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Job 9
Most Western commentators and readers fail to grasp how thoroughly correct Job is in what he says. The primary disconnection is between the Western value system that insists life is precious. The people of the Ancient Near East lived in … Continue reading
Minimum Standards
Assuming you understand the Two Realms, it’s not hard to summarize and crystallize your thinking about how it all works in this domain. When the Apostles began taking the gospel among Gentiles, they had to struggle with their own cultural … Continue reading
Posted in religion
Tagged biblical morality, church, covenant of moses, culture, fundamental commandments, mysticism, peace, spirituality
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Another Mystery of God’s Laws
(Ref: a previous post by similar title.) Yet another comment on my critical review of Life Church from your typical modern Christian Pharisee. The real issue remains the deep failure to understand what is normative. I realize that the biggest … Continue reading
Posted in prophecy
Tagged american churches, church, culture, moral consciousness, mysticism, religion, scripture, Two Realms
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Job 8
Now it’s Bildad’s turn to get it wrong. He continues pressing the false dichotomy and worse. Bildad begins with less courtesy than Eliphaz, suggesting Job is a windbag. His rhetorical question misses the point. This is not a matter of … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, divine revelation, human tradition, intellectual traditions, legalism, scripture
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Net Speculation 2
This is nothing more than my gibbering mind dreaming up vague probabilities. I can’t account for whence some of it comes, but take full responsibility for the idiocy. Linux will soon be almost entirely a corporate product. It will remain … Continue reading
The Heresy of the Individual
Let’s drive a stake through the heart of this vampire and expose the corpse to the sunlight so it can’t come back. Only in Western social mythology do we have the false god of the Great Man. In the Bible, … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, culture, propaganda, resistance, scripture, social mythology
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Job 7
The problem with most Western readers is that, lacking an education in Ancient Near Eastern thought, they tend to agree fundamentally with Job’s friends. When Job turns to address himself to God, Westerners see him making false accusations, as if … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, culture, human vanity, mysticism, scripture, spirituality
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The Blessing of Ego
Forget the Western propaganda; your ego is a necessity. Freud is responsible for making the term popular in psychology, but his theories were crap, built entirely on his work with wacko patients. You can’t build a normative psychology that way. … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, false ego, peace, propaganda, psychology, social sciences
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A Walk in the Park
It was their first time together outside the chapel meetings. He wore the same thing he always wore: semi-dress casual. Her long wavy hair was pulled back on the sides, flowing like her simple, loose-fitting dress. It was conservative, down … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, game, marriage, mysticism, psychology, spirituality
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