Here's me, trying out here in our urban American spiritual desert to figure out how to compel young people to seek The Good, when all they can perceive is what flows from the messaging of 1s and 0s and hormones and peer-propaganda, none of which seems to be edifying at all because God is unacknowledged as the Maker of all we are and enjoy and consume...
I suppose if somehow they might believe that there is a telos, and jettison the nihilism that pervades so much of what is embraced among them, then perhaps we'll have a starting point to begin to explore and the humility that comes from recognizing the limits of our knowledge.
Dostoevsky said "Beauty will save the world." Maybe that can be my "hook" to draw out their souls to the forefront of their imagination and awareness.
It’s kinda like taking a rock and splitting its minerals opened to be studied not knowing that all of these different aspects that have been grounded up within one’s own life can actually be the concrete thing that can and has shaped the rock that has been formed throughout its own sojourn throughout the world.
Nonetheless nowadays as I can write this statement it can be interpreted within a frame of thinking such as the one you’re describing regarding the western thinking. That I got to put these very individual minerals within this rock and put under a microscope and then give it some kind of name. Or if it were salt, I could rather now call it
Amen, Brother. Well said.
Here's me, trying out here in our urban American spiritual desert to figure out how to compel young people to seek The Good, when all they can perceive is what flows from the messaging of 1s and 0s and hormones and peer-propaganda, none of which seems to be edifying at all because God is unacknowledged as the Maker of all we are and enjoy and consume...
I suppose if somehow they might believe that there is a telos, and jettison the nihilism that pervades so much of what is embraced among them, then perhaps we'll have a starting point to begin to explore and the humility that comes from recognizing the limits of our knowledge.
Dostoevsky said "Beauty will save the world." Maybe that can be my "hook" to draw out their souls to the forefront of their imagination and awareness.
"Kyrie, eleison" is all I have left to say.
It’s kinda like taking a rock and splitting its minerals opened to be studied not knowing that all of these different aspects that have been grounded up within one’s own life can actually be the concrete thing that can and has shaped the rock that has been formed throughout its own sojourn throughout the world.
Nonetheless nowadays as I can write this statement it can be interpreted within a frame of thinking such as the one you’re describing regarding the western thinking. That I got to put these very individual minerals within this rock and put under a microscope and then give it some kind of name. Or if it were salt, I could rather now call it
NaCl
Ewwww. Haha not tasty. Can I say that?
Haha yes of course I can.
My apologies.
I actually do like you.
It’s when you’re American over orthodox that I want to puke my guts out.
I don’t blame you. All things in time, including the acquisition of Truth and the avoidance of vomit. Gag reflexes mature too I think… ❤️
that's a gracious response.
My apologies; I was having a hard day.
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Sodium Chloride. Hahahaha as I’m typing this on my iPhone the salt emoji on my phones keyboard came up when I got to put “sodium chloride”🧂 😂😂🤣
Kyrie Leison lmao