The New Testament’s “world” is any setting where The Two Great Commandments – love of God and neighbor – are not dominant.
Category: Sentences
Sentence: Person
The plural of person is an illusion.
Sentence: Poetry
Poetry is when language becomes self-aware.
Narnia as the mood of John’s Gospel
Take the mood – and I mean mood – of John’s gospel, especially the last 2 chapters, and imagine a whole world that feels like that, and you have Narnia.
Sentence: Authoritarian Personality
Whoever is obsequious to superiors will also be domineering over the less powerful, for the whole personality is authoritarian. The easiest diagnostic is how the subject treats foodservers and retail clerks.
Sentence: When the words in the laws don’t count…
…there are no laws.
Sentence: Machine
The idea of a machine: once a procedure is understood, it should never need to be done again by human hands.
Sentence: Dialectic becomes logic
The transmogrification of Socrates’ “dialectic” into Aristotle’s “logic” is a great unnoticed deterioration.
Sentences: Alienation
Your wishes oppress you if they don’t become actions.
Sentences: Schizophrenia
My performance-oriented self reads my faith as an accomplishment worth zero.
Sentences: Bedclothes
Gentlemen: you might think your bed is attractive and perfectly functional, but new forms of bedclothes are yet to be invented, by women.
Sentences: Intellectual fads
Freudianism was one of those captivating intellectual fads that turned out, in the end, to be an extended tautology.
Normal
Normal is the one thing I never wanted to be.
Sentences: Einstein
Einstein’s “God” was interested in an elegant cosmos but not in people – oddly, just like Einstein.