Saturday, 22 November 2008
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A proclamation
I do not wish to be a king; I am not anxious to be rich; I decline military command... Die to the world, repudiating the madness that is in it.
- Tatian the Assyrian, 2nd century Christian
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Oooo... that's a good quote! I like it! =)
Awesome quote!
Oh, and I read the first half of Twilight today because I'm going to the movie with a friend tomorrow. I just didn't get into it, not even after 235 pages, which is rare for me. Normally I can get into anything. Something about her writing style grates, and I just couldn't get used to it. My impression was that it could have been a great story if someone else had written it, but I know she's very popular, so I guess I'm in the minority.
@Pickwick12@xanga - As you know, I read far inferior work.
-NDSR
@sirnickdon - I know, but I wondered if you concurred with my opinion. You know that it's highly possible to enjoy a book that isn't written fantastically. This one just didn't do it for me. I just wrote a post explaining some of my specific aggravations with the writing style.
Amen. Fuck responsibility. So long as I deline all things "great" I can do/ have anything.
Will you respond to my thoughts? I wrote a lot, and I'm slightly offended.
@StrawberryRose53@xanga - I'm not sure that the Christian call is simply one to fuck responsibility, though I can understand the appeal of that.
I think it constitutes an alternate responsibility, that at times conflicts with responsibilities to the nation-state, which can actually make Christians a threat to the nation-state's claims on its citizens.
I think that it's important to live in such a way that only makes sense if the gospel is true. Do that, and you'll make yourself plenty of enemies among the powerful in the world.
-NDSR
@sirnickdon - Well, that's pretty much what declining things does because in order to get things, you have to accept things and work beneath the annoying in power even in the church or religious codes. The gospel has to change to preserve your state in the nation-state, or you will become one with God or a wandering Jew to a different ideology, perhaps misguided (not to be offensive to our Jewish friends).
Now comment on the other post.
@StrawberryRose53@xanga - I think that precisely what the gospel has to NOT do is change to preserve your status in the nation-state (or within the church), and that the whole idea is to become one with God, not as an individual, but as a community. That is what the church is, an alternative polis, whose allegiance is not to the nation-state but to the elusive Kingdom of God, that they are aware of and proclaim by their very existence, but which is hidden from those who try to exercise power over others.
Working under, though, is a critical component of the gospel. Because the God revealed in scripture is one who doesn't dominate others, but leaves them free while trying to woo them, all Christian ethics come down to exercising power under others, rather than power over. That's why Christians should never use violence, or threat of violence, even in the defense of justice.
-NDSR
@sirnickdon - Something's hidden that I've picked up on. Well, I think we live in a world where we are dominated to form a society, and we have to work to rise above the abuse. But if there's no way to succeed, people become demonic. I'm not joking. I can torture people, make them edgy, and I have no power. I think Jesus might have been wise but not in the Claudia (vampire) sense.
[I think I'm like Claudia because I was harmed in a very odd psychological way and unable to get anywhere normal and under people that are way stupider than me. My life is, has been, very unnatural. Give me something to lose, and maybe I'll care, not more of the world's problems]
Woo? I guess. LOL So a dictator is a good a dictator if he's an attractive dictator and says nice things that appeal to me?
Hey man, have you ever read what Solomon wrote? It isn't exactly "nice..." "a poor man is hated even by his neighbors." -Solomon I think people chose what to uphold out of religion and what to dismiss. That's why they select the gospel that they do. I have to say something... ;)
I think the whole point is to have a relationship with God that protects you from the world and allows you happiness.
Thank you for responding to me.