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  1. amorphous_constellation

    Lying

    Interesting question, and I thought of that after having read a few ancient texts recently about the martyrdom of polycarp. I had thought then, that perhaps what paul said about eating 'food given to idols' was an inconsistent parallel, in that one could technically do something like lie, by...
  2. amorphous_constellation

    A world without colonialism?

    There is part of it that is about that, but another is just that our European ancestors, or cultural tradition, never seemed to really establish how property should be distributed, among those who seem to need it. It was largely about about cordoning off important areas to be economic zones, so...
  3. amorphous_constellation

    How Are You Faring Nowadays?

    How am I faring? Well I try to take it as it comes, and try and find balance, and try not to be overly pessimistic or optimistic. Read books, stay productive. Winter has a lack of activity in this part of the world, but I try to get over that. I think I have been making headway on my...
  4. amorphous_constellation

    Repugnance and prominence

    The thing is, those figures do seem like products of our society. Our society is centered around money and gain, right? That's what fills the tv screens, the internet and magazine articles, and it's what your parents told you to focus on. So then it's no surprise, that people here would be...
  5. amorphous_constellation

    The Smell of Wet Earth After Rain

    kind of depends on where you are? I think that sometimes when I am on the sidewalk after a rain, I can smell earthworms that come up on the sidewalk. I don't know if that's what I'm smelling, but it seems like it
  6. amorphous_constellation

    Is Christianity monotheistic or polytheistic?

    I think it might have to do with a monotheistic god who wants to create a polytheon. That to say, it isn't clear how far the followers are supposed to ascend, once they graduate from the sound completion of their mortal tasks. God in Christianity compares people to plants that he went to sow...
  7. amorphous_constellation

    Text-based Communication vs. Oral Communication

    I've done both, but I don't know, I almost like the internet better, especially on a moderated forum. There was a time when I was on a board near the beginning of the century, and there was no moderation, and god were those people nasty. I think overall, it actually might be getting 'better' on...
  8. amorphous_constellation

    By Faith. Why?

    But for Abraham, it was just direct to God. No law, no savior. It just seemed really simple
  9. amorphous_constellation

    By Faith. Why?

    I guess I kind of thought that Abraham was sort of an odd example for early NT writers to relate to. He seems like had no intermediary at all right? It was just him and god, 1:1. No Jesus in-between, no deacons, no law of Moses, nothing. Just Abraham and God
  10. amorphous_constellation

    Finding a writing job.

    One book you might want to look at is 'On Writing' by stephen king. I can't remember much of what was in it, I just remember it being good.. It probably talked about how he broke into the business, I think
  11. amorphous_constellation

    Chinese government acknowledges its first population decline since 1962

    I guess I would agree, currently, with the economist peter zeihan on all that
  12. amorphous_constellation

    Do You Live Paycheck to Paycheck?

    I guess the way I like to frame it, is that I live on the nation's energy capacity. Whether homeless or a rich rock star, I would be a person who was a byproduct of oil-derived energy. That is how most of us live. I don't know if it's a question about our inputs in the system, as much as it is a...
  13. amorphous_constellation

    Only 3 Completely Unholy Things

    I read your post, and it's interesting, but I guess I'm not really sure how to debate or discuss the meaning of that specific set of symbols. However, I think my last two Tarot drawings might actually be somewhat relevant to the thread. I have lately been drawing in triangular trinities.. The...
  14. amorphous_constellation

    Is Human Life of Greater Value Than That of Other Species?

    Yeah what you say has got some backing to it, but then again.. You know I just a read a large book that dealt a lot with the pre-contact / post-contact world in the Amazon rainforest. And I guess what I find is, from reading all kinds of things like that, is that a stable human/nature dynamic...
  15. amorphous_constellation

    Is Human Life of Greater Value Than That of Other Species?

    Well, I think there was a time when humans would generally pray over the animal they hunted, and even mourn over it, and take time to recognize the divinity of the spirit/god force in the species they harvested. I guess in western society, all the plants and meat is just sort of seen as...
  16. amorphous_constellation

    Self-humiliation is always good?

    I'm not even sure what they mean exactly, by this talk of seat arrangement. It kind of seems subjective. It is subjective: even if you were at the 'lowest' seat, you would still probably have a person near you to talk with, and they are unlikely to be less interesting than the people in the...
  17. amorphous_constellation

    The Didache, a few notes or concerns

    And this is kind of how I aspire to perceive Christianity, is as a sort of underlying narrative beneath a kind of ancient, western mystical geometric system. Four is sort of a perfect number, in that it contains, but is not limited by, the 1, the 2, and the 3. Though I don't yet understand why...
  18. amorphous_constellation

    The Didache, a few notes or concerns

    I guess I was trying to think of what the meta-narrative here was, or the 'modern-take home,' minus the slavery, was, that could be imparted to a modern reader of the passage. And that seems be, that material conditions, or social conditions, are supposed to preclude one's will to 'proper...
  19. amorphous_constellation

    The Didache, a few notes or concerns

    I don't know that they fight all the time exactly, but they are confused much of the time, which probably led to disagreements. Maybe witnessing many miracles started to have a knock-on effect of general disorientation, whereby they all steadily started questioning what was real, which would...
  20. amorphous_constellation

    Where Am I?

    You fell into the chute, these are your fellow dianogas
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