tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679107.post9199037297605380628..comments2023-10-15T10:46:24.276-05:00Comments on Parables: cheap livingespíritu pazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483308467615005496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679107.post-6983698299367651742007-06-08T16:37:00.000-05:002007-06-08T16:37:00.000-05:00Ah! So you see a theme throughout this mess? World...Ah! So you see a theme throughout this mess? <BR/><BR/>Worldviews and social systems and their consequences. I hope it gets better than this. The trouble is simply that one cannot live redemptively alone. Otherwise I'd do it or die trying. "We all sin together." is another of my mantras. I identify with the angst. <BR/><BR/>I think I have a post in the making which is a schema of the conversion process.<BR/><BR/>Appreciate the out-loud musings.<BR/><BR/>Abigailespíritu pazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17483308467615005496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679107.post-69115004832286287852007-06-06T15:45:00.000-05:002007-06-06T15:45:00.000-05:00It strikes me that getting by on less (or even thi...It strikes me that getting by on less (or even thinking of growing a percentage of your own food for that matter) is a matter of practice (in the MacIntyre use of the term see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue ). We practice certain ways of getting our needs met and different practices meet with different consequences. Whatever the consequences we get "better" at whatever strategy we employ every time we use it. Perhaps the strategy is using "the system" to meet your needs, perhaps it is making do with less, maybe it is theft. Regardless it forms our worldview and once in that worldview it is very difficult to get out. I am a redneck who was raised within a worldview that gave violence redemptive value. Today as as someone who reads the Bible from an Anabaptist perspective I am stuck. I am no longer a good redneck because I do not think Jesus wants me to kill people. I am not a good Mennonite because my (redneck) instinct still says, "Some people just need to die." <BR/><BR/>I don't know if I have a point. It does strike me that your last three posts have an odd commonality. If you do attempt the transition from one perspective to another you will walk through a lot of tall grass. I for one have a lot of crap in my shoes as a result. No one comes to your rescue really. Most see you as odd (if they are polite). So there one stands... standing in a forest of competing meta-narratives trying to find a way to understand the odd ecosystem in which their mind works and finding all of the "off the shelf" answers do not work... one must write their own programs, so to speak.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes this leads to a superfluous mounding of metaphors from which one cannot redact themselves free. So I will shut up , thank you for the posts and go build some tomato cages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com