Who is your favorite historical figure?
Only one?! I have different people for different “moods” – philosophy, theology, “weirdo”. Here are a few:
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Fredrick Nietzsche
- Franz Kafka
- Albert Camus
- Jesus of Nazareth
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off the grid
How do you want to retire?
I would like to move to a hut – house? – completely off the grid, in a forest, miles away from anyone. Maybe solar and running water, but no other modern stuff. A wood heater would serve as a stove. Absolutely no contact!!!!
reading
What are you passionate about?
Reading Nietzsche in the original German.
Love
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
Love!
Tagline
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?
I have a tagline on this blog so that might be it for the moment:
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
boring, strange, weird
Only one word? Boring, strange, weird. Pick one!
sewing
Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.
Glad you asked! I am learning to sew. It is completely out of my comfort zone. I sewed my first piece yesterday! You like?
ban?
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
To be honest, I do not like the idea of banning things. There are words I wish I did not use – “unique” or “kafkaesque”. But banning seems a little kafkaesque.
What would the punishment be? “Word goal”?
[As an aside, I like the word “kafkaesque” but it makes me sound very “unique”.]
What do words really do? Is there any meaning behind them? Or only that which we assign them within our social context?
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Certainty
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
The biggest challenge is “where to from here?”. I have hit a sweet spot when it comes to my daily life – good rhythm, right interaction. I think I have found a paradigm for me in history and there is peace.
But there is never certainty. The very fact that I look for control is part of the current struggle. The desire for external consultation is the struggle.
To put it a different way: what does it mean for me that my relationship with Jesus is absolute?
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
me
What do you complain about the most?
People who know me, know I do not like “me”. I can never recall a time when I did. Everything about me upsets me: my physical awkwardness, my silly voice, my overwhelming and overbearing personality, my constant chatter about nothingness. So I complain about me to me and others.
But apart from that? The weather.
a fool and his prayer book 