Plans Afoot

I’ve asked my friend, Tim Butler, to set up a blog on our server using his Open Source CMS, SAFARI 2 (all caps). I won’t have a link until it’s up and running, but I’ll post that soon as it happens. The new blog will have the same name as this, and pretty much the same range of material, but a different appearance entirely. I will, in essence, be helping Tim to beta test recent improvements in the project.
For Linux fans, you may have already noticed I’m not writing that much about it any more. The reason is obvious from what I have written recently: I believe Linux GUI development is going in the wrong direction. That could change, but I doubt it will. Meanwhile, I still have plenty to rant about in terms of religion, philosophy, politics, and various applications of the title and subtitle of this blog. This blog will remain open and I’ll monitor and respond to future comments, but I won’t be adding any posts of significance because WordPress is making it too difficult for serious writers.
Be looking for the switch soon.

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Popular Already: March 2012

An awful lot of stuff is being promised for next month.
Not even in sight yet, and already March is very popular with an awful lot of folks. You got Half-Past Human promising foreboding events that month. There’s the promise Greece will default after close of business on the 23rd. Lots of folks insist Israel will hit somebody — probably Iran — in March. Never mind all the usual alternative fear-mongering sites yakking about stuff happening always in the next month or two.
The FBI is waving a scary story about shutting off the bogus servers to fool a particular virus (DNS Changer Trojan) folks should already have removed from their systems. They say on the 8th they have to take those servers offline, and that means the folks and businesses which haven’t cleaned off this mess will have no access to DNS. Apparently this critter hijacks the whole DNS process for affected computers. How many? They estimate 4 million. How come these folks weren’t simply told to fix their stuff? Instead, the FBI set up some bogus servers and snookered this trojan into getting real DNS information and not disrupting things. Since it doesn’t do anything else, apparently, lots of people have no idea.
Anyway, lots of folks are talking about March like it’s the greatest thing, and it’s not even here yet.

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This Change Is Not Good

I see WordPress is changing the Dashboard, taking it away completely. It also appears they are disabling the raw HTML posting option. Folks, this won’t work for me. After visiting the forums and help pages, I see the folks running this thing don’t give a rat’s patootie. Therefore, it is my sad duty to inform you, my dear readers, I’m looking for something else. I’ll post here until I do have a chance to migrate.

 WordPress, you are simply evil for not listening. 

Update: As if WordPress is not becoming nasty enough already, I just discovered I am not permitted to use the site unless my browser accepts permanent tracking cookies. If I have a setting by which the browser consider them all “session cookies” I can’t log in at all. Sure, I can always delete them later, which I always do, but this is just wrong. Folks, WordPress has crossed over, compromised by the same evil behavior as every avaricious cut-throat corporation.

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Libertarian Hell

(Note: I’m under the weather with a fever right now, so writing is kind of tough.)
Libertarian philosophy completely ignores the Fall.
I’m all for letting people do what they want, so long as it hurts no one but themselves. I’m even willing to narrow down the definition of “hurting others” to exclude silly Postmodern notions of harm. We live and let live to the degree possible, but it’s not nearly so possible as many presume.
The Bible says even the intellect is fallen, something neither Catholics nor most Protestants are willing to accept. Yes, some give lip service to the notion, but then turn and show their entire social and political calculation assumes otherwise.
Further, the notion of unrestrained libertarian economic policy is just as dangerous as fascism. Any system in which wealth and influence aggregate in some hands and not in others, without fail the psychopaths will rise to the top. That includes any economic system. Inculcating true libertarian enlightenment from end to end in the cultural mythology will not help.
The only proper biblical protection for any unfortunate person is extended family. No one else will ever defend you so freely, and the mission of protection simply cannot be farmed out. This is outright evil, poking God in the eye. There must be regulation of commerce, but it needs to come from the household, clan, tribe, etc. It has to come from shared DNA or shared covenant (not at all the same as a contract). It has to involve persons and personal responsibility. Current Western legal systems uniformly fail in this regard: If a company does wrong, the actual decision makers in the company must suffer directly a just penalty. Same for any government official; it is in the Bible simply impossible to claim you acted consistently with your role, and are therefore immune. God’s Laws remove all personal immunity. Period.
If modern Western libertarians got their way, it would be pure Hell on Earth, just a different flavor than what we now have.

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Necons, Dispensationalists and Islamic Terrorists

I rather like how George Washington’s Blog covers the issue. It’s a long read, and only worth it if you need a good background overview.
It’s like this. GW’s Blog skips over the Zionist roots of the Dispensational Heresy. While it was born in the Renaissance Catholic Church as a means to shooting down the notion the Pope was Antichrist, it was picked by a Protestant religious shyster in the UK. Once it had developed a bit of coherence, it came to the notice of a Rothschild agent, Untermeyer. He persuaded and funded another corrupt religious thug named Scofield to sneak all this garbage into the marginal notes of his Scofield Study Bible. Scofield passed all this garbage on to a crew who rose to prominence in religious politics among Baptists and such. From this we get Criswell and his friends, deceived but well meaning, decent fellows.
Where GW’s Blog picks up the thread is with the birth of the Neocons and Strauss. Lots of links, more than you’ll want to chase unless you are writing your own research paper. Strauss had studied the methods of Machiavelli and the Nazis, enamored with their level of control and orderly society. He taught rulers should be agnostic/atheist, but that they should appear religious so as to manipulate the strongest influence possible over the peasantry. Echoes of Constantine, no? So to have the Neocons promoting Christian Zionism — AKA Dispensationalism — guarantees the people will always have an enemy. Does anybody have to explain how Israel is working with this plan?
The one-third of evangelical Protestants who embrace this happen to be the very most politically active and wealthy ones. They happen to lead the way in scandals and corruption, too. Somewhere in the midst of all this garbage is an undercurrent of playing fast and loose with the facts, cynically willing to manipulate anyone for a presumed “good cause.”
Near the end, GW’s Blog fails to mention the other critical element in this story. While noting some of the so-called Islamic terrorists are really very poor specimens of Muslim religion, the author fails to tell how the majority of those who really are hard core Islamic fundamentalists are patsies of the Mossad, CIA, etc. Some of them know the score, the Muslim equivalent of a Neocon manipulator. This would be the Muslim Brotherhood and whatever is actually behind the mythical organization of al-Qaeda, for example. Some of them are true believers who have been carefully steered into radicalism, hardened into it, rather like the Mujahedin-Taliban.
Notice the only reason the Taliban are facing our troops is because they wouldn’t deal on the oil pipeline, though there were other crass commercial concerns, such as the bankers’ love for any and every war. Now that our troops have been there ten years, other factors have gotten involved to keep them there, and a similar drift in purpose will pull them out. Meanwhile, every other place we send spies, provocateurs, arms and funds, equipment and troops are quickly turning into more or less fundamentalist Islamic countries. This is on purpose, of course, but the Dispensational activists refuse to see it. Whoever is steering all this madness really does want a rise in radical Islamic governments.
I won’t complicate the explanation here by pointing out the differences between the major sects within Islam, but suffice to say the Illuminati are playing all sides against each other.
I am forced to estimate this will eventually put more pressure on Israel, creating real enemies compared to the half-hearted, underfunded, ill-equipped, disunited and poorly led troops Israel has faced in the past. I’ve already offered my estimate Israel is not really the game, but it’s what can be accomplished with something so utterly impossible to maintain. If the Islamic fundies do succeed in mounting a fresh war, by whatever definition, it is likely to overwhelm Israel, who then launch their nukes, or something equally drastic and senseless.
I remain convinced TPTB aren’t really concerned how it turns out. My perception is the plans of the Rothschilds have drifted over the generations. The more people killed, the more money borrowed and the more property destroyed, all counts to the good for them. It’s hard to imagine they don’t have plans for dealing with most of what could possibly be left when it’s all over. They are prepared to wait out the whole thing in their massive secret bunkers scattered around the world, so far as I can guess. I’m still trying to understand why they don’t seem bothered by the nuclear contamination of the oceans and large stretches of land, and so far the only thing I can surmise is those bunkers are part of the game. Or maybe they’ll evacuate into space or something; who knows? Then again, I’ve always said I believe God is in control, and I don’t believe He’s yet revealed much of what His plans are.
At any rate, there’s not a darn thing we can do about it. Grab your popcorn, nachos and beer and watch the show, because giving away the plot was necessary for the show to make sense. Sure, you might survive, but then you might regret it.
Even if this is in some sense The End of All Things, it would hardly go down according to the Dispensationalist mythology.

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Emerging Liberalism

The so-called Postmodern cultural influence is simply another brand of progressivism with no particular goal at all.
To be postmodern is grabbing at any excuse to attack conventional thinking. There is a masquerade of logic. When they bother, postmodernists claim a different kind of logic from Aristotle, but then they keep trying to use it when it suits their agenda. It becomes little more than an excuse to ignore the rules of logic they don’t like. If you understand the “logic” of feminism, you understand postmodernism. The academic term for it is “radical subjectivism” and the trump card is always, “I/we feel…” If the spokesperson has three friends willing to say they agree, their consensus trumps reality in their minds. Even Aristotle is better than that.
Within Western churches, postmodernism is one more brand of humanism rising up in judgment against God’s revelation. In the strictest definition of terms, it’s not Christianity. It falls a bit short of “following Jesus,” who said things like, “No one comes to the Father” — AKA, Ultimate Truth — “except through Me.” He also said the entire Old Testament (Protestant canon at least) was a trustworthy record of divine revelation. It’s one thing to attempt shedding modern Western epistemology as I do, but another thing altogether attempting to cherry pick from established Post-Enlightenment cultural mythology plus New Age Mysticism and calling it “deep thinking.”
Thus, the emergent church movement is really just about anything other than conventional churchianity, so long as you mention the name of Jesus. By no means do I defend the mainstream Western Christianity, but emergents are hardly any better. They keep dredging up well-known heresies from Church History, and somehow imagine it’s new. The one reason I associate with emergents at all is because they don’t run me off the way most mainstream churches have.
Nor do I have kind words for Purpose Driven (PD) religion. That’s just postmodern Pharisaism. That is, the whole thing carries over some Western cultural Christianity, scraping off Scripture passages in a severe case of eisegesis, as if painting Bible verses on everything makes it right. We call it “Jesus frisbee” religion; some of the cheapest junk becomes holy when you stamp one of the popular images of Jesus on it. When you stand back and examine the impact of PD writings, it’s really nothing more than justifying a search for very worldly success, though tilting in favor of emotional stability over property. It’s just self-help psychology with Bible quotations. This, too, hardly meets the definition of Christianity. Oh, and they love to use the most brutal corrupt politics to take over churches; the procedures are explained in their leadership literature.
The one thing PDs never deal with correctly is the absolute sense of terror Jesus felt in the Garden of Gethsemane. Not because of the impending arrest; He stopped that cold just to prove He could (John 18:4-8), right before He allowed the lynch mob to proceed. Rather, it was the depth of sorrow over taking upon His utterly sinless conscience the guilt of all the world’s sins — past, present and future. Then He died, a complete failure in human terms, after warning everyone following Him He expected them to follow His example. What’s utterly insane is how PDs imagine modern Western middle class society is a perfect reflection of Christianity, and that following Jesus must somehow result in furthering that society.
It’s okay when the Fundies label me a liberal, because they don’t understand true conservatism which draws on the most ancient traditions of Scripture. We know for certain Aristotle had been exposed to Hebrew Scriptures, but rejected them largely because of the underlying intellectual assumptions. Yet Fundies somehow imagine God used Aristotle to correct everything which came before. I keep warning people this was the precise same mistake which gave rise to the Pharisees and the Talmud and the first place, and that it repeats the fundamental choice which resulted in the Fall in Eden.
There is none so blind as those who will not see.

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Archive Update

(Please note: This ancient post refers to a static website that no longer exists.)
For those keeping track of my static website, I’ve updated my Christian Mysticism HOWTO, both the webpage and the PDF version. In essence, I added one paragraph to the first section:

Part of the difficulty is so many mystics insisting on altered states of consciousness, trances, and the like. That does happen in Scripture, but those who serve God do so only at His hand, not on their own volition. It’s the same as grace: on God’s initiative alone. Any other thing which claims to reach that place without God’s initiative has entered the Dark Side, as it were. This is the whole point behind the narrative of the Fall, warning people their human talents, abilities and intelligence is not capable of managing the Divine. Biblical mysticism is unique. We will surely debate what Scripture actually says to us, but no valid mystical experience will contradict the Bible.

I recognize most of the mystics I encounter do not share my particular path. That’s fine, but I want them to be aware of that path so they can decide whether reading my stuff is worth their time. I assert there is only one unique Son of God, and while He can and will pass on to us His Spirit, not one of us can duplicate His spiritual accomplishments independently. Without Christ, you cannot enter the presence of the Ultimate Truth. It simply won’t matter what you believe or have experienced, without Christ, you were playing with the Devil. I remain committed to accountability to Scripture, which is where that sharp line is drawn.
None of this is meant to castigate anyone else, to shut you down and make you feel bad. I’m simply and honestly revealing my biases, those things I will not debate. No one has to agree, not even in your comments to my posts.
The one sure way to have your comments deleted is spammy links, something totally pointless and/or off topic (which includes the broader topics of this entire blog), or something which is needlessly hostile or obscene. Hostility itself is not a problem, nor is meaningful obscenity, but if I can’t use your post, it’s gone.

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Class, At Last

During my years online, I’ve always devoted a portion of my time studying and fighting spam, hoaxes, scams and urban legends, among other Internet abuses.
After that prank when someone posted my resume on some of the most abusive job hunting sites, I was inundated with all manner of inappropriate offers. A great many of them were things for which I was simply unqualified, not to mention uninterested. The biggest bunch were variations of sales positions, under which I include recruiter jobs.
Some of these last types were outright scams. At least two of them required me contacting the upstream provider to shut off the spam, because their “opt-out” links were bogus. Others took almost two weeks to stop the flow. A couple of weeks ago it finally seemed about done.
Out of the blue today I got a sale job offering from an insurance outfit. You can check complaint sites like Ripoff Report and decide for yourself about the merits of the reports. Also note this company absorbed the notorious Mega Life Health Insurance. While I won’t post here my rant against the insurance industry, nor my dislike for salesmen and marketers in general, suffice to say I was offended at the very idea. So I fired off something rude:

Chances are I already possess more skill and talent in sales than anyone in your company. I also have better morals than to be a slimy manipulator marketing crap nobody wants or needs.
In case it’s not obvious to you, take me off your mailing list.

Shameful, no? Post your verbal abuse of me below in the comments. At any rate, the person identified in the return address was actually a human. An intelligent one, at that. Her response was something about God’s gift of humility, and that I was removed from their list. You can hear the hot air hissing out of the blowup doll.
So here’s to a class act, Sandra Washburn at Insphere Insurance. Mea culpa.

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Scientists Are Not God

Scientists, and other people who represent the cream of human intelligence and wisdom, should not be trusted any more than the psychopaths who rule in governments.
There are good reasons for this:
1. Scientists, by the very nature of their pursuit, exclude God and spiritual concerns. Sure, the better ones recognize there may be motives for choices which aren’t exactly good science, but they tend to be dismissive and pressure you to do what their particular science god demands. There is a serious error in logic here, assuming whatever it is science can discover about observable and measurable processes is somehow the most important factor in deciding. Since when does it make you insane to choose one form of death over another? The very best of behavioral science still can’t answer the most basic question of why we bother to study human behavior. If we give the answer, “to improve human life,” you still haven’t answered, “by what morality.” That there is a consensus among fools does not make their answer any better.
2. Scientists lie. They are people, and have a vested interest in something they are doing. A few admit they simply want to discover something which will make them rich and/or famous. Science is simply the path to standard human ambition. Others lie to themselves worse than anyone else, presuming they can somehow actually be objective. For all it’s high moral objectivity, in that proper scientific method is striving to disprove your own theory, most of the time they aren’t humble enough to really put it to the test. They want to be right and competent, or at least appear to be, if only to themselves. With the huge number of verifiable frauds in just the past decade in the field of academic publication and medical journals, you’d be a fool to consider science any more trustworthy than any other activity which involves humans in groups with an agenda — politics.
3. Scientists are used. They don’t have to be aware of it for it to serve the manipulator’s purpose. There is a very short list of scientists who rejected funding or support because the source of it wanted to steer things just a bit, few enough to be literally remarkable. How many scientists can pursue their work without funding? And how often is it funded by anything other than a government, or some corporate grant agency? When did money ever come without strings attached? Not in this world.
Global Warming? Pure, unadulterated political hoax, easily shot down by real science. Worse, a provable effort to hide their awareness it was all fake, even as they promoted it by all these expensive fake studies.
Peak oil? Check the actual stats; the world is awash in excess petroleum which can’t be sold fast enough. The only reason prices remain high is through propaganda about a shortage, plus pushing it all through extra handling to raise costs. Here in the US, oil from offshore platforms is shipped out into international waters, then brought back to shore as an import, which the government duly taxes as such.
Vaccines? Check the actual track record; most are a bigger threat than what they pretend to treat. The human body was not designed to process stuff injected directly into the blood stream. Ordinary sanitation measures have done more to extend life all across the world than any measure of vaccination. Given the vast commercial and political interest behind the promotion of vaccines, it’s the last thing you should be willing to consider. Your doctor is a specialized politician and vendor.
Fluoridation of public water supplies? Proven to be quite the opposite of what they claim, it is a serious threat to your teeth. The whole thing originated with some industrial magnate trying to find a way to sell a nasty waste product, so he paid some scientist with a good reputation to lie for him. This stuff is hopelessly toxic.
Food Pyramid versus Paleo “Cave Man” Diet? Both are wrong. The first problem is cultural conditioning; infants cut loose in a full range buffet typically eat less junk food and prefer stuff lightly seasoned. There’s a real scientific tests for you! If we could simply remove the industrial toxins used by food companies to pad their profits, all in absolute secrecy because they are actively hostile to our wishes, we would have no trouble finding a proper selection of food simply by following our own instincts, selecting from what’s available. People who make “bad” decisions may be simply hearing a different drummer, not burdened with your particular morals and motivations.
Finally, this whole thing is deeply and utterly perverted by one factor: The State seeks increasing control. And how hard is it to understand the State’s only interest is economics? Not the general economic interest, but the economics of those who rule. If everyone is doing the same thing, regardless of right or wrong, it’s simpler and cheaper in terms of bureaucratic costs to maintain the system of control and taxation. All this crap about your health is really an issue of costs to the bureaucracy. Every other stated or implied motive of human welfare is pure sewage, and some of them know it. If you could make all your neighbors turn off their A/C so electric rates could drop and make it cheaper to run your A/C, would you do it? Probably not, but once someone’s head is pulled inside the bureaucracy, that sense of decency disappears.
And those who manage and direct those bureaucracies would gladly watch us all drop alive into a meat grinder, would push us into it themselves, if it made them a little wealthier and more luxurious in this world. At the same time, there is some perverted pride in “accomplishment” and “greatness.” This is what kind of morality rises to top of government and corporations, and is what’s behind virtually every pronouncement of “science in your interest.”

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Our Mysticism Is Not As Their Mysticism

Mysticism includes a whole range of things, not simply the practice of Transcendental Meditation.
There will always be movements within a larger whole of any demographic. The mere existence of a thing which can be labeled “a demographic” requires acknowledging it will never be all one thing. Every group we can identify will always be composed of individuals who aren’t carbon copies of each other. Even in the shared identity label, there are usually variations on the theme.
Mystics are not all one thing. Mysticism is not so much a belief or practice or combination of the two, but a means to arriving at practices and beliefs. By definition, it is an approach which assumes there are at least two realms, and one which cannot be perceived by normal human senses. This is not inherently hostile to Christian faith because the Bible says most bluntly and literally “God is a spirit” and not a fleshly being confined to this fallen realm of existence. If He were otherwise, there would be something we could point to, leaving us with a totally different kind of debate restricted to mere minutiae, not major questions suggesting there may be no God.
Christianity is defined as following the teachings of Jesus. While there may well be much debate over what He said and what it meant, the mere presence of the thought one could evaluate any part of His teachings to pass judgment on them excludes you from the category “those who follow Christ.” That’s because Christ Himself said it was all or nothing. Conservative Christians rightly reject selective obedience to His teachings. My primary complaint with mainstream Christianity is this pernicious insistence on a form of logical approach which is inherently hostile to following Christ. It’s their particular intellectual assumptions going into the question of, “What did Jesus teach?” Their Aristotelian approach is what I find objectionable.
This approach necessarily results in a huge divergence into denominations, all with mutually exclusive definitions of “biblical faith.” Only when you restrict your epistemology to Aristotle to you end up trying to make a divine experience something subject to the Scientific Method. Just what tools would you use to examine a spirit born from above, and the move of the Holy Spirit upon someone? It leaves you excluding anyone who doesn’t fit into your narrow and precise clinical definition of God and His ways. That’s blasphemous. You can’t contain Almighty God in your written theology and creeds. Paul’s insistence on “pure doctrine” most certainly did not come from Aristotelian epistemology, but from ancient revelation.
I also reject the wide open Eastern mystical approach. I realize academically the whole thing can be lumped together as “anything other than Western.” To then judge the entire thing evil is silly on the face of it for Christians. Jesus was a Hebrew man; His Father was a Hebrew God, even as He said He was Creator of all things. While many of the statements in Hebrew Scripture are mysterious, it’s pretty hard to ignore the statements from the prophets in that Scripture and from Jesus that revelation came most clearly to the Hebrew people (see John 4:22). Jesus also said the current religious leadership of His day didn’t understand the God they were supposed to know, but the legacy of revelation to the Hebrews itself was not undone by their intransigence. This was a direct result of that leadership having embraced Aristotle and leaving behind something quite different, something unique among the various other brands of mysticism east of the Mediterranean Sea — the unique Hebrew culture, and the unique Hebrew intellectual approach, which God Himself created.
Mysticism among the Hebrews was simply the recognition there is something beyond the range of human perception. It assumes ultimate truth, however much we humans could access it, must come by revelation. The initiative rests wholly with God. Thus, if we are going to imagine those who worship Him would enter an altered state of consciousness, it is not at human behest. It does not require any particular atmosphere, nor any attempts by men to get into the right mode of operation and transcend their conscious state. When God chose, someone prophesied. Some folks were seized by the Spirit of Prophecy right in the middle of opposing God Himself. If they were called to such work, and comfortable with it, then it might happen pretty often. Still, the initiative always rested in God’s hands, and human efforts to cross the divide on their own initiative availed nothing.
There is nothing in Scripture demanding the followers of Christ enter an altered state of consciousness to be righteous and at the top of their game, so to speak. Yes, the Apostle John did enter a state he called “in the Spirit” during his introduction to Revelation. Yet we see plenty of times when someone was “in the Spirit” and fully conscious. Whatever you wish to make of that phrase, it does not require an altered state. To critics standing outside Christian faith, it seems it never occurs to them John was not on drugs or out of his mind, but was using standard Hebrew figures of speech. They want to insist it all has to be read from as literal a viewpoint as possible. That so many Christians agree with that intellectual approach is a real shame, given Jesus made so much of parabolic expressions to convey ineffable spiritual content.
When mainstream Christians insist on an Aristotelian approach, they presume to be careful with the definitions of terminology. So why do they then so quickly descend into propaganda mode and sling the term “mysticism” around like a dirty word? The whole thing smacks of intellectual dishonesty. Yeah, I’m suggesting some know, or could know, they are being deceptive. What’s the point of pretending to be academic and rational when you use the methods of propaganda, of trying to stir passions by hiding facts? Yes, there is a threat from the likes of the Spiritual Formation movement, but it’s their actions and doctrines so obviously contrary to Scripture (even from a Hebraic approach) which shows us their errors. Examining how they got there requires honestly examining the whole thing in detail, not simply slapping convenient sloppy labels on things you’d rather not discuss. You’ll notice Paul in his letters emphasizes opposing heresy based on its results, not the methods of arriving at heresy.  Paul walked away from his Aristotelian rabbinical training, and returned to the ancient Hebrew ways.
So long as mainstream Protestant evangelicals refuse to examine the basic question of how different is the original Hebrew intellectual approach to things, they can never claim to understand Jesus. Refusing to understand how the Jewish embrace of Aristotelian epistemology (AKA Hellenism) is a major element in what made such a mess of Old Testament religion, they will find themselves followers of Pharisaism, not followers of Jesus. There is a uniquely Hebrew brand of mysticism, and God requires it to understand Him and His revelation.
Mysticism itself simply acknowledges the most important things to us as humans is beyond our normal faculties, because it is not constrained by the limits of our existence.

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