I need to write these thoughts down before they escape and I be driven insane trying to capture them again, and I'd love to hear what your thoughts are in the comments below (do people still use blogger? hahaha).
-Speaking of insanity, what happened to Jeremy Lin? The boy won a ring and disappeared.
-Struggling with sin may be healthy, apathy is always dangerous
-Remember the granddaddy of all fear? I'm talking about the paranoid expectation that something bad will happen
-The opposite of faith is not reason, but faith has at least 2 opposites - Unbelief and superstition. Unbelief rejects any sound reason for faith, superstition imagines the content of faith without building bridges of knowledge.
-CLOWNS! WHY DO PEOPLE FIND THEM SCARY?
-Probably not, openness is defined as the capacity to let things in, so the more open minded you are the more stuff you allow in/tolerate. Might get overwhelmed though
-But which side is in and which out? people who are in one ear and out the other are mocked as being dumb, but perhaps it's a good thing, especially in the age of information explosion. Too many fake news to filter out, too much distractions.
-A lot of charges against God can be resolved in the triune nature of God. Some may claim his demand for worship as narcissistic, but what if the 3 persons prop one another up as the object of worship? Similarity, God didn't have to make us to fulfill a need due ot loneliness, since he is the origin of community.
-Analogies! When are they helpful? I'm not sure, perhaps when the thing used by the analogy is more commonly understood, yet still capture the essence of the object being explained. But analogies are not helpful when the thing used to compare with the subject being explained are not alike at all, or, they are more complex and actually harder to understand than the subject being analogilized (did I just make up a word?). And it seems like all analogies for the triune God fail and and inadvertently end up becoming heretical.
- Why is it that we feel foolish when we realize the original purpose of our possessions has been replaced by the purpose of showing off?
-When it comes to rationality of our worldviews, atheists really are not better off than theists, all premises are trapped in the realm of probablility and possibilities. While atheists can claim theism is adding unnecessary parts to a worldview, theists will retort that atheists will fail to fill the human need for transcendence.
-What is it that cause us to be stuck in obviously foolish mindsets, which later by some revelation during self reflection or by external means, is dispelled so easily?
- Is Socrates a real person or is he just a figment of Plato's imagination?
-What makes good writing? How much do genres come into play? If we want to be creative and mix genres, which ones mix well? and how many can we mix together until it becomes too overwhelming for the human mind?
-Characters, plot. what is it like to not be bound by spacetime? characters in a novel only interact with the writer if the writer writes the interaction, thus breaking the 4th wall. Are we, then, transcending spacetime in reading and prayer?
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