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Job 32
People in the Ancient Near East would recognize that most moral questions can be answered differently on different levels. They were untroubled by apparent paradoxes and reversals of good and evil when viewing the exact same issue from different contexts. … Continue reading
Job 31
Let’s recall that the early chapters state Job did not sin against God in his words. That doesn’t mean he was without error in the sense of how his words affected others. We recognize that the elder trio provoked him … Continue reading
Police Talking Points
Bear in mind this comes from an ex-cop. The fundamental moral consideration will always be maintaining social stability, which is not the same thing as “order” (as cops tend to define it). Law-n-order is a chimera of the Western middle … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged civilization, culture, law, police, social stability, society
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Job 29
Universal truth is simply not within reach of the human mind, because truth is nothing less than the Person of God Himself. Rather, any knowledge of God is inherently contextual,and we dare not assume anyone else is obliged to accept … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged ANE, civilization, culture, Job, knowledge of God, mysticism, Universal truth
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A Path through Time
God’s path for me has carried me places I could never have imagined. I seldom found God in evangelical church activities, particularly during worship services. The first and greatest error Western Christians make is confusing emotionally moving music and preaching … Continue reading
Posted in religion
Tagged ANE, civilization, culture, epistemology, evangelical church activity, propaganda, psychology, scripture, spirituality, western christianity
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Misguidance
Western Christianity is fighting the wrong battle. Being somewhat nerdy, I’ve read tons of fiction, including a whole library of futuristic science fiction and fantasy tales. Most of them are built on the typical Western mythology — little more than … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged Antichrist, civilization, culture, mysticism, oppression, parable, propaganda, war, western christianity, western civilization
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Job 27
We could wish for better translations of Job into English. The underlying sarcasm and wit are not easily translated across the centuries, miles and cultural distance. Having been pushed relentlessly by the idiotic arguments of his erstwhile friends, having bounced … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, culture, Job, spirituality, symbolic communication
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Communion Lost
Reticence is a virtue. We live in a self-indulgent world that is quite the opposite of civil. Civility is the quality of removing enough of yourself from the common market of human interaction to participate without intruding on anyone else. … Continue reading
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Tagged civility, culture, psychology, spirituality, survival
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Nicey-Nicey Is Not a Virtue
As Westerners, we simply cannot imagine the alien feel of Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) social interaction. The depth of perversion in our Western social mythology makes it nearly impossible to wade through the vast mountains of crap to see the … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, civility, civilization, culture, mysticism, propaganda, social mythology, western biases
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Oppression Is Futile
It’s not that resistance if futile, but it serves no valid purpose. That is, if you accept the revelation of Jehovah, you would realize resistance as a political principle is serving a different god. Given that most Christians read a … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, government, internet, mysticism, oppression, psychology, resistance, spirituality
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