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Category: Sentences

Sentence: “The World”

January 13, 2018 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

The New Testament’s “world” is any setting where The Two Great Commandments – love of God and neighbor – are not dominant.

Sentence: Person

January 13, 2018 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

The plural of person is an illusion.

Sentence: Poetry

January 13, 2018 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

Poetry is when language becomes self-aware.

Narnia as the mood of John’s Gospel

August 14, 2016January 1, 2019 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

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

August 6, 2016January 3, 2023 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

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…

August 2, 2016January 3, 2023 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

…there are no laws.

Sentence: Machine

August 15, 2014January 3, 2023 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

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

March 1, 2014January 3, 2023 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

The transmogrification of Socrates’ “dialectic” into Aristotle’s “logic” is a great unnoticed deterioration.

Sentences: Alienation

November 18, 2013 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

Your wishes oppress you if they don’t become actions.

Sentences: Schizophrenia

November 17, 2013 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

My performance-oriented self reads my faith as an accomplishment worth zero.

Sentences: Bedclothes

November 16, 2013 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

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

November 14, 2013 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

Freudianism was one of those captivating intellectual fads that turned out, in the end, to be an extended tautology.

Normal

November 14, 2013 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

Normal is the one thing I never wanted to be.

Sentences: Einstein

November 14, 2013 ~ Tim ~ Leave a comment

Einstein’s “God” was interested in an elegant cosmos but not in people – oddly, just like Einstein.  

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