"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
Nations, cultures, arts, civilization-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit-immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously-no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner-no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."
C. S. Lewis
Showing posts with label Humanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humanity. Show all posts
3.20.2010
3.09.2010
Culture pt VII
There are strengths of each culture and there are weaknesses of each culture.
Our Western emphasis on justice is a strength. It is a genuine insight into the Kingdom of God. Some things cause God to burn with anger. Some things cause God to rejoice in delight. There is an absolute morality. Some things are simply evil while other things are simply good, and it is right to suffer shame, defeat, pain, and even death rather than do evil.
But our strong sense of personal injustice is a weakness. It lends itself so easily to an entitlement mentality. Which is so easily manipulated into outright evil. The root cause of so much of our sexual perversion (including sex trafficking, child porn, etc.) is the cultural mandate that "I have a right to do what I want." Our unwillingness to sacrifice for the sake of global issues like poverty and environmental degradation is rooted in this same enshrining of individual desire. It is, of course, the underlying cause of the impotence and sloth of the Western Church; we have swallowed the cultural kool-aid, and we have embraced the narcissism and unquestioned self-gratification of our host. We truly believe, even after being 'bought by the blood,' that we still have rights and that God somehow is honored by this.
A Western cultural framework causes us to emphasize our own rights which can lead to arrogance and greed, fragmentation and isolation, and ultimately a life enslaved to desire. It also causes us to recognize the rights of others which can lead to advocacy and sacrifice, service and partnership, and ultimately a life poured out for others.
Our Western emphasis on justice is a strength. It is a genuine insight into the Kingdom of God. Some things cause God to burn with anger. Some things cause God to rejoice in delight. There is an absolute morality. Some things are simply evil while other things are simply good, and it is right to suffer shame, defeat, pain, and even death rather than do evil.
But our strong sense of personal injustice is a weakness. It lends itself so easily to an entitlement mentality. Which is so easily manipulated into outright evil. The root cause of so much of our sexual perversion (including sex trafficking, child porn, etc.) is the cultural mandate that "I have a right to do what I want." Our unwillingness to sacrifice for the sake of global issues like poverty and environmental degradation is rooted in this same enshrining of individual desire. It is, of course, the underlying cause of the impotence and sloth of the Western Church; we have swallowed the cultural kool-aid, and we have embraced the narcissism and unquestioned self-gratification of our host. We truly believe, even after being 'bought by the blood,' that we still have rights and that God somehow is honored by this.
A Western cultural framework causes us to emphasize our own rights which can lead to arrogance and greed, fragmentation and isolation, and ultimately a life enslaved to desire. It also causes us to recognize the rights of others which can lead to advocacy and sacrifice, service and partnership, and ultimately a life poured out for others.
10.12.2009
Critique
"A number of recent books have looked at Christianity’s image problem among those who were born in the late twentieth century. Young adults today see the church as:
hypocritical
judgmental
sheltered
overly political
Young adult pastor Russell Rathbun responds to these perceptions with a challenging invitation to be transformed—from unChristian to nuChristian—by taking seriously the critique of a new generation"
This was from an advert for a new book, but it got me thinking...
Why is our first response to critique to get defensive?
Shouldn't our first response be to listen?!
Then evaluate, then respond?
hypocritical
judgmental
sheltered
overly political
Young adult pastor Russell Rathbun responds to these perceptions with a challenging invitation to be transformed—from unChristian to nuChristian—by taking seriously the critique of a new generation"
This was from an advert for a new book, but it got me thinking...
Why is our first response to critique to get defensive?
Shouldn't our first response be to listen?!
Then evaluate, then respond?
9.04.2009
Moral Confusion
"The reason to turn off the porn might become, to thoughtful people, not a moral one but, in a way, a physical- and emotional-health one; you might want to rethink your constant access to porn in the same way that, if you want to be an athlete, you rethink your smoking. The evidence is in: Greater supply of the stimulant equals diminished capacity."
From the article linked above.
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The world is confused about morality.
The quote above shows how this journalist views morality, namely, it is what you should do, whether or not it is actually good or bad for you to do. People use the word moral to indicate, not something that is good or the delineation of good from bad, but rather to indicate what the code or law says. There is of course, the implicit assumption that the code or law has no real world relationship to what is good or bad.
This is, however, a completely ignorant point of view.
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To say that something is bad for you, or them, or society as a whole, is to say that it is immoral! To say that something is immoral is to say that it is bad for you!
Of course people are often confused about specific moral judgments, 'Why is this wrong, or that bad?' Why is this right, or that good?' There is a place for explanation, but this doesn't change the reality, if something is wrong, it is because it is bad for you!
From the article linked above.
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The world is confused about morality.
The quote above shows how this journalist views morality, namely, it is what you should do, whether or not it is actually good or bad for you to do. People use the word moral to indicate, not something that is good or the delineation of good from bad, but rather to indicate what the code or law says. There is of course, the implicit assumption that the code or law has no real world relationship to what is good or bad.
This is, however, a completely ignorant point of view.
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To say that something is bad for you, or them, or society as a whole, is to say that it is immoral! To say that something is immoral is to say that it is bad for you!
Of course people are often confused about specific moral judgments, 'Why is this wrong, or that bad?' Why is this right, or that good?' There is a place for explanation, but this doesn't change the reality, if something is wrong, it is because it is bad for you!
5.14.2009
original sin
he is a decent sort
but flawed
always so close
only to be brought down
holds the key to every door
yet has not realized his aim
somehow i think
he is not quite right put together
his antagonist is Himself
but flawed
always so close
only to be brought down
holds the key to every door
yet has not realized his aim
somehow i think
he is not quite right put together
his antagonist is Himself
4.18.2009
Identity
"When Christ bids a man, He bids him come and die!"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Had a great conversation about this with my brother the other day...
It is interesting how two people can come at a point of truth from two totally different perspectives.
I was speaking of a friend and how I had encouraged him to 'die to self' in a specific circumstance he found himself in. My brother asked some penetrating questions about this, specifically addressing the problematic way in which this might promote an unhealthy dose of 'martyr-complex-death-wish' thinking, along the lines of some early Christians. (There were cases of some Christians actually seeking martyrdom at the hands of the Romans, instead of merely accepting martyrdom when it confronted them...)
It took a while for us to come to terms with each other on the subject, but when we did, I realized how different we see the world.
I was attempting to stay faithful to the call of the gospel to relinquish control to a Victorious Jesus, Lord and Christ over all Creation. I come from, however, a place of almost whimsical and carefree living. My psychology is much more spontaneous and prone to pursue whatever pleasures this moment offers. And so, I have come to see the call of Christ for me as a constant setting aside of my desires in order to learn His instead...
My brother, however, was approaching this from the perspective of one who tends to approach God from a very different mindset. One who, prior to Christ, tends to seek punishment for sins, and who views their own character flaws through a microscope will find in God a Father who offers a life of affirmation and pleasure that counters the inherent tendency to self-critique and self-condemnation...
I believe we are both talking about the same thing, yet doing so from very different places:
The call to follow Jesus is a call to die, but it is also a call to truly live!
For it is only in Jesus that true life can be found, and it is only after our own will is subjected to His that we can find it. It is on the other side of the Crucifixion that lies the Resurrection. Along any other path lies only a counterfeit, a broad and easy path that leads to nowhere, or worse...
And so, the call to come and die, is paradoxically, also a call to come and live! ...to experience real life, in all of its sensual pleasure and beauty and comedy!
The call to the cross is a call to identify with Jesus, as is the call to life a call to identity in Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Had a great conversation about this with my brother the other day...
It is interesting how two people can come at a point of truth from two totally different perspectives.
I was speaking of a friend and how I had encouraged him to 'die to self' in a specific circumstance he found himself in. My brother asked some penetrating questions about this, specifically addressing the problematic way in which this might promote an unhealthy dose of 'martyr-complex-death-wish' thinking, along the lines of some early Christians. (There were cases of some Christians actually seeking martyrdom at the hands of the Romans, instead of merely accepting martyrdom when it confronted them...)
It took a while for us to come to terms with each other on the subject, but when we did, I realized how different we see the world.
I was attempting to stay faithful to the call of the gospel to relinquish control to a Victorious Jesus, Lord and Christ over all Creation. I come from, however, a place of almost whimsical and carefree living. My psychology is much more spontaneous and prone to pursue whatever pleasures this moment offers. And so, I have come to see the call of Christ for me as a constant setting aside of my desires in order to learn His instead...
My brother, however, was approaching this from the perspective of one who tends to approach God from a very different mindset. One who, prior to Christ, tends to seek punishment for sins, and who views their own character flaws through a microscope will find in God a Father who offers a life of affirmation and pleasure that counters the inherent tendency to self-critique and self-condemnation...
I believe we are both talking about the same thing, yet doing so from very different places:
The call to follow Jesus is a call to die, but it is also a call to truly live!
For it is only in Jesus that true life can be found, and it is only after our own will is subjected to His that we can find it. It is on the other side of the Crucifixion that lies the Resurrection. Along any other path lies only a counterfeit, a broad and easy path that leads to nowhere, or worse...
And so, the call to come and die, is paradoxically, also a call to come and live! ...to experience real life, in all of its sensual pleasure and beauty and comedy!
The call to the cross is a call to identify with Jesus, as is the call to life a call to identity in Christ.
3.08.2009
Erasing Choice
The capacity for choice, the ability to create, the drive for purpose, that comes from the heart of a human being is also the source of human evil. We find ourselves in a state where our will does not rule the self, but is rather subject to it; emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations telling us what to choose, as opposed to our capacity for choice and purpose re-aligning our thoughts and emotions around the will.
1) There is an impulse within our culture to "be true to yourself."
a) What this usually means is who you really are is defined by what you feel
b) This implies that your feelings should rule your life
c) This also implies that not letting them do this is harmful, repressive, false, and constrictive
2) The reality is, however, deeper than our culture, and more complicated...
a) Our culture is woefully unreflective, we listen to what screams loudest.
b) Emotion, sensation, scream loudest
c) Human nature is more than what the psychologists say. There are endless debates about what is more important in determining behavior, our essential nature, or the environment that shapes that nature. The will/heart/spirit has no place in the nature-nurture debate. This is an unfortunate blunder.
d) In reality, your emotions are not the core of who you are. The will is the center of a person, not the whole of a person, but definitely the central part that gives shape and direction to the rest of a person.
3) The Will is the core organizing principal of the human being.
a) The will is the seat of drive, yearning, purpose, and choice; it is the place which chooses and says "yes or no" to our physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and relationships.
b) The will as heart, organizing principal, core, gives shape to our mental, physical, relational, and personal aspects.
c) The will as spirit is non-physical, personal power; this does not mean that it is fuzzy or lacks reality, simply that it is non-physical. It is, however, concrete, we interact with the spiritual realm constantly as is evidenced by phrases like, 'spirited' and 'strong-willed;' or 'hard-hearted' and 'broken-hearted.'
4) The results of, "Being true to yourself..."
a) You are inculcated with the rational framework, the impulse, and the moral ambiguity to simply do whatever you want, with no possible check on evil.
b) Changing your emotional and sensational states, is no longer an option (not even thought of as a possibility, and if it were possible it would be "unhealthy.")
c) We are discouraged from exercising our will to override our emotions and sensations
d) We are essentially discouraged from choosing anything other than what we feel
Your self is being defined as emotions; not will, body, intellect, or social self. The "organizing principle" is emotion, sensation, as opposed to purpose and choice.
The will is the seat of choice, it is the part of the human being which has the power to choose, the mind is the part of us that has emotions, thoughts, etc.; we talk about choice and empowering people, making them free, what we really mean is that people should always do whatever they feel like doing, and by consequence, they should not choose to do anything they don't feel like doing. This emphasis on "being true to yourself" is really exalting the emotions over the will; we are telling people that they should not choose to do something they don't feel like doing!
Choice is a word that is attached to many political issues, but when we begin to think it through in this light, we can see that often the rhetoric of choice, and certainly the cultural impulse behind it, is not really a desire for choice so much as a lack of intentional choice for good, whenever that good conflicts with our own comfort or emotional and physical pleasure.
The impulse we have here discussed ends up, in spite of the language of choice, erasing choice...
1) There is an impulse within our culture to "be true to yourself."
a) What this usually means is who you really are is defined by what you feel
b) This implies that your feelings should rule your life
c) This also implies that not letting them do this is harmful, repressive, false, and constrictive
2) The reality is, however, deeper than our culture, and more complicated...
a) Our culture is woefully unreflective, we listen to what screams loudest.
b) Emotion, sensation, scream loudest
c) Human nature is more than what the psychologists say. There are endless debates about what is more important in determining behavior, our essential nature, or the environment that shapes that nature. The will/heart/spirit has no place in the nature-nurture debate. This is an unfortunate blunder.
d) In reality, your emotions are not the core of who you are. The will is the center of a person, not the whole of a person, but definitely the central part that gives shape and direction to the rest of a person.
3) The Will is the core organizing principal of the human being.
a) The will is the seat of drive, yearning, purpose, and choice; it is the place which chooses and says "yes or no" to our physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and relationships.
b) The will as heart, organizing principal, core, gives shape to our mental, physical, relational, and personal aspects.
c) The will as spirit is non-physical, personal power; this does not mean that it is fuzzy or lacks reality, simply that it is non-physical. It is, however, concrete, we interact with the spiritual realm constantly as is evidenced by phrases like, 'spirited' and 'strong-willed;' or 'hard-hearted' and 'broken-hearted.'
4) The results of, "Being true to yourself..."
a) You are inculcated with the rational framework, the impulse, and the moral ambiguity to simply do whatever you want, with no possible check on evil.
b) Changing your emotional and sensational states, is no longer an option (not even thought of as a possibility, and if it were possible it would be "unhealthy.")
c) We are discouraged from exercising our will to override our emotions and sensations
d) We are essentially discouraged from choosing anything other than what we feel
Your self is being defined as emotions; not will, body, intellect, or social self. The "organizing principle" is emotion, sensation, as opposed to purpose and choice.
The will is the seat of choice, it is the part of the human being which has the power to choose, the mind is the part of us that has emotions, thoughts, etc.; we talk about choice and empowering people, making them free, what we really mean is that people should always do whatever they feel like doing, and by consequence, they should not choose to do anything they don't feel like doing. This emphasis on "being true to yourself" is really exalting the emotions over the will; we are telling people that they should not choose to do something they don't feel like doing!
Choice is a word that is attached to many political issues, but when we begin to think it through in this light, we can see that often the rhetoric of choice, and certainly the cultural impulse behind it, is not really a desire for choice so much as a lack of intentional choice for good, whenever that good conflicts with our own comfort or emotional and physical pleasure.
The impulse we have here discussed ends up, in spite of the language of choice, erasing choice...
11.04.2008
When I Run...
(Check the Title link for an old post on a similar topic)
There is a scene in the popular movie Chariots of Fire where Eric Liddell is talking with his sister. She is concerned that his career as a runner (he was Scotland's first Olympic Medalist) will stand in the way of his career as a missionary to China. Eric responds with this line:
"I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure."
There is something there that we need to grasp.
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The God spoken of in Scripture is the God who invented pleasure of all kinds. We do well to remember this! The Psalmist says to God, "You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand."
We can easily turn Jesus into a whip-toting, grimacing killjoy. Yet, even His enemies would dispute that point. The Pharisees accused Him of being a drunkard and friend of sinners, a party-going glutton. How could we ever confuse a Jesus who laughingly gave his friends nicknames with a morose religionist?
There is a scene in the popular movie Chariots of Fire where Eric Liddell is talking with his sister. She is concerned that his career as a runner (he was Scotland's first Olympic Medalist) will stand in the way of his career as a missionary to China. Eric responds with this line:
"I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure."
There is something there that we need to grasp.
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The God spoken of in Scripture is the God who invented pleasure of all kinds. We do well to remember this! The Psalmist says to God, "You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand."
We can easily turn Jesus into a whip-toting, grimacing killjoy. Yet, even His enemies would dispute that point. The Pharisees accused Him of being a drunkard and friend of sinners, a party-going glutton. How could we ever confuse a Jesus who laughingly gave his friends nicknames with a morose religionist?
11.01.2008
Judgment and Theodicy
The voices crying foul about sin and evil in the world (claiming it proves God's non-existence) are the same voices crying foul about God's judgment on sin and evil (claiming the doctrines of hell and judgment are themselves evil).
They seem to vacillate back and forth between the belief that human concepts about justice and evil are valid ways of understanding the universe; (this is the basis upon which they pronounce their judgments upon the Creator of such a wicked Universe as ours) and the belief that evil is a fiction, and the only real evil is to believe in human concepts of justice and evil (these concepts, they claim, are merely religious attempts to control others and prevent them from having a good time)!
I say, choose either one or the other...
They seem to vacillate back and forth between the belief that human concepts about justice and evil are valid ways of understanding the universe; (this is the basis upon which they pronounce their judgments upon the Creator of such a wicked Universe as ours) and the belief that evil is a fiction, and the only real evil is to believe in human concepts of justice and evil (these concepts, they claim, are merely religious attempts to control others and prevent them from having a good time)!
I say, choose either one or the other...
10.01.2008
What am I?
What is human nature?
I have been asked this on more than one occasion.
We are fundamentally good.
We are God's image.
But there is a force at work within us. Evil unleashed, like a bengal tiger that has somehow been turned loose inside the royal gardens, or the proverbial 'bull in a glass shop;' we are completely and totally beautiful, purposeful, good, powerful, compassionate, just; but there is a force at work within us that claws and devours all goodness.
The term 'Cracked Eikons' is used by Scot McKnight to describe human beings. We are images of God, clearly reflective of who He is, and yet obviously no longer whole; like a cracked mirror will still reflect, and yet is also clearly not whole.
I have been asked this on more than one occasion.
We are fundamentally good.
We are God's image.
But there is a force at work within us. Evil unleashed, like a bengal tiger that has somehow been turned loose inside the royal gardens, or the proverbial 'bull in a glass shop;' we are completely and totally beautiful, purposeful, good, powerful, compassionate, just; but there is a force at work within us that claws and devours all goodness.
The term 'Cracked Eikons' is used by Scot McKnight to describe human beings. We are images of God, clearly reflective of who He is, and yet obviously no longer whole; like a cracked mirror will still reflect, and yet is also clearly not whole.
8.23.2007
Institutionalization...
I had someone tell me that psychology has taken the place of the elderly in our society. What we used to look to our grandparents for, we now pay someone $100 dollars an hour to do for us (and of course we pay someone to take care of our grandparents in the process as well...), and I don't think we are better of for the 'professionalization' of wisdom at living.
We have taken essential aspects of society and 'trained' people how to 'do it better' and then watched as society is no longer capable of adressing these aspects...
We have schools that don't educate effectively, a criminal justice system that perpetuates criminal behavior, and a social welfare system that creates poverty; this is due to the underlying assumption that professionals are better at doing it than community is, and so undermining community in the process.
No wonder we have seen the atomization of families, the failure of community services, etc. there are professionals to do those things for us...
...do you think we are better off?
We have taken essential aspects of society and 'trained' people how to 'do it better' and then watched as society is no longer capable of adressing these aspects...
We have schools that don't educate effectively, a criminal justice system that perpetuates criminal behavior, and a social welfare system that creates poverty; this is due to the underlying assumption that professionals are better at doing it than community is, and so undermining community in the process.
No wonder we have seen the atomization of families, the failure of community services, etc. there are professionals to do those things for us...
...do you think we are better off?
4.29.2006
Dave's life...
"I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity. Hope in the human race has gone, skepticism remains. I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity...I have lost my belief in better times ahead. Is this wrong? Should I keep quite? Should I embrace a political correctness that says better times await us? I cannot do it. I cannot pretend that all is ok. I can no longer pretend that we are not a perverted and misguided bunch mostly because of our lack of insight into our own perversion.
I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity. Sometimes I see glimpses of reality, in those moments history unfolds and speaks. She slowly gets up from a dusty chair and talks about the way things were. She states that nothing is new, nothing has changed. The young always embrace ideals, from communism to social gospels; if only the world would listen to their fresh ideas. But soon they get older, they read more, they experience more. They realize that nothing is original; nothing escapes the hands of darkness. As they age they quickly embrace the system of trade-offs. Ideals are thrown out because what good are ideals if they lead mankind no where? They trade and barter within the human condition, then they die and leave room for new idealists who keep the pendulum swinging back and forth, from liberal to conservative, from communist to capitalist, from atheist to theist.
I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity. I can no longer watch the young attribute quick fixes to ancient problems; I can no longer watch the old give in to hedonism because their generational quick fixes did not provide answers to the ancient problems. But, however, in contention, in reality, in conclusion: I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity because I am human and I am the problem. I am sick...dying you could say. I am dying from the weight of my own conscience; a conscience that knows I cannot do the good I preach; a conscience that knows I live a lie like the rest. I am the personification of a misrepresentation. I constantly pretend to be that which I'm not in order to grasp the world and make it mine. I live in an ethnocentric spiral that leads not into understanding and clarity but to dream like states where reality eludes me. My problem is no different than the rest; I want the power, I want the control; I! I! I! I want to be God. I want the world to revolve around me. But what a sad reality that is. What a cosmic joke. What perpetual nonsense. But is there an answer to our despair? Is their a revelation waiting in our midst? Saint Paul also asked the same question, "Who will save us from this body of death?" And his answer came to him, as it may to us; but not in the form of beauty or in the shape of a philosophy, but through a bloody and vile cross where God answered Paul...where God met Paul...where God answers us...where God meets us. "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. 7:25)" because I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity."
This was taken from my brother's website...
I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity. Sometimes I see glimpses of reality, in those moments history unfolds and speaks. She slowly gets up from a dusty chair and talks about the way things were. She states that nothing is new, nothing has changed. The young always embrace ideals, from communism to social gospels; if only the world would listen to their fresh ideas. But soon they get older, they read more, they experience more. They realize that nothing is original; nothing escapes the hands of darkness. As they age they quickly embrace the system of trade-offs. Ideals are thrown out because what good are ideals if they lead mankind no where? They trade and barter within the human condition, then they die and leave room for new idealists who keep the pendulum swinging back and forth, from liberal to conservative, from communist to capitalist, from atheist to theist.
I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity. I can no longer watch the young attribute quick fixes to ancient problems; I can no longer watch the old give in to hedonism because their generational quick fixes did not provide answers to the ancient problems. But, however, in contention, in reality, in conclusion: I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity because I am human and I am the problem. I am sick...dying you could say. I am dying from the weight of my own conscience; a conscience that knows I cannot do the good I preach; a conscience that knows I live a lie like the rest. I am the personification of a misrepresentation. I constantly pretend to be that which I'm not in order to grasp the world and make it mine. I live in an ethnocentric spiral that leads not into understanding and clarity but to dream like states where reality eludes me. My problem is no different than the rest; I want the power, I want the control; I! I! I! I want to be God. I want the world to revolve around me. But what a sad reality that is. What a cosmic joke. What perpetual nonsense. But is there an answer to our despair? Is their a revelation waiting in our midst? Saint Paul also asked the same question, "Who will save us from this body of death?" And his answer came to him, as it may to us; but not in the form of beauty or in the shape of a philosophy, but through a bloody and vile cross where God answered Paul...where God met Paul...where God answers us...where God meets us. "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. 7:25)" because I am 26 years old and I have lost my faith in humanity."
This was taken from my brother's website...
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