyone, as he clearly wants to do from Scripture. But in any case it is also clear that those who ultimately are damned are those that choose it.

Problem 2.
If people choose a lesser good over the Good, the source of Good itself, then God can either force them to choose him (but that's not a choice) or he can give them what they want. But what they want cuts them off from the source of Goodness, and hence becomes hell.

Problem 1.
Brotherhood without boundaries will become toxic. So too, forgiveness without accountability.

What you're suggesting is implicitly that people (and God, the source and identity of goodness itself) should not seek accountability.

A Summary:
It seems to me that you are taking offense at God's unwillingness to be tamed by our understanding and what seems good to us - and that's completely normal to take offense at. And yet the result is that while you write something very nuanced, behind the nuance is a cartoon picture of God.

This is very well-written and insightful about a lot - and yet it also feels like it misses the point (which you might expect I would say).

The different points I am making fit together, and take care to respond to no single problem alone (say, 1st without 3rd).

[when your friend won't shut up but you can't tell him to stop because he's absolutely right]

Picked up my old worn (unfinished) Kierkegaard and the dude is straight up preaching at me, stuff that I needed to hear.

I'm going to read what you wrote.

You should also read what I wrote.

Any pushback would be greatly appreciated.

295. Syllogism & Close Reading of Philemon (Slavery, Dignity, Truth and Love in the Bible) Philemon and Human Rights Philemon is one of the shortest books of the Bible. The second and third epistles of John are shorter, and the Prophetic book in the Tanakh, Obadiah, might be shorter. The…

touché

And yet it's easy to point out how both Christ and Paul most certainly did not do that, and thereby show that those later uses of Christianity are abuses of it, and untrue to it

I have to run, but you might find this piece I wrote interesting:
perilousresonance.wordpress.com/2022/08/21/2...

I'll try to read this later today. Thank you for sharing it.

And finally, claiming to think that human beings can gound morality on themselves has gotten us nowhere good.

I'm sorry. I didn't know your story, and wasn't trying to be obnoxious.

Those seemingly opposite parts of Christianity belong together because forgiveness without accountability enables abuse. Accountability without forgiveness is damnation.

Personally, I don't think you really understand how these work together.

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