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Jesus

What gives you direction in life?

Not a what but a who: Jesus. The encounter with the eternal in the temporal and the infinite in the finite.

secrets of the heart

… since the secrets in the hearts of each of us are unknown
St Basil, Letter 223

full tagline quote

182. In solitude.
When one lives alone, one neither speaks too loud nor writes too loud, for one fears the hollow echo – the criticism of the nymph Echo. And all voices sound diﬀerent in solitude!
Nietzsche, The Gay Science

another quote

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

THE SAME OBJECT SHOULD PRODUCE IN SEVERAL MEN’S MINDS DIFFERENT IDEAS at the same time;
Locke, John. John Locke: Complete Essay on Human Understanding, 161

[The capitals are in the original – not yelling! Also the gender specific language.]

How do I know that your experience of reality is the same as my experience of the same “object”?

experience necessity

According to Hume, Descartes’s cosmological proof of the existence of God relied on a conceptual foundation that he had left unquestioned, the conceptual foundation of causality. Hume argues that if you really tried to build knowledge back up from the most basic elements of human nature (e.g., perception), then you could not claim that causality is something we can know to be true rather than something we can only believe to be true. Though we may see one event follow another, and see this sequence of events happen over and over again, it is impossible to see that this sequence of events must happen. In other words, we cannot experience necessity.
Gertz, Nolen. Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), 19.

In the end, we are always free to act.

royal family, passion-bearers

header image

The question that no one asked: what is your header image? I am not sure where I found it but here it is:

dance …

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche may not have actually written the above but it is within the spirit of his other works. There is a realism about it: some are ostracized because others do not understand them.

Welcome back?

I am desireth to return to writing this blog. I am finding myself thinking about topics that I could expand upon on this blog. It will take a different slant. Yet still the same wakey content!

Farewell

I have decided to finish this blog. It will continue its life online since my email is connected with it. But I will no longer post.

I started it as a way to share and reflect. However it is now time that I use a pen and paper.

So farewell!!!!